Game of Thrones: Battle Royale Game

"Tell me, how are things going?" Ian sat in a newly opened study room at the top of the pyramid and received Celia who came to report on her work.

"Aren't my every moves under your watch?" Celia asked, then raised the orange cat to her chest.

"But I don't know which problems you can solve by yourself, and which problems require my instructions," Ian stopped writing, "so you'd better say it face to face."

"What are you writing?" Celia was not in a hurry to report, but became interested in the book in Ian's hand.

"Junior officer's manual, written in Common and Valyrian. To be honest, sometimes I really doubt the maturity of High Valyrian. Many expressions that are simple in Chinese require a long sentence in Valyrian. Explain." Ian said as he handed the unfinished manual to Celia.

After he left all his work to Celia, most of his time was free.

Therefore, in the past half month, Ian has basically either been in the Unsullied camp to observe the training of the Gith slave soldiers, or he has been reading Gith military works in the study. All military books have been moved into their own study rooms.

Although the military theory of this world is lagging behind than most of the military books Ian has read, it is always good to gain some additional understanding.

Ian believes that there are two sentences in "The Beginning Plan", the first article of Sun Tzu's Art of War, which are very important for the understanding of reading the book of war itself. They are not the well-known "soldiers, deceitful" but "powerful ones" , "Controlling power because of profit" and "The victory of this military strategist cannot be passed on first".

The meaning of these two sentences respectively is "situation", which means taking different corresponding measures according to the specific situation according to our needs to establish advantages and seize the initiative in war. ’ and ‘These are the secrets of military strategists’ use of troops to win, and they cannot be stipulated or explained in advance. ’

Together, they point out one thing, that is, reading military books is not a process of copying formulas. If you read military books with the mentality of copying formulas, it will be as outrageous as memorizing sample questions to take the college entrance examination.

It is impossible for you to answer an original question in the college entrance examination, and it is also impossible to encounter the same situation as in the book when fighting. To be precise, the situations you encounter during fighting are far more complicated than the test questions.

A test question, even the most difficult question, only has a few variables, but for war, the number of soldiers, weapons, training level, morale, fatigue, hunger, the general's ability, prestige, experience, and the terrain Type, level. These are all variables.

Even the weather is a variable. There is a saying that the heavy rain that fell at Waterloo the night before June 18, 1815, a few more or less drops was the key to victory or defeat for Napoleon (the mud caused by the heavy rain caused serious lag The actions of the French artillery forced Napoleon to postpone the general offensive many times, buying time for the Allied reinforcements to arrive).

Any approach that ignores certain variables and copies solutions from the book is as fatal as missing a certain force when solving a mechanics problem.

Therefore, if war is also compared to the college entrance examination, Ian believes that reading military books is closer to answering questions.

You are unlikely to encounter the original question during the exam, but you will always be able to answer it more easily when faced with questions that you have practiced many times. When faced with new question types that have never been seen before, those who have seen more question types are often more likely to answer them.

Be broad-minded and appreciative, accumulate thickly but thinly.

The art of military use lies in change. The purpose of ordinary people reading military books is to master the words "power through profit".

Of course, someone said at this time that although Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, had read the textbooks and answered many questions, he always followed the formula every time he took the exam. Isn't he also the top scorer in the college entrance examination?

Without him, it was because Li Jing had mastered the essence of "controlling power for profit" that he dared to boldly take various counter-routine actions.

And in the end, Li Jing himself also wrote The Art of War, and he was the question maker, turning the new questions he had seen into example questions for future generations.

At this time, someone may ask again, "Champion Hou" Huo Qubing not only didn't answer the questions, he didn't even read the textbooks. If he just took the college entrance examination, wouldn't he still be the top scorer?

Ian couldn't refute this, so he used the word 'ordinary people' in front of it.

There are always some people in the world who can get high scores in exams without studying the art of war, and who can grasp the essence of "controlling power through profit" without studying the Art of War.

But in the vast history, how many talents like Huo Qubing have been envied even in the sky?

Ian didn't think he was a genius, so his choice was to read more military books and answer questions. Although he wouldn't be able to become a famous general, it would still be easy to abuse others in the world of ice and fire.

The book he is writing now is a manual for lower-level officers that meets the conditions of the current era, which he wrote based on the military books he had read before and the actual inspections he recently conducted in the Unsullied training camp.

The 20,000 Gith Legion slaves Astapor promised to provide are not enough for Ian's ambitions. He also needs to train more other types of soldiers, so cultivating a group of his own grassroots officers is particularly important.

The parts that Ian has completed so far are: soldier selection, formation and training.

The first step is to select soldiers, which basically follows Qi Jiguang’s experience in selecting civilian husbands, which kind of people are suitable to be soldiers, and which types of people are suitable to be soldiers.

Astapor's traditional method of buying slaves en masse and then killing the eliminated ones during training was unacceptable to Ian. The resource of population is very important to Ian at this stage. He is also short of people in the industrial and agricultural fields.

Therefore, his army needs to be careful in the 'selection of soldiers' step, and select as many good seedlings as possible to invest training resources in a targeted manner.

Whether it is his own new army or the Gith slave soldiers Astapor is responsible for training, they will need to carry out Ian's order on 'selecting pawns' in the future, and he will use the slaves eliminated at this step for other purposes.

The second step is to organize the troops. When Ian was a child, he often saw how famous generals formed their troops in various works. Later, when he read more, he realized that such things as on-the-spot formations were basically nonsense.

How an army can be deployed has actually been decided at the 'formation' step.

Teams, squadrons, and brigades (for example) must be organized first, and then soldiers can be drilled according to the team and trained to obey the corresponding golden drum and flag orders. Only on the battlefield can the general truly play the role of 'command'.

If there are no such subjects in peacetime, the most the general can do on the battlefield is to decide which unit to put where. Once the two sides touch the enemy's army, they will lose their command. No matter how famous he is, they can only play a role in boosting morale.

This is far away from the requirement that "all warriors should maintain integrity and win by surprise."

(ps: The odd here is the odd of odd and even, the regular soldiers refer to the main fighting troops, and the odd soldiers refer to the reserve team.)

In Ian's vision, his new army will be trained in small formations for use in complex terrain or urban street fighting.

The Gith Legion trained by workers in Astapor needs to be improved according to the Swiss square formation. The core is to introduce the training and use of halberds, and use the mixed method of spears and halberds to obtain greater power when facing heavily armed enemies. of lethality.