My life skills in Daming Liver

Opening up the Western Silk Road again is not an easy task.

But Gaowu Guan does not think this goal is far away.

The Western Region itself is the first geographical concept, and it has always been a war-torn stage where you sing and I appear.

Even the current overlords of the Western Regions, the Oara people, cannot control all areas along the Silk Road like the Central Plains Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Guiyi Army who stayed in Jiuquan controlled the Western Regions for a long time with one city.

Now that Wuyuan City has the support from Southeast, and has more powerful technology and more powerful weapons, Gao Wuguan believes that it will be able to open up the Western Region and establish a new Silk Road.

Gao Wuguan even had an idea that he had never mentioned to anyone.

If a railway could be built to connect the entire grassland, connect all the kingdoms in the Western Region, and transport goods directly to Central Asia.

The western border of the empire can be completely controlled by just one city. The grassland will forever become a part of the Central Plains and can no longer threaten the rule of the Central Plains dynasty.

The road still has to be walked step by step. After Gao Wuguan arrived at Wuyuan City, he immediately began to practice his logistics theory.

Gao Wuguan believes that modern warfare is all about logistics. The competition is no longer the success or failure of a battle, but who can have better logistics, stronger mobilization capabilities, and who can send soldiers, weapons and ammunition to the front line.

Gao Wuguan believes that logistics is the decisive factor in a war.

In Huguang, Xiong Kuang is teaching students of the newly-established Second Military Academy in a temporary school building.

The Second Military Academy in Wuchang trains officers at the grassroots level of the army.

The school building has not yet been built, but Wuchang has eagerly built a row of temporary houses and begun to recruit the first batch of students.

There is no way, there is really a shortage of officers in the entire southeast now.

In the temporary classroom, Xiong Kuang is giving a lecture.

"Offense! Offense is the best defense! Only offense can win the war!"

Now within the Southeast, a military defensive doctrine has emerged.

The so-called defensive doctrine does not mean that we should not take the initiative to attack, but that defense is a method of war with greater benefits than offense.

The unit that best implements the defensive doctrine is Xuzhou's fifth brigade.

The Fifth Brigade used a brigade of troops to establish a solid Xuzhou defense line in bastions, trenches, barbed wire and trains, and repeatedly defeated the Ming court's attacks that were several times the strength of the Fifth Brigade.

No matter how much troops the Ming army spent, it would be difficult to break through Xuzhou's defense line, and every time the Ming court attacked, it would suffer greater losses than in the southeast.

It can be said that the Fifth Brigade alone contained Shandong's Three Towns New Army and Mingting's Henan New Army.

Officers with defensive doctrines believed that in this era of artillery and muskets, it was very uneconomical to attack.

The southeast only needs to push the trenches and bastions to Shandong and to the foot of Jeju City to defeat the enemy.

The most important goal of war is to guide the enemy to attack his own positions, rather than taking the initiative to attack other people's well-defended positions.

It has to be said that defense doctrine has become more and more popular within the southeastern military.

It is natural that this theory has a market.

No one wants to brave the enemy's artillery and musketry charges on the battlefield. Who doesn't want to wait for the enemy to come up and die in the well-fortified trenches and bastions. As long as he pulls the trigger and fires the artillery, he can win?

Even within the Nanjing Military Academy, going to Xuzhou after graduation has become a crowded choice for military academy graduates.

There is no need to march hard in the wild, fight in the rainforest, or charge on the plains.

Even marching can take a train, and defense changes can be completed quickly. Who wouldn't want to live in such a day?

Xiong Kuang sneered at this defensive theory.

In his opinion, can the enemy be destroyed by defense alone?

If we build the bastion as far as Shandong, do we still need to build it as far as the capital?

This defense theory completely gave up the weapons and equipment advantages of the Southeast and allowed the Ming court to catch up with the military advantages of the Southeast.

Xiong Kuang proposed an offensive doctrine that was completely opposite to the defensive doctrine.

Xiong Kuang said to his students:

"Offense is the best defense. Defeating the enemy before he organizes himself is the best defense!"

"But an attack is not a mindless attack on the enemy's position, nor is it a rush to the enemy's artillery and muskets to die."

"This is what we need to fight the war!"

Xiong Kuang pointed to his head and said.

"Offensive is the most thoughtful act of war. Compared with rigid defense, offense requires thinking about various situations on the battlefield and formulating tactics that are completely different from the battlefield situation."

"In short, defense is a lazy battle. To defend, you only need to build fortifications according to the instructions and scripts, and then hide in the trenches and shoot at the opponent."

"But offense requires the use of brains, and victory requires brainpower and will."

Xiong Kuang began to introduce the example of how he used cavalry to defeat Han Yangming's army. Xiong Kuang explained in detail, analyzing the intelligence game between the two sides, the battle layout, and the final tactics.

The students under his command were fascinated. As the best commander among the younger generation, Xiong Kuang's thoughts on war were the most cutting-edge thoughts within the Southeast Military.

The officers who choose to join the Independent Cavalry Regiment are often believers in charging and attacking. They like Xiong Kuang’s offensive doctrine very much. In the famous saying of the Independent Regiment, “I would rather die in a charge on horseback than die on the battlefield.” A useless job in the trenches."

After Xiong Kuang finished explaining, he continued:

"When you attack, you don't want your soldiers to die. On the contrary, soldiers are more important resources during attack than during defense."

Everyone was a little puzzled.

Xiong Kuang said: "During defense, soldiers are just a number. As long as the position has logistical supplies, no matter how many soldiers there are, they can be expended."

"In defense, what commanders care about is not the casualties of soldiers or the supplies consumed. What do they care about?"

The officers looked at each other, unable to answer.

Xiong Kuang said: "It's a battle line!"

"Among adherents of the doctrine of defense, lines of defense, fortifications, are something more precious than soldiers."

Everyone nodded. Nowadays, defense doctrine is very popular in military academies. Almost all officers have been exposed to defense doctrine, and they nodded in understanding.

Xiong Kuang is right. The most important thing in defense theory is defense, and the most important thing in defense is trenches and bastions, which are lines of defense.

In comparison, soldiers are just consumables in the defense line.

Xiong Kuang continued: "Officers with the defense doctrine need to think not about soldiers, but logistics, equipment, and defense lines. Of course I am not criticizing them on a moral level. I even think what they do is right. This is the defense doctrine. Determined by the nature of the war.”

"But wars are fought by people."

"Without people, artillery won't fire by itself, without people, muskets won't fire by themselves."

"Talent is the decisive factor that determines war, and only people can win wars."

“So in offense, people are the most important thing.”

Everyone applauded, and Xiong Kuang continued:

"As an offensive commander, you need to accurately calculate the manpower required in each combat direction, the enemy's firepower, and the enemy's weak points. Only by calculating everything can you win the war."

"People, that is, soldiers, are your most valuable assets. No soldier can be sacrificed at will."

"Death will not allow us to win."

After Xiong Kuang finished speaking, thunderous applause erupted from the podium.

After Xiong Kuang finished his lecture, a staff officer was already waiting for him at the door of the classroom.

"The brigade commander also wants to see me?"

The brigade commander is naturally Lin Deyang.

Xiong Kuang followed the staff to the brigade headquarters outside Wuchang.

According to the military orders and regulations of the Southeast, in addition to entering the city to fight, the military can only establish camps outside the city.

Even the brigade headquarters could not be located in the city, so after resigning from the civil affairs post, Lin Deyang transferred the civil affairs to civilian officials and moved to the headquarters outside the city.

When Xiong Kuang saw Lin Deyang, he was looking at the map.

"brigadier!"

"Come in."

After Xiong Kuang came in, Lin Deyang looked at the map and said, "Is it fun to teach at the military academy? What if I and the chief inspector hadn't made a report and transferred you to the Second Military Academy? With your qualifications, it's not a big problem to be a dean."

Xiong Kuang was shocked and said: "No, brigade commander, if I go to teach, then my godfather will scold me to death."

Xiong Kuang's godfather is Xiong Wu. Xiong Wu has already complained about Xiong Kuang giving up his intelligence work and joining the army to fight.

If Xiong Kuang takes off his military uniform again and becomes a military academy instructor, I'm afraid Xiong Wu will come and tear him down.

Lin Deyang stopped joking and said, "You know why I called you, right?"

Xiong Kuang immediately said: "I know! Brigadier, there's going to be a war!"

Lin Deyang glanced at him and said: "It seems that you are not just going to class, yes, there is going to be a war."

"The following are the desperate military orders of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. If the information is leaked, all of us will be investigated by the Military Police. Do you understand?"

"clear!"

Lin Deyang said: "The Commander-in-Chief's military order requires us to come up with a strategy. Should we first enter Guanzhong to attack Shaanxi, or go west to Sichuan? Tell me, what do you think?"