Du Wei is very clear that he is far from being a qualified soldier. In the northwest, he really lived too leisurely. He never spent a day in the army, never really led soldiers, never really marched and fought. Even in the two actual battles he experienced: the defense of Gilliad City, he only had less than a thousand troops under him, which was just a small cavalry raid, and he didn't have much marching experience in it. Besides, the time he really commanded the army It is Erbaiwu Gaida, the apprentice of Erbai General.
In the second Northwest Corps extermination battle, Du Wei even took the lead in coordinating the overall situation.
Therefore, when directly facing these young people drawn from military camps all over the mainland, Du Wei was very careful to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.
He is named as the dean, but he doesn't take the real basic marching and fighting courses-Camisiro can't give all the courses to Du Wei to complete, after all, Du Wei is the Duke of Tulip! You can't expect to use a duke like a coolie.
Therefore, regarding the military courses of all the troops of the Roland Empire, such as marching, combat, infantry and cavalry skills, camping, encountering the enemy, etc., these basic courses, the military command has transferred some experienced The old army officers came to teach.
What Du Wei has to do is to set up a special course separately. This course is called "deduction class" by Du Wei.
He asked his own people to make several sets of huge sand tables, the first set being his own city of Gilliat. Completely follow the terrain around Gilliat City. I made a reduced model, and then moved it to the classroom, and told more than a hundred students the details of the defense battle of Giliat City.
However, Du Wei only explained the comparison of military strength between the two sides, as well as the city's defense force and the number of prairie cavalry under the city. The location, distribution, and morale of the camp, etc...
However, Du Wei just didn't talk about how the fighting process was completed!
"Everyone can use their brains. Imagine, if you were the commander, how would you complete this war! Everyone has to think about it! Count all the resources you have in your hands. Then make a deduction!"
Even, Du Wei did not limit these officers when they were deducing. Play only as the imperial army! He even specially selected half of the people and asked them to pretend to be the commander of the prairie cavalry to think!
In the classroom, the officers' interest suddenly increased!
After all, times of peace. Most of these officers have never experienced real wars, they just train in the local army and practice... real wars. Neither have experience. And this way of "simulation" to enjoy the fun, everyone is still very interested.
As a result, one hundred and eight officers, each in groups of two, played the roles of the Tulip family army and the grassland army on both sides of the battle to defend Gilliad City. Everyone has one day to be familiar with and understand all the materials and the terrain on the sand table. Then a deduction was made...
The process is wonderful!
In fact, in the defense of Gilliat City that Du Wei experienced at the beginning. The reason why he was able to win was really a fluke! From the comparison of military strength. In terms of the combat effectiveness of both sides, there is no doubt that the Tulip family is absolutely inferior!
The only winning factor is that he has a Decepticon team beyond this era! That was also the first time a Decepticon team appeared on the mainland, and it was also the first time the "air force" appeared on the mainland!
The world's first "air and ground coordinated combat"! ! And also used the hot weapon of "gunpowder"!
And in this deduction. At the beginning, Du Wei deliberately didn't assume this condition in it. That is, the officer who plays the head of the Tulip family. It had to be done without airpower and without gunpowder...
As a result, the process that came out was deduced. It's so strange!
According to the comparison of the military strength of the two sides.
There is also land grain and grass. supplies, morale. And so on, etc. factors have been fully considered. These officers came up with all kinds of strange ways of fighting. For example, some officers fought the defense of Gilliat City into a protracted battle to defend the city wall. Almost all the soldiers in the city were used on the city wall to rely on the city wall and consume troops from the opponent.
In the end, the slaves in the city were also organized into the city to resist, relying on the results of a few officers to make arbitrations and calculate the loss ratio, etc., and came to a conclusion: Giliad City must not be able to defend! The opponent has 20,000 troops, but the Tulip family has less than 1,000 people in the city! And most of the slaves don't have any combat experience at all! It is difficult for a slave who takes up arms to pose much threat to the elite soldiers of the grassland.
Some military officers simply put forward the idea: since the prairie people are a surprise attack, they must not be able to spend a long time, they can only spend time with them!
It even finally developed: abandon the city wall, use the complex terrain in Gilliat City, and fight street battles with the opponent! During the street fighting, the cavalry of the prairie people lost the wide terrain and could not launch a group charge advantage, while the soldiers of the Tulip family could rely on the houses, streets, buildings, etc. in the city to resist and harass.
Other officers made full use of the hundreds of cavalry reinforcements led by Du Wei outside the city! Some officers even came up with all kinds of weird cavalry harassment tactics! Divide hundreds of cavalry outside the city into many small groups, and harass the prairie people below the city! The meaning of this claim is very clear: anyway, our cavalry only has a few hundred people, and a few hundred people charge against 20,000 people will not have any effect at all. Then simply spread out, use harassment tactics, and use the mobility of cavalry to harass the grassland people, such as pretending to attack day and night to make the enemy tired, poisoning the water source, sneak attacking the opponent's scouts, etc...
But there are also opposing parties!
Someone immediately and unceremoniously pointed out the error of this method! Because if it is more mobile than the cavalry, the cavalry of the prairie people is stronger than the imperial army in this respect! Disperse hundreds of cavalry to play harassment tactics? The cavalry of the prairie people can also easily disperse into several groups, and then wipe out these harassing squads one by one!
Because everyone thinks so. The cavalry of the prairie people is more mobile than the cavalry of the empire!
There are also people who fantasize about "cutting off food" - Du Wei couldn't help laughing when this approach was brought up.
Obviously, these officers have a good foundation, and they have read a lot of military books and combat regulations of this era. Also has enough imagination. But the biggest flaw is... not pragmatic! In other words, no actual combat experience!
Du Wei immediately pointed out that the practice of cutting off food is simply impossible! Because the prairie people have 20,000 cavalry, there is no so-called "grain road" at all!
They don't have food teams! When the grassland people's army was fighting, they always carried about fifteen days' rations with them! The only encumbrance is the small amount of forage they carry, which is almost the only encumbrance of the grassland army (because war horses cannot only eat grass in the wild. War horses must eat hay. Otherwise, they will lose their combat effectiveness quickly). The fighting methods of the prairie people have always been very barbaric: take a small amount of rations for soldiers, a small amount of hay, maintain the army's assault mobility, and when supplies are needed.
Just "supply on the spot", the so-called supply on the spot is burning, killing and looting! !
Of course. If the army of the prairie people is on a large-scale expedition, there will be no "grain road". They are used to driving a large herd of cattle and sheep directly behind the army! This is the baggage they carry!
The game went on for three days. As a result, almost all the officers who played the role of the Tulip family completely lost to the side who played the prairie people in the deduction. Among them, being able to keep one's side alive for more than ten days in the deduction battle is already considered the best.
In the first round, the best scorer was Yalor Knight!
Although he is also a low-ranking officer, after all, he is different from those students who visit the sick with paper. He has actual combat experience, and he has also experienced this Gillian city first-hand. and. He's also not lacking in courage and imagination!
When playing the role of the commander of the Tulip family army, he played a lot of tricks. He didn't send the slave formation up the city wall, but symbolically let the army in his hand resist on the city wall for three days, then withdrew all the troops back to the city and gave up the city wall to the other party!
He cleverly arranged a street battle and a war of attrition. Using all the buildings and facilities in the city, and his deployment of troops is very reasonable, almost consuming the opponent's troops layer by layer, making the opponent's advancing speed slower and slower! And he formed most of the slaves. Used in street fighting in the city! His reason is very good: if the frontal defense on the city wall. A slave with a weapon can never defeat the enemy's elite soldiers!
But if it is street fighting. Slaves will have the advantage of being familiar with the terrain! This advantage can at least close some of the gap in combat power between the two sides! Although this advantage is very small—but, in battle, as the commander of the disadvantaged party, he must make full use of all the advantages he has!
Moreover, he did not blindly let the hundreds of cavalry reinforcements outside the city carry out simple harassment. Instead, concentrate their forces to launch feint attacks on the prairie people one after another! Every time he doesn't get entangled with the opponent, he will use the courage of a strong man to break his wrist every time, leaving a group of people to break, and let most of the cavalry quickly leave the battlefield - this method makes his cavalry less and less, but it successfully delays the opponent's attack. time!
"The enemy has occupied the city wall and needs to send troops to guard it! During the street fighting, they have occupied the streets and important buildings one by one, and they also need to send people to guard them!! In this way, the further they advance, the less mobile forces they have! I They will not stick to every place, but deliberately relax a few places to let the opponent occupy, but it can achieve the effect of dispersing the strength of the opponent!"
Yalor said so in the final summary-although he also failed in the end. However, he successfully dragged the prairie man for eighteen days! This is the best result in this deduction!
Of course, in Du Wei's view, under normal circumstances, if the defenders can drag on for eighteen days, then it can almost be regarded as a success - because the prairie people are assaulting! In eighteen days, it was enough for the imperial army in the rear to mobilize a large number of reinforcements.
However, during the defense of Gilliad, the Northwest Legion besieged Loulan City, making it impossible for Du Wei to mobilize all his troops to aid Gilliad City! So Du Wei still judged Yalor as a failure!
The same group of officers who confronted Yalore suffered a lot from Yalore during the deduction, but in the end, the captain appointed by Du Wei finally got the approval of many team members.
Worth mentioning: Gabriel also had good grades. As a family of martial arts, he has received a good education since he was a child, and... he even served as an apprentice to that old fox in Lan Hai for a while!
What made Du Wei's eyes brighten was that Gabriel even made full use of the climate factor in the deduction!
He also cleverly used a condition: night! !
After all, this era is not the era of advanced science and technology in Du Wei's previous life. The production level and people's living conditions in this era are not good. From the perspective of human physique, most people can only eat enough, but from the perspective of nutrition In terms of intake, most people have extremely unscientific nutrition—after all, the standard of living is like this, and it is good to be full!
But this caused a subtle factor: due to malnutrition, most people in this era have night blindness! In other words, at night, more than half of the soldiers will be invisible! !
Gabriel made full use of this condition and succeeded in delaying it for a few more days.
Generally speaking, the officers and students are full of interest in this kind of deduction, and they are very excited about this kind of addictive command and combat.