Du Wei knows one thing very well, that is, he is far from being a qualified soldier. He really has a very leisurely life in the northwest. He has never spent a day in the army, has never really led an army, and has never
He has experienced real marching battles. Even in the two actual battles he experienced: the defense battle of Gilliat City, he only had less than a thousand troops under his command. It was just a small cavalry raid. He did not have much marching experience in it. Moreover,
The person who actually commanded the army that time was Xiao 250 Gaida, the apprentice of General 250.
During the second annihilation battle of the Northwest Army, Du Wei was in charge of overall coordination.
Therefore, when directly facing these young people who were drawn from military camps across the mainland, Du Wei carefully used his strengths and avoided his weaknesses.
He is named the dean, but he does not take charge of the real basic marching and combat courses. It is impossible for Camisillo to leave all the courses to Duwei. After all, Duwei is the Tulip Duke! You can't expect to teach a person
The Duke is being used as a coolie.
Therefore, for all the military courses of the Roland Empire's army, such as marching, fighting, infantry and cavalry drills, camp, enemy contact, etc., the military headquarters has mobilized some experienced personnel for these basic courses.
An old army officer came to teach.
What Du Wei had to do was to open a special course. This course was called a "deduction course" by Du Wei.
He asked his people to make several sets of huge sandboxes. The first set was his own Gilliat City. He made a scaled-down model exactly according to the terrain around Gilliat City, and then moved it to the classroom and made a model of it.
More than a hundred students fully recounted the details of the battle to defend Giliyat City.
However, Du Wei only explained the comparison of the strength of the two sides, as well as the city's defense strength. The number of prairie cavalry under the city, the location, distribution, and morale of the camps, etc...
However, Du Wei just doesn't talk about how the battle process is completed!
"Everyone can use their brains and pretend that if you were the commander-in-chief, how would you complete this war! Everyone should think about it! Count all the resources they have in hand. Then make deductions!"
Even, Du Wei did not restrict these officers to only play the role of the imperial army during the deduction! He even specially selected half of them and asked them to pretend to be the commander of the prairie cavalry to think!
In the classroom, the officers suddenly became more interested!
After all, in peacetime, most of these officers have not experienced real wars. They have only been trained and drilled in local armies... and have no experience in real wars. However, everyone is still very interested in using this "simulation" method to enjoy themselves.
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As a result, one hundred and eight officers were divided into teams of two. Each played the role of the Tulip family army and the grassland army on both sides of the battle to defend Gilliat City. Everyone had one day to familiarize themselves with all the information and the terrain on the sand table.
Then a deduction was made...
This process is wonderful!
In fact, the reason why Du Wei was able to win in the defense battle of Gilliat City that he experienced was really a fluke! From the comparison of military strength and the combat effectiveness of both sides, there is no doubt that the Tulip family is at an absolute disadvantage.
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The only winning factor was that he had a Decepticon team that transcended this era! It was also the first time that the Decepticon team appeared on the mainland, and it was also the first time that the "Air Force" appeared on the mainland!
The world's first "coordinated air and ground combat"!! And it also used hot weapons like "gunpowder"!
In this deduction, Du Wei deliberately did not include this condition at the beginning. In other words, the officer who acted as the commander-in-chief of the Tulip family must complete it without air power and gunpowder...
As a result, the derivation process was all kinds of strange!
Based on the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, as well as the food, supplies, morale, and other factors that were fully considered. These officers came up with all kinds of strange ways of fighting. For example, some officers defended the city of Gilliat.
A protracted battle to defend the city wall took place. 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. With the help of several officers to arbitrate and calculate the loss ratio, we came to a conclusion: Gilliat City cannot be defended! The opponent has
There are 20,000 troops, but there are less than 1,000 people in the Tulip family city! And most of the slaves have no combat experience at all! Slaves who take up arms can hardly pose much of a threat to the elite soldiers on the grassland.
Some officers simply put forward the idea: Since the prairie people are making a surprise attack, they cannot last for a long time and can only spend time with them!
It even finally developed: abandoning the city wall, taking advantage of the complex terrain in Gilliat City, and fighting the opponent in street battles! During the street battles, the prairie people's cavalry lost the wide terrain and could not take advantage of the group charge, while the soldiers of the Tulip family
You can 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 bizarre cavalry harassment tactics!
The cavalry was divided into many small groups to harass the grassland people below the city! The meaning of this idea is very clear: anyway, our cavalry only has a few hundred people. If a few hundred people charge against 20,000 people, it will not have any effect at all. So.
Simply spread out and engage in harassment tactics, using the mobility of the cavalry to harass the grassland people, such as pretending to attack day and night to tire the enemy, poisoning water sources, sneak attacks on the opponent's scouts, etc...
But there are also opponents!
Someone immediately bluntly pointed out the error of this method! Because if compared with the mobility of cavalry, the prairie people's cavalry is stronger than the imperial army in this regard! Dispersing hundreds of cavalry to use harassment tactics? The prairie people's
The cavalry can also easily disperse into several teams, and then destroy these harassing teams one by one!
Because everyone thinks that the cavalry of the prairie people is more maneuverable than the cavalry of the empire!
There are also people who fantasize about "cutting out food". Du Wei couldn't help but laugh when this idea was brought up.
Obviously, these officers have a good foundation. They have read a lot of military books and combat regulations of this era, and they also have enough imagination. But the biggest flaw is... not pragmatic! In other words, they have no actual combat experience!
Du Wei immediately pointed out that it was impossible to cut off food! Because the prairie people's 20,000 cavalry had no so-called "food road" at all!
They have no food transport team! When the grassland army is fighting, they always carry about fifteen days of rations with the army! The only burden is the small amount of fodder they carry. This is almost the only baggage burden of the grassland army.
(Because war horses cannot only eat grass in the wild, war horses must eat hay, otherwise they will quickly lose their combat effectiveness). The prairie people's combat methods have always been very barbaric: they carry a small amount of soldier rations and a small amount of hay to maintain the assault of the army.
Mobility, when materials are needed, they can simply "supply them on the spot". The so-called supply on the spot means burning, killing and looting!!
Of course, if the prairie people's army goes on a large-scale expedition, there will be no "food roads". They are used to driving a large group of cattle and sheep directly behind the army! This is the baggage they carry!
This deduction lasted for three days. As a result, almost all the officers who played the role of the Tulip family were completely defeated by the side of the prairie people in the deduction. Among them, they were able to last for more than ten days in the battle.
He is already considered a leader.
In the first round, the one with the best results was the Alor Knight!
Although he is also a low-level officer, after all, he is different from the classmates who visited the hospital on paper. He has actual combat experience, and he has personally experienced the Gilliat City. Moreover, he also has courage and imagination.
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When he acted as the commander of the Tulip family's army, he played a lot of tricks. He did not organize the slaves on the city wall, but symbolically let his troops resist on the city wall for three days, and then withdrew all the troops.
In the city, give 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. Moreover, the troops he deployed were very reasonable, almost consuming the opponent's troops layer by layer, making the opponent advance faster and faster.
Slow! And he used most of the slave formations in street fighting in the city! His reason is very good: if you go to the city wall for frontal defense, a slave with a weapon will never be able to defeat the enemy's elite soldiers!
But if it is a street fight, the slave will have the advantage of being familiar with the terrain! This advantage can at least close some of the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides! Although this advantage is very small, during the battle, as the commander of the disadvantaged side, he must use what he has
Make full use of all the favorable conditions!
Moreover, he did not blindly let hundreds of cavalry reinforcements outside the city carry out simple harassment. Instead, he concentrated his troops to launch feint attacks against the grassland people! Each time, he did not get entangled with the opponent. Each time, he used the courage of a strong man to cut off his wrist.
, leaving a group of men to break up the rear and letting most of the cavalry quickly leave the battlefield. This method made his cavalry less and less, but it successfully delayed the opponent's time!
"The enemy has occupied the city wall and needs to send troops to guard it! During the street fighting, they have occupied streets one by one and important buildings one by one. They also need to send people to guard them!! In this way, the further they advance, the less mobile troops they will have! I
You won’t defend every place, but deliberately relax a few places for the opponent to occupy, but you can achieve the effect of dispersing the opponent’s power!”
Yalor said this in the final summary. Although he failed in the end, he succeeded in dragging the prairie man for eighteen days! This is the best result in this deduction!
Of course, from Du Wei's point of view, under normal circumstances, if the defenders can hold off for eighteen days, it can almost be considered a success because the prairie people are attacking! By eighteen days, the imperial army in the rear will be enough to mobilize a large number of reinforcements.
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However, in the battle to defend Gilliat, the Northwest Army besieged Loulan City, making it impossible for Du Wei to mobilize all his troops to assist Gilliat City! So Du Wei still judged Yaluol to fail!
The same group of officers who faced off against Yaluol suffered a lot from Yaluol during the deduction, but in the end, the captain appointed by Du Wei finally gained the recognition of many team members.
It is worth mentioning that Gabri’s grades are also good. As a member of a martial arts family, he received a good education since childhood, and... he also worked as an apprentice with that old fox Lan Hai for a while!
What made Du Wei's eyes light up was that Gabri even took full advantage of the climate factor in the deduction!
He also cleverly took advantage of a condition: darkness!!
After all, this era is not the developed technological era of Du Wei's previous life. The production level and people's living conditions in this era are not very good. In terms of human physique, most people can only eat enough, but in terms of nutrition
In terms of food intake, most people have extremely unscientific nutrition. After all, this is the standard of living. It’s good to be full!
But this resulted in a subtle factor: due to malnutrition, most people in this era have night blindness! That is to say, at night, more than half of the soldiers cannot see!
Gabri took full advantage of this condition and succeeded in delaying it for a few more days.
Generally speaking, the officer cadets are full of interest in this kind of deduction, and they are very excited about this exciting command operation.