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Chapter Fog of War

Thinking about it now, Zhao Bing felt that it was a lucky chance to succeed. When he came to this era, the country fell, the political structure disintegrated, and the army collapsed, he was able to reorganize the army and incorporate some modern ideas into it. In addition, he did not go as fast as the choice of weapons, but chose relatively low-level crossbows and rockets and improved them. This avoided the bloody smell of military reform and was able to be implemented smoothly in the early stages.

With the stability of his status and the gradual maturity of politics, Zhao Bing also realized the close relationship between military reform and social system and political system. In order to avoid the danger of political struggle, it is difficult to develop industrial technology on a large scale. In order to avoid economic collapse, he could only retreat this time and adopt the "small step and fast running" strategy to carry out gradually.

Introducing modern advanced tactics is also a must-have gold finger for time travelers. So can we avoid the difficulties of reform and simply introduce tactics? Zhao Bing also had this idea at the beginning, but he soon discovered that although this method is not impossible, the risks also exist. Because any tactics have corresponding historical backgrounds. For example, the equipment used at that time, terrain, enemies faced, etc. can be said to be very complicated.

Moreover, there is a very big gap between tactics and tactics in different eras, that is, the differences in equipment technology, actual military training, combat experience, and command system. If we look at the development of human military history from a macro perspective, an important trend in command is the refinement of the combat functions of the army in unit and different types of troops.

In other words, the development of tactics and tactics is actually the continuous changes on this basis. Moreover, the implementation of tactics and tactics also requires long-term training for soldiers and running-in during combat. Therefore, unless the enemy they face is limited, it is actually difficult for new tactics and tactics to play any role quickly.

At the same time, putting many concepts of modern warfare in the environment of ancient warfare is actually a "narl" behavior. Because modern warfare was accompanied by the emergence of railways, hot air balloons and telegraphs before the invention of weapons such as tanks and aircraft, there were already great subversive changes in the delivery of troops, battlefield intelligence collection and information transmission compared with ancient times. Therefore, modern and modern warfare have a technical gap in the era in many tactical concepts.

For example, in the ancient war environment, especially before the invention of the telescope, the military commander's grasp of the entire battlefield situation basically relies on limited reconnaissance work before the war and the commanders who traveled between the various units of the army to continuously report the war situation. Then the commander analyzes these limited intelligence and finally makes a judgment. Therefore, it can be said that under the conditions of ancient war, it is actually impossible to make detailed analysis and judgment on the situation of the war and the army like modern wars.

In addition, under ancient conditions, the commander's grasp of the battlefield situation was often very vague. The combat habits of the soldiers, coupled with their own vague battlefield situations, made ancient army warfare, in most cases, follow established combat habits. Any so-called tactical "strategy" that changes existing combat habits is itself a high-risk behavior.

Because there is no military combat habits and commander experience as a correction, when conducting "strange plots", the battlefield situation will often become more uncontrollable. As long as there is a slight change, the "strange plot" will suddenly become "death". Therefore, tactics that are based on more advanced command, training, and communication and transportation conditions in modern warfare are used as strange plots on ancient battlefields, so the chance of overturning is even more conceivable.

Therefore, the use of tactics and tactics cannot be done casually. This led to Zhao Bing reorganizing many times, training the army, gradually introducing "new" weapons, and gradually improving military rules, regulations and regulations in actual combat to adapt to new tactics and tactics. After seven years of running-in, a new army began to be formed and the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons was completed.

Of course, Zhao Bing experienced twists and turns, and also made a lot of jokes. When he was a military-loving netizen in his previous life, he always had to talk about classic battles of all sizes, and sometimes he would feel very emotional and would also worry for the ancients. He imagined that if the generals who defeated the side did not use those stupid moves that led to defeat, they might change history and bring new possibilities.

While sighing at the keystroke, Zhao Bing often put forward new ideas of the series "I am smarter than the ancients". Hearing the magical legends of the modern German General Staff, he used this to imagine: If the general staff system was promoted in the ancient army and the generals were given advice, would it be possible to change the end of those battles in history?

After putting himself in his shoes, Zhao Bing realized how ridiculous his self-righteousness was, and he also deeply felt that those "simulation" and "documentary" involved fraud in ancient military film and television works. Only then did he realize that the courts often became hand-off managers after choosing generals to go to war, and all the affairs of the army after the war were done by the generals themselves. They were just producers and directors just to save actors and reduce costs, and to make shoddy work.

But this also gave Zhao Bing an illusion that he thought that in the process of commanding the war, the safety of the entire army was placed on the generals alone. So when discussing some ancient war examples, he naturally had the idea that "if a group of staff were arranged to these generals, these generals would not make such mistakes again." In fact, this idea was very right and very good. Unfortunately, such a good idea had already been thought of by the ancients in the pre-Qin period.

In the Qin and Han military book "Six Strategies·Long Tao·Wang Yi", it clearly states: "A king must have wings to become a powerful god... Therefore, there will be 72 wings to respond to the way of heaven." It means that when the general goes to the expedition, he should be equipped with 72 staff assistants from the side to assist. These staff assistants have their own division of labor, taking care of all the work worthy of special dispatch in ancient military activities, from environmental surveys to food and grass calculations. In other words, if conditions permit, ancient generals must be equipped with staff officers when they go to war, unless they are unavailable.

In short, Zhao Bing thought that war itself was actually a very complex social behavior. Therefore, the development of military affairs itself is also a microcosm of social development. No matter how wonderful or feasible the time travel is written, it is just after all. And those who are addicted to using the concept of modern war to review ancient wars are essentially just talking about war on paper...

"Your Majesty, do you need to add some water?" Wang De saw that His Majesty had been in a daze at the flames in the stove for a long time, and reached out to lift the lid of the pot and checked.

‘Gudu,gudu…’

"Don't lift the cover, there is still a lot of soup. This is the time to taste, so as not to dissipate the smell!" Zhao Bing turned his ears and listened to the sound in the pot, then sniffed his nose and smelled the fragrance in the pot, and waved his hand to stop Wang De.

"Your Majesty is really good at everything. Just listen to it and you will know the time. You will never learn it in this life!" Wang De said with a smile.

"It's not that you can't hear it, but you're worried that the soup will be reduced and the pot will be dried. Then I thought about uncovering it and taking it out to be at ease!" Zhao Bing filled the dry wood in each of the two stoves.

"Your Majesty can also see this little bit of thought. No wonder you can hide everything in the world!" Wang De said in surprise with wide open mouth.

"Don't make a mistake, I think you are the one who understands the world!" Zhao Bing smiled and cursed when he saw his appearance.

"Haha, how dare you pretend to be a ghost in front of His Majesty? Isn't that a big sword in front of Guan Gong?" Wang De didn't care and said with a smile.

"Okay, go and ask the kitchen to prepare a few more fine dishes. I am worried that these fish are not enough for them to eat!" Zhao Bing looked at the dozen or so men and raised his eyebrows and said.

"Yes, the young man understands it, and he will definitely make the generals happy!" Wang De said with a polite manner, then went down the deck and went to give orders in person.

Looking at Wang De's departure, Zhao Bing suddenly realized that it was the same thing, but he could make a decision after listening to it. Wang De knew that there was still a lot of soup, but he still had to check it out. It was nothing more than a different status, so he was worried about misjudgment and dared not make a decision. So, in the battle that just ended, he thought it was a bad fight and blamed the main general for the unfavorable planning. Is there a similar reason?

Zhao Bing knew that one of the characteristics of ancient wars was that because there was no high-tech reconnaissance method called spy satellites or aerial reconnaissance, the battlefield information feedback that could be summarized as "fog of war" was not promptly reported, and the various problems caused seriously hindered the generals' understanding of the battlefield situation, and thus greatly increased the difficulty of their decision-making.

Because, whether it is to grab the tongue, find a guide or send scouts, most of the information that can be obtained is incomplete or even outdated battlefield. Therefore, what is finally presented to the generals is often an outdated or important battlefield picture, especially information that is highly time-sensitive, such as enemy movements and traffic conditions, is often missing or outdated.
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