Most military commanders usually package themselves from four aspects.
First, love soldiers.
Second, be brave.
Third, be strict.
Fourth, strategy.
It seems that only those who have achieved these four points can be a qualified commander.
Zhan Ying also has four things in mind, which are not love of soldiers, bravery, strictness, and strategy.
Rather, it means soldiers, commanders, generals, and commanders.
He divided an army into four levels.
Soldiers take orders from the school, the school takes orders from the general, and the general takes orders from the commander.
On the other hand, it means that the general will not mobilize his troops, and the general will not mobilize his troops.
To put it in a sentence that big-headed soldiers understand, it is: it is the duty of soldiers to obey orders.
And this kind of obedience is obedience to the immediate superior, not to the superior's superior.
Zhan Ying never interferes with matters in the army. He only mobilizes the generals he can see and the triangular flags on the map in front of him.
Whether soldiers can fight bravely or not depends on the captains and generals who lead them at the front, not on the commanders at the rear.
Why is it so difficult to find the general marshal of soldiers and horses in the world? It is because of the difference in structure.
If you ask Zhan Ying to command thousands of men in offensive or defensive battles, he may not necessarily do better than other generals. It is even more nonsense to ask him to charge into battle. The opponent's soldiers may be able to chop off his head with a single knife.
However, if you ask him to mobilize millions, millions, or even tens of millions of large armies, his talents will be highlighted.
The rationing of grain and fodder for tens of millions of troops, the weapons and baggage, the coordinated operations of different arms, and the arrangement of attack formations or deep defense lines within a radius of several hundred miles are the work of the general marshal of the world's soldiers.
The number of soldiers Zhao Zian and Yang Zhentian can command at will will not exceed three million, which is already their limit.
If the two of them were to mobilize an army of more than ten million people, the entire army would become chaotic.
Zhan Ying felt that as the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, he did not need a strong body at all, but only needed intelligence, structure, and strict military law.
It is a soldier's job to go into battle and kill the enemy.
It is the general's job to organize his troops.
The battle in the wasteland has already begun. Zhan Ying only listened to the intelligence sent back and did not interfere too much in the battle.
Even if he occasionally issued a few orders, they were all issued to the generals of Southern Xinjiang who commanded the army.
A handsome man can only command a general, this is the military philosophy of war heroes.
It was also an important magic weapon that Li Tielan used to defeat the heavenly army.
Just like an emperor in the human world, the country is so big, the territory is so vast, and the population is so large. How can the emperor manage it by himself?
The art of emperors has never taught emperors how to manage their people.
Rather, it teaches the emperor how to manage the civil and military officials in front of him.
As long as he controls the hundreds of officials in the imperial court, he can control tens of thousands of miles of land and hundreds of millions of people.
This is the pattern.
Emperors who can do this are often famous among thousands of envoys.
Many commanders, in order to firmly control the troops, interfere in everything. They have millions of troops under their command, and the commanders often personally give orders to the captains of a thousand-man team.
Mobilizing troops beyond one level is a taboo in military operations.
Especially on the battlefield, once the commander arbitrarily deploys a certain group of soldiers for defense, the number of soldiers may not be large, only a few hundred or a few thousand, but this situation can easily cause loopholes in the entire deployed defense line.
And the failure of many battles is not a complete defeat on the battlefield, but starts from a certain inconspicuous point in the battle situation, and the opponent's coach seizes the flaw, and at a certain point, the entire situation is quickly torn apart.
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Now the two storm armies in the southern part of the sky have retracted their extended tentacles. The army of 100,000 beast riders in the south is advancing north, and the army of 200,000 beast riders in the north is advancing south.
At noon, the two groups of celestial beasts met on the wasteland about sixty miles north of Dawu City.
Three hundred thousand beast riders gathered together, occupying the entire chessboard area on the map.
However, the area on the chessboard they passed was once again occupied by the Southern Border Beast Riders, and the number of people in each area was still about 850.
Wan Yanku said: "Commander, our beast cavalry has been moving away and dispersed all morning. Now the enemy's beast cavalry from the north and south have converged. What should we do next?"
Zhan Ying said calmly: "They have not opened up the north-south passage. Looking at the overall situation, these 300,000 storm troops are in the center of my encirclement."
Wanyanku looked at the map and said: "They are indeed in the center of the encirclement of our beast riders, but this encirclement is very fragile. Their 300,000-strong army is invincible, but we only have 850 left in each area."
The soldiers could not stop them at all.
This siege makes no sense."
Zhan Yingdao: "Our combat mission this time is not to kill the enemy, but to delay.
If you can delay the enemy for a moment longer, that would be meaningful.
Now the game of chess has just begun."
Wanyanku and the senior leaders of Southern Xinjiang seemed to understand what they heard.
Chief Dayan said: "To the north, there are millions of heavenly armies. Once they advance, it will be difficult for us to stop them."
Zhan Ying said: "As long as Qu Jiuyuan's Suppression of the West Army does not show up, Phantom will not easily let the main force go south.
This is a psychological war. I want to use the reputation of the God of War Li Tielan to nail the main force of these millions of heavenly armies firmly between Shaqiu City and Dawu City.
Just wait, the other party will definitely take action within an hour."
In Longmen, Phantom stared at a huge battle map in the tent.
All the activity areas of the Southern Border Beast Riders in the northern wasteland have been accurately marked. The area where the 300,000 Beast Riders are located happens to be the core location of the entire Zhenlong chess game.
But Phantom didn't seem to be focusing on the Zhenlong chess game.
She said angrily: "How could Qu Jiuyuan's army of more than one million disappear for so long without any reason?
Even if there are a million ants, there should be some clues!"
A silver-armored general said: "Could it be a cover-up? They never came out of Tianying Prison at all."
Another silver-armored general said: "Impossible. A large number of military supplies were transported out of Tianying Pass at dusk the day before yesterday. Our high-altitude reconnaissance scouts also clearly detected a large number of Zhenxi troops leaving the pass. Outside Tianying Pass,
Gathering in the wilderness.
But after dawn, the army of more than one million disappeared mysteriously. Now guarding Tianying Pass, it is Sun Bashan's ever-victorious army."
Phantom pointed to an area on the map and said: "Add the Six-winged Legion to conduct a rigorous search in this area. They must be here. Even if they dig three feet into the ground, they will dig out these more than one million human soldiers for me!