The first thousand three hundred and forty-four chapters became the northeast battle of Xiangmomo
?Fang Xitong did not talk much about tactical issues at the meeting. Specific tactical issues were not suitable to be discussed in this first meeting, and the detailed tactical plan, the Privy Council and the staff officers of the northern armies
, many detailed and specific tactical plans have already been formulated. Next, Fang Xitong needs to review many different tactical plans before discussing and summarizing them.
It's too early to discuss detailed tactics now.
Today we are mainly talking about strategic issues!
What should the Northeast Expedition Command do to complete the task assigned by His Majesty to eliminate the alien races in the Northeast and occupy the entire Northeast?
How can we achieve the strategic goals set by the Privy Council based on His Majesty's instructions?
According to His Majesty's request, the Privy Council has already formulated an overall plan and strategic goals.
The strategic goal of this plan is to first eliminate the main tribes such as Chahar and Duoyan Sanwei, completely recover the Liaohetao area, and then start to sweep away other messy tribes, greatly expanding the empire's actual control territory.
Specifically, it is to advance from the northeastern region to Heilongjiang, and then move north and east along Heilongjiang, directly to the seaport of Heilongjiang.
Go east and fight all the way to Beihai!
To put it bluntly, the combat plan for the entire Northeast region, the goal set by the Privy Council is actually very simple, to capture all areas from Beihai in the east to Heilongjiang in the north and establish actual rule.
In the area north of Hebei and west of Western Liaoning, the core is to seize Kaiping and Daning, and then continue to extend northward, at least to make Western Liaoning Province a real province.
Although today's Liaoxi Province is also a provincial-level organization, its area is actually very small. The area west of Liaoxi is Liaoxi, and its territory is very small. If Daning can be captured, it can at least increase the jurisdiction of Liaoxi several times and become a real
Saved.
The goals set by the Privy Council for the Northeast Barbarian Expedition Command are still very important. It will not be easy for Fang Xitong to achieve this task!
Today's meeting is to formally convey His Majesty's will to the main generals of each army and convey the strategic goals of the Privy Council.
In official terms, the purpose of this meeting is to clarify the goals, convey the spirit of the superiors, and allow the generals to take His Majesty's will as the purpose of action in the subsequent work.
From the sound of it, this meeting seemed very boring, because everyone already knew what was said. The relevant documents had already arrived at the relevant combat troops one step ahead of Fang Xitong's arrival.
Although the document won't go into too much detail, it will generally briefly mention arrival.
Otherwise, the commanders and division commanders of each army would not have arrived in Shenyang City in advance and waited for Fang Xitong.
After finishing his dull speech, Fang Xitong looked around and said seriously: "Gentlemen, our task is very heavy!"
After the meeting, Fang Xitong started to get busy. He didn't even move into the residence prepared for him by the military, but lived directly in the headquarters. Anyway, he didn't bring any family members with him to take office. He was alone.
I came to Shenyang City to fight, not to enjoy.
What's more, this person doesn't really like to enjoy the superficial glory and wealth. He enjoys the feeling that the Holy Emperor trusts him and entrusts him with important responsibilities and has great power.
Power is his greatest enjoyment!
If you let him learn from Li Chunjing today, marry more than a dozen concubines, and live in fine clothes and food every day, but except for a few deputies of the Privy Council, Army General, and Imperial Duke, he will not have any real power, and even Jinling City
He didn't dare to leave at will, Fang Xitong couldn't bear it.
But then again, when Li Chunjing did this, he actually learned from Hao Bainian. Hao Bainian also did this in recent years. On the surface, he was obsessed with enjoyment, but in fact, he was doing it to avoid suspicion.
The Holy Emperor himself was wary of these military bosses. If he expressed his desire to regain military power every now and then, he would be looking for death.
In the past dynasties, there was no good end. There were countless heroes who founded the country and were cooked to death. In the former Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang almost killed all the generals who had contributed to the founding of the country.
Fortunately, the Holy Emperor was kind and after the empire was unified, all the glory and wealth that should be given were given to him, except military power!
And nearly ten years later, the Holy Emperor also began to reuse these founding veterans one after another. Hao Bainian's re-emergence is the most obvious example.
It is impossible for Hao Bainian to serve as the minister on duty in the imperial study room all the time. After Hao Bainian retires, who dares to say that Li Chunjing, Chen Keqiao and others will not have the opportunity to join the imperial study room?
Li Chunjing, Chen Keqiao and others are all waiting for their opportunity.
Now they are willing to be ordinary, and have been waiting for ten years, eight years or even longer, just to be able to one day enter the imperial study, become true imperial ministers, and start a new chapter in their lives.
However, this kind of waiting took too long, at least Fang Xitong did not have such patience, so he took another path, a path that many army bosses despised, and that was 'Foolish Loyalty'.
Regardless of whether something is right or not, as long as it is the Holy Emperor, Fang Xitong will raise his hands in approval and then try his best to do it. Even if Li Xuan asks him to send all his 100,000 troops to die, he will not frown.
A frown.
Even if others say that his title of Army General is not worthy of the name and that he is just a 'Tong-General', Fang Xitong does not take it seriously. At least Li Chunjing and Chen Keqiao, who were more prosperous than him in the military at that time,
Now he can only plant flowers and raise birds, but he has been leading troops in the field troops all year round. In the past few years, he was also the commander of the First Army with the rank of Army General. Now he has become the first in the entire empire.
A true theater commander.
The commander of the Northeast Expedition Command, with a main force of 100,000 troops, is about to launch a large-scale Northeast campaign to expand the empire's territory.
It is impossible for Li Chunjing and others to have such an opportunity.
Therefore, even if others despise him, Fang Xitong is more willing to think that they are jealous of him and jealous of the trust and importance placed in him by the Holy Emperor.
Fang Xitong, who lives directly in the headquarters, is not idle. As the commander of a hundred thousand troops, it is naturally impossible for him to personally come up with any tactical plans and the like. In fact, these matters are handled by the headquarters' staff team.
Working on it.
In order to take advantage of the opportunity of this Northeastern campaign to test the planning and construction of the future theater headquarters, Li Xuan specifically gave Fang Xitong numerous authorities. Although the organizational structure of the headquarters was led by the Privy Council, Fang
Xitong can also put forward his own opinions at any time and make certain adjustments according to his own ideas.
In addition, the composition of the personnel in the headquarters is based on the selection of the best from the entire army. This has caused competition among many officers in the army. Many of them want to be transferred to the Northeast Expeditionary Command through favors.
Take office.
Not only this headquarters, but actually all the armies preparing to participate in the Northeast Campaign, especially the chief officers of each army, whether they are middle-level positions such as battalion commander or regiment commander, or senior positions such as brigade commander, division commander, or corps commander
There are a lot of officers competing for these positions.
Officers from various armies have actually been mobilized since last autumn. The Privy Council sent all outstanding talents worth cultivating in the army to the Northeast. Of course, among them, naturally
Children of powerful people are also indispensable.
Hao Bainian's eldest son just graduated from the martial arts school last year and was assigned to serve as deputy captain in an infantry team under the Tenth Army. Although most of the newly graduated martial arts school students will be assigned to serve in the army.
The position of deputy captain, but for someone like him to join the main force as soon as he leaves, and he is also serving in the main force that is about to go into battle, it is really not much.
Either he has excellent abilities and is a candidate for key training, or he has an excellent background.
Why are army officers rushing to serve in various units in the Northeast? It is naturally to gain military achievements. After all, large-scale battles like the Northeast Campaign do not happen all the time.
Although the Tang Empire now fights wars every year, they are all small-scale conflicts with the indigenous people. However, after the empire was unified, there were actually only two large-scale battles. One was the Ninth Army's march north a few years ago.
In Hetao, the first batch of troops who went north to the grassland had more than 60,000 troops. Later, more troops were added one after another, and the total number of troops participating in the war reached more than 100,000.
The second battle is the Northeastern Campaign, which is still in the preparation stage.
If you miss the Northeastern Campaign, if you want to encounter a large-scale battle in the future, you may have to wait until the expedition to the Western Regions, the Nanyang Peninsula, or Fusang. And in these three places, it is estimated that no large-scale battle will break out for a while.
In terms of war, at least in the past few years, the army has no plans to conduct large-scale battles in the above three directions.
Therefore, the Northeast Campaign should be the largest battle in the past three to five years.
Taking Hao Bainian's eldest son as an example, without considering his identity and background, if this person can make a contribution in the Northeast Campaign, it is a high probability that he will be promoted during the war or after the war. Just by being promoted to this level,
It was enough for him to surpass his classmates.
When his classmates were still struggling with the rank of second lieutenant, he was already a lieutenant. In a few years, with his experience in the Northeast Campaign, he would most likely be promoted to captain. At the same time, because of his combat experience and meritorious service, he would be promoted to captain.
, he may also get the opportunity to enter the Royal Academy to study.
In ten or eight years, his former martial arts school classmates will probably still be in the ranks of lieutenant and captain, but he will already be a major.
In a few years, some of his classmates will no longer be able to survive in the military and will end up as captains. They will be gradually dropped into serving in reserve divisions, and then retire from active service and go to work professionally in local areas.
But he has become a lieutenant colonel or even a colonel, heading towards a higher general rank!