In the New Year, Li Li and Huang Yan brought their children to the palace to visit Li Ping'an and his granddaughter. Afterwards, Li Li chatted with the emperor.

Because Xiao Xun was about to go to Huainan and stationed in Huaiyin, he asked the general excitedly when he would be able to fight north.

This made Li Li feel that it was difficult to answer.

Teenagers are characterized by strong spirit, impulsive behavior, strong self-esteem, serious rebelliousness, and very sensitive.

The teenagers during this period were in the "second stage" and only their own fathers were easy to manage. Li Li did not want to cause trouble. When facing the emperor's question, he did not directly answer, but asked:

"First of all, after the spring plowing, can your Majesty know why?"

This question is simple, Xiao Xun replied: "Because the plan for a year lies in spring, spring plowing requires a large amount of labor. If you raise troops at this time, you will inevitably recruit a large number of young and strong troops to join the army and transport food, grass and supplies. In this way, you will miss the farming time."

"Your Majesty said very much. Now that the imperial guards are about to go to Huaiyin, it will take several months before civil and military officials can truly settle down. So autumn has arrived."

Li Li said slowly: "The autumn harvest is busy with farming, so it is natural that it is not easy to raise troops. After the autumn harvest, the newly formed soldiers of the two Huaihei governments must enter the industry in turn and be inspected by Your Majesty. Your Majesty must be familiar with generals at all levels, and have to spend time, right? So, the New Year is coming."

"So, it's impossible to make a Northern Expedition this year."

Xiao Xun actually knew that he would definitely not be able to make a Northern Expedition this year, so he asked: "What about next year?"

"Then you have to wait until this autumn and winter, after His Majesty reviews the soldiers of the palace, it depends on the situation."

Li Li means: Whether the Northern Expedition can be achieved is mainly to review the military soldiers and His Majesty will make the decision.

Let the young emperor think that everything is up to you, not "the general can say it is OK."

This is a conversation technique, even if it can't actually change anything, it can make the other party accept it happily.

Sure enough, Xiao Xun was very happy: "Then wait for autumn and winter to review the soldiers in the palace."

Li Li took the opportunity to raise another topic: "Your Majesty, as the saying goes, 'If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools'. Now the tools are already in preparation. Have you thought about the usage?"

"Usage? Just use it for the general." Xiao Xun trusted his father-in-law very much.

"The military power is the sword of the emperor, and you can only use it yourself." Li Li quickly said the scene so as not to make people misunderstand. "I can only suggest how your majesty should use it."

"Then?" Xiao Xun didn't know what the general wanted to say.

Li Li asked: "The more troops you participate in the battle, the more problems you have, have your Majesty ever thought that in the future, there will be more than 100,000 troops, and so many generals leading the troops will be in charge of the jurisdiction?"

Xiao Xun felt strange: "Isn't it a great commander? You can also set up a general in various ways to control the troops. This has been the case for decades, and this is what the general said before."

"The problem is here..." Li Li explained to the emperor a characteristic of Liang Jun: his cooperative combat capability is very poor.

The Liang army performed well in battles of thousands of people, but in battles of tens of thousands of people, the Liang army often failed because of the poor cooperative combat capabilities of each unit.

He first told the story of "one monk carries water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, and three monks have no water to eat."

From this story, letting the emperor know that "team cooperation" must be done well is not that simple: it has to do with human nature.

If the war is large in scale, a large number of troops will inevitably be gathered, and then the troops and horses of each unit will act separately and fight together.

However, the generals who participated in the war were either the governors of various states, county magistrates, or generals of the military offices that were not affiliated with each other.

These generals have different official positions, qualifications, status, different backgrounds, different factions, and even have personal grudges. It is not easy to cooperate in combat.

Even if the commander is dispatched in the middle, the generals of each division may not implement the combat orders seriously, and may even disobey the slander.

Especially when fighting tough battles, such as intercepting the main force of the enemy or cutting off the rear of a large army, the army that undertakes this task will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

This is unacceptable to many generals who regard the army (group) as private property.

Therefore, the generals of each department may not work hard based on their own selfishness or personal grievances and refuse to fight tough battles.

The more troops participating in the war and shirking blame for each other, the more generals will watch the wall.

Why have the official army often won battles in recent years?

It is very simple, hard work, dirty work, and tiring work. Basically, the Xuzhou army did all the other participating teams. They fought comfortably and smoothly, and naturally performed well.

However, there is no constant victory in the army. What if the Xuzhou army is defeated one day?

Are the troops scattered like birds and beasts?

In other words, during the Northern Expedition, we cannot place all hope on "the Xuzhou army is invincible."

Qi State has a strong national strength and many soldiers. One day, a "Tian Ji's horse racing" will come to use a partial army to delay the Xuzhou army and attack other official troops with a strong army. What if it does?

Li Li believed that during the Northern Expedition, there were many tough battles to fight and we could not place all hope on a strong army.

Instead, we must mobilize all troops and unite the troops participating in the war into one rope, and use collective strength to overcome all obstacles.

After all, to deal with a powerful country like Qi, we must do our best to win the strategic decisive battle.

If you cannot rely on the victory of a certain battle, you will be able to collapse, the giant Qi State.

Li Li said this, meaning to carry out institutional reform. Xiao Xun nodded in a slight understanding: He understands the truth, but he doesn't understand it if it involves institutional construction.

Li Li believes that the existing combat system of Liang State has been implemented for many years, and the results show that it is not very ideal (under large-scale corps combat conditions).

Therefore, we need to find ways to make the army perform well in wartime to increase the chance of success of the Northern Expedition.

His suggestion is to formulate a new combat system for the "wartime state", formulate new "tactical units", and then synthesize "battle legions" and "strategic legions".

Referring to the current achievements of the reform of the military system in Zhou State, the new combat system that Li Li hopes to establish is called the Marching System.

The so-called "marching" refers to marching and combat. The meaning of the word "makes" not only includes the advancement during the military's combat, but also includes the organization, troop allocation, as well as the deployment, mobilization and combat of the combat army.

The specific implementation is to meet the needs of the war and temporarily organize an army to undertake combat tasks. This army generally has a force of about thousands, and is a "tactical unit" called "March of So-and-Secret Road".

If the combat area of ​​the marching is Henan, it is the "Henan (East or West) Road March". The chief general is the marching commander and is appointed by the ministers appointed during the war, and has chief ministers, Sima, and other subordinates.

The war ended, the march was disbanded, and the generals returned to their posts.

Therefore, the marching commander is a temporary combat military position, and the marching organization is also a wartime organization.

If the war is large and several marches need to be invested, then who is the superior among the marches general managers?

The superior is the marching governor, and the so-called "governor" means "general governor".

The marching governor was also appointed during the war, and the appointment was cancelled when the war ended.

If this combat system is implemented, when fighting against foreign countries, the tactical units will only have the "marching" level, and the troops of each marching are about thousands, which is enough to undertake general tactical tasks.

The specific troop configuration will be increased and decreased according to the scale of the battle. If necessary, it is not impossible to appoint several marching governors and command more than a dozen marching governors.

For example, during the comprehensive Northern Expedition, the front line spans thousands of miles east-west, and several marching governors can be set up to form a strategic offensive with the combat offensive in their war zones.

"For example, Your Majesty personally led the army to fight, Qing, Xu, and Xu, and Yu, and Bo, and Mianbei, and could have a army governor, and in charge of the left, middle and right routes, responsible for the wars in their respective theaters."

"Your Majesty can be the center of the process and take charge of the overall situation."

When talking about the Northern Expedition, Xiao Xun was excited, but after listening, he heard a problem: "Even if the system is changed, the problem of the joint combat between the army is still not solved?"

Li Li replied: "What Your Majesty said is that if you just change your name and organization, it is like changing the soup but not changing the medicine."

Under the new system, the marching commander is responsible for leading his subordinates to carry out the battle of his marching and will soon be in the army.

The Governor of the March is responsible for how to fight together between the marching troops and is responsible for issuing orders to the marching governors, and they are about to be.

It can be foreseen that it will be easier for the marching officers to supervise the troops in the headquarters, because these soldiers are originally organized into marches with the general, and they are all old subordinates, so there is no problem in managing them.

However, it is somewhat difficult for the marching governor to control the marching governor, because this relationship between superiors and subordinates is temporarily formed.

Even if the relationship between superiors and subordinates of generals participating in the war is only based on the marching position, not their official position, military title, or title, but the person's magnitude and distrust cannot be changed.

Therefore, there is still a possibility that superiors will not command subordinates.

There is still a possibility that the commands of the marching governors are slanderous, passively avoiding war or even escaping at the last minute.

"This is a problem of military law enforcement and a difficult problem," Li Li replied, "It is difficult to enforce the law in the military, but it is simple, not simple."

"How to avoid the situation where all the troops work together to avoid the situation of 'friendly troops in trouble and not helping them when they die'? How to avoid the situation where they do not work hard? How to avoid the situation where they do not fight hard and fight with the wind?"

"Sometimes, the war is not going well, it is not because the soldiers are not going to live. They really cannot beat them and their skills are not as good as others."

"Then, if the marching is judged to be passive and avoid war, and to execute the main general in front of the formation, or force the marching soldiers to go out to fight and die, it is easy to cause mutiny or even rebellion."

"If all the military law enforcement powers are handed over to the marching governor or the chief of the military supervisor, and the marching governor is fully managed, it is inevitable that there will be cases of indiscriminate killing and private revenge."

Xiao Xun thought for a while and said, "You can send the censor as the supervisor to supervise the marching governor, and the chief will implement the military law."

"If a certain marching governor passively avoids the suspicion of war and violates military law, he should be executed. The marching governor, the chief and the censor, and the three of them discuss together. As long as two people agree, they should be executed."

The emperor knew a lot and asked Li Li to save his explanation, so he found out: "Your Majesty said very well, but using a censor who does not understand the military law to supervise the execution of military law will do more harm than good."

"So, I want to add a small addition to the marching system..."
Chapter completed!