The panic descended, and the concave army, led by Major General Luo Shaopeng, took the lead in advancing westward in Yukou

Although among the many commanders, Luo Shaopeng is the most rebellious one. "He is also the most dissatisfied with Pei Chengyi, but when the front-line command arranged for the army to take the lead, Luo Shaopeng did not complain. He could become a major general commander who commanded tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. No matter how dissatisfied Luo Shaopeng was, he should know the situation of the army and his situation. Because he missed the opportunity to attack New Delhi, his army had become the most insignificant force on the Eastern Front battlefield, so whether it was Luo Shaopeng or the officers and soldiers who walked out of the army had to seize this opportunity. In the words of Luo Shaopeng encouraging the soldiers before setting off, if he still made no achievements in the army, he would likely be reduced to the second-line troops after the war, or even withdrawn.

This is definitely not alarmist.

Before joining the war, Xiang Yinghui told all the commanders clearly that the performance of each army in this war would determine its position in the Republic's army. Because when the front line command was established, Pei Chengyi drew intermediate officers from each army, so the commanders of each army had long received the news that after the war, the army would definitely adjust its organization, the main field army would definitely cut, and the total size of the army would also be reduced.

If you can become the commander of the army, you will have the ability to see the impact of this war on the country.

According to some news media commentators, the Indian War will be the last large-scale regional war fought by the Republic in the year before the century. Within the coming year of the Blade to the Stone Year, the Republic is unlikely to participate in similar large-scale wars again. Although the possibility of the Republic participating in local wars in other regions is not ruled out, whether the Army, as a "decisive force", will be directly determined by the basic national strategy. In the context of the Republic's unwilling to be involved in large-scale wars, the Army will once again restore its identity as a "land defense force", and it will not be like the Air Force and the Navy, or even like the Marine Corps, to become the vanguard of the Republic's intervention in international affairs.

Without participating in large-scale regional wars, there is naturally no need to retain an overly large army.

Since there is no need to retain too many ground troops, it is imperative to streamline combat troops.

In fact, Wang Yuanqing is already preparing for disarmament. Strengthening the professionalization of the army and increasing the proportion of non-commissioned officers is the preparations made by Wang Yuanqing for the third military reform of the Republic. According to external predictions, Wang Yuanqing will definitely start military reform in the last year of his reign, reducing the total strength of the Republic's army to about ten thousand, and retaining up to eight main field troops. It is more likely to cancel the military-level organization and use brigades as the highest combat single, thereby greatly improving the combat flexibility of the Republic's army. If this is true, the main combat troops of the army will definitely be controlled between the blade and the brigade, and the total strength between the brigades will not exceed ten thousand.

There is no doubt that the benefits of doing so will not be obvious to the Republic.

Reducing the size of the army is equivalent to allowing the air force, navy, and more development potential to gain more investment. From the perspective of national security, the main combat brigade is enough to ensure the local security of the Republic and win two low-intensity local wars at the same time, or a high-intensity regional war. Even if it encounters a large-scale regional war, because the proportion of non-commissioned officers has increased, the combat troops can be expanded several times by recruiting soldiers during the war, while ensuring that the combat effectiveness of each combat unit will not decline significantly.

We know that in combat troops, non-commissioned officers represented by squad leaders are the real pillars. "A good squad leader can lead 8 to old soldiers. Even if the army is too small, it will have a negative impact, and the overall combat effectiveness of the army can be ensured by expanding the Marine Corps and allowing the Marine Corps to undertake some ground combat tasks. In the long run, as the Republic is no longer threatened by neighboring countries, future military operations will be mainly foreign intervention. Marine Corps, which are good at cooperating with the Navy, are more suitable for external intervention operations.

From the standpoint of politicians, Wang Yuanqing had enough reason to cut the army from Men Wan to Tian Wan.

From the standpoint of other services, there are also enough reasons to support the reduction of the Army.

However, from the standpoint of the army officers and soldiers, especially the commanders, they must oppose the reduction of the army, because it is equivalent to snatching away the jobs they have.

The commanders of each army had long heard the news that the head of state would not use the army generals to drive him.

In any case, the Army is still the largest branch of the Republic and has a very high position in the Republic's army. Not to mention, the Chief of General Staff is an Army General, and Pei Chengyi, who is most likely to become the next Chief of General Staff, is also a lieutenant general of the Army. Yuan Chenhao, who performed outstandingly in this war, was still an Army colonel. Although the Air Force and the Navy general have a great say, the Army general still accounts for most of the top military leaders of the Republic. If the Chief of General wants to take action against the Army, he must first ask whether Xiang Yinghui and Pei Chengyi agree.

According to the ideas of most army generals, the head of state is likely to gradually disintegrate the army's "hegemony" in the Republic's army by forming a theater command, and provide a new job for the "unemployed" army commanders, so that the army can support the military reform.

The news of the establishment of the theater command has long been heard. Although it has not been implemented in this war, all the commanders believe that as Pei Chengyi gained a foothold through this war and became the successor of the General Staff, the dispute over the next chief of staff has come to an end, and the establishment of the theater command will be natural. Even if this matter is not completed during Xiang Yinghui's tenure, Pei Chengyi will support military reforms and comprehensively adjust the Republic's military command mechanism by supporting military reforms, so that the theater command system will completely replace the current military region system.

Standing at the head of state, "Peng Shiqing will definitely implement the theater commander with Pei Chengyi

Not to mention anything else, in order to deepen political reform, Wang Yuanqing will definitely abolish the major military regions, because the ultimate goal of political reform is to establish a perfect democratic system in the Republic, and the military region system is built on the old political system. With the collapse of the old political system, the military region system will naturally become history.

With Wang Yuanqing's courage, he would definitely not hand over such an important matter to the next head of state.

Besides, Yan Jingyu, who is most likely to become the next head of state, does not have much prestige, and it is impossible for him to establish absolute personal prestige through external wars like Ji Youguo, Zhao Rundong, and Wang Yuanqing during his term of office, and it is impossible to carry out political reforms like Wang Yuanqing and attack mixed interest groups. If Wang Yuanqing intends to let Yan Jingyu take over, he will definitely solve all the difficult problems before leaving office, leaving Yan Jingyu a relatively stable situation, and let Yan Jingyu complete two terms smoothly.

Guo Wang Yuanqing considered it a little longer and would even arrange the succession of several governments in the future to ensure that the Republic successfully survived the aging period of population. Don’t forget that when Wang Yuanqing took office, he was only a few years old, and he was the youngest head of state in the history of the Republic. Even if he left office after the old year, he would not be too old. For the head of state, the year was not only not considered old, but also particularly young. In other words, after Wang Yuanqing left office, he still had enough influence and was still the most influential politician in the Republic.

Of course, it is still unclear whether it is Yan Jingyu's successor.

According to unwritten rules, if Wang Yuanqing intends to let Yan Jingyu take over, Yan Jingyu should be appointed as the deputy head of state.

At the beginning, Wang Yuanqing became the head of state after being the deputy head of state in 2009.

It can be seen from this that Wang Yuanqing is still a little worried about Yan Jingyu's ability, or he is worried about whether Yan Jingyu can control the overall situation.

Another question is also worth pondering, that is, Yan Jingyu's age.

Yan Jingyu was only a good year when he became the Premier of the State Council. Although Wang Yuanqing was only Feng Sui when he was the deputy head of state, when Wang Yuanqing left office, Yan Jingyu was only a Sheng Sui, only two years older than Wang Yuanqing when he was the head of state. For the highest leader of the country, Sui was indeed a little young. Of course, Wang Yuanqing is a special case, because before he became the deputy head of state, he not only worked in the local area for many years, but also worked with Ji Zuoguo for several years. When he was the chief assistant of the head of state, he had a comprehensive understanding of the basic situation of the country, and also accumulated a lot of administrative experience, and he became clearer about Ji Zuoguo's reform intentions.

There is no doubt that Yan Jingyu does not have such a unique advantage. Even if he does a good job in Guangxi, many people will think that it is Wang Yuanqing's credit, not his ability.

That's true, many people think that the next head of state is likely not Yan Jingyu.

According to the widely circulated statement in the army, Wang Yuanqing is likely to let Yan Jingyu work more in the position of Premier of the State Council, and then serve as the deputy head of state, and finally make him the head of state. During this period, there must be a transitional leader, and the best candidate must be Gu Weimin.

If Gu Weimin really takes over, a commander like Luo Shaopeng has to be more careful.

Everyone knows that Gu Weimin moved from Minister of Defense to Chairman, and during his tenure as Minister of Defense, the most important thing Gu Weimin did was to reduce military expenditures!

Although the outside world generally believes that Gu Weimin is the Minister of Defense who knows how to control military expenditure in recent years. It is his outstanding contribution to controlling national defense expenditure that has prevented the economic development of the Republic from being seriously affected by several large-scale wars. It is precisely because Gu Weimin has gained the power second only to the head of state in Wang Yuanqing's government and became Wang Yuanqing's most important assistant, but for any soldier, Gu Weimin is definitely an unpopular helmsman, because

In the eyes of all soldiers, it was in the years when Gu Weimin served as Minister of Defense that the speed of military construction in the Republic was greatly slowed down, and many important equipment development projects were laid off, resulting in the failure of the military's combat effectiveness to be greatly improved. Many people even believe that if Gu Weimin had not cut off several major equipment development projects, the Republic's army would have likely entered the "electromagnetic era" before the outbreak of the Indian War, which would have expanded its leading advantage against the United States to more than the old year, rather than the current clams.

There is no doubt that after Gu Weimin came to power, he would definitely carry out military reforms drastically.

Disarmament is definitely unavoidable, and it is reasonable to reduce staff. Many ongoing equipment projects will be abandoned halfway. At that time, the unemployed will not be a few tens of thousands of soldiers, and there may be a few tens of thousands, or even millions of workers and scholars from military-industrial enterprises.

More importantly, Gu Weimin is not Yan Jingyu.

Although among the leaders of the same era, Gu Weimin was far inferior to Wang Yuanqing, and he had been suppressed by Wang Yuanqing. It can even be said that it was Wang Yuanqing's existence that Gu Weimin had to stay in the position of "No. 2" for so many years, but compared with Yan Jingyu, Gu Weimin had much higher prestige, much higher status, and even more influence. Even without Wang Yuanqing's support, Gu Weimin was able to promote political reform and military reform.

It can be seen from this that whether Gu Weimin can come to power depends on whether Wang Yuanqing is capable of completing what he should do during his term of office.

For soldiers like Luo Shaopeng, the result is not much different.

If Wang Yuanqing could complete political reforms and military reforms during his term, before Yan Jing took office, hundreds of thousands of soldiers would have to transfer jobs in advance. A large number of generals would lose their power and be given a small number of fruits. Wang Shiqing could not complete political reforms and military reforms during his term. After Gu Weimin came to office, hundreds of thousands of soldiers would have to transfer jobs and thugs. A large number of generals would have to retire early.

If you cannot change the environment, you can only adapt to the environment.

With the general background already clear, it is not difficult to understand that the main field troops are striving for the first place on the battlefield.

From another perspective, Luo Shaopeng felt a little uncomfortable either.

When Luo Shaopeng was voluntarily offended Xiang Yinghui, he knew that his future was unpredictable. However, the country was easy to change, but his nature was difficult to change. If he offended Pei Chengyi on the online battlefield, it would not be a problem with unpredictable future. Although Luo Shaopeng knew that Xiang Yinghui was not the kind of person who cared about personal grievances, otherwise he would have driven him out of the army long ago, Luo Shaopeng did not know Pei Chengyi's character, but only knew that Pei Chengyi would be the next chief of staff. If Pei Chengyi was a petty guy, I'm afraid the first thing he did after taking office was to arrange a new army commander for the army.

This idea made Luo Shaopeng feel discouraged.

But he did not give up because he knew one truth, that is, one loses one's own losses and one prospers.

As a major general, even if he retires early, Luo Shaopeng can receive the country's retired military subsidies for his whole life and live a leisurely and comfortable life. Most of the officers and soldiers who went out of the army would not be so lucky. If Luo Shaopeng brought Cong Jun to the mold and made the fallen army the first target of layoffs, it would mean that most of the more than 20,000 officers and soldiers would have to take off their military uniforms and lose their jobs in advance.

As the commander of the army, Luo Shaopeng may be rebellious in front of his superiors, but he must be responsible for his officers and soldiers.

From this perspective, Luo Shaopeng is a commander who knows how to lead troops and cares about his subordinates very much. He is just too paranoid about the issue of big things and does not know how to advance and retreat and make choices.

Before the troops set off, Luo Shaopeng said to all the officers and soldiers of the army, that is, this time it was not for others, but for themselves, and for the future of more than 20,000 soldiers in the army!

For the army, there is no way out and there is only one way forward.

When an army takes out the courage to fight with its back and forth, nothing can stop it from progressing.

Judging from the quality of officers and soldiers, overall organization, training level, comprehensive ability, etc., the army is not weak. In the strategic reaction army, except that it is slightly worse than the sword army, the combat effectiveness of the army and the sword army is comparable to that of the sword army, and it is much stronger than other strategic reaction army, and it is not lacking in capital.

The battle in the early stages of the decisive battle on the Eastern Front is enough to prove the combat effectiveness of the army.

The Indian army blocked the east bank of the Song River not because the Luo army was not strong enough in combat, but because the engineering troops that assisted in the battle were not fully prepared, which made the Gu Army miss the best opportunity to cross the Song River before the Indian army deployed its defense line. In the end, it had to use the tactics that the Strategic Reaction Army was not very good at forcing the Song River to cross the Song River.

If the 24th Army was given another chance, Luo Shaopeng would definitely not make the same mistake.

In fact, Pei Chengyi did give Luo Shaopeng another chance.

In just one night, he went out to attack the nearly kilometer westward. The main force surrounded Indore, while the vanguard turned to Ujain in advance, and the stance was to encircle and annihilate the ten thousand Indian troops in the two places.

Indore and Ujain's Indian troops were planning to reinforce Bhopal, but they didn't have time to rush over.

When the vanguard of the army arrived, the Indian army retreated back to its defensive position and acted as if it was defending the enemy to the death.

Whether or not I can defend the enemy will not be able to decide Mao.

According to Pei Chengyi's battle deployment, the army not only needs to surround Indore and contain Ujain, but also must capture Indore within a few hours, and attack southwest, occupy Mandelechevor, force crossing the Narmoda River, and strive to push the front line to the north bank of the Buti River. It would be better to be able to force cross the Dabuti River. In other words, when it arrives on the north bank of the Dabuti River, Pei Chengyi will let the troops replace the army and launch an attack on Surat at the mouth of the Dabuti River, and defeat Surat in one go, controlling this large port city with an annual throughput capacity of tens of millions of tons.

Although in the eyes of the officers and soldiers who went out of the army, this is a wedding dress for the sword army, in Luo Shaopeng's words, no matter how good the sword army is, it is based on the victory of the army.

Even if the military achievements are allocated and the 4th Army is the one who makes the first contribution, no one can erase the great contributions made by the army in the westward combat operation.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the task must be completed on time and in quality.

To this end, the army must capture Indore as quickly as possible and open the passage to the north bank of the Nalmoda River.

Fortunately, Luo Shaopeng picked up a big advantage.

Influenced by the Battle of Bhopal, the Indian army left behind Indore not only did not have much fighting spirit, nor did they have much supplies, otherwise Pei Chengyi would not have used a thug to tie Indore within the time.

Luo Shaopeng also knew about this situation, so after surrounding Indore, he immediately called for fire support.

To make the Indian army surrender, the first thing to do is to destroy the last bit of resistance in the Indian army, so that the Indian army knows that if the weapons are not immediately put down, Indore will become the second Bhopal!

I have to say that Luo Shaopeng has a very good ability to lead the army in war. Although he is not as brave as Ling Yunxiao, he knows better how to use all favorable factors.

It is definitely not a blow to be the commander of the main field army.
Chapter completed!