The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

"Zhao Yong, you set the start time of the attack in April. If you cannot launch an attack according to the scheduled time, it will be advanced or lagged behind, but the army has gathered in place. Should you force the attack or cancel the plan?" Zhao Qi asked again

The Privy Council's plan raised questions.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates did not consider this issue." Zhao Yong admitted honestly.

"In addition, after the Western Route Army arrived at Huining Mansion, you planned to use the strategy of besieging the city to attack reinforcements. If the enemy reinforcements arrive first, or wander outside the battlefield and refuse to enter the hub, how do you deal with it? Will you wait indefinitely

Go down?" Zhao Qi's speech rose.

"Your Majesty, based on past experience, the empire capital will often be quickly dispatched to rescue the siege, and the predetermined plan should be achieved!" Zhao Ren saw Zhao Yong being asked by His Majesty and was flushed, and quickly rescued him.

"It should be?! There are too many things to do, but you are not Wu Shu or Wanyan Tan. How can you predict that they will definitely transfer troops to rescue the siege? Maybe they will rely on the city to defend and restrain the Western Army, maybe they don't believe you can break it.

As for the city, the battlefield is inconsistent, how could it be so many things to take for granted?" Zhao Qi did not give Zhao Ren's face, and even got involved in it and scolded him, "And as the leader of all officials, you should focus more on strategy rather than entanglement.

In order to be fully aware of the details, we should be safe."

"Your Majesty, I am not worried!" Zhao Ren could not answer the emperor's replies. He had also been on the battlefield. Of course, he knew this truth. It is often difficult to decide the outcome of a battle before the end, and no one could do anything.

I expect any emergencies to happen.

"Experience is a good thing, but we regard everything from the past as a classic and copy it without any modification. We cannot succeed by following the old rules and not knowing how to innovate!" Zhao Qi looked at the two and said, "It should be admitted that the combat plan they formulated."

He has squandered a lot of effort and referred to many successful experiences. He also knows that in the process of thinking, the first thing people think of is usually the examples of existing experience, established plans, success or failure.

However, drawing conclusions based on these factors alone may be time-saving, but they are often not the best. No matter how valuable the thinking materials provided by experience are, their guiding role in the future will be limited. The problems will not be simply repeated, and history will not

A simple repeat is an important reason why strategic plans based on historical experience are often difficult to succeed.

"Your Majesty, we have used these experiences to defeat the Dangxiang people and the Khitans, and also defeated the Jurchens several times. The Northern Expedition is a major event for the country, and it should be safe." Zhao Ren was robbed by the emperor for a few words and thought about it.

"Haha, what you mean is that our glory today is hard-won, it's better to be conservative, don't ruin my reputation for life because of unauthorized changes?" Zhao Qi smiled and saw that Zhao Yong and Zhao Ren nodded together.

Then he said, "But Qin, Han, Tang, and our Song Dynasty all achieved glory at the beginning of the founding of the country. But why did the glory disappear after only two lifetimes, and only a hundred years?"

"This is because any stall is not messy and once was so brilliant that it cannot be kept by punctuality. Therefore, it not only needs to be preserved, but also needs innovation. It cannot be just seeking stability, but also needs to change. This is the strong strategic thinking

The core of vitality, adhering to the family laws of our ancestors cannot guarantee that a country will prosper forever. But blindly applying past experiences of victory cannot guarantee that every battle will be won." Zhao Qi asked and answered without waiting for the two of them to answer.

As a former man Zhao Qi knew more than modern people about his adherence to the old system and losing in the war. One of them he still remembers. In the 19th century, the Prussian army was defeated in the Battle of Jena. Among Napoleon's prisoners

There was an inconspicuous subordinate officer, Clausewitz, a military strategist who was later famous in the world. He gave an incisive summary: the failure of the Prussian army was not just an example of an outdated style, but also an extreme of observing the rules.

Examples of lack of imagination.

Clausewitz attributed the failure of the Prussian army to the middle and senior officers rarely realized that the characteristics of war had changed, but they followed the successful experiences of the past. Similarly, the Jurchens often confronted the Song army.

In this miserable defeat, it is impossible not to make changes to deal with the changes in the tactics of the Song army and the emergence of new weapons in order to win strategically and tactically.

It is in this sense that you can say that strategic thinking is comprehensive thinking, overall thinking, and long-term thinking, but you cannot say that it is balanced thinking, harmonizing thinking, and compromise thinking. Once you lose creativity in strategic thinking, you will follow the

This loses the most vital and innovative part of this thinking.

"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Zhao Ren and Zhao Yong looked at each other and saluted each other.

The question is raised here, and Zhao Qiong cannot help but answer. How can we ensure continuous and continuous progress? Zhao Qiong taught two people another lesson from how to make strategic plans, organize battles, and tactical actions.

If, in general, the will of the state is usually manifested as the will of the leader representing the power of the state, then the true enterprising of the leader is first of all, the ideological progress. No matter how much success or failure it has been achieved, the thinking subject is also

It can achieve transcend experience and tradition by maximizing subjective initiative. Only in this way can we produce truly valuable thinking results that guide practice.

If it is lenient, it is boundless. If it is severely punished, what should we do? I think that decision makers know what national interests are for without thinking, think that the rulers of the country can do everything, think that other countries have the same understanding of reality as their own countries, think that the country and the people

It is a subject. But in fact, it is difficult for them to question the professional data and speculations of various departments. Good decision makers do not approve or doubt everything, nor do they replace the department to correct details, but are good at quickly grasping the overall situation and essence.

Strategy often gives people a feeling of being comprehensive, without direction, and indecisive. If all factors are taken into account, the decision-making center will be overloaded, and it will be difficult to make timely decisions in the end, and miss a favorable opportunity to take action or unfavorable risk avoidance.

timing. Therefore, decisions that take into account all factors are bound to be inefficient, and therefore the strategy must be simplified.

The planner should not guide the siege troops in battle, how to blast, fire cover and assault like an officer, but he will clearly point out that the key is where to defeat. He will not consider it as carefully as a general in the battle.

Artillery preparation, concealed standby, infiltrate in advance, and even combatants receive supplies, etc., but he should give the principles of winning and the principles of major coordination between capture and management in the coming stage, military and political economy.

At present, Zhao Ren and Zhao Yong, as the top military and political leaders of the Song Dynasty, should do the next step to organize and formulate strategies based on the principles formulated by the emperor. First, accelerate the pace of war preparations; second, be prepared to deal with emergencies.

The formulation must take into account the occurrence of various complex situations. For the correct judgment of the plan, we must use the method of killing chickens with a ox knife. We cannot delay it. We must kill it with one hammer, and we must create several sets of cases to be prepared for any eventuality. We must be enterprising,

It is the eternal pursuit of the strategic thinking subject. Only by preparing for both hands and being strong with both hands can we ultimately grasp the progress of the event development through progress.

Of course, it is not easy to make changes. Since Taizong's two Northern Expeditions failed, the Song Dynasty has long been accustomed to formulating strategies from the standpoint of the weak and passive defenders. They realized that the world's macro theory is vulnerable under thousands of iron hooves and thousands of troops are thousands of troops.

The horse cannot defeat the nomadic peoples' ambition to go south, and the world is one, and the family and country are in internal friction and the ** make the generals have no loyalty and the scholars have no ambition to die. Zhao Qi's years of hard work have gradually reversed this situation. Today, the Song Dynasty is in the region.

It is a great power and an important chess player in the whole world. Today's strategy should no longer be waiting, passive, marginal, and resentful, but actively designing, actively laying out, creating opportunities, grasping the initiative of war, rather than waiting

.

Of course, change must be paid, which also involves that you can take out the corresponding strength to bear the corresponding price. In the early years, when Zhao Qi was in the early stage of his business, he had a very small capital. He could afford to win but could not afford to lose. Therefore, he had to

Be careful in calculating and keeping one's foundation. Today's Song Dynasty is not the Song Dynasty twenty years ago. A failed Northern Expedition almost ruined the entire dynasty. The current Song Dynasty can bear both human, material and financial resources.

Live in a failure. Now that you are determined to do it, you must dare to bear the losses. You cannot be more careful because of your petty care...

Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years. Zhao Ren, who was taught a lesson by the emperor, thought about it. It turned out that he had been useless for a long time and did something thankless. They did what the people below did.

All the things were done. Fortunately, the combat plan they made was not implemented in the room. Otherwise, not only the emperor would be dissatisfied, but the people below would also have to scold their plans for being unrealistic dreams.

After understanding the key point, the combat plan was formulated much smoother. They gave the questions like the emperor to the various departments and departments of the Privy Council to answer them, and the departments and departments decomposed the questions to the troops below to think about them.

The solution is to solve the problem. The tasks and plans are broken down layer by layer. The two of them only need to review and summarize the plans sent by each department, formulate plans separately, and report the situation to the emperor so that they can make a final decision based on the changes in the current situation.

At the same time, according to the needs of the combat, the armies also took various reasons to set out to set up places, carry out targeted training, manufacture equipment, test new tactics, and learn new tactics. At this time, the Jin Dynasty frequently used the Song army.

The mobilization gathered on the borders of the two countries and felt alert. While stepping up preparations for war, they tried their best to avoid the Song Dynasty finding a reason to start a war... (To be continued...)