Valley Emperor

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The retirement of Marshal Hao Bainian was the most sensational event at the end of this year.

However, Ying Yikang was promoted to lieutenant general, which was also a sensational event.

Because this is the only general in the empire who was promoted to lieutenant general before the age of thirty-five after the unification war, whether in the army or the navy, it is the only one.

Back then, during the Unification War, let alone thirty-five years old, there were even lieutenant generals and even generals in their twenties.

However, after the end of the unification war, the promotion of generals is very standardized. Many people have to be proud for many years before they can be promoted to one level. Generally speaking, there is no future. They are all looking for another way out, and many choose to retire to join politics.

In the past 20 years, being able to become a major general before the age of forty is already young and promising, and a person who became a lieutenant general before the age of forty is a phoenix water chestnut.

As for the one who became a lieutenant general at the age of thirty-five, only Ying Yikang was the only one!

The reason why Ying Yikang climbed so fast was inseparable from his outstanding military talent.

During the military school, he was super awesome, and he became even more awesome when he entered the army. Otherwise, he would not let a large number of army bosses look at him differently, and he became an army major general before the age of 30.

In the past few years, he has been staying in the Western Regions and Central Asia to lead troops to fight, and he has made good achievements.

However, just his military exploits in the field troops are not enough to make him a leader of the new generation of generals. More importantly, while he leads troops to fight on the front line, he is also constantly improving the various military theories of the Datang Army. .

During his tenure as deputy chief of staff of the Western Expedition Command, he was mainly responsible for logistical affairs. At that time, in order to better support the troops' operations in Central Asia, he perfected and developed a complete logistical transportation system.

Although everyone knows that logistics transportation should be centered on railways and ships, and after arriving at the front line, it will be transported to the front-line combat troops by carriage, but this is only a general concept.

However, Ying Yikang perfected these general concepts, and finally formulated a perfect logistics transportation system.

It fully guaranteed the operations of the Western Expedition Army in Central Asia.

This year, he was taking a break from his busy schedule again. For the application of rifled rifles and rifled artillery, he came up with a new type of infantry and artillery coordination tactics.

Although Datang has always had infantry artillery coordination tactics, the old infantry artillery coordination tactics are no longer applicable in the era of new rifled weapons.

While the effective range of weapons has been greatly improved, tactics must also follow up.

To this end, he proposed a new type of infantry and artillery coordinated tactics, and according to his new infantry and artillery coordinated tactics, the Army even revised the infantry and artillery code of conduct, which shows the influence of its new infantry and artillery coordinated tactics.

Before accepting the rank of Field Marshal, Hao Bainian asked Li Xuan to reasonably reuse the outstanding generals of the new generation. He said that with the innovation of military technology and changes in tactics, these old generals of the old generation are already outdated, and only the new generation of generals are out of date. Generals can make full use of it.

Although he is not talking about Ying Yikang alone, Ying Yikang is the leader of this new generation of generals.

Therefore, Ying Yikang's promotion was actually a hitchhiker.

The Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan also appreciates Yi Kang. After all, in the military, whether it is the army or the navy, there are actually only a few outstanding generals in the new generation, and it is difficult for Li Xuan not to notice.

Li Xuan basically kept these outstanding generals of the new generation in his heart, while training them and inspecting them.

And this Ying Yikang's performance made Li Xuan quite satisfied.

As a latecomer, Li Xuan naturally knows the follow-up changes in military tactics. Front-loaded rifled weapons are just a transition, and rear-loaded rifled weapons are the future.

And when the rear-loaded rifled weapons come out, the line tactics used now can basically be thrown into the garbage heap of history, and skirmish tactics are the future.

As for Ying Yikang, when he had not seen the breech-loading rifle, he had already proposed skirmish tactics with the help of a small number of breech-loading rifled howitzers and Mini rifles.

And around the rear-mounted rifled weapon, a series of tactical ideas were put forward. Although some of the suggestions were nonsense in Li Xuan's view, but at that time, the history was limited.

As strong as Ying Yi Kang, it is impossible to accurately foresee all future tactical changes.

But Ying Yikang was still able to grasp several key points and put forward a series of interesting tactical changes.

This is actually the reason why Li Xuan made him the deputy director of the staff and the director of the operations department.

The era of rear-loaded rifled weapons has begun, and within the entire army, few people know how to use these more advanced weapons. Although Ying Yikang's many constructions have many defects, they are also the only ones that can. The person who proposed a relatively complete tactical innovation.

Such talent, unimportant is naturally not acceptable.

Ying Yikang's promotion to lieutenant general of the army made many people jealous, even including his old classmate and subordinate Bi Zhian.

When I heard the news, I could only look up to the sky and be speechless: People are more mad than people!

Speaking of age, Bi Zhian is two years older than Ying Yikang. The 37-year-old Bi Zhian is actually not bad among the younger generation of officers, especially his classmates.

With military merit and qualifications, and his background is not bad, he is now an army colonel, and this year he was transferred to the Eighth Division as the commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment.

This is the colonel of the infantry regiment who is standing in the main division. Basically, the colonel who sits in this position is a cultivated talent.

However, comparing the thirty-seven-year-old colonel commander with the thirty-five-year-old lieutenant general's deputy chief of staff, the gap is huge.

It must be a lie to say that Bi Zhian is not envious.

Even he was a little jealous!

But on the other hand, as an old classmate and subordinate of Lieutenant General Ying Yikang, he was also branded with the Ying Yikang faction within the army.

Ying Yikang continues to rise, and it can be expected in the future that as long as Ying Yikang does not act stupid or die halfway, becoming an admiral is a sure thing.

The future army boss is his old classmate and old boss.

This is also very beneficial to Bi Zhian's own development. In the future, the threshold of a major general may not be impossible to overcome as long as he works hard.

By then, the old father should be satisfied!

But what he didn't expect was that when he went home on vacation at the beginning of the year, he was criticized.

As soon as he entered the door, he was scolded by his father: "How can you discipline your eldest, you actually applied for the National Children's Prison, the descendants of the dignified family, and you can be in the company of a group of sour scholars on weekdays, but you dare to apply for the Guozijian, you are simply thrown in. The face of my Bi family!"

"It's okay if you didn't want to be motivated back then, why did you condone his tossing about poetry!"

"My Bi family has been in the army for generations, and the men of the Bi family are all heroes in the battlefield. He even dared to apply for the Imperial College Examination, and he said that he wanted to take the imperial examination. Wouldn't the world be ridiculed that I have no one in the Bi family!"

Hearing a lot of words from his father, Bi Zhi'an was silent for a moment, but finally said: "I have talked to Quan'er about applying for the Imperial College Examination, and I also approved it!"

He actually wanted to say that our Bi family has no **** genes for military talent!

In the eyes of outsiders, their Bi family could be regarded as a very standard military noble family in the empire. His father retired from the rank of major general and was awarded the title of Viscount.

He is also a colonel of the army. It is highly probable that he will become a general in the future. If he makes meritorious deeds in the future, he may also be rewarded with the original title and inherit the title, rather than a reduced inheritance.

However, he is very clear that their Bi family's children are really not suitable for joining the army.

The three Bi Zhian brothers, one of them was admitted to the martial arts school after studying hard for many years. As a result, he worked in the army for more than ten years. With the help of Ying Yikang, he only became a colonel. Knowing his own family affairs, he really has no military talent.

And his sons and nephews are all a bunch of scumbags. Although they all started attending the army elementary school since childhood, it can be said that they have studied the military since childhood, and their studies are also very hard, but no talent is no talent.

Each year's exams belong to the bottom of the list.

My eldest son was no better there. After studying at the Army Primary School, he failed to be admitted to the Royal Youth Military Academy, and was finally forced to read the general preparatory course.

When applying for the exam this year, his eldest son had a long talk with him all night. The 19-year-old man knelt down and begged him to apply for Guozijian University. He was unwilling to apply for the martial arts school.

Then he cried and said that he didn't work hard. He worked hard, and he worked harder than the people around him. He also wanted to continue serving in the army for the Bi family and win the rank of a general again.

But I really can't learn what he can do!

Looking at various books on military theory, sand table exercises are all hanged and beaten. With such literacy, it is basically impossible to apply for the martial arts school.

On the contrary, in terms of liberal arts, he is extremely talented, and he did not study hard, but his grades in liberal arts were excellent. Even the teachers in the preparatory school said that he was born to study liberal arts.

At that time, Bi Zhian also remembered when he was young. Once upon a time, he also liked poems and articles the most, but because of his father's coercion, he finally applied for the martial arts school.

If he hadn't gotten to know Ying Yikang and got Ying Yikang's support, he probably wouldn't even be able to get along with a major, and he would have been forced to retire when he was in the rank of captain.

Seeing his son like that~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Bi Zhian softened. He didn't want his son to follow his old path, so he allowed him to apply for Guozijian University.

As a result, he was successfully admitted, and his entrance scores were among the best, which made him quite gratified.

As for his father's anger, he had long expected it!

Bi's father was still scolding there, scolding and scolding. Seeing that Bi Zhian had been silent for a while, he suddenly became silent too.

Finally, he waved: "Go, go see your mother!"

Watching his son leave, the already aged father Bi stood in front of the window, then sighed deeply, looking out the window, the scene in Huangzhu Mountain came to mind again!

That year, when Huang Zhushan was facing the Ming army's advance, the Son of Heaven organized the youth to set up the Guards, few of them, not even his son and wife.

At that time, he was in the guards with only more than 40 people.

Even when the Guards first started training, he was Hao Bainian's corps commander!

But soon, Hao Bainian and Li Chunjing were soaring into the sky, and they could only be promoted step by step, and then gradually forgotten.

By the time of the Battle of Wuzhou, Hao Bainian and the others were already the leader of an army, and he was still only a major battalion commander.

Moreover, when he attacked Wuzhou with his troops and other friendly troops, his poor performance had a great negative impact on his subsequent promotion.

In the years of the Unification War, he watched helplessly as people whose military rank was similar to or even lower than him, surpassed him, and became a famous founding general all the way.

But he is slowly disappearing from everyone's sight!

Even the rank of major general and the title of viscount were given to him because of his early childhood, and the Son of Heaven took pity on him, an old minister.

However, he is not reconciled!

I'm really unhappy!