Mage Joan

Faced with such a dilemma, General Nathaniel Green, the quartermaster of the Continental Army, could only laugh at himself in pain:

"From the perspective of saving bullets, it is not all a bad thing that our army has too few guns."

Even if the army is out of shape and the equipment is outdated, what makes General Vassar deeply worried is the serious "regional prejudice" in the army, which is also reflected in the senior military class.

The three colonies on the east coast of the New World, Jotunheim in the north, Midgard in the middle, and Alfheim in the south. From geography, climate, properties, customs, traditions, eating habits, dialect accents to ways of thinking There are big differences. The Continental Army is composed of officers and soldiers from three colonies. Southerners and Northerners get together and often dislike each other. Sectarianism is inevitable.

From the first day of the Continental Army, the topic of "North-South Balance" has been inevitable.

The Continental Army’s troops mainly come from the North. In order to balance the forces between the North and the South, the Continental Congress specifically appointed George Vassar, who was born in the South, as the commander-in-chief. Although this method pleased the Southerners, it also made many officers from the North deeply dissatisfied. I was wronged.

In order to appease the officers from the north, the Continental Congress appointed George Vassar a deputy commander in chief, General Benedict Laval.

Before Vassar took office, General Laval was the de facto commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. He had no ability to lead soldiers, but his reputation was mixed.

The nickname "Butcher" is not a good thing, and Laval is too close to the "Conquest of the Order" and has used the power of demons on the battlefield more than once, which has attracted a lot of criticism.

The reputation is second, and what’s more troublesome is that Laval has a high self-esteem and narrow-mindedness. He has always been concerned about choosing Vassar instead of him as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Congress. It is difficult to expect him to ignore the predecessors and help him wholeheartedly. George Vassar.

Before accepting the commission, Laval also made a list of more than 30 old subordinates and asked the Continental Congress to increase the ranks of his old subordinates.

Considering that these officers are the backbones trained by General Laval himself, and they are indeed outstanding, the Continental Congress agreed to General Laval's request.

However, in the eyes of the southern delegates, General Laval’s approach was clearly a way of phoning public for private benefit, forming gangs, forming small groups in the army, and trying to build a new mountain.

At present, the middle and high-level officers in the army are mostly Laval's old subordinates. If Laval deliberately empties George Vassar, the latter will become a "polished commander" and cannot exercise his authority.

In order to eliminate this hidden danger, it is still necessary to strike a "balance" among the officers. Therefore, the Continental Congress appointed a large number of middle and high-level officers from the South, and added a deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff, whose position overwhelmed Laval At one end, second only to Vassar.

The general who served as the deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff is not a "fuel-efficient lamp", but General Charles Gates, George Vassar's old boss.

When the Ashen Empire was a colony, Charles Gates served as the commander of the Alfheim colony. George Vassar was a subordinate to General Gates from the day he was in the army. It was not until after the Continental Congress was held that he became the boss of the old boss. This made the arrogant and conceited General Gates feel very shameless and his attitude towards Vassar. It is neither lukewarm nor cold.

In fact, before taking office, Vassar and Gates had a quarrel about how the Continental Army should fight.

General Gates insisted that due to the lack of guns and artillery in the Continental Army, most of the soldiers were rural peasants and dock workers, and severely lacking military literacy and actual combat experience. It is impossible to win against Fiji's real regulations by using conventional methods, and should be avoided as far as possible. Face-to-face confrontation with the Feizhen army on the open battlefield to avoid large-scale group battles.

"The correct approach should be to break the Continental Army into parts and disperse it into mobile units with companies as units, and make full use of the complex environment of the mountainous jungle in the Jotunheim area to fight guerrilla warfare with the real people of Fei."

"When the enemy left the city and fortress, they exposed themselves to the guns of the ubiquitous guerrillas. They were constantly harassed and restrained. They were exhausted and exhausted in the long and hopeless security war. , We can only give up military conquest in the end."

Vassar acknowledged the merits of General Gates’ strategic policy of “protracted warfare” and “guerrilla warfare” as the core, but he never agreed to break the Continental Army into small pieces and become a group scattered between the countryside and lack of The presence of armed forces.

Yes, Vaasa is very concerned about the Continental Army's "sense of presence."

Although the Continental Army is actually a group of mobs, it does not have the strength to confront the Feizhen Army. Indeed, as General Gates said, it is more suitable for dispersing into small teams and fighting guerrilla warfare, but more than 30,000 people gather together, at least the momentum It's quite large and looks like a regular army.

Vassar was eager to train the Continental Army like a "grass squad" into an old-world regular army, not only because he prefers the upright tactics, but also because of two practical factors that force him not to break up the troops.

First of all, the soldiers of the Continental Army are all "contract workers." They sign contracts when they serve in the army.

The biggest problem with this kind of short-term mercenaries is that they have a bad mentality. They treat the commander as an employer, do what they do with how much money, and even do not work, and do everything possible to be lazy and slippery.

Vassar gathered these mercenaries together, and was able to train them and strictly restrain them, and strengthen the cohesion of the troops by appointing officers at all levels and strengthening ideological education. If the troops were broken up, these militiamen would immediately become a mess and let go. No, how can I find it back?

The commander issued an order, and God knows if it can be delivered to the guerrillas everywhere, let alone how many guerrillas will strictly implement the order, they will not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, it is completely confused!

Fighting guerrilla warfare requires strong organizational capabilities and a complete communication network. The current Continental Army does not have such conditions. The commander still lacks effective control over the troops concentrated in the barracks, and how to disperse the troops for guerrilla warfare.

If Vassar agreed to do this, he would really become a polished commander.

Of course, he did not completely negate General Gates's proposal.

Guerrilla warfare will have a place in his combat plan, but it is only a supplement to the Continental Army's conventional operations.

The most urgent task at the moment is to strictly govern the army and train a regular force that can fight tough battles. Only in this way can it attract the attention of the Fijian army and gain more room for the guerrillas to infiltrate behind enemy lines.

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