The deduction started in the morning and continued until the sun went down. A room full of officers even spent their lunch time at the deduction table. As the sky darkened, a staff officer silently lit a candle, and the firelight reflected the serious and solemn pictures.

Concerned faces. Everyone in the room is well aware of the importance of deduction. It can help generals make battlefield predictions to avoid unnecessary losses.

"The rebels started to attack..." A staff officer picked up the dice and threw it out: "Six!"

Referring to the rules table, the staff officer read out the result: "The rebels launched three consecutive night attacks..." He raised his head and said to Fu Tianjun: "Mr. Fu Qian, please throw the dice."

After Fu Tianjun finished rolling the dice, other staff reported the final result according to the rules table: "Team D was severely damaged and retreated. The rebels attacked the baggage train. Two teams were eliminated and three teams retreated. The rebels continued to attack Tianming.

Mr. Fu Qian, please roll the dice."

The results were read out again. Although no one spoke in the room, Zhou Dongtian was already full of frustration. The rebels not only severely damaged his troops in the rear, cut off the Changqing Battalion's supply line, but also blocked the Ming army's retreat, forcing Changqing to

The entire battalion was surrounded. This will definitely seriously affect further operations. No matter how the next step evolves, I am afraid it will be a result that the Ming army cannot accept. It seems that the results of today's deduction have rejected the original plan of the rapid advancement of the Changqing Battalion.

Zhou Dongtian thought for a long time and did not take any further action. Instead, he straightened up and seemed ready to give up. Although the officers onlookers did not speak, they accepted the result from their expressions. The evolution to this step is enough to illustrate the original plan.

Changqing Battalion's plan to march straight in was too hasty.

Fu Tianjun's expression suddenly became relaxed. Although he didn't know the military's plan, he could roughly guess the Ming army's plan. The rebels played by Fu Tianjun kept retreating cautiously and steadily until the Ming army's supply line was drawn.

After reaching the limit, he used a large number of ambushed Ranger squads to besiege the Ming army in the rear. The Ming army that served as rear cover was limited in strength, and he finally took advantage of it and severely damaged it. The joy of the end of the battle suddenly broke away the pressure on everyone

Feeling nervous, everyone immediately felt overwhelming hunger. It was too hard to perform the deduction on an empty stomach until now. The officers all showed relaxed expressions, and the serious atmosphere in the tent was swept away, and they began to discuss the food in the cafeteria.

"Wait a minute." Xu Ping had been meditating silently. He suddenly broke the silence in the room. Everyone in the room suddenly turned their eyes to him. Xu Ping ordered loudly: "Restore the state of the previous round. I will be careful about this round."

The results are objectionable.”

After hearing the referee's order, the staff scrambled to restore the chessboard to the state before the rebels launched their attack. Xu Ping stared at the chessboard as if thinking to himself: "The rebels attacked three times in a row at dawn?"

Another time?"

"Yes, sir, the roll was six." The staff officer just now carefully looked at the rule sheet and reported loudly: "It was three night attacks, sir, the result is no problem."

"I didn't say you read it wrong," Xu Ping frowned and looked at the chess pieces on the chessboard. Many of the rebel chess pieces that besieged the Ming army were calibrated ranger sentries. "I have personally seen the rebels' ranger sentries.

They don't have such ability, so they attack once instead."

"On the rule sheet..." the staff officer objected in a low voice.

"Change it to once." Xu Ping interrupted the man's argument: "I don't care about the rule list, change it to once!"

"Follow your orders." The staff officer directed Fu Tianjun to roll the dice again. This time the rebels only competed with the Ming army for the road. Although it affected the Ming army's use of the road, it did not cut it off.

But Xu Ping was still not satisfied. He asked loudly: "Why did you throw the dice twice more?"

The staff officer quickly explained: "Sir, the first time was a night attack, and the rebels launched another attack after dawn."

"I told you to change it once and cancel the attack after Tianming!"

Xu Ping's words caused a buzz of murmurs, but the staff officer in charge of the rules table was still arguing: "Sir, the speed of the rebel chess pieces is higher than that of the Ming army chess pieces, so they should have the right to attack first."

"I know the rules, but this rule is not in line with reality." Xu Ping ordered unmoved: "Cancel this attack."

Another referee, Wu Zhongshi, couldn't stand it any longer. He was the only person in the room who had the right to question Xu Ping's decision: "Keqin, a deduction is a deduction. We can't modify it as soon as we see that the deduction is not good for our army."

Xu Ping retorted: "Brother Ziyu, I didn't change it because it was detrimental to our army, it's just the fact."

Xu Ping's tone irritated Wu Zhong, who was not as calm as before: "Keqin, you felt that the rebels were not organized enough, so you canceled the two attacks, and I agreed. But now we have to cancel the rebels' speed advantage.

The original four attacks were reduced to one, which is too much."

Xu Ping was silent for a moment, then turned to the staff officer in charge of the rules and said: "The rebels can attack first, but they cannot achieve any results."

"General Xu!" Wu Zhong's voice rose unknowingly, and he shouted: "Then what's the point of this attack?"

"I have personally encountered rebel rangers, and I have read many reports. Rebel rangers usually operate in units of a few or a dozen people. It is impossible for them to organize and mobilize hundreds of people at a time.

A large-scale offensive. What's more, these thieves are generally light cavalry without armor, carrying only a small amount of bows, arrows, gunpowder and short weapons. I don't care what the attack power is marked on the chess pieces. In fact, they lack the ability to unify

A commander who directs a large-scale attack does not have such willingness and ability." Xu Ping glanced at Fu Tianjun, who was at a loss next to him, and commented coldly: "I think Fu Qian is always playing chess.

The benefits obtained by exploiting loopholes in the rules during the game are impossible for the rebels to obtain on the actual battlefield."

Xu Ping took a deep breath and spoke to the whole room: "As for my refusal to admit any results of this attack, it is because on the actual battlefield, doing so is tantamount to committing suicide. You can make your own judgment. If you rebel,

If the army really uses this kind of stragglers to attack our organized troops at dawn, and our troops equipped with armor, spears, muskets and even artillery, what will be their fate? Is it possible for them to achieve victory?

?”

"Our duty is to conduct deductions and report the results to the New Army Staff Headquarters, not to decide the results on our own based on personal preferences." Wu Zhong was completely angered by Xu Ping's attitude. He threatened loudly: "If General Xu insists on doing this,

I won't sign the results of the deduction if I do my own thing!"

Xu Ping silently looked at Wu Zhong, who couldn't see a trace of compromise in his eyes. Unable to bear it, Wu Zhong slammed the table, picked up his helmet, and walked away angrily.

Xu Ping slowly turned around, looked at the staff officers in the room who were all silent, and said, "Let's continue."

…

Early the next morning, Xu Ping handed the thick deduction report to Zhang Chengye. The battalion officer of Changqing Camp read it carefully, silently reciting the key judgments in it, and occasionally asked Xu Ping a few words about the report.

The last few pages are a summary of the deduction written by Xu Ping, his impressions, inferences and suggestions for improvement of the entire plan. Zhang Chengye read this part particularly carefully. After reading, he gently closed the last page, raised his head and looked straight

Looking at Xu Ping, he asked: "The conclusion is that it is feasible, right?"

"Yes." Xu Ping replied briefly.

Zhang Chengye gently tapped the report on the table and said to Xu Ping: "General Wu came to see me last night. He declared that he would not sign this report."

This was what Xu Ping had expected. He nodded solemnly and said, "Then will your Excellency sign?"

Zhang Chengye leaned heavily on the back of his chair and said, "Before I decide whether to sign or not, I want to hear what you have to say."

"The general did modify some steps in the deduction, but the general believed that these modifications were within the referee's authority."

"The referee does have the right to modify some deduction steps," Zhang Chengye leaned forward suddenly, put his elbows on the table and clasped his hands together: "But that can only be a major unreasonable order, not the rule itself."

The so-called major unreasonable orders, in the new army regulations, refer to judgments made by obtaining information that should not be known through some off-site factors. For example, a staff member who plays a certain side will make a judgment based on the change in the expression of the other side's actor.

Guessing the opponent's true and false status, or judging the chess pieces hidden in the opponent's hand based on the opponent's attention when looking at the rule sheet. If the referee believes that a decision is made based on such off-field factors, then he has the right to request

The actor gave a reasonable explanation and even directly declared the order invalid.

Xu Ping met Zhang Chengye's gaze without hesitation and said: "General, I think it is a major unreasonable order to let more than a dozen teams of rangers who are not affiliated with each other to attack in a coordinated manner, so I will not admit that in this kind of situation

The results achieved under the command.”

"The deductions are not perfect. The New Army Training Team conducts countless deductions every day to improve the rules. If you have any opinions on the rules, you should report your opinions through formal channels instead of modifying the rules yourself during the deductions."

After Zhang Chengye finished speaking, he shook his head and said: "The report requested by the Staff Department is based on these rules. What the Staff Department wants to see is the deduction results based on these rules. If this is your reason, I will give this report

Can't sign."

"Sir, when the general learned the war game deduction in the teaching team, Instructor Song first stated that the purpose of the deduction is to help the commander make correct judgments. This is also clearly written on the title page of the deduction regulations book."

Xu Ping looked at Zhang Chengye calmly, and the latter was looking at him seriously, waiting for his next words with concentration. Xu Ping said: "I think the deduction is to help us draw correct conclusions, rather than to let us go."

Turning a blind eye to the obviously absurd conclusion; the deduction is to help us improve the plan, not to make us make absurd plans; the result of this deduction is likely to determine the specific order given by the New Army Staff Headquarters to the Changqing Battalion, which not only affects the entire battle situation,

It is more about the fate of the battalion on the battlefield. Publicly and privately, the general thinks that a report that is closer to reality should be given to the staff. I wonder if your Excellency agrees with what the general said?"

Zhang Chengye's tightly closed mouth curled up slightly, his hands intertwined and his eyes turned to the side. Xu Ping stopped talking, but waited for the commander's decision. The two of them maintained their respective postures and fell into silence.

Before Zhang Chengye spoke again, he held up the report again, and it was heavy in his hand as if it was a huge weight. He said to Xu Ping: "If this plan is rejected, I don't know what new plans the staff will have.

But if you are wrong and the staff issue a formal order based on this result, then our battalion will be in danger of being surrounded, do you understand?"

"Sir, if our battalion is attacked from the flank by the main force of the rebels, then the retreat may indeed be in danger. But it is absolutely impossible to rely on more than a dozen groups of rangers to cut off our food routes and block our retreat!"

"General Xu, do you dare to say that there is no chance?"

"Sir, nothing is foolproof in this world." Xu Ping looked at the report in Zhang Chengye's hand. He didn't finish this deduction until late last night, and the following summary was his brainchild: "But I think,

If there is one situation that will happen 9999 times out of 10,000 times, and another situation will only happen once, then what we write in the report should be the one that will happen 9999 times.

Case."

"Instructor Song told me that your eloquence is very good. Well, by the way, General He also said that your words can always touch people's hearts." Zhang Chengye put the report back on the table, lowered his eyes to look at it, and said

: "But you should write another formal report to report your doubts about the existing rules."

"Sir, the final chapter has been written." After saying this, Xu Ping took out a few more pieces of paper from his arms and presented them to Zhang Chengye. While others were finishing their deduction reports and going to eat and sleep, Xu Ping was still working all night.

, write down all your ideas and suggestions for improvement.

Zhang Chengye reached out and took another report from Xu Ping and laid it aside. He opened the deduction report again and signed his name on it: "This report has been approved by the General."

"Thank you, Sir." Xu Ping followed up with another fist-pumping gesture: "I'll have to leave at the end of the day."

"Well, let's go and have a rest." After putting the deduction results into his official envelope, Zhang Chengye immersed himself in reading Xu Ping's second report and said without raising his head: "Young and energetic is a good thing, but it should be used against the enemy.

Instead of using it on your own people, you should pay attention to the tone you use when talking to your colleagues in the future."

"Thank you for your teaching, sir, I will eventually understand."

…

"Uncle Zhang has been on the battlefield for a long time. He loves talents." After listening to Xu Ping's narration, Miss Huang was filled with emotion at first. After thinking for a while, she stared at Xu Ping and said, "General Xu is actually very cunning. This move seems to have been successful."

I’ve used it once, and it seemed like what I said to Uncle He in Texas was similar.”

"It's an upright and upright truth, so why say it cunningly?" Xu Ping said with a smile: "Only the Grand Duke can be selfless. This is what General He said about me."
To be continued...