Generally speaking, the military strength of the party with superior military strength is also superior. But it is often easy to overlook a detail: how to command a large corps? This is not a simple question. If you are an ordinary person or an ordinary officer, in the face of thousands of troops, there is often a dilemma of no way to start, how to fight? This is not only a matter of the command level of the generals, but also involves a series of complex factors. A division or even an army is fine, but if it is a combat unit of more than one corps, it will especially face this problem. Today we will give an example to understand what kind of senior officer can command a large corps of more than 100,000 people.
First of all, the commander of the corps must have a very strong military command ability. In fact, there are not many truly qualified commanders of large corps, which requires the ability of generals very highly. It is not easy for large corps to do a good job in combat. It is not that a large number of troops can win, and there are many factors for victory and defeat. As the core embodiment of the ability, the emphasis is on judgment ability and numeracy ability. If it is placed in the aspect of encirclement, it is natural that the commander will make a deployment through the judgment of the situation, which is extremely demanding. If there is a loophole in the plan, first, the enemy did not act according to the route estimated by the commander, so that the deployment was frustrated; second, the improper use of troops, a certain road was broken, and the encirclement was frustrated.
The generals who have the most these qualities, the First Commander of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Commander of Huayesu, and the plot and calculation (and the commander of Higashino are basically comparable) are all at the top. This shows how demanding the commander is! Many generals are also corps commanders and above, but it is difficult to be called outstanding or even qualified. It's just that it hasn't been in a specific battle and difficulty, so it can't be reflected, and such talents are actually still very rare. Once faced with the test, it can be seen that many people's shortcomings in ability are difficult to be competent, such as Li Xianzhou, Huang Wei and others in the national army, it is difficult to be qualified.
Almost as important as command ability is the seniority and influence of the generals. Some friends may not be convinced by this statement, thinking that there is no shortage of young heroes since ancient times, how can they engage in seniority theory? But you know, that's still a relative minority. It is true that young and promising generals may appear at the lower levels of the army, division, brigade, etc., with outstanding achievements (such as Commander Zhong Wei of our army's Four Fields), but there are almost no such special cases above the corps level. The reason is that the integration and mobilization of about 100,000 troops is not so simple to say, if it is not the prestige and resume of the commander of the corps, it is difficult for everyone to go in one direction, let alone win the battle.
Let's take the most intuitive example. The strongest large corps of the Nationalist Army are the four corps of 2, 7, 9 and 12, all of which exceed 100,000, and each corps has 4-6 corps, of which the central department and miscellaneous cards are mixed, and the composition is complex. Is it enough to be a commander just to be good at fighting? No qualifications can stop these officers and men of different units and different sources. The commander of the 2nd Corps was Qiu Qingquan, who was previously the commander of the 5th Army, the core of the Corps; the commander of the 7th Corps was Huang Baitao, who was previously the commander of the 25th Army at the core of the Corps; the commander of the 9th Corps was Liao Yaoxiang, who was previously the commander of the New 6th Army at the core of the Corps; the commander of the 12th Corps was Huang Wei, who had previously served as the commander of the 18th Army (this corps even deputy commander Hu Lian was the commander of the 18th Army). Therefore, without exception, if you are not the boss of the basic cadre team of the corps, if you have a deep resume, you simply cannot control so many teams. Qualifications don't matter
The hints can also be seen in the ranks of our army, but they are not as obvious as those of the national army. It is known that the four main forces of the old 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th columns, which are the strongest in the four fields, did not hold the regiment when they were organized into regiments, and they were also scattered, and each of the other units brought a corps (strong, medium, and weak). Isn't the meaning of this also very clear? Second- and third-rate units with combat effectiveness follow the first-rate troops to avoid the difficulty of controlling the strong army. Therefore, the command and management of large corps and large troops is definitely not a simple matter, but a combination of learning and practice.