After the training in the morning, I ate fish as a dish at noon, and after a nap for a while, I had to go to class in the afternoon.

One hundred and twenty alternate officers sat in chairs, books on brand-new wooden tables.

The books were all freshly printed, and they were not written in the old soldiers' books, but in the vernacular through and through.

Before the bell rang, there was a lot of talk and laughter.

As soon as the bell rang, everyone shut up and subconsciously sat up straight.

The shift leader saw Liu Yu coming in and shouted a standing order, but before Wu Fangrui's brain could react, his body had already subconsciously stood up straight.

After shouting hello teacher, not long after sitting down, there was a burst of friction between the black-painted wooden board in the lecture hall and the plaster pen in Liu Yu's hand, and Wu Fangrui felt that his teeth were about to sore.

Soon, the title was written on the blackboard.

Overview of the simple coordination of mounted rifle guns

Several figures were drawn on the board, starting with three lines.

"For infantry, especially those armed with flintlock pistols and bayonets, firing in array is the most effective way to kill."

"Three columns, which is the most suitable thickness. There are more, and the latter ones are watching the play. Such a thickness is very helpless for artillerymen. ”

"Artillery likes dense enemy formations, such as my current spear formation and arquebus formation, one shot down, even smashing and destroying can hit a string. You don't need to aim too much. ”

Speaking of which, another figure appeared on the blackboard, and the original three lines became a thick rectangle.

"Three formations were effective against the enemy's infantry, but they were somewhat weak against the cavalry. In the face of cavalry, a qualified officer will choose to tighten and thicken the formation. ”

After speaking, he drew another "Hui" glyph.

"Cavalry may appear on the flanks, behind the flanks. The best formation for infantry against cavalry is such a phalanx. However, such a phalanx was again loved by artillery and infantry. ”

"You form a 'Hui' formation, I approach in a three-line formation, and close to the back two wings and forward into a goose-shaped formation......"

The plaster pen creaked, and a semi-enclosed V-shaped array appeared around the square.

"In addition, once the formation begins to form a 'return' formation, or the infantry in the front begins to shrink and increase in thickness, then there will be gaps between the various battalions, and the officers will be trapped in their own formation, making it difficult to command the whole situation."

The number of separate backs or Vs on the blackboard began to increase, and small circles representing commanders began to appear in each formation.

Three-line, thick matrix, hollow square, flanks, splits, notches...... These concepts, which have been touched on a few days ago, are gradually becoming one.

Similar and deeper content was told for the next half month.

Wu Fangrui listened very carefully, and he knew that these contents were the real secrets that were not passed on.

The truth is still the truth of Sun Wu's art of war, with the many to fight the outnumbered, with the more to fight the less, but the content of the art of war is too profound, just the way, not the art.

After understanding the Tao, you can naturally deduce the appropriate technique. But not everyone can be enlightened, and not everyone is a genius.

In the past few months, I have been learning various formations.

How long is a line?

What should be the width between the columns of a column?

Column A has 20 people, and column B also has 20 people, how far apart should they be before they can turn into a horizontal team after arriving at the predetermined position?

How many types of horizontal teams are there? Under what circumstances should I use that formation? How do you go from a three-column column to a six-column or even a nine-column column?

A battalion sets up a hollow formation, how do the officers of each company give their own orders?

If the horizontal line of a company has to rotate at an angle of 30 degrees to meet the enemy, how many steps does the foot soldier at the end of the platoon have to advance?

In the past few months, I have been learning these contents, and in Wu Fangrui's opinion, these contents are what the sentinels and brigade commanders should learn.

And these things that I started to learn today are what the general wants to learn, or...... What do staff officers want to learn?

He wasn't sure, but he knew that these things had to be learned well, and the assessment that would soon take place would have to be divided into different teams.

There are staff squads, infantry squads, cavalry squads, engineer squads, and artillery squads, with the worst being said to be assigned to infantry squads, while the best are included in staff squads.

It is said that the infantry squad is about to start drilling, reducing the time in the classroom, and the first recruits may be recruited before this winter.

The cavalry squad has the most statistics, because Liu Yu has been emphasizing that there must be more officers in the cavalry than in the infantry.

An infantry company requires only one company officer and eight veteran commanders and sentry commanders.

A cavalry company, on the other hand, needs at least four company-level officers, scattered among the cavalry ranks to control the whole team.

The engineer class and the artillery class will continue to take some arithmetic geometry and other courses, and it is not clear what the staff class will learn.

In the past few days, there have been more and more speculations and discussions about the staff class, and according to the idea of "a controlled army and an incompetent general," more and more people think that this staff class should train people who will "strategize" in the future.

But Wu Fangrui feels that strategizing is not enough.

For example, as Liu Yu said before, the marching route, camping arrangement, marching distance, etc., the staff officers are not strategizing, but must formulate a detailed plan and make careful arrangements to ensure that even if the main general is unconscious, he can ensure that the march and camp are not chaotic.

As for the level of more advanced strategizing, I am afraid that it is not something that can be learned in a short period of time, at least it must be sharpened in the war, and now it is only a foundation.

According to these observations, Wu Fangrui can roughly see Liu Yu's training strategy.

Taking infantry as an example, if you want to train a large battalion of 5,000 men, you will first pick out the staff squad and cavalry squad, and you will be left with about 40 alternate infantry officers.

These 40 alternate officers, together with 1,200 soldiers from good families who had been training with them for three months, formed a company and continued to train the most basic queues, turns, strides, and loading.

Forty alternate officers, who take turns as company commanders on duty.

At the beginning of next year, 1,000 soldiers will be recruited, and the original soldiers of the good family will serve as the captain, and the original alternate officer will serve as the commander of the sentry platoon.

Repeat the previous queue, steering, stride, reload, assassination, etc., to teach one to five.

In the year after that, the scale will be maintained, the formation will be trained, the formation will be changed, and new commanders and company commanders will be selected.

In the year after the year, five or six thousand soldiers were recruited, and they continued to practice platoon, steering, loading, shooting, etc.

In the year after that, practice formation, change formation, coordination, and march.

In this way, for five years, the army has become.

This is secretly in line with Wu Zi's training method, and it seems that there is no way to think about it, people's energy is limited, and Liu Yu lacks skills.

Fortunately, there are many people who are said to have witnessed the Rakshasa Navy from scratch, and there are also many captains who are called by Liu Yu who can "leave a name in history".

But on the army's side, the old officer Liu Yu is not used at all, and the system is completely different from that of the new army.

If you don't use it completely, you have to start from scratch.

Wu Fangrui thought to himself, Lord Liu, this is to be the company commander first, and then teach everyone to be the company commander, and then let them be the company commander.

Although this method is stupid, it is really effective, but if the ancient famous generals look at it, they may laugh and think it is too stupid.

Now I finally started to teach some secrets that are not passed on, before I taught them to know what they are, and now I have to teach them why, so it is impossible to teach more than 100 people by one person, and we must select 20 people who are truly inherited, otherwise we can't teach them.

Those who were thrown into the infantry squad were only afraid that, according to Master Liu, as long as they knew what it was, it was enough, and they didn't need to know why it was at all, and they were the defective products of this batch of alternate officers.

As long as you know how to turn your company in the big camp when you know how to form a team, queue, and change formations.

Even...... There is no need to think, because a real big war will not be fought in a company, which is only a part of the entire battalion and cannot act alone. All you have to do is know where you are and how to fulfill the battalion order after the battalion officer gives the order.

As for the cavalry, artillery and engineers, it is impossible to be the descendant of Lord Liu.

Thinking of this, Wu Fangrui's heart became firm, no matter what, he had to be admitted to this staff class, this is Lord Liu's descendant disciple.

In the future, the real selection of battalion commanders will definitely be selected from this.

Thinking like this, it is inevitable to look forward to it and gear up.

However, when it came to the day of the actual exam, Wu Fangrui was stunned, or all the students were stunned.

There are no test papers, no standards, but Liu Yu spent ten days talking alone one by one.

Those who finished talking were sent directly to Liugong Island, and it was forbidden to talk to those who were not talked.

Wu Fangrui remembers what she was talking about.

At the beginning, I asked some of the content I learned a few days ago, which was a simple understanding of the coordination of the three arms of the cavalry artillery.

After asking these questions, I asked what was the understanding of the advantages of flintlock pistols with bayonets.

Liu Yu has talked about this question before, and there seems to be a standard answer, but Wu Fangrui still boldly said his thoughts after talking about the standard answer.

"I think that in addition to the advantages mentioned earlier, there is also the speed of movement on the battlefield. Arquebuses and spear formations had to move at a very slow pace to ensure that the coordination would not become disjointed. If there is a disconnect, it may allow the enemy to seize the opportunity. ”

"Even if there is a weakness in the enemy's flank, the enemy may have filled the hole by the time this thick formation moves through. But if you don't advance in formation, even if there are loopholes, it is meaningless to not have a formation. ”

"Flintlock pistols with bayonets, in the event of a weakness on the enemy's flank, can quickly advance in columns and attack at the weak point before the enemy's formation transfer is complete."

"Thinner horizontal formations, faster than phalanxes; And the column, again, is faster than the horizontal team. ”

"Sun Tzu said: I am designed for one, and the enemy is divided into ten, and if I attack one of them with ten, then I will be outnumbered; Those who can defeat the outnumbered with the crowd will be the ones who fight with me. ”

Or say: Whoever fights with the enemy, if there are many of them, then set up a false form to divide the situation, and he cannot fail to divide his troops to prepare for me. When the enemy is divided, his troops will be outnumbered. I am designed for one, and its pawn is from the multitude. Defeat the outnumbered, invincible. ”

"This is all rough, but if you think about it, the decisive battle is nothing more than defeating the outnumbered with the crowd. The faster the queue goes, the more chances there are to create opportunities to outnumber; Or when the enemy shows a flaw, it can be caught. ”

This has never been said before, and Wu Fangrui doesn't know if he is right.

In the camp itself, all the way to the Wude Palace, it is to teach the seven books of the martial arts, and the people who teach may not be able to understand, and the people who learn are only thinking about themselves.

After reading these military books, they were fused with Liu Yu's training and explanations in the past few months, and this idea was naturally born.

He had already supported Liu Yu's opinion in his heart, believing that Dashun's military system was backward.

On the whole, Dashun's military is much stronger than that of the previous dynasty, and it has completely eliminated things such as muskets, multi-barreled guns, and thunderbolts, which have been completely ineffective and proved to be completely ineffective in actual combat tests.

Replaced by heavy arquebuses and light artillery, the military reform at the level of the late Thirty Years' War was completed.

The famous army was the spear array and the three walls, and the battle of a stone also defeated the weakened Guanning army.

However, in the battle of Tongguan, the Dashun army was taught a lesson by the Tatar Qing. Under the bombardment of the strongest traitor artillery in East Asia at that time, like the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, the thick formation of the Dashun army was destroyed by the artillery.

Later, Jing Xiang counterattacked, perhaps because the flintlock gun was still far from mature at that time, or because of the helplessness under the fierce battle, in short, the way of building the army in Dashun was fixed - the most effective way to fight artillery is more artillery.

Strong artillery, with small-caliber artillery to make up for the lack of arquebus projection ability, spear formation cover, government soldiers light cavalry to protect the flanks, arquebuses and artillery bombardment to open the gap, heavy armor elite hand-to-hand combat soldiers from the gap to attack, invincible.

Arquebus knots are sparse and not enough firepower? What kind of flintlock pistol is to find a small-caliber gun that can be used to build up a mound of earth on the back of a horse and strengthen it, and follow the idea of the previous dynasty, and engage in all kinds of small guns to strengthen the projection firepower.

This line of thinking is not wrong, but two ways of thinking under the lack of arquebus firepower.

It's just that when the flintlock pistol and bayonet are hung out, as the firing rate increases, the bayonet goes from intubation to casing to tenon.

Eventually, at a certain threshold, flintlock muskets, which could be densely arrayed, fully surpassed the combination of small-caliber guns and arquebuses.

Gu Erye's idea of making so many leather cannons is actually similar, and it can be understood as a strengthened arquebus.

The Mongols did not have artillery, and the Dzungars had only recently begun to form artillery from the Swedish officer Lenatna.

The Southwest Tusi rebellion and counterinsurgency is a war of law and order, and the experience of war of law and order is that more light and small cannons make up for the firepower. Thirty or fifty pounds, one hundred or ten pounds, two or three hundred pounds, can walk, horses can carry, southwest mountains, light first, can hit a hundred and ten meters away, or shoot a pile of gravel and iron slag at close range, you can suppress the other party.

The Rakshasa mission is qualified to evaluate the military system of Dashun in the Eastern European Plain, and once the artillery is suppressed, it will be the target; As long as you attack, you may be disjointed and flawed.

But the surrounding small states, Tusi, tribes, and domestic rebel armies were not eligible.

Relying on his own cannons, he bullied those who didn't have them. Relying on the thickness of his own formation, he let the Mongols rush casually.

The so-called punching young children and kicking the elderly.

Wu Fangrui doesn't have such a vision, but he has been imperceptibly instilled a lot in the past few months, and he has already approved of Liu Yu's ideas in his heart.

Combined with his own understanding of the Book of War and the Book of Martial Arts, he expressed his thoughts.

After saying this, I couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in my heart, I don't know if this is considered a snake to add to the snake.

Liu Yu didn't have a happy or unhappy expression, and after asking him some other questions, he let him leave.

After living in the new barracks on Liugong Island for a few days, and expressing their envy for the beautiful brick and stone structure of the Liugong Island Naval School with some of his fellow visitors, Wu Fangrui's uneasy mood finally turned into a roar of excitement.

He was admitted to the staff class.