For Zhu Youlang, the most urgent thing at the moment is to strengthen the training of the new army, in addition to relocating the population.

This kind of intensive training does not refer to the kind of word of mouth that veterans lead to recruit soldiers, let alone a simple mode of walking, but a systematic model that combines theory and practice.

In the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, theory is the most indispensable content.

As a curator of a private Prussian museum, Zhu Youlang knows the history of Prussia very well.

There is still a long way to go before the new army can be trained into a victorious Prussian iron-blooded army.

The first thing he needs to do is to compile a highly operable tutorial to make the recruits grow quickly.

Zhu Youlang is a doer, just do it!

He ordered Han Miao, the attendant in the car, to prepare a pen and paper, pondered for a while, and picked up the pen and wrote.

What was the core of the Prussian army?

Cannon? Lined up to be shot? Or something else?

Neither!

At its core, it is strong execution!

On the battlefield, only by ordering and prohibiting can we ensure maximum efficiency and defeat the enemy!

In other words, as long as you make fewer mistakes than the enemy army, you will definitely be the winning side.

Michel Ney once said that all tactics are based on the science of quickly forming troops in columns and spreading them out in horizontal formations on the march.

This sentence may seem simple, but it is not an easy thing to actually do.

The sudden rise of Prussia in the eighteenth century gives the most intuitive impression of its role in linear tactics, that is, in line to shoot.

From the obscurity of the Thirty Years' War to the birth of the Seven Years' War, what made Prussia suddenly reborn?

In addition to the charisma of Frederick the Great himself, it was natural to train his army strictly on the template.

The separation of the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion allows the officers and men to perform their own duties and cooperate with each other, so that there will be no embarrassing situation of overlapping functions.

In other words, infantry, cavalry, and artillery all have a very special role, and they are all irreplaceable.

What was the core of the entire Prussian army?

Naturally, the Prussian officer corps.

Soldiers who are able to enter the officer corps must be trained in rigorous military expertise from a young age and have the ability to adapt to extremely difficult environments. It not only has the spirit of hardship and hard work, but also has a sense of collective honor.

Frederick the Great had great respect for the officers of the officer corps and strictly forbade any commander to insult even junior officers.

This is a bit like the military merit system of the Qin and Han dynasties and the Longyou military lord system of the Tang Dynasty.

As a high-ranking person, we must cultivate a sense of pride among the people to join the army and become officers.

Officers have a higher status than ordinary people, and officers should be respected by people.

In the long run, ordinary soldiers will be proud to be officers, and they will do their best to perform on the battlefield, desperately fighting for upward space.

To put it mildly, in the Ming Dynasty, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the sense of honor belonging to the military disappeared.

In other words, the soldiers did not feel the respect of others.

Civil officials can scold military generals at every turn, and they can even act cheaply with the royal flag and behead generals.

If a military general is not careful, he will be beheaded by a civilian official, and he will die at the hands of his own people instead of at the hands of the enemy. Over time, who else is willing to work for the court?

What is even more hateful is that since civilian officials usually serve as commanders-in-chief, it is often the case that a layman commands an insider.

Some nerds who have been reading sage books since childhood, think that after reading two military books, they are there to talk and guide the country, and as a general, they must obey orders, so who can be willing?

After losing the battle, the crime was borne by the generals, but the civilian officials could be punished lightly. How can there be such a truth in the world?

In order for the army to remain combative, it is necessary to cultivate a sense of hunger and thirst and honor in the soldiers.

This requires the superior to give them an equal matching reward.

This is not a reward on the whim of the Son of Heaven, but a systematic regulation and system, which can be seen and touched.

Whether it is the Prussian officer corps system, the Qin and Han military meritorious system or the Longyou military knighthood system, they have all given the soldiers enough ladders to rise, given them the opportunity to change their fate, and given them enough respect.

And these are what the late Ming Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty lacked.

Zhu Youlang's blood surged for a while, and he wrote hundreds of words.

So how do you choose officers?

Relying on the accumulation of military merits is of course a way, but the most important thing is to run a military school!

A third of the Prussian officer corps graduated from the Berlin Military Academy!

This indirectly guarantees the integrity and sustainability of the officer system.

Systematic training also contributes to the implementation of the concept.

Therefore, if Zhu Youlang wants to train a group of new-style officers of his own to emulate the Prussian officer corps, he must run a military academy!

Isn't it nice to select those brave and outstanding soldiers from the battle, give them time and resources for systematic training, and train a group of core officers who can be trusted and trusted!

Naturally, the head of the military academy must be concurrently served by the Son of Heaven!

In this way, all officers who graduated from military schools are protégés of the Son of Heaven and are directly responsible to the Son of Heaven!

This is the most feasible system in the Ming Dynasty at present. Zhu Youlang felt that it could be promoted immediately.

As for the name of the military school, he also thought of it, it will be called Huangming Military Academy!

Let's take a look at how Prussian soldiers were selected.

Frederick the Great made a ranking based on the bravery of the people in his region.

From highest to lowest: Pomerania and Landenburg, Magdeburg and Haberstadt, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, East Prussia, Prussian Westphalia, Berlin.

At the top of the list can be found is Pomerania, located in the Baltic Plain.

The people who live in this area are reliable and brave and have the potential to become the best soldiers in the world.

The Berlin area had the worst supply of soldiers.

It is not difficult to find that the more developed the region, the lower the quality of the soldiers. On the contrary, those poorer places are prone to produce elite soldiers who can win battles.

This is certainly not a coincidence.

If you don't look at what is far away, you will see what is near.

In the last years of Jiajing, the guard system was corrupted, and the guards were useless. In the face of the unscrupulous invasion of the Japanese invaders, Qi Jiguang was ordered to organize and train a new army.

Then how to choose the source of troops is a difficult problem.

In the end, after all the way to the investigation, Qi Jiguang selected soldiers from Yiwu and other places.

At that time, Yiwu was located in the west of Zhejiang, known as seven mountains, one water and two fields. Compared with the prosperity of the eastern coastal area of Zhejiang, the western part of Zhejiang can be described as extremely desolate.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a poor mountain and a bad water.

As the old saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people.

I can't eat enough in my stomach, and I still talk about etiquette and shame.

The people couldn't survive anymore, and naturally their personalities became tough, and some even started to buy and sell without capital.

Of course, most people choose to be miners.

Yiwu miners are famous all over the world, Qi Jiguang is famous, and found that these miners are all fierce and not afraid of death, and finally recruited a large number of local miners to form the first group of Qi family army.

Facts have proved that the combat effectiveness of this Qi family army is extremely strong, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is invincible in the world!

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