After the old camp moved to Qiong, it was originally placed in the Shuai Mansion, but the descendants of Zhao Yu ascended the throne and left the house, and the palace was of course not suitable for these children to live in, and at that time, many officials and people poured into the Xingchao Dynasty, and they could not find a suitable place for a while. Later www.biquge.info he found a Fubo temple near the palace, which was dedicated to Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo in the Han Dynasty, but it has been abandoned for many years, only the main hall remains, and other outbuildings have collapsed.

However, this place is not small, I think the world has a lot of taboos about the place where the temple was built, and no one occupies it, and it has become a little ownerless land in the city. So Zhao Yu asked people to clean up the place, build a house, and place the women, children, and children of the old camp here. However, the Fubo Temple was preserved, and in order to atone for the sins of the gods, the main hall was rebuilt, and the golden body was reshaped, so that people could sacrifice every festival.

The whole courtyard is centered on the Fubo Temple, and a square of more than 30 acres is built in front of the temple, and trees are planted all around. Several halls were built on both sides to serve as places for children to teach and learn. Behind the temple is the living area, building a series of townhouses as dormitories, divided into A, B, C, D, SHU, JI and other independent areas, among which there are canteens and medical facilities and other security facilities, in Zhao Hao's view, it is like a modern boarding school.

But now there are more people in the old camp than they were at the beginning, and the continuous war has created countless orphans and widows, and the orphans brought back from the previous wars have adopted them, and now there are more than 3,000 people. However, due to the current etiquette and self-care skills, women and children under the age of six live alone in the same house, and boys live in dormitory after the age of six to develop independent living and study skills. By the time they reached the age of fifteen, they were 'kicked out' of the old camp and lived independently, but most of them entered the guard camp.

Because Zhao Hao's original compassion found a 'burden' for himself, he was responsible for all the expenses of the old camp after that, it was really food and shelter, and he had to be educated, although it cost a lot, but he still felt that it was worth it. It became the only place where no one else could interfere, and it was also his own reserve and test field. Today's education method in Laoying is not completely different from other academies, in addition to the required scriptures and history, there are also textbooks compiled by Zhao Yu and other courses arranged.

As the initiator, Zhao Yu not only provides all expenses, but also often visits and inspects work here, and sends condolences every New Year's holiday, of course, this year is no exception. This time he not only brought new clothes to everyone, but also a large number of New Year's goods, and when he led the guards to arrive, there was already a teacher leader in charge of teaching these orphans at the door.

"They're a bit of a soldier!" Zhao Yu got off at the door, and walked to the courtyard after seeing that the ceremony was over, only to see the children standing straight one by one on both sides of the road, lined up in a neat line to stroke their chests and salute, shouting in unison, he couldn't help but praise.

"Your Majesty, most of these children are orphans in the army, and they have experienced the destruction of their families, so the children in the old camp are all martial, and they are ready to join the army in the future to avenge the country and the family!" The priest replied as he walked.

"Well, you still teach well, but don't forget to learn martial arts!" Zhao Yu said while returning the salute.

"Your Majesty, there are more than 600 children in the camp who have passed the first grade or above, and more than seventy percent of the second class, and the rest have also passed the third grade." The Teachings proclaimed.

"Yes, the children who enter the camp are early and late, and their studies are even more uneven, so it is very remarkable to have such results!" Because the children in the camp are of different ages and have different time to enter the camp, they can only continue the way at the beginning, and are divided into four teams according to their age: A, B, C, and D. Those under the age of 6 are in Team D, 7 to 10 years old in Team C, 11 to 13 years old in Team B, 14 to 15 years old in Team A, and the curriculum set up by each team is also from shallow to deep. The latecomers can only try to catch up by themselves, so Zhao Yu is still very satisfied with this result.

"Your Majesty praises me, the teams have been assembled, please review!" Listening to His Majesty's praise, the teachings are still very useful, and I admire His Majesty's knowledge even more. The textbooks he compiled not only add punctuation to make it easier for students to read, but also do not interpret the meaning in vain. Especially in terms of arithmetic, His Majesty can be called a genius, not only proficient in various algorithms, but also able to solve all kinds of graphics, he and a class of professors have studied from His Majesty for a long time before they can enter the camp to teach, you must know that although they are not geniuses, but they also have their own strengths, but what they have learned in front of them is similar to the nursing children of Team D.

"It's good!" The year-end review is the rule of the old camp, and in previous years, it was also presided over by Zhao Yu, but this year it is still the best, accompanied by the teachings, on the reading platform in front of the temple.

The rallying cry of 'Dudu ......Dudu' sounded, and in a moment the children of the various teams rushed out from everywhere, quickly formed a queue according to their respective classes, and then gathered into a line, and assembled in a neat line in the square amid the slogan. Zhao Yu looked at it from the high platform, although the three squares were not as neat as a knife and axe, they were also lined up horizontally and vertically, especially Team A already had the appearance of a queue in the army.

Next, in the sound of Zhao Hao's password, the columnization began. At the sound of the respective captain's command, each team was immediately reorganized and arranged into nine horizontal and nine vertical teams, and the large number of people was split into several square teams. After the parade is completed, the three flag bearers are the leader, and each team marches in line according to the password, and when passing through the parade, it changes from walking in unison to walking in positive steps. Of course, these are all copied by Zhao Yu from his previous life, and they are made with reference to the actions of the army parade parade in his previous life.

Looking at the groups of children chanting slogans with children's voices and marching in front of him, Zhao Hao felt a little trance, as if he had returned to the scene when he participated in military training in his previous life, and flashed the picture of the Soviet Red Army striding through Red Square, and the scene of two teams of soldiers lining up to be shot on the battlefield...... This made him a little excited, as if the children in front of him had become musketeers, firing in the face of the onslaught of enemy horses......

Since Zhao Yu came to this world, he has taken the development of hot weapons as the only magic weapon to defeat the Mongol army, and the facts have also shown that his choice is correct. And he also understood that although the current ballista and rockets were used on a large scale, they still relied on a powerful naval army, and the defense infantry army was supported by firearms, and it still cost more than 5,000 casualties to hold the defensive line.

However, Zhao Yu knew that with the population and material supply base of Qiongzhou, it could only reach the point of self-preservation, and it was not a big problem to be the owner of the island. But if you want to develop to the mainland, you must build a strong infantry army, after all, the ship cannot go ashore, and the seizure of cities and land still needs to be solved by the infantry army. However, the lack of population limited the size of this army to not be too large, and it could only rely on a more effective organizational structure, sophisticated weapons, and well-trained elite soldiers than the enemy army in order to win more with less and compete with the powerful Yuan army. And the premise of these three elements is weapons.

Modern people know that muskets and artillery are the best choices, and this is easier said than done, knowing that since the 14th century Europeans applied gunpowder to warfare, it took more than 300 years to complete the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons, which is a difficult and slow process. Many things that were not a problem in modern times were difficult problems in this era, so that the muskets and artillery designed by Zhao Yu stayed on drawings and models for a long time.

The first thing to face is the problem of materials, Zhao Yu first found iron ore, smelted iron, and made knives, guns, armor and farm tools, but not muskets and artillery. However, through his efforts, he succeeded in refining coke and improved his methods, and finally made steel that could be used to make guns. But immediately faced another problem, the most difficult part of making a musket was the barrel.

As far as Zhao Yu knows, in the absence of modern processing machinery, the ancients made gun barrels by first smashing iron into iron plates, then rolling them into cylinders, using brazing to create iron pipes, and then further processing. This method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, has a high rejection rate, high cost, and is difficult to bear a large chamber pressure, and is easy to produce a chamber explosion accident during launch.

In the end, Zhao Yu decided to use the method of forging solid blanks to manufacture the barrel, but faced with the problem of how to process it, so he could only 'invent' the drilling machine driven by the waterwheel to punch the gun hole, and by the way, he also built a boring machine, which greatly improved the processing accuracy of the barrel. Now we have finally broken through all kinds of bottlenecks to make samples and conduct test launches, although some areas still need to be improved, but finally succeeded. He felt that the whole process was like a joke about 'the little monk borrowing an axe', but fortunately he didn't forget to do anything.

The combustion gases and explosive force produced after the combustion of gunpowder make hot weapons more lethal than any previous weapon. In addition to the advantages of great power, the musket is relatively easy to use, and soldiers temporarily recruited from the civilian population can master the tricks of use after a short period of training, and can also use the musket to kill a knight who has been trained since childhood, received careful training, and has his own sophisticated weapons and armor. It takes at least a few months to train a qualified archer, and years of uninterrupted training to become truly proficient in the bow and arrow is the secret of the fact that the thermal weapon has been favored by armies since its invention.

But the early muskets, whether arquebuses or more sophisticated smoothbore guns and flintlock muskets, although they could effectively tear through the thick armor of heavy cavalry and the strong shields of infantry, compared with the longbows and crossbows in the hands of contemporaneous skilled archers, they all had the disadvantages of poor accuracy, low range, slow rate of fire, and extremely inconvenient use, and even by the end of the Battle of Waterloo, a British lieutenant general solemnly wrote a letter suggesting that the equipment of the longbow be restored to replace the flintlock pistol in the hands of the infantry. The reason why firearms have not been replaced by cold weapons is because there are applicable tactics that have been invented.

The most well-known use of musket tactics is linear tactics, which are commonly known as 'queue shots' tactics. It seems that it is just two groups of people lining up, beating drums and walking opposite each other, and after getting closer, they fire at the same time, and those who are killed and injured are considered unlucky, and the people behind immediately make up for it, and then another round of bombardment, until one side fails. In fact, this is just the appearance, and the requirements for formation and discipline are extremely high for queuing up to be shot.

Generally speaking, you can't walk too fast, you can't walk too slowly, you have to listen to the drum beat and the song step by step, which requires repeated training, formation is combat effectiveness, discipline is the guarantee of victory. In the early stage, the British Army paid great attention to this aspect of training, of course, corporal punishment and scolding, corporal punishment is usually military sticks and whips, repeatedly, endless training, and finally the soldiers were trained to become thunderous robots, loading, holding guns, and shooting almost became the second instinct.

On the battlefield, in the face of the cavalry impact like the wind, the enemy soldiers close at hand, the world will be afraid, nervous, and have the desire to escape, and the musket of that year, even the more advanced flintlock pistol, the accuracy is very poor, 100 meters away, can not hit a few people; In addition, the reliability of the gun is also poor, there will be many guns that do not go off, and will accumulate, more and more guns that do not go off, and finally when the distance is suitable for human life, many guns have lost their effectiveness. This situation still existed even on the battlefield of the American Civil War a hundred years later, and people picked up many guns that did not fire on the battlefield.

Because when queuing up to be shot, even if the trained soldiers seem to be expressionless, they are actually scared to pee, their hands are shaking, and gunpowder is scattered everywhere, how can it be fired? According to statistics, in the guns picked up on the battlefield of the Battle of Benniu River, there were as few as two bullets, as many as four or five bullets, and the most bizarre gun was stuffed with twelve bullets.

The British soldiers, who were subject to strict military discipline and had undergone brutal training, were much better, not only did they not turn around and run away or play dead, but they also had to take the initiative to fill in the blanks after the soldiers in the front row fell to ensure the density of firemen when shooting, and in most cases, the officers of the British Army were also in front of everyone to advance and retreat, and the soldiers had nothing to complain about. It can be deduced from this that the number and position of officers and non-commissioned officers directly determine the strength of the control of the modern army and maintain the discipline and morale of the troops.

After Zhao Yu solved the problem of weapons, his eyes also turned to the person. He knew that in addition to the application of thermal weapons, the modern army was able to completely defeat the ancient army, and also benefited from modern military education and military drills, and steadily and efficiently trained a large number of qualified officers and noncommissioned officers, so that they could distance themselves from the military quality of the traditional army leaders and commanders.

At present, the senior officers of the Qiongzhou Army are still officers selected in the traditional way in the old army, and the middle- and lower-level grass-roots officers are only veterans who have undergone a short period of professional training after becoming an army and have combat experience, or some prestigious gentry and heroic heroes have led the masses to join the army and transfer military posts, and their command ability still depends on the accumulation of experience, and there is no systematic military education at all. Zhao Hao wanted to change this situation for a long time, but for various reasons has not been able to implement it, and when he saw the children in these old camps, he suddenly saw hope......