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Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu, Zu'er, Di'er and others came to the Military Martial Arts Academy together.

The Military Martial Arts Academy was the first new-style military academy in the Great Chu Dynasty, which was personally established by Taiwei Li Rong. The students inside are all meritorious sons of Da Chu, as well as young captains and captains selected from the army, and they are trained in the academy.

What they have to learn is not the same as the classical military books.

The ancients learned soldiers, generally looking at the military books, battle formations, and tactics since the Spring and Autumn Period, and also used cold weapons and equipment such as "bows, knives, shields, and guns", as well as light and heavy infantry, archers, light cavalry and other military configurations.

If you can use the arms and tactics in a step-by-step manner, you can become a low-level general.

However, the Military Martial Arts Academy adopted the new enlightenment textbook of Xiao Duhou and underwent a major update.

In particular, gunpowder, muskets, small steel cannons, infantry chariots and other new ordnance are all compulsory courses.

In addition, mathematics, geography, chemistry, etc. are also learned.

As a general, how many soldiers you have, how much food you consume every day, horsepower, and distance calculations, all of which use mathematics, must be calculated in an instant.

If you don't know your family background in your heart, and the generals only know force, then they will fight in a confused way, and winning or losing depends on brute force.

Of course, in ancient times, there was also a "calculation", which used bamboo chips to add, subtract, multiply and divide.

It's just that this old-fashioned algorithm is too complex and difficult to master, and far less convenient than modern mathematics.

There are even fireworks signals, telescopes, the use of passwords, the calculation of shelling angles, etc., all of which must be mastered.

There are only a few thousand young students in the entire Military Martial Arts Academy, and the number is not too many, but all of them are the elite of Dachu, and one person can lead a team of hundreds of thousands of people.

With the prototype of the backbone of such an army, it is possible to quickly form an army.

The opening of this military academy is, of course, for the purpose of going to the battlefield.

In the two months of quelling the rebellion of the princes, these students only helped in Danyang City, and did not really fight.

In this northern expedition against the Xiongnu, Chu Tianxiu was ready to take them with him, and with thousands of students from the Military Martial Arts Academy as the backbone, he formed a new army of 50,000 people.

They have received new military training, and can master these new military equipment and how to use them, so that they can form a new army as quickly as possible.

The 50,000 new troops were 20,000 infantry chariots, 20,000 gunpowder lancers, and 10,000 heavy armored cavalry.

The heavy cavalry is also a new type of army, because neither the Great Chu Dynasty nor the Xiongnu tribe now has a heavy cavalry class.

All of them are equipped with the latest equipment - gunpowder guns, light small steel cannons, Hundred Tempered Battle Armor, Hundred Refining Knives, and Steel Vests.

Is 50,000 new troops too much?

Not much, of course.

The various tribes of the Xiongnu combined, the whole clan was a soldier, with as many as 500,000 Hun cavalry, nearly ten times more troops.

However, fighting a war is never won by a large number of people. Otherwise, with 50 million people in the Great Chu Dynasty, one person will drown the Xiongnu with a mouthful of spit, where will the Xiongnu be majestic in the north for so long.

Fighting a war is a comparison of combat effectiveness, not a simple quantity.

When fighting with the 200,000 army of Wu Wang Xiang Bi, Chu Tianxiu only had 6,000 Danyang soldiers and tens of thousands of old-fashioned troops in his hands, so he could resist the siege of the Wu army on all sides.

The 50,000 new army does not seem to be much, but once it is formed, its combat effectiveness will be absolutely strong.

Of course, this is also the limit of what Chu Tianxiu and even Da Chu can do.

The new army needs enough equipment, and you can't think more than you want.

The steel production capacity of the Great Chu Dynasty was concentrated in Danyang City, and it could not reach the level where it could equip hundreds of thousands of Great Chu troops in a short period of time.

Just supplying the equipment of the 50,000 new troops has made the craftsmen of Danyang City work day and night for many months.

After the collapse of the allied army of Wu Wang Xiang Bi and the princes, he gathered nearly 100,000 soldiers, mined and smelted iron in Ma'anshan, and expanded the steelmaking capacity on a large scale, which was barely able to supply the ordnance and armament of the new army.

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Arrived at the Military Academy.

Chu Tianxiu and Li Yu gathered the teachers of the Military Martial Arts Academy and thousands of students.

On the field of the military colonel, the black pressure pressed a head.

All the students were talking in private, as if they were guessing something.

They all knew that the imperial court was going to make a big expedition to the north, and it would be the biggest expedition in decades. It was even the only chance they might encounter in their lives to make immortal feats.

The imperial court was awarded the title of lord and prince for his military exploits.

Regardless of age, those who kill the Hun army can rise step by step in the blink of an eye, and worship the marquis.

However, it is difficult to say whether these cadets of the Military Martial Arts Academy will have the opportunity to participate in this battle. If they miss this time, they may not have a chance to make a difference.

If you don't fight, you can only slowly improve your qualifications, and only when you are old can you become a general, which is something that no student wants to see.

Chu Tianxiu announced the formation of a new army on the colonel's field.

"Cadets!"

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while!"

"A lifetime of hard study, only for today's use!"

"The greatest glory of my Dachu soldiers, in the battlefield of Northern Xinjiang, has made immortal military exploits, just like Lord Taiwei, engraved in the history books!"

"Now, the time has come. The imperial court announced the northern expedition to the Xiongnu, with the students of our military martial arts academy as the vanguard, to form a new army! ”

"Anyone who follows the hussar general to fight against the Huns, on the top of Yanran Mountain, Yanran stone, can be named a marquis!"

Chu Tianxiu's voice just fell.

On the school field, there was a sudden cheer boiling.

Thousands of students were crazy with surprise, their eyes were red, and they hugged each other and yelled.

The greatest opportunity of their lives is right in front of them.

"The new army is 50,000 soldiers and horses, and each of you is a hundred generals, even front generals. Of course, you have to show your strength. ”

Chu Tianxiu said lightly.

"Now the hussar general, the school field is ordered, and the military exercises are being conducted for three days, and various assessments are conducted.

1,000 of you, 500 of them simulated the Hun cavalry, using the Hun ranger technique.

Another 500 people, simulating my Great Chu troops, infantry chariot soldiers, gunpowder spearmen, and light cavalry!

As for the generals of the team, you choose them yourself. Once chosen, the battle begins. ”

"Yes!"

Thousands of students from the Military Academy cheered in unison.

Chu Tianxiu summoned thousands of students from the Military Martial Arts Academy to conduct a simulated offensive and defensive exercise.

The Military Martial Arts Academy has a very good large playground where you can practice.

The teachers of the academy, many of them are retired from the frontier battlefield, fifty or sixty years old, they have fought the northern Huns, the southern barbarians, and the Xianbei in the northeast, and they have very rich experience on the battlefield.

Know your opponent's tricks.

What is taught to the students is the real ability.

On weekdays, the cadets of the academy practice the art of war, battle formations and equestrianism on the large school field.

Soon, according to the assessment requirements, they competed in the military military academy.

The teachers of the Military Academy will organize the assessment.

Chu Tianxiu watched the drill on the high platform outside the school grounds.

He had not seen the Huns with his own eyes.

However, in the history books, there have long been a large number of various records of the Hun soldiers, and we know the advantages and disadvantages of the Hun soldiers.

He still knows quite well in his heart.

The key point, there are no stirrups!

There was no Great Chu, and neither did the Xiongnu, so there was no heavy cavalry in this era, and the Hun light cavalry even rarely fought in close combat.

No stirrups!

In the absence of stirrups, melee combat, a charge, and it is easy to fall off a horse. The casualty rate can become extremely high.

The Hun cavalry was very unhappy to bear this casualty.

Because of the scattered power of the Xiongnu nomadic tribes, with the Xiongnu royal court and military ministers Shan Yu as the nominal co-masters, the leaders and accounts are not close, they like to plunder, and they hate casualties.

If a soldier is injured, the strength of the tribe will be weakened.

The leaders of the various tribes of the Xiongnu were actually the local princes of the Xiongnu, and they were all tribal private soldiers. If the leader rebels, he will take the entire tribe with him and leave the country.

Because of this, the Xiongnu army rarely attacked Jiancheng, and rarely fought head-on battles with the army of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Their best tactic is nothing more than scattering, shooting enemies without armor and creating panic among them. As soon as the enemy fled, they began to ride their horses and chase them in an orderly manner.

Also, harass the grain road and caravan, hit it and run!

It is this simple tactic, but in ancient times, it seemed extremely terrifying.

It is impossible for the Great Chu army and the people to stay in the fortified city all the time, the people must go out of the city to farm, the caravan must transport goods, the army must transport grain, and the defense line must be transferred.

All activities need to get out of the fortified city.

Once the infantry reached the field and encountered the scattered attack of the Hun light cavalry, it was a rather inferior battle.

If the foot soldiers could not defeat the Hun cavalry, then it would be a one-sided slaughter.

Chu Tianxiu knew that Da Chu's cavalry did not have stirrups, but since he came to Da Chu, he had never planned to rush to equip stirrups.

He is not stupid, this thing has no technical difficulty, but it is a very useful invention, it is too easy to be learned by the Huns.

With stirrups, light cavalry could easily be upgraded to heavy cavalry, suitable for melee charges, and the advantage of the Hun cavalry might have become even greater.

In a large-scale attack on the Xiongnu, before the decisive battle came, the stirrups must not be taken out.