The life of the cadet corps of the military and political school is no different from that in the quarantine camp, and the life is very simple. At 5 a.m., I got up and ran with the soldiers of the training battalion. It's just that the training camp is a cross-country run of 5 kilometers, and they just run ten laps around the school field.

Mornings are time to study and continue their studies in the quarantine camp, including literacy and numeracy. Compared to the "wigs" in Yanchang Village in the quarantine camp, the classes are now all "real hairs", and the children have also learned what other people call these Australian lords: "chiefs".

The "chiefs" had a much more interesting lesson than simple literacy and arithmetic, and they were taught to look at a small shiny round plate with many Arabic numerals learned in arithmetic class, and two needles that kept ticking and making sounds. According to the "chief" in the class, this is called a "clock", which is used to keep track of the time, and you can know what the specific hour is by looking at this. Compared to things like more fragrant, more leaky, corona, it's really convenient and accurate

"This is really a baby, there is no old man Huang in our hometown! He was the number one gentleman in the county. ”

"What is your old man Huang?" The "chief" in the class pursed his lips disdainfully, "Even the imperial palace in Beijing can't be found." ”

"Isn't that a rarity? If this is given to the emperor, the chiefs will not be able to become high officials. ”

Xiao Zishan smiled helplessly, the words of the common people often have their most simple understanding: good things have to be enjoyed by the emperor. For thousands of years, the Chinese imperial dynasty plundered the most haode things under their rule for free for the enjoyment of the family. Even as long as anything touches the edge of the "tribute", it is a guarantee of quality.

"The use of clocks and watches is to grasp the time more accurately," Xiao Zishan shifted the topic away from the treasures, "In the past, everyone could only look at the sun, or listen to the beating, drum tower drumming, afternoon cannon and other methods to roughly know what time it is, with clocks, you can know at any time what time it is, and how much time it took to do something." ”

"What's the use of knowing that?" Someone asked, "In the past, I used to herd cattle for the rich man, and I went out at dawn and came back before dark." ”

"You just need to remember how to read the time now, and as for what it is for, you will know it later."

Xiao Zishan knew that it was difficult to explain this to children 400 years ago. Except for professionals who study the astronomical calendar, traditional agrarian societies rarely need precise time, and accurate time mastery is the need of modern science.

This stage is considered "universal education". It is more important to get these newcomers accustomed to the weights and measures, time units and idioms used by the traveler as soon as possible than the more complex and advanced scientific knowledge, and only when there are no barriers to communication can they be effectively driven.

In the afternoon, it is the time for drills, and like the recruits, the most important thing is to conduct queue training, because with the 40 days of Mandarin teaching in the quarantine camp, they can understand the instructor's orders, although some people still do not distinguish between the left and right, but there are far fewer people who are pulled out and beaten because they do not understand the orders like the recruits.

In the evening, as with the recruits, it was political education, repeated brainwashing, and at the same time some additional knowledge was taught.

They do more than the average recruit, they do more than culture - the recruits only take simple literacy and arithmetic classes in the evenings or when the weather is not good. Although Ma Qianzhu has high expectations for these children, he decided not to give them too much special education for the time being, so that they can be tempered in the collective of the teaching camp, and then see who is suitable to become the backbone of the future.

Tian Liang studied very hard, he was not very smart, he was beaten many times in the quarantine camp because of his poor study, and now he studied even worse, Zuihou fell into the infantry section when he took the sub-exam. The three brothers of the Ruan family had outstanding academic performance and were selected for the artillery department. One day, a "chief" in blue clothes came, and after learning that the three brothers of the Ruan family were from a fishermen's family, they became "navy", about a "sailor" or something.

After that, they were divided into classes. The Ruan brothers are now immersed in learning the artillery tables and the mastery of various shooting methods, and every morning they have to push the cannon around and practice the cannon maneuver over and over again. The most ridiculous thing is to learn to set the gun carriage, the gun carriage and the gun body of the gun must be quickly put on the towing horse with a special traction belt, the small one gun is enough, and the largest gun should be set 8 horses. In order to familiarize themselves with horses, those who learn gunnery go to the farm every few days to serve the horses. In the afternoon, students will learn how to use slide rules, rulers, and measuring instruments.

Tian Liang practiced the method of carrying a wooden gun, and assigned a rattan armor to assassinate in a row, led the squad to change formations, dug trenches, piled earth barriers, and built walls.

Every few days, the instructors would take everyone out on the march, constantly training on imaginary targets in various subjects, sometimes short charges, not only to run fast, but also to assassinate the enemy as they rushed into the enemy's position.

The worst is the armed cross-country, all of them carrying dozens of kilograms of things on their backs on mountain roads or ridges trotting up 15 kilometers, arriving within the specified time without rest, immediately starting to build fortifications, and then divided into two groups to fight, the subject of confrontation is shooting - with wooden guns, these guns are no longer wooden sticks with counterweight stones, but training guns filled with iron, in addition to not being able to shoot, the barrel, the fire door, the bayonet seat is all available. In the simulated shooting, the soldiers have to follow the firing steps of the breech rifle exactly: bite through the cartridge case of the trainer bullet, load the ammunition, put on the fire cap, and not miss a single action, and the instructor will criticize the action for not standard. The shooting will be followed by bayonet and hand-to-hand combat between the two sides. This fighting does not end until one side expells the other from its positions. The losing side is responsible for setting up the camp and cooking for the night. Sometimes this kind of confrontation training will turn into a fake show, and there will often be many injured people with bruised noses and swollen faces, and even broken heads and fractures.

At this time, the trainee nurses, led by the members of the health team, came into play, and these wounded became their most active specimens. Those so-called girls who entered the "Jishu School" actually became students in the nurse training class of the health group, and Shi Yuanren also planned to train a number of qualified doctors from them, and he had selected a few particularly intelligent girls and began to secretly teach them a strange language: Latin.

The female nurse trainees had no equipment or medicines, and the standard Red Cross medical kits they were carrying were mostly empty, even though they were replicas of the latest version 400 years later. There is nothing useful other than alcohol, absorbent cotton, splints, sutures and a few simple Chinese herbal preparations - all modern medicines are in the hands of the doctors of the health department. Fortunately, those who can live to be teenagers in these years are strong under Darwin's law. The physical fitness is not bad. With a little treatment, it's good to rest for a few days.

Tian Liang saw Guo Fu during a drill, and she was now dressed in the same clothes as them, but her hair had been grown, and she wore a beanie, round soft hat, and a strangely embroidered armband on the sleeve: a blue snake wrapped around a wooden stick—every "nurse" had it on its sleeve.

Tian Liang worked very hard in this exercise, hoping that he could get some minor injuries and be able to meet and talk to Guo Fu, but his incomparable bravery that time let the opponent go to the health team, but he was intact. I had to look at Guo Fu from afar in frustration.

When they had slowly adapted to this kind of training, the instructors played the trick of gathering at night, and when they were sleeping soundly in the middle of the night, they suddenly gathered urgently, and those who did not arrive at the school field within ten minutes were all punished for running 10 laps around the field. If that's fine, the most terrible thing is that sometimes there will be night training, where everyone will tie a strip of white cloth to their backs, and then march at night one by one.

Ancient armies rarely fought at night, first, the ancient means of communication and liaison were backward, and it was difficult for night marches to control the direction of the troops, let alone fight; Second, the ancients rarely had such a complete map as they do now, and if they didn't have a suitable guide, they would get lost even during the day, let alone at night.

It is precisely because the ancient army had an evasive attitude towards night battles that the traversers had to carry out such training, and for the new army, which was inferior in numbers but superior in training, night fighting was the best tactic to effectively counteract the enemy's numerical superiority.

Night training is not only about marching and walking, but also about learning to divide into small groups to carry out tactical maneuvers in the dark environment at night, relying entirely on whistles, flutes and horns for communication and coordination, and using arrows when necessary. The Red Army and the Eighth Route Army did not have walkie-talkies back then, and they were like fish in water in night battles.

Originally, the training syllabus prepared by Beiwei talked about the tropical and subtropical areas such as Hainan to the snowy north, but considering that everyone will not go to the northeast for development in two or three years, the focus is still on the local and southern China. Slides play a big role in teaching, especially when teaching the identification of various plants and animals, first using pictures and examples, and then going to the field to investigate. Then he was taught how to use a compass, how to find directions in the field, predict the climate, build temporary shelters, and provide health care...... The Zuihou soldiers were sent into the mountains as squads to live for ten days, during which time they had to complete a series of tasks. Each person was allowed to bring a dagger, a pound of raw rice, and some salt. In order to prevent these recruits from taking the opportunity to harm the common people during field training, Bei Wei took his special team to be responsible for monitoring, and by the way, he also trained his own team.