In fact, this batch of non-commissioned officers and students, who were considered "defective" by Marin, were already very powerful. At the very least, they have mastered the usual words and know a lot of military jargon. In this era, it may not be comparable to those geniuses, but it is definitely qualified to be called "talents".

These non-commissioned officers may have average thinking ability, but they still have a good grasp of the basics. In East Friesland, the first class of primary school students originally numbered 10,000. But when I was in the third and fourth grades, I took an exam and eliminated 4,000 people. Those 4,000 people are real scumbags, many people can't recognize all the words, and simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are not clear. Rao is like this, and those 4,000 people were also taken as apprentices by many craftsmen. After all, they can also write and calculate simply, which is much better than those apprentices who have no cultural foundation at all. Of course, of the 4,000 eliminated people, only the top part has cultivation value, and the latter ones are ...... Well, it's better than being illiterate......

After that, the remaining 6,000 people graduated from primary school, only 2,000 went on to higher education, and the remaining 4,000 were eliminated. But strictly speaking, these 4,000 people are no longer scumbags, but middle school students in this era.

As mentioned above, Marin felt that they were inferior to the scumbags of later generations, not because they were stupid, but because they were dragged down by unprofessional teachers. After all, many of the first batch of teachers in Beihai Country are very bad in their own right. In terms of talent, the talent of these non-commissioned officers is not high, but it is not low either, it is average.

Each of them can write an essay that speaks fluently. Although the words are not beautiful enough, and the words are very immature, they can definitely express the meaning clearly. And those who can't express the meaning of the writing essay are eliminated when they move from the third grade to the fourth grade.

Like the education that Ma Lin received in his previous life, these Beihai elementary school students also began to write diaries in the second grade and essays in the third grade. The diary requirements are very low, a few sentences are sufficient, and the journal is sufficient. The composition is demanding, and it is necessary to write an essay that is fluent in language and can clearly express the meaning. It is not required to be literate, but only to be able to explain things clearly......

This is very important in the military and can be used when writing war reports. At this level, if you go to the place, you can also be competent for clerical work. As for literary collection or something, in this era, I'm afraid only the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty pursue those, right? Literacy rates in Europe are already low, and officials are required to be able to write fluent and clear documents and reports. It just so happens that it is the minimum requirement for these non-commissioned officers......

In fact, the other nobles of the Beihai Kingdom were very surprised that all of these non-commissioned officers and students could write articles with smooth language and clear meanings. Therefore, Schwartz and others felt that it was a waste for Marin to let them be soldiers.

Only Marin, a traverser, who is used to seeing college students in later generations, will be so nitpicky and demanding. But this can't be regarded as wrong, because Ma Lin is confident that after a new batch of teachers are trained to replace those unprofessional temporary rural teachers, they can improve the education of Beihaiguo a lot, and cultivate talents that are satisfactory to Ma Lin, a traverser.

Therefore, Ma Lin would rather wait a few years than release these "defective" non-commissioned officers, lest he lower the standards in vain and make it difficult to do so in the future.

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After the formation of the new Young Guard, Marin was also very excited. Because, none of these 1,000 people have poor understanding. After all, they are also the ones who have experienced a knockout. Despite the poor faculty, it is okay to survive the high elimination rate of 40% and prove the qualifications. At least, it was better than the illiterate mountain people that Marin had recruited from southern Germany. Because of the importance of these little guys, Marin personally went out during training. To tell the truth, since becoming the Grand Duke of Beihai Kingdom, Marin has never personally trained the army. But because of the particularity of this army, Marin made an exception and personally went out to serve as an instructor......

Sure enough, when training, Marin felt very comfortable. Because, these non-commissioned officers and students are too cooperative......

As long as Marin gave any instructions, there was no need to explain them a second or even several times, and these cadets would be able to fulfill his requirements to the letter.

Of course, they originally had a background of ten years of militarized education, and they were no strangers to orders in the army. For example, in the shooting area, there are very few people who miss the target within 50 yards.

Although the humanoid target area is large, it is not easy to shoot with a smoothbore gun without missing the target when shooting within 50 yards. After all, the characteristics of the smoothbore gun are there, which is not conducive to aimed shooting.

With this good foundation, the rest is easy to do......

Marin asked the Beihai Military Factory to come up with a batch of the best quality clockwork muskets, all of which had thickened pipe walls. The reason why the pipe wall is thickened is mainly to prevent explosion. After all, with smokeless gunpowder, the chamber pressure when firing is higher than with black powder. If you don't use a barrel with a strong point, it is easy to go wrong.

As for the thickening of the pipe wall, which makes the musket heavier, this is nothing. Because, these teenagers have been trained to hold guns since they were young, and the muskets can not only be moved, but also their hands do not tremble.

When they were in elementary school, they were too young to hold real guns. Therefore, in the military class of primary school, the children are standing in a military posture with a wooden stick that imagines a musket, and they are motionless holding the wooden stick as aiming and shooting. After several years of training, naturally few people's hands are shaking, which is very conducive to accurate shooting.

At the non-commissioned officer school stage (equivalent to the junior high school stage), when they practice standing in the military posture with their guns, the instructors will tie a small brick to the front end of their wooden sticks (adult soldiers will tie the whole brick directly to the muzzle of the gun) to exercise their arm strength, and not to shake their hands when shooting.

You must know that when shooting, as long as the muzzle moves a little bit, the deviation after shooting may be very large. 10 meters and 20 meters may not have much impact, but if you shoot more than 100 meters, with a slight shake of the muzzle, it is impossible to hit the target, even if it is a huge humanoid target.

Therefore, in addition to exercising the arm strength of the end gun, the muzzle hanging brick is mainly to exercise the ability to hold the gun stably. Only at the moment of firing can the body of the gun be as immobile as possible, and it is possible to hit more accurately.

After 10 years of training, even if the soldiers are not very talented, their shooting level is not much worse. And the kind of people who are similar to cerebral thrombosis patients who really tremble with their hands were eliminated as early as the end of elementary school.

At the beginning, out of 6,000 elementary school graduates, 4,000 were eliminated, and only 1,000 were sent to the non-commissioned officer school. At that time, the elimination was carried out deliberately. Those who are born with trembling hands with guns are not suitable to be musketeers, and naturally they must be eliminated. But they also have a future, because they have been robbed of apprenticeships by various factories in the North Sea Kingdom. After all, they can be regarded as "top students" of this era with culture.

Therefore, the last non-commissioned officers and students who stayed behind were all not bad at shooting. At least, after a few years of training, you can reach a good level.

In this way, Marin arranged for them to be marksmen, which was also considered to be the best use.

After the clockwork musket, which weighed a total of 5 kilograms (the standard flintlock pistol weighs 9 pounds, or 4 kilograms), was issued, no one thought the gun was heavy. After all, they practiced hanging bricks with muzzles every day at the non-commissioned officer school, and they had already developed a pair of "unicorn arms".

These boys are in the non-commissioned officer school, and Marin didn't treat them badly. Especially in terms of meat, because they train a lot, Marlint approves them to eat meat every day. This treatment is not even available to the First Legion.

Of course, most of the meat here is fish. After all, fish is cheap. If you eat pork, beef and mutton, Marin can't afford it. In these years, there is no competition from other countries' fishing boats, and the medium-sized fishing boats of the North Sea countries crisscross the North Sea fishing grounds, and the supply of fish is very sufficient. Since Marin introduced the pickling technology of Chinese cabbage and sauerkraut from the Ming Dynasty, sauerkraut fish has become a standard dish often eaten by teenagers in non-commissioned officer schools. Because of eating sauerkraut fish every day, many non-commissioned officers and students now want to vomit when they see sauerkraut fish - they really eat too much......

In addition to personally serving as an instructor to train these non-commissioned officers, Marin also made an exception to take out sleeve bayonets that only appeared in the 18th century, and let these non-commissioned officers and students practice assassination......