To be honest, the formation of an army composed purely of non-commissioned officers and cadets with high cultural qualities was extremely extravagant in this era. But Marin didn't care, because Beihai had already promoted compulsory education throughout the country, and thousands of non-commissioned officers and students could graduate every year.

In the future, even if half of the 1,000 non-commissioned officers and students are selected every year to serve as adjutants in the army, 500 people will be left to join the Young Guards. Because there will be no shortage of people in the future, there will be no luxury or luxury.

How terrible is an army composed purely of non-commissioned officers and students with extremely solid military skills? In this era, I'm afraid it's the elite of the elite! The Whampoa student army that defeated the warlords learned about it...... Moreover, because this unit has been militarized since childhood, unlike Huangpu students, they only received one or two years of education when they were young. In terms of majors, this student army is many times more professional than the Whampoa student army!

In the future, Marin's plan is to make the Young Guards the real trump card of the Beihai Kingdom, replacing the First Army Corps and becoming the most capable army in the Beihai Kingdom.

After all, the First Legion is dominated by mercenaries, and its reliability is not very strong. These people can fight with the wind, but if the North Sea country is in trouble and can't even pay a commission, it is difficult to say that these people come from the mountains of southern Germany. Only these young non-commissioned officers and students who have received brainwashing education since childhood will be loyal to Beihai Country and Marin as always.

And Marin is not thin on them, because of full trust, Marin intends to make this trustworthy non-commissioned officer and student unit fully equipped with new firearms that use rotatable single-head bullets, making it the most powerful army in the Beihai Country!

Previously, Marin had drawn 100 older people (those who were late to school) from among the young non-commissioned officers and students to form a junior marksman unit, all of which used long-range and high-accuracy single-headed ammunition. However, this army was too small to have enough of an impact on a large-scale war. Therefore, Marin formed a non-commissioned officer and student unit of more than 1,000 people this time to replace the original small-scale unit. Thousands of sharpshooters are enough to tear a huge gap in the enemy formation, so that the assault troops of the army can crush the enemy......

After the use of smokeless gunpowder, the effective range of the steel-core single-headed projectile can reach about 200 meters. It should be pointed out that these 200 meters can be aimed and shot, not like a smoothbore gun, the hit rate is halved after 50 yards, and the bullets are flying randomly after 70 yards, and there is no hit rate at all......

In the previous battlefield against the alliance of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms, Marin's 100 young marksmen actually appeared. However, because of their limited numbers, they could only be used to strike at enemy artillery positions, killing and wounding as few enemy artillery as possible. Although it played a great role, it did not play a decisive role in the overall situation of the war. Because, there are a lot of armies, and artillery is not important. Even if the artillery is exhausted, it will not necessarily affect the combat effectiveness of those armies whose artillery is not important. At most, only a certain deterrent to the enemy is formed.

And the sharpshooter with a size of thousands is very different......

1,000 marksmen, with a single salvo, can destroy at least hundreds of enemies. After two or three rounds, more than 2,000 people can be wiped out. What is the concept of more than 2,000 enemies? An army of 10,000 people, more than 2,000 people, is equivalent to more than 20% of soldiers.

And for ancient armies, most armies were prone to collapse after suffering more than 10% of their personnel. If there are more than 20 percent casualties, the probability of collapse is very high. Even with more than 20,000 troops, more than 2,000 people have reached the critical point of collapse.

This is still the first batch, 1,000 junior non-commissioned officers, plus the original 100 junior marksmen, Marin has 1,100 marksmen, who can accurately kill each other within a distance of 200 meters.

And from next year, another 500 will be added to the Young Guard every year. In 5 years, the Young Guard will have 3,600 marksmen. After two or three rounds of shooting, that's thousands of casualties. This is a huge casualty that any European army of this era will not be able to bear.

Even the Ming Dynasty army, which had hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, could not bear this kind of casualties. Because, most of the army of the Ming Dynasty was made up, and the only ones who could really fight were the family members and personal soldiers that the generals focused on cultivating. The rest of the people just mixed up behind the elite of these family's own soldiers. It's okay to fight a tailwind battle, but if you fight against the wind, as long as those family members and soldiers are hit hard, others will inevitably collapse. And the largest pro-soldier group in the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang's general cavalry team, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, is only 3,000 elite cavalry. Later, Li Rusong relied on these thousands of cavalry to beat Toyotomi Hideyoshi severely in Korea. Generally speaking, against the Ming army, tens of thousands of people are often used, as long as their core thousands of people (or even only a few hundred) are disabled, the others will be given heads.

Not to mention the army, even the European army is about the same. In general, European mercenaries, the first three platoons are the most elite. Historically, German mercenaries, the first three rows were veterans, and they generally wore half-body armor and iron helmets.

These veterans are elite, well-equipped, and have the strongest combat effectiveness. Those who are hidden behind the battle formation are often the old, weak, sick and disabled and new recruits, and their combat effectiveness is very average.

Even the Swiss mercenaries who roamed Europe were pretty much the same. Therefore, in the Battle of Lübeck, Marin specially sent a large army to attack the old, weak, sick and new recruits of the Swiss mercenaries from the rear, which caused confusion in the Swiss battle formation and led to the final defeat and surrender of the Swiss.

So, the European armies are actually about the same. As long as you kill the elite in the first three rows, the back is basically sent. This is the common problem of ancient armies - unbalanced strength and too much reliance on elite drive.

This changed after the military began to be modernized and even modernized. Because a unified code of conduct has been adopted to train the whole army, there is generally not much difference in the level of training among the people. Of course, there are elites, but most of the armies are relatively average in strength and have a good ability to fight independently. After all, even if he is a platoon commander in later generations, he is trained by a professional military school. In this way, a nearly modern army, a single unit, can be pulled out to carry out tasks independently.

For example, when attacking a certain provincial capital, a modern army is fully equipped to divide several regiments to sweep the nearby medium-sized cities, without having to wait for the large army to conquer the provincial capital and then uproot them one by one.

But the ancient army was different, and a small number of elites led the whole army. The rest of the troops, leaving the elite to take the lead, many will not fight. can only wait for the main force to conquer a certain place, and then the elite will take the lead and conquer other places.

The same is true of Marin's Beihai Army, because of the fear that the small forces will not be able to complete the task independently, during the battle, Marin basically acts according to the corps, and rarely sends a phalanx or even a company to go out to carry out the mission alone. Unless, just going to the countryside to collect grain or looting is not a tough task.

Marin's newly formed Young Guards is different, where every soldier is an elite with the ability to think. Even if they are divided into multiple hundreds, each hundred-man team has the ability to carry out combat missions on its own. Moreover, the understanding and execution are good. After all, these teenagers have received many years of military education, and their execution ability is absolutely nothing to say.

The secret lies in the different abilities of grassroots officers. Marin's current legions, grassroots squad leaders or something, many of them are illiterate. If there are high-ranking generals in command, they can still lead the army. If you give them a mission, let them lead their respective teams to carry out the mission alone, and ensure that they are blind.

And in modern armies, every squad leader is a literate professional, and his execution ability is by no means comparable to that of those reckless officers. What's more, the non-commissioned officers and cadets of the Young Guards have received many years of military education, which is not an ordinary specialty......