"This is the letterhead brought by Li Dingguo, and he hopes to get your guidance and help." Gu Yuesheng said to Zhang Qiang with a letterhead from Li Dingguo from Yunnan Prefecture that had been transferred through the Ministry of Military Intelligence.

At this time, Zhang Qiang had already moved his line from Changsha Mansion to Wuhan Mansion, and the First Guards Brigade of the Guards Division, which followed him to the north and south, returned to the central Jinhua Mansion to garrison, and all the troops stationed in Jinhua Mansion were moved to the Dongyang Town Battalion for intensive training.

These field brigade troops from various states of the Huaxia Army stationed, defending, and attacking have gathered a total of more than 30 battalions to the center, each battalion is an elite level of soldiers, or grassroots officers, and the number of officers at the level of high-level garrison officers has reached 30, in addition to the elite soldiers and grassroots officers of various garrison regiments, elite garrisons, thousands of generals, and general officers, these people have a total of 30 officers, and they have to make up these 30 officers from the garrison regiments in several states and almost half of the Ming territory, which is more than enough. It didn't take much effort to get it together.

In addition, the junior officers of the various guards brigades, the officers who performed well, also gathered thirty, and the elite soldiers gathered one battalion.

What are these for?

Zhang Qiang is ready to open a military school.

In the past, the Huaxia Army learned from the army of the Beiyang period, in fact, it opened a military school, but the training of talents was too unsystematic and too low-level, and most of the talents cultivated were the old oilmen of the previous army, who went to night school, learned a few words, could understand orders, knew the flags, trumpets, and contact methods in the troops, and knew how to train soldiers to walk in queues, and then carried out orders according to the above meaning, dogma, and rigidity, without their own thoughts, just shoddy and half-finished products.

Such grassroots officers have been naturally eliminated over the years.

Some died in battle, some were injured in the battle and retired, some violated military regulations, were forced to retire, or were thrown into the prisoner camp for reform, and some grew into more senior grass-roots officers, became the elite of the militia force, and were selected to serve as the company commander in the garrison company, and later at most promoted to the commander of the garrison battalion, or the general of the thousand, and some of them have sprung up, will perform, have ability, self-taught, become the commander of the garrison regiment, or become the elite soldier of the field brigade, Or become a grassroots officer of a field brigade, an excellent officer, and now his status is at least the commander of a thousand battalions of a field brigade.

Those who have developed well have entered the new barracks and rebuilt themselves, but in fact they are only expanding the foundation, or they have become more biased and have developed in another direction.

Since the boot barracks, there have been military academies at a slightly higher level, but these military academies at most inherit the experience of veterans and learn from the experience of some generals who have already made a name for themselves, and they have not learned more things from the overall situation or from the level of the Huaxia Army.

Due to the frequent wars, while still having to run the economy and politics of the Huaxia Army territory, Zhang Qiang did not really and seriously run a military school, a regular and systematic military school that can be desired by the officers and men of the Huaxia Army, so Zhang Qiang now wants to run such a military school.

The military academy is divided into infantry, artillery, sailors, cavalry, engineers, baggage, Chinese army ideological education, and other basic subjects, for elite soldiers, the training time is three months, in fact, it is to systematically analyze what the soldiers have experienced before, and then add the experience of some famous generals to teach to the soldiers.

The basic subjects are followed by specialized subjects, which are divided into:

Cold weapons subjects, hand-to-hand combat, formation, formation, formation, tactics, coordination of various arms, mountain combat, individual squad combat, individual weapon selection, role in the queue, and coordination with firearms units.

Why teach cold weapons?

Because the Ming Dynasty put it bluntly, it is still in the middle of the feudal dynasty, and the technology is not very developed, even if firearms have been used since the Song Dynasty, but the main combat mode is cold weapon hand-to-hand combat, firearms only changed the way of fighting, but cold weapon combat has not been completely abandoned, so as the soldiers and officers of the Chinese Army in the Ming Dynasty should be physically fit, learn the use and combat of cold weapons, and not throw away cold weapons because firearms are powerful, that will be a loss.

The Huaxia Army wants to unify the whole country, and the great cause of hegemony has to be fought in many places, such as the mountains of Guangxi, the no-man's land of Yunnan, Guizhou and Chidi, and Burma.

This subject requires these soldiers to familiarize themselves with it for a month, study for a month, and then conduct field drills and exams for another month, for three months.

Firearms subjects: the origin, history, manufacture, how to use a rudimentary firearm in a rudimentary situation, how to fight the enemy with a firearm worse than the enemy, the principle of firearms, everyone must learn to operate a variety of low-level to a variety of advanced firearms, from practice to mastery for a month.

The command of the firearms unit, the establishment of the unit, and how to use the firearm unit to fight a war, the cold weapon unit, the duel with the firearm unit, the storm, the field battle, the pursuit battle, the role of the staff officer, the baggage, the role of the engineer, the commander should probably let them know, and it will be another month.

Then the study of culture requires the understanding of more advanced orders, the need to be able to cartograph, measure, and read maps, and the need to understand more knowledge, and at the same time teach some information about the acquisition, use, and impact on the battle. European history, the history of the development of firearms in the West in Europe, the use, the ships of Westerners, literature, science and technology, etc.

This process takes a year, and it can be said that the professional subjects are complicated and not precise, but they can greatly improve the level and consciousness of the commanders, and they may not be able to learn anything in a year, but they will certainly have a great impact on their own improvement and will greatly help the cohesion of the Huaxia Army.

Professional subjects take a year and a half, the last three months are examinations, drills, exercises, the last month let them go to various units for internship, after the expiration of the graduation will become the deputy general level of army commanders, study well to stay in school, become intermediate military school teachers, after having culture, these people can also be transferred to civilian officials.

This is a more systematic and professional military school than the military school in the new barracks and the military schools run before, and it is close to the level of the so-called Whampoa Military Academy of later generations.

(End of chapter)