Regarding the establishment of a new type of army, Xiao Xuan has certainly thought a lot. Facts are true. In modern history, when a new type of army was established, there were no too harsh conditions for selecting troops. "The revolution must be voluntary" will also encounter "having the right to do things" under the relatively tense situation in wartime, but only relying on oneself as a person who understands the basic methods of work, rather than a large number of people who have a certain degree of modern ideology and have mastered sufficient methods, no one knows what kind of problems they will encounter and what kind of detours they will embark on when building a completely different new type of army.

Modern China, first of all, is facing great changes unseen in thousands of years, and the cruel facts of the Gengzi War and the First World War have made many people realize how far apart China's national strength and the great powers is. If we follow the path of normal development and move towards a Western-style social model, China, as a backward and weak country, will not have the golden elephant legs that can operate the attitude of the great powers at will like in modern times, and the best result will be to become a "rich country" that does not master the technology of the hydrogen bomb and does not have the status of a real great power. The small happiness and happiness of a small country and a widow depend entirely on the breath of the West.

If you want to be a rich and powerful country, you can't have a Russophobic and anti-Soviet attitude. Because Russia and even the Soviet Union are the most powerful challengers to the Western order in recent history, and because of their own weakness, they are the only countries that sincerely want and can make China an independent power. At least don't isolate yourself in the midst of challenges.

In this case, many elites have shown a spirit of consciousness and sacrifice that would not be found in normal society.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even some people in later generations did not realize how big the gap between the East and the West was at this time--- of course, the gap between the East and the West was indeed not as big as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. In the absence of a sense of national danger at all, no one dares to guarantee how much the effect of similar routines will be reduced.

If this is the case, then in order to ensure the effectiveness of army building, and even to build a force that can truly be compared with the main force of the revolutionary army in the field at its peak, it is necessary to strive for perfection in other aspects and make up for the deficiencies in all aspects with a far stronger source of troops.

Thankfully, although the defense of the capital was still in danger at this time, the balance of forces did not look very favorable. However, the balance of power between the enemy and us is far less severe than that of the revolution in the Republic of China. If the entire Eastern ruling class of the late Ming Dynasty was sold, I am afraid that it would not be possible to rely on the comprehensive militarization of 500 million people and the introduction of modern military influence to bring about 2 million or even thousands of regiments of field troops, and let these field forces still have the same casualty tolerance as the ordinary troops of Chiang's army and other warlords in the Anti-Japanese War and the Civil War.

In the ancient history of China, there has never been a situation where two million people were generally able to fight, and even in the late Warring States period, the mobilization of one or two major countries was often barely able to fight.

In this era, there was no radio, and the population spread before the Qing Dynasty, and Li Zicheng led thousands of elite soldiers to train in the deep mountains and old forests with peace of mind. And the "golden decade" of widespread use of radio within the air reconnaissance, cable telegraph network, and military regiments is simply unimaginable.

Xiao Xuan also carefully calculated based on historical examples and even some of the situations he had learned: Judging from some detailed reports on the relevant battles and the military history materials provided by some big names, even if there was not much difference in weapon allocation, the field strength of the ordinary revolutionary army in the Soviet era should have a difference of about five times in ammunition and firepower compared with the ordinary Jiang army and second-rate warlords. The war of liberation was reduced to about half of the opponent's artillery shells or firepower for various reasons. If it is not for the water fighting troops in the process of expanding the army and the development of the army, but for the real qualified main force in the field, the double strength can be evenly matched with the opponent with seven times the strength, such as the Soviet-Chinese seven battles and seven victories or the third anti-encirclement and suppression in Hubei, Henan and Anhui, the worst, and the enemy who can double the strength and triple the strength of the enemy. Such as East China before the Battle of Henan. If you not only have no disadvantage in terms of firepower in terms of weapons and equipment, but have a certain upper hand over the opponent's average, then the war of annihilation, which could only be fought with three times the number of troops, will be able to be fought with half or less troops. Strategically, one enemy with seven will become one enemy with thirty-five, and if it has a great advantage over the opponent's average line in terms of training and armament. It is not impossible to defeat a hundred. In this way, a revolutionary army of about 1,500 regimental men was enough to play a sufficient strategic role in the East at this time. If there are 5,000 elite soldiers, sweeping the world has become the most important capital. In this day and age, this is not so unbelievable or impossible. In the seventeenth century, Gustav's core elite was only a few thousand elite infantry, and the Polish hussars relied on by the Polish-Lithuanian Federation across Eastern Europe were only a few dozen core wings with a total number of about four or five thousand. Although it is rare to break through dozens to hundreds of battles, it is not completely non-existent.

Of course, these are estimates based on idealized scenarios. In order to achieve a revolutionary new type of army that strives for excellence at least the size of a battalion in a not too long time. In terms of the preparation for the selection of soldiers, Xiao Xuan has certainly done a lot of work. Among the new immigrants who came from Shandong alone, there were tens of thousands of ideological reports, and it took a lot of time for the more than 1,000 backbone officers and men of the teaching brigade to complete the screening at multiple levels. In the end, one hundred of the most demanding "seed recruits" were selected from family background, physical condition, and personal experience

These 100 "seed recruits" not only require that the loss of their father and mother is not too big a family tie, but also must have a serious personal bad experience, which is the so-called "bitter hatred". In the late Ming Dynasty, when social contradictions were far more prominent than those in the Republic of China, there was no shortage of people with strong roots and deep hatred. Therefore, these standards alone are not enough, and they must not have too much physical problems, and they must also perform well in previous battles. At the same time, in order to save time to the greatest extent and not waste too much time on literacy, these people must also be people who have achieved more solid results in the previous "pinyin literacy". Together, these conditions have indeed achieved the effect of "one in a thousand". 130 backbone soldiers who may not be able to compare with the 100 disease-ridden troops stationed in India were selected, and the construction of the new-style army was thus on the right track.

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