Ps. I really didn't expect to receive a book friend reward, originally I just hoped that the book I wrote could be liked by someone, and I was already very satisfied with the recommendation and collection, but I really didn't expect a book friend to reward me, it really made me panic, and I would like to thank the book friend Zhang Leng 123 in particular, thank you for breaking the bank.

The Berlin Military Academy where Joey went was a junior military academy on Friedrichstraße, near the Colosseum, not the famous Prussian Military Academy at 74 Unter den Linden, Dolitan and Wilhelmstrasse, between the three main streets.

The Berlin Military Academy was founded in 1810 by Count Gerhard Johann Davide von Scharnhorst, which predates the Prussian Military Academy.

The Prussian Military Academy is a high-level academy specializing in the training of middle and senior officers and staff officers, while the Berlin Military Academy dates back to the time of Frederick I, and was rebuilt into a practical school specializing in the training of junior officers in the old Colosseum in Berlin by the order of Frederick Wilhelm I himself.

When it comes to fame and the quality of students, it is natural that the Prussian Military Academy, which is ranked among the four most famous military academies in the world, is at the top. But there is one thing that is peculiar to the Berlin Military Academy, that is, the military Junkers and aristocrats near Berlin usually send their children here first to train junior officers.

Education in Prussia, or the German Empire as a whole, was characteristic, emphasizing professionalism rather than comprehensiveness.

Take the early military school where the military Junkers studied, for example, when the parents of the military Junkers decided to make their sons a military career for some reason, such as having many children and limited income, they would generally send their children to a special military school from the time the child went to elementary school, which in addition to learning cultural materials, also had to live a strict Prussian military discipline life.

In 1877, under the leadership of Moltke the Elder, General Schlieffen was specifically responsible for the reform of the German military academy system, and opened the Central Military Academy (also known as the Gross-Lichtfeld Central Military Academy) in Berlin.

After the reform of General Schlieffen's military academy, the military academy is very similar to Joy's middle school in terms of academic system, the first five years of the first stage of the liberal arts and science middle school correspond to the five years of the real military academy, and the two years of the second stage correspond to the two years of the Central Military Academy.

Compared with Joey's liberal arts and sciences high school, the practical military academy emphasizes the study of German literature, history and mathematics in addition to the study of professional skills, rather than Joey's liberal arts high school, which has more than 10 courses.

The military Junkers have gone through rigorous military school studies, and the most gifted children among them can be awarded the rank of second lieutenant at the age of 8-10 years old, and enter the barracks as probationary officers.

It is not accurate to say that they are orderly, but it is more accurate to mean that they are regarded as their own children by the commanders of the battalion and company, and they have cultivated military concepts in the army since childhood. In a sense, the inheritance of the Prussian tradition of the officer corps is similar to the inheritance of the father-son relationship in the army.

Guderian, the famous father of armor and the king of blitzkrieg, entered the Central Military Academy in Berlin at the age of 5, entered the 10th Light Infantry Battalion in Hanover at the age of 8, and became a second lieutenant at the age of 9. General Guderian is definitely a genius, others generally have to study 7 years of military school life, he finished 3 years, he is a real scholar, by no means a pseudo-scholar like Joey can be compared.

But for some nobles with a privileged life, they generally let their children complete 4 years of basic education first, and then go to the real military academy for 5 years, and finally enter the Central Military Academy in Okono, and complete their studies at the age of 18 and be awarded the rank of second lieutenant, and then go to the upper route to enter the court, as a guard officer, and then go to the staff or transfer to the court Junker.

The children of ordinary military Junkers entered the barracks as low-level officers, and the children of nobles entered the court as guard officers, not to mention whether it was good or bad, because in the era of cold weapons, or the era of lining up to shoot each other, it was indeed not reflected in good or bad.

But in World War II, you will find that compared to Guderian, Rommel, Manstein, Dieter, Schellner, etc., these military Junkers who started from the grassroots, those who were born in the nobility and served as a court guard officer of Wilhelm II, von Blomburg, von Witzleben, von Tleskov were so low.

In Berlin in 1879, the military academy restructuring had been completed, so Joey needed to enter the Berlin Military Academy first, and then enter the Central Military Academy. Like Joey's Grammar School, the Berlin Military Academy conducts 6 classes of cultural study in the morning and military training in the afternoon.

When 11-year-old Joey came to the Berlin Military Academy, he was embarrassed to find that he was one of the older young people in this military school. Because of all the queues standing together on the playground, it was obvious that some of the students were half the younger than themselves.

Although the 11-year-old Joey's male second characteristic is not obvious, he is one of the significantly taller among the crowd.

In order to take care of several special older youths, including Joey, the instructors deliberately put them into a queue.

Under the scorching sun of the spring afternoon, Joey and a group of junior officer candidates on the playground received basic queue exercises together, starting from the most basic enlistment education.

In Prussia, or in the traditional German military system, enlistment education in military schools was linked to officer education. The curriculum of enlistment education begins with basic platoon training, followed by individual soldier movements, and finally to small tactical training in squads and platoons.

In addition to daily training in weapons and equipment, as well as small tactics of platoons and squads, officers who are candidates for officer candidates also need to further study the management of the army's administrative affairs, including service duties, and receive basic education in battalion and company tactics.

It can be said that every junior officer school is a Spartan barracks in Prussia.

The queue training is boring and torturous, but it is good to understand the children's physical condition, every 40 minutes of basic queue training will be a 15-minute break, and these 15 minutes are basically the time for the children to introduce themselves and get to know each other.

Several other older youths in Joey's cohort entered the Berlin Military Academy a little earlier than Joey, and everyone had already formed a small circle of their own accord. And today's newcomer Joey was also invited to join this small circle, and after some introductions and self-introductions, Joey finally knew the names of his teammates in this team.

The chubby little boy with glasses, thick black hair, and always a little sleepless was Max Hoffmann, from Homburg in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.

The tall, lanky, blue-eyed blonde boy was Friedrich Kress von Kolesenstein from Augsburg, Bavaria.

The freckled, stout and tall child was named Wilhelm Greiner and came from Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart in the kingdom of Württemberg.

The medium-sized, serious guy with a serious face was called Sixt von Anim, from Katowitz, Sicilya.

A small but powerful guy named Ernst von Manduffel, from Potsdam, near Berlin.

Markus Wolfe, a handsome guy with blonde hair and a sunny face, comes from a family of intellectuals in the small town of Heishingen in Württemberg, and is the child of a writer.

The last Friedrich Leopold von Wild, a stocky East Prussian big boy, came from Königsberg.

The children who participated in the military academy all had a heart for weapons, and after some introduction, everyone's topic revolved around the rapid development of the Martini-Henry M1871 rifle used by the British in the Zulu War, which began in January this year.

Before Joey participated, in fact, several of them had been arguing about this topic for several days, and between single and continuous fire, everyone agreed that continuous fire is the trend of firearm development, but the kind of repeating gun is good, but it is the focus of everyone's debate.

According to the school of thought represented by Hoffman, who highly admires the Spencer M1865 rifle, in order to support his point of view, Hoffman began to list the facts he said he knew, "Everyone, when everyone shoots the bullets in the chamber together, the Henry repeater you admire is still pressing the bullets into the barrel magazine one by one, and my Spencer M1865 can take out the barrel in the butt, directly insert a magazine that has been filled with 12 rounds, and shoot at you, and you have no power to fight back!" ”

The serious Sixter von Arnim represents the point of view of the Henry repeater faction, "The Martini-Henry M1871 uses more bullet charges than your M1865, so the range of the Henry M1871 is obviously longer than yours, I can kill you first outside the range, and I don't need to compete with you for the reload speed at all, and the 16 rounds in my magazine are enough for me." ”

"I can take the enemy covertly, I don't use a bad formation to charge densely, and if I have a Spencer M1965, the first thing I have to do is gather and stealthily approach your line. At about 200 meters, charge with dense firepower, just like the mode of assault platoon charge that the instructor said a few days ago, and use a rainstorm of bullets to directly break through your position. The sturdy Wilder said.

"Please note that in close combat, the Henry M1871 is not bad, I will give you a recent example, in the Battle of Plevenna in the Russian-Turkish War the year before last, it is said that the Russians charged the Turkish positions three times in a dense formation, and were finally repelled by the Turkish army's repeating rifles, and the Turks used the Winchester M1866, which is similar to the Henry M1871, so your close charge, I don't think it is so terrible." The blonde boy Collesenstein retorted.

"Also, the latest model of the current Martini-Henry repeater is the M1873, which now uses a 400 grain (26 grams) propellant, and the warhead is even more powerful, guys, I have one at home, and my father has used it to hunt deer." The strong Mandol added to the Henry M1871 faction.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my point of view is very simple, I don't care which of you has more bullets, who has more power, and who has a long range, I only care about one thing, whose gun is easy to maintain, whose bullet carries more, and whose gun is durable. All things considered, I think the Spencer M1865 has a high score, and I choose it. "Freckled boy Glenner voted for Spencer M1865.

After several arguments, no one could convince the other, and the final method was to vote. The result of the vote was not as unexpected as 3:3.

Then everyone turned their heads to Marcus Wolfe, the pretty boy who never spoke or voted.

Facing everyone's nervous gaze, Wolf smiled like a sunny smile and said, "The two guns you are talking about are not to my liking. I like the Sharps M1859 rifle that can shoot 1000 yards, I like the feeling of killing with one shot, and I don't want to comment on either of the two guns you guys are talking about. ”

"However, although I abstained, it does not mean that your final vote is 3:3. Folks, let's not forget that we've got another partner, and Joey can cast the decisive vote. Wolfe, the pretty boy, pointed to Joey, who was listening to their discussion, and said with a smile on his white teeth.

In fact, when everyone discusses the guns used by the British army in the Zulu War, Joey's thinking has obviously run all over. Joey was thinking of the First Boer War that would take place after the Zulu War, after the Zulu Kingdom was destroyed, and the Second Boer War, which cost the British blood and sweat and cost 450,000 men 220 million pounds.

When the blonde boy Colesenstein talked about the Russo-Turkish War in 1877, Joey suddenly had an inspiration, "The American Winchester can make war money from the Russo-Turkish War, as the most important Boer war in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he can do something in it, you must know that the Boers have a monopoly on diamonds and gold, and they are not short of money at all!" ”

When Wolfe, the pretty boy, threw the focus of the conversation to Joey, Joey looked up at everyone, raised his hand and said with a smile, "I know of a rifle that has a 20-round capacity magazine, a rate of fire of at least 30 rounds per minute, and a range of at least 1,000 yards, which can fire a salvo, and most importantly, a rifle that is not as accurate as it can be said." ”

"And it's the British's rifle, the rifle that in the near future will surprise the British in the African war....." Joey added in his heart.