"Stand!"

"Look to the right!"

"Count!"

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...... Full Army! ”

"Whoever is wrong, you have to report it, do you understand!"

"Report!"

"As a soldier, if you want to do what you order and prohibit, can you do it?!"

"Yes!"

"Okay, that's it, keep the military posture, stand in place for an hour, if there is a violator, you will receive twenty military sticks, and the second violator will be expelled from the team! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

……

In a small training ground in the southwest of the camp, Yang Mu stood under the sun, training this group of soldiers who had just joined the formation.

It is worthy of being a carefully selected elite, and the understanding and physical fitness are okay, after some superficial movements are taught a few times, they can all be figured out, plus some corporal punishment measures promulgated by Yang Mu, one person makes a mistake and the whole army is punished, five or six push-ups and frogs jump down, all the soldiers are like having a blade on their necks, concentrated, for fear of missing any detail.

The training enthusiasm of the soldiers was very high, because Yang Mu promised that as long as the training was effective, a new army would be formed, and all of them could become ten commanders, and even centurions and thousand generals with excellent performance!

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, no one can refuse such an opportunity to ascend to the sky, all the soldiers are full of strength and fight to the death!

Yang Mu spent a whole afternoon sorting out the main training content, and it is expected to complete the main subjects of the university's military training within seven days, so that the soldiers can carry out orders and prohibitions, have a new mental outlook, and adapt to high-intensity training at the same time.

After seven days, the training intensity was increased again, running ten kilometers a day, various horizontal bar push-ups and other physical training, instilling some common sense on the modern battlefield, some famous battle formations and skills of ancient foot soldiers.

Basically, those who can train to this point are already considered the king of soldiers in the current Cangguo military camp, and the theoretical knowledge such as marching and arranging formations alone is stronger than the average centurion.

Of course, in the afternoon, not only did I have satisfaction, but I also found a problem - clothing!

The military uniforms of the soldiers are very inconvenient, the wide-sleeved long clothes, compared with the civilian clothes worn by ordinary people, only slightly remove a little bit of flashy decoration, not only easy to heat, but also greatly limit the ability to act, it is not conducive to marching combat, if it is a high-intensity battle, or in the mountains and forests, it is even more inconvenient, the enemy burns over, once lit, like a human-shaped torch.

This couldn't help but remind him of a class of troops - cavalry!

As far as he knew, although there were large-scale conquests between the vassal states, and there were also horses galloping on the battlefield, in general, the cavalry had not yet formed a single army, and the most powerful main force was the bulky chariot troops, and the standard for measuring military strength among the large vassal states was the number of chariots.

And the reason why there was no transition from chariots to cavalry, in fact, the main reason for the restriction was clothing.

In Chinese history, it is precisely because of the Hu Fu cavalry of the King of Zhao Wuling, imitating the Hu costumes of the grassland tribes, that the Zhao State developed a strong cavalry force, the national strength increased greatly, and the Zhongshan State was destroyed, becoming the only country in the middle and late Warring States period that could be with the Qin State for a long time, and at the same time, it also promoted the great changes of the entire Central Plains Dynasty, and swept the northern nomads in the next hundred years.

If the army of Cangguo could improve its clothing and even develop cavalry, wouldn't it be ......

Thinking of this, Yang Mu's heart thumped, what is the biggest difference between cavalry and infantry?

One with a code, one without a code?

Of course not!

Anyone who has ever seen a horse has an experience, what do you do when a galloping war horse rushes towards you? If you don't have fear, then in the era of cold weapons, you are really a soldier, and assassins and doormen are your destiny. So, once there is a successful charge on the battlefield, the rout is the only thing that happens, there are people around you who escape, can you run away?

This is the advantage of cavalry, compared to the infantry, its speed is faster, mobility and explosiveness are stronger, even if it is a battle-hardened old soldier, there will be a fear from the bottom of his heart, fighting in the open area, the cavalry almost completely crushes the infantry, with one enemy ten is not too much, it is simply an ancient version of tanks and armored vehicles!

Especially the heavy armored cavalry in the peak era, basically a charge, unless the battle-hardened infantry will generally be rushed to pieces, once the army loses its formation, it is basically the same as the common people.

If Cangguo can form a cavalry, still be afraid of Zheng Guo's invasion?

With such an idea, Yang Mu was excited, glanced at the neat phalanx of soldiers, and immediately decided...... Work!

The reason is very simple, it is already sunset, the palace is ten miles away, even if it is a chariot, it will take nearly an hour to arrive, if he goes back late, delaying the time to tell the story, let alone any cavalry, a perverted cavalry blockbuster may be staged tonight!

Of course, before leaving the camp, he didn't forget to leave Shen An behind, this guy stood on the side and watched for an afternoon, and he was already familiar with some basic training, and it was not a problem to supervise these soldiers, and he couldn't come to the barracks every day for the next period of time, so he had to let Shen An hold the pamphlet and think about it slowly.

When I returned to the Imperial City, the city gates had been closed, the curfew had begun, the streets on both sides were darkly lit, there were occasional dog barks, and three or five children poked their heads out of the windows, looking curiously at the convoy.

Yang Mu was tired for a day, sitting on a bumpy car, drowsy.

As soon as he thought of telling the queen "Journey to the West", he had a big head, he was a goddess, why did he like to listen to stories so much, if there was a bookstore in this world, and he would buy a children's book for her directly......

Hey?

Bookshop?

Yang Mu's spirit was shocked in an instant, Cangguo really didn't seem to have a bookstore, because literacy and hyphenation were the patents of the aristocracy, and knowledge was circulated among the upper nobles, and most of the ordinary people didn't even know their names......

He didn't think of selling books, he was thinking of mass printing!

Historically, it was the advent of the printing press that led to a decrease in the cost of books, promoted the popularization of education and knowledge, promoted the improvement of literacy rates, and helped some people from humble backgrounds improve their social status.

Centennial plan, education first!

In terms of the current situation of Cangguo, only by reducing the price of books and making books accessible to civilians is the best shortcut to improve the national literacy rate!

At that time, the role of the library will be brought into play, such as literature and history, mathematics, physics and chemistry, medicine and health, agricultural science, and industrial technology...... All kinds of knowledge can be moved out of the library at a low cost, and the government can open schools to cultivate talents, and then improve the people's enthusiasm for reading through the imperial examination system, so that the country can enter a virtuous circle and rapidly improve its comprehensive national strength!

Next, the First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution, and the Third ...... Ahem, overthinking.

At the moment, "Journey to the West" should be printed first, I believe that not only the queen will be interested, but even those nobles will definitely flock to it, and it is not a problem to earn him tens of thousands of taels of silver, and it can even be exported abroad...... Earn him 100 million?

Yang Mu suddenly found that a trip out of the palace today was a great harvest, not only implemented the new training method, figured out the problem of coded and uncensored, but also exploded with inspiration, and explored a complete idea of strengthening the country through printing, it was a brainstorming!