After returning to the palace, Chen Zizhuang, the official of the military department, had been waiting outside the study for a long time, and as soon as Zhu Youlang arrived, he immediately stepped forward to salute, and then reported on the matter of running the martial arts hall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The plan to open a military academy has been brewing in Zhu Youlang's mind for many days, and it was not put on the agenda until the promulgation of the new military system and the reorganization of various armies; there is no doubt about the importance of military academies to an army and those in power; this is a big project, and it cannot be perfected all at once, but it is also very important to take precautions.

The lecture hall is divided into three levels: junior, intermediate and high, and the junior lecture hall is mainly responsible for training low-level officers such as the chief and the general flag, and after the training period, those who pass the examination can be promoted to one level.

It is planned to set up about 10 junior martial arts lecture halls in Huguang, Liangguang, and Xingdu, and specially recruit low-level officers from the Beijing and Xiang battalions for training.

The intermediate lecture hall will be run in each provincial capital, and it is planned to run four, and the enrollment training will be carried out in the face of the first-class intermediate general schools in the team.

The high-level martial arts hall was set up in Xingdu, and only senior officers at the commander and command level were recruited, and the Son of Heaven personally served as the supervisor of the martial arts hall, and daily affairs were handled by Chen Zizhuang, the deputy supervisor and the official of the military department.

Compared with the primary and intermediate martial arts halls, the advanced martial arts halls focus on teaching more advanced military arts, such as war examples, tactics, strategy, generals' cultivation, and the history of the past dynasties in addition to physical training.

The course of war examples mainly teaches various classic war examples from the pre-Qin period to the present day.

In the tactics course, the infantry and cavalry formations, the construction of fortresses, offensive and defensive tactics, reconnaissance skills, and specific marching, formation, division, and offensive and defensive styles are taught.

In the strategy course, simple strategies are taught and the concept of the overall situation is cultivated, as well as such as the influence of the right time, place, and people on the battlefield, and the strategic thinking of annihilating the enemy's vital forces without thinking about the gains and losses of one city or one place.

The so-called general school cultivation course is to teach the generals to be literate, to be polite, and to cultivate the five virtues of "wisdom, faith, benevolence, courage, and strictness." At a higher level, it is to learn some astronomy and geographies, character, surveying and mapping, arithmetic, military history outline, and marching exercises, etc., and the establishment of self-cultivation courses can improve the cultural quality and loyalty of the generals.

As for the national history course, although it seems to have nothing to do with military affairs, it is actually very important.

Wei Wenzhen in the Tang Dynasty said: The husband uses copper as a mirror, can be dressed properly, take the ancient as a mirror, can know the rise and fall, and take people as a mirror, he can see the gains and losses.

The purpose of Zhu Youlang's national history course is to let the generals learn the lessons and lessons of historical figures through studying history, so that they can understand the way of being a general and a minister.

There is also a deeper meaning, in history, there are endless famous generals who are patriotic and resist foreign insults, and learning from their deeds is conducive to cultivating the generals' national outlook, knowing honor and shame, and strengthening the cohesion of the army.

To this end, Zhu Youlang specially organized people to compile the "Biography of the Martyrs" as a textbook for the national history course, which used popular words to tell the stories of the national martyrs of the past dynasties, and told the significance of the time and the evaluation of future generations.

In order to make the effect better, he also specially set a song in his previous life, "Loyal to the Country", as the military song of the Ming Dynasty, and taught the officers and soldiers to sing it, so as to boost the morale of the soldiers and enhance their fighting spirit.

This course was led by Zhu Youlang himself.

At the emperor's place, many high-level generals in Beijing heard for the first time the deeds of the champion Hou Huo who was sick, the deeds of the wolf Juxu, the "kill, Hu, order" [harmony god] of Han'er Ran Min, Yue Fei's [Man Jianghong], Wen Tianxiang's loyalty and so on. Zhu Youlang told them that life is short, and everyone dies. Rather than live a lifetime, it is better to live like a man, live up to the sky, and die generously and fiercely. After listening to this, the generals of the Beijing camp turned their hearts upside down, and they suddenly discovered that there is another way to live in life, that is, to live for the country and the nation, and to die for the country and the nation.

"Huguang, Liangguang, and Xingdu at all levels of martial arts halls are supervised by Chen Aiqing, hurry up, next month, each school will start to officially enroll."

Chen Zizhuang frowned lightly and said, "It's okay to teach martial arts at the junior level. I am afraid that it is difficult to have qualified lecturers in the middle and senior lecture halls. ”

"The lecturers of the intermediate lecture hall can temporarily transfer some senior generals from the Beijing Forbidden Army to teach on their behalf. There are not many people in the high-level martial arts hall, twenty or thirty, and I will teach them in person, or the generals will collectively exchange military experience. ”

In the Beijing Forbidden Army, there are many fierce generals, but there are not many people who are proficient in Tao Strategy, Li Dingguo is barely one, but let him teach senior generals, Zhu Youlang is not at ease, after all, he is a general, if you want to say that the army is fighting a war, Zhu Youlang's level may be very average, but it is more than enough to talk about the theory of military books, military system, etc., and he can barely be qualified as a lecturer.

Chen Zizhuang said with some hesitation: "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, and the state affairs are busy, so you teach in person, is it a little fuss?" ”

"Now is an extraordinary time, and it is time to do extraordinary things. Of course, I will not take practical courses such as tactics and drills, and I will only talk about some theories, teach some national history, and cultivate military generals, which will not take much time. ”

"That's all there is to it."

In February of the second year of Yongli (1648 in the Western calendar), after more than half a year of long-distance marching, Kong Youde, the general of Pingnan of the Qing court, led a large army to Yuezhou, Hunan.

Kong Youde and other Sanshun kings were the first to surrender to the Qing court, and they had deep qualifications. Liu Liangzuo, the former general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, lost his troops and lost his generals one after another, and only more than 10,000 remnants of the army were left after 100,000 horses, which was not of great use at all. The ones who can really fight are the Dongjiang soldiers of the Three Kings and the Northern Shaanxi soldiers of Li Chengdong, who are the main force in the traitor army.

This time, Dolgon personally appointed Kong Youde as the general of Pingnan, and handed over the command of the army to Kong Youde for the first time. It shows that Dolgon attaches great importance to Kong Youde.

After nearly 100,000 troops crossed the Yangtze River, the troops were immediately divided into two routes, one was the right-wing general Gushan Ezhen Jin Li led 30,000 Han Eight Banners and the Green Battalion from the south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, planning to destroy the Lu Wang regime and the rest of the Zheng clan in Fujian, from Fujian to Guangdong and Li Chengdong to join forces, Kong Youde led the remaining 670,000 troops up the river to Huguang, planning to enter Guangxi from Huguang, and finally joined forces with Jin Li and Li Chengdong to attack the Yongli regime of Liangguang left and right.

The Qing army is menacing, and war is about to break out!

Zhu Youlang did not dare to slack off, and after receiving the military report, he convened the military council of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs above the third rank overnight.

After the court, Zhu Youlang was about to open his mouth to put forward the idea of the imperial conquest, and the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhai Shiyun, had already stepped out of class and said: "The minister thought that the Dongyu army was going south, and the main force was stationed in Huguang, and he wanted to use Huguang as a breach to attack Liangguang, and Huguang had 90,000 Ming Xiang battalions, accounting for more than 60% of my total Ming troops, so the success or failure of the overall situation was in Huguang."

At this moment, my emperor Mingwan can't be passively defended and sit still. The old minister knows that His Majesty is both wise and brave, and is good at conquest, and at this moment, if he raises troops to the north to conquer in person, the Huguang army and people will be brave and brave when they hear it, and they will greatly boost their morale and guard the border court to welcome His Majesty to arrive.

His Majesty's personal expedition is tantamount to telling the Quartet that the imperial court has the ambition to recover, and the idea of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, people with lofty ideals in the world will respond to the division. ”

Seeing that Zhai Shiyun, the head of Wenchen, was supporting the main battle, Zhu Youlang's face was pleasant, and his expression was quite approving.

Jiao Lian, the commander of Yulin Town, also stepped forward to strike while the iron was hot and said: "At present, the Tartars are pressing step by step, and the deception is too much, and the Beijing camp will stay in Liangguang, so if you go north with Your Majesty in person, when the time comes, the ministers are willing to drive for our emperor and fight to the death with the Tartars in Huguang!" (To be continued.) )