The three of them discussed and stopped, Hu Zongxian sat in Shengjing to stabilize the order, and Ran Wu led 20,000 horses to continue to sweep the Manchu remnants north. Di Qing also marched to Korea with 20,000 horses to eliminate the last formed group of Manchu people.

Zhao Feng, the commander of the cavalry, was ordered to lead the men and horses of the headquarters to escort the Yuxi good news document back to Guangning, and another commander led the men and horses of the headquarters to change the defense with them to defend the palace.

Zhao Feng hurried back to Quang Ninh with a thousand iron horsemen overnight, and although they were carrying torches at night, the speed of the march was obviously much slower than during the day, and they reached Gaizhou at dawn.

The Shanjia who guarded Gaizhou was also very excited when they learned the news of Shengjing's victory, and after arranging for them to have a full meal, they slept for another hour and then remounted their horses and ran towards Quang Ninh.

They were all young men, and they were also the most elite cavalrymen, although they had only an hour's rest, but all their energy was restored, and they rushed towards Quang Ninh at a gallop along the way.

When the sun set and the gates of Quang Ninh were about to be closed, they finally arrived at the city.

After showing the waist card, Zhao Feng asked his subordinates to go back to the camp to rest, and he took a few people to ride straight to the prefect's yamen.

In the prefect's yamen, Jiang Chuan was talking to Mu Yi about recruit training in the signing room.

"The focus of this batch of recruit training is on the queue and military discipline. As I told you before, this group of men is planning to establish a local garrison. Therefore, the focus of the training must be clear, there is no need to engage in too many bells and whistles, and the training method refers to the training methods of the original recruit battalion. I've read your training syllabus, and it's basically not a big problem. However, this formation drill can be removed. ”

Jiang Chuan pointed to the training syllabus presented by Mu Yi on the table in front of him and said.

"But my lord, the infantry formation has been a good way to defend since ancient times, and if you don't practice the formation, you will quickly collapse when you encounter a strong enemy in the future." Mu Yi insisted.

"Your idea is right for what it used to be. However, you must take a broad view of the changing trend of the war, and you must not eat the past. As I mentioned to you, in the future, the proportion of cold weapons in warfare will become smaller and smaller, and eventually they will become auxiliary weapons, while hot weapons represented by firecrackers and artillery will become the mainstream of warfare. Do you think that if the traditional infantry formation encounters a large-scale enemy armed with guns and artillery, even if it is shrunk into a turtle shell, it will be able to block the enemy's guns and shells? ”

Jiang Chuan still has some appreciation for Mu Yi's behavior of daring to put forward and insist on his own ideas. Although Mu Yi is only a small Chinese army Sima now, according to his plan, he will also go out to lead the troops in the future.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan will talk to him about some changes in military trends whenever he has the opportunity.

Although he talked about military literacy, all aspects of personal force were nothing in the Jiang family's army, and even said that the distance from the earth to the moon was worse than those sages, but there was one thing that others could not reach.

That is the understanding of the direction of military change.

Therefore, when Mu Yi's thinking was still in the traditional war thinking based on cold weapons, the focus of his thinking was already on how to train and equip his army into a modern army that was fully equipped with muskets and artillery and had mature infantry and artillery coordination tactics.

In addition, in his vision, the army would implement a hierarchical system in the future, and be divided into field armies and garrison armies according to their main functions. The core of the field army is, of course, the soldiers of the fortress base. The garrison was formed on the basis of a small number of soldiers from the base's lineage, and on the basis of surrender and newly recruited recruits.

As the name suggests, the field army is used to carry out large-scale military tasks, train in peacetime, and pull out when there is a war. In the words of the slogan commonly used by elite troops in modern society: "Use me in the first battle, and use me to win." If you recruit it, you will be able to fight, and if you fight, you will be able to win. ”

The garrison is equivalent to the modern armed police force, which is used to defend the locality, suppress all kinds of riots internally, clear out bandits and bandits, and even occasionally assist the government in carrying out arrest tasks.

Since the main tasks performed are different, the intensity and standard of natural training are also different, and the training methods are also different.

Of course, these ideas are still in the draft book, and no real resolution has been formed, so this has led to Mu Yi and other people below not being able to figure out the situation.

Mu Yi lowered his head and thought for a while, raised his head and said, "Mu Yi has been taught." It's just that the lord can really be sure that muskets and artillery will be the mainstream in future wars? ”

Jiang Chuan couldn't help laughing, this guy is quite axial, obviously he doesn't believe his words very much.

"I know you don't believe it. I want to tell you a word, don't always look at the range around the Ming Dynasty, but look farther away. Perhaps in the countries across the ocean, their firearms are more advanced than ours. If one day these enemies from a foreign land come to us with muskets that shoot farther and more accurately than our artillery, and they shoot farther and more powerful than our artillery, then what are we going to do against it? Do you have to rely on the cold weapon array you trained? ”

Egawa's tone was slightly excited. No one knows the power of thermal weapons better than he does.

And he has always had a faint feeling that on the continent on the other side of the ocean, the military strength of the country there is superior to his own.

This feeling has been there since I met Mo Dai, and although I didn't get a clear answer from Mo Dai's mouth, Jiang Chuan confirmed this intuition from the side.

And he had a strong feeling. Maybe in the near future, he will have a wave of collisions with unknown enemies from across the ocean.

Therefore, he actually has a sense of crisis now.

Although he has a fortress base as a foundation, this foundation is still much weaker than the foundation of a country.

Therefore, he always had a sense of urgency in his heart, eager to be able to do everything he wanted to do in the shortest possible time, so he couldn't help but be a little excited in front of a conservative and somewhat stubborn guy like Mu Yi.

Mu Yi's face turned red, he obviously also felt Wu Anhou's excitement, thinking that Jiang Chuan was dissatisfied with him, so he straightened up and said loudly: "Master Hou, Mu Yi knows his mistake." Immediately after going down, revise the training syllabus. ”

Jiang Chuan looked at him and knew that he must have misunderstood something, so he paused for a moment and let his tone return to calmness: "I don't blame you. What I just said is a discussion, so you don't have to pay too much attention to it. It's right to think more about things, but you have to take a long-term view, and you can't be confined to your own square inches. ”

Mu Yi said loudly: "Mu Yi understands, please rest assured." ”

Jiang Chuan was about to signal him to go down, when the military commander Li Jian strode in and said excitedly: "Lord, Shengjing has won a great victory, Hu Shuai sent someone back to report the victory, and also brought back the emperor of the Manchu State Jade Seal." ”

When Jiang Chuan heard this, Huo Ran stood up and said happily: "Call in." Ben Hou wants to see what this emperor's jade seal looks like. ”