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After nearly two months, from Shanghi to a Belgian foreigner's merchant ship to Hong Kong Island, but stayed in Ningbo for more than half a month to purchase some raw silk, and then because of the war in the area of Nanao and the Manchurian Navy, the foreigner merchant ship was helpless, and sailed into Xiamen to hide for a few days, and by the way purchased some tea in Xiamen, after several tosses, finally reached Hong Kong Island.

Later, Fu Shanxiang and her aunt Xu Fu, two little cousins, and Li Shanlan's wife Xu and others, escorted by four fine workers from Guangzhou, transferred ships to Guangzhou.

As soon as they entered the city of Guangzhou, they were warmly greeted by the palace guards and taken to the courtyard of a mansion that had been settled down a long time ago. Li Shanlan, Xu Shou, and Hua Yufang all settled in this mansion. Li Shanlan and Xu Shou were able to reunite with their families, and they were grateful to the Holy King, and now they were even more relieved in Guangzhou.

Xu Shou's current official position is the deputy director of the Military Science Division of the General Staff of the Capture Army, but at present, this department has not yet been operational, so he and Hua Yufang together to help build a shipyard on Changzhou Island, after Xu Xiangguang dispatched thousands of people, the land on Changzhou Island has been leveled, just wait for the cement that the Holy King said is made, and the machines purchased from the foreigners arrive, and the preliminary shipyard can be built.

Li Shanlan, on the other hand, mainly assisted Xu Xiangguang in preparing for the establishment of the school on Cheung Chau Island. Listening to Xu Xiangguang, the name of this school has been chosen, it is called Whampoa Military Academy. As for why he chose such a name, Xu Xiangguang didn't know, but said that the name was taken by the Holy King himself at this time.

Today, the Whampoa Military Academy has been basically established.

In fact, it is the appearance of a huge private school, but it is a little different. A quarter of the eastern half of Cheung Chau Island is designated as the campus of the Whampoa Military Academy, which is nearly ten times larger than the famous Whampoa Military Academy campus in history.

The buildings of the entire military academy are typical Lingnan blue brick buildings, with a total of more than 40 low courtyards, all of which are two to three stories high, and all the courtyards are surrounded by corridors, and you can basically walk through all the buildings without getting wet on rainy days.

More than 40 into the courtyard, and it is divided into three parts: east and west.

The East Courtyard is a school area, with 12 buildings for schools and laboratories.

The west courtyard is a living dormitory area, with more than 20 courtyards.

There are two courtyards in the middle, but they are the administrative office area of the military school.

The remaining courtyards are empty, and are used as family places for students and instructors.

In the west part of the dormitory area, each courtyard has a blue brick house with a corridor, the layout is symmetrical, there is a corridor between the rows of houses, every two rows form an independent courtyard, the courtyard wall opens a moon-shaped door, and each courtyard lives about one company, which is called the courtyard.

The Intermediate Court has the Military Academy Department, the Administrative Office Institute and the Shangwu Hall. There are sub-couplets on both sides of the main entrance of the front hall of Shangwu Hall, on which there are eight big characters dictated by the Holy King and written by Xu Xiangguang himself: "Expelle the Tartars and restore my China!" ”

These low-rise courtyards built with blue bricks and wooden pillars were also built by Xu Xiangguang with more than 2,000 craftsmen and helpers who transported materials from Guangzhou.

Different from the rather simple Whampoa Military Academy in history, the Whampoa Military Academy of the Holy Kingdom built by Feng Yunshan and Xu Xiangguang not only has a much larger area, but also has a lot of facilities for later generations.

There is a shooting range for foreign gun practice, so that future students can practice foreign gun marksmanship.

At the very edge of the military academy, there is an artillery exhibition field, due to terrain restrictions, only a few typical artillery pieces are displayed for the cadets to observe and learn, but they cannot really fire the cannons.

In addition, there are two playgrounds, one large and one small, a small teaching field and a large playground, which are used by students for practice.

In addition, there is a reading room, where a large number of military books and military techniques are placed, and there is even a simple small sand table room, which includes the terrain of the whole of China, for students to understand the terrain of various places.

When the military academy was about to be completed, Xu Xiangguang asked the Holy King Feng Yunshan for instructions.

Feng Yunshan has been preparing for this Whampoa Military Academy for a long time, and he is preparing to build this military academy into a comprehensive military academy, not just an army officer school. However, now, the naval division has just been established, and the artillery has not yet been fully equipped, so he has no choice but to temporarily open an army officer course at the Whampoa Military Academy.

Later, the Holy King Feng Yunshan announced that he personally served as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy and the representative of the Revival Association. Li Shanlan was appointed as the executive vice president, responsible for the actual teaching organization of the military academy; Xu Xiangguang is a part-time vice principal, responsible for the school's logistics and other trivial matters.

He also appointed Cui Datong, deputy director of the training department of the General Logistics Department of the Capture Army, as director of the teaching department, and Bai Huihuai as director of the political department.

Feng Yunshan transferred three British officers from the General Staff to the Whampoa Military Academy to teach modern British soldiers military skills. The rest of the military instructors are to be temporarily served by the commanders of the battalions and regiments of the army with rich combat experience. Two officers and men of the 9th Division of the A, who had distinguished themselves from the recent drill and became pacesetters in military training, were promoted to drill instructors and transferred to the Whampoa Military Academy.

Since there are not many instructors, and the textbooks compiled are only some historical art of war books, such as the "Manual for the Drill of the Captured Army," the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness," and the "Actual Record of Military Training." Feng Yunshan had no choice but to temporarily prepare to start several specialized military subjects at the Whampoa Military Academy, such as infantry, artillery, engineer, baggage, reconnaissance, politics, and ambulance.

Feng Yunshan felt that there were too few teaching materials, and remembered that the teaching materials of the Whampoa Military Academy in later generations used the military academy textbook of China's first "Infantry Drill Code" compiled by Yuan Datou, so Feng Yunshan convened the General Staff Headquarters and hurriedly compiled a "Tactics" that integrated many military techniques and combined them with the establishment of the captured army.

He also asked Liu Shengbang to dictate, Xu Xiangguang to write, and Feng Yunshan compiled a superficial book of "Investigation Science" by adding some of his own known methods of espionage intelligence, espionage, assassination and other means in later generations. It is also planned that Huang Yiyun, who is about to arrive, will work with Dr. Habaande, a Western missionary in Guangzhou, and his student He Jingwen to compile "Ambulance Science" to teach the trainees how to do a good job in the rescue and first aid of wounded soldiers and reduce the death of wounded soldiers.

He also started the use of artillery, foreign guns, rocket canisters and other weapons, and compiled a book of "Ordnance"; Combined with the sand table and the two wide terrains, the "Topography" was compiled.

In the end, Feng Yunshan thought that the most important thing was to cultivate a group of grassroots officers who were loyal to him, and personally compiled a book of "Political Science", which compiled the crimes of the Manchu Tartars and the process of how the Holy King led the captive army to develop and grow step by step, portraying himself as a prophet and savior, brainwashing the students, swearing loyalty to the Holy King, and joining the Revival Society.

In addition, in "Political Science", Feng Yunshan put some propaganda techniques in later generations, such as criticism and fighting parades, public trial meetings, reminiscences of bittersweet speeches on stage, and the reasoning of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, explaining in detail the importance of propaganda, teaching students how to do a good job in propaganda, and guiding soldiers to always maintain strong morale and combat effectiveness.

He plans to take "Political Science," "Manual for the Drill of the Captured Army," "Tactics," "Ordnance," "Topography," and "Reconnaissance" as the core military courses of the Whampoa Military Academy to train a group of junior commanders facing the infantry battlefield, that is, company platoon commanders, and even squad leaders. The subsequent development will depend on how they will do in the future battles.

In addition, at the same time as these textbooks were published, none of them were numbered, and it was strictly forbidden to take them out of the military academy to prevent them from being circulated outside.

Some time ago, when the military academy was still under construction, he ordered in advance to select 500 literate grassroots officers from various armies to directly enter the Whampoa Military Academy. Unexpectedly, among the more than 200,000 captive soldiers, there were no more literate officers, and later the conditions were lowered, as long as they roughly knew a few words and had a certain foundation, even if they were not officers, as long as they were soldiers of the captive army, they finally gathered enough 480 soldiers.

In desperation, Feng Yunshan ordered 320 students to be recruited from Liangguang and the occupied areas of Fujian and Munan, forming the first phase of the Huangpu student class with a total of 800 students.

In view of the fact that most of the soldiers in the captive army were illiterate, Feng Yunshan summoned Li Shanlan to explain and prepared to set up a preparatory class in the military academy. At the same time as the first batch of cadets was opened, 500 grassroots officers were recruited in the army to serve as preparatory cadets for the second batch of cadets, and entered the military academy in advance to teach them literacy and other basics.

Li Shanlan also sent people to hire several poor private school teachers from the countryside of Nanhai County as Mr. Guowen. Ho King Man, a student of the Western missionary Dr. Habaander, served as a teacher of the ambulance professional course.

After the preparations were made, the Whampoa Military Academy was ready to officially recruit 320 cadets to the outside world, and the Whampoa Military Academy was truly opened. (To be continued.) )