The New Year is approaching, but the instructors and officers and students in the Zhejiang Martial Arts School have no time to rest. www.biquge.infoFortunately, the infantry officers are okay, most of the knowledge they are learning at the moment is what they have seen in the army, even the middle-level officers need to know the non-infantry knowledge because they need the cooperation of other arms on the battlefield in the future, in fact, they have been in the army for a long time, more or less have some understanding, and more will go to the recruit camp outside the city after the year.

In contrast, cavalry officers are not trained here except for simple literacy and arithmetic, and although there are many such in the water battalion, artillery and engineers, the proportion is much lower, and the officers of these arms have to learn how to use some tools or local methods to measure distance on the battlefield.

Artillery needs to be ranged in order to better bombard the enemy, the water battalion is not only the artillery on the battleship, they also have to calculate what kind of attack is more appropriate according to the speed of the opponent, and the engineer, it is necessary to calculate the scale of civil engineering, the size of siege equipment, etc., which all need to use the basic skill of ranging.

Originally, it was not without such knowledge in the army, but it was also estimated by experience, after all, the officers and non-commissioned officers in the army were basically illiterate, and they could not be expected to use more scientific methods to calculate.

Originally, Chen Wen planned to combine some methods used in the current army, supplemented by some knowledge that could be used to improve the ability of the officers, but with Yu Shizhong, a former Ming army artillery officer, coming to join the army with a set of special range measuring tools for artillery, it also saved Chen Wen a lot of effort.

In the special measuring tools for artillery in this era, the telescope has never been able to be copied at the level of the Military Industry Department, even with the Englishman Charles who worked as an apprentice for grinding lenses in England, but the time is still short, and the telescope produced by the Ming army itself still did not produce the first one. However, after the replication and transformation of other tools according to the Ming army's Hongyi artillery, as well as some of the local methods used in the Ming army, they did effectively improve the shooting accuracy of the artillery, at least in terms of cultivation speed, the Ming army has far surpassed the Qing army that is still using experience to measure and aim.

Fixed-charge powder packs, granulated gunpowder, and professional ranging and aiming technology are the reasons why the average level of artillery in the Ming army can still maintain an excellent standard in the process of rapid expansion.

It has been a year since he joined this Ming army, but Yu Shizhong and his son have gathered less and separated more, Yu Shizhong has almost trained artillery in the old camp for the past year, from the gun commander, gunner to loader, except for those coachmen and big shield soldiers who do not need to be trained by him, they all have to pass through his hands before they can enter the camp; And his son Yu Youming worked in Chen Wen's personal army, either on the front line or in the Hou Mansion. If it weren't for the idea that Chen Wen had not long ago to let those young soldiers go to the martial arts academy to learn military knowledge so that they could become officers in the future, their father and son would not have been able to sit together and have a good dinner every day like they are now.

"Youming, what did your instructors teach today?"

Because he had been in the pro-soldier team, Yu Youming did not go to learn artillery like his father, nor did he inherit the ancestral business of the officers of the Beiwei Guard Station to work in the water camp, but learned cavalry in the martial arts school, because the feeling of riding on a war horse and fighting the Qing army for his life was like an addiction that tempted him from time to time - even if the Tartars are really unparalleled in riding and shooting, our Han family sons will never lose!

While eating, Yu Shizhong naturally asked his son, just like the fathers of later generations who asked their children what their children had been taught by the teacher today, how they had learned, and so on. And Yu Youming also gulped the rice in the bowl, and hurriedly swallowed it when he heard the inquiry.

"Today, the instructor began to teach me how to look at maps and the terrain, which is said to be a great knowledge that takes a long time to teach."

After that, Yu Youming took a big bite of the piece of fat that his father had just put in the bowl for him, and then continued to pick up the rice, it seemed that the training of the cavalry was indeed very physically demanding.

Although Yu Shizhong has never been a cavalryman, he has been in the army for a long time and knows that this cavalry is not just as simple as riding a horse and slashing, and his knowledge is not even less than that of artillery.

Born in a martial arts family, don't think about being able to die in bed in the future. Yu Shizhong understood this truth very early, because the wealth of the family comes from the bloody struggle of the ancestors, and they naturally can't lose the face of their ancestors. It's just that his son is growing up, and sooner or later he will have to set foot on the battlefield and fight for his life with the Tartar, but another thought resurfaces in his mind.

"Do you want to set up a family affair, so that you can pass on the family from generation to generation in the future, and pass on the incense of our old family."

The thought had crossed his mind many times, and his son should have been married long ago. But earlier in Taihu Lake, the leaders I knew were all farmers and fishermen, and they were all group volunteers and bandits, and it can be said that they were not in the right place with their hereditary warrior families. After coming to Jinhua, although most of the officers who gradually got acquainted with him also had not low military positions, many of them still could not satisfy him, and most of the families did not have women of appropriate age, so they moved to this day.

"Hey, as the old saying goes, there is no good wife in one generation, and there are no good children in ten generations, this thing can't be settled, so don't wait and see."

Yu Shizhong, who was entangled, saw that the piece of meat in his son's bowl was eaten in his mouth, so he took a piece of meat from the plate and put it in, and instructed him to "eat more" before continuing to eat. It's just that before the meal was finished, an officer knocked on the door and walked in, indicating that Chen Wen was going to see him now.

Yu Shizhong probably already knew what it was for, so he hurriedly rushed to the Hou Mansion with the officer. When I saw Chen Wen, I saw Chen Wen take out the report.

"General Yu, this is what you wrote?"

Yu Shizhong took a look, nodded to Chen Wen, and replied, "Exactly."

"It turns out that there are such things, and it is indeed my negligence."

The content of Yu Shizhong's report is not the artillery training he was responsible for, but mentions that the reason why Cao Conglong and Lu Wenlong were able to make so many local garrison officers rebel during the Cao Conglong Rebellion was that in addition to coercion, inducement was also indispensable, and in addition to official positions, there was also something that Chen Wen had never touched - secular positions.

Hereditary military positions are part of the Ming Dynasty's military household system, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, hereditary military generals should inherit the skills in the army, as officers to serve the Ming Dynasty, but even in dynasties like Hongwu and Yongle, the corruption speed of hereditary warriors is also jaw-dropping to the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, so they have to order again and again that the children of hereditary warriors are strictly forbidden to do those things that have nothing to do with combat and defense.

The hereditary line of officers is a microcosm of the feudal system, but in fact, Chen Wen also knows that even in the modern army, the children of officer families can be promoted more quickly, but on the surface, they are still promoted at the same level as ordinary soldiers, and it is not like now, even if they don't understand anything, they can be directly appointed as officers.

Due to the fact that he has always excluded feudalism in the army, Chen Wen can be said to be extremely disgusted with this system, but he didn't expect that Cao Conglong had used this thing to lure his generals half a year ago, which was indeed a bit unexpected.

Among the rebellious officers at that time, all of them were not to blame in the past anyway, but they were also placed in positions without military power, while the others were directly beheaded in public to set an example, so that Chen Wen actually omitted the details of this. But after thinking about it carefully, even if he didn't think of this problem, those generals were all secretive, obviously seeing that he had never mentioned it, so he didn't dare to make it clear.

"You've done a good job, and I'll consider it before I make a decision. But until then, you can't mention it to anyone else. ”

"The last will obey." (To be continued.) )