Chapter 62: Teaching
Angry, Zhu Youxiao now has no military power under his control, and can only endure anger and continue to support the military nobles in Liaodong. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
It can be said that Zhu Youxiao is now equivalent to buying peace with silver, if he stops supplying money and food to the military nobles of Liaodong, these self-respecting Guanning iron cavalry can definitely do things to seek glory against the lord, and after all, they are still the main force defending Liaodong, and Zhu Youxiao cannot transfer other troops to replace them.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the middle of the first month, and the training of the officers and cadets has been carried out halfway, and the basic queue training and physical training have basically ended; according to Zhu Youxiao's plan, the next month will train the officers and cadets in basic military theoretical knowledge.
In the future, the commanders of the Ming Dynasty should not only have the qualities of outstanding generals in the era of cold weapons, such as taking the lead and daring to fight, but should also have basic military theories that are more advanced than this era, such as mastering infantry and artillery coordination and commanding mixed arms.
It's a pity that the current Ming Dynasty can't find a qualified modern military strategist to talk to them about how to command firearms combat in the future, so they can only let Zhu Youxiao, a military enthusiast who is a half-way monk, explain it to them.
According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, he wanted to sell his current concept of building the Ming army and some of the classic tactics he was familiar with to these officers and students, and as for whether they understood it or not, he did not dare to guarantee it, but he believed that with their tempering on the battlefield and the changes in the current situation in the future, they would be able to understand it sooner or later.
In later generations, many outstanding military strategists who were famous at home and abroad were still only born with mud legs, and the 30 officers he has trained now can still be literate, which can be regarded as a family history, and they also know the basic traditional military knowledge, even better than himself, so Zhu Youxiao did not feel that he was doing useless work.
"Jiannu's strength, strong lies in the cavalry, strong in his mobility and overwhelming formation, but in my Ming is not invincible, as early as my Taizu years there is the use of fire guns three-stage shooting to resist the cavalry method, and now although Jiannu is better at riding and shooting, but if I first bombard it with artillery, disrupt its formation, and then use cavalry to annihilate its main force, and finally fire guns intensively to sweep away the remaining enemy, even if Jiannu adds another 100,000, what is there to fear."
Zhu Youxiao stood on the stage, holding a stick in his hand, pointing to the schematic diagram on rice paper, and seriously explained his three-stage attack plan to the officers and students in the audience.
It is not only taught by His Majesty himself, but the officers in the audience also listened very carefully, Chang Yanling, who has always been taciturn, also took the initiative to raise his hand to ask, like this kind of self-doing, His Majesty stands, and raises his hand to signal if he has a question, which is similar to the listening mode of private school teaching, they are already accustomed to: "What Your Majesty said, if it is really realized, I am afraid that there will be no cavalry to survive in the future, but my Ming Dynasty's firearms cannot do it, the artillery is cumbersome and the bombardment effect is not obvious, in addition, the rate of fire of the gun is not as fast as the Jiannu archery, and the distance is also limited, It is difficult to form a dense firepower attack, and my uncle once participated in the battle of Salhu, so he suffered such a loss. ”
"Your name is Chang Yanling, right?" Although Chang Yanling was questioning his own ideas, Zhu Youxiao was very pleased that he had been a professor for so long, and finally someone began to take the initiative to communicate with him, and he could also see that this person had already understood his own meaning and thought actively, instead of pretending to understand and not being dogmatic, and directly copying it, which was a basic quality that an excellent military commander should have, so Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be excited.
The other officers and students glanced at Chang Yanling worriedly, and they didn't understand why this usually taciturn guy was so ignorant at this time, and he dared to scare His Majesty? Aren't you afraid of being directly beheaded by Your Majesty, or expelled directly from the Praetorian Guard?
Chang Yanling replied indifferently: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”
"Very good, what you said is mentioned on the point, the reason why my Ming army can not form an absolute suppression of the Jiannu cavalry now, it can be said that the difficulty is in these three places, one is that the mobility of the artillery is not strong, although there are carriage-pulled artillery, but the power is insufficient, the second is due to the technical blockade of Europa and other countries, my Ming can not fully master the gun gauge and gun moment and other related technologies, resulting in the accuracy of our artillery is not high, this is the most critical place, in addition, the third is the lack of fire rate and range of the gun, And the fourth point is that it is still mainly solid bullets, and it is difficult to kill in a large area. ”
Zhu Youxiao said and said: "Fortunately, now the third problem, Bi Shilang and others of the Royal Academy of Engineering have developed a flintlock pistol with better performance and more suitable for intensive shooting, and the fourth problem has also been found by Xu Shilang of the Royal Academy of Sciences from ancient books, the most critical problem is the third problem, I have ordered the East Factory to guard Tang Ruowang and other Westerners, since they are unwilling to give us the technology, then we will force them to give, otherwise, they will not want to preach in my Ming Dynasty, and even their lives are difficult to protect!"
Of course, I also encourage the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty to figure out the mysteries themselves, but these are not your concerns, what you have to do is to be able to predict the future direction of war, and master the most advanced tactics in the world. ”
Emperor Zhu's earnest teachings made the officers and students present listen to a little vaguely, and these expressions that are almost modern vernacular are as boring and profound for them as we listen to foreign professors talk about theoretical knowledge, but as long as you listen carefully, you will always have some gains, and you can also have a point of view if you learn well.
In addition to His Majesty the Emperor, a half-military theorist, peddling his military theories on forums and books in front of these officers and students, Zhu Youxiao also specially asked Lu Xiangsheng, a knowledgeable two-rank jinshi, to teach these officers the customs and customs of various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and also asked the scholars of the Hanlin Academy to give them classic examples of the past dynasties, and even Xu Xianchun, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, came to tell these officers and students how to torture to extract confessions and extract information from others, and the officials of Qin Tianjian also came to teach these officers and students how to look at the changes in the weather.
Anyway, Zhu Youxiao's purpose is only one, since he is a general of Zhu Youxiao's lineage, he can neither be an ignorant and reckless man nor a talent who can dance and write, and he must be all-round enough in terms of cultural literacy and physical quality, and therefore, in the last ten days of just one month, these officers and students are almost every day of the course.
From the early stage of queue training and physical training to the later stage of theoretical training, as well as the ideological education that must be learned every night, Zhu Youxiao has taken great pains to cultivate the officers and students, and the progress of these officers and students is naturally not small, and the sense of identity with him as the emperor is also much higher than before, at least now, His Majesty the Emperor is not just a vague object of allegiance, but an admirer and follower who is almost a teacher and a friend, and has the charisma of the leader.