Tianjin Wubei School, that is, Beiyang Wubei School, also known as the old Wubei. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Wubei School is on the east bank of the Haihe River, north of Dazhigu, south of Tangjiakouzi, and on the other side of the Haihe River is the Haidao in the British Concession and the Zizhulin Wharf in the French Concession. It is only five miles away from the old Longtou Railway Station in the north, and it is only eight miles away from the East Bureau of the Beiyang Machinery Bureau and the Beiyang Sailor School, and it is not very far from the East Street. From the location of the Aurora Dyeing Factory, the straight-line distance to the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy is only a few miles, and the road is only more than six miles.

As soon as Qin Chuan took the neat team to the main road, he saw groups of people from inside and outside the city rushing to the direction of the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy. When these young people in Yantuan saw that someone was paying attention to them, they became more and more energetic when they walked, not only did their waists straighten, but their steps were much lighter.

The closer they got to the Martial Arts Academy, the more people on the road, and the larger the crowd of onlookers who followed them. When Qin Chuan and his entourage arrived at the Martial Arts Academy, there were already seven or eight hundred people around them.

Around the martial arts academy, there were more onlookers who came early, there were thousands of people, bustling standing on a high place, and some young people even climbed to the trees, all waiting to watch the school review, Qin Chuan As soon as they arrived, the salt ball dressed in a majestic and novel manner, especially Qin Chuan, immediately attracted the attention of these people, especially those young people, who cast their hot eyes from afar.

The Beiyang Martial Arts Academy covers a large area, with an area of 1,000 acres, and is a large earthen city with a square outer wall, and there are passages and parapets on the city wall. There are also two forts built in the north and south corners of the Linhai River, and the underground inside the platform is an ammunition depot for storing ammunition. Trenches were dug on the outside of the city wall to divert water to form a moat, and willows were planted all over the moat.

Although this earthen city is a school, because it is a military academy, it is essentially a military camp, so only one camp gate is opened in the west and north of the city, and there are drawbridges.

According to Chu Yunfei and Xu Tong's narration, the central part of Tucheng is a school teaching building, with 500 tiled houses. There is a martial arts hall on the north side, an ammunition armory, a hydrogen balloon room and a stable on the east side, and a staff residence on the south side. In the southeast corner, there is a large pool dug by hand, which leads the water of the Haihe River to flow in, which is a resting place for students. To the west of the pond there is a long-standing temple of the Five Sages, and there are monks in it. To the west of the school is a large flat and wide meadow, which is a large playground for ordinary exercises.

The main entrance of the school is westward, with six gates, and the door is painted with a colorful statue of "Shen Tu Yu Lei", just like the old-style yamen. There are six entrances in the hall, which are divided into six parts. The left side of the gate is the guard room, and the right is the command room, the number room, and the utility store; the second entrance is the office area and lobby; Sanjin is a lecture hall, a Sino-German teaching room, and an instrument room; The fourth entrance is the dining room, the large and small kitchen, the shaving room, and the bathroom; The fifth entrance is a student dormitory and a self-study room; The sixth entrance is the rifle temporary storage room and the rest room.

On the east side of the outside of Tucheng is the shooting range, where live ammunition is fired for students.

The school has Yin Chang as the general office and Shi Youxiang as the superintendent. Promote the Zhou Chuanjing, and the chief teacher urges the exposure. There are nine teachers, namely Ting Kui, Sun Xiaocha, Wu Xiaoshan, Liu Yushan, Jin Dating, a military doctor and teacher, Wang Guangming who manages ammunition and teaches and learns, Li Yutian who teaches drawing, and Dehai and Jing Fang, who graduated from the Beijing Normal Tongwen Museum and teach German, teach German and translate. There are Hannagan, Smidt, Ed, Chicquafen, Frank and others.

The Wubei Academy has two kitchens, large and small, the big kitchen manager is called Wang Shun, with 30 men, who are responsible for the students' food; Su Licheng, the manager of the small kitchen, has 10 cooks under him, who is responsible for the meals of the school staff; In addition, there are 10 trumpeters in charge of Liu Liangcai, the commander and captain of the guard, 50 guards, and 10 heralds.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Wubei School, there were four departments of infantry, artillery, horse, and engineering, and in 1890, the railway department was added. The curriculum is divided into two subjects, one and the other, and the subjects teach Chinese classics and history, astronomy, geography, gezhi, surveying and mapping, arithmetic, chemistry, tactics, weapons, etc. In layman's terms, the subjects teach Chinese language, astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, algebra, Chinese and foreign history, political science, etc.; The Department of Mathematics teaches horses, infantry, and artillery teams to drill arrays, gun skills, and barracks engineering. Specifically, it is basic tactics, applied tactics, tactics on maps, strategy, the Art of War, the art of war, the art of construction, ballistics, field service, infantry drills, balloons, etc.

The school adopts the German teaching method and pays attention to practical drills and assessments. Every three to five days, students have to go to the shooting range to practice the tactics of building fortifications, manipulating artillery techniques, and attacking and defending the infantry, horse, artillery, and engineering teams, so as to test the military knowledge they have learned.

The examination system of the Beiyang Armed Forces Academy is extremely strict, and every monthly and quarterly examination, Li Hongzhang either sends a senior member of the Daoist to invigilate the examination, or personally comes to inspect and select. Those who pass the graduation will be sent back to the camp, and the generals of each department will be appointed, and those who fail to pass will stay in the hall to make up for school.

The Beiyang Armed Forces Academy enrolls more than 500 students in each phase, and all students are organized into 4 teams, each team has 126 people, a total of five subjects: infantry, horse, artillery, engineering, and Zi, with 100 people in each subject, and another 18 people learn hydrogen balloons and repair.

Each brigade is divided into three platoons, and each large platoon is divided into three small platoons. There are 42 people in the large platoon and 14 people in the small platoon. Each brigade has a captain and deputy captain, each large platoon has a large platoon leader, and a small platoon has a small platoon leader. There is one external captain, and Shi Youxiang, the superintendent of the school, is concurrently serving.

The weapons in the school include six German Krupp Liusheng mountain guns, 500 Mauser single-shot rifles, 50 six-shot revolvers, 100 sabers, and 50 command knives.

The funds of the Beiyang Military Academy are very sufficient, with a perennial fund of 150,000 taels, except for the cost of military uniforms.

Because the military uniforms of the students of the Beiyang Military Academy are different from all the current ****** the army, they are not wearing the standard Qing army military uniform Wuyun gown with loose cuffs and placket, the military uniforms of the students are all German, wearing yellow khaki military uniforms, gold-plated copper cockades, copper buttons and copper belt buckles, yellow cowhide bullet boxes, yellow cowhide backpacks, and black feather satin high-waisted military boots. The military hat is different from the German-style leather helmet with spikes, but the straw hat that resembles the top hat of later generations. The winter clothes are black tweed pants and a hat.

Because the military uniforms were very different from those of the regular army of the Qing Dynasty, and the cost was also very high, the military uniform fee of the Wubei Academy was listed separately, and it was directly allocated by Li Hongzhang's governor and minister of Beiyang trade and commerce every year.

Due to the sufficiency of funds, the salary of the officials serving in the Wubei Academy is also very high, 120 taels per month for the general office, 100 taels for the general office, 80 taels for the superintendent, 80 taels for promotion, 80 taels for the total teaching and training, 60 to 40 taels for the teaching and training, 300 to 350 taels for foreign teaching and learning, 30 to 40 taels per month for teaching assistants, 25 to 30 taels per month for others, and 2 to 3 taels per month for students. From the general office to the school, the salary of the students is half higher than that of the Huai Army, and the allowance of the students is the same as that of the sentry officers in the Huai Army.

When Qin Chuan rushed to the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy with the salt group, the wide and heavy gate of the Tucheng of the Martial Arts Academy had already been opened, and there were two rows of academy soldiers wearing yellow khaki uniforms and holding guns standing in front of the door.

At the gate of the academy, a tall and thin young man wearing a neat military uniform and a pistol on his belt saw that Qin Chuan was leading the salt group to arrive, and he hurriedly trotted to Qin Chuan.

Seeing someone coming, Qin Chuan also jumped off the horse, turned around and threw the reins to Chu Yunfei.

After the tall and thin young man who ran over stood still in front of Qin Chuan, his feet were together, his back heels touched together forcefully, his right hand was bent and raised to the side of his head, he gave Qin Chuan a standard German-style military salute, and said loudly: "Humble Feng Guozhang, I am ordered to greet Lord Qin here." The teams waiting for the review have already assembled at the eastern shooting range, and invite Lord Qin to go to the shooting range. ”

Although Qin Chuan is not very interested in the word adult, he is also helpless to call him like this outside. Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with calling him an adult, the alternate officer is also an official, in addition to the fact that he has no real position now, and no one will give him any money, he is a real and true Qing Dynasty four-grade official.

Therefore, this Feng Guozhang is not disgusted by calling him Qin Chuan like this. What's more, he is no longer alone, he doesn't care about his face, he still has this group of brothers behind him now, and the face he should have is a must.

Qin Chuan nodded and raised his legs and walked towards the shooting range to the east, and Feng Guozhang also followed closely behind Qin Chuan, following Qin Chuan without landing a single step.

Although he walked towards the shooting range without stopping, Qin Chuan always felt that something was wrong, and after walking a few steps, Qin Chuan suddenly stood down, suddenly turned around and looked at Feng Guozhang with his round eyes fixed and stunned.

Qin Chuan stopped very suddenly, and almost collided with Feng Guozhang, who was following closely behind。。。。。。