To Chen Zeyu's surprise, the top three students in this competition were all Luzon students from Nanyang, and even the first place in the single subject including shooting, assassination, artillery, and communication was also won by these Nanyang students.

It wasn't until he recognized a few familiar faces of the high-level sons and nephews of the Huameng in the early years among these students that Chen Zeyu understood. After a long time, it turned out that the people who entered this Shijiazhuang Military Academy actually included a large number of graduates of the Sizhejiang Military Academy.

Compared with other cadets who have only been enrolled in military schools for less than a year, these officer seedlings that have benefited from the SAYS (SeresArmyYouthSchool) program are indeed a bit too powerful. SAYS, or Seris Infant Military School, is a program that is guided by the Spartacist early military training and is set up for the purpose of training high-quality officers at the rank of general and colonel in the army of the Republic from an early age.

In terms of curriculum, SAYS completely refers to the early Prussian military cadet school (HauptKadetten Anstalt), which contains a large number of combat literacy and military enlightenment cultivation courses, and the school system is basically equivalent to the domestic compulsory education stage, and students graduate at the same time as they have the graduation qualification of junior high school, and the whole plan can be called perfect. However, at present, there is only one full-boarding military educational institution in the whole Republic of China that accepts children between the ages of 8 and 14 in Sizhe, Luzon Province, and in addition to this, only Beijing has a Beiyuan Junior Military Academy under construction.

In fact, most of the students who have just entered the Shijiazhuang Military Academy are very envious of these special students who are fortunate enough to be admitted to SAYS - compared to the various military trainings that they have to go through every day to barely support and can hardly complete, these Nanyang students are as relaxed and comfortable as a leisurely walk every time. After 8 years of SAYS education, these people have already cultivated their personal military style to their bones, and the cultural level of these classmates is also very high, so that it can be clearly reflected in each other's academic gaps.

Chen Zeyu shook his head, in his opinion, the biggest difference between the two is the difference in the education level of the two sides.

Compared with the Western-style compulsory education that has been widely practiced in Nanyang for more than ten years, the progress of education in other parts of Seris, especially in the north, is inevitably lagging behind. Even from the time the first army of the Republic entered Beijing, the first school on the mainland to carry out compulsory education had only been established for three years and four months. Strictly speaking, at this time, most of the students who had entered the newly established middle and higher education institutions in China did not have, or at least some of them, did not have the qualifications to study, except for some students from the church schools in Nanyang and the original concessions. In order to cope with this situation, some institutions have even set up separate preparatory schools on campus.

Under these circumstances, it is no longer difficult to understand the difficulty of the government of the republic in building military academies in the north. Judging from the fact that most of the students are recruited from the mainland's school-age youth, the Shijiazhuang Army Military Academy in front of it is naturally unable to recruit enough middle school graduates. Not only will it not be able to recruit students this year, but in the predictable five to eight years, this military academy will still have to recruit students with different levels of education in different places.

In order to narrow the gap between mainland and Nanyang students, Duan Qirui, who graduated from the Army Military Academy in Berlin, actually set up a night training school within the military academy in a very innovative way, which is actually the preparatory education system of ordinary colleges and universities in China.

It's just that what Duan Qirui, the principal, didn't expect was that while he did this, while improving the quality of other students, he also further inspired the original SAYS students, with the "arrogance" of these young quasi-officers who had undergone 8 years of militarism, how could they watch themselves being slowly narrowed by ordinary students.

After discovering the existence of the "night school", these Nanyang cadets began to train themselves more diligently, and continued to study the military courses of various subjects.

In order to understand the original version of The Theory of War, they began to study German on their own...... In order to study the firing curve of artillery, they began to study trigonometric functions in the upper grades ahead of time...... In order to summarize the distribution of large-caliber ballistics, they began to study probability...... In order to improve their physical fitness, they began to exercise their will and body in an almost masochistic way......

Every day at dawn, they would get up an hour early to exercise, and whether it was windy or rainy, they would run around the school while singing military songs......

When it rains, they take off their shirts and let it rain, saying it's a rain bath. When the sun was blazing, they took off their shirts and let the sun shine naked, saying that it was sunbathing. When the spring breeze blew, they went out for a walk and sang military songs all the way, saying that it was a wind bath. On days when the frost had fallen, they slept in the open air. In the cold winter, these Nanyang students would draw water from the well and take cold baths naked. Even in January, they swim in the cold waters......

Even in the opinion of Duan Qirui, the well-informed principal of the military academy, the practices of these SAYS cadets made him mutter.

“…… I really don't know what these young people think, they are all like Achilles, the Greek god of war, who is masochistic all day long......"

"They did it right! If you want to civilize its spirit, you must first barbarize its body! Listening to Duan Qirui's complaining introduction next to his ear, Chen Zeyu, who was originally straight-faced, smiled instead.

Duan Qirui was speechless.

To do great things, you must first have a good physique, Chen Zeyu himself attaches great importance to physical exercise, he doesn't think that Nanyang students have done anything wrong, besides, what they do has been done by people as early as centuries BC.

What other nationalities can do, the Chinese can do too!

……

After all the military competitions of the various scientists, Chen Zeyu, who was full of interest, personally walked to the shooting range and played with two 88-style rifles in the past.

After loading, he skillfully pulled the bolt of the gun, Chen Zeyu casually put on a standing posture and fired!

"Bang! ――”

Perhaps it was not suitable for the early 7.92mm caliber, and the initial two shots were slightly off, and only two 6-ring scores were played.

Just when many onlookers in the academy felt regretful, Chen Zeyu, who had been adjusted, had already relied on his amazing physical adjustment ability and military quality to raise the rifle in his hand again!

"Bang! - "Bang! ――”

"Bang! - "Bang! ――”

"Bang! - "Bang! ――”

"Bang! - "Bang! ――”

Eight gunshots rang out in a row within thirty seconds, and Chen Zeyu put down his rifle again with a calm expression......

At the same time as the instructor next to him took over the Type 88 rifle, the results on the ring target had already been reported.

"All hits! A total of 92 rings! When the voice came out, the cadets in the military academy were in an uproar.

In addition to the six rings of the first two shots, the eight shots of the last eight shots in a fast standing position actually hit all ten rings!

You must know that Chen Zeyu's shooting distance is the farthest 150 meters, and the best result of the previous students, Xu Shuzheng, who won the first place in the 150-meter lying shooting event, just scored the same score, and looking at Chen Zeyu's posture when he shot just now, the first two shots were just a hasty test shot.

At this time, including the instructors and students in the school, everyone looked at Chen Zeyu with different eyes again.

Chen Zeyu did not know that he had inadvertently won the trust of the teachers and students of the entire military academy, and after taking photos with the instructors and cadets of various subjects of the military academy one by one, he visited the teaching facilities and venues of other schools with the principal Duan Qirui.

In terms of curriculum setting, in addition to the aviation majors that have become independent, the new Shijiazhuang Military Academy is mainly divided into five subjects: infantry, artillery, engineering, cavalry, and baggage. Among them, except for a small number of students who specialize in studying engineering, cavalry, and baggage, most of the rest are students of infantry and artillery, and in addition, at Chen Zeyu's request, the cadets of the cavalry department also have to learn a large number of courses in artillery and engineering in the school.

After Chen Zeyu unified the north and the south, considering that there is still a considerable period of time before the popularization of mechanization in all countries in the world, the troops have expanded the proportion of cavalry and baggage troops in the past, and set up a professional engineering unit in each brigade-level unit. Surveying and mapping, etc. After such a reorganization, the final specific establishment of the army was still 7,000 men in eight battalions of the first brigade, including six infantry battalions, one battalion each of the remaining artillery and baggage troops, and an independent reinforced engineer company.

In addition to these standard infantry services, the Army later established six new brigades of cavalry within its establishment, numbered 511 to 516 Separate Brigades.

Each cavalry brigade has six battalions of 4,800 men, and in addition to combat units and a small number of communications engineers, these cavalry brigades will no longer contain any professional baggage troops, and only one battalion will be used to arrange the collection of horses and supplies during the battle. In addition, each cavalryman's combat supplies were carried by himself in peacetime, and he was equipped with one man and three horses, of which one Ili horse was used for wartime riding, and two Mongolian horses were used for peacetime riding and carrying supplies, and the brigade was equipped with a total of 14,400 horses. The entire cavalry unit, except for the regular logistical supply arranged by the rear of the military district or group army, generally no longer relies on a separate baggage system, so the entire service has the ability to fight independently for a long time.

In terms of equipment, the cavalry units of the Republic were mainly composed of carbines and sabers.

Carbine, derived from a short rifle used by the Spanish cavalry in the 15th century, in Spanish the cavalry is called Carabinas, and therefore, the people at that time later became the short rifle for the cavalry Carabinas rifle, Carbine, transliterated to become the carbine in Chinese, also known as carbines, short rifles.

As the name suggests, a short rifle is a weapon with a barrel that is slightly shorter than an ordinary rifle, the main component of the barrel. In general, the barrel of a carbine is between a pistol and a rifle, and according to the definition of British ordnance dealers, it refers to a rifle with a barrel of no more than 55.88 cm, except that the carbine is exactly the same as a regular rifle.

Because the body of the gun was deliberately "sawed off", it was inevitable that the muzzle velocity of the carbine bullet was affected somewhat, and the corresponding power and range were slightly lower than that of ordinary standard rifles. Of course, there were disadvantages and advantages to everything, because the truncated barrel made the carbine much lighter, making it a horse-combat weapon suitable for cavalry and more powerful than a revolver.

The Type 96 carbine in service in service in the Republic is such a cavalry weapon that is widely popular among domestic soldiers.

Type 96 carbine, manufacturer: Taiyuan Avalanche Arsenal, weapon number: CA-1896 type portable rifle (5.8mm caliber), the whole is improved from the infantry standard weapon BEN-1890 rifle, the length of the gun body is shortened from 1.25 meters of the Type 90 rifle to 0.92 meters, of which the barrel length is 460 mm. With a total weight of 2.4 kg, a caliber of 5.8mm, an effective firing range of 300 meters, and a magazine capacity of 20 rounds, the Type 96 carbine is also a rotating bolt-pull manual rifle with magazine feeding.

Thanks to the Avalanche's built-in double-row magazine feeding design, soldiers can not only reload this Type 96 carbine with a single round (that is, open the bolt and load a single bullet into the magazine) but also use the standard 20-round original magazine for convenient and fast shooting.

Each of these magazines has a loading capacity of 20 rounds of 5.8mm rounds, and the magazines are directly inserted into the receiver guide slot when loading, and the bullets are pressed into the magazine. In order to facilitate the soldier's operation, the Type 96 trigger safety will be automatically opened at the same time that the last round of each cartridge is pressed into the magazine, so as to remind the soldier to replace the empty magazine. Because it is the use of a double-row magazine feed design, so that even if the soldier runs out of the magazine below, he can also quickly reload the bullet from the bolt from above, in order to deal with the unexpected emergency situation, because of its flexibility, the whole carbine is generally praised by the soldiers of the army, the result is not only the cavalry troops, including a large number of domestic engineering and artillery units have also taken the initiative to apply for the replacement of this Type 96 carbine.