In the past year or so, Wang Luyun has once again proved that he is an excellent cavalry general, but it has also proved that he is not a qualified commander, in his eyes there is only the enemy, only constant pursuit and fighting, and even does not care whether the rear is stable or not.

"Lao Lu, you have worked hard for more than a year, take this opportunity to rest for a while!" Lin Zhe took two steps closer, but said in a comforting tone.

Although Wang Lu Yun did not perform well in Mongolia, but he could not erase his achievements in the past so many years, when in northern Zhejiang, Wang Lu Yun led dozens of personal guard cavalry to face dozens of times the Taiping cavalry three in and three out, and finally was seriously injured Lin Zhe still remembers in his heart, if there was no his bravery, then maybe Lin Zhe would have died under the hooves of the Taiping army.

Moreover, although Wang Luyun is not a qualified commander, no one can deny that he is an excellent cavalry general!

Last year, I was supposed to bring him up for reuse, but now it seems that I still think badly and put him in the wrong place.

Wang Luyun's mood at this time is also extremely complicated, when he went north from Nanjing to Mongolia last year, how high-spirited, he thought that Mongolia is the best battlefield for cavalry, in Mongolia he can give full play to his greatest value, but did not expect that Mongolia is the most suitable for cavalry combat, but the vast and sparsely populated Mongolia, which often walks hundreds of kilometers without seeing a single figure, has become the biggest trouble for the sparsely populated Chinese army.

In order to suppress the rebellious Mongol princes, the imperial military successively invested the First Cavalry Brigade and four independent cavalry regiments, and there were as many as 6,000 cavalry units directly under the Royal Army alone. In addition, the Fifth Mixed Brigade was formed with the 2nd Infantry Regiment as the backbone of the 1st Division.

The number of field troops involved in the battle reached 10,000, in addition to the support of many cavalry provided by the local Mongol princely tribes who were loyal to the empire. There were a total of eight garrison cavalry battalions belonging to the Garrison Command of the Province of Usu.

The cavalry participating in the war can be regarded as as much as eighty percent of the cavalry under the command of the Chinese army, and you must know that the empire currently has a total of more than 10,000 cavalry. Mongolia Province and Wutai Province occupy more than 8,000 horses.

However, with so many cavalry dispatches, they currently only control the Mongol Province and parts of Utai Province.

The Mongolian province of these places became the Inner Mongolia region in later generations. And Wutai Province is the Mongolian region of later generations, of course, this year everyone is not called Outer Mongolia or Mongolia, but called Uriya Sutai, but this name is a bit long, and the barbarian taste is quite strong, in order to reflect the Greater China attribute of the place, so the name is also in line with the traditional Chinese place name of the title, so when the province of Outer Mongolia was established, the two words before and after were directly intercepted. It is called 'Wutai'.

The area of Wutai Province is too vast, often there are no people within a hundred miles, and those rebellious princes also know that they are invincible, and often use itinerant tactics, anyway, they are nomads, today here, tomorrow they will run to other places, it is quite difficult to successfully capture them and fight a decisive battle.

Many difficulties caused Wang Lüyun to return in the direction of Mongolia without success, and was finally dismissed by an edict and returned to Beijing.

After leaving the palace. Wang Luyun had a closed look on his face, and when he passed by the staff headquarters, he saw the young officers coming in and out, and he had to sigh that he was really old!

That's fine. In the future, let's train cavalry for Your Majesty, and leave the matter of this war to these juniors!

After Lin Zhe dismissed Wang Luyun, he did not completely put him into the cold palace. Instead, he was given another position, that of Cavalry Director. This cavalry commander is in the sequence of the Chinese army, and he is not talking about any cavalry commander or the like. Rather, like the director of artillery, he was mainly responsible for the development of cavalry.

To be precise, it should be the 'Cavalry Development Director' is more suitable, saying that it has great power, but in fact it can't manage anything, you say that it has little power, but everything related to the cavalry can be intervened, and it depends on who is the director.

However, although Wang Luyun retained the position of cavalry director, with Wang Luyun's current prestige within the military greatly reduced, it is still difficult for Wang Luyun to be dissatisfied with Wang Luyun by many rising stars, especially those young generals of the cavalry itself, so that Wang Luyun can sit firmly in this position, and maybe within a few years, he will have to be completely driven out of the ranks of the core and top of the military by those juniors.

Lin Zhe can predict these follow-ups, but this kind of change is difficult for him to change.

Wang Luyun has merit, but he can't keep up with the pace of development of the Chinese army now, he has been abandoned by the times, so it is normal to be squeezed down by those younger cavalry generals, after all, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and no one can always be in a high position.

In fact, in the recent period, not only Wang Luyun has withdrawn from the front line, but in fact, a large number of officers in the era of Yu Shengjun have also gradually been affected by the younger generations.

In particular, the Chinese army began to be equipped with rear-loading rifles in 1858, and now it has adopted rear-loading rifles as standard equipment, and the Mini rifle will be completely eliminated in the next two or three years.

And some people who can keep up with the trend of military development and constantly enrich themselves cannot be promoted, but they can continue to maintain them, and there are too many of these people, basically these are the middle and senior generals who are still active at present.

For example, Shi Langyi, he didn't know how to use skirmishers before the start of the Western Expedition, but when his Fourth Army reached Yunnan, he was already proficient in using skirmisher tactics and creating tactical advantages for his troops.

Some officers and generals who are not able to keep up with the times and master the breech-loading rifle and skirmisher tactics will be quickly eliminated, and they may continue to stay in office for a short time, or be transferred to some units that are not equipped with breech-loading rifles and still use line line tactics, but if they still can't use the skirmish tactics of breech-loading rifles after two or three years, then there is only one fate waiting for them: retirement!

In their place were graduates who systematically learned professional military skills such as skirmish tactics and infantry artillery coordination from the beginning of military schools.

At present, the scale of the Royal Army Military Academy is quite large, and the academic system is gradually improving. The graduates who have been systematically cultivated are far more comprehensive than the graduates of Yu Shengjun's camp academy in those years, and the students of the crash course are of course not included in the scope of discussion.

When these systematically cultivated graduates gradually grow up. It won't even take long, at most three years, for them to become the middle and lower-level backbone officers of the Chinese army. Ten years later, they will be able to become the de facto leaders of this army once and for all.

The replacement of the old and the new of the officers and generals is actually the same as the replacement of equipment, the old things can no longer be used, they must be replaced with new ones, if the stubbornness remains unchanged and the so-called tradition is maintained, then when the enemy fights, it is you who will die.

Now in 1860, not only the military, but almost the entire empire is full of innovations, and people have begun to abandon the horse coats and cheongsams that have been worn for 200 years, and replace them with Chinese clothes, suits, and Hanfu.

Glass vitrines began to appear on the street pavements. There are some new things that have not been seen in the past, soap, matches, woven fabrics and other daily industrial products began to be based on large cities, and then radiated to small counties and even rural areas.

There are many landless areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially those who cannot obtain inheritance, and the second sons, third sons, etc., began to pour into Shanghai and other cities to seek a living, and the steam passenger ships on the Yangtze River waterway almost did not stop every day, emitting white smoke to and from Shanghai, Nanjing, and Jiujiang.

In the past, those private schools, county schools, and government schools became elementary and middle schools. The sound of reading has also changed from a child to a variety of formulas of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

When the students walked up to the Qinglou painting boat on the Qinhuai River, they shook their heads and shook their heads not to chant poems, but to argue about mathematical problems or other natural science subjects.

All this was an absolutely invisible sight a few years ago, but now it has appeared on the land of China. In particular, the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where the empire has deep roots, has taken on a new look and entered these places. Maybe the places are still these places, and the people are still those people. Even the buildings haven't changed, but if you look closely, you'll see a huge difference from the past.

"All these years. What a change in Shanghai! On the pier of the Huangpu River, a young man of about 25 years old in a suit and top hat looked at Shanghai in front of him, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"I've been going to the Taixi countries for three years, and it's not surprising that there is such a change in Shanghai!" A middle-aged man in Chinese costume next to him, who was about forty years old, did sigh.

These two people are none other than the first batch of people sent by the Chinese Empire to study in Britain and host diplomatic affairs many years ago, when the Empire sent several diplomats to Britain to set up diplomatic offices, accompanied by more than 20 foreign students.

Considering that the Chinese Empire did not have diplomatic missions in France, Germany and other countries, the embassy in Britain was actually still an embassy in Europe, and they managed all the foreign affairs of European countries.

This is also the first time that Han Qingsheng has returned to China after more than three years abroad, and in the past, he could only contact China through ocean telegrams.

The young man standing next to Han Qingsheng was one of the international students of the year, named Su Zhicai, a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, who was 26 years old this year.

Although his name is very ordinary and cheesy, but being selected from thousands of candidates that year, becoming one of more than 20 international students is enough to prove his talent, this person taught himself English before studying abroad, and after arriving in the UK, he not only completed his studies a year ahead of schedule and obtained a diploma from the University of Edinburgh, but also taught himself astronomy and mechanical design in addition to his major physics, and because he majored in physics, mathematics is also a necessary skill, and you have to know a little bit about chemistry.

In addition, in addition to completing these complicated studies, well, that is, in his spare time, he also taught himself French, Latin, and spoke French much more fluently than diplomat Han Qingsheng, and then he didn't know that he had squeezed out of that corner and learned a good hand in oil painting.

In the words of later generations, such a person is a scholar among scholars!

In fact, the first batch of international students who competed for the first batch of students who only had more than 20 study places were able to compete with countless people, all of whom were the most elite talents in the contemporary empire, and even many people could not be described as geniuses, no matter how bad they were.

You must know that the empire has not yet popularized new education on a large scale, and many people can only rely on self-study before studying abroad, and these students who can become proficient in English and new subjects by self-study alone can be where can they be inferior?

If it weren't for Su Zhicai's rush to return to China, it would be easy to get a doctorate in another two or three years!

However, on the one hand, Su Zhicai wanted to return to China sooner and serve for the reform of the motherland in his heart, and on the other hand, some time ago, his hometown sent a telegram saying that his mother was seriously ill.

Moreover, his father has long since passed away, leaving only an old mother with two younger brothers and a younger sister, if he does not return to China, what will happen to the three younger siblings in the future?

Considering that I have learned almost everything I can learn from the University of Edinburgh, and the academics are endless, I can't stay in the UK to do research all the time, and China is now waiting for me to pass on what I have learned to domestic students, even if it is a few years.

Under many factors, he decided to return to China ahead of schedule, and it happened that Han Qingsheng also returned to China to report on his work, so the two of them took a sea boat all the way, and only arrived at the Huangpu River Wharf in Shanghai after a few months of turbulence on the sea and set foot on the land of the motherland. (To be continued.) )