The scout also had a hint of panic when he spoke, and when they went out for routine reconnaissance, suddenly there was a large number of Taiping cavalry coming here three miles away.

As soon as they saw this, they galloped back, not to run for their lives, but to spread the news back to their own troops, especially to the fourth battalion.

Immediately, Fang Hanlin's face showed a cautious look, and he immediately said: "Immediately report the situation of the enemy cavalry to the regiment leader!" ”

Then he ordered several of his own officers: "All of them, urgently line up to meet the enemy cavalry!" ”

Now, it is no longer important to attack Zhuangzi in front, it is important to quickly line up to meet the impact of the enemy cavalry, otherwise, when the formation is incomplete, the enemy cavalry will surprise the end, and the end will be very bad.

As Fang Hanlin's order came, the soldiers of the 4th Infantry Battalion, who were originally attacking Zhuangzi, began to retreat under the orders of officers at all levels, and then hurriedly lined up in the open space outside the village.

When the Fourth Infantry Battalion was urgently lined up, Fang Hanlin also heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the northeast direction, it was enemy cavalry, and there were definitely a lot of them.

Sure enough, when the Fourth Infantry Battalion had just withdrawn from Zhuangzi and finished lining up, a large cloud of smoke and dust appeared in the distance, Fang Hanlin raised his binoculars and looked, only to see a large number of cavalry of the Taiping Army trotting over.

"All ready for the cavalry onslaught!" Fang Hanlin had already pulled out his command knife and led the officers to step forward.

In such a situation of facing the onslaught of a large force of enemy cavalry, it is more important to maintain the morale of the troops than anything else, and this is the time when the officers need to lead by example.

In modern line warfare, why can officers often be seen riding horses and fighting with their troops in the face of bullets and bullets, it seems to be an obvious target from a distance.

This is not to say that these officers are not afraid of death, nor are they lining up to shoot what kind of gentleman's war, not to beat officers.

Most of the reasons for this are threefold for today's officers.

First of all, the first point is that once the war army of the Black Powder Age fires, it will produce a lot of smoke, which makes it difficult for the soldiers to see the enemy in the distance. At this time, it is necessary for officers to sit on horses and keep an observer, and give orders to the troops to fight at any time.

The second point is to encourage morale, the war in the era of line can be said to be very cruel, and the troops often need to carry the enemy's shells and bullets step by step. This is an extremely test of the discipline and morale of a unit, and the appearance of officers has a tremendous encouraging effect on the morale of the troops.

The third point is that the soldiers are very dependent on the officers, and these soldiers, who have been trained to the point of being reduced to only the combat instinct, are often able to bear a high percentage of casualties and continue to fight when they are ordered by the officers, but once the soldiers lose sight of their officers. If you can't receive orders from the officers, they will quickly collapse, which means that officers at all levels must always be with their troops and personally lead the soldiers in battle.

As for whether you will suffer the enemy's key blow in person, you don't have to care too much, the accuracy of the rifle in this era is really not very good, even if the Mini rifle wants to snipe the enemy's officers at a distance of two or three hundred meters, its hit rate is very low.

For a variety of reasons, when Yu Shengjun was fighting, especially when he was in line to meet the enemy, basically the officers below the battalion level were at the forefront of the battle on horseback. He personally commanded the troops to fight.

Fang Hanlin looked at the Taiping cavalry rushing over in the distance, and there was no fear or even a trace of excitement in his heart, because these Taiping cavalry seemed to be rushing directly towards his fourth infantry battalion, and there seemed to be no sign of turning around five hundred meters away, and their charging formation did not look like the dense charging formation of their own Yu Shengjun cavalry, it was still the traditional loose charging formation of the Taiping Army, and many people were still holding bows and arrows.

They're coming to the rhythm of death!

Today, it is destined to make contributions!

Although he is young, he is only twenty-three years old this year, but his ability to be the battalion commander shows that he has a lot of experience in Yu Shengjun.

Fang Hanlin. The word Longyun, a native of Yuyao, Shaoxing, like other officers in Yu Shengjun, is also a scholar. He was the eldest of the five siblings in the family, and he was extremely intelligent when he was young. However, his family is extremely poor, and the family can't even eat, although the family is frugal, but it is difficult to raise even paper and ink money for daily use. His younger brothers, who were younger, gave up their studies early and returned home to farm for his education.

Although the family has no regrets for him to go to school, as a son of man, how can he bear to see his father full of gray hair when he is only more than 30 years old, working day and night just for his money. As an elder brother, how can I bear that my younger brother, who is still young, give up his studies and use his immature hands to make money to buy paper and ink for himself, how can I bear that my two younger sisters are hungry and full, just to save themselves from the entanglement when they go to take the exam.

In addition, his qualifications are good, but Shaoxing is a mansion with a flourishing literary style, and there are countless outstanding articles, and it is not easy to kill a bloody way out of it to win the fame of the students, when he was twenty years old and fell for the second time, he heard that Yu Shengjun's camp school recruited students, once he was admitted to the army, the salary was extremely rich, and even after being able to be recommended to obtain the official post, he gritted his teeth and gave up the imperial examination and joined the army.

Facts also proved that his original choice was not wrong, he was one of the early students of the Suiying School in 1853, although his performance in recent years was not too good, but along the way with the expansion of Yu Shengjun and slowly promoted, successively served as deputy company commander, company commander, assistant director of the supervision and training office, deputy battalion commander, and commander of the fourth battalion.

Now he is the major battalion commander of Yu Shengjun, and was recommended as the general manager of the Liupin Battalion, with a monthly salary of nearly 100 taels of silver alone.

At the same time, in order to set up the Yu Shengjun Camp Academy, as long as they are the children of the officers' immediate relatives, that is, brothers and nephews, they can be enrolled for free and do not charge tuition. Of course, Lin Zhe's establishment of this junior class is not purely to solve the academic needs of Yu Shengjun's officers, but actually has the idea of cultivating the team from an early age.

Fang Hanlin's younger brother entered the kindergarten class last year, and Fang Hanlin is looking forward to waiting for his younger brother to graduate from the kindergarten class and enter the Suiying Academy for another year after graduation, and his future achievements can surpass his own.

He knew that this kindergarten class not only taught the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, but also taught modern physics, chemistry, and other knowledge, as well as basic military theoretical knowledge.

After they have gone through three periods of liberal arts study and basic military theory study, they will be promoted to the Suiying Academy or the Sailor Academy to continue their studies, and their future prospects are limitless.

The kindergarten class can be regarded as a reserve military school in Yu Shengjun's army, and the camp school is a formal military school.

In 1855, Lin Zhe changed the school system of the Suiying School, from the previous one-month full-time study, half-year on-the-job study to a one-year full-time study system.

In addition to the four main military specialties of the infantry department, the cavalry department, the artillery department, and the baggage department, there are also military and civilian joint courses, such as medicine, gezhi, surveying and mapping, machinery, and translation.

The Sailor Camp School is mainly based on the driving department, the wheel department, and the gun department, and is also attached to the Gezhi department, astronomy department, water department, surveying and mapping department, translation department, etc.

Although there are many foreigners in these two schools, they adopt unified Chinese education, not because Lin Zhe admires Chinese, disdains English or French, etc., but because the students are directly recruited traditional students around the age of twenty, not to mention whether people are willing to learn that bird language, even if they want to learn, it is impossible to learn in a short time to the point where they can listen to foreigners.

And Lin Zhe can't let these students spend a few years learning a foreign language first, and then listen to these foreigners' lectures.

Therefore, the biggest role of these foreigners is not to teach directly, but to serve as a human knowledge base, dictating various professional knowledge to those translators, and then recording and translating them into Chinese, and finally compiling them into Chinese teaching materials.

Occasionally, when I go to class, there is an interpreter to accompany the class, otherwise it is a chicken and a duck, and the students below will not understand anything when the foreign instructor says.

These new cadets, who have studied for a year, will be better at military literacy than the officers who have studied while fighting at the same time.

Moreover, the opening of a number of professional subjects has made the Suiying School and the Sailor Camp School not only a military school, but also assume the role of a certain comprehensive school, which can cultivate talents with modern scientific knowledge.

When he thought that his third brother could go from childhood to study in the Suiying Academy, and finally his achievements could surpass him, Fang Hanlin knew that his choice back then was definitely not wrong.

Now his high salary has completely lifted his family out of poverty, and he has a mansion given by Lin Zhe in the business area where every inch of land is valuable. After taking the family from their hometown to the Shanghai Business Zone, the two younger brothers who gave up their studies in the early years picked up the books again, and the old father did not have to go to heaven every day, but could wear decent clothes to accept the praise of others.

These strengthened his desire to make a bigger name for Yu Shengjun, because he wanted to let his family live a better life!

However, although he has participated in a lot of battles in the past few years, he has not made too dazzling contributions, and he has only survived to the position of battalion commander by relying on accumulated qualifications, but today, it seems that the opportunity has finally come!

With a hint of excitement, Fang Hanlin looked at the Taiping cavalry in front of him, as if they were not enemies, but one by one!

Closer, closer, as the cavalry of those Taiping Army roared over, when Fang Hanlin could clearly see the cold light of the swords and spears in their hands, he decisively commanded the command knife in his hand:

"Fire!" (To be continued.) )