The entrance exam for this kindergarten class is quite difficult for teenagers of the age of thirteen or fourteen, and what makes many teenagers who can only gnaw books quite depressed is that the entrance exam for the kindergarten class does not pay much attention to your skills, and the content of the exam is messy, and the content of the test questions has some common sense content such as scriptures, modern science, etc., but it is more of a mess.

Those chaotic test questions actually test students' logical thinking ability, imagination ability, and then memory ability, IQ ability, etc.

The requirements for students in the Nursery class are not how much you have learned and what you can do now, but how much you can learn and what you can do in the future!

After four or five years of study, the quality of these students is much stronger than that of most students.

Not to mention that Lin Zhe is ready to reuse the students who came out in this way, even the high-level generals of the military attach great importance to it, and the Quanxu Division has even formulated a special training plan for the graduates of each infant class, arranging for them to study in military schools or studying abroad, and then after completing their studies, they will serve as grass-roots officers in the field troops, return to the military academy as instructors, transfer to the headquarters as civilians, and then transfer to the field troops to serve as middle and high-level positions, and then grow into senior generals, presiding over party affairs, and so on

These processes may sound similar to those of other trainees, but if you look at their timetables, you will find that in addition to studying abroad, it is a bit long. Other service experiences are generally three months or half a year, and others take ten or even twenty years to complete the road to the army. They could finish it in three or five years.

For example, Fang Hanquan, the first person who graduated from the kindergarten class this year, has gone to France to study cavalry, and he has never attended an officer school. But he is already the title of second lieutenant in the shoulder belt, once he returns to China, he is at least a captain, and the first practical position that the Quanxu Division prepared for him after returning to China is to serve as the section chief of the Cavalry Department of the General Staff, if he really goes according to the plan, this Fang Hanquan will become the director of the Cavalry Department of the Chinese Army within two years of returning to China, and he will be fully responsible for the training and innovation of the cavalry.

This is not to pull out the seedlings, but the infantry and even the artillery in the Chinese army are fine, but the cavalry is really lacking. Although there was also a person who studied cavalry in the first few students sent to Europe, he went to England to study, and to be honest, after defeating the Anglo-French coalition army, the cavalry generals on the Chinese side despised the British cavalry for charging with spears and playing heavy cavalry, so they sent Fang Hanquan to France to learn cavalry.

What is the purpose of sending the top graduate of the kindergarten class to France to study, and he has been studying for two years? It's not that I want to learn from other people's cavalry formations. Platoon and the like, but to bring back the true essence of the modern cavalry of the West, and then there is a very important cultivation strategy.

Cavalry is not just about charging in formation, it is about forming a real modern cavalry. There are quite a lot of items involved, and the combat mode of the cavalry is only the most superficial embodiment, and there are more things in it. For example, how to breed war horses, how to train war horses and cavalry to combine perfectly. How to cultivate the spirit of cavalry, even what the war horse eats must have a plan and recipe. And these things are some details, even if you hire foreign instructors to teach, it is difficult to grasp the essence of it, only by learning it yourself for two years, can you really appreciate some of the real details of modern cavalry.

Then integrate the essence of Western cavalry into the existing cavalry system of the Chinese army to create a real cavalry of the Chinese army!

Instead of just a half-hung person like now, charging and slashing can only bully and bully the cavalry of the Manchu and Taiping armies, but when it encounters the British and French forces, it will be closed, and in the end it can only rely on pistols to fight in exchange for a certain balance.

Cavalrymen can use pistols, but they must not rely on pistols!

This is the unified view of many cavalry generals, including Wang Luyun, but now the cavalry of the Chinese army is quite dependent on pistols, especially after fighting with the British and French forces, even if the cavalry of the Chinese army fights with the Manchu cavalry, it is often a large-scale use of pistols, rather than fighting with cavalry knives as heroically as before.

And this is something that Wang Luyun and other cavalry generals are quite disgusted with and even distressed.

The arrangement of Fang Hanquan and other kindergarten graduates, Lin Zhe did not hide it from his subordinates, on the contrary, he would take the initiative to publicize it, just to let the kindergarten class attract more talented teenagers, and it was best to have a few geniuses.

In the future, the modernization of the Chinese army will not be able to rely on existing generals such as Shi Qingxuan and Lin Chengfei, the traditional traces of these people are too obvious, and the students in the army military academy after the reform are also half-baked in Lin Zhe's eyes, and they are okay now, but they will become old antiques in more than ten years.

The hope of the future of the Chinese Army lies in those young people, and only these young generations, who have been systematically cultivated over a long period of time, have a broad international vision, and have talents, are the hope of the future of the Chinese Army.

However, it will take at least four or five years for the professional officers trained in the early childhood class to take on the important task of developing the Chinese Army.

"At present, the shortage of officers in the army is mainly grass-roots officers, and the students of the fourth phase of the army military academy are still allowed to be assigned after completing their studies, and it is not a good thing to let them graduate early. Lin Zhe did not agree with Chen Yuntao's proposal to let the fourth batch of students of the Army Military Academy serve early.

In the first half of this year, due to the threat of the British and French forces, the Chinese army rapidly expanded its eighth, ninth, eleventh, twelfth, and second guards divisions.

Although the gap between the Chinese army and the number of junior officers in the Chinese army was met in a short period of time, the students of the third phase were slightly lacking in some qualities, and they were slightly worse than their predecessors in the first two batches.

Therefore, Lin Zhe was unwilling to let the fourth batch of students of the Army Military Academy graduate early.

When Chen Yuntao heard Lin Zhe say this, he could only nod and say: "In this case, I will discuss with Chief Fei of the Military Training Department to implement the opening of the crash course and the promotion of soldiers!" ”

Lin Zhe nodded: "Well, that's good, in addition, aren't there many Qing army officers who surrender to Cheng anyway, if the quality of these middle and lower-level officers is acceptable, they can also be mentioned and used, and these people can't be treated as ordinary soldiers or old army officers!" ”

Since last year, the Chinese army has captured many new army officers in the Qing army, including Li Hongzhang's Jianghuai New Army, the various training troops before the Qing court, and the follow-up Qing Army.

Just as their new army imitated the Chinese army, their school was basically modeled after Yu Shengjun's camp school in the early years, and the students were recruited from traditional students and hired foreigners to teach.

After these people were captured, the Chinese army tended to adopt a conservative attitude, and most of the officers of the new army who were retained anyway were also arranged as deputy positions, and they were rarely promoted.

If these people perform well, then Lin Zhe should also consider formally including them in the promotion system.

Just when Lin Zhe, Chen Yuntao and others were discussing how to fill the large number of grassroots officer shortages urgently needed by the military, Shi Qingxuan was also sitting with many generals under his command in Dezhou in the north.

"Now that our logistics supplies, especially ammunition supplies, have been stockpiled, it's time to make the next step, I wonder how the ministries are prepared?" Shi Qingxuan did not speak in a serious tone and demeanor like in previous formal meetings, but in a more relaxed tone.

"My Eighth Division has been restored to full strength, as long as the commander gives the order, our division will be able to carry out any battle plan at any time!" Bian Chengxun, commander of the Eighth Division, took the lead in speaking.

Fei Caishi, the commander of the Ninth Division in the back, also immediately said: "Our department is also fully prepared!" ”

The commanders of the two main divisions of the Sixth Army made such a statement, which made Song Xiangtang, the commander of the first division on the side, a little embarrassed, because his first division had just entered Zhili from Zhangde in Henan, and his first division had suffered relatively large losses in all aspects after continuous operations, and because an infantry regiment was transferred to form the sixth mixed brigade, and the military training department expected that although the plan to restore the establishment of the third infantry regiment to the first division was already exhausted, it had only sent him only one battalion of recruits, far less than the amount of one regiment. What's more, even if the new recruits are replenished, it will not be possible to restore the combat effectiveness of the reorganized 3rd Infantry Regiment in a month or two.

Therefore, although I want to say that the First Division is also fully prepared, but on an occasion like today, it is not the time to pack tickets indiscriminately, so I can only say with a look of embarrassment: "The first division of our department currently has a relatively large shortage, and the officers and men have not fully rested after several months of fighting, and if they continue to carry out high-intensity combat tasks in the lack of time, I am afraid that they will not be able to do enough!" (To be continued......)