Half a month has passed in a flash, and now it has entered November, and the weather is getting colder and colder, but the Yangxinju camp is becoming more and more lively.

Without him, just because the appointed time has come, he will soon carry out new training according to the things written in the "Junior Infantry Drill Code".

Regarding this matter, because there was no intention of keeping it secret from the beginning, and even deliberately blowing the news, not only Zhang Wei and Zhouda and other senior officers knew the inside story, but even ordinary soldiers also knew that a new Western-style operation method would soon be implemented in the camp.

This is a good topic for ordinary soldiers who have been stuck in the barracks and can't go out, have been carrying out boring military formation drills, have been digging trench training, and eat and drink well every day, and are extremely bored.

It was at this time that Li Yongji made a "draft military training plan" and published it in the barracks, stipulating that it would be implemented in three days.

This "Draft Training Plan" is not a profound thing, it does not stipulate how to train, after all, it is something in the infantry drill code, so it is more like a curriculum in the middle school of later generations, but it only stipulates the daily course arrangement.

For example, it is clearly written that at half past five in the morning, blow the wake-up call to get up, give a quarter of an hour, that is, fifteen minutes of time to get up and wash, and then leave a quarter of an hour for breakfast, and go to the assigned playground area at six o'clock on time to assemble for exercise, if there is no reason to be late, according to the provisions of the "Training Discipline" punishment.

This "training discipline" is a kind of additional discipline, and if we use the insurance of the later generations as a metaphor, the three major disciplines and eight points of attention are the main insurance, and this training discipline is the additional insurance.

In the training discipline, there are mainly some punishments such as whipping, stick punishment, locking up a small black house, kneeling at the camp gate, etc., how to punish and what the punishment is, which are clearly written on it.

In the same way, if there is training discipline, there is "wartime discipline", and wartime discipline is much stricter than training discipline, but most of them are not corporal punishments that damage combat effectiveness, but mostly demotion and demerit, and direct shooting.

Li Yongji's requirement for each soldier to recite these additional disciplines clearly is not only a deterrent, but also to avoid the problem of officers abusing criminal punishment in private, which is conducive to the management of the army and the harmony of officers and soldiers in the future.

Then, according to the explanation of the draft, the new training method generally follows the overall training and study of a company of 90 people as a basic group, and the drills and study locations of each company group are also predetermined in advance, and there is absolutely no confusion among each other. To put it simply, these 90-person company groups are more like classes in the middle schools of later generations, a company group is a class, and they are also numbered.

What the? One company also has a cooking class? That is another arrangement, which does not belong to the training sequence, is not included in the initial training outline of these "draft training plans", and will only be added in the later training when the regular company is reorganized.

In terms of curriculum arrangement, due to the lack of qualified teachers, the company commander was asked to substitute for the teacher in the early stage, and the battalion commander took turns to teach the class, coupled with the lack of venues and color steel classrooms, so the subjects were basically staggered from each other. For example, the first company learned to exercise, the second company learned to shoot, the third company began to run with weights, and the fourth company first learned first aid or equestrian class.

For each company, four classes are generally arranged in the morning, three in the afternoon, and two evening self-study sessions in the evening. Each class is usually 45 minutes long, with enough rest time in between, and sometimes there will be evening classes in the evening self-study, and after the evening self-study, you have to go back to the dormitory to wash up and sleep.

In short, educating these soldiers as students is nothing more than reducing cultural classes and increasing actual combat learning such as drills, first aid classes, and shooting classes.

These courses are weekly, that is, a cycle every seven days, and there is a half-day free rest time a week, that is, on the so-called Sunday afternoon, everyone can rest freely, but the free rest time is not allowed, and it is not allowed to leave the barracks without permission.

These things like the list of subjects are for ordinary soldiers, but they are really for Wang Sanwu, Zhang Wei, Zhou Da and others, but they are other things, in short, the education syllabus.

If the junior infantry drill manual already states how to train soldiers, more like a textbook and textbook, telling you in detail how to do it, then the "draft plan" is more like an educational syllabus, which states the goals to be achieved in each lesson and each time period, and tells you where you want to achieve.

In other words, the draft plan is the standard for future assessments, and those who pass the assessment will be rewarded with various rewards, such as increased treatment, and those who fail to pass the assessment will be punished, such as reducing food, reducing salaries, and so on, and there will be corporal punishments such as whipping, and this reward and punishment will not only face officers at the level of company commanders, but also senior officers such as Zhang Wei and Zhouda will have to bear it together.

In terms of specific subjects, there is no need to mention drills and shooting, everyone understands the importance of these two to combat, but the first aid class makes many people puzzled.

In fact, limited by the conditions, this first aid course, to be precise, is battlefield self-help, which is a booklet for each person, which contains detailed battlefield first aid methods, such as common trauma, common colds, fevers, diarrhea and other diseases. All you need to do is memorize the contents of the booklet, and then practice according to the contents of the booklet during class.

The drugs mentioned in the first aid class are very simple, such as Huang'an powder and Qing'an powder, which are sulfonamide powder and amoxicillin dispersant from modern times, as well as norfloxacin for laxative stopping, and red potion, iodine wine, bandages, band-aids, etc., all of which are modern products with cheap prices and obvious effects.

Li Yongji plans to set up a special battlefield medical team and establish real battlefield medicine when the conditions are better in the future, but now, this can only be done first, but I believe that these battlefield ambulances are already better than the Western armies of this era.

Although for the time being, because the number of horses brought in is too small, and there are too many places to use horses, it is impossible to guarantee that every soldier has an equestrian course every day, and can only take equestrian lessons twice a week.

In this way, at least everyone has touched the horse, ridden the horse, theoretically first understands the characteristics of the horse, can take care of the horse, can ride the horse forward, know what the mounted infantry is about, how to fight, so that when there are more horses in the future, the arrangement of this course will be increased, so that they have more opportunities to ride horses.

At present, it is not appropriate to popularize Hanyu Pinyin for the so-called cultural course study, but only to teach them the basic strategies and tactics, the history of China for 5,000 years, especially the great history of the Han nation, and the history of foreign countries.

The cultural lectures were all given by senior commanders above the company commander's level, and the teaching materials were all revised ancient Chinese history provided by Zhang Xinda, as well as the general history of the world that had also been revised.

The texts of the textbooks are all in traditional Chinese, all in the vernacular, and there are illustrations, as long as you read them, there is basically no reading difficulty.

These textbooks are not only for the instructors, but also for all the soldiers, so the so-called cultural classes are just reading in class in accordance with the syllabus that Li Yongji has come up with.

Of course, after reading the book, they also have to discuss and write down their experiences, usually to discuss the gains and losses of some ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wars, the main purpose of this is not only to let the soldiers learn to think, but also to guide the national pride of these soldiers, and let them see the world more clearly, and no longer be vague about the outside world, especially foreign countries.

I am not sure otherwise, at least in terms of understanding foreign countries, Li Yongji's general history of the world is definitely the most comprehensive of the Qing Dynasty, as long as you have read the general history of the world, you will know a general idea of foreign countries.

Culture classes are not only about history, but also about simple mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Among them, mathematics is mainly based on four operations, and most of the topics are practical application problems. Physics and chemistry are mainly junior and intermediate courses, the content is not rigid, generally combined with various phenomena around us, there are many illustrated stories to tell some small stories, in the small stories to learn basic physics knowledge. Among them, special attention is paid to the principle of application of gun and ammunition shooting and artillery shooting.

Learning history is to enhance self-confidence, learning mathematics, physics and chemistry is to broaden horizons, these textbooks are all reduced versions, which are things that can be understood by primary school students in later generations.

To engage in cultural classes, we do not want these people to become philosophers all at once, but only to ask these people to stop being as ignorant as in the past, at least to understand the history of their own country and foreign countries, and to know where they are lagging behind.

For various reasons, these textbooks can only be learned in the barracks, and when they leave the barracks, these textbooks must be confiscated, and no one can keep them privately.

The above are mainly infantry training subjects, and artillery is slightly different from cavalry.

In fact, artillery and cavalry also need to learn cultural courses and first aid departments, the difference is mainly between drills and shooting classes.

In view of the small size of the current army and the lack of artillery talents, Li Yongji decided to set up a battalion directly under the regiment, that is, an artillery battalion under the direct command of Li Yongji, and not to set up a separate artillery company in each infantry battalion.

According to the previous discussion with Zhang Xinda, Li Yongji's artillery battalion decided to use the artillery platoon as the basic tactical unit.

An artillery platoon has 2 powerful 12-pounder Napoleon guns, rated for 40 guns, equipped with 2 tractors, 4 ammunition trucks and 20~~30 horses.

An artillery company has 3 artillery platoons, and an artillery battalion has 3 artillery batteries, that is, an artillery battalion has 18 guns, 18 tractors, 36 ammunition trucks, 360 men and at least 180 horses.

In fact, in order to increase the mobility and the wear and tear of horses, an artillery battalion would have to have more than 200 horses, preferably 300 horses, in order to keep up with the movement of the mounted infantry.

In other words, one artillery battalion accounted for nearly half of Zhang Xinda's 600 horses, and the remaining 300 or so horses.

Originally, there were not many Ili horses sent by Zhang Xinda, in addition to the artillery, they also had to train ordinary infantry companies in equestrianism, equip officers with horses, and the Young Guards Regiment also needed horses, which required horses everywhere, making the training of cavalry very difficult.

However, Li Yongji also knew the importance of cavalry, so he immediately revised the previous plan, and in any case, he had to form a cavalry company of 90 people first, giving priority to supplying the best horses; The second is the artillery battalion, and the horses of the artillery battalion cannot be moved. As for the use of horses in other aspects, they will be deducted first, for example, officers will not ride horses in the barracks, and they will wait for the new horses to come.

The cavalry company is a unit directly under the regiment, trained by Wang Sanwu himself, and is equipped with two Colt revolvers, two Type 65 cavalry knives, and a Sharps carbine.

This cavalry company is to be defined as a light cavalry company, and its main combat objective is reconnaissance, and it will also pursue the enemy when it retreats, but it will never be used for frontal assault unless necessary.

The course arrangement of artillery and cavalry is similar to that of infantry, except that artillery has increased shooting training and assembly training, and reduced drill training; The cavalry directly removed the drill training and changed it to equestrian training, and everything else was similar, such as cultural classes and first aid classes, which were to be studied the same, and the textbooks were similar, but the artillery added more physical knowledge such as ballistics.

These teaching contents are all in line with Li Yongji's earlier plan to educate the army. As long as this group of people begins to open their eyes to the world and get out of their previous ignorance, then it will be difficult for others to fool these people lightly in the future, and slowly, they will find that they are more and more different from other Qing people, and more and more incompatible, in other words, after learning these rebellious things, they will only go to the dark with Li Yongji, or with the Jingwu Army.

Obviously, it can be seen from the entire training content and the outline of the draft education that the Jingwu Army attaches great importance to the comprehensive quality of soldiers, the content of the curriculum is practical, and the learning process must be gradual and orderly, so as to make everyone trained become a high-quality soldier.

But to be more precise, this set of complicated things made by Li Yongji, in this era, is no longer a military training, but a school!

From the perspective of this era, this is obviously the opening of a military school to train junior officers, and judging from the content of the teaching, it is estimated that it will not be much worse than the military schools of other Western powers in this era.

Although it will be very troublesome and expensive to do so, once these soldiers learn it, they will all be good soldiers and qualified low-level non-commissioned officers, and after they really go to the battlefield, they can minimize casualties and increase the number of veterans and qualified low-level officers.

In this way, when there is a need in the future, we can use these trained veterans as the backbone to rapidly expand the army, and we will not lose much combat effectiveness.

However, this will cause strict consumption of materials, especially ammunition consumption, which is a typical experience of feeding silver, and at present, in the entire Qing Dynasty, it seems that only Li Yongjun, who holds the golden finger, has the confidence to do so.

It was precisely this kind of consumption listed in the training draft that shocked Zhang Wei and the others at once.

Not because of anything else, but because the other arrangements in this draft plan are unknown to everyone, so we don't know how effective they are, but the amount of ammunition consumed is shocking.

Not to mention anything else, the setting of the infantry shooting class that each person must shoot 30 rounds of ammunition in one class is unbearable, and the artillery regulations that one class must use up 25 shells are even more eyelid-jumping.

Just kidding, in terms of infantry alone, each person has to shoot 30 rounds of ammunition in a class, and a company has 90 people, that is, 2,700 rounds of ammunition in a class! And according to this class schedule, how can there be three or four shooting lessons a day, isn't it at least 8,100 rounds of ammunition a day?

This is still the consumption of a company, and if it is placed in the entire elite army, how much will it be consumed? This is still infantry, plus the consumption of artillery and cavalry, it is an astronomical amount, and a big battle is nothing more than that, and this is still to be done every day.

Can our elite army, or General Li Yongji and General Li's office, get so much ammunition for people to play artillery battles?

In this regard, Li Yongji just smiled and did not explain too much, but took them to a warehouse that was originally designated as a military restricted area.

As soon as they entered the door of the warehouse, Zhang Wei Zhouda and the others were dazzled by the full number of weapons, the rifles that they had never seen before, the pistols they had never seen before, and the cannons that made their hearts cold when they looked at them, how pleasing to the eye.

Since they hadn't been together for a day or two, they knew that Li Yongji had a lot of secrets, so Zhang Wei and the others didn't ask about the source of these things, and directly said that they were obedient to orders.

Seeing that there were so many weapons and ammunition, and it was clear that they would be able to shoot hard in the future, the enthusiasm of Zhang Wei and the others was quickly ignited, after all, gunfire is the greatest romance of men.

So, with Li Yongji's approval, these people pounced on them with a sigh, most of them picked up their rifles and touched them non-stop, and some touched the revolver, but Lin Chunsheng ran to the place of the cannon alone, touching left and right, touching up and down, looking very intoxicated.

"How's that, like cannons?" Seeing that there were people who were interested in artillery, Li Yongji also followed.

"Of course." Lin Chunsheng nodded, and said happily while touching the cannon pipe, "If you are a man, you have to play with the cannon." By the way, Lord Chief, what's the name of this cannon? Why does it look so weird? ”

"It's called a Napoleon cannon, well, or a more powerful version of the Napoleon cannon, in fact, it shouldn't be called that, I'm not sure, after all, it's too different from the original." Li Yongji smiled, "The caliber is 117 mm, and the total weight is 885 kilograms, which is about 1770 kilograms." The maximum firing distance of a solid bullet is 3,100 meters, that is, about 6 miles, and only about 4 miles when using a flowering bullet, and even lower when using a scattered bullet. In particular, a high and low machine is added, you see, you can adjust the angle by hand by inserting the joystick into the center of the wheel axle, and the pitch angle can reach 50 degrees to minus 5 degrees, which increases the flexibility of shooting; In addition, the use of stainless steel wheels, bearings, and rubber tires made it possible to push one person on hard ground like the current one, two people in the wild, and two horses to pull and run away if they moved. ”

"Okay, okay, okay." Lin Chunsheng's face turned red and nodded, "My lord, I have a request, can you, can you let me be the commander of this artillery battalion?" ”

"It's not impossible." Li Yongji smiled, "But playing with guns is a high-tech thing, and you need to learn a lot of things, you ......"

"I learn, I learn from scratch, I will learn well!" Lin Chunsheng tore away his loud voice and said loudly, "You must follow the teachings of adults, study hard, and make progress every day!" ”

“…… Promising! I'm optimistic about you! ”