A total of 38 foreign instructors below Liszt attended as observers, and the Shanghai Lecture Hall is divided into five types of military disciplines: infantry, artillery, cavalry, engineer, and baggage, and more than 20 kinds of disciplines, such as topography, city construction, weapons, military system, hygiene, cartography, and ballistics.

It has to be said that these foreign instructors have contributed to the martial arts academy, not only compiling the standard teaching materials and military orders of various military disciplines and disciplines, such as infantry drill codes, shooting training models, in-battle service orders, work teaching models, field exercises, logistics support, and military health regulations, but most importantly, they have brought the classic examples of the large-scale use of hot weapons to the Taiping Army.

Veterans in an army are valuable because they have survived the battlefield, and the valuable experience they bring back from blood and fire is a valuable asset to an army. Liszt and others are veterans of various countries, and the valuable experience they bring can give the Taiping Army a lot of valuable experience.

Xiao Yungui saw the "Examples of Actual Combat" from the textbooks for officers in the martial arts academy, in which instructors from various countries compiled their personal experience of wars and classic examples of the great powers. From the classic examples of the Napoleonic Wars era to the Anglo-French wars in the colonies, from the American war against the indigenous Indians to the recent Crimean War deductions, and even the first Opium War in the naked face.

Xiao Yungui has read it in detail, and judging from some of the history he and Hong Yun'er know, this "Actual Combat Example" compiled by Liszt and them can be called a classic war example manuscript, which is not hidden or exaggerated. Xiao Yungui saw the professionalism and professional attitude of foreigners such as Liszt, which is what the Chinese people lacked.

It's not that the Taiping Army doesn't have its own war experience, but that many of the senior generals of the Taiping Army, even the original Xiao Chaogui, don't have a high level of education, let alone the subordinate soldiers. They have fought many fierce battles and bloody battles. They also have a lot of valuable experience, but they are not good at summing up, or at saying that they are not good at summing up their experience into more scientific and standardized military regulations.

Although the Taiping army, like the Hunan army in later generations, also made up some easy-to-remember songs to teach the soldiers the experience of war, and even the Hunan army stipulated how deep the trenches should be dug and how high the walls should be built. Zeng Guofan's rules for camping said: set up a camp to facilitate attack and defense. Camp in a low-lying and damp place. The water is difficult to leak out, and it is avoided to be flat. Received on all sides

Enemy, avoid sitting too low on the mountain. Keshan is high, avoid half of the slope. The cannon changed people...... Everywhere they set up camp, regardless of wind or rain, as soon as the team arrived, they immediately repaired and dug the wall trench, and succeeded within a limited time. Before it is done, no rest is allowed. and thou shalt not fight with thieves. The walls must be eight feet high. One foot thick. Build the wall without door panels, bamboo and wood, inside and outside are made of adobe soil blocks, the middle is built with soil tightly, each building more than a foot, spread long small trees horizontally, so as to avoid the trouble of cracking after rain. There are gun holes on it. There is a sub-wall inside, where the soldiers stand. The trench must be five feet deep, the deeper the better, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Soil taken out of the trenches. It must be covered outside the two zhang, not too close, not piled high, afraid of heavy rain, the guest soil is still flowing in the trench......

In the Taiping Army, there are also marching camp rules, and even the layout and usage of various formations, as well as the gist of various tactics.

I have to say that the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army have certain advantages in using the form of songs that are easy for soldiers to remember to summarize military laws, after all, most of the soldiers in the army are illiterate, and it is easy for everyone to remember this. However, this is an army that uses a mixture of hot and cold weapons, and the nature of their army is fundamentally different from that of the armies of the great powers, and in addition to the different weapons used, the quality of the soldiers who use weapons is also different.

As long as the soldiers with cold weapons are not afraid of hardship and death, it is enough, and most of the soldiers of the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army can do it. In addition to not being afraid of hardship or death, the most important thing for a soldier with hot weapons is to learn to use his brain.

Cold weapons are used to defeat the opponent through courage and fighting, while hot weapons are used to defeat the enemy by destroying the enemy with firepower and preserving themselves. Cold weapons kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 self-damage, but hot weapons are different, if you use tactics well, the losses will be far smaller than the enemy.

Therefore, Xiao Yungui is ambitious and wants to get closer to the great powers and establish his own army of pure hot weapons, and the first thing he needs to do is not to improve weapons, but to improve the soldiers who use weapons. How to improve soldiers? Then you have to start with literacy, only literacy, you can understand all kinds of books, in order to learn more knowledge.

The martial arts school was established for the Taiping army to train high-quality officers who were suitable for hot weapon warfare, and Xiao Yungui set off a night literacy campaign in the Taiping army in various places, and the duties of officers at all levels in the army changed from preaching and preaching to motivating and teaching soldiers to read. The literacy movement for ordinary soldiers was launched even earlier than the New Deal, and the earliest literacy movement began with Xiao Yungui's personal guards, who were taught by Xiwang and Xiwangniang in turn using their nighttime hours.

If it is said that literacy is for the purpose of improving the quality of soldiers, then all kinds of military discipline manuals and examples of actual combat prepared by those foreign instructors in the martial arts academy are prepared for the soldiers after improving their quality. The Navy Political Department is procuring all kinds of guns, artillery, chariots and horses needed for actual combat.

In addition to the foreign instructors, there are also Chinese instructors, most of them are officers drawn from various departments, as well as personal guards drawn from Xiwang's side. They were trained as foreign instructors earlier than the establishment of the Martial Arts Academy, and it was they who trained the Taiping Army for the first time as a military adviser to Liszt. After the establishment of the Martial Arts Academy, they served as the communicators between foreign instructors and new students, and at the same time served as instructors for daily drills, and at the same time continued to study.

After more than half a year, these Chinese instructors have gradually grown up, and they have also divided into various military disciplines, each specializing in one subject, and in the limited time, Xiao Yungui did not plan to let everyone become a jack of all trades. Like Song Feng is one of them, he majored in the reconnaissance department, that is, the scout, Su Ji is also a member of the scout of the Young Guards, Xiao Yungui has high hopes for this scout, as long as they continue to train and master more skills, they will become a special forces unit in the Taiping Army in the future, and in fact, their usual training is also working in this direction.

Scouts are called spies and scouts in the domestic army at this time, and many times spies and scouts are responsible for transmitting military information, reconnoitring enemy movements, and probing the enemy's strength, so that they can report back to the army commander, and their role is nothing more. But the scouts in the Western army were different, they also had to survey the terrain, they were also responsible for surveying the roads for the whole army, they had to be able to draw and cartograph, and they also had to guide the artillery. At this time, the artillery of the great powers already had artillery capable of hitting several kilometers away, and in the case of over-the-horizon, the role of artillery scouts was even more obvious, but if you did not understand the ballistics and coordinates of artillery, how could you guide the direction of artillery?

Therefore, Song Feng and Su Ji, the people of the Scout Division, have been making up for the knowledge of other military disciplines recently, and in addition to drilling, the rest of their time is spent studying.

The rest of the people were the cadets, and the first batch of nearly 1,000 officers and newly recruited literate people also went through months of training and study, and they basically mastered their own military knowledge and discipline skills. All they have to do next is wait for their soldiers to arrive, and they will also become instructors and retrain their own soldiers.

As the so-called iron-beaten camp and flowing soldiers, Xiao Yungui's original intention in establishing the martial arts school was to build the Xidian Taiping Army into an iron-clad camp through a scientific and standardized military academy system. Military academies are places where officers are trained, and officers teach more soldiers.

After Xiao Yungui stood in front of his throne and glanced around at the people present, he also found several familiar figures. Pan Qiliang, Chen Alin, Huang Wei, Zhou Xiuying, Mu Yinghong and others, they are all officer cadets, and it can be seen from their eyes that they seem to have opened up after months of study, and there is no indescribable confusion in their eyes, and now there is only the perseverance and wisdom of soldiers.

Zhou Xiuying and Mu Yinghong were officers and cadets of the Heavy Duty Department and the Health Department respectively, and the Taiping Army in the West Palace, like the Tianjing side, still retained the establishment of the women's battalion. But the women's battalion of the Taiping Army in the West Hall is much luckier, since the Battle of Xiangyin, Xiao Yungui said the famous women's battalion war instruction, that is, unless the men of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom die, the people of the women's battalion will be allowed to fight. It is the women's battalion that now assumes more responsibilities such as logistical support and battlefield ambulance.

Zhou Xiuying, a reckless girl, was originally very resistant to studying in the baggage department, her fiery temper preferred to go to the infantry department or the cavalry department, when Xiao Yungui returned to Shanghai, Zhou Xiuying came to Xiao Yungui to make trouble, she begged Xiao Yungui to transfer her to the cavalry department, but it was really okay to not be in the infantry department, but Xiao Yungui refused. Later, this reckless girl even said that as long as she could enter the cavalry department, she could agree to Xiao Yungui on any conditions.

At that time, Xiao Yungui looked at Zhou Xiuying's full chest, often practicing martial arts and maintaining a graceful posture, and the sentence that as long as I can enter the cavalry department, I can do whatever the king of the west wants me to do, I almost made a mistake. Fortunately, Hong Yun'er appeared in time to dispel Xiao Yungui's thoughts.

Seeing Zhou Xiuying at this time, this little girl also glanced at Xiao Yungui, but there was still a trace of grief and dissatisfaction in her eyes. Xiao Yungui's thief eyes accurately captured Zhou Xiuying's breasts that seemed to be fuller under the new officer's uniform, and this guy couldn't help but secretly swallow a few mouthfuls of slander, and then looked at Mu Yinghong beside her.

Compared with Zhou Xiuying's healthy wheat-colored skin, Mu Yinghong is fairer, although she used to be a good martial arts female general, Mu Yinghong's temperament is more weak. At the beginning, after the leaders of the Shanghai gangs such as Mu Guandao of the Guandao Gang and Xie Yinglong of the Ningbo Gang went to Suzhou to be idle officials, Mu Yinghong, the backbone of the lower gangs of the gang, was absorbed by Lin Qirong. The gang members were scattered and filled into the garrisons all over Shanghai, and then the military academy was established, and Mu Yinghong was arranged by Lin Qirong into the military academy along with several other enlightened gang leaders.

Mu Yinghong studied health science, that is, battlefield ambulance, she was born in a gang, and she also learned some bruises, and after entering school, she realized that what she had learned in the past was only scratching the surface. (To be continued......)