Xiang Xiaoqiang went to Qiu Yun's house the next day, and officially set a date with Qiu Lao Hu to pass the door with Qiu Yun. The autumn tiger was so happy that he immediately shouted that it was better to pick the day than to hit the sun, let's get married today, and bluff Xiang Xiaoqiang very lightly. Qiu Yu knew his father's temper, and he pushed back a few words of "chirp". Qiu Laohu was rushed by his daughter, and he touched his chin, looking at the two of them, and his eyebrows twitched with joy. In the end, I didn't invite anyone to look at the yellow calendar or anything, and the three of them looked at the calendar and set January 22 of the solar calendar, which is the twenty-eighth day of the lunar calendar. It just so happens that the solar calendar and the lunar calendar are all even numbers, and the two 2s of the solar calendar are together, both are auspicious, and the 28 of the lunar calendar also has a "hair", and Xiang Xiaoqiang is also very satisfied.

As for the dowry, Qiu Laohu didn't plan to ask for it, he was just this one daughter, he was so worried that he couldn't get married, but now he is not only married, but also married so well, he really can't wait to stick to his uncle a little more, so he shouted that not only did he not want a dowry, but he also wanted to give Qiu Yu a rich dowry. Xiang Xiaoqiang really cried and laughed at this old man, and in the end, he said it badly, so he set a dowry of 50,000 Mingyang. He didn't dare to give more, or according to Qiu Laohu's temper, he would go back and prepare a dowry for Qiu Huan, and he would have to go bankrupt.

Well, Xiang Xiaoqiang is also determined in his heart, looking at the flower-like autumn water, mentally calculating, there are still ten days, and he can justifiably "eat" her.

……

Because he had to prepare a lecture for Zhu Yourong, Xiang Xiaoqiang completely delegated the affairs of the People's Guard to a few cadres under him, but fortunately, although he was busy, he was also involved in expansion, training, and the like, and there was nothing difficult to decide. In the past two days, he has been completely immersed in the library of the Army University, and he has turned out all the books that he thinks he can use. He had read a lot of military works in his previous life, and he was more mentally prepared, but now that he systematically combs it, he still sighs at the huge difference between military fans and soldiers. Many of the books are too deep to be understood, and there are many original texts, in German, English, and Russian, which many students read there.

Fortunately, he had read some must-read military classics, such as Clausewitz's "On War" and Jomini's "Introduction to the Art of War", which he had read in his previous life. And although these two books are required reading for studying military affairs, they are both based on the Napoleonic Wars, Xiang Xiaoqiang feels that in addition to some of the strategic and political spirits in them, most of the content is outdated, and they belong to the military eight-strand text, which can still be used as a foundation.

There are also some works that were very "avant-garde" at this time, such as Fowler's "Armored Warfare" in England and "Air Supremacy" by Duhei in Italy. One of these two books is a crazy admiration for motorized power, and the other is a crazy admiration for air power. Their views are extreme in the eyes of later generations, and at this time they are regarded by many people as something grandstanding. But the general direction they advocate is very much in favor of Xiaoqiang.

In addition, there are a large number of professional periodicals, reference books, and textbooks: military system, weapons, ballistics, strategy, army commandery, division tactics, army tactics, application of large corps, war games, military geography, mobilization, city building, staff service, and rear service......

There are also many public course textbooks: Bahasa Malaysia, Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Geometry, Physics, Chemistry, Public International Law, ......

These large numbers of specific textbooks were thrown aside by Xiaoqiang to give lectures to Zhu Yourong, and these things are not needed for the time being.

Xiang Xiaoqiang gave a lecture to Zhu Yourong, positioning himself to produce a monarch with the same military ideas as him, rather than teaching a military academy graduate. There's no need, and he doesn't have the ability. Therefore, Zhu Yourong only needs to understand three major parts: war history, strategy, and future war.

Future wars are a top priority. It is a question that determines whether the Ming Empire can defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty and whether the Ming army can be at the forefront of the world.

In fact, Xiang Xiaoqiang is more interested in the navy, but the naval university is in Ningbo. In the past two days, he has also forced Qiu Yu to spit out a lot of what she learned there.

Originally, Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't want to be too publicistic in the Army University, so he wore a military coat, so that he could only see the military rank, not the collar badge. But when the heating is so hot in the library, as soon as the military coat is taken off, the collar badge of the black background and gold sword always attracts a lot of attention. The collar badge is from the People's Guard, the epaulette is from the colonel, and there is only one colonel in the People's Guard, which is Xiang Xiaoqiang. Many students recognized him, and many others quietly asked him for autographs.

Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but think of the meeting in Dongchang, wishful thinking that people were looking for him to sign an autograph. This time it's real, and it's more than one or two.

……

After charging for two days, on the morning of the third day, Xiang Xiaoqiang took the textbook and confidently rode into the palace to give a lecture to His Majesty.

Zhu Yourong seems to attach great importance to military classes, and specially arranged them in the prime time of the morning, from 9:30 to 11 o'clock. Xiang Xiaoqiang arrived half an hour early, sat there and chatted with Zhu Yourong's nurse, Mrs. Li, for a while, it turned out that Zhu Yourong's day was still very busy, and a full schedule was arranged. When you get up in the morning, you have to practice the words first, Linyu Shinan's "Confucius Temple Tablet", the work is neat and 300 block letters, which is the basic skill of more than ten years, and it cannot be broken. …… Then in the morning, she studied foreign languages, and since she had arrived home in English and French, she was now learning Russian and Dutch. …… Then it should be a dance class, because the waltz is already very good and is learning the minuet of the European court. But now that this time has been given to military classes, it has been removed for the time being. …… In the afternoon, students will learn about the traditional classics and history, the history of various countries, mathematics, music, and ...... Evening time is free to spend.

Hearing this, Xiang Xiaoqiang was already quite sympathetic, as if he was a primary school student under the "quality education" of later generations. No wonder he hid in the Marquis of Changping Mansion some time ago and refused to return to the palace. You don't have to have so many classes there.

After a while, Jung Kyung-in also came. He is very interested in Xiang Xiaoqiang's military class, and he must come and listen to it.

After a while, at about nine twenty o'clock, the palace maid came and invited them to the imperial study.

A gray-haired old white Russian professor came out of the imperial study with a bag in his hand, and saw Mrs. Li bowing lightly, Mrs. Li nodded reservedly and took the lead to go in.

In the imperial study, Zhu Yourong was sorting out a few notes, frowning and muttering a few words of Russian repeatedly.

Xiang Xiaoqiang shook his head, Zhu Yourong was so pitiful, he didn't even have time to rest, one class after another. Don't worry, I'll make you fully relaxed in this class.

Zhu Yourong tidied up, looked up, squinted his eyes and smiled:

"Nurse, uncle."

Then looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang, and said:

"Teacher Xiang."

Xiang Xiaoqiang was taken aback, and was about to say, "How dare you do this", Mrs. Li smiled:

"Since Lord Xiang is already the emperor's teacher, of course Your Majesty should call him 'teacher'. Every imperial teacher who taught His Majesty, including the White Russian teacher just now, His Majesty was called 'teacher', and Lord Xiang was naturally in this case. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't expect to take a substitute for a class and become an emperor's teacher. In the past, he used to call other people's teachers, but now some people call him teachers, and he is still a son of heaven. …… It feels pretty good.

In the ancient Ming Dynasty, once he became an emperor, he would open a mansion to worship the prime minister in the future, and it would be a foregone conclusion that one person would be above ten thousand people. But now it seems that there are still many emperors, and they dare not expect so extravagantly. Still, having an emperor who calls himself a teacher is still too good for the future.

Mrs. Li withdrew and began the lesson.

Given that it is the first class, Xiang Xiaoqiang does not plan to talk about the most basic and boring things, such as the establishment and military branches. He wanted to firmly establish an advanced military concept for Zhu Yourong in the first class.

After a few clicks, the chalk wrote three big characters on the blackboard in the study:

Flash-lightning-war

As soon as the word "lightning" was added in front of "war", Zhu Yourong and Zheng Gongyin's interest was raised. How do you fight a war with lightning?

"Your Majesty, oh, and Master Hou, please answer me," he threw chalk at Xiaoqiang and clapped his hands, "What is the most powerful weapon on land?" ”

The two students looked at each other, and then Zheng Gongyin hesitated and said:

"Train guns?"

Call...... Xiang Xiaoqiang fainted. In the end, it is the people of this era, from the military to the people, who have cannons, cannons, cannons, cannons in their heads.

Xiang Xiaoqiang shook his head slightly:

"The train cannon, everyone has seen the effect. How? ”

Judging from the current artillery battle on the Yangtze River defense line, the effect is really not very good.

Zhu Yourong's eyes moved, and he said:

"Tanks?"

Well, this girl has talent and is worth cultivating! Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled with satisfaction:

"Yes, it's a tank. …… So who can tell me why tanks are the most powerful weapons for land warfare? ”

郑恭寅 says:

"Got a cannon?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smacked his lips and said:

"There are more powerful cannons than it."

"So...... Can't get through bullets? ”

Zheng Gongyin guessed again.

Xiang Xiaoqiang frowned and said with a smile:

"When it comes to protection capabilities, any small pillbox on our Yangtze River defense line is dozens of times stronger than a tank."

After a while, Zhu Yourong stared at Xiang Xiaoqiang and said tentatively:

"Can tanks move?"

"That's right!" Xiang Xiaoqiang tapped on the blackboard with satisfaction, and quickly wrote the word "mobile", "The tank can move, which is its biggest feature and biggest advantage!" In the military, we call it 'mobility'. …… Your Majesty, you are really smart. ”

Zhu Yourong showed a happy smile on his face, and Zheng Gongyin also looked at his niece, overjoyed, as if he was happier than saying that he was smart. Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but suspect that this old fox wouldn't be a continuous mistake, so as to set off Zhu Yourong's cleverness and make her happy, right?

But Xiang Xiaoqiang's words are really not a compliment. As a person with no military foundation, a person in the era of positional warfare after World War I, especially a girl, it is not easy to accurately break through the center of the problem twice. Xiang Xiaoqiang likes this student more and more. It seems that Zhu Yourong is not only a pampered baby, but also a highly perceptive learner.

Xiang Xiaoqiang wrote on the blackboard in the position of an equilateral triangle: Artillery (attack) - Pillbox (defense) - Infantry (mobile), and then said:

"Your Majesty, please see, these three things written by the minister represent the three forces of the land battlefield. The most powerful firepower is the artillery, the strongest defense is the pillbox, and the most mobile is the infantry. But they have serious drawbacks.

"Artillery is very good at hitting others, but I am also afraid that others will hit it. Don't talk about the opponent's artillery, even a grenade and a row of bullets can kill and injure artillery and make the artillery ineffective. Moreover, it will take some time for artillery to change from a marching state to a combat state, and it cannot be fired immediately, as in the case of infantry.

"Pillboxes, whether steel or cement, are covered with thick armor, not to mention bullets, and shells of small caliber are difficult to shake. Its personnel and weapons inside can be well protected. But Your Majesty, tell me, what are its shortcomings? ”

Zhu Yourong said without hesitation:

"Can't move."

"yes, you can't move. There are two major consequences of not being able to move, first, we have spent a lot of money on building a permanent fortification, but it can only stay in one place for the rest of its life, and its fire can only reach a small area under its eyelids. Machine gun forts could only cover a few hundred meters, and more expensive artillery forts could only cover a few thousand meters. Second, it is fixed, and the enemy is mobile, which determines that it is completely in a passive situation. The enemy can make a detour and can be bypassed, and the bunker can only watch the enemy detour and bypass. The enemy can call in artillery to destroy it, and if the caliber is not enough, a larger caliber can be transferred. And the pillboxes could not be protected at any time according to the caliber of the enemy's artillery. Of course, there is no way to avoid it.

"As for the infantry, it is the most mobile, it can travel twenty or thirty kilometers a day, and it can move at a faster pace by various means of transport. In addition, it has the best accessibility, mountains, hills, dirt roads, infantry can pass. This is unmatched by any weapon. But the infantry is the most vulnerable and insignificant on the battlefield. The weapon is no more than a rifle, and the attack range is several hundred meters; If you can't defend against a steel helmet, a bullet can be fatal. ”

Then Xiang Xiaoqiang wrote down the two big words "tank" in the middle of the three things of "artillery (attack) - pillbox (defense) - infantry (mobility)".

"Oh, I see," Zhu Yourong stared at these two words, and said with great interest, "These three advantages have both tanks." It has both the attack power of artillery and the defense of pillboxes, and is able to maneuver like infantry. Therefore, it is the most powerful. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Your Majesty is only half right. It's not just about 'having both' of the three advantages, but more importantly, 'using the three advantages flexibly'. Has Your Majesty ever played rock-paper-scissors? ”

Zhu Yourong smiled slightly and nodded.

Reach out to Xiaoqiang:

"The key to playing rock, scissors, and paper is that you have to make moves at the same time as the other person, and you don't know what the other person will play, so it's hard to know whether you win or lose. What if you let the other person come out first and you come out later? ”

Zhu Yourong smiled and said:

"Then she'll not play with me."

Several people laughed. Then Zheng Gongyin taught her:

"Then take the initiative and win."

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Yes, Hou Ye said in one sentence: take the initiative and win. The power of tank artillery is not as good as that of artillery, the protection of tanks is not as good as the protection of pillboxes, and although the speed of tanks is stronger than that of infantry, their ability to pass and adaptability are inferior. But the tanks engaged them, but they took the initiative. It is because tanks not only have guns, armor, but also extremely mobility. It's up to me to fight, and it's up to me to go. According to the strength of the opponent's characteristics, it can be decided whether to fight or go, where to fight, and where to go.

This is the same as the Navy's shipbuilding thinking. What is the best design for a battleship? For the same tonnage, I'm faster than you; With the same speed, I have more firepower than you; With the same firepower, I'm thicker than your armor. When the two ships meet, it is up to me to fight, and it is up to me to go. I want to go, but you can't catch up. I want to fight, but you can't run away. This kind of warship is called the best work, and it can cross the seas with few encounters with opponents.

"It's the same with tanks. Its focus is on three words: mobility. All the advantages of the tank are brought by mobility. Without mobility, tanks are useless in terms of firepower and defenses inferior to cannons. But with mobility, the tank can pursue the target, flee from danger. In tank combat, it is necessary to maximize mobility. Because, mobility, is the soul of tank combat. Mobile warfare is also the soul of future land warfare. Your Majesty must keep this in mind. ”

Zhu Yourong stared at him, nodded, and said solemnly:

"I wrote it down."

"Very good," Xiang Xiaoqiang said with a smile, "The importance of tanks has been recognized by all countries relatively early, and they all know these truths." They are constantly improving their tanks and equipping their army with tanks. As a large country with millions of square kilometers of land and nearly 100 million people, our Ming Dynasty should not be very strong in this regard. We have only a few hundred tanks, most of them light tanks of less than twenty tons, there are very few medium tanks, and there are almost no heavy tanks. …… Then this brings up the problem that we have tanks, and people have tanks, and there may be more and better than ours. What should I do? ”

Most of the territory of the Southern Ming Dynasty is mountainous and hilly, and a small number of plains are also densely covered with water networks, and there are few places suitable for tank combat. So traditionally, the Ming Dynasty did not pay much attention to tanks, and the performance of self-produced tanks was not bad, but the number was only half of that of the Qing army. Once the Qing army crossed the river, it had to face this question immediately: how to win more with less?

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the two pairs of eyes of Zhu Yourong and Zheng Gongyin, and thought that this question was very important and must impress them. Or interact with each other and connect with reality. He smiled and asked:

“…… Or to put it simply, we have tanks, and the Qingyu also have tanks, and the Qingyu have twice as many tanks as ours. …… Tell me, what should you do in this situation? ”

The two stared at each other for a while, and Zhu Yourong said:

"The production of tanks should be stepped up."

Jung Kyung-in also nodded in agreement.

Xiang Xiaoqiang says:

"It's a good idea to ramp up production and try to outnumber each other, but it's going to take a long time. Moreover, we will step up production, and people will also step up production. The Qing captured already had many more tanks than us, more factories that could produce tanks than us, and they had more steel and coal than us. Just pinning your hopes on overpowering each other in numbers, I think that with your intelligence, Your Majesty, you should be able to come up with a better way. ”

Zhu Yourong smiled dumbly, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and suddenly said:

"Should we be more efficient than they do?"

"Good!" Xiang Xiaoqiang high-fived and admired, turned around and quickly wrote the words "use efficiency", and then said with a smile, "Although Your Majesty is a woman, she is really talented in military affairs." The instructor of the minister also asked the minister this way, but the minister couldn't answer. ”

Hearing him say this, a smile bloomed on Zhu Yourong's face, and Zheng Gongyin was also overjoyed.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Yes, we have few soldiers and the enemy has many soldiers, and if we want to defeat the enemy, we must use our troops more efficiently than the enemy. What makes it more efficient? The most obvious one is to concentrate on the use of troops. Suppose that the enemy army has 100,000 people, and our army has only 30,000 people, how can we fight? If the enemy forces are scattered in various places, and our 30,000 troops cooperate in one place, we will be able to have a chance of 30,000 against 10,000, or even 30,000 against 5,000. Our army can break through each one, like a tiger entering a flock, and finally eat the enemy's 100,000 people one by one, and our army's losses are still very small. ”

Zhu Yourong smiled:

"The enemy won't wait for you to eat them one by one, they'll be concentrated. In that case, it would still be 30,000 to 100,000. ”

Although Zheng Gongyin didn't understand, when he heard this, he also felt that what Xiang Xiaoqiang said was a little taken for granted. Why are the enemy forces scattered everywhere? Will you be centralized, and they won't be centralized? Especially seeing that Zhu Yourong also raised objections, Zheng Gongyin pinched his sweat: Xiang Xiaoqiang, Xiang Xiaoqiang, you must not be an embroidered pillow!

Xiang Xiaoqiang waited for her to ask, then nodded and smiled:

"That's a good question. We're talking about infantry. An ordinary infantry unit will definitely not let you easily 'enter the flock of tigers', and he will also shrink his forces and turn the flock into a flock of tigers. But we're talking about tank combat. If we concentrate our tanks and use them, the enemy will generally not be able to concentrate them. ”

"Why?"

"Because they don't have that establishment. At present, the general ** teams only have tank battalions, tank companies, and very few tank regiments. The Qing army only had the level of tank company. There were only a dozen tanks per company. More often than not, they were disassembled into tank platoons, with only a few tanks per platoon. Because they had a large infantry force, they had to spread out more than 1,000 tanks as much as possible and mix them evenly with the advanced troops to strengthen them. In their eyes, tanks are nothing more than mobile steel bunkers with machine guns and artillery. Since it was a steel pillbox that could be moved, it was naturally to provide cover for the infantry, that is, to cross barbed wire and trenches, eliminate enemy fire points, and let the infantry hide behind and advance, and that's it. ”

Zheng Gongyin said:

"Isn't that it? What if you don't pay it back? ”

When Xiang Xiaoqiang just wanted to talk about "concentrated use" and "large-depth assault", he was suddenly stunned and realized that he couldn't talk too deeply now. First, this is the first class, and we must first spread out the sea, land and air to talk about it, and we can't get into too specific issues, and second, we can't talk about something too shocking before letting Zhu Yourong fully trust him on military issues. Zhu Yourong is very smart, not a fool, if she rashly talks about forming an armored division and armored corps now, once she thinks that she is grandstanding, it will be in vain.

Xiang Xiaoqiang coughed and said with a smile:

"This question is also an after-school homework for His Majesty. Your Majesty can think about it after class, first, since the tank is not a 'steel bunker that can be driven by machine guns and artillery', then what is it? Second, how should such a weapon with good mobility and breakthrough ability be used? Thirdly, we have tanks, and the enemy has tanks, and there are more of them than us. How can we use tanks more efficiently and do more with less? Hehe, Your Majesty can combine the characteristics of the tank we talked about, expand your imagination, and you can use your imagination without any fetters. Think of several answers and compare them with each other. The important thing is to think for yourself, not to read reference books, and not to be occupied by other people's so-called 'professional opinions' before coming up with your own answers. ”

Just kidding, what Xiang Xiaoqiang has already said is avant-garde enough. If Zhu Yourong consults those "old decays" again, he will have to be criticized by them for being incomplete. Zhu Yourong must come up with the answer himself. With her cleverness, and the fact that what she said today is already imprinted in her head, she will probably come up with the right answer. Once the truth that "tanks should be used intensively and assault in great depth" is figured out by herself, it will not be easy for others to erase it.

Zhu Yourong said very seriously:

"Okay, I've written down these three questions. I must have thought to myself. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Well, we just talked about land warfare, we talked about tanks, let's talk about naval warfare......"

This kind of ** jumping from land battle to sea battle, Zhu Yourong likes it very much, this is equivalent to changing her mind and opening up a new world, and her interest has been adjusted again. Zheng Gongyin also likes this way, imaginative, eclectic, all-powerful, and can combine to speak, which is one of the reasons why he admires Xiang Xiaoqiang.

Xiang Xiaoqiang talked about naval warfare for a while, and subtly let Zhu Yourong "realize by himself": sea supremacy must be guaranteed by air supremacy, so he stopped at the point, and left two more questions for her to think about after class, and then changed the conversation, and talked about air power, and talked about the important tasks of the aviation in addition to air combat: cooperating with ground and sea coordinated operations, and talked about promising dive bombers. In light of reality, he pointed out that against targets such as the Qing army's train artillery, horizontal bombers could not be used, and they had to rely on dive bombers. Therefore, it is further concluded that the effective cooperation with ground and sea operations mainly relies on dive bombers. Then, he introduced the concept of "strike machine" very avant-garde......

Until the end of the first military class, Zhu Yourong was still smug and chased after Xiaoqiang to ask questions.

Zheng Gongyin also shook his head and sighed:

"Xiao Xiang's lectures are really more than ten times more than those retired and decrepit of the War Department and Lu University. Those people come up and tell you how you want to be, but they never tell you why. I can't understand it, I can't remember it. But as soon as you listen to what Xiao Xiang said, a few words, and the complicated truth will be imprinted in your mind. Tsk, it's different. How about Rong Rong, my uncle didn't find the wrong person, right? ”

Zhu Yourong also sighed:

"Uncle is right. When he said that he was going to give me a military class, I was not very happy, but now I know that I will regret not listening. …… I have to thank Mr. Xiang. And then thank you, uncle. ”

Zheng Gongyin was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth and said with a smile:

"We are all a family, what is the thanks, uncle is not supposed to help you do things."

Xiang Xiaoqiang also smiled:

"This is also Your Majesty's intelligence, and he is very perceptive in learning everything, especially for military affairs, so he is suitable for this kind of flexible **. In fact, although this kind of ** is not boring, ordinary students generally can't understand it, their brains are too slow to keep up. Therefore, only here can His Majesty speak so freely. ”

When Xiang Xiaoqiang said it so carefully, Zhu Yourong was also very happy, and he also thought that he was indeed very talented in military affairs. Jung Kyung-in was appreciated by his niece and was also very happy. Zhu Yourong praised Xiang Xiaoqiang, that is, he was praising him, because Xiang Xiaoqiang was found by him. But the biggest gain is still Xiang Xiaoqiang. Obviously, Zhu Yourong was very satisfied with him, and he helped Zheng Gongyin to save face, and he also got Zheng Gongyin's gratitude.

The most important thing is that in today's class, Xiang Xiaoqiang can make a girl think that she is very talented in military affairs, and it is likely that she will like military affairs and fully trust him in military issues. Therefore, in the future, Xiang Xiaoqiang can instill his own military ideas into the monarch of the Ming Empire according to his own wishes, so as to change the military thinking of this empire and make its army ahead of the world.