After leaving the dock, Li Nai finally couldn't help the question in his heart, and said to Tao Donglai: "Mr. Tao, there is something unknown below, I want to ask for advice!"

Tao Donglai smiled and said, "Do you want to ask, why do we want such a young child to enlist in the army?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean. These children look like they're not yet in the age of bundling, and they've been drafted into the army by you at a young age, and that's ...... Isn't it against people?" Li Nai was straightforward and couldn't help but accuse.

"They're scouts, but they're not really armies or militias, and they're not going to be sent out on the battlefield to fight, they're strictly under militarized management. Tao Donglai explained: "They will not only receive basic military training here, but also have corresponding cultural education, we will teach them to read and write, and teach them the principles of life." When they reach the age of 16, they are free to choose whether or not to join the militia and become a militia fighter, and those who do not want to be soldiers can also go to farming, working, doing business, and becoming a sailor. ”

After hearing this explanation, Li Nai's face softened slightly, but he still asked: "In that case, why don't you let them study in a regular academy?

Tao Donglai did not answer his question immediately, but asked rhetorically: "I heard Mr. Shi mention just now, it is said that Mr. Li is a person with meritorious fame?"

Speaking of fame, Li Nai proudly responded: "In Xia Bucai, I took the test in Guangzhou Mansion in the first year of the Apocalypse. ”

"That's the old man. Tao Donglai nodded and continued to ask: "Then Mr. Li, do you still remember that how many of the friends who studied with you in Mengxue are now famous?"

"There are only four or five talents, and the only one is the next person. Li Nai is very proud of his professional level, after all, it is not an easy thing to be admitted to the lifting person, and for the students in South China, the examination is already quite a good result.

"That's it, education doesn't make everyone a scholar. There are only a few people who can really reach a certain level of learning, just like those who were literate with you at the beginning, most of them will not become a higher class jinshi, and those who have studied Mengxue will not be able to enter the Guozijian one by one. ”

Speaking of this, Tao Dong turned around and pointed to the dock and said, "The children you saw just now have all been preliminarily eliminated by the academy and have been identified by us as unsuitable for studying in the academy. We have a limited number of teachers, and we can only provide a more comprehensive and in-depth education to a small number of brighter children. But we don't plan to give up on these children, we just want to change the way of training, they can read and write here, but the content of learning is different from that of the regular academy. ”

Li Nai shook his head and said, "If you don't read the books of sages, how can you pretend to be a scholar!"

"At this point, the atmosphere of our Haihan is different from that of Daming. Tao Donglai said with a smile: "What we need is useful readers, not readers who can only read." ”

Although these words were a little tongue-twisting, Li Nai still understood what he meant, and couldn't help but retort: "Reading the books of sages can rule the world, how can it be called useless?"

"Can you rule the world?" Tao Donglai couldn't hide the ridicule on his face: "In that case, why do you need military attachés and the army? Wouldn't it be good if the people of the whole country went to read the books of sages?"

"This is a fallacy and heresy!" Li Nai didn't know how to refute Tao Donglai's statement, because he had never heard such a ridiculous theory before.

"Whether it is a fallacy or not, we don't need to distinguish between right and wrong right now, and we can hand it over to time to prove. Tao Donglai saw that Gu Wei, who was in charge of the training of the recruit camp, had already walked quickly towards this side, so he put an end to this controversy for the time being.

After the two exchanged military salutes face-to-face, Tao Donglai introduced to Gu Wei: "These two merchants are from Guangzhou, and Mr. Shi and I took them around, and by the way, we also came to see the militia training. ”

Gu Wei comprehended: "Then please invite the guests to visit our drills." A few people, this way, please!"

After nearly two months of construction, the new barracks now has a training ground the size of four standard football fields, and a large number of training equipment has been built. In order to fill the vacancy left by the military and police force after the colonization operation in Heitu Port, the third batch of new recruits has been drafted into the camp and began training. Many of the "old cadets" who joined the camp have now become platoon leaders of grass-roots squads leading the training of new recruits, and have applied some of the basic military training methods they have learned from the crossing to the new cadets.

Li Nai looked at it for a while, and found that the militiamen who were training in the queue under the command of the whistle had many mistakes in their behavior, and couldn't help but shake their heads again and again: "In my opinion, the combat strength of these militia soldiers is worrying, and there is still a gap between them and the militia organized by the wealthy and big families in Guangzhou. ”

Tao Donglai just smiled when he heard this, and nodded at Gu Wei. These recruits have been in the camp for less than a week, and there is nothing neat to speak of, and now they can understand the instructor's instructions and follow them, which is already considered to be a very fast progress.

Gu Wei strode to the middle of the field and blew the whistle. The whistle he used was different from that issued to ordinary militiamen, it was a genuine FOX referee whistle, with a sound of more than 120 decibels, and when it blew, it immediately drowned out all the noise in the field. Hearing this familiar whistle, the commanders of each squad and platoon immediately organized and assembled the whole team, and then brought the team together, forming two phalanxes with companies as units in front of Gu Wei.

"The first and second phases of the trainees are out of the ranks, with the platoon as a unit, and the whole team!" Gu Wei gave an order, and the veterans immediately trotted out of the ranks and lined up a new team next to them.

"What kind of thing did you just go? The team is uneven and vertical, are you guys lame or crutched? The instructor doesn't listen to the command, and the ears are all used to eat? The recruits are all looking at Lao Tzu, how is this queue going!" After Gu Wei finished training the recruits, he began to use passwords and whistles to direct the veterans' procession.

The oldest of these veterans actually came more than two months earlier than the new recruits, but the gap in training level is indeed very obvious. Under the orders of Gu Wei, the veterans constantly changed the direction of their march and kept their lines the same.

With regard to the training of naturalized civilian troops, the Military Police Department basically formulated the training content with reference to the "Recruit Training Manual" issued by the General Staff Department of the later generations, but made certain deletions in physical training. This is because the physical condition of these young people recruited in this time and space is far from the level of soldiers in later generations, and at least they need to go through a period of recuperation. If you directly follow the training standards of later generations, I am afraid that half of the people will have to be trained within three months.

According to Gu Wei, the military level of these militias is still very low, and it will take a long time for these militias to establish the concept of battle and war from scratch. However, the level of cohort training is basically close to the standard of later recruits, at least several times better than the effect of university military training. Although the foundation of these militias is almost zero, and there is no culture, it is precisely because of this that the vast majority of them are very simple in the eyes of the traversers, and their obedience to military training is also very good.

In the future generations, even if these veterans who entered the camp earlier walked out of the queue, they were actually not up to standard, and they would be scolded by the instructor for being bloody, but in this time and space, such a neat and uniform queue march has a strong visual shocking effect. At least when it came to marching in the queue, Gu Wei believed that the militia he had trained would not be inferior to any of his contemporaries in the world.

In later generations, there were many half-jar keyboard military experts who believed that queue training in the era of hot weapons was of little significance, and that the widespread use of the straggler line on the battlefield had allowed the army to completely get rid of the array attack in the era of cold weapons and the queue shooting formation in the era of gunpowder guns, and these people believed that attaching importance to queue training like our rabbit army would not be beneficial to improving actual combat capability.

But is this really the case? A unit that has been in the army for decades and has been at war with several major countries on the earth does not know how to train soldiers? Contrary to the viewpoint of keyboard military experts, it is precisely because we are aware of the important role of platoon training in military training that we insist on listing it as one of the basic subjects of military training for decades.

Although queue combat has gradually lost its role on the battlefield in the era of hot weapons, queue training can enable an ordinary person to develop a good habit of being well-groomed and neatly dressed in a short period of time, and establish a sense of time, organization and discipline, and a sense of collectivity, and most importantly, let everyone in this collective develop the habit of obeying orders.

For commanders, queue training also starts from the most basic procedures, allowing them to exercise their ability to organize, command, and manage the team. If a commander can't even train his troops to walk in a queue, how can he command his subordinates to fight on the ever-changing battlefield?

The militia training system of the crossing group inherits the fine tradition of our rabbit and takes queue training as the most basic training subject. Under the command of Gu Wei, these militiamen with older qualifications showed a completely different level of marching in the queue than those recruits just now.

Although Li Nai has not read a military book, after a person's knowledge reaches a certain level, he can do many things without a teacher. Even if he didn't know how to line up to fight, seeing such a neat queue drill, he could think of what level the combat ability of this army should be. But at the same time, a new question arose in his mind, what did the Haihan people want to do by training the militia so strongly?