"At the beginning of people, nature is good, sex is similar, and habits are far away......"

On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, when the heavy snow covered the Yanshan Mountains, the sound of teenagers and children reading aloud spread throughout a rammed earth compound.

They all cherish the opportunity to study, even if the Ming Dynasty has promoted official studies and social studies for many years, but for the orphans of these border soldiers, reading is still a rare opportunity.

Outside the rammed earth wall, a young man about five feet tall walked in the snow under several brocade guards and a young man in a Taoist robe.

In front of him, there are more than 100 such rammed earth wall compounds.

Then the young man beside him spoke:

"Your Highness, there are a total of 100 social science institutes in the Yanshan Institute, each of which has ten school houses, each with 20 students, and each place can accommodate 200 students."

"In addition, the southwest corner of the institute is the same as the Yanshan camp, and there is a big kitchen, divided into 30 houses, which can accommodate more than 20,000 people to eat at the same time."

"The northwest corner is the martial arts field, where students can practice archery, technical strikes, and horn fighting."

"The southeast corner is the dwelling, according to your highness, there are a total of five hundred floors, each floor is two floors, each floor is ten houses, each house is four people, and 20,000 people can live."

"In addition, there is a horse farm outside Yanshan, 900 acres of pasture, and 300 horses in captivity."

"In the afternoon of each school, there is a half-hour horse class, and the students need to harvest the horse grass first, and then feed the horses, and then ride and train riding."

"As for the students' courses, the Imperial Horse Class is temporarily held once every six days, and each school rotates every day, and the course never reaches the unitary hour, but is three hours."

"As for the morning, I read and read, and in the afternoon, except for the Yuma class, I mainly go to the martial arts field to train for an hour of archery, an hour of technical attack, and an hour of horning."

In the mouth of this young man, everything in Yanshan was slowly explained, very detailed.

However, in the face of this detail, Zhu Youzhen asked: "What is the menu of the chef?" ”

"Back to Your Highness...... the young man replied:

"The chef changes the menu every three days, the first breakfast is pasta with an egg, a cup of soy milk, lunch is one or two chicken, two vegetarian dishes and rice, and dinner is one or two pork, two vegetarian dishes and rice."

"On the second day, it was corn steamed bread with eggs and soy milk, lunch was fish and shrimp bought in Tongzhou with vegetarian vegetables and rice, and dinner was one or two mutton with vegetarian vegetables and rice."

"On the third day, it was meat buns with eggs and soy milk, lunch was one or two mutton and vegetarian vegetables with rice, and dinner was one or two pork with vegetarian vegetables and rice."

"How's it going?" Zhu Youzhen asked as he walked, and the young man replied without panic:

"At present, there are 12,450 students in Yanshan Institute, and the amount of food for children and teenagers is different, which is relatively small, but if it is full of 20,000 people, it will be calculated on average every month, and it will need to consume 5,000 stone of rice, 33,000 water chickens, 90,000 catties of fish and shrimp, 250,000 catties of pork, 230,000 catties of mutton, and 420,000 catties of vegetables."

"In addition, I eat a lot of oil, consuming 6,000 catties per month, 4,300 catties of salt, 1,000 stone of beans, and more than 370,000 eggs."

"At the present scale, the monthly expenditure is about fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy-five taels of silver, an average of four hundred and ninety taels per day."

When he said this number, the young man deliberately glanced at Zhu Youzhen, and then he was afraid that Zhu Youzhen would be too much, so he explained:

"However, the students have opened 267 acres of wasteland in the ravine in the north, and if it is used to grow vegetables or grow grain, they can earn more than 500 stone of grain every year, which can ......."

"You don't have to worry about the use of degrees." Zhu Youzhen interrupted him and said:

"You just need to teach them to read and write, and I will transfer the teaching of the military field and the horse farm from the Yanshan camp."

"After that, if there are still students who come, and the dual-use of silver is not enough, ask Chengen to ask someone to help buy it."

"Yes......" The young man sighed, and Zhu Youzhen glanced at the school building on the left and right without squinting.

More than 12,000 students, they will be of great use to Zhu Youzhen in five years.

Whether it is to abolish the Tianxia Guard, or to send all of them to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or to use them to replace the corrupt officials who have been raided, it is an important step for Zhu Youzhen in the future.

Bitter them are Zhu Youzhen himself who suffers in the future.

Therefore, he is very willing to pay for it, and the current imperial horse supervisor can also support them.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen paused and said to the young man next to him: "Zhou Jiaoxi, after a year, I will reissue you with the books and textbooks for education, and it will be enough to follow the books when the time comes." ”

"Yes...... It's ......" Hearing this, Zhou Jiaoxi hurriedly responded.

He used to be just a civilian student with no background in the Guozi Prison, and he could only earn some money to support himself by copying and writing for others every day.

At present, he has become the chief teacher of Yanshan Institute, and he has a monthly salary of five taels of silver, which makes him a little fluttery.

However, it was this kind of promotion that made him more aware that he had to tie up with Zhu Youzhen.

If he misses this opportunity, he will hardly have such a chance to turn over in his life.

"Let's go......" Zhu Youzhen glanced at Zhou Jiaoxi, then signaled to the brocade guards, and prepared to walk out of Yanshan.

"Your Highness, go slowly!" Zhou Jiaoxi hurriedly saw him off, and Zhu Youzhen and Jinyi Wei were ready to walk out of Yanshan without replying.

Due to the cold winter and the difficulty of breaking the ground, neither the Yanshan camp nor the Yanshan Institute made a rammed earth city wall, but only surrounded the camp with a one-zhang high wooden fence.

Zhu Youzhen and the others walked out of the west gate of the Yanshan Institute, and after the general flag stationed at the four gates of the Yanshan Institute opened the door for them to let them go, they closed the gate again.

Zhu Youzhen turned over and got on his horse with the help of Jinyiwei, and then led people to the Yanshan camp.

Since the snow is already a little deep, the speed of the road is not fast.

Two quarters of an hour later, when he returned to the east gate of the Yanshan camp, he immediately saw Wang Chengen standing at the gate of the camp looking into the distance.

He stood at the door in a big coat, looking very anxious, as if something was important.

"Drive!"

Seeing Wang Chengen's appearance, Zhu Youzhen also rode his horse and led people forward, and after entering the road without snow, everyone's speed suddenly increased.

Wang Chengen, who heard the sound of horses' hooves, hurriedly stood in place, ready to lead the horse for Zhu Youzhen.

"What's going on in the capital?"

Arriving at the east gate with people, Zhu Youzhen frowned and asked Wang Chengen, who was standing on the rammed earth, and Wang Chengen also nodded, handing out a letter with lines in the palace:

"Long live's handwritten letter, the messenger is the factory guard, long live said you, others dare to see it and exile."

"Well......" Hearing such a serious matter, Zhu Youzhen also handed the reins to Wang Chengen, and while he led the horse, Zhu Youzhen opened the letter and read the letter in ten lines at a glance.

In the letter, the handwriting of the good royal brother was seen by him at a glance, this is not a ghostwriter.

This also means that Wang An and Wei Zhongxian don't know the content of this handbook.

Zhu Youzhen's mood sank, especially after seeing the content of the letter from the good imperial brother.

In addition to the reminiscences and concerns at the beginning, the good royal brother mainly wished Zhu Youzhen his eleventh birthday in advance, and told him to remember to let the accompanying chef make longevity noodles to eat.

When he saw this, Zhu Youzhen had a smile on his face, but the content of the handwritten book after that was a little serious.

The next content mainly talks about the attitude of the nobles, and the good royal brother wants to use the seven guards and one battalion to deter the nobles and hundreds of officials when the Qingling is completed.

After the shock, the dismissal of Shuntianfu and Yongpingfu, as well as the Jizhen guard and battalion soldiers, is imminent.

Of course, at the end of the letter, the good imperial brother also told Zhu Youzhen not to worry too much, when the soldiers and horses are trained, when the Qingling can be completed.

This means that the construction of various buildings on the surface of Qingling will be slowed down in exchange for time for military training.

However, the good royal brother still underestimated Zhu Youzhen.

He took the letter into his bosom, thoughts flashing through his head.

Using the Seven Guards and One Battalion to deter the nobles and hundreds of officials is a good political measure, but it is easy to usher in a counterattack.

If you don't want to fight back, you have to put up a very elite battle to bluff this group of guys.

And this kind of battle, for Zhu Youzhen, who had trained in his previous life, couldn't be simpler!

"Military training!"

These two words flashed through his mind, and even flashed the picture of how to train the Seven Guards and One Battalion and make them like fingers.

In this era when the main emphasis is on formations and changes in battle formations, the honor guard military exercise after military training can definitely deter the group of nobles and civil servants who do not know soldiers at the beginning.

As long as the military exercise is shocking, then there will be a demonstration of the big battle array with the assistance of infantry and cavalry artillery.

As soon as he thought that he was going to stage a military exercise in this era, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but feel a little itchy in his hands.

"How long will it take for Cheng'en and Qingling to finish up and clean up?" Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but ask, but Wang Chengen was stunned when he heard this, and quickly responded when he came back to his senses:

"It will take about sixty-three days, which is two months and three days."

"Two months? It's almost ......" Hearing that there were still more than two months for him to show his strength, Zhu Youzhen nodded secretly.

Naturally, he can't train tens of thousands of people to the level of the National Day of the later generations, but as long as the opening can be uniform, it is enough to bring visual impact and shock.

After that, it was enough to fight with the infantry and artillery.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Wang Chengen:

"Tell Sun Yingyuan and Man Gui to go to the main hall in the backyard for half an hour."

"The slave takes the command." Wang Chengen knew that Zhu Youzhen must be going to say something related to soldiers and horses, so he hurriedly called someone to inform him.

At this time, they also arrived at the gate of the backyard of the Imperial Horse Prison Command Post.

Zhu Youzhen turned over and dismounted, walked directly into the study, and began to write his own ideas in handwriting.

He wrote down all the things that could be used to restrain discipline and behavior in military training, such as stepping forward, stepping in unison, turning left and right, etc., and he even painted simple paintings.

At this time, he was a little glad that the memories left by Chongzhen included the memories of learning painting and calligraphy, otherwise with the chicken feet handwriting in his previous life, I am afraid that he would be ridiculed for a long time in this era.

In half an hour, Zhu Youzhen wrote 45 pages and thousands of words in one go, and also drew some key pictures.

As soon as he finished painting, he heard Wang Chengen's footsteps entering the study:

"Your Highness, Command Sun, and Manshen are coming."

"Tell them to enter the main hall...... Zhu Youzhen blew the last ink, then picked up the document and walked out of the study, while Sun Yingyuan and Man Gui also walked into the main hall in Wang Chengen's greeting.

"Man Gui (Sun Yingyuan), see His Royal Highness......"

As soon as the two entered the hall, they saluted, and Zhu Youzhen also motioned for them to take a seat, and then handed the document in his hand to Wang Chengen, signaling him to hand over this thing to the two.

"You guys take a look at this thing first."

As he spoke, Wang Chengen handed the book to the two of them, and the two of them went over it together.

They sometimes nodded in approval, sometimes frowned, and Zhu Youzhen was very apprehensive.

"How?" He asked nervously, and Man Gui and Sun Yingyuan looked at each other when they heard this, and then after hesitating for a while, it was Man Gui who spoke first:

"Your Highness, this booklet, how does the last general feel that he is training Yiluan Wei......"

Yiluanwei, this is the first honor guard in the Hongwu period, and then merged by Zhu Yuanzhang and the pro-army Governor's Mansion to form Jinyiwei.

Man Gui vaguely said that the practicality of these things in this era is not high, but Zhu Youzhen also knows that he is not angry, but said with a smile:

"Two months later, Banzai needs to use the Seven Guards and One Battalion to deter the nobles and hundreds of officials, and this training method is actually cultivating a kind of memory for the soldiers."

"Do you think it's impossible for this process to be applied to muskets and artillery?"

Hearing this, Sun Yingyuan and Man Gui's eyes lit up.

They said that his Royal Highness had studied the art of war for so long, and even trained his troops in his spare time, how could he write such a military book? It turned out to be for this kind of thing.

"Tens of thousands of people are in unison, whether it is in artillery, in battle formations, or in ceremonies, it is an act that can deter the enemy."

Zhu Youzhen said jokingly: "Right now, what I need you to do is to follow the above, the army assembles and runs first, and then conducts military training for an hour. ”

"After the military training, as in the past, I still practice the cooperation of all departments, especially the cooperation between the warrior battalion and the left and right guards of Tengxiang."

"When the artillery broke through the enemy position, disrupted the enemy position, suppressed the enemy crossbowmen, the cavalry immediately rushed forward, using firearms to repeatedly attack."

What Zhu Youzhen said is the best trick of the Ming cavalry.

Unlike the Tang and Song dynasties, when the fully equipped cavalry was broken in the enemy's battle formation, and the whole army charged and tore through the opening, the Ming cavalry attacked the infantry array, not a straight rush like in the movie, but traces can be found in chess.

Horses are diagonally walked......

Nomads have a well-known tactic called roundabout archery, but in both the game and the film, lightly armed nomadic archers usually shoot long distances from a distance.

However, the cavalry that maintained their training with the financial support of the Central Plains Dynasty was actually five paces away from the enemy's engagement projection, that is, about eight meters.

The long-range attack of the cavalry under the tactics of the Ming army, choosing the distance of five steps, is actually aimed at the length of the long-pole weapons in the era of cold weapons and the era of mixed cold and hot weapons.

Regardless of the cavalry infantry, the maximum attack distance of the long-pole weapon that can be operated is 1~2 zhang, two steps and one zhang, and two zhang is actually four steps, which is still 1~3 steps away from the attack distance of the cavalry.

These two steps are in practice a trench, a cavalry assault, such as the use of a column group to concentrate on a long-range attack at a certain point on the battle line, which is equivalent to making a hole in a wall.

In the absence of effective countermeasures, point-to-point firepower projection is carried out in a short period of time with high intensity, and in the absence of effective countermeasures, it is easy to open gaps on the front, and then cause the collapse of the front.

Regardless of whether it is advancing or retreating, the attacked point is prone to form a protrusion (unable to resist moving forward) or a depression (retreating or a large number of casualties).

When the cavalry dug the gap in the infantry array to a certain extent, the cavalry projection left and right under the column could easily dig the flanks from the gap, open the way, and then break through to the back of the battle line, which would cause the entire line of the infantry array to collapse.

Generally speaking, the cavalry is in a divided group mode, which can suppress the attack of the cavalry in a very small range, and can be easily turned at any time to deal with the changes in the front and back concave of the infantry array under the attack.

In this way, even if the enemy is ambushed or the situation changes, the cavalry loss will be no more than one group at most.

This ensured that the operational flexibility, the continuity of the Ming army's fire suppression, and the safety of the cavalry itself were fully guaranteed.

The reason why the cavalry of the Ming army did not choose long-range projection, but chose to shoot at close range, was because horses were not stable as shooting platforms, and projection weapons, whether crossbows or muskets, were not as many as those of infantry.

Moreover, there are limits to the density and intensity of firepower that can be used on horseback.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Ming army, under the tactical trade-off, gave up the arquebus as a projection weapon for the cavalry, and chose the three-eyed gun with a unit time fire density.

This choice is also related to the fact that the Ming army has to face the enemy, and there are no large-scale heavy armored troops.

The firepower of the Three-Eyed Gun met the requirements of the time with a shooting power of less than 10 meters, and it could be fired multiple times, reloaded quickly and used as a hand-to-hand weapon.

Therefore, after a small number of experiments with arquebusiers, the Ming army still chose the seemingly backward repeating musket of the three-eyed gun, and still retained the archers on a large scale.

The favorite thing for the Ming cavalry to do was to advance at close range with multi-barreled firearms, and then shoot the enemy cavalry in front of the enemy formation or at close range.

In the Battle of Bihuguan, Li Rusong's unit used this tactic to suppress the Japanese army with several times the strength in a short period of time, and maintained a complete formation and retreated under the disadvantage.

The Japanese army had a single branch of arms, lacked effective means of counterattack, and had no combat experience in such tactics, while the Ming army replaced the three-eyed gun with a bow and arrow, which was a normal use of cavalry and assault.

In order to resist this type of warfare, the infantry can only push the enemy to a close range and try to get as far away as possible.

This is because whether it is a bow or a three-eyed or a long-pole arquebus, the accuracy of shooting on the platform of a horse is directly proportional to the distance.

The closer the distance, the higher the accuracy and the greater the power, and the farther the distance, the lower the accuracy and the less powerful, and the armor attached to the soldier can resist medium and long-range mounted fire.

Even if a multi-barreled firearm is used, the power and accuracy of the shooting platform with bumps under the crotch are difficult to guarantee once the distance is shortened.

However, the tactics of cavalry with firearms and shooting at close range are not unique to the Ming Dynasty, and the semi-maneuver tactics in Europe are also similar to the operation ideas of cavalry weapons, but the details are different from the tactical tradition and combat objectives.

This mode of operation of the Ming cavalry is not equivalent to a semi-maneuver, but is born from the traditional cavalry archery.

According to the "Martial Arts Atlas Tongzhi", the process of cavalry training in the Ming army is usually:

"The handle is fifteen feet long, and its method is just beginning to come out. Hold the bridle in your right hand. Left armpit with a gun. Make a crescent moon in the sky. Hold the right hand in front. Left hand back. High excess. Switch the left and right hands. Make a left front stab. Switch the left and right hands. Make a right front stab...... If so, there is no definite number. ”

This kind of training allowed the Ming cavalry to adapt to almost any mode of combat......

Equipped charge, long and short infantry combat, mounted archery, infantry shooting, firearms combat......

These are the specialties of the Ming army's semi-mounted cavalry, and in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, Jinglu Xing Jue mentioned that the Japanese prisoners said that the Ming army's "deep fear" was the Ming cavalry.

The Liaodong cavalry under Li Rusong defeated the Japanese army several times with various tactics such as array charge and pursuit and annihilation by cavalry troops, and the omnipotence of the Ming cavalry was vividly embodied.

Let the Japanese army for a long time, has been afraid of the cavalry of the Ming army.

Not only the Japanese army during the Renchen War, but even the Houjin Eight Banners were quite afraid of the strength of the Ming cavalry, and there was no invincible scene of the Houjin cavalry against the Ming cavalry like in the "History of the Ming Dynasty".

Just like the current Liaodong battlefield, when the cavalry of the Ming army faced the Houjin army, which was good at heavy infantry combat, the small army that mainly attacked was very good.

Historically, in the Battle of Ningjin, when Mangui and the Eight Banners were on the way to Ningyuan, the Eight Banners infantry did not form an array, and the Ming army was indistinguishable from the Eight Banners, even if it later fought with the Eight Banners under the city of Ningyuan, it did not lose the Eight Banners at all.

This is because the heavy cavalry of the Ming army used semi-covered horse armor to take into account the versatility and light load, and often avoided the entanglement of the enemy army after small-scale battles and quickly left the battlefield.

In the Battle of the Daling River, a Ming army also knocked Duoduo, the owner of the white flag, off his horse, but was fortunately rescued by his subordinates.

"Heaven Descends"

In the Battle of Tieling, He Shixian's army attacked Houjin and succeeded.

In the Battle of Rufeng Mountain in the Battle of Songjin, the Ming army took the initiative to attack, and once forced the Qing army to shift its position.

These are the most basic uses of the Ming cavalry, and the effect is very strong, and it was even secretly learned by Dolgon, Huang Taiji, Nurhachi and others to oppose the cavalry of the Ming army.

It's just that the cost of training such cavalry is too great, and it is difficult to support such a semi-armored cavalry unit without a complete financial system.

However, all this is not difficult for Zhu Youzhen.

At present, the Imperial Horse Supervisor not only has the north field, but also the south field, the honeycomb coal kiln, and Lu Jianxing is helping to make money.

All this is enough for Zhu Youzhen to create a semi-armored cavalry unit, and the first thing he wants to do is to train the warrior battalion into such a unit, so he asked Man Gui:

"I've already given an account to the Ordnance Institute, and asked the people who study the autogenous Lumi Gun to study the Autogenous Riding Gun."

"As long as the self-generated riding gun is successfully developed, you will immediately go over and see it." Speaking of which, Zhu Youzhen said to Wang Chengen:

"Tell the people at the Ordnance Institute that after the research of the self-made fire gun is studied, they will notify me and Man Gui at the same time."

"Slave maid takes orders......" Wang Chengen responded with a slight salute, and Zhu Youzhen also nodded when he saw this, and then explained to them:

"You use this method to train the troops first, and I will inspect the school in half a month."

"The last general commands!" Hearing this, Sun Yingyuan and Man Gui returned the salute one after another, and seeing that Zhu Youzhen had nothing to say, they retreated after saluting.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he squinted his eyes at the backs of the two, and couldn't help but think of others.

The display of the military might of the Imperial Horse Supervisor will undoubtedly put him on the table, and once he collapses, he will be eleven years old.

The older he gets, the greater his restrictions become, unless the good imperial brother is willing to let him be in the northern part of the domain, or Shanxi and other frontiers......