While Zhou Shixian was raising military salaries and supervising armaments, he did not forget the most important training of recruits and officers.

People are the core and most critical factor on the battlefield, and everything else has to be done with the help of people, and a well-trained army can control the complex and changeable battlefield situation.

The most important step is to establish a standardized recruit training system and officer training system and to standardize and institutionalize the construction of the army.

In the seventeenth century, when firearms were rampant and cavalry was still dominant, every soldier of the same type of soldier with the same weapon had to be replaced at any time to ensure the best combat effectiveness of the army.

In other words, in this era, there is no need for soldiers with personalities, only "robots" that are the same and can mechanically carry out military orders.

Zhuang Lidong and Chen Yu set off by boat from Yangzhou, all the way upstream, and the ships transporting the first batch of training officers docked in Jiangyin, Zhenjiang, Jiangpu and other major garrison cities.

Most of the officers who were transferred back to the first batch of officers had performed well on the battlefield and made meritorious contributions, and they had already led the first batch of newly recruited soldiers to complete a simple intensive training, and the subsequent refined training in military formations, weapons skills, and actual combat drills had also been basically completed.

These recruits do not need the support of more veterans and officers for the next training, but simply repeat until they generate muscle memory and can express themselves directly on the battlefield without thinking.

As soon as Zhuang Lidong and Chen Yu got off the boat, they were taken to a house near the dock by the officials sent by the Ministry of War.

Talking to people who don't know, or don't know is Zhuang Lidong's forte, as the head of the original slender man, he is not good at communicating with people, he can't see people and talk about people, and he can't ask for food.

Therefore, for Chen Yu, it may be a matter of exercising courage and speaking ability, but in Zhuang Lidong's opinion, it is much simpler than eating. After all, they had all heard that in the future, officers would have to learn to analyze war reports, and in the face of other people's doubts, they had to be justified and refuted.

After Zhuang Lidong listened to the instructor's introduction, he learned that these officers, who had been promoted by virtue of their military exploits, had to complete the study of various officer skills here and finally pass the assessment before they could continue to hold their posts.

Otherwise, they can only continue to be a reserve supplementary officer, and the salary of the military will be much worse than that of a regular officer, let alone command soldiers to fight. As for the next time such an assessment is conducted, I am afraid it will have to be after next year's war.

Zhuang Lidong, Chen Yu and a group of officers are now in the newly established "Nanjing Military Academy".

"Damn, it's not good to work hard on the battlefield, and you still have to do these things." Zhuang Lidong secretly scolded in his heart, he didn't think that this so-called officer training was of any use, but he had to get it from above, and he had no choice.

The tasks of the officer academy are not many, and they are mainly divided into the study of the art of war and tactics, the study of comprehensive ability, and the study of literacy, and the method of rapid intensive training is adopted, mainly to train and improve the army command, art of war and tactics, battlefield response, weapon knowledge and other contents of officers of the 100 general and above.

The teaching materials used were compiled by Zhou Shixian and several officers with rich combat experience, based on their actual combat experience, and spent more than two months compiling. After that, it was handed over to other officers who had experienced a hundred battles for verification, and it had been revised three times, and the actual combat guidance was of great significance.

Zhuang Lidong has some talent in the art of war and tactics, coupled with his tenacious character and willingness to work hard, and he ranks among the best in the basic quality and comprehensive ability assessment of officers, but his literacy is poor.

However, in the area of literacy, the officers present were all half-hearted, except for a few who liked this test quickly, the others were unwilling to read, and in the end, in order to be promoted, they could only grit their teeth and insist, and the results were only barely passed.

It's not that they are stupid by nature, but the task of intensive training is very heavy, and these officers can dance knives and guns, and it is a little too difficult for them to do this kind of thing.

Although Zhuang Lidong's literacy test ranked low, he finally ranked second when converted with other items, and was rewarded with thirty taels of silver.

After the completion of the training, except for the seven flag generals and one hundred generals, everyone else has passed the verification and can only be used as reserve officers, and must be directly evaluated, while the results of the others can be officially revised after reporting to the military department for verification.

Zhou Shixian has established a complete system for the entire army, the separation of financial and military powers in the army, the supervision of the military law corps, and the restraint of the military law corps to avoid the occurrence of problems such as embezzlement of military salaries and drinking soldiers' blood.

After completing the officer training, before officially obtaining the appointment of the imperial court, Zhuang Lidong and others have already obtained the slip of the military department, and they will also serve as instructors to train the next batch of recruits.

The current situation is still very urgent, and in addition to the soldiers and horses originally planned to be trained, Zhou Shixian recruited two more soldiers from the mixed battalion after the financial suspension.

Zhuang Lidong, Chen Yu, and three other hundred commanders, and nine flag captains came to a recruit barracks seven miles away in the southwest of Nanjing City on the second day. The recruits of this barracks will serve as a reserve force for the next round of the big war, and will be put into the battlefield later in the big war.

They have only just been recruited now, and they have not yet completed their basic training, so naturally they will not be able to catch up with the first battle next year. After all, the Manchus would definitely go to the battlefield as soon as possible.

The barracks were surrounded by high walls on all sides, with horses in front of the gates, arrow towers on both sides, and more than a dozen soldiers guarding the only exit, as if they were facing the enemy.

Now the family members and the soldiers are separated, each living in a different place, and the barracks are full of soldiers.

After walking in with the approval of the Ministry of War, Zhuang Lidong also saw a five-person military law team patrolling around the school grounds, taking a look at the recruits who were already highly nervous from time to time.

This is an unusually familiar scene for Zhuang Lidong, and he instantly feels that the familiar atmosphere in the army has all returned-two years ago, he was also a member of the recruits.

Countless people were sweating in the wide school field, and columns of soldiers were undergoing simple formation training and physical exercise, and after intensive training, they had learned about the discipline of the army, and could distinguish the basic bugle and drum sounds, as well as battle orders, which were the basis of combat on the battlefield.

Zhuang Lidong quickly walked to a group of dozens of recruits under the leadership of an officer, and he took the soldier's name from the officer's hand, and took a picture with several officers who were maintaining military discipline.

The initial training of recruits is completed by an officer with several veterans, mainly to train formations and marches, which is the most basic and important content, otherwise the subsequent formation changes, weapon training, and even personal martial arts will lose their original meaning.

Of course, these veterans are all good on the battlefield, and there is no problem with discipline. When a recruit joins the army, his first impression of the army is very important, and if he lets those veterans bring him with him, he will ruin the atmosphere, and he will not be able to change it even if he wants to.

After Zhuang Lidong finished the roll call and made sure that all the soldiers had arrived, he immediately shouted the basic parade action several times, and the final result was not unexpected, and the degree of completion and neatness was extremely high, and he was also very satisfied.

Then, Zhuang Lidong ordered the whole team of soldiers to run around the school field, and at the same time let his veterans chase after him with sticks, and only hit the ten who are lagging behind, so as to form a competition among the soldiers.

The most important thing in the army is absolute obedience to orders, and absolute hierarchy is required in action. Fighting a war is fatal, the military orders on the battlefield do not allow any consultation, any hesitation, if you want to charge, you have to charge, even if there are thousands of troops galloping in front of you, a dead end, the same.

So, before moving on to other deeper training, the most important thing is to test the soldier's obedience. Through high-intensity physical training, the soldiers' energy to resist is exhausted, so that they lose the ability to think, and become war machines in the military formation that can only obey orders.

After chasing me and chasing me with pain and wailing, this team of soldiers finally completed the five-lap long-distance run, and after Zhuang Lidong gave them a dismount, his heart was actually a little dark. However, he did not show it, and after briefly summarizing the significance of this corporal punishment, he said that he would talk about the training plan for the afternoon and the next two days.

When it was time for the meal, the group of recruits who had been trained all morning were already hungry, but they still had to obey military discipline, went to the canteen in the form of a queue, and then took their seats one by one, and looked at the table of food without any action before the officer's order to open the meal was given.

Meals are placed on the table in advance, although after a larger-scale expansion of the army, but Zhou Shixian now has more resources in his hands, the food of the army under his command will naturally not deteriorate, as long as it is a training day, there will be two meals a day with meat, and the amount depends on the big drill and small practice.

None of them enlisted on the first day of the army, they already knew that there was a time limit for eating, no matter how good the comrades-in-arms were just now, how deep the brotherhood was, at this time they were all starving to death, and if they didn't want to starve, the best way was to grab it as quickly as possible.

Of course, the food on the table is enough for everyone. It's just that after a morning of training, the meat is not open to eat, and the oil and water are not much, so naturally they can eat as much as they want.

"Eat!"

As soon as Zhuang Lidong gave the order, the long dining table immediately burst into commotion, chopsticks and pottery bowls crackled with each other, and the sound of table feet and stool feet rubbing against the ground was mixed together, everyone gobbled up, and their mouths were instantly stuffed and swollen......