85_85536 That's it, a crash course for junior officers in William...... Or in the open air in the classroom of the intermediate literacy class. William held a whip in his hand and wrote with chalk on a small blackboard on a wooden shelf while he talked incessantly. He's been doing this work for almost a week. However, the effect is not too good.

His reserve officers had very limited understanding. The best of the best from the grenadiers are stupid, and the ones from the private cavalry have no brains.

They have received education in traditional cavalry tactics for more than ten years, and their understanding of modern warfare is very shallow. So if you want to change this mindset, just a few days is not enough......

That's it, William gushed on the stage, and off the stage, although no one dared to sleep, or take a nap, or look somewhere else. But there are many people who are in a daze and stupid.

It's not like these people don't really want to learn well. Who would be so stupid that there are officers who don't just do soldiers?

But the problem is that they don't understand what William is talking about - if William takes the military drill code compiled by his spiritual reading ability to the regular army of a major country, the generals will definitely be astonished.

Those who really know how to read the introduction in two minutes have to kneel for William, and when they have finished the whole book, they have to hug William's thighs and cry loudly.

It's just a pity that now, William is not facing the military talents who are at the forefront of this era, but a group of semi-literate people who have just learned to write their own names, the words they know on average, and are dangling around a hundred.

So, William's teaching of these guys is very, very difficult. It can be said that it is not an ordinary struggle. He almost threw up.

William was very helpless. Originally, according to the regular military process, it would take at least ten years to train a junior officer, from receiving a general primary education to an education at the non-commissioned officer academy.

As for William, he naturally couldn't wait ten years to get such a thing. But the problem is that his crash course has so far had little effect. In terms of literacy subjects, Gothic in this era is an alphabetic script, and it is naturally impossible for him to speed up the progress of literacy by relying on cheating things like Hanyu Pinyin like some people...... In fact, in terms of results, the direction of "literacy" is already the fastest among the crash courses for officers.

Unfortunately, it's still not fast enough.

It was only in the last few days that William had changed his teaching policy towards Charlotine.

William had put a lot more effort into Charlumi than the junior officers. Therefore, it is natural to think a lot about Xia Lumi's problem. From this to the other. His attitude towards these quick officers naturally changed.

In response to these reserve officers, William also got the answer from Xia Lumi's body.

It reminded him of a fable he had read in his previous life. That's an interesting story recorded in Zhuangzi, Outer Chapters, and Dasheng: In the past, there were birds that stopped at the suburbs of Lu, and Lu Jun said that for Gu Tai Prison to feast on it, and to play Jiu Shao to enjoy it, the birds were sad and dizzy, and they did not dare to eat and drink. This is said to raise birds by themselves. If the husband raises birds with birds, it is suitable to live in the deep forests, floating rivers and lakes, and eat them with snakes, then the land is just flat.

Once upon a time, there was a seabird flying to the outskirts of the capital of Lu, the king of Lu liked it very much, and used the 'Taigao' to feast on it, and played the music of 'Jiu Shao' to make it happy, and the seabird was sad and sad, dazzled, and did not dare to eat and drink. This is called raising birds according to one's own habits.

If you raise a bird according to its habits, you should let it inhabit deep woods, float in large rivers and lakes, and let it eat loaches and small fish, which is a very common reason.

William felt that this incident was a good illustration of what was happening to him.

He is now like the monarch of the Lu Kingdom, and now these semi-literate reserve officers he teaches are like the seabirds.

Since they are all stupid people with insufficient foundation and limited ability, then don't continue to use the reading voice to talk about textbooks. It's better to do it in a simple and crude way - and that's what it looks like:

"You bastards memorize everything for me! Whatever you do, whether it's rote memorization or stabbing your head—memorize everything I've taught you, word by word!

William shouted loudly to his students. The trainees nodded busily like two chicks pecking rice...... After several former cavalrymen who were dissatisfied with William's corporal punishment and disguised corporal punishment, so they made a fuss, were knocked down by William with a punch, and they were honest like their grandsons.

Yes, yes, that's it. William's method of training these quick officers now became similar to the way he trained soldiers. Basically, it's just going down the old path of simplicity and crudeness. There is no need for blackboard chalk textbooks either. Just use the way of the old master to teach the disciples, and use the dictation, to teach them the most basic tactics and queue application. Then they are asked to repeat it, they are asked to memorize it by rote. If you can't carry it, you will be beaten to death......

Under William's "hard work" and "teaching", the officers of the crash course are making rapid progress.

And this progress was quickly shown in April, when the "goods" brought by the merchant John arrived.

A total of 2,000 selected recruits of the New Army, under the "training" of the officers who had "worked very hard," quickly developed a fighting capacity -- they were beaten in the queue more than the 200 reservists trained by their predecessors, William.

William was surprised to find a "strange" or somewhat terrible phenomenon in his army. He was desperately trying to squeeze the officers. The officers had no place to vent their grievances, so they went down and pressed the soldiers......

Fortunately, these soldiers have no intention of resisting for the time being. Or the intention to rebel. Just because they were too weak, and at the same time, they were very happy with their current situation.

The outcasts who had been chosen by William to be soldiers now enjoyed much more than their predecessors, the reservists. That is, you can eat enough.

In such an era, "being able to eat enough" has a great attraction for the vast majority of civilians. Not to mention these homeless people who have just had enough to eat and have no food to eat.

The vast majority of the displaced soldiers cherished their opportunity -- to be beaten, to be trained hard -- to have enough to eat. The vast majority of displaced soldiers felt that the deal was worth it.

Moreover, the officers who have obtained William's "true biography" also have the "unique skill" that he can beat people to death, but he can't leave his injuries. The outcasts were really wounded, but not really - this was a death order that William gave to his crash course officers.

And the so-called death order means that whoever can't do it will die. The reserve officers believed William's words very much. This is the conclusion given by William Tong guò whip and fist.

In this way, in a very short period of time, William had a team of officers who relied on rote memorization to be unresponsive, tactically backward, rigid-minded, and only qualified for low-ranking infantry officers. At the same time, relying on corporal punishment and adequate food, a new-style army with a tough style, numb thinking, and malnutrition was trained.

In less than two months, the army completed basic cohort training and completed training in the use of flintlock muskets. At the same time, bayonet training was basically completed...... Of course, something as advanced as bayonet art was learned by only a few soldiers who were more savvy. The vast majority of the other soldiers had only practiced a single thrust.

But William felt that this would be enough. He demanded more morale than skill from his soldiers, and obedience more than morale. By harsh training again and again, as well as whipping and corporal punishment. The soldiers basically formed a conditioned reflex. They can march into the river, as in some novels. If there is no order from the officer, the advance will continue. until it is swallowed by the sea.

They can also feel as if they don't feel pain or fear. The face does not change in the face of the spear that bursts at the opposite side, or a scimitar, a sword, a lance, or whatever. At the same time, complete this action of "Thrust".

This ensured that on the battlefield, when engaged in hand-to-hand combat, with bayonets and guns, they could die with the vast majority of the enemy - yes, with them. That's what William demands most from them at the moment.

Of course, William was equally convinced that things would never get to that point—at least not on this battlefield, when facing enemies of this rank. He has put so much effort, so much effort into this army of his. And so much money. How could he allow his army to become a scum that would fight with other armies?

William believed that with the suzhì of the enemy he was going to face, one in half of the enemy would collapse with just one round of fire from his new army artillery. The rest of the enemy, after three rounds of musket fire, had to crumble in half. Then launch a bayonet charge, and the last half will surely fall apart quickly.

Yes yes, that's it. Although William was not sure, his army could do without losing a single person with zero casualties. However, it is not impossible to achieve more "non-combat attrition" than "combat attrition" in some cases......

For example, the battle of Bali Bridge between the British and French forces vs the Mongol cavalry of Seng Lingqin or something...... Look at the sky .......