What makes Huang Bochun feel that the normal school is different is not only the political concept that is different from the science advocated by the imperial court, but also the selection of students and the allocation of teachers. Because of the free accommodation and food, Miao Jiang was very enthusiastic about sending people to study in the Perak Army, and there were about 600 people in total. Among them, 200 cadets were sent to the normal school, second only to those who studied military affairs. In fact, the tribes were not very interested in teachers, and they were more enthusiastic about learning techniques such as industrial and mining. However, the number of teachers was insisted on by the Perak Army, and for this reason, Ouyang Xuan and Lu Dezhi repeatedly explained and emphasized the importance of education. In their view, if we do not attach importance to education, the development of military science and technology and industrial and mining will be water without roots, and sooner or later the impetus for development will be exhausted.

For the trainees sent by Banshu and various tribes, the Perak Army generally accepts all the orders and respects the professional choices of Banzhou and each tribe. The reason why I say so-so, is because the normal school conducts a test three days after the start of classes. In addition to language expression and thinking ability, the most important thing in the test is how to understand the concept of "the people first, the community second, and the king first". This time, the test results directly eliminated half of the students. These eliminated trainees have been re-studied according to their wishes. Most of these people happily chose military training, and only a small number chose medicine, agricultural technology, and industrial and mining technology. It was this test that made Huang Bochun feel that the Perak Army attached great importance to the education of Miaojiang, even more than the military.

Huang Bochun is glad that he passed the test. Because in the next study, he is even more excited - the teaching staff is really luxurious. It was not only Lu Dezhi who taught them, but even Ouyang Xuan personally came to teach them. In addition to their knowledgeable knowledge and vivid lectures, it also means that the students can be called their own disciples, which is of great benefit to their future development. As the leader of the Perak Army, Ouyang Xuan had to deal with very complicated military and political affairs, and he also had to spend a lot of time engaged in scientific research, and it was not easy to insist on teaching normal students every week. You must know that Ouyang Xuan did not teach students of other majors, even the military majors that everyone looked up to.

In addition to this, the curriculum of the normal school is much richer. In addition to teaching the political philosophy of the Perak Army and advocating "equality for all", the content of the normal school is all-encompassing, including arithmetic, astronomy, geography and other scientific knowledge, in addition to literature, which sounds quite novel but reasonable and makes people feel uncomfortable. The two main textbooks used by the school teachers in their lectures are Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" and the other is "Scientific Common Sense" written by Ouyang Xuan himself. After this period of study, Huang Bochun vaguely understood that one of the dreams of the Thunderbolt Army, or Ouyang Xuan, was to spread the concept of the Thunderbolt Army and science and technology, and these students were the seeds.

Huang Bochun is a person with high IQ and emotional intelligence, he only told his companions about the superficial situation, and never mentioned his own speculation. Contrary to his caution, Tian Liang's words were much more complacent. As the son of the head of Tianda, he has been exposed to wars since he was a child, and he will most likely be the leader of Banshu in the future, so he has a wait-and-see attitude towards military studies. The Banzhou army is very prestigious, not only the imperial court is extremely dependent, but even the Mongolian army is afraid of three points, so the Banzhou army generals, including the head of Tian Da, think very highly of themselves. Although they admit that the Perak army is strong, they believe that it is because of the merits of firearms, but in terms of the bravery and strategy of the soldiers, it is the Banshu army that is superior. If the Banju Army had firearms, the name of the Thunderbolt Army would naturally be overshadowed by the Banju Army.

The reason why Tian Liang complained and didn't care was because all he learned during this time was housekeeping and queues, all of which was walking in line, shouting slogans, reciting instructions, and even cleaning and hygiene. In his opinion, no matter how neat the barracks and armor were, and how neatly the bedding was folded, it would be useless to win the battle. It's just that what he doesn't know is that housekeeping and the queue are only the first step in the development of discipline in the army. At present, firearms are not mature, or before the invention of the nemesis machine gun of the cavalry, the firearms unit must rely on strict discipline to maintain the formation in order to defeat the Mongol cavalry, which was at the peak of the cold weapon age. Only by withstanding the casualties of the Mongol cavalry and counterattacking with artillery and muskets finally crushed the enemy. This is in essence a contest of discipline and will in the army, and whoever fails to withstand it first will be defeated.

Although these trainees from the Miaojiang and Yibo regions are of very strong quality as individual soldiers and bear hardships and stand hard work, they have a poor sense of military discipline and a poor ability to serve the public. After discipline and rectification, formal military training is carried out, including squad tactics, firearms maintenance, formation and formation, field raids, and other subjects. Those with excellent results in the above subjects will be selected for training in advanced military classes, where they will learn infantry command, artillery, naval vessels, and special operations, respectively. To learn infantry and cavalry command, you need to have served as a grassroots officer at the company and platoon level, to learn a ship, you need to have experience in naval forces, and to learn special operations, in addition to being a strong individual soldier, you also need to be familiar with ranging and mapping technology. Artillery is the most technological, requiring a mathematical foundation in addition to literacy, so that the next step is to learn courses such as artillery construction, working principles, and ballistic calculations.

The so-called ignorant are fearless, and a blind eye leads to Tian Liang's complacent and dismissive. At the moment, he and a few of his partners were talking and laughing, sitting around the warm room drinking and eating meat. What he didn't know was that not all the students celebrated the Spring Festival as much as he did. Several Yibo students in his class were lying in the reeds, enduring hunger and icy cold, looking at the city of Hanzhou in front of them. Crouching in front of them were several soldiers of the Thunderbolt Special Brigade. Two days ago, this reconnaissance team set out from Hengyuan Fort and took advantage of the slackness of the Mongolian army near the Spring Festival to carry out a reconnaissance mission in close proximity. Although the Mongolian cavalry did not celebrate the Spring Festival, there were a large number of Mongol Han troops and new annexed troops in the Sichuan and Western Mongolian armies, and they were going to celebrate the Spring Festival.

This reconnaissance team consisted of 10 people, and the leader of the team was none other than Dunzhu, a well-known scout of the special brigade. Dunzhu was a battle-hardened veteran, and his most famous mission was to rescue Yu Xing's artillery technicians who had been detained in Meizhou. That operation freed the Thunderbolts from a passive situation and made Dondrup famous. After the establishment of the Second Teaching Battalion, which was mainly composed of Miao Jiang and Yibo students, the General Staff transferred him as an instructor in view of the fact that it was easier to communicate with the people of Dunzhu. According to the teaching plan, in order for each military cadet to graduate, he must be tested in actual combat, and he can participate in combat or reconnaissance operations. Therefore, in the reconnaissance mission personally issued by Ouyang Xuan, Dunzhu not only brought five soldiers from the special brigade, but also brought one each of the two most outstanding Miaojiang students and Yibo students.

After the reconnaissance team set off from Guankou Village, it first went to Pengzhou and Huai'an Army, and after the reconnaissance in Hanzhou, it will go south to the direction of Yunding City and Jianzhou, and detour all the way back to Pengshan City. The operation went smoothly thanks to the new equipment such as binoculars and new revolvers. Needless to say, the role of the telescope is to say that the revolver is imitated from the revolver, this kind of weapon in the trial production stage, although due to the poor processing accuracy of the parts, resulting in the barrel locking is not tight, the effective range is only more than ten meters, but it can fire six shots in a row to make it a melee weapon. The success of this operation is due to the fact that Dunzhu led all the elite people. In particular, the tribal cadets performed extremely well, not only because they had a very long vision and a keen sense of hearing, but also because they were good at using weapons such as short crossbows and knives, and the Mongolian sentries were often killed in silence. These tribal cadets are natural hunters, and in their eyes the Mongolian soldiers are just prey to be slaughtered.