The arrival of Chongzhen brought dawn to the School of Engineering, and the plaque inscribed by Chongzhen raised the folk studies to a new height.

Although it is a folk study, although there is no interference from the imperial court in it, the word royal alone is enough to make the people crazy.

Chongzhen left Xishan with Queen Zhou and the two reluctant princesses in the evening of the same day.

All free system, package distribution, when the emperor personally came to amnesty the world's craftsmen, the mountain chief is the king of Anguo County, who is red and purple......

As soon as the news spread, on the second day, the gate of the engineering college was full of children from the surrounding people's families, and on the third day, the engineering college was already surrounded by the sky.

The children of the craftsmen's families, the ordinary people's families have more half-grown children who can't afford to raise, the landlords who have lost their land have broken down their homes, and the nobles who have lost their titles have broken down their families......

In the end, the Ordnance Institute had to send an additional 100 craftsmen of all kinds to participate in the test and assessment, and although it was repeatedly streamlined, more than 2,000 disciples aged 13 to 16 with some foundation were still screened out in ten days.

After a toss, the affairs of the College of Engineering were just over, but the lecture hall was about to be completed, and Gu Jia, the right attendant of the former military department, who had been talking about the affairs of the martial arts hall on this day, came to the door.

"My lord, there is still a lack of a teacher who knows the military array in the martial arts hall, I still can't find it after searching the capital camp, you are the principal, you have to think of a way." Gu Jia didn't even salute when he entered the door, and walked directly to Liu Hongji.

This guy is also a serious person, and he lived in the armory station the next day after the resignation was handed over, and the first house in the martial arts hall was just repaired, regardless of the many inconveniences over there, Gu Jia was the first to move in, just because it was convenient to supervise all kinds of matters at any time.

The administrator of the Daming private academy is called the mountain chief, and the government-run schools such as the Liangjing Guozi supervisor are called sacrificial wine, and Gu Jia has never heard of the title of the principal.

But Liu Hongchuan is the boss, insisting on letting people call him the principal, and making himself the vice principal, and the Gu family has nothing to do.

Fortunately, he doesn't care what the title is, and Liu Hongjian is basically running the engineering college, but he has always been in Zhang Luo on the side of the martial arts hall, and he is happy to be busy.

It's just that now there are suitable teachers for each subject, but only one subject of the military formation is still pending.

Although Lin He, the general of the Beijing camp, volunteered and demonstrated the musket phalanx to him, Gu Jia was still not satisfied.

"Formation, is it that important? Principal Ben felt that in the face of absolute strength, any skill would be in vain! Liu Hong gradually felt that this old Gu was a bit too serious.

After all, he can be regarded as having fought a few tough battles, formation? What is it? Haven't heard of it! Lao Tzu's routine is to beat a few blind shots, and carrying an AK is to do it!

And they all won!

"Principal, you can't underestimate the formation, the famous generals of the ancients, who is not a master of arranging the formation, the soldier immortal Han Xin, the soldier saint Sun Wu, the soldier Zong Tian Sui Tho, and the soldier god Bai Qi, are all good at formations."

Gu Jia became anxious when he heard this, and said in his heart that you are the principal, if even you don't care about the formation like this, wouldn't the martial arts taught by this martial arts hall be a group of stunned young people who only know how to do things?

As for the so-called large phalanx of the Shenji Battalion?

The musket phalanx is fine against less than 10,000 people, but in the final analysis, it is only suitable for musket battalions, and the Ming Dynasty fought in tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, including cavalry, infantry, musketeers, grenadiers, and musketeers......

In the event of a surprise attack, it is extremely difficult to coordinate and bring out the full strength of the army without a suitable formation.

Coordinated operations and formations are the most important things in the army, and at this point, how can Lin He, who only knows how to use some musketeers, be competent?

In fact, there were a few ugly words Gu Jia didn't dare to say, Lord Principal, you have won a few battles, but look at who are the people who are fighting against you?

Outcasts, bandits, wild tartars...... It's just a bunch of bandits who only know how to rush and loot.

Since the establishment of the martial arts, the goal is not only to conquer all the Tartars, but also to face those overseas firearms who are no worse than the great Ming!

"I'm afraid of you, but this principal doesn't know where there are masters who know formations, do you have a favorite candidate?" Liu Hong gradually saw that this old Gu was chattering and vowing, and he looked like he would not give up if he was not convinced, so he had to give in.

"Yes." Gu Jia was overjoyed and said casually.

"Since there is one, I will invite it, how much money do you need to find Song Lao to support, and what do you want to do with this principal, I don't know if this principal has been very busy recently?"

Liu Hong is now wealthy, although Chongzhen is slamming the door of hundreds of officials, but Liu Hong gradually asks for project money and other needs, but he is not merciless.

"Headmaster, not everyone in this world likes silver." Gu Jia was almost choked by Liu Hongji's words.

The heart said that it was not with the wrong person, what kind of adult is such a philistine, if the teachings of the martial arts hall are all for silver, then what is the future of the martial arts hall?

"Oh? If you don't like silver, then it's not easy to do, so let's go to Beijing and let Wu Binghao send a small flag soldier to you, and go and 'invite' that person to this principal." ”

"Headmaster, the ...... He is a descendant of the Qi family. Gu Jia was speechless and had to say clearly, your small banner is probably not enough to stuff people's teeth.

"Qi family? Qi Jiguang? Hiss-" Liu Honggradually almost subconsciously said this familiar name in later generations, and then he was startled again, and looked at Gu Jia incredulously.

"General Qi still has descendants alive?" Liu Hong gradually stood up directly from his lazy state.

Qi Jiguang's name, anyone who has been in elementary school knows that he is an absolute fierce man, and the coastal widows who fought with 4,000 Qi family troops cried and shouted for their mothers, and finally had to lie dormant temporarily.

The strict discipline of the Qi family's army was prohibited, and the essence of Sun Wufeng, forest, fire, and mountain was brought into full play, and even the Eight Banners that Huang Taiji was proud of were frightened by the Qi family's army.

"Yes, principal, although all the Qi family's troops were killed in the battle of Hunhe, after my many investigations, there are indeed descendants of the Qi family in the stable Qijia Fort in Anhui, and they are still descendants."

The Qi family is good at various formations, and in the Battle of the Hunhe River, Qi Jin relied on unpredictable formations and a pair of firearms, and beat tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers all over the ground to find teeth.

In the end, Huang Taiji gathered tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers to carry out a wheel war against the 4,000 Qi army, which fought for a whole day, the Qi family army ran out of ammunition and food, exhausted, and the reinforcement generals were too timid to support, so that the Qi family army was annihilated.

At the beginning, Gu Jia learned the news that the Qi family still had descendants, and sighed happily that there was no endless road, if the Qi family was invited to teach the formation, then the martial arts hall would really be a good job.

However, after this battle, the Qi family army was completely annihilated, and the court not only refused to give rewards and pensions, but also was slandered by the cowardly generals for their greed for merit, and the Qi family army has been forgotten by the world since then.

It was precisely because the Qi family had suffered such a great injustice that Gu Jia sent people to invite him several times, but they were all rejected by the Qi family, so he wanted to come to Liu Hong, who had great powers, to help.

Gu Jia was surprised to hear that the principal actually knew General Qi's name, but this was easy to say.

"In this way, I'm afraid it's really necessary for this principal to go on a trip in person, the court is ashamed of the Qi family!" Liu Hong gradually sighed, when he fought a decisive battle with Jiannu by the Hunhe River last year, a veteran of the border army told him about the Qi family back then, and he was still embarrassed at that time.

Qi Jiguang in the late Ming Dynasty absolutely worthy of the name of the god of war, his Qi family army was not more than 4,000, but the death of his Qi family army under the prestige of the Japanese bandits, bandits, Tartars was no less than 100,000, by later generations praised as the strongest army in East Asia in the 17th century.

What a proportion!

More importantly, Qi Jiguang is a fierce man who attaches great importance to firearms and firearm formations, and the firearms utilization rate of Qi's army is as high as fifty percent, and with the corresponding various formations, it is common for them to win with 4,000 enemies and tens of thousands.

This fierce man also has a unique job, that is, all kinds of firearms issued by the Ministry of Transformation, such as cupola cannons, all kinds of bird guns, and even enhanced versions of Furlong machine guns, earth tanks, and so on.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, he was exposed by Wanli's coffin, and even the Qi family was implicated, not only lost his backer, but was often worn by traitors in small shoes.

Qi Jiguang once asked for orders, hoping to carry out rotation training for the Ming army's million troops, and he would teach him tactics to improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, but was rejected by the imperial court.

Later, he proposed to train the middle and low-level generals of the local army in rotation, but he was rejected, and was condemned by the imperial court for his ill intentions and was dismissed from all positions.

God is pitiful, he just loves the land under his feet and wants to protect the people of Daming from slaughter!

However, the situation is stronger than people, and Qi Jiguang could not directly improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, so he had to save the country.

When he was old, he wrote two military classics, "The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training", according to the characteristics of the civilian officials in charge of the army in the Ming Dynasty.

He wrote down the training, marching, and combat methods meticulously, as long as they were carried out according to the book, and accompanied by "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and other strategy books, it was not impossible for a literati to take charge of the army.

However, the imperial court abandoned it, and later Liu Hong gradually learned about it, so he looked around and couldn't get it.

In fact, the real history is that these two treasure books were not only abandoned by the civil officials of the imperial court, but also banned from being printed, and were originally used as butt wiping paper by the civil officials.

And what really made these two divine books shine was a man named Zeng Guofan two hundred years later.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Rebellion broke out, and the Qing court allowed Hanchen to recruit private soldiers because the Eight Banners Army was too useless.

"Let's go out with Principal Ben!" Liu Hong got up immediately, found a random piece of clothing, put it on, and wanted to go out.

"My lord, why are you going?" Gu Jia said a lot, but he thought that the principal didn't listen to it, and he was directly furious.

"What else can you do, prepare a horse, and go to Qijiabao with this principal!"

……

Five days later. Anding, Qijiabao.

"Who are you looking for?" A few half-grown children holding spears at the entrance of Qijiabao looked at the adults in front of them and asked, but there was no fear in their eyes.

"Go and report to the head of your family, and say that the prince is coming, and order him to come and see him quickly." The bull said to the boy on his horse.

Niu Dabang mallet feels that his master is a little too solemn, but he is just a group of villagers, can he come all the way?

One of the children listened to the words of the bull's mallet, looked at the other three, and trotted to the castle.

In a short time, an old man came from the castle, and the old man looked very old, with silver hair, beard and white eyebrows, but his steps were still sonorous and powerful, except that his left leg was a little lame.

"The king of Anguo County is here, the old Wu Chengye has lost his welcome, and I hope that the prince will forgive his sins!" Wu Chengye stepped forward and bowed deeply.

"You are the head of the Qi Family Fort? No, you don't have a surname Qi! Liu Hong gradually looked at Gu Jia, but although this guy sent two waves of people, he didn't even enter the gate of the Qi family, and the second monk couldn't touch his ass.

"No, no, no, the old man is just the village leader of this Qi family fort, and he is also the housekeeper of the Qi family, the head of the family, Qi Yuangong, is unwell, and it is inconvenient to welcome guests, so he specially ordered the old man to come to entertain, the prince please enter the fort to rest for a while!"

Wu Chengye prevaricated for his own head of the family in a few words, and in the past ten years, this has been familiar to him.

Liu Hong gradually took the lead in entering the fort, Gu Jia immediately followed, while Niu Dabang, Liu Hu and Liu Bao each held weapons and watched around vigilantly.

In order not to cause misunderstanding among the Qi family, Liu Hongjian came this time with five hundred guards, but they all ordered him to stop a few miles away from Qi's fort.

And he only came with three family members, Corporal Lixian, there is no need to guard against the Qi family.

There are almost all ordinary houses in Qijia Fort, the streets are neat and tidy, and there is no trace of clutter, and you can go straight to the center of the fort and see a chic courtyard.

"Does Elder Wu know what this king is here for?" Liu Hong gradually signaled the bull mallet to relax, and he turned back to the white-haired Wu Chengye.

Thinking that Lao Gu sent several waves of people to be turned away, he didn't believe that the head of the Qi family was unwell and could not welcome guests, most of them were people who didn't want to see the court.

"Alas! How can you not know about old decay. Wu Chengye sighed and said.

Since the Qi family army was wiped out with hatred twenty-five years ago, almost every year, there are generals with troops from the surrounding areas who come to visit Qijia Fort, but they are all turned away by the head of the family.

In addition to visiting, these people without exception all want to get a glimpse of the true inheritance of the Qi family's formation, but since the death of the old master, the Qi family's heart has died, and they no longer want to talk about military affairs.

When the young master grew up, he was even more obsessed with the death of the old master, and he didn't even want the hereditary command of the head, and more than 200 families in Qijiabao only did agriculture and mulberry from then on, and did not care about the affairs of the world.

And because of the prestige of the ancestors, the surrounding people, whether they were the government or the generals who led the troops, did not dare to come to find trouble, and it was twenty-five years.

"If the prince doesn't like it, please go to a place with the old man." Wu Chengye knew that the identity of the person in front of him was noble, and he knew that he couldn't convince him in a few words, so he said.

Liu Hong gradually had no choice but to follow Wu Chengye out of the courtyard and wanted to go east of Qijiabao.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, he walked straight to a mile away from the dwellings, but he saw that there were hundreds of graves as far as the eye could see.

Wu Chengye didn't say a word, walked through the graves to a cypress tree with two people hugging each other, and knelt down to salute.

A bluestone tombstone under the cypress tree is engraved with only five big characters: Qi Jiguang's tomb.

Although there are patches of graves around, no one shows timidity, including the bull and the mallet.

The people buried here must be heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country!

Liu Hong's heart ached faintly when he saw all this, Qi Jiguang was finally impeached by the civil officials of the imperial court, removed from his official position, took back the reward, and did not receive any posthumous gifts after returning to his hometown and dying.

Wu Chengye bowed three times in front of Qi Jiguang's tomb, and then walked to the tomb next to Qi Jiguang and knelt, but he couldn't kneel for a long time, and the inscription on this tombstone was only four big characters: Qi Jin's tomb.

Liu Hong gradually waited quietly, looking at this old man who became hopeless and sad in an instant, he knew that this old man must have something to say to him.

After a while, Wu Chengye got up with old tears, and he stroked the corner of Qi Jin's tombstone and seemed to fall into memory.

"...... Twenty-five Years Ago"

PS: Thank you friends for your concern, the cold is very good, this little setback is just a drizzle.