This year's Lantern Festival Inner Government has obviously learned the lessons of last year and has stockpiled enough sugar and glutinous rice flour to supply the Lantern Festival diet of more than 50,000 people in the Jingying, the New Army, the Jinyi Guard, and the Imperial Army.

Regarding Chongzhen's visit to the northern suburbs to spend the Lantern Festival with the new army and the soldiers of the Beijing camp, the generals of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion finally felt that the emperor seemed to regard this day to the northern suburbs to comfort the army as a fixed procedure every year.

The emperor developed this habit, which was naturally a good thing for these generals. After all, only by having more contact with the emperor and leaving an impression in Chongzhen's heart, their promotion will be smoother in the future.

However, these generals of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion finally didn't follow Chongzhen's ass like last year, and they didn't know how to deal with Chongzhen's inspection at all.

Under the arrangement of Governor Yu Zhigao, several deputy generals and staff generals of the Beijing camp, Shi Hongmo, Yuan Xin, Liu Guofang, and Fang Mengyuan, each transferred a company to show Chongzhen the results of military training in the past year.

It is a shame to say that although Yu Zhigao has a world-famous father, he can't learn his father's conducting art. Unlike Qi Jiguang, who focused on military training and the organizational system of the army, Yu Dayou was a genius military commander.

For example, when a general like Qi Jiguang fights, he must select soldiers for him and then train them all over again, and after the soldiers are familiar with the military formation and the military system of the Qi family's army, they can go into battle to kill the enemy. As long as Qi Jiguang is allowed to train an army, then basically he will not suffer defeat in the field, no matter how strong the enemy is.

But if you don't give him time to train his troops, but randomly pick an army for him to take into battle, then even if Qi Jiguang personally commands it, he will lose.

And Yu Dayou is different, although he also attaches importance to the method of military training in war, his requirements for the army are not as high as Qi Jiguang. His best way of fighting is to maximize the ability of the only army at hand, grasp the enemy's weakest link, and defeat it with one blow.

Therefore, he used wheelbarrows to fight against the Mongol cavalry, and used the sailors to attack the Japanese who were not good at water warfare, and every time he encountered a new enemy, his combat methods would change accordingly.

Tan Lun, who was his contemporary, commented on him like this, "Temperance and shrewdness, Gong (Yu Dayou) is not as good as Lun." Faith rewards must be punished, and the public is not as good as Qi (Qi Jiguang). Fierce galloping, the public is not as good as Liu (Liu Xian). However, this is all small knowledge, and the public is very popular. ”

And Yu Zhigao, who grew up under his father's name, is obviously just an ordinary person. He didn't want to say that he didn't understand the enemy's flaws, and even the advantages of his subordinate generals were at a loss. So when he was in Fujian, he was beaten by Zheng Zhilong, and even his subordinates were detached. If Chongzhen hadn't sent someone to recruit Eighteen Zhi, it is estimated that this general would have committed suicide in fear of sin.

However, apparently Yu Zhigao's luck is very good, as a son of a southern general, the Yu family started from Yu Dayou, so he has nothing to do with the border army and the Beijing camp system.

After being transferred to Beijing by Chongzhen's personal order, he naturally became Chongzhen's most reliable supporter in the army, and after clearing Xungui's power in Beijing, Yu Zhigao can be regarded as the governor of Gyeonggi.

However, with the formation and growth of the new army, especially Zuo Liangyu who was transferred from Jizhou Town and Wu Huai from Liaodong Town, these two people are also middle- and lower-level officers with no background, and the two of them performed well in the battle against Chahar Lindan Khan last year, which made Yu Zhigao, who had limited ability, feel threatened.

So he plans to perform in front of Chongzhen today, although he can't learn his father's command art, it doesn't mean that he can't use Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao Xinshu" to train soldiers. Compared with the military book written by his father, the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", which obviously focuses more on training and organization, is more suitable for the training of generals like him.

Regardless of whether the soldiers he trained could fight or not, at least the troops who paid attention to training and organization always walked in unison when they practiced the military formation in front of Chongzhen, which was very appreciative.

Qi Jiguang paid the most attention to the establishment of a command system in the army, and in his mind, the smallest combat unit of an army should be a sentinel.

The Woosh team whistle appears to be four levels of command, but in reality there are only three levels. Two teams and one team, four teams and one sentry, each post is 12 people. For every four sentinels, a commander is set up to command.

These four sentinels formed a hollow phalanx, and the birds, firearmsmen, and sentinels were protected in this hollow phalanx. With one heavy musketeer per outpost, there were four men in the phalanx who could attack from a distance.

When such a small phalanx is formed into a character or five-flower array, the gap between the phalanx and the phalanx becomes a position to flank the enemy. To put it simply, Qi Jiguang is equivalent to using people to build a fortress of activity.

The pikemen are used to repel enemies, the short men are used for hand-to-hand combat, and the musketeers or firearms are responsible for the output of firepower.

Therefore, the key to training troops with the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" lies in two points: first, soldiers are required to always be able to obey commands on the battlefield; On the other hand, it requires the commander of the sentry and the general to coordinate with the adjacent phalanx when fighting, and can neither highlight the battle formation nor lag behind.

It is always necessary to ensure that the flanks of friendly and neighboring forces are always protected during the battle, so that the attacking enemy forces are always under the crossfire of their own side. To be honest, the semi-firearm military array designed by Qi Jiguang is completely insoluble for a cold weapon enemy army.

Of course, this tactic is still a bit outdated for the current European armies. However, this is not that Qi Jiguang is outdated, but the development of European musket and artillery technology has made the European army begin to transform into a modern army with all firearms.

If Qi Jiguang had been fortunate enough to live in this era and have witnessed the ongoing Thirty Years' War in Europe, then he would have also revised his training methods to increase the proportion of musketeers.

It should be said that in the past year, after eliminating three-fifths or four-fifths of the personnel in the Beijing battalion, those who were able to stay were considered to be soldiers of better quality.

And Chongzhen spared no effort to improve the food supply of these sergeants, and constantly strengthened their physical training, and now these sergeants look strong and burly.

A company of 264 people in the Beijing camp was divided into 4 general posts. These sergeants wore armor and held various flags, and they looked very imposing.

To be able to perform in front of Chongzhen and the generals, these sergeants are also quite hard working today, after all, the treatment of the sergeants is really good, and in the face of the continuous recruitment and expansion of the new army, they have also begun to worry about their future.

What's more, the sergeants in the Gyeonggi camp had already heard about the Gyeonggi Governor's Office's preparations for forming a field unit with better salaries. The cavalry wing under Wu Huai and the chariot cavalry battalion under Zuo Liangyu were obviously incompetitive. But these sergeants were also unwilling to lose to the hillbillies of the New Army, who had only eaten a year's old rice.

Although there are still training methods for the chariot battalion and the horse battalion in the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", Yu Zhigao cleverly chose the simplest infantry battalion, although those two kinds of troops are suitable for the north, but obviously they are not something that he, a southern general who is not familiar with northern operations, can train.

Moreover, the car battalion and horse battalion are not only costly, but also have higher requirements for the organization and training of sergeants, after all, the car battalion and horse battalion need a larger range of operations, so the command requirements for the generals are naturally higher.

For such a small-scale exercise, it is still a compact infantry battalion that looks more aesthetically pleasing. After the queue training suggested by Chongzhen, the coordination ability of the soldiers of the Beijing camp was obviously stronger than that of those armies who directly practiced traditional military formations.

At least several members of the general staff around Chongzhen were deeply surprised by the performance of the military formation in Beijing, but they knew very well what this army was like in the past.

With the appearance of this army now, although I don't know what they will become on the real battlefield, at least it is far more than the Xuanda border army they have seen. To put it mildly, it's enough to pull this army out and scare people.

Listening to the comments and praises of these members of the General Staff, Yu Zhigao, who was standing next to Chongzhen, finally had a feeling of raising his eyebrows. The past record of being beaten by Zheng Zhilong is the best example of him often being criticized by those officials.

Although Yu Zhigao is a mediocre person, he does not want to be compared with his father all day long. What disgusted him the most was that these officials who attacked him didn't want to drive him away from the position of governor of Gyeonggi Metropolitan Government, which really my aunt couldn't bear.

However, the praise of these members of the General Staff did not make him dizzy, and he still quietly paid attention to the emperor's face. He knew very well that everything he was doing now came from Chongzhen's support, and without the emperor's appreciation of him, he would have been grabbed by the pigtails of the defeat in Fujian and sent to prison.

Unlike the views of those members of the General Staff, Chongzhen was not amazed by the performance of these Beijing camp sergeants. After all, the speed and neatness of these sergeants are not as good as those of high school students in later generations, so it is difficult for Chongzhen to have a bright feeling.

Of course, later generations of high school students have relied on basically non-stop exercises in school since elementary school, and have long portrayed the training method of the queue as an instinctive reaction of their own bodies. It is still too much to bully these Jingying soldiers to compare them with the high school students of later generations.

Although Chongzhen also knows that lining up and walking right does not mean that he can fight. However, he also believes that the obedience and convergence required for platoon training and forward foot training are the dividing line between the modern army and the old army.

Platoon training does not teach these sergeants how to fight, but it allows them to find their place in the new platoon as quickly as possible. In the present era, the phase in which the two armies suffer the greatest casualties is often the fleeing phase when one side begins to crumble.

An army that can regain formation at any time, even if it is defeated, will not have the worst possible rout of the entire army. The convergence of forward training will make it easier for individuals to integrate into the military collective to which they belong. Seven or eight thugs can probably disperse hundreds of individuals, but they won't be the opponents of five or six soldiers, and that's where the sense of belonging comes in.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Youzhen finally stopped thinking about whether the army below was a showmanship. It's a mule or a horse, just pull it out and slip it on.

"The soldiers of the Beijing camp have practiced well, but there is no opponent to test their training results, and I always feel that something is missing. Hasn't the New Army also been training for a year? And the officers of Macao and Spain, didn't they also train a company each? Let's just play them against each other, and let me see how they're doing..."