“… A piece of armor weighs 40 pounds, and weapons and other bits and pieces weigh about 15 pounds. A soldier's ration during a battle is about 2 catties a day, and 20 catties in 10 days. In other words, the weight of each soldier is 75 pounds.

It is more than 300 miles from the capital to Zunhua, and if you go on foot, you have to walk more than 60 miles every day. Carrying more than 70 pounds of things on his back and marching rapidly for 5 days in a row, does such a soldier still have the strength to fight on the battlefield? I let you break the siege, not let you take my soldiers to your death.

Jimen lives in the middle of the capital and Zunhua, slightly close to Zunhua. Most of the main force of Jiannu is cavalry, and it is only a two-day trip from Zunhua to Jimen. How can you be sure that Jiannu didn't cross the Jimen before you arrived at the Thistle Gate?

If you are a soldier, you naturally don't need to think about this, you just need to obey the command and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

But as an officer, if you don't know if your soldiers have the strength to fight before they go to war; It is also not known what limits the enemy's movements are, where the limits of their movement are.

To be honest, I don't think you're fit to be an officer commanding an army in battle..."Zhu Youzhen criticized the cadet of the military academy mercilessly.

Although it seems that Zhu Youzhen is younger, the cadets below feel that there is no childishness in the emperor's speech.

Fang Yucheng, who was refuted by Chongzhen, finally did not dare to speak out against the emperor's examination method. Under the scolding of the instructor of the military school, he sat back with a disgraced face.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the cadets sitting in the courtyard below the steps, although he didn't dare to make any more noise, but his face was still not very convinced.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and then said: "In this way, I will give you a chance, I will ask you a question on the battlefield, as long as you can answer it, I will exempt you from the writing test, and allow you to test the kung fu of riding and archery." ”

The students who were originally dissatisfied in their hearts, especially those from the Liaodong Border Army, suddenly pricked up their ears and wanted to show in front of Chongzhen, proving that even if they didn't learn these words and kung fu, they would be able to play well on the battlefield.

Zhu You sorted out his thoughts and said: "Everyone knows that the red-clothed cannon made a great contribution to the repulsion of Jiannu in the Battle of Ningyuan. I'm going to ask you a question about the Cannon.

The red-coated cannon is nine feet long, the muzzle diameter is about 3 and a half inches, the maximum firing range is 3 miles, the effective firing range is 09 li, and the ammunition and medicine weigh 18 kilograms respectively.

Let's assume that the range of the cannon fired in a horizontal position is 1 mile, and the muzzle is raised or lowered by an inch, and the range is increased or decreased by 01 mile. The muzzle movement up and down cannot exceed 6 inches.

The charge is reduced by 05 kg, the firing range is reduced by 01 li, and the charge must not be less than 12 kg. After firing, it takes 1 and a half minutes to reload the ammo.

The enemy cavalry made a surprise attack on our troops from 5 miles away, and the first three miles were at a rate of pace, that is, 04 miles per minute; Running is used in the middle mile, that is, the speed of 06 miles per minute; The last mile adopts the strike step, which is the speed of 1 mile per minute.

Now I want to ask, how many shots can we fire during the onslaught of the enemy cavalry? What is the elevation angle of the first shot, and the best interception effect? ”

This question from the emperor suddenly made the hearts of the students below half cold, this is obviously still a question to test culture, but it is just a coat of the so-called battlefield.

However, these students could not protest against this, because the topic was really very closely related to the operation. Even a few officers and cadets from Liaodong also admitted that if they wanted to fight Jiannu, they had to rely on the power of the red-coated cannons.

Since artillery is to be used against the enemy, how to shoot from artillery is obviously a skill that officers should master. But it is clear that these students, who have just entered the end of the literacy stage, still have no way to master this math problem that must be calculated using equations.

In fact, among the instructors of the military academy, except for Sun Yuanhua and a few other instructors who taught geometry and mathematics, most of the instructors were also a little overwhelmed by the emperor's questions.

The students, who were still a little unconvinced, finally lowered their heads and did not dare to make eye contact with the emperor.

After waiting for a long time and getting no response from the students, Sun Chengzong on the side had to speak out and said, "Since everyone can't answer His Majesty's question, let's start the exam next." No noise or talk during the exam..."

Zhu You's test paper, he thinks it is the level of primary school graduation in later generations, most of them are math questions, and there are a few simple physics and chemistry questions.

But apparently he forgot one thing, with the continuous advancement of technology, the level of primary school knowledge is constantly rising. The level of primary school graduation in the Republic era was already equivalent to the level of middle school in the Republic of China and the level of pre-university students in the Manchu era.

For Su Changqing, who has experienced the so-called cramming education, he thinks that this paper should make most students qualified. But in fact, less than 1 in 10 students are able to complete 80% of the content of the test paper.

This also led to the fact that the students took the exam for an hour, and the instructors only took an hour to mark the papers.

Among the more than 900 students, less than 60 scored 60 points, and about 10 people scored more than 80 points.

However, among these people, Zhu Youzhen unexpectedly turned to the name of a celebrity, the future Jiangyin warden Yan Yingyuan. Seeing this name, Zhu Youzhen immediately remembered the poem, the Jiangyin woman inscribed Yan Yingyuan's desperate poem.

"The rot and white bones are all over the field, and the eighty days bring allegiance,

Ten thousand dead lonely cities refused to surrender. Table Taizu 17th Dynasty figures.

Sending a message to passers-by to cover their noses, 100,000 people die with one heart,

The living are not as fragrant as the dead. Stay in the Ming Dynasty for 300 miles. ”

The 81st day of Jiangyin can be said to be the most tragic and heroic struggle of the people of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

When the self-proclaimed moral gentlemen of the Donglin Party either shaved their hair and became the obedient people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or they committed suicide to show their integrity without doing anything, the people of Jiangyin finally let out a deafening lion's roar.

Although the struggle of the people of Jiangyin against the Manchu Qing was wiped out by the traitor army of the same Ming people, it still did not affect their greatness.

Zhu Youzhen looked at this name in a daze for a while, and finally came to his senses. Now this Yan Yingyuan is still not the Yan official who will guard Jiangyin City in the future, but just a Tongzhou Wuju person.

After Yan Yingyuan are Jin Guofeng, Cao Bianjiao, Zhou Yuji, and Huang Degong, these people are either from Jiangmen, or from local wealthy families, although they do not have a deep literary foundation, but they have received a certain amount of education since childhood.

As a result, they are more likely to receive the cultural education of military school professors than those junior officers who start learning from literacy.

Zhu Youzhen immediately selected the top 20 students in the examination and summoned them in the lobby of the school's middle school.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the list in his hand, and he called out his names in order and asked these students to introduce themselves, so that he could get to know these future officers of the New Army.

Except for asking Yan Yingyuan a few more questions, his questions were very formulaic for the other students.

After recognizing his face, Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth and asked them, "Do you know what the purpose of this exam is?" ”

The students in the hall looked at each other and said in unison: "It is for the new army to select the leading officers." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, and said with a gentle expression: "What you said is good, but your duty is not only to lead these soldiers to fight and train. The important thing is to let them know who they are? Help them integrate into the army as a collective. ”

The students in the hall were suddenly a little stunned, the emperor's strange request was simply unheard of. Since ancient times, soldiers who have joined the army have not trained them how to kill people and led them into battle to kill the enemy?

Looking at the students standing in the lobby looking at him completely inexplicably, Zhu Youzhen had to explain: "The new army is different from the army before the Ming Dynasty, he is not composed of the children of military families who must be soldiers at birth, nor is he a civilian warrior recruited by the imperial court with a generous military salary.

Therefore, for the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles, they were not destined to fight, nor were they fought for a good monetary reward. If they are not allowed to figure it out, what they have to go to war in the army for.

I thought that if the situation on the battlefield was slightly unfavorable, these soldiers would flee to save their lives. So, if you can't help these soldiers with this, will you feel safe taking them into battle? ”

Zhu Youzhen's question immediately made these students subconsciously nod, especially several officers from the Liaodong Army, who resonated with the emperor's statement.

As a member of the Liaodong Army, they saw a lot on the battlefield, abandoning their allies to Jiannu and fleeing by themselves.

In fact, the Liaodong army did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field, and the most worrying thing was not that Jiannu's force was too strong, but whether friendly troops would come to meet them.

For example, in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, when the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers fought a bloody battle with the main force of the Eight Banners, the Liaodong Army was too timid to step forward to respond, resulting in the annihilation of the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers, and the Liaodong Army was not punished afterwards.

Since then, on the battlefield in Liaodong, the sense of trust between the various armies has been very weak. Watching friendly forces be surrounded and ignored began to become a frequent occurrence.

Therefore, they are very sympathetic to the emperor's statement. In the same way, getting soldiers to identify as part of the army is also a way to strengthen the morale of the army, so that these soldiers can not abandon their comrades and commanders when they lose on the battlefield.

Cao Bianjiao, who had a straightforward personality, couldn't help but ask Chongzhen respectfully: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, then we should let the sergeants know who they are?" And what should be done to get them out? ”