To the east of Guangzhou, in the lower reaches of the Pearl River, about 30 miles away from Guangzhou, a row of brand-new buildings has been erected. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info there is a sign hanging outside these complexes that reads: Whampoa Military Academy. Walking into the gate, the yard is surrounded by shade, white buildings under the green trees, and in the yard, there are empty playgrounds, shooting ranges, training grounds, etc.

The Whampoa Military Academy was relocated from the original Qiongzhou Lecture Hall and expanded into a formal military academy, which is as famous as the Singapore Naval Academy and has become one of the two major military academies of the Ming Dynasty. In order to form a truly modern army, it is necessary to have a real military academy to train personnel for warfare.

The Army's military academies are divided into eight majors, including artillery, infantry, cavalry, engineer, specialty, baggage, military and medical science.

Among them, the special operations section trains special operations personnel such as special agents, night officers, and spies, the baggage department trains logistics officers, and the military discipline trains officers for political and ideological work.

Wang Xinyu is the president of the military academy, Wang Yuyou is the director of the teaching and research department, and Zheng Cong and Geng Zhongge are all serving in the military academy.

Because Wang Xinyu had decided to let Geng Jingzhong serve as the king of Jingbei, one mountain could not tolerate two tigers, so Geng Zhongge was assigned the position of deputy chief instructor of the military academy, and Wang Yuyou also served as the chief instructor.

Although the military academy is training a modern army with firearms, fighting tactics such as fighting bayonets are still very important, and Wang Xinyu expects that the breech gun will not be realized within five years. For the army with a front-loading gun, the musketeers must have superb stabbing skills, and the musketeers behind the bayonets can block the enemy in front and output fire in the back.

Fang Chonggong, Hong Xiguan, Cai Dezhong, Wang [Fu] Chen and other masters all came to the army as part-time instructors, and every new cadet of the military academy, whether you are a veteran who has fought a war, or a farmer's child who has just put down his hoe, or a miner, or a scholar who has just abandoned his pen and followed Rong, must go through strict queue training and physical training.

Queue training, one stop is a morning. In September in Guangzhou, the climate was very hot, and the trainees stood under the scorching sun, wearing red long-sleeved military uniforms, sweating under the scorching sun, but no one dared to move, because the instructor stood behind him with a whip in his hand.

The requirement of the training is to make the cadets afraid of the instructor and even more afraid of the enemy. If a student fails to complete the movement, of course, it will not be whipped immediately, but various physical punishments such as push-ups, running around the playground, and cross-country with weights, and they are not allowed to eat if they fail to complete it. Instructors will also come to the room at night, and students who violate discipline will be punished in various ways. If there is a deliberate confrontation with the instructor, deliberately not completing the punishment, etc., they will be whipped and whipped.

What if there are cadets who can't withstand the training and become deserters? That's almost impossible to happen! Because once you join a military school, the situation at home is registered. Being a deserter is completely different from the students who have been eliminated!

If the students who were eliminated during the assessment because their grades were not up to par, although they failed to complete their studies, they can also be regarded as students who came out of the Whampoa Military Academy, they can be demoted to become soldiers in the second-line troops, or they can choose to retire and go home to become a small officer, or to be a catcher, a servant or the like, after all, they have undergone strict training, whether they are soldiers in the second-line army or as a small officer, they have an advantage over others.

But as a student who is a deserter, it is completely different! Not only will they be judged and sent to hard labor as prisoners, but the fields assigned to the family will also be confiscated, those who are born as scholars will be stripped of their fame, and the son of a craftsman and worker will be unemployed!

As for themselves, they will be treated the same as Qing prisoners of war, and they will be prisoners of war such as officers and banner men, no, worse than those prisoners of war! Because prisoners of war can still sign up for the army after serving their sentences, and cadets who become deserters will be expelled from the army directly after serving their sentences! That meant that he could do nothing but work as a coolie or a tenant farmer.

It is precisely because the punishment for the escaped students is so severe, so even the students who can't bear it will grit their teeth and persevere, which is really unbearable.

Physical training is a kind of high-intensity training after the queue training: strapping sandbags on the arms and legs, running cross-country, and then adding weight, the cloth bag on the body is full of stones, and the heavy weapon is also carried on the back, and the instructor will check and find that the person who throws the stones in the backpack halfway will be punished.

In the stabbing training, the masters are the instructors and the students are brutally trained. These masters are holding wooden guns with wooden knives, and they can defeat ten with one move, almost one move at a time, and knock down these students who think they can play twice in their hands one by one.

Under the scorching sun, the students took off only a pair of pants, and crawled forward in the shallow pit that was doused with blood, full of gravel, and even broken glass, and the pit was also full of pig and sheep offal, and many people vomited while crawling, creating new content for the people behind. On the side of the tunnel, the instructors' muskets were roaring, and many instructors deliberately dropped their guns, and the bullets blew up clumps of mud on the edge of the pit, and several students were so frightened that they jumped up and ran away.

Of course, those who turn around and run will be severely punished, such as physical training, no eating, etc.

The elimination rate of military academies is still relatively high, and the cadets who can pass the examination will be noble officers in the future. If you can't pass the assessment, you can only make another arrangement.

"There's going to be a war soon! When can we go to war? "A group of old students are already gearing up and eager to try. Before coming to Guangzhou, they had already completed two and a half years of training, and in the last half year, they could really graduate and become officers.

"It's coming! We're about to go on the expedition! Be patient! Wang Yuyou said to the students.

Half a month later, Wang Yuyou stood on the stage again, looking around at the old students standing neatly under the stage.

"Everyone, congratulations, you have passed the strictest and most cruel assessment! From today onwards, you will officially become a member of our Ming army! As long as you have passed the test of war, you are the best officers! Wang Yuyou opened his voice and shouted loudly.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! More than 300 newly graduated students in the audience cheered in unison.

What awaits these young people will be the cruel test of the Wuchang battlefield! But the students' emotions were high, as if they were not going to a cruel battlefield, but to a feast. (To be continued.) )