I want to be emperor

Chapter 199

When inspecting the Eighth Infantry Brigade, Luo Zhixue focused on inquiring about the training of the recruits, especially the physical training. At the same time, he also said to the Training Department of the General Staff and the Xiangyang Recruiting Battalion:
"Physical fitness is one of the important weapons for our army to defeat the enemy. Soldiers with strong physical fitness can support rapid maneuvers and change formations on the battlefield, so as to win fighters."

"In the previous series of battles going south, the reason why our rural protection army was able to fight so smoothly was that we walked out with our feet."

When Luo Zhixue spoke, the generals behind him kept nodding their heads, and they also knew the importance of Luo Zhixue's words.

Since going south, the Baoxiang Army has gone through the Battle of Zhaozhuang, the Battle of Nanyang, the Battle of Xiangyang, the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang, and the Battle of Yuzhou. In this series of battles, the Battle of Zhaozhuang is relatively normal. Has been stalemate for half a month.

But in the subsequent series of battles, the main force of the Township Protection Army fought out of constant rapid maneuvering.

In the surprise attack on Xiangyang, the rural protection army ran for more than 100 kilometers in just a few days, directly from Nanyang City to the south, and went straight to Xiangyang City.

Before the Ming army in Huguang, Yunyang and other places reacted, they had already reached Xiangyang City, and captured Xiangyang with the cooperation of the internal agents dispatched in advance.

The subsequent Battle of Sanyuanzhuang and the Battle of Yuzhou were typical mobile warfare.

The Township Protection Army first went north tens of kilometers, and directly intercepted the main force of Lu Xiangsheng's troops in the wilderness, avoiding the confluence of Lu Xiangsheng's troops and Sun Hongcai's troops, and thus laid one of the foundations for the victory of Sanyuanzhuang.

The follow-up battle of Yuzhou also brought into full play the rapid maneuverability of the Rural Protection Army. From Xinye all the way north, they killed Yuzhou in just six or seven days.

Not only rescued Yuzhou in time, but also the army pressed up before Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong could react, forcing Zuo Liangyu and the others to fight a decisive battle with the rural protection army without much preparation. The army of protecting the countryside won the battle.

In this series of battles, the main force headed by the [-]st Infantry Brigade traveled hundreds of kilometers back and forth and went through several battles, so that the rural protection army could maintain the front line even when the main force was scarce and the troops were in short supply.

And all of this is based on the good physical fitness of the soldiers of the Rural Protection Army.

Without good physical fitness, it is impossible to maintain this fast and mobile combat mode.

Therefore, physical fitness has always been a training item that the Rural Protection Army attaches great importance to, especially during the recruit training period.

Why did the Rural Protection Army set up a new barracks instead of recruiting new recruits and directly assigning them to various units for training.

To a large extent, it is to give these newly recruited recruits a buffer time, so that they have enough time to supplement a lot of nutrition and carry out physical training.

To put it bluntly, it is a period of recuperation...

The food supply during the boot camp is also the best, and the food is better than that in the combat troops.

Not to mention rice noodles, but also high-protein foods such as meat, fish, poultry eggs, and soy milk.

Only in this way can the recruits be quickly supplemented with nutrition and carry out corresponding physical training.

In addition to physical training, training in formation and basic combat skills will be carried out.

It can be seen that the rural protection army attaches great importance to physical fitness, and good physical fitness has brought great strategic and tactical advantages to the rural protection army, which in turn makes the rural protection army pay more attention to the physical fitness and rapid maneuverability of the soldiers.

When inspecting the Eighth Infantry Brigade, Luo Zhi learned to pay attention to the physical fitness and basic formation of the soldiers of the Eighth Infantry Brigade.

As for more complicated things, we don't need to investigate them for the time being, because they won't...

In just a few months, it is almost enough to be able to supplement nutrition, improve physical fitness, be able to list the basic queue, and know how to obey orders.

As for such things as combat skills, the mutual cooperation between soldiers and the mutual cooperation between formations, these things still need to be done slowly.

These recruits continue to train for a few months, and after a few more battles, they will naturally become veterans.

Now, you can't be too demanding.

After inspecting the ordinary soldiers, Luo Zhixue announced the appointment of a series of middle and senior officers of the Eighth Infantry Brigade on the same day.

As expected by many people, the post of commander of the [-]th Infantry Brigade was transferred from Lieutenant Colonel Li Duo, the former deputy commander of the [-]rd Infantry Brigade, and promoted to colonel.

The other deputy brigade commanders and the commanders of the three infantry battalions were also appointed by Luo Zhixue one by one, namely Lai Wencheng, commander of No.20 Second Infantry Battalion, Huang Lun, commander of No. Battalion Commander Zhou Jie.

It is worth noting that these three battalion commanders are all students in the military academy accompanying the battalion.

When Luo Zhixue took Nanyang City, he wanted to set up a military school with the battalion. After taking Xiangyang City, he formally set up the school in Xiangyang City, and selected middle and low-level officers with basic culture for training.

But don't count on instructors, Luo Zhixue can't find any instructors who understand modern warfare to teach them.

At the current stage, the students in the Camp School are actually more organized to discuss and learn from each other.

But no one can teach them...

On the one hand, the training content is to learn traditional military books, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, Ji Xiao's new book, and military training records.

However, these traditional military books are just for reference. If you only learn this stuff, you can barely lead a traditional mixed brigade!
If you want to lead the new main forces, you have to learn other things, that is, the rural protection army's own training methods and tactics.

Because this new type of tactics is not taught by predecessors, let alone traditional military books to refer to, they are also discussing and learning from each other while compiling textbooks!
Now it has been compiled into "Infantry Exercise Code", "Artillery Exercise Code", "Cavalry Exercise Code", "Supply Exercise Code", and "Tactical Application".

These five books, summed up from the actual war experience of the Rural Protection Army, are the core textbooks in the camp school of the Rural Protection Army.

It mainly talks about the application of various new tactics, such as how to set up the infantry phalanx in the new tactics, how to arrange the artillery, how to cooperate with the cavalry, and so on.

Then analyze and learn from the battle cases of the major rural protection forces.

Especially the three large-scale field battles of the Battle of Zhaozhuang, the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang, and the Battle of Yuzhou.

The rural protection army of these battles has detailed written records, the officers' battle reports, memories, etc., and the books written by summarizing the materials of each battle can be tens of centimeters thick, allowing the officers to have a comprehensive understanding How the Township Protection Army fought.

Generally speaking, the officers receiving training in the camp school mainly learn the fighting methods of the Rural Protection Army, and they are not only learners, but also summary writers of various textbooks, not pure students.

At present, this group of people has finished their studies one after another, and some of them have been reused. For example, the three people who served as the battalion commander of the [-]th Infantry Brigade this time are all students studying in the camp school.

There are also some who stay directly in the school as instructors.

That is to say, in fact, until now, there are only official instructors in the camp school of the Baoxiang Army.

In the follow-up, Luo Zhixue will select outstanding low-level officers and non-commissioned officers with basic culture from the whole army to study as students in the camp school.

And this group of students will become the first batch of formal students in the military school attached to the camp. The initial academic system is three months of theoretical study and three months of practice, a total of half a year.

This time, instead of letting them retain their positions and lead troops on weekdays, they can only squeeze out time to study part-time, but to study full-time.

To speed up the learning process, there will be no free time from morning till night.

For this batch of students, Luo Zhixue tentatively decided to have 100 students, and selected candidates internally.

As for foreign recruits, it is estimated that few scholars will come to the rural protection army to serve as soldiers these days. Even if they want to be thieves, they will basically rush to become civil servants.

Very few traditional scholars would come to join the army, even if they were officers, many people would not be happy.

So it can only be recruited internally.

At the same time, considering the current shortage of military officers, it is impossible to transfer too many middle and low-level officers to study, so Luo Zhixue decided not to take half a year of formal classes.

There will also be short-term, part-time training courses for only one month.

Specially let each army send middle and low-level officers to study in rotation, and rotate a batch every month, and strive to learn through rotation in batches, so that more middle- and low-level officers can accept systematic learning.

Corresponding to the training of military officers, there is also high-level literacy education for military officers covering the entire army.

After all, the cultural level of officers at all levels in the Rural Protection Army is really poor, and many of them are illiterate.

But to learn all kinds of new tactics, it is impossible without a basic cultural level.

I can't even understand the textbook, so what else can I learn...

Therefore, before they study, they have to be educated in literacy, basic reading and writing, arithmetic and so on.

After the inspection of the [-]th Infantry Brigade and subsequent appointments, Luo Zhixue formally summoned relevant generals including the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, and instructed to change the name of the attached military school to 'Xiangyang Military Academy'.

And set up the first formal class and refresher class.

As soon as the affairs of the military officer academy were completed, Luo Zhixue summoned government officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Ethics and Education, and the Ministry of Industry, and asked to set up a school under the Ministry of Ethics and Education to train all kinds of civil servants. Government Affairs School'.

The school is required to train the current mid- and low-level officials in the Rural Protection Army. Formal classes and refresher classes can be set up for different periods of time, and the existing officials can be trained in batches.

At the same time, it is also the recruitment of foreign students, and after relevant government training, they are arranged to serve in various yamen.

After arranging this matter, Luo Zhixue did not stop, but continued: "In addition to this school of government affairs, we will set up a school of science and technology."

"This polytechnic school selects bright and bright teenagers from all over the territory as students, specializing in mathematics, geometry, mechanics and other physical subjects."

"One should be treated favorably, and all students who enter the school will be awarded the seventh rank!"

As soon as these words came out, Guo Quanshu and others showed doubts or even incomprehension.

(End of this chapter)