The next day.

Chu Tianxiu, Li Yu, Zuer, Dier and others came to the Military Academy.

The Military Academy is the first new military academy of the Great Chu Dynasty, and was personally formed by the Grand Marshal Li Rong. The students in it are all the meritorious children of the Great Chu, as well as young commanders and lieutenants selected from the army to receive training in the academy.

What they want to learn is different from classical military books.

When the ancients learned about soldiers, they usually read military books, battle formations, and tactics since the Spring and Autumn Period, and used cold weapons and equipment such as "bows, knives, shields, guns", as well as configurations of light and heavy infantry, bows, light cavalry and other troops.

If you can use troops and tactics step by step, you can become a low-level general.

However, the Military Academy adopted Xiao Hunhou’s new science enlightenment textbook and made a significant update.

Especially for gunpowder, muskets, small steel cannons, infantry fighting chariots and other new ordnances, these are all necessary courses.

Others, including mathematics, geography, chemistry, etc., also need to be learned.

As a general, how many soldiers under his command, how much food, horsepower, and distance calculations are consumed every day, all of which are used in mathematics, and they must be able to complete the calculation in an instant.

If you don’t know your own family background and only know how to do force, then you will be fighting in a mess, and your winning or losing depends on brute force.

Of course, there was also "planning" in ancient times, using bamboo chips to add, subtract, multiply and divide.

It’s just that this old-fashioned algorithm is too complicated and difficult to master, and it is far less convenient than modern mathematics.

Even firework signals, telescopes, password usage, shelling angle calculation, etc., all of which must be mastered.

There are only a few thousand young students in the entire Military Academy, and the number is not too large, but each of them is the elite of Da Chu, and one person can lead a team of hundreds and thousands of people.

With the backbone of such an army, an army can be quickly formed.

The purpose of opening this military martial arts academy is of course to go to the battlefield.

During the two months of quelling the rebellion of the princes, these students only helped in Danyang City and did not really go to war.

This time, Chu Tianxiu was preparing to bring them to the north to form a new army of 50,000 people, with thousands of students from the Military Academy as the backbone.

They have received new military training and are able to master these new military equipment and usage so that they can form a new army as quickly as possible.

These 50,000 new troops are 20,000 infantry chariots, 20,000 gunpowder lancers, and 10,000 heavy armored cavalry.

The heavy armored cavalry is also a new type of army, because no matter whether it is the Great Chu Dynasty or the Hun tribe, there is no heavy armored cavalry now.

All of them are replaced with the latest equipment - gunpowder guns, light small steel cannons, hundreds of refining armors, hundreds of refining swords, and steel vests.

Are there many new troops with 50,000?

Of course not much.

The entire tribe of the Huns combined had soldiers, with up to 500,000 Hun cavalry, with nearly ten times more troops.

However, wars are never a victory with a large number of people. Otherwise, with 50 million people in the Great Chu Dynasty, one person and one spit, the Huns would be flooded, so how could the Huns be so prestigious in the north for so long?

In war, it is about combat effectiveness, not just quantity.

When fighting against King Xiang Bi of Wu, King Xiang Bi, Chu Tianxiu only had 6,000 Danyang soldiers and tens of thousands of old-fashioned troops, which could withstand the siege of the Wu army on all sides.

The 50,000 new army looks like there are not many, and once it becomes an army, its combat effectiveness will be absolutely strong.

Of course, this is also the limit that Chu Tianxiu and even Da Chu can achieve.

The new army needs enough equipment, and it is impossible to get more if you want.

The steel production capacity of the Great Chu Dynasty was concentrated in Danyang City, and it was not as good as the ability to equip hundreds of thousands of Great Chu troops in a short period of time.

The supply of 50,000 new troops alone has allowed the craftsmen of Danyang City to work for several months day and night.

After the destruction of King Xiang Bi of Wu and the coalition forces of the princes, he gathered nearly 100,000 surrendered soldiers, mined, smelted iron and expanded his steelmaking capabilities on a large scale, and could barely supply the new army's ordnance.

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Arrive at the Military Academy.

Chu Tianxiu and Li Yu gathered the teachers of the Military Academy and thousands of students.

On the field of the Military and Military University, there were crowds of people.

The students were talking privately, as if guessing something.

They all knew that the court was going to launch a large-scale northern expedition, which would be the biggest expedition in decades. It was even the only opportunity they might have encountered in their lives to make unparalleled military achievements.

The court was granted the title of lord and prince for its military merits.

Regardless of age, those who kill the Huns can be promoted step by step in the blink of an eye and be appointed as the general and the title of marquis.

However, it is hard to say whether the students from the Military Academy have the opportunity to participate in this battle. If they missed this time, they would probably have a chance to make military achievements.

If you don’t fight, you can only get through the qualifications slowly. Only when you get old can you become a general. This is something that no student wants to see.

Chu Tianxiu announced the news of the formation of a new army on the field of the university.

"Collegemen!"

"Raising troops for a thousand days, using troops for a while!"

"I have studied hard all my life, only for the purpose of today!"

"The greatest honor of our Great Chu soldiers is to make unparalleled military achievements in the battlefields of the northern border, just like the Taiwei, engraved historical books!"

"Now, the time has come. The court announced the Northern Expedition of the Huns, taking the students of our Military Academy as the vanguard to form a new army!"

"Anyone who follows this General of Cavalry to fight against the Huns and is on the top of Yanran Mountain and Yanran has a stone slim can be awarded a marquis!"

Chu Tianxiu just finished speaking.

On the campus, there was a burst of cheers.

Thousands of students were crazy about surprise, their eyes were red, and they hugged each other and shouted.

The greatest opportunity in their lives is right in front of them.

"The new army is a 50,000 army, and each of you is a 100-man general, or even a front-fang general. Of course, you must show your strength."

Chu Tianxiu said lightly.

"Now, I am the General of the Cavalry, and I will conduct a three-day military exercise and conduct various assessments.

You 1,000 people, each of you 500 people simulated the Hun cavalry and used the Huns' cavalry technique.

Another 500 people simulate our Great Chu troops, infantry chariot soldiers, gunpowder snorkers, and light cavalry!

As for the generals of the team, you can choose them internally. After they are selected, they will start fighting."

"yes!"

Thousands of students from the Military Academy answered in unison.

Chu Tianxiu summoned thousands of students from the Military Academy to conduct a simulated offensive and defense exercise.

The Military Academy has a very excellent playground for practice.

Many of the teachers in the academy were veteran generals of all ranks who retired from the frontier battlefield. They were in their fifties and sixties. They fought against the Huns in the north, the barbarians in the south, and the Xianbei in the northeast. They had a lot of experience on the battlefield.

Know your opponent's tricks.

What you teach to students is all real skills.

On weekdays, the students of the academy practice military tactics, battle formations and equestrians on the field of this university.

Soon, according to the assessment requirements, they started a competition at the Military and Military University Campus.

The assessment is organized by teachers from the Military Academy.

Chu Tianxiu was watching the exercise on the high platform outside the school grounds.

He had never seen the Hun soldiers with his own eyes.

However, in historical books, there have been a large number of records of the Hun soldiers, and they know the advantages and disadvantages of the Hun soldiers.

He was still quite aware of the truth.

The key point is that there are no stirrups!

There was no Great Chu, nor did the Huns, so there were no heavy cavalry in this era, and the Huns' light cavalry even rarely had close combat.

No stirrups!

Without stirrups, melee combat, a collision can easily fall from the horse. The casualty rate will become extremely high.

The Hun cavalry was very unhappy to bear the casualties.

Because the power of the nomadic tribe of the Xiongnu was scattered, the common ruler was the name of the King of the Xiongnu Tingjun, the minister of the Shanyu, and the leaders and the tents were actually not close. They liked looting and hated casualties.

Injury of soldiers will lead to a deterioration of tribe strength.

The leaders of various tribes of the Huns were actually the local princes of the Huns. They each ordered and deployed them, and they were all private soldiers of the tribe. If the leader rebelled, he would take the entire tribe and go away to another place.

Because of this, the Huns' army rarely attacked the city, and rarely fought head-on decisive battles with the army of the Great Chu Dynasty.

The tactics they are best at are scattering, shooting enemies without armor, and creating panic for the enemy. Once the enemy fled in panic, they began to ride horses and chase them in an orderly manner.

Also, harassing the food road, caravans, and then running away after fighting!

It was this simple tactic that seemed extremely terrifying in ancient times.

The Great Chu army and the people could not stay in a solid city all the time. The people must go out of the city to farm, the caravans must transport goods, the army must transport grain, and the defense line must be transferred.

All activities require getting out of the solid city.

Once the infantry arrives in the field and is scattered attacked by the Huns light cavalry, it will be a very disadvantageous battle.

If the infantry could not defeat the Hun cavalry, then it would be a one-sided massacre.

Chu Tianxiu knew that the cavalry of Da Chu did not have stirrups, but since he arrived at Da Chu, he had never planned to equip stirrups in a hurry.

He is not stupid. This thing is not technically difficult, but it is extremely useful for inventions. It is too easy to be learned by the Huns.

With stirrups, light cavalry can easily be upgraded to heavy cavalry, suitable for melee charges, and the advantages of the Hun cavalry may become greater.
Chapter completed!