Chapter 121 The maddening thing is teaching the chief soldiers to read!
The division of subjects into Jiang School is Zhu Youjian's latest arrangement. Since March, the number of students coming to Jiang School has suddenly increased. In just three months, the current number of students in Jiang School has been close to 2,000.
The number of students increased, and it seemed inappropriate to use a hodgepodge method to carry out teaching work. Therefore, Zhu Youjian simply divided the teaching in the school into subjects. Originally, he wanted to divide it into four subjects, cavalry and infantry.
Artillery Section and Engineering and Service Section. Later he discovered that cavalry and infantry cannot be separated. In this era, whether it is infantry or cavalry, the generals who command the troops are cavalry generals. In terms of specific tactics, infantry and cavalry are often carried out in cooperation. The real
There are not many tactics that require cavalry to complete alone, so combining the two disciplines of infantry and cavalry into one is the most correct way to divide the disciplines.
The overall quality of this year's wave of students is clearly inferior to that of last year's group. The overall quality of last year's wave of students was quite high. In addition to teaching some basic exercises and forms, other basic skills were also taught.
There is no need to teach the content specially. Zhu Youjian's previous lectures only talked about tactics and strategic thinking in a general way. This year's batch of students are not good at it. There are few who are proficient in both cultural and military basics.
Basically all of them are rough.
Therefore, this group of students probably cannot be taught casually for a month or two like last year and then sent to the military camp to lead troops. For this group of people, formalized military school teaching is definitely indispensable, and the teaching cycle must be longer! One or two
Definitely not a month, at least about half a year.
The teaching cycle of about half a year is actually a crash course thinking. That is to say, they have the foundation before, otherwise the time will not be enough. Now Zhu Youjian understands one thing, why did the first few students of a famous military academy in modern history
This period is also a crash course, but it can produce so many famous generals. In addition to the fact that they participate in many battles and have many opportunities for promotion, the most important thing is that the quality of the students is high.
Nearly three-quarters of the students in the previous batches died. What does this mean? It means that those students have no self in their hearts. They all went to the military academy without hesitation because of their passionate love for the country.
With the intention of saving the country and the people, they are not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice. If they just want to earn a living, given their conditions, they actually have quite a few choices.
The quality of the students currently recruited by Zhu Youjian's general school is comparable to that of the students from that school in later generations. In these troubled times, if there is no big ideal, who would come here to go to school? It's not like their family conditions are poor.
Well, you have to go to a military academy to find a job. Seriously speaking, these students are the real wealth accumulated by the Ming Dynasty over the past few hundred years, and the total amount is not too much, so you should use it sparingly.
"Wang Er, your name is the best to write. There are only a few characters in total. You have studied for so many days and you still can't write it. Are you still the squad leader? Give you one more day, if you still can't write it.
, withdraw your squad leader and treat the recruits the same way." Lu Darong, Wang Er's platoon leader, looked at Wang Er who had been writing on the ground with a stick for a long time and still couldn't write his name, and felt like he was going to have a heart attack.
The emperor doesn't know what he is thinking, but he recently asked the officers of the New Army to teach literacy to all the top soldiers. They must spend an hour every day in literacy classes, and within half a year, 60% of the soldiers must be able to read and write more than 800 characters.
, you must also be able to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within one hundred.
This job is simply not something that humans can do! In the past, it was often said in the military camp that the most difficult thing for recruits after they came in was the formation and drill training. Those things can make people faint. Now they have discovered that compared with teaching these people writing and arithmetic, formation training is
He Cao Dian training is simply not too friendly.
It is really difficult to teach a group of illiterate people to read. For example, Wang Er in front of me has been unable to write his name for more than ten days.
The name Wang Er is probably the easiest name to write in the world, right? It's hard to find a name easier to write than this! But this elm-headed person just can't write it.
After training the soldiers in his platoon, Lu Darong left the teaching space in front of the dormitory and went outside to get some air. When he got outside, he found that the platoon leader next door was also wandering around blindly.
"Brother Wu, are you wandering around here too?" When Lu Darong saw his colleague, he went over to chat so that he could talk about his depressed mood.
"Don't mention it! You're all pissed off by such a kid. You write twenty or thirty words a day. Is it that hard to recognize?"
"Twenty or thirty? There are people in our platoon who can't even write the word "王二"!"
"You're talking about Wang Er, the squad leader of your Platoon A class, right? Isn't he very clever when fighting? How can he be so stupid at learning a word?"
"Who knows! I didn't believe it when Captain Ma said before that this boy Wang Er was incapable of doing anything except fighting, but now it seems that it is indeed the case. It's okay to pass the training so-so, but it seems that the literacy this time is very difficult.
closed."
"This is troublesome! The emperor's edict clearly states that if you can read a thousand words and have made meritorious service on the battlefield, you will be recommended to study at the general school at the end of the year. After graduation, you can become an officer. According to Wang Er's situation,
I’m afraid it’s hard to have a future, right?”
"Isn't it? It can make people die of worry! Nowadays, if the smart ones don't have military exploits, and the ones who have military exploits can't read, they can really make people die."
In fact, the ability to fight has nothing to do with queue training, point-of-care training, and whether there is any culture. For someone like Wang Er, he just doesn't work well at ordinary times. But on the battlefield, his sense of smell is not very good. Ma Youliang gave him at that time
When he was a platoon leader, his life was saved by Wang Er. In two battles with the Qing army, Wang Er stabbed five or six Qing soldiers to death with a spear. In terms of the performance of cold weapons, Wang Er ranked first among the entire army.
If it weren't for his illiteracy, Ma Youliang, Cao Ruohai and the others would have promoted Wang Er to the rank of platoon leader. After the expansion of the New Army, the platoon leader does not have to be a general. Those who perform bravely in combat and are literate will also have the opportunity.
Become platoon leaders. The emperor also specifically decreed that these promoted platoon leaders, after they have been busy with reorganization during this period, will go to the general school to further their studies. In the future, they will also be graduates of the general school.
The purpose of introducing this policy is to encourage frontline soldiers to fight bravely, and to prepare for future talent supply crises. The training of the new army has just begun, and the demand for officers will be hundreds of times greater than it is now.
Recruiting aspiring young people to enter the military academy, it took only two years to harvest the wool. Now the literacy rate of the entire Ming Dynasty is estimated to be less than 5%. Among them, there are not even 1% of young people with both civil and military skills and ideals. According to
Calculating this ratio, the students in the school are almost all talents selected from a million. They will definitely not be able to fully support the grand project of building a million new troops in the future. The wool comes from the sheep. If you want to complete the reform of the military system, you still have to
The potential must be tapped from the new army soldiers.