After the student company was basically organized, Chongzhen couldn't wait to start teaching work. Time waits for no one, these people are the ones he uses to save his life, and he can't waste a day.
After asking the students below to stand in a basic queue, Chongzhen appeared on the earth platform of the temporary school ground, facing about a hundred aspiring young people, and started the first lesson.
"Dear students of the General School, I am very grateful to you for choosing to join the army and serve the Ming Dynasty when our Ming Dynasty is in such danger. I am moved by your responsibility. In the next period of time, I hope that you can attend the General School Hall
Study hard here, complete all the teaching tasks of the cadet company, go from the school to the battlefield smoothly, pacify the world for our Ming Dynasty, and conquer all directions. Make great contributions to the world, be a general and a marquis, and honor your ancestors! Don't let down my expectations, and don't do it.
We will not let down the expectations of your family and the people of the Ming Dynasty, let alone your own years and ambitions." When Chongzhen said this, he paused intentionally, and then waited for the person who had been arranged in advance to start shouting slogans.
"Serve the Ming Dynasty, fight to the death to pacify the world, and become a general and a marquis!" A few of the trustees began to shout slogans, and then others also shouted slogans sparsely.
"Speak louder. I can't hear you. Haven't you had enough to eat?"
"Serve the Ming Dynasty to the death, fight to the death to pacify the world, worship the general and become a marquis." The people who were encouraged finally gained some momentum this time and shouted a little more uniformly.
After these people shouted several times, Chongzhen waved his hand to signal everyone to stop, and then continued to preach: "You are all young people who are determined to die for the Ming Dynasty, otherwise you would not be standing here today. But if you have ambition,
It doesn’t mean that you can achieve something. If you don’t have the ability, you will only waste your enthusiasm and your loyalty. I have great expectations for you. I hope that after you graduate from here, your achievements will not be like a general soldier.
, lieutenant general, but to become a true general who can lead thousands of elite soldiers across the battlefield, all of you are not just one or two. A strong general must rise from the ranks of soldiers, and the general hall is where you start from the ranks of soldiers, so I
We have just set up many basic subjects. Don’t underestimate these basic subjects. These subjects will be your special skills in leading soldiers in the future! You must not only learn them, but also learn them well. When you go out to lead soldiers in a few months, you must take these subjects.
The subjects will be passed on to the soldiers under your command without fail. I will tell you the ugly things at the front. The assessment will be held on January 1st. If the platoon or squad completes it first, they will be assigned soldiers first. Those who do not do well will continue to practice. If you want
It will take three to five years, and I will send you troops again in three to five years."
Carrots and sticks will never go out of style. In the first lesson of school, Zhu Youjian wants these students to pay attention to basic formation and physical training. Don't think that these things are meaningless and are not the ability to truly fight. I'll tell you.
Let me make it clear that if you perform well in a few months, you can graduate and serve in the army. If you perform poorly, you can graduate in three to five years.
After finishing the chicken blood injection, Chongzhen began specific teaching. He first asked the selected company and platoon leaders to come out and taught them to stand at attention, take a rest, start walking, run, walk left and right, look forward, and turn left and right backward.
, Column team gathering, Horizontal team gathering, and rapid three-person arrangement, rapid four-person arrangement, three-group triangular position, and four-person group triangular position.
After struggling for nearly an hour, these people basically grasped the requirements. After all, they were serious soldiers. No matter how lax the Ming Dynasty's military equipment was, it would not be so lax that all the military attachés in the Beijing camp would be fools.
After completing this, Chongzhen asked them to organize the students to go back to practice, and at the same time summarize the formation training content of the cavalry formation based on the current infantry formation. This has just begun. Through these trainings, the students will be basically familiar with the rhythm of the military camp. From then on
Starting tomorrow, Chongzhen will no longer teach basic queues, but will only assess their completion.
In the days to come, he will spare one or two hours every afternoon to give lectures to the students. The current basic content of the lectures is strategic thinking training, military camp management training, and basic tactical training. In later generations, he has never been to a military academy, so he has no idea.
He knows what serious military schools teach, but he does know what the current Ming Dynasty officers lack.
Strategic thinking is what the generals of the Ming Dynasty lack most. Since the Ming Dynasty's army was regularized, officers have no requirements in this regard. In the Ming Dynasty, the real top military position is the general soldier, and there is no such thing after that! Those who lead troops to fight.
There are only large general soldiers and small general soldiers. The large general soldier will nominally lead more sergeants than the small general soldiers, but in fact, the troops that can be directly mobilized are about the same as those of the small general soldiers.
How many soldiers and horses are under the direct command of the general? There are about a thousand people in the small ones, and three to five thousand in the large ones. Only in rare cases, their direct troops will exceed five thousand, and there are only a few in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty.
The general can command more than five thousand soldiers, and these people are basically famous generals, such as Qi Jiguang, Ma Gui, etc.
Under normal circumstances, the so-called general soldier is the regiment commander. The regiment-level organization is the highest organizational structure of the Ming army's permanent combat units, and it is also the basic sequence of entering the battlefield in all major wars. In a major battle, how many general soldiers participate in the battle can be roughly calculated
How much troops are invested? The upper limit required by the emperor and the imperial court for generals is only up to the level of regimental commander. This is also the basic upper limit for the command ability and quality requirements of generals.
Naturally, this was done to prevent military generals from becoming warlords. No regiment commander suddenly became a warlord! However, there are examples of brigade commanders and division commanders who suddenly became top warlords, such as a certain famous rebel general in later generations.
What's the difference between a regiment commander and a brigade commander? The difference is strategic thinking! When you have more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, fighting is no longer purely a matter of the battlefield, but must involve military, political, and
The people, the general situation, and the overall situation. If you only look at the few soldiers and horses under your command, it is far from enough. You don’t consider what the five thousand people are eating now, what they will eat in the future, the relationship with friendly forces, the positions of teammates, and the outcome of this battle.
Where to fight next if you win, how to retreat if you lose, where is suitable for long-term garrison, where it is impossible to station a large army, where is suitable for fast marching, where marching is slow, where the folk customs are good, where the folk customs are bad, where can be defended
, there are so many strategic factors that can be attacked there, you simply can’t lead the troops. The regiment leader is different. Two or three thousand people are very convenient whether they are fighting or running. You don’t have to think too much. If you can fight, just fight.
But just run away. As long as it is a bigger town, the problem of feeding the people can be solved. It is just a matter of how long they can eat.
Therefore, the truly qualified generals are those who can manage the troops from horse to horse and the people from horse to horse. Strategic literacy is fundamentally the ability to think about the overall situation. For the generals of the Ming army, the higher-ups don’t want you to have such abilities. Can you just be able to fight and run?
Why do you know so much? Do you want to be Li Chengliang?
For example, Zuo Liangyu now is a typical representative who leads many soldiers but not enough quality. It is said that he has tens of thousands of soldiers, but when he thinks about problems, he only thinks about fighting and running. At most, he should think more about today.
What to eat and what to eat tomorrow. If you look at him later leading troops from Wuchang to the east, you don’t even know why he did what he did. Even if you have the ability to think about the overall situation, you would not do such a nonsensical thing.