The end of the year is approaching, but the teachers and officers and students in the Zhejiang martial arts lecture hall have no time to rest. Fortunately, most of the knowledge they have learned at present are what they have seen in the army. Even intermediate officers need to cooperate with other troops on the battlefield in the future, and in fact, they have been in the army for a long time, and more or less will be more to go to the camp of new soldiers outside the city after the New Year.

In contrast, except for simple literacy and counting, cavalry officers are not the other training here. Although there are many water camps, artillery and engineers, the proportion is much lower. Among them, the officers of these troops must learn how to use some tools or local methods to measure distances on the battlefield.

Artillery needs distance measurement to better bombard the enemy. The water battalion is not only the artillery on the warships, but also needs to calculate when and what kind of attack will be appropriate based on the speed of the opponent. The engineers also need to calculate the scale of civil engineering, the size of siege equipment, etc., which all require the basic skill of ranging.

Originally, there were not many other knowledge in the army, but they were all estimated by experience. After all, the officers and soldiers in the army were basically illiterate, and they could not be expected to use more scientific methods to calculate.

Originally, Chen Wen planned to combine some of the methods used in the army and supplement it with some knowledge that can be used to improve the abilities of the officers, but with Yu Shizhong, the former Ming army artillery officer, coming to join the army with a set of special artillery distance measuring tools, Chen Wen saved a lot of effort.

Among the special measurement tools for artillery in this era, the telescopes were never replicated at the level of the Military Industry Department. Even with Charles, the British man who had been an apprentice in the UK, the time was still short, and the first telescope produced by the Ming army was still not produced. However, other tools were reproduced and transformed by the Ming army's good artillery and some of the local methods used in the Ming army were popularized, and the shooting accuracy of the artillery was effectively improved. At least in terms of the cultivation speed, the Ming army had far surpassed the Qing army, which was still using experience to measure and aim at the distance.

Fixed charge packs, granulated gunpowder and professional ranging and aiming technology are the reasons why the average level of Ming army artillery can still maintain excellent standards during the rapid expansion of the army.

It has been a year since he joined the Ming army, but Yu Shizhong and his son were far apart. Over the past year, Yu Shizhong has been training artillery soldiers in the old camp. From gunners, gunners to loaders, except for those coachmen and big shield soldiers who do not need to be trained by him, they all have to pass by him before they can enter the camp. And his son Yu Youming worked in Chen Wen's personal army, either on the front line or in the Marquis' Mansion. If Chen Wen had not long ago, he had the idea of ​​letting those young soldiers go to the martial arts school to learn military knowledge so that they can become officers after joining, they would not have been able to sit together and have a good dinner every day like now.

"Yu Ming, what have your instructors taught today?"

Because he had been in the personal army, Yu Youming did not learn artillery like his father, nor did he inherit the ancestral property of the officers of the Japanese guard station to work in the water camp. Instead, he learned cavalry in the martial arts school. Because the feeling of speeding up and lightning of riding and fighting against the Qing army on war horses was like an addiction that always tempted him - even if the Tartars really did not ride and shoot, we Han family would never lose!

While eating, Yu Shizhong naturally asked his son, just like those fathers who asked his children what the teacher taught and how they learned today during dinner. Yu Youming also ate the meal in the bowl with big mouthfuls, and then swallowed it quickly when he heard the inquiry.

"Today the instructor began to teach how to look at pictures and terrain. It is said that this is a great knowledge and takes a long time to teach."

After saying that, Yu Youming took a big bite of the fat piece of meat his father had just picked up in the bowl, and then continued to pick up the rice. It seemed that the training of the cavalry was indeed very physically exhausting.

Although Yu Shizhong had never worked in a cavalry, he knew in the army for a long time that this cavalry was not as simple as riding a horse and chopping, and his knowledge was not even less than artillery.

As a martial artist family, don’t think about dying from old age in the future. Yu Shizhong understood this truth very early, because the wealth of the family comes from the bloody battles of his ancestors, they naturally cannot lose their faces. It’s just that his son is growing up and will sooner or later he will set foot on the battlefield and fight against the Tartars. Another idea emerged in his mind again.

"Would you like to book a marriage? You can pass on the family line in the future and pass on the incense of our old Yu family."

This idea has appeared in his mind many times, and his son should have gotten married long ago. However, in Taihu Lake, the familiar leaders were all farmers, fishermen, and all rebels and bandits. They were incompatible with their hereditary military families. After coming to Jinhua, most of the officers who became familiar with had quite a low military position, but many of them still could not satisfy him. Moreover, most of the families did not have women of appropriate age, so they were postponed to this day.

"Oh, the old saying goes, one generation has no good wife, ten generations have no good son, this matter cannot be settled, so why don't you wait and see."

The entangled Yu Shizhong watched the piece of meat in his son's bowl eat into his mouth, so he picked up a piece of meat from the plate and put it in, and told him to "eat more" before he continued to eat. However, before the meal was finished, an officer knocked on the door and walked in, saying that Chen Wen was going to see him now.

Yu Shizhong probably knew what it was for, so he hurriedly followed the officer to the Marquis' Mansion. When he saw Chen Wen, he only saw Chen Wen take out the report.

"General Yu, did you write this?"

Yu Shizhong took a look, nodded to Chen Wen, and replied, "Yes."

"So I've neglected it."

The content of Yu Shizhong's report was not the artillery training he was responsible for, but mentioned that during the Cao Conglong Rebellion, the reason why Cao Conglong and Lu Wenlong were able to induce so many local garrison officers to rebel was that in addition to coercion, temptation was also indispensable. In addition to official positions, there is also something that Chen Wen never touched on - Shi Zhi.

Hereditary military post was part of the Ming Dynasty's military household registration system. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, hereditary military generals should inherit the skills of the military and serve as officers for the Ming Dynasty. However, even in dynasties like Hongwu and Yongle, the speed of corruption of hereditary military men made the rulers of the Ming Dynasty dumbfounded, so they had to order the children of hereditary military men to strictly prohibit the children of hereditary military men from doing things that had nothing to do with the war.

The hereditary officers are a microcosm of the feudal system, but in fact, Chen Wen also knew that even in the modern army, children from the military family could be promoted more quickly, but on the surface they were just promotions like ordinary soldiers, not just that they could be appointed as officers directly even if they didn't know anything.

Because he was always excluding feudalization in the army, Chen Wen was extremely disgusted with this system, but he did not expect that Cao Conglong had used this thing to lure his generals half a year ago, which was indeed somewhat unexpected.

Among the officers who were accused of rebellion at that time, all of them were left unrestrained, but they were placed on positions without military power. The others were directly beheaded in public to warn others, so that Chen Wen actually missed the details. But after thinking about it carefully, even though he did not expect this issue, the generals were secretive. Obviously, seeing that he had never mentioned it, he did not dare to make the words clear.

"You did a good job, I will consider this issue well before making a decision. But before that, you should not mention it to others."
Chapter completed!