Chapter 159 Visiting Military Training
After leaving the dock, Li Nai finally couldn't help the questions in his mind and said to Tao Donglai: "Mr. Tao, I have something unclear and I would like to ask for advice!"
Tao Donglai smiled and said: "Are you going to ask why we want such a young child to enlist in the army?"
"Yes, that's exactly what I mean. These children look like they have not yet reached the age of having their hair tied, and they are drafted into the army by you at a young age. Isn't this... not against harmony?" Li Nai was outspoken and couldn't help but accuse. road.
"They are Boy Scouts, but they are not a real army or militia, and they cannot be sent to the battlefield to participate in combat. Strictly speaking, they just accept militarized management." Tao Donglai explained: "They are Not only will they receive basic military training here, they will also receive corresponding cultural education. We will teach them how to read and write, and teach them how to be a good person. When they reach the age of sixteen, they can freely choose whether to join the militia and become militia fighters. Soldiers can also go into farming, working, doing business, or working as sailors. There are many different options for them to choose from. ”
After hearing this explanation, Li Nai's face softened slightly, but he still asked: "In that case, why not let them enter a regular academy to study? How can they read and write in the camp with soldiers and men all day long?" < br>
Tao Donglai did not answer his question immediately, but asked instead: "I just heard Mr. Shi mention that Mr. Li is said to be a man of great fame?"
Speaking of fame, Li Nai responded proudly: "I am not talented. I passed the examination in Guangzhou Fuzhong in the first year of Tianqi."
"That's the Master of Juren." Tao Donglai nodded and continued to ask: "Then Mr. Li, can you still remember how many of your friends who studied with you at Meng Xue have now been admitted?"
"There are no more than four or five talented people, and the only person who can succeed is the next person." Li Nai is very proud of his professional level. After all, it is not an easy task to pass the Juren exam. For scholars in South China, passing the Juren exam is already considered quite a feat. Not a bad result.
"That's it, education cannot make everyone a scholar. Only a few people can truly reach a certain height in knowledge, just like those people who were literate with you at the beginning. Most of them are unlikely to become It is impossible for everyone who is a scholar or a higher-level Jinshi or has studied in Mengxue to enter the Imperial College. ”
Having said this, Tao Donghui turned around and pointed to the pier and said: "Those children you just saw have all been initially eliminated by the academy, and we have determined that they are not suitable for studying in the academy. Our teaching staff is very limited. At present, We can only allow a few smarter children to receive a more comprehensive and in-depth education, but we do not intend to give up on these children. We just need to change the way of training. They will still be able to read and read here, but the content of their learning will be different from the formal ones. The academy is just different.”
Li Nai shook his head and said: "If you don't read the books of sages, how can you call yourself a scholar!"
"At this point, our Haihan culture is different from that of the Ming Dynasty." Tao Donglai said with a smile: "What we need are useful scholars, not scholars who can only read."
Although the words were a bit convoluted, Li Nai still understood what he meant and couldn't help but retort: "Reading the books of sages can rule the world, how can it be called useless?"
"Can you rule the world?" Tao Donglai couldn't hide the sarcasm on his face: "In that case, why do we need military attachés and the army? Wouldn't it be great if all the people in the country read the books of sages?"
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"This is fallacy!" Li Nai didn't know how to refute Tao Donglai's statement, because he had never heard such a ridiculous theory before.
"Whether it's fallacies or not, we don't have to judge right from wrong right now, everything can be proven by time." Tao Donglai saw that Gu Wei, who was in charge of the training of the recruit camp, was walking quickly towards this side, so he told the story The debate has come to an end for now.
After the two exchanged military salutes face to face, Tao Donglai introduced to Gu Wei: "These two are merchants from Guangzhou. Mr. Shi and I took them around and also came to see the training of the militia."
Gu Wei understood and said: "Then please invite the guests to visit our training situation. Everyone, please come here!"
After nearly two months of construction, the recruit camp already has a training ground the size of four standard football fields, and has also built a large number of training equipment. In order to fill the vacancies in the local military and police force left after the Black Earth Port colonization operation, the third batch of new recruits has been recruited into the camp and has begun training. Many of the first batch of "veteran students" who entered the camp have now become platoon leaders at the grass-roots level to train new recruits, using some of the basic military training methods they learned from Chuanzhong on the new students. Li Nai watched for a while and found that the militiamen who were conducting formation training under the command of whistles had many mistakes in their behavior. He couldn't help but shook his head and said: "In my opinion, the combat effectiveness of these militiamen is worrying. Compared with Guangzhou There is still a gap between the militias organized by wealthy families in the area.”
Tao Donglai just smiled when he heard this and nodded towards Gu Wei. These new recruits have been in the camp for less than a week, so there is nothing neat about them. Now that they can understand the instructor's instructions and follow them, they are already making rapid progress.
Gu Wei strode onto the field and blew his whistle. The whistle he used was different from the ones issued to ordinary militiamen. It was a genuine FOX referee whistle with a sound exceeding 120 decibels. When blown, it immediately overwhelmed all the noise in the field. Upon hearing this familiar whistle, the commanders of each squad and platoon immediately organized and assembled the entire team, and then brought the teams together to form two square formations based on companies in front of the ancient guards.
"Students from the first and second phases will line up in platoons and form a team!" Gu Wei gave the order, and the veterans immediately trotted out and formed a new team next to them.
"What the hell are you walking on just now? The team is uneven and crooked. Are you guys lame or crippled? You don't listen to the instructor's instructions. Your ears are used for eating? All the new recruits have their eggs for me. Take a good look at how this queue moves!" After Gu Wei finished lecturing the new recruits, he began to use commands and whistles to direct the march of the veteran team.
The oldest of these veterans actually arrived more than two months earlier than the recruits, but the gap in training level is indeed very obvious. The veterans kept changing their marching direction under the instructions of Gu Wei, and always maintained the same behavior.
For the training of naturalized civilian troops, the Military and Police Department basically formulated the training content with reference to the "Recruit Training Manual" issued by the General Staff of later generations, but made certain deletions in terms of physical training. This is because the physical condition of these young people recruited in this time and space is far from the level of soldiers in later generations, and at least they need to go through a period of recuperation. If we directly follow the training standards of later generations, I am afraid that half of them will be disabled within three months.
According to Gu Wei, the military level of these militiamen is still very low, and it will take a long time for these militiamen to establish the concept of combat and war from scratch. However, the level of queue training is basically close to the standard of recruits in later generations, and it is at least several times better than the effect of university military training. Although the foundation of these militiamen is almost zero and they have no culture, it is precisely because of this that the vast majority of them are very simple in the eyes of the traversing public, and their obedience to military training is also very good. In addition, They themselves enjoy generous treatment, and the militiamen can maintain a relatively high enthusiasm for training after entering the camp.
In later generations, even the queues of these veterans who entered the camp earlier were not up to standard, and they would still be scolded by the instructors. However, in this time and space, such a uniform queue marching has a very high visual effect. A strong shocking effect. At least in terms of marching in formation, Gu Wei believed that the militia he had trained would be as good as any elite force of the same era in the world.
There are many half-empty keyboard military strategists in later generations who believe that queue training in the era of hot weapons is of little significance. The widespread use of skirmishers on the battlefield has allowed the army to completely get rid of the array attacks of the era of cold weapons and the era of gunpowder guns. Queue up and shoot in formation, and these people believe that the emphasis on queue training like our rabbit army does not have any benefit in improving actual combat capabilities.
But is this really the case? How would an army that has been in existence for decades and has fought with several rogue countries on the planet not know how to train soldiers? Contrary to the views of keyboard military strategists, we are aware of the important role of queue training in military training, which is why we have insisted on listing it as one of the basic subjects of military training for decades.
Although queue combat has gradually lost its role on the battlefield in the era of hot weapons, queue training can enable an ordinary person to develop the good habit of being neatly groomed and neatly dressed in a short period of time, and establish the concept of time, organizational discipline and collective concepts. The most important thing is to let everyone in this group develop the habit of obeying orders.
For commanders, queue training also starts from the most basic level and allows them to exercise their ability to organize, command and manage teams. If a commander can't even train his troops to line up, how can he command his subordinates to fight on an ever-changing battlefield?
The militia training system of the Cross-Travel Group has inherited the fine tradition of Wotu and regards queue training as the most basic training subject. The level of marching displayed by these more senior militiamen under the command of Gu Wei was completely different from that of the new recruits just now.
Although Li Nai has not read military books, once a person's knowledge reaches a certain level, he can learn many things by himself without a teacher. Even if he didn't know how to fight in a formation, he could still imagine the combat capability of this unit when he saw such a neat formation. But at the same time, a new question arose in his mind - what did the Haihan people want to do by training the militia to be so strong?
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