On Kawaishi Island.
In the newly completed lecture hall, Su Ze was talking to the students under the podium.
In order to enhance the cohesion of the new Navy force, Su Ze customized free cotton military uniforms for all trainees, all of which were lake blue using "Nanping Blue" dye.
Because the weather in Fujian is relatively hot, the military uniform designed by Su Ze is a relatively thin style with a stand-up collar, double-breasted upper body and leggings trousers.
In fact, the clothes of the Ming Dynasty were greatly influenced by the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. For example, officials in the early Ming Dynasty still wore Yuan Dynasty hats and hats when going to court. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after the Tumubao Incident, Confucianism once again talked about the Huayi culture. After debate, it was changed to the crown style of the Song Dynasty.
But among the people, double-breasted clothes are still very common. Except for scholars, it is also normal for ordinary people to wear trousers.
Therefore, there is nothing shocking about Su Ze's military uniform. All the students think that this cotton uniform is of good quality and has the right color. If Su Ze hadn't forced him to wear military uniforms, some students from poor families would be reluctant to wear them.
This lecture hall can accommodate up to 100 people attending classes at the same time. Today, on Kawaishi Island, 1,000 students from miners and minters, and 300 hired sea merchants and sailors are all mixed together, with 100 people per small flag. , divided into 13 small flags.
These 13 small flags, under the leadership of Changning Guard officers, practice driving sea ships, forming formations and shooting muskets on weekdays.
At the same time, the 13 Xiaoqi took turns to take a break every 13 days. During the break, they would listen to Su Ze's class in this lecture hall in the morning.
In addition, there will be a night literacy class within 13 days, where Su Ze's disciple Lin Anzi teaches these soldiers reading and arithmetic.
Although the training and learning tasks are full, these soldiers do not complain.
The reason is that on Kawaishi Island, you can eat three meals on time every day, and there must be meat for lunch and dinner.
In addition, their training days on the island are also calculated as military pay. Each soldier can receive a reward of one tael of silver per month. This income is already considered a high salary in Fuzhou City.
When they landed on the island, Su Ze personally distributed the first month's reward to each student. Each of these New Army soldiers shouted, "Thank you, Commander Su!" silver.
This silver coin was also newly minted by Su Ze and Mr. Tao in the mint workshop. The silver coin was engraved with Wuyi Mountain on the front and the Minjiang River on the back. It was highly recognized in the market, and many soldiers were reluctant to use it after taking the silver coin.
However, the students in the classroom today are not soldiers of the New Army.
There is a big age gap among this group of students.
Sitting in the front row were fifteen young men aged thirteen or fourteen. They were the orphans that Su Ze taught at the Yanping Prefecture Nursing Home. Later, after Su Ze went to Jiangnan, it was Su Ze who taught them. classmates, these children can already read and do math problems at the junior high school level. They are considered the second batch of disciples taught by Su Ze himself.
As for Professor Su Ze's first disciples, they were Lin Liangjun, Lin Chun, and Lin Anzai, the children of Chang Ningwei. They are now faculty members of Kawaishishima College.
The next fifteen people were selected by Su Ze from among the 1,300 New Army soldiers who were quick-minded and capable of reading and arithmetic.
The last fifteen people were the young people Su Ze used in Zong Yuan's list to find young people who failed in the last martial arts examination from among the guards in Fujian.
These are all the children of military attachés with real abilities. They are basically the second sons of the family like Yu Zongyuan, and they want to find a way out through martial arts.
However, the martial arts examination is really too dark. "Innocent" dudes like Yu Zongyuan can pass the examination, but these really capable military attache students often fail.
Among those who were unsuccessful, there were many young people who had the enthusiasm to fight the Japanese but were unable to realize their ambitions. They were persuaded by Su Ze to serve as officers in the new anti-Japanese army.
The target of Su Ze's lecture today was the officers of the New Navy Army.
Su Ze walked into the lecture hall wearing the same military uniform, and assistant teacher Lin Liangjun immediately shouted: "Stand up!"
"Hello Shan Chang!"
Su Ze also bowed in return, and the group of young people sat down.
This class ceremony has been carried out more than a dozen times. Now when these officer cadets see Su Ze, they will instinctively salute.
Su Ze stood on the podium and immediately began a passionate opening speech. The content was naturally about the military ethics of resisting Japan, saving the country, and protecting the country and the people.
After he finished speaking, Su Ze saw the students below staring at him intently, and Su Ze knew that the two passives had taken effect.
The Passive of Art of War Level 5, [Blue Passive - Martial Arts Lecture: When explaining the content of military equipment (art of war, tactics) in public, Charm +1. 】
Passive of Lecture Level 10, [Purple Passive - Incitement: After completing a short inciting lecture, Charisma +5, Military Skills +3 within one day]
Now Su Ze's charm is 14+1+5, up to 20 points, and his art of war skills have reached Lv9+3 with the bonus of [Incitement].
Among those who were invited by Su Ze to fail the martial arts exam, there were many who were familiar with the art of war and felt that they were young people who had been reborn as Lord Zhuge Wu. However, under the baptism of Su Ze's 19-point charm during this period, he explained the art of war with Level 12 , are all convinced of Su Ze, and they have become Su Ze's most loyal fans.
The children in the Yangtze Yuan were originally Su Ze's disciples, and they were even more loyal to Su Ze.
On the other hand, the fifteen officers selected from the soldiers could not keep up with the speed at which Su Ze explained the art of war, but they were also infected by Su Ze's 19-point charm and listened carefully to every lecture.
Sure enough, charisma is related to "tactics of war" and "lectures." Under high charisma, students will pay more attention to lectures, and their two skills, art of war and lecturing, will also improve faster.
Now Su Ze's lectures have been upgraded to Lv11, and his art of war skills are about to break through Lv10.
The courses in the first half month are mainly about how to lead soldiers, how to issue orders, how to train and camp, and how to enforce military law. They are all basic courses for grassroots officers.
Su Ze spoke in detail and used vernacular. Some of the content that needed to be memorized was changed into jingles and songs by Su Ze. The teaching effect was also good, and his [lecture] skills improved quickly.
However, these contents were all taught by Su Ze at Changning Guard and also at the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese General Corps. Those students who failed in the martial arts examinations also learned this since they were young.
So although the lectures were effective, the [Art of War] skills were not improved much.
According to Su Ze's understanding, there are three main ways to increase the [Art of War] skill.
The first is to "discuss" with generals of the same or higher level and improve through exchanges and collisions.
The second is to enable the officers and soldiers under their command to master new military skills through troop training, or lectures and exercises, which is equivalent to improvement through teaching.
The last one is actual combat. If one victory is not enough, then win another one.
Formation, military discipline, these things have been thoroughly summarized in ancient military books. Some of these people who failed the military examination are grassroots officers, and they are even more experienced in leading troops than Su Ze.
If it weren't for Su Ze's high charm, they would have deserted long ago.
But today's class was different. Su Ze picked up the chalk and wrote two big characters on the blackboard.
"Lin Liangjun!"
"Here! Chief Su Shan!"
"What do you pronounce these two words!?"
"Chief Huishan! It's a 'temple calculation'!"
"Very good! Very impressive! Then let me ask you, what is a temple?"
"Sun Tzu's Art of War said: 'If you don't fight but have temples to win, you have to count it as more. If you don't fight and have temples to lose, you have to count it as less. More means victory, less means you don't win, but nothing matters! I see it this way. Then, the winner will be determined.'"
Su Ze nodded with satisfaction. Under Lin Mojun's supervision, Lin Liangjun's foundation was very solid. If he had been in the junior high school, he would have been able to pass the martial arts examination.
It's a pity that the martial arts exam is now bad.
"Very good, sit down. In fact, the temple's calculations can be summed up as 'the one who is strategizing can win the battle thousands of miles away'."
All the students were excited after hearing this. As long as they are generals, who doesn't yearn to be in charge of an army and have a top-notch military showdown?
Seeing that the enthusiasm of the students was mobilized, Su Ze immediately said: "The Art of War by Sun Tzu summarizes the method of temple calculation into 'Five Things and Seven Strategies' and 'The Art of the Soldier'. Many people should have read it. However, Sun Tzu's art of war is so profound that not even an ordinary general can use it in a subtle way."
Everyone nodded. It was not that "Sun Tzu's Art of War" was not great. It was precisely because the rules summarized in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" were so subtle that ordinary generals would not know how to operate them after reading them.
"Do you want to learn the art of temple arithmetic?"
"think!"
"Louder! Haven't you eaten?"
"think!!"
Even Lin Liangjun shouted along.
Su Ze saw that the atmosphere was about to change. He clapped his hands and six soldiers carried a six-meter-diameter disk and placed it on the podium.
This is a lifelike wooden sand table, which Su Ze made by himself using the Level 5 [Carpenter] skill.
A sharp-eyed student immediately recognized it: "Isn't this the sand table in Fuzhou?"
Sure enough, the land, islands and oceans of Fuzhou are all vividly represented on the sand table, and even Kawaishi Island can be found.
"Today we are going to talk about temple calculations. In fact, don't think that temple calculations are so complicated. Formulating a battle plan is actually the so-called temple calculations."
"The simplest calculation is to calculate the comparison of the enemy's and our own forces, and calculate the targets that the enemy may attack. We will encounter these in actual combat, and everyone will use them."
"But these are all methods of calculation on land. Fighting at sea is completely different from fighting on land."
Su Ze saw everyone's eyes falling on the sand table, and he suddenly asked:
"Lin Liangjun!"
"Here! Chief Su Shan!"
"Tell me, what is the difference between land and sea operations? What is the first priority in sea operations?"
Lin Liangjun was stunned. There was no mention of naval battles in military books. He didn't know how to answer this question!
However, Su Ze did not embarrass Lin Liangjun, but said: "The biggest difference between sea combat and land combat is that the sea is very big."
Everyone burst into laughter. Is the sea very big? What the hell is this answer?
But Lin Liangjun started to think about it, and he immediately said: "I understand! What you mean, Commander Shan, is that the sea is very wide, and the fleet is too small compared to the sea. Therefore, compared with land operations with rich intelligence, the biggest difficulty in sea operations is Just looking for enemies?"
Su Ze stared at Lin Liangjun. He didn't expect this guy to understand what he meant so quickly. Could it be that he also inherited Lin Baihu's talent?
This is an admiral from the Lin family who has drawn two SSRs at once. This inheritance is a bit too scary.
However, since both the Lin siblings were used by him, Su Ze felt relieved and said in agreement:
"Assistant Professor Lin is right. You must remember the words I said today - 'In maritime operations, the first priority is to find the enemy'."
"You may not understand what I said. Peng Shuye, come up."
Peng Shuye was one of the homeless children in Yanping Prefecture who was rescued by Su Ze. If it weren't for Su Ze, he would have been killed by the harvesters. He was also the most gifted child among the orphans in the orphanage.
"You can calculate this question. We know the height of the mast of the lucky ship. Calculate the range of the sea area that can be seen by the lookout hand."
Peng Shuye quickly calculated the values. Su Ze placed a model representing a lucky ship on the sand table, and then put an iron ring on the model ship.
Su Ze placed another ship model on the sand table and once again placed the iron hoop representing the visible sea area.
"The speed of the two ships is almost the same. Peng Shuye, please do the math. What is the chance of the two ships being discovered by each other while patrolling the waters off Fuzhou?"
Peng Shuye calculated on the blackboard for a long time, and finally said: "Go back to the mountain, there is no one in a hundred."
Su Ze nodded with satisfaction, asked Peng Shuye to return to his seat, and then said: "The sea is vast, and the enemy is not static. Unless they are enemies attacking the port, it is very difficult to find the enemy on the sea."
"This is the difference between maritime operations and land operations. In land operations, large-scale corps movements are difficult to conceal. Too much information will be leaked along the way. In many historical wars, both sides actually knew the enemy's military situation very well. , even the enemy’s marching route can be calculated.”
"But the sea is different. The ocean is much larger than the land. Unless it is a battle for a port, the most important thing for fleet operations in offshore operations is to discover the enemy first, that is, to strike first."
"This is 'fighting at sea, finding the enemy first'."
"Now I will teach you how to 'play' this game. Everyone is divided into two teams, standing on my left and right respectively. I will explain the rules of the war game."
Su Ze wrote the rules of the war game on the blackboard, and then he acted as the referee and said to both sides:
"Red side, ten thousand-ton Fuzhou ships, you are playing the role of the new Fuzhou navy army. Your mission is to prevent Japanese pirates from landing in Fuzhou."
"Blue side, there are also ten thousand-ton Fuzhou ships. You are playing the role of the Xinwa fleet. Your mission is to bypass the Fuzhou Navy and land to attack Fuzhou."
"We've finished explaining the rules, and now it's up to you to come to the 'Temple' to fight."
"Since it's a competition, there are winners and losers. The loser will wash the winner's clothes for five days."
Su Ze looked around and saw expressions of eagerness on the faces of the students on both sides. Su Ze smiled slightly, waved and said, "Start!"
(End of chapter)
