What made Huang Bochun feel that the normal school was strange was not only that its political philosophy was different from the Neo-Confucianism advocated by the imperial court, but also in the selection of students and the staffing of teachers. Because food and accommodation are free, Miao people are very motivated to send people to study in the Pili Army. There are about 600 people studying in various fields. Among them, there are 200 students sent to normal schools, second only to those studying military affairs. In fact, the tribes are not very interested in normal education. They are more interested in learning industrial and mining technologies. However, the number of teachers in the normal school was insisted on by the Pili Army. For this reason, Ouyang Xuan and Lu Dezhi explained and emphasized the importance of education many times. In their view, if education is not taken seriously, the development of military science and technology, industry and mining will be rootless and will sooner or later run out of development momentum.
For students sent by Bozhou and various tribes, the Pili Army generally accepts all students as ordered and respects the professional choices of Bozhou and various tribes. The reason why it is said to be average is because the normal school conducted a test three days after the start of classes. In addition to language expression and thinking ability, the most important test content is how to understand the Pili Army's philosophy of "the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the king is the least". The test results this time directly eliminated half of the students. These eliminated students were all re-study and professional deployment according to their wishes. Most of these people happily chose military training, while only a few chose medicine, agricultural technology, and industrial and mining technology. It was this test that made Huang Bochun feel that the Pili Army valued Miao education, even more than the military.
Huang Bochun was thankful that he passed the test. Because in the next study, he was even more excited - the teaching staff was really luxurious. Not only Lu Dezhi taught them, but Ouyang Xuan also came to teach them in person. In addition to his profound knowledge and vivid and easy-to-understand lectures, this also means that students can claim to be his disciples, which will be of great benefit to their future development. As the leader of the Thunderbolt Army, Ouyang Xuan had to deal with very complicated military and political affairs, and he also had to spend a lot of time on scientific research. It was not easy to insist on teaching normal students every week. You should know that Ouyang Xuan did not teach students from other majors, even the military major that everyone looked at highly.
In addition, the curriculum of normal schools is also much richer. In addition to teaching the political philosophy of the Perak Army and advocating "equality for all", the content learned in normal schools is all-encompassing. In addition to literature, there are also arithmetic, astronomy, geography and other scientific knowledge. These things sound novel but reasonable. Make people enlightened. The two main textbooks used by school teachers in their lectures are "Mengxi Bi Tan" written by Shen Kuo, and the other is "Scientific Knowledge" written by Ouyang Xuan himself. After Huang Bochun's study during this period, he vaguely understood a dream of the Perak Army, or Ouyang Xuan, which was to spread the ideas and science and technology of the Perak Army, and these students were the seeds.
Huang Bochun is a person with high IQ and EQ. He only told his companions the superficial situation and never mentioned his speculations. Contrary to his caution, Tian Liang's words were much more complacent. As the son of the general manager of Tian Da, he has been exposed to war since he was a child. There is a high probability that he will be the leader of Bozhou in the future, so he has a wait-and-see attitude towards military learning. The Bozhou Army was so prestigious that not only the imperial court relied heavily on it, but even the Mongolian army was afraid of it. Therefore, the Bozhou Army generals, including General Manager Tian Da, thought of themselves very highly. Although they admitted that the Pili Army was powerful in combat, they believed that it was because of their firearms. However, in terms of the bravery and strategy of the soldiers, the Bozhou Army was superior. If the Bozhou Army had firearms, the name of the Pili Army would naturally be overshadowed by the Bozhou Army.
The reason why Tian Liang complained and didn't take it seriously was because during this period, all he studied was housekeeping and queuing, all about lining up, shouting slogans, reciting instructions, and even cleaning. In his opinion, no matter how tidy the barracks and armor are, and no matter how neatly folding the bedding, it is useless if you can't win the battle. But what he didn't know was that housekeeping and queueing were only the first step in developing military discipline. At present, firearms are not yet mature, or before the invention of the cavalry's nemesis, the machine gun, if the firearms troops want to defeat the Mongolian cavalry at the peak of the cold weapon era, they must rely on strict discipline to maintain their formation. Only by withstanding the casualties caused by the rain of arrows from the Mongolian cavalry and counterattacking with artillery and muskets, the enemy was finally defeated. This is essentially a contest between military discipline and will. Whoever fails to withstand it first will be defeated.
Although these trainees from the Miao and Yi Tibetan areas have strong individual qualities and are hard-working, they have poor sense of military discipline and ability to obey the crowd. After disciplinary improvement, formal military training begins, including team tactics, firearms maintenance, formations, field raids and other subjects. Those with outstanding scores in the above subjects will be selected to attend advanced military classes for training, where they will learn infantry and cavalry command, artillery, ships and special operations respectively. To learn infantry and cavalry command, you need to have served as a grassroots officer at the company and platoon level. To learn ships, you need to have naval experience. In addition to having strong individual soldier abilities, you need to be familiar with ranging mapping technology to learn special operations. Artillery is the most technical. In addition to literacy, it also requires a mathematical foundation for the next step of learning courses such as artillery structure, working principles and ballistic calculations.
The so-called ignorant person is fearless, and a blinding leaf leads to Tian Liang's complacency and indifference. At this moment, he and a few of his companions were chatting and laughing, sitting around in the warm room drinking wine and eating meat. What he doesn't know is that not all students celebrate the Spring Festival like him. Several Yifan students in his class were crouching in the reeds, enduring hunger and the freezing cold, looking at the Hanzhou City ahead. Lying in front of them were several soldiers from the Perak Army's special brigade. Two days ago, this reconnaissance team set out from Hengyuan Fort to take advantage of the relaxation of the Mongolian army near the Spring Festival to carry out a close reconnaissance mission. Although the Mongolian cavalry does not celebrate the Spring Festival, there are a large number of Mongolian Han troops and newly attached troops in the Sichuan Mongolian army, and they do want to celebrate the Spring Festival.
There are ten people in this reconnaissance team, led by Dundup, the famous scout of the special brigade. Dunzhu had experienced hundreds of battles, and his most famous mission was to rescue the artillery technicians detained by Yu Xing in Meizhou. That operation freed the Perak Army from a passive situation and made Dundup famous. After the establishment of the Second Teaching Battalion, which was mainly composed of Miao and Tibetan students, the staff transferred Dunzhu Tibetan people to serve as instructors because they were easier to communicate with. According to the teaching plan, in order to graduate, every military cadet must pass the actual combat test and participate in combat or reconnaissance operations. Therefore, in this reconnaissance mission personally assigned by Ouyang Xuan, Dunzhu not only brought five soldiers from the special brigade, but also brought along the two best-performing Miao students and one Yibo student.
After setting off from Guankou Village, the reconnaissance team will first go to Pengzhou and Huai'an Army. After the reconnaissance in Hanzhou, they will go south to Yunding City and Jianzhou, and then circle all the way back to Pengshan City. The operation was very smooth, thanks to the new equipment such as telescopes and new revolver guns. Needless to say, the role of the telescope is that the revolving gun is imitated from the revolver. This weapon is in the trial production stage. Although the barrel is not tightly locked due to the poor processing accuracy of the parts, the effective range is only more than ten meters, but it can Six shots in a row make it a powerful melee weapon. The success of this operation was due to the elite men led by Dundup. In particular, those tribal students performed extremely well. Not only did they have extremely far vision and sensitive hearing, they were also good at using weapons such as short crossbows and knives. The Mongolian sentries were often killed quietly. These tribal students are natural hunters. In their eyes, the Mongolian soldiers are just prey to be slaughtered.
