In the first year of the reign of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty, the Military Officer Academy of the Ming Dynasty moved from Huangpu Island in Guangzhou to Xiaolingwei in the outer city of Nanjing, so it was also called Xiaolingwei Lecture Hall.
Originally, when we were on Huangpu Island in Guangzhou, the Army Officer Academy was in its infancy and not very formal. After all, the Xinming Army was still a grassroots team at that time, and it happened to be experiencing a military revolution. Even the top brass of the Xinming Army did not know what war in the new era would look like. Therefore, they can only use the old tactical formation as the main body, stuffing new things into it bit by bit, and finally come up with a mixture of half-new and half-old, and something a little half-baked, even a little sloppy.
The tactics of the Ming army at that time had four major characteristics: first, the attack relied on a small number of elite troops; second, Zhu Heji always took risks; third, defense relied on digging earth trenches; fourth, firepower output relied on sugar and medicine.
The main reason why such a set of tactics was formed was that Zhu Heji's army was originally composed of a small number of elites, a large number of mobilized troops, and unparalleled firepower.
And those elites were developed from the young soldiers of Danan Mountain, and they can be said to be Zhu Heji's partners. Although they are small in number, they are proficient in all kinds of sugar and medicine weapons and have rich battlefield experience. Under the leadership of the big brother Zhu Heji, they are extremely brave and proactive. It wouldn't be very useful if someone else took them.
So Zhu Heji, who was adventurous by nature, always led these elites to fight fiercely on the battlefield... In fact, as the founding king, this kind of adventurous gameplay is quite normal. . Not to mention the early adventurous kings of the Liu family and Li Shimin and Li Cunxu of the Tang family. Even in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the two reckless emperors Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were also so reckless, otherwise they would His death won't be so dramatic.
But after the incident where Obo Rei was shot in the chest, Zhu Heji realized that it was no longer enough to charge into battle like this... Today's muskets are so powerful! Not only muskets, but also more deadly rifled guns!
Therefore, during the Battle of Nanjing, Zhu Heji refrained from going to the front line.
However, during the battlefield summary after the Nanjing and Anqing battles, Zhu Heji, Zhuge Sanhe and others discovered that their Ming army was actually not that strong...especially when Zhu Heji himself was not on the battlefield. When I went up, the people below were a bit confused.
It is weak when attacking, passively shrinking when defending, and the units are often disconnected. It is very difficult for the battlefield commander to mobilize the troops. In many cases, troops become chaotic while walking. On the Anqing battlefield, the Qing army also took advantage of the chaos in the Ming army's dispatch to fight many beautiful counterattacks!
If the sugar-powder rocket launchers weren't so powerful, Anqing City might not even be able to be defeated!
After further in-depth research, Zhu Heji, Zhuge Sanhe and others quickly found the reason... The reason is not complicated, that is, the army created by Zhu Heji was not good at fighting!
The organization, training, command, etc. of the troops are not good, even worse than the elite Qing army, and even worse than the Wu Zhou army with Wu Sangui.
The reason why we can always win battles is because the morale of the troops is high, the logistics are sufficient, and the firepower has an overwhelming advantage.
In the terminology of later generations, they are wealthy players who earn money!
However, this advantage is becoming weaker and weaker as the scale of the war continues to expand and the front continues to move north, as well as the opponent's mastery of sugar and medicine and the improvement of gunpowder weapons!
Because after the scale of the war expanded, there were more troops on the battlefield. Zhu Heji could no longer rely on the fierce fighting of a small number of old brothers to win the battle.
Therefore, Zhu Heji must help his old brothers grow from excellent soldiers to qualified officers as soon as possible!
At the same time, he must also work with his staff to come up with a new set of tactics by summarizing the experience gained in actual combat and exercises.
And that’s what the Army Officer Academy in Xiaolingwei does!
In order to take care of his old brothers, Zhu Heji even served as the principal of the military academy... and became Principal Zhu!
Then he did it himself, in line with the "commodity principle" of selecting generals from the dwarfs, and first selected a group of "tactical experts" from the army to serve as teachers, and divided them into infantry, artillery, engineers, and cavalry. There are seven majors including baggage, baggage, manager, and military orders. They also found some tactical regulations and operational references from Western countries - actually they couldn't find many, as the military education in Western countries was not formal these days. Then Zhu Heji and his "dwarf generals" began to organize and explore.
After a year of busy work, I finally produced seven professional training manuals, a set of regulations common to all arms. It also summarizes the arrangement and organization methods of various formations such as battlefield lines, battlefield columns, marching columns, hollow squares, chariot squares, cavalry shock teams, cavalry guerrillas, skirmishers, etc... This Although the set of things is not perfect, it is already the best thing that can be produced at present.
So Zhu Heji distributed these drills, orders, and formation illustrations to the troops, and at the same time summoned 1,67 "young old brothers" to "make up lessons" at Xiaolingwei Lecture Hall in Nanjing. This is the so-called filial piety. Lingwei Phase 1!
In order to allow these first-term disciples to learn their true skills, Zhu Heji also set up a fully staffed "teaching town" in Nanjing specifically for these senior brothers of the first-term Xiaoling Guard to practice their skills.
At the same time, in order to allow them to study and work with peace of mind, we built houses for them in Nanjing, and brought their families over from Guangdong. For those who did not have a family, they found ways to be matchmakers for them... It can be said that they are meticulous!
Although these old brothers from the first batch of Xiaoling Guards entered school at the same time, they graduated and returned to the team at different times. In order not to delay the training and combat readiness of the troops, Zhu Heji divided them into "long-term classes" and "short-term classes". They will serve as chief leaders (company commanders) and deputy leaders (platoon leaders) in infantry, artillery, cavalry and transport workers and other arms. All the old brothers entered the short-term class, and after the one-year course, they all returned to lead the troops. So in September last year, thousands of students left, and the rest were students in the long-term class...According to their principal Zhu, these people are all the seeds of famous generals, and now they are studying hard. Learn more skills and become a famous general in the future!
Although Principal Zhu's words are correct, these young officers who have achieved success and have served as generals, generals, or staff officers in the army, see their subordinates happily leading the troops, but they still have to be honest. Become a real student and complete increasingly difficult studies. If you fail the exam, you will have to be scolded by Principal Zhu, Principal Zhuge, Principal Su, Principal Ling, and Principal Zhao. Sometimes you will even be punished by those who serve in the military academy. Visiting professors from Hanlin University and Jinling University commented that they really miss the life of leading soldiers in the army.
But when can the big guys leave the army to lead troops and go to the battlefield to make achievements?
Just when this boring life of studying, taking exams, and being scolded seemed to last forever, the good news finally came.
The North Korean side raised the flag of righteousness against the Qing Dynasty, and there was also a Ming'an princess who admired their president Zhu Da. He was actually elected by the North Korean martyrs as a powerful official in state affairs... It seems that during the Northern Expedition The war must be fought.
These old brothers are still very familiar with Principal Zhu's noble character. How could this sage principal put a beautiful princess who bravely stood up for him and resisted Kang Mazi's tyranny into danger?
At this moment, President Zhu Da must be impatient to go to North Korea to be a hero and save the United States.
Of course they, the principal's good students, must follow them to make contributions!
So when the news reached the Xiaolingwei Lecture Hall, the old brothers here seemed to be in trouble. In the morning, I was able to hold back from noisy during morning exercises with the villain Ling Ling Zongjun. After I returned to the lecture hall, I no longer had the intention to attend class...especially the mathematics class with Professor Mei Dingwen of Jinling University. My class turned into a duck pond, and the quacking noise was so loud that Professor Mei Da was dumbfounded.
Seeing that Professor Mei Da was so stupid, the students below were talking even louder.
"I heard that Princess Ming'an is a famous beauty in North Korea...and she is also passionately devoted to our saint!"
"Nonsense... The saint has never been to North Korea, and Ming'an has not been to Ming Dynasty either. I have never met either side. How can he be so deeply in love with her?"
"Images of saints are everywhere! We have them in our classrooms, and they are also hung in Confucian schools or public schools. Princess Ming'an must have seen them too. Our saint is such a majestic man, how can she not Are you deeply in love?"
"That's right... As soon as the saint sends out troops, our opportunity to make great achievements will be here!"
"Of course! Maybe we can kill Kang Mazi again in North Korea!"
Just when a group of students were not in the mood for class and were talking nonsense, a loud roar suddenly came from outside the door: "His Royal Highness King Ming of the Supervisory State, His Highness the Supreme Heavenly King... are here!"
