Because Sanshu City is very small, even the first batch of the Second Cavalry Army to arrive in the city, only a regiment of cavalry and the military headquarters were able to enter the city, and most of the cavalry troops could only set up tents outside the city. With.
Guo Chengyong was sitting in his small single tent at this time. With half-squinted eyes, he thought about the upcoming war for a while, and then thought of his family.
I don’t know if my second brother’s marriage is settled.
My third brother is also going to apply for college this year. I don’t know how his academic performance will be. With his excellent grades, I’m afraid he has a good chance of applying for college this year.
However, the tuition fee for four years of college is not a small amount. It will cost at least several hundred yuan in one year. I am afraid that I will be under a lot of pressure in the next four years.
His parents were both farmers and could not earn much money. His brothers' studies were supported by his income alone.
It's just that even if he is an officer and earns a lot of money, he still has to be careful with his budget if he wants to support a college student.
As for the second brother who is already working, although he is working, he is only from a technical secondary school. He only became a junior clerk after passing the public examination. Although his job is decent, his income is actually just that. This year, another member of the Yang family is getting married. , I’m afraid I won’t be able to come up with any spare money.
Thinking of this, Guo Chengyong couldn't help but sigh. It was too expensive to support a self-funded college student, and a liberal arts college student...
If I had known a few years ago, I shouldn't have boasted about Haikou and asked my third brother to continue studying liberal arts... Now it's better, riding a tiger is hard to get off.
If you study liberal arts, the tuition this year will be several hundred dollars higher, and that doesn’t include living expenses!
The Great Chu Empire has always adhered to the three principles of tuition fees for higher education: free for geniuses, half-price for science, and sky-high prices for liberal arts.
Students who cannot get scholarships still go to study liberal arts, and ordinary middle-class families have to go bankrupt.
Higher education in the Chu Empire has always been very expensive at one's own expense.
(In the original time and space, the annual tuition fee at Cambridge in the late 19th century was several hundred pounds, and it was also several hundred dollars higher in the United States.)
Back then, Guo Chengyong didn't have to spend money to study. He was good enough in school and received scholarships all the way from elementary school, so he went to school for free!
If he hadn't been extremely good at school and received a scholarship all the way to school, Guo Chengyong wouldn't have been able to even go to junior high school based on his family's previous family conditions...
At the same time, because of his poor family background, Guo Chengyong did not go to Jinling University of Science or Imperial College, even though his grades could definitely enter these two top universities.
However, he still went to the Army Military Academy... The reason was not a high-level reason such as protecting the family and the country. If he simply enrolled in the Army Military Academy, not only would there be no tuition fee, but all food and accommodation would be included... …And they also paid wages!
As soon as you enroll in the Military Academy, you will be awarded the rank of Warrant Officer and receive salary as an active soldier.
As soon as he entered the military school, he wrote home to ask his two younger brothers to continue their studies instead of dropping out early to work in farming or working.
This is why countless young students in the Chu Empire, especially students from middle- and low-income groups, have the highest goal of applying to several military academies.
It’s very simple. In addition to free tuition, room and board, you will also be paid during your studies!
If you go to other universities, you can get a full scholarship even if you have excellent grades. There is even a small living allowance, but there is no salary.
The more students want to go there, the more competition there will naturally be.
The three military academies of the Great Chu Empire were even more difficult to apply for than Jinling Institute of Technology and Imperial College, and second only to the Royal Institute of Technology.
But the Royal Institute of Technology specializes in recruiting geniuses and cultivating scientists. To get into the exam is to get an official status. This is different from ordinary universities. Students with insufficient IQ will not be able to get in no matter how hard you work...
Although Guo Chengyong prides himself on being a smart person and studying hard enough, he didn't even dare to think about applying for the Royal Institute of Technology...
Damn, that's not something a normal person can apply for, and he, Guo Chengyong, is a normal person, not a pervert!
Thinking of his third brother's high tuition fees gave the army captain a headache, so much so that he hoped to earn some extra money during the war to conquer Kazakhstan to subsidize his family.
Just thinking about this, he was a little worried that he would be involved in such a large-scale war.
Although this time we march into the Kazakh Khanate, although our side has great advantages in all aspects, it is unlikely that there will be a bloody battle... Well, the Kazakh barbarians who are still in their tribes cannot give back to the Chu Empire. What practical pressure does the Army have?
But no matter what, this is still a war!
Since it is a war, there will naturally be casualties. As a grassroots cavalry officer, Guo Chengyong has to charge with the cavalry after the battle breaks out, and he has to be at the front when charging!
The probability of casualties is actually greater than that of ordinary cavalry.
Now that the war is approaching, even if he usually behaves confidently in front of his subordinates and colleagues, Guo Chengyong will still be worried when he is alone.
After all, he is just an ordinary person. Even after receiving a long military education and six years of grassroots service, Guo Chengyong still maintains awe of war.
But being in awe does not mean that he will avoid or even be timid in the face of battle... Even like many of his colleagues in the army, while he is afraid of war, he is also looking forward to it!
As a cavalry officer with a civilian background, he had no relatives or friends to help him.
Because he himself is the biggest background in the family!
At that time, he was the first one from several surrounding villages to be admitted to college, and he was admitted to one of the most difficult schools, the "Army Officer School". When the admission notice arrived home, it was the county's top education school. The chief of the department, the captain of the county garrison, the town magistrate and others beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers to his home.
When he accepted the admission notice from the Army Officer School, it was the most glorious moment in his life!
After entering the Army Officer School, he studied cavalry. After three years of theoretical study, he practiced in a nearby cavalry unit for one year and graduated.
Because his theoretical academic performance and internship evaluation were all excellent, and he also took the initiative to serve at the frontier level, he served not long after graduation and was promoted to an army lieutenant in only two years.
Students of the Army Military Academy are all admitted as warrant officers, and are basically awarded the rank of second lieutenant after graduation. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, the top three in each class will be awarded the rank of lieutenant.
Guo Chengyong's excellence was naturally not comparable to that of the top three, so it was impossible for him to be awarded the rank of lieutenant upon graduation.
However, because I had excellent theoretical study and internship results, I took the initiative to serve in the frontier grassroots troops after graduation. During my service, my performance was considered excellent. I participated in many battles with the remnants of Zhungeer, so I was able to join the army in just two years. Promoted to lieutenant.
Four years later, he was promoted to Army captain based on meritorious service and served in the 37th Cavalry Regiment of the 12th Cavalry Division under the 2nd Cavalry Corps. He served as the deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Cavalry Battalion and the sentry officer of the 2nd Cavalry.
The cavalry battalion was actually used as a cavalry battalion in the early years, but it was established again after 18 years in Chengshun.
The cancellation and re-establishment of the cavalry battalion is a testimony to the continuous reform of the cavalry in the Dachu Empire.
At the beginning, the Chu Army's cavalry unit was organized into a regiment-controlled battalion and a battalion-controlled sentry... Later, the battalion organization was abolished and changed to a regiment-controlled large-scale sentry with three battalions.
However, I gradually discovered that although the large-scale cavalry sentry posts were easy to use, the military ranks were difficult to match, because the sentry officers were all captains, and the regiment leaders were basically colonels.
There is no intermediate transitional rank.
At the same time, it is good for a cavalry of more than two hundred people to form a basic tactical unit, but the internal organization of this basic tactical unit is somewhat unreasonable. For example, the organization of three teams is not easy to use.
In actual combat, the cavalry commander often splits the third cavalry team directly and then adds it to the other two teams to form two cavalry detachments of equal strength for combat.
In response to these circumstances, the cavalry force began to reform and reset the level of the cavalry battalion. The cavalry battalion was equipped with two cavalry posts, and the cavalry posts were equipped with two cavalry teams.
In fact, it is to determine the actual combat organization of the two cavalry detachments that the frontline commanders originally liked to use, forming a more reasonable and fixed organization with more matching military ranks.
Therefore, the strength of the reformed cavalry battalion is actually the same as that of the previous large-scale cavalry outposts, without any changes, but the title has changed, the rank of the chief officer has also changed to major, and the internal organization has also changed.
After the reform, the strength of each cavalry battalion still ranges from more than 170 to more than 200. The specific strength depends on the type of cavalry. Heavy cavalry should be less. For example, there are only 100 heavy lancers and cuirassiers. Seventy-five riders; light cavalry, two hundred and thirty-five riders.
Strictly speaking, the core cavalry system of the Chu Empire Army has not changed much... it is still the same as before. The most obvious feature is that the strength of its basic cavalry tactical units has not changed much.
There are still more than 100 heavy cavalry, more than 200 light cavalry form a basic tactical unit, and four basic tactical units form a cavalry regiment.
The Chu army's cavalry organization is generally similar to the modern Western cavalry units during the Napoleonic period. Don't ask why, just ask... The Napoleonic cavalry organization is: 2 platoons - 2 companies - 4 cavalry squadrons - 1 cavalry regiment.
One thing that must be made clear is that the cavalry squadron here is not a cavalry company...the two are not the same concept.
Strictly speaking, it is actually translated as 'cavalry battalion' more appropriately... But no matter how it is translated, it is not a cavalry company, because there are two cavalry companies under it. It is nonsense to call it a cavalry company. .
It's just that many people in later generations made errors in translation, and the Japanese on the opposite side used the name cavalry squadron, so many people confused cavalry squadron and cavalry company.
In the end, many people mistakenly believed that during the Napoleonic period, or during the same period, the European cavalry cavalry regiments had four cavalry companies. In fact, this is not the case. Generally speaking, a cavalry regiment has three or four cavalry squadrons, and each cavalry squadron has two cavalry squadrons. A cavalry company.
Therefore, Napoleon's cavalry regiment had six or eight cavalry companies. The strength of this cavalry company theoretically ranged from more than 80 to more than 110 cavalry.
The cavalry squadrons in the European armies during the Napoleonic Wars were organized between cavalry companies and cavalry regiments. What they were called specifically is a matter of translation!
As for the Japanese cavalry squadrons after the 20th century, they were real cavalry companies... In the early days of the Japanese cavalry, there was a brigade, and above the brigade there was a regiment. This brigade was actually equivalent to the European cavalry units in the 19th century. cavalry squadron.
But later everyone started to use small regiments and large companies, so the Japanese canceled the cavalry brigade and turned it into a cavalry squadron directly under the jurisdiction of a cavalry regiment.
At the same time, the European army abolished the cavalry squadrons and adopted the model of cavalry regiments directly managing cavalry companies.
Eventually, the translation came to mean that the cavalry squadron was equivalent to the cavalry company.
In fact, everyone's compilation is similar, it's just an illusion caused by different translations.
The cavalry establishment in the Chu army is currently one cavalry regiment with four cavalry battalions under its control. The cavalry battalion has two cavalry posts, and the cavalry posts have two cavalry teams, and there are squads below the teams.
Guo Chengyong is the deputy battalion commander of the cavalry battalion and the second cavalry sentry officer, with the rank of army captain.
He is actually the supporter of his family and even relatives in his hometown...
Last year when he returned to his hometown to visit relatives and worship his ancestors on the Double Ninth Festival, he sat in the front, and the elders had to accompany him respectfully.
However, he was prosperous in his hometown, but it was very difficult in the army. If he wanted to climb up, no one would help him, so he had to rely on himself.
Why did he take the initiative to apply to serve in the Western Frontier after graduation? It was because there was no one from above to help him. If he dared to stay in the cavalry unit in the hinterland of the Central Plains to serve, he would have to slowly accumulate qualifications step by step, and he would be able to become a major in this life. Retiring from the military ranks is a blessing.
However, after serving in the frontier, even if there is no major battle, there is still hard work and some ordinary small achievements.
Generally speaking, officers serving in border areas (including overseas territories) are promoted much faster than those serving in the Central Plains.
If you encounter a large-scale war and make great contributions, your promotion will be faster, just like riding a rocket.
The reason why there is such a gap is very simple... People suffer from the cold and fight in the frontiers or overseas from time to time. If you eat and drink well in the prosperous Central Plains, if the promotion speed remains the same, who will go to the frontiers or overseas? , but we have to go to the prosperous hinterland cities one by one!
So joining the army on the border of the Western Region is really hard... This poor place is either a desert, the Gobi Desert, or an endless prairie. The natural environment is very harsh, and it is thousands of miles away from his hometown. Guo Chengyong came here to count. Over the years, I only went back once to visit relatives last year.
But if you get promoted quickly, it’s really fast!
Guo Chengyong served in the Second Cavalry Army for six years. In fact, he did not fight any large-scale battles, nor did he receive much credit. It was just some small battles.
However, he was still successfully promoted to Army Captain, which would have been impossible in other places.
Moreover, he is only twenty-nine years old this year. If he makes great achievements in this expedition to the Kazakh Khanate, he will be able to cross the threshold of many officers and become a major in a few years.
As for the major in his early thirties, no matter where he is, he can be regarded as a young and promising candidate for the future general.
Therefore, Guo Chengyong is actually looking forward to the war. He has studied hard for more than ten years and trained hard for many years in order to one day make meritorious deeds on the battlefield, stand out, and even become a general for himself and his family!
But, can this war give him what he wants?
Guo Chengyong, who had many different people or things in his mind, had no intention of taking a lunch break, so he just half-closed his eyes.
But in the evening, a messenger from the regiment headquarters came over and said that the regiment commander asked the sentry commanders and above to go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.
After arriving, as the deputy battalion commander and sentry commander, he naturally had no say. He just listened to the several school officers above arranging combat plans and giving lectures.
Their order is simple. The entire 37th Cavalry Regiment will set off early tomorrow morning to serve as the vanguard of the entire army to explore the enemy's situation.
