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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 334: Practical Combat Example

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    There were thirty-eight foreign instructors below Liszt in attendance. The Shanghai Lecture Hall was divided into five military departments: infantry, artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage. The following departments included topography, fortification, weapons, military system, health, and cartography.  There are more than 20 disciplines such as science and ballistics. These 38 foreign instructors are the supervisors of each military department and the representatives of the main instructors of each discipline.

    I have to say the contribution of these foreign instructors to the martial arts school. They not only compiled infantry drills, shooting instructions, service orders in the formation, work instructions, field exercises, logistics support, military health regulations and other military departments and disciplines.  Standardizing teaching materials and military orders, and most importantly, they brought classic examples of large-scale use of thermal weapons to the Taiping Army.

    The reason why veterans in an army are valuable is because they survived on the battlefield. The valuable experience they brought back from blood and fire is a valuable asset to an army.  Lister and others are veterans from various countries, and the valuable experience they bring can help the Taiping Army gain a lot of valuable experience.

    Xiao Yungui saw the "Practical Combat Examples" from the officer textbooks at the Military Academy, in which instructors from various countries compiled their personal war experiences and classic battle examples of the great powers.  From the classic battles of the Napoleonic Wars era to the wars of Britain and France in the colonies, from the American war against the native Indians to the recent Crimean War deductions, there are even naked battles of the First Opium War.

    Xiao Yungui has read it in detail, and based on some of the history he and Hong Yun'er know, the "Practical Combat Examples" written by Liszt and others can be called a classic war example manuscript. There is nothing hidden or exaggerated in it.  Xiao Yungui saw the professionalism and professional attitude of foreigners such as Liszt, which the Chinese people lacked.

    It¡¯s not that the Taiping Army doesn¡¯t have its own war experience, but that many senior generals of the Taiping Army, including the original Xiao Chaogui, don¡¯t have a high level of education, let alone their subordinates.  They fought many hard and bloody battles.  They also have a lot of valuable experience, but they are not good at summarizing it, or summarizing their experience into more scientific and standardized military regulations.

    Although the Taiping Army, like the Hunan Army in later generations, also compiled some easy-to-remember ballads to impart war experience to the soldiers, the Hunan Army even used ballads to stipulate how deep the trenches should be dug and how high the walls should be built.  Zeng Guofan's rules for setting up a camp stated: Set up a camp to facilitate attack and defense.  Avoid low-lying and damp areas when camping.  It is difficult for water to escape, so avoid flat ground to level the sun.  Suffer from all sides

    Enemies, be careful not to sit on a mountain that is too low.  The guest mountain is high, so avoid half-side slopes.  Cannons can be exchanged for people Every time we set up camp in a place, regardless of wind, rain, cold or heat, as soon as the team arrived, we immediately built and dug walls and trenches, and succeeded within a time limit.  No rest is allowed until it's done.  Nor are you allowed to fight with thieves.  The wall must be eight feet high.  One foot thick.  The wall is built without door panels or bamboo wood. It is built with grass and clay blocks both inside and outside. The middle is tightly built with earth. After every foot is built, long strips of small trees are laid across the wall to avoid the risk of cracking after rain.  There are gun holes on it.  There is a sub-wall inside for the soldiers to stand.  The trench must be one foot to five feet deep, the deeper the better, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.  The soil taken out of the trench.  It must be covered two feet away, not too close, and not piled high, for fear that during heavy rain, the guest soil will still flow into the trench

    The Taiping Army also had marching and camp regulations, and even the formulas and usage of various formations, as well as the gist of various tactics.

    It has to be said that the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army used ballads that were easy for soldiers to remember to summarize military laws, which has certain advantages. After all, most of the soldiers in the army are illiterate, so it is easier for everyone to remember.  But this is an army that uses a mixture of hot and cold weapons. The nature of their army is essentially different from the hot weapon armies of the great powers. In addition to the different weapons, the quality of the soldiers who use the weapons is also different.

    It is enough for soldiers with cold weapons to not be afraid of hardship and death. Most of the soldiers of the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army can do this.  In addition to not being afraid of hardship or death, the most important thing for soldiers with hot weapons is to learn to use their brains.

    Cold weapons use courage and fighting to defeat the opponent, while hot weapons use firepower to destroy the enemy and preserve oneself to defeat the enemy.  Cold weapons can kill an enemy by one thousand but cause eight hundred losses, but hot weapons are different. If you use your tactics well, your losses will be far less than the enemy's.

    So Xiao Yungui was ambitious and wanted to get closer to the great powers and build his own army of pure thermal weapons. The first thing he had to do was not to improve the weapons, but to improve the soldiers who used the weapons.  How to improve soldiers?  Then you have to start with literacy. Only with literacy can you understand all kinds of books and learn more knowledge.

    The Military Lecture School was established for the Taiping Army to train high-quality officers who were adaptable to hot weapon warfare. Xiao Yungui launched a nighttime literacy campaign among Taiping Army soldiers in various places. The responsibilities of military officers at all levels changed from preaching to motivation.  Soldiers, teach soldiers literacy.  The literacy movement for ordinary soldiers started even earlier than the New Deal. The earliest literacy movement started with Xiao Yungui's personal guards. They were taught by Xi Wang and Xi Wang Niang in turns at night.

    RequirementsLiteracy is to improve the quality of soldiers, so the various military drills, practical examples, etc. written by the foreign instructors in the Jiangwu School are prepared to improve the quality of soldiers.  The Shanghai Navy Administrative Department is in the process of purchasing various firearms, artillery, chariots and horses needed for actual combat.

    In addition to the foreign instructors, there are also Chinese instructors, most of whom are officers transferred from various ministries, as well as personal guards transferred from the King of the West.  They received training from foreign instructors earlier than the establishment of the Martial Arts School. They were the first people Liszt trained as a military adviser for the Taiping Army.  After the establishment of the Jiangwu School, they served as communicators between foreign instructors and new students, and served as instructors for daily training while continuing to learn.

    After more than half a year, these Chinese instructors have gradually grown up. They are also divided into various military disciplines, each specializing in knowledge. In the limited time, Xiao Yungui does not intend to make everyone know everything.  Song Feng is one of them. He majors in reconnaissance, which is also a scout. Su Ji is also a member of the Young Guards Scouts. Xiao Yungui has high hopes for this scout, because as long as they continue to train  and master more skills, they will become a special forces unit in the Taiping Army in the future. In fact, their usual training is also working hard in this direction.

    Scouts are called spies and scouts in the domestic army at this time. In many cases, spies and scouts are responsible for conveying military information, detecting the enemy's movements, and finding out the enemy's strength, and then report back to the army commander. Their role is just that.  But the scouts in the Western army are different. They must also be able to survey the terrain, be responsible for scouting roads for the entire army, and be able to draw and map. At the same time, they must also be able to guide the artillery.  At this time, the artillery of the great powers already had artillery that could hit several kilometers away. In the case of beyond visual range, the role of artillery scouts was even more obvious. But if you don¡¯t understand the ballistics and coordinates of artillery, how can you serve the artillery?  give directions?

    So Song Feng and Su Ji, who are members of the Scout Division, have recently been supplementing their knowledge of other military branches. Apart from training, they have spent the rest of their time studying.

    The remaining people are the cadets. The first batch of nearly a thousand officers and newly recruited literate people have also gone through several months of training and study. They have basically mastered their own military knowledge and training skills.  The next thing they have to do is wait for their soldiers to arrive, and they will also become instructors and retrain their soldiers.

    As the saying goes, an iron camp is made of solid soldiers, and Xiao Yungui¡¯s original intention of establishing the Military Academy was to build the West Palace Taiping Army into an iron camp through a scientific and standardized military school system.  Military schools are places where officers are trained, and officers can teach more soldiers.

    After Xiao Yungui stood in front of his throne and looked around at the people present, he also spotted a few familiar figures.  Pan Qiliang, Chen Alin, Huang Wei, Zhou Xiuying, Mu Yinghong and others are all officer cadets. It can be seen from their eyes that after several months of study, they seem to have enlightened themselves. There is no longer the look in their eyes that says no.  There was confusion, but now there is only the perseverance and wisdom of the soldiers.

    Zhou Xiuying and Mu Yinghong are officer cadets in the baggage department and health department respectively. The West Palace Taiping Army, like the Tianjing side, still retains the establishment of a female battalion.  But the female battalion of the Taiping Army in the West Palace was much luckier. Since the Battle of Xiangyin, Xiao Yungui said the famous war instruction of the female battalion, that is, the female battalion will not be allowed to fight unless all the men in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom die.  Therefore, the women's battalion now assumes more responsibilities such as logistical support and field rescue.

    Zhou Xiuying, a reckless girl, was originally very resistant to studying in the baggage department. With her fiery temper, she would rather go to the infantry or cavalry department. When Xiao Yungui returned to Shanghai, Zhou Xiuying came to Xiao Yungui to make trouble. She begged  Xiao Yungui transferred her to the cavalry department, or to the infantry department if she couldn't, but Xiao Yungui refused.  Later, this reckless girl even said that as long as she could enter the cavalry department, she would agree to Xiao Yungui's conditions.

    At that time, Xiao Yungui looked at Zhou Xiuying's plump chest, her graceful figure that she maintained through frequent martial arts training, and her words that as long as I can enter the cavalry department, I can do whatever the King of the West wants me to do, he almost made a mistake.  Fortunately, Hong Yun'er appeared in time and dispelled Xiao Yungui's idea.

    Seeing Zhou Xiuying at this time, the little girl also glanced at Xiao Yungui, but there was still a trace of sadness and dissatisfaction in her eyes.  Xiao Yungui's ruthless eyes accurately captured Zhou Xiuying's seemingly plumper breasts under the new officer's uniform. The man couldn't help but secretly swallow a few mouthfuls of slander, and then looked at Mu Yinghong beside her.

    Compared with Zhou Xiuying¡¯s healthy wheat-colored skin, Mu Yinghong is fairer. Although she was a female general with good martial arts skills in the past, Mu Yinghong¡¯s temperament is more delicate.  When Shanghai gang leaders such as Guandao Gang Mu Guandao and Ningbo Gang Xie Yinglong went to Suzhou to work as idle officials, lower-level gang backbones such as Mu Yinghong were recruited by Lin Qirong.  Gang members were dispersed and packedAmong the garrisons in Shanghai, a military academy was subsequently established, and Mu Yinghong and several other enlightened gang leaders were arranged to enter the military academy by Lin Qirong.

    Mu Yinghong studied health science, that is, battlefield ambulance. She was born in a gang and had some injuries from bruises. After entering the school, she realized that what she had learned before was only superficial.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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