Chapter 72: Changing the Ming Military System from the Roots (Follow-up reading!)
For Zhu Youlang, the most urgent thing at the moment is to relocate the population, and to strengthen the training of the new army.
This intensive training does not refer to the word-of-mouth transmission of veterans and new recruits, nor is it the simple volume model, but a systematic model that combines theory and practice.
In the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, theory is the most indispensable content.
As a director of a private Prussian Museum, Zhu Youlang has a very good understanding of Prussian history.
There is still a long way to go to train the new army into a Prussian iron-blooded army that is victorious in hundreds of battles.
The first thing he needs to do is to compile a tutorial with high operability to enable the recruits to grow rapidly.
Zhu Youlang is a docile polite, he does it as he says he does it!
He ordered the eunuch Han Miao to prepare paper and pen, and after thinking for a while, he picked up the pen and started writing.
What is the core of the Prussian army?
Cannons? Line up and shoot? Or something else?
None of them!
The core is strong execution!
Only by following orders and prohibiting on the battlefield can you ensure maximum efficiency and defeat the enemy!
In other words, as long as you make fewer mistakes than enemies, you will definitely be the winner.
Michel Ney once said that all tactics are based on the science of quickly marching troops into columns and unfolding them into horizontal lines while marching.
This sentence seems simple, but it is not easy to do it.
The sudden rise of Prussia in the 18th century gave people the most intuitive impression of its role in online tactics, that is, in line to kill.
From the obscurity of being slaughtered during the Thirty Years War to the sudden emergence of the Seven Years War, what made Prussia suddenly reborn?
In addition to the personal charm of Frederick the Great himself, he naturally strictly trained his own army with templates.
The separation of the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion allows the soldiers to perform their duties and cooperate with each other, so as not to have an embarrassing situation of overlapping functions.
In other words, infantry, cavalry, and artillery all have extremely special functions and are irreplaceable.
What is the core of the entire Prussian army?
Of course it was the Prussian officers' regiment.
Soldiers who can enter the officers' regiment must receive strict military professional training since their youth and have the ability to adapt in extremely difficult environments. They not only have the spirit of hard work, but also have a sense of collective honor.
Frederick the Great respected the officers of the officers and strictly prohibited any commander from insulting even ordinary junior officers.
This is a bit like the military merit and title system of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the Longyou military title system of the Tang Dynasty.
As a superior, we must cultivate the people to feel a sense of pride in joining the army and becoming officers.
An officer has a higher status than an ordinary person, and an officer deserves respect from people.
As a result, ordinary soldiers will be proud of becoming officers, and will do their best to perform on the battlefield, striving for room for improvement.
To put it bluntly, in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, the sense of honor belonging to soldiers disappeared.
In other words, the soldiers cannot feel the respect of others.
Civil officials can curse military generals at any time, or even act with the king's order and flag, and kill the generals in battle.
If a general is not careful, he will be chopped off by a civil servant. He will not die at the hands of the enemy but at the hands of his own people. Over time, who else is willing to work hard for the court?
What is even more hateful is that since civil servants usually serve as commanders, there are often situations where laymen command experts.
Some nerds who have been reading books of sages since childhood thought that after reading two military books, they were talking about the world and giving advice. As generals, they must follow their orders. Who would have been willing to do so?
If you lose a war, the generals are responsible for the crime, but the civil servants can be punished with ease. How can this be done in the world?
To maintain combat effectiveness, soldiers must be cultivated with hunger and honor.
This requires the superior to give them equal matching rewards.
This is not a reward on the whim of the emperor, but a systematic rule and system that can be seen and touched.
Whether it is the Prussian officer regiment system, the Qin and Han military merit system, or the Longyou military rank system, they all gave the soldiers enough ladder to rise, gave them the opportunity to change their destiny, and gave them sufficient respect.
And these are what the Southern Ming Dynasty lacked in the late Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youlang's blood surged up and wrote hundreds of words.
So how to select officers?
Relying on military merits is of course a way, but the most important thing is to run a military academy!
One-third of the Prussian officers' regiment graduated from the Berlin Officer's School!
This indirectly ensures the integrity and sustainability of the officer system.
Systematic training also helps the implementation of concepts.
Therefore, if Zhu Youlang wants to train a group of his own new-style officers to imitate the Prussian officers' regiment, he must run a military academy!
Select those brave and excellent soldiers from the battle, give them time and resources to conduct systematic training, and train a group of trustworthy core officers, isn’t it good to be!
Naturally, the military school principal must be the emperor!
In this way, all officers who graduated from military academy are disciples of the emperor and are directly responsible to the emperor!
This is the most feasible system in the Ming Dynasty at present. Zhu Youlang thinks it can be promoted immediately.
As for the name of the military academy, he had already thought of it, and it was called the Huangming Military Academy!
Let’s take a look at the choice of Prussian soldiers.
Frederick the Great ranked according to the courage of the people in his area.
From high to low, they are: Pomerania and Langtenborg, Magdeburg and Haberstadt, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, East Prussia, Prussia Westphalia, and Berlin.
It can be found that the top ranking is Pomerania located in the Baltic plains.
People living in this area are reliable and brave, with the potential to be the best soldiers in the world.
The Berlin region has the worst source of troops.
If you analyze it carefully, it is not difficult to find that the more developed the region, the lower the quality of soldiers. On the contrary, those poorer places are prone to elite soldiers who can win battles.
This is certainly no coincidence.
If you don't look far, you can see the nearest ones.
In the late Jiajing period, the Wei Sect was corrupt and the Wei Sect's troops were useless. Faced with the unscrupulous invasion of Japanese pirates, Qi Jiguang was ordered to train a new army.
Then how to choose a source of troops is a difficult problem.
Finally, after a long investigation, Qi Jiguang selected soldiers from Yiwu and other places.
At that time, Yiwu was located in western Zhejiang, known as the seven mountains, one water and two parts of fields. Compared with the prosperity of the eastern coastal areas of Zhejiang, western Zhejiang was extremely desolate.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is poor and bad water.
The old saying goes well, poor mountains and bad waters lead to troubled people.
I can’t even eat enough, so why do I talk about etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame?
The people could not survive anymore, so they naturally became tough in character, and some even started to do business without foundation and became bandits.
Of course, most people choose to be miners.
Yiwu miners were famous all over the world. Qi Jiguang arrived famously and found that these miners were all fierce and fearless. Finally, they recruited a large number of local miners and formed the first Qi family army.
Facts have proved that this Qi family army has extremely strong combat power, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is invincible in the world!
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