While Zhou Shixian raised military funds and supervised military preparations, he did not forget the most core training of recruits and training officers.

People are the most core and critical factor on the battlefield. Other things must be completed with the help of people. Only a well-trained army can control the complex and changeable battlefield situation.

Establishing a standardized recruit training system and officer training system and standardizing and institutionalizing the construction of the army is the most important step.

In the 17th century, when military formations and firearms were rampant and cavalry were still dominant, every soldier who used the same weapon and belonged to the same type must be replaced at any time, so as to ensure the best combat effectiveness of the army.

In other words, in this era, there is no need for soldiers with personality, but only "robots" that can mechanically execute military orders.

Zhuang Lidong and Chen Yu set off from Yangzhou by boat, and went upstream all the way. The ships that transported the first batch of training officers docked in the city of Jiangyin, Zhenjiang, Jiangpu and other major troops stationed. During this period, officers kept boarding the ship. When the ship arrived in Nanjing, the ship was already crowded.

Most of the first batch of officers transferred back performed well on the battlefield and made contributions. They have led the first newly recruited soldiers to complete simple training, and the subsequent refined training of military formations, weapons and skills, practical exercises, etc. have been basically completed.

The next training of these recruits no longer requires more veterans and officers to support them. They simply repeat them continuously until they generate muscle memory and can be expressed directly on the battlefield without thinking.

As soon as Zhuang Lidong and Chen Yu got off the boat, they were taken to a house near the dock by the officials sent by the Ministry of War. The people gathered here were all the flag chiefs and the 100 generals of the New Army. Most of the people in Zhuang Lidong had seen them and even talked about them.

Talking to people whom you don’t know or are not familiar with is Zhuang Lidong’s specialty. As the leader of the original boatman, he is not good at communicating with others, and cannot speak to others or speak to ghosts, but he cannot get food.

Therefore, for Chen Yu, it may be a matter of training courage and speaking ability. In Zhuang Lidong's opinion, it is much simpler than eating. After all, they have heard that officers will learn to analyze war reports in the future, and in the face of other people's doubts, they must be reasonable and evidenced and rejected.

After the first batch of fifty-three flag chiefs and twelve hundred generals gathered in Nanjing, they were brought into the temporary officer school in Nanjing. After listening to the instructor's introduction, Zhuang Lidong realized that these officers who were promoted with military merits must complete the study of various officer skills here and finally pass the assessment before they can continue to hold their own positions.

Otherwise, you can only continue to be a reserve supplementary officer, and your military salary will be much worse than that of a formal officer, let alone commanding soldiers to fight. As for the next time you conduct such an assessment, it may be after next year's war.

Zhuang Lidong, Chen Yu and a group of officers are now in the newly established "Nanjing Officers Academy".

"Damn it, it's not okay to fight hard on the battlefield, and you still have to do these things." Zhuang Lidong cursed in his heart. He didn't think the so-called officer training was of use, but he had no choice but to do it.

The officers' academy has few tasks, mainly divided into military tactics and tactics learning, comprehensive ability learning and literacy learning. The method of quick training is adopted, mainly to cultivate and improve the military command, military tactics, battlefield response, weapon knowledge and other contents of officers of the 100th CPC Central Committee and above.

The textbooks used were compiled by Zhou Shixian and several officers of the Hundred and Thousand Generals who had rich combat experience, based on their practical experience, and took more than two months to compile. Later, they were handed over to other officers who had been through many battles to verify. They have been revised three times, and the actual combat guidance is of great significance.

Zhuang Lidong has some talent in military tactics, plus his tenacious personality and willing to work hard. He ranks among the top in the assessment of the basic qualities and comprehensive abilities of officers, but he is a little poor in literacy.

However, in terms of literacy, the officers present were all ok. Except for a few who recognized quickly, they liked this exam, no one else was willing to read. In the end, in order to get promoted, they could only grit their teeth and persevere, and their grades were barely passed.

This is not because they are naturally stupid, but because the training task is very heavy. These officers can do swords and guns, but it is a bit too difficult for them to do such a literary and Zou Zou thing.

Although Zhuang Lidong's literacy test ranking was low, he ranked second when he finally converted it with other projects, and he received a reward of thirty taels of silver for this.

After the training, except for the seven flag generals and one hundred generals, everyone else passed the verification and could only be a reserve officer and had to undergo the assessment. After the other people's grades were reported to the Ministry of War for verification, they could officially modify the official position information in the military list.

Zhou Shixian has established a complete system for the entire army, with the separation of financial power and military power in the army, and the military legal team supervised, and the military legal team was restricted by the instructor to avoid the occurrence of problems such as embezzlement of military pay and drinking blood from soldiers.

After completing the officer training, before officially obtaining the imperial court's appointment, Zhuang Lidong and others had already obtained the note from the Ministry of War, and they will also serve as instructors to train the next batch of new recruits.

The situation is still very urgent. In addition to the soldiers who were originally planned to train, Zhou Shixian recruited two more soldiers from mixed battalions after the financial gain.

Zhuang Lidong, Chen Yu, and three other 100 generals, and the nine flag captains arrived at a new recruit barracks seven miles away on the second day. The recruits from this barracks will be the reserve force for the next round of war and will be put into the battlefield in the later stage of the war.

They have just been recruited and have not completed basic training, so they are naturally unable to catch up with the first battle next year. After all, the Qing Dynasty will definitely enter the battlefield as early as possible.

The barracks were surrounded by towering walls, with horse-resisting horses in front of the gate and arrow towers on both sides. More than a dozen soldiers guarded the only exit, as if they were facing the enemy in the face of battle.

Now the family members and soldiers have been separated, and each lives in different places, and the barracks are full of soldiers and generals.

After walking in with the approval note from the Ministry of War, Zhuang Lidong also saw a five-person military law team patrolling around the school ground, and from time to time he looked at the new recruits who were already very nervous.

This was a very familiar scene in Zhuang Lidong. He instantly felt that all the familiar atmosphere in the army had returned - two years ago, he was also one of the new recruits.

Countless people were sweating profusely on the wide school ground, and soldiers were conducting simple queue training and physical fitness. After training, they had already understood the military discipline and could distinguish the basic sound of war trumpets and drums, as well as combat orders. These were the basis for combat on the battlefield.

Zhuang Lidong soon walked to a group of dozens of new recruits under the leadership of an officer. He took the military list recording the soldiers' names from the officer, and then looked at the officer with several officers who were maintaining military discipline.

The initial training for the recruits was completed by an officer and several veterans, mainly training arrays and marches, which are the most basic and important content. Otherwise, the subsequent formation changes, weapon training, and even personal martial arts will lose their original meaning.

Of course, these veterans performed well on the battlefield and had no problem with discipline and ethics. The first impression of the new recruits in the army is very important. If the veterans are allowed to lead the situation and ruin the trend, they will not be able to change it later.

After Zhuang Lidong finished his name and confirmed that all the soldiers were here, he immediately called out the basic queue movements several times. The final result was nothing unexpected, and the completion was extremely neat, and he was also very satisfied.

Then, Zhuang Lidong ordered the entire team of soldiers to run around the school ground, and at the same time, let his veterans chase and beat the back with sticks, only hitting the ten behind, so as to form competition within the soldiers.

The most important thing in the army is to obey orders absolutely and require absolute ranks in actions. War is deadly. Military orders on the battlefield cannot tolerate any discussion. If you want to charge, you have to charge. Even if there are thousands of troops galloping in front of you, you will die.

Therefore, before conducting other deeper training, the most important thing is to conduct obedience tests on soldiers. Use beats and punishments, and through high-intensity physical training, the soldiers' energy to resist is exhausted, causing them to lose their ability to think and become war machines in the military formation that only obey orders.

After chasing each other and wailingly, the team of soldiers finally completed the five-lap long-distance run. After Zhuang Lidong gave them a warning, he felt a little secretly happy. However, he did not show it. After briefly summarizing the significance of this corporal punishment, he talked about the training plan for the afternoon and the next two days.

When it was time for dinner, the group of recruits who had been training for a whole morning were all hungry, but they still had to obey military discipline and go to the canteen neatly in the form of a queue, and then sit in one by one. Before the officer's order to start a meal was issued, there was no movement to watch the table of food.

The food was placed on the table in advance. Although it had been expanded on a larger scale, Zhou Shixian now has more resources. The food of his army will naturally not get worse. As long as it is a training day, there will be two meals of meat a day, and the portion will be determined based on the big exercises and small exercises.

They have not joined the army on the first day and have known for a long time that there are time limits for eating. No matter how good the comrades around them were just now or how deep the brotherly friendship was, they were all starving ghosts to entrust their lives. If you want not to starve, the best way is to grab them faster, the better.

Of course, the food on the table is enough for everyone to eat. However, after training for a morning, the meat was not open and eaten, and the oil and water were not much, so of course it was enough to eat as much as you could.

"Have a meal!"

With Zhuang Lidong's order, the long dining table immediately stirred up, and the chopsticks and pottery bowls collided with each other, and the sound of the table, footstool and feet rubbing against the ground mixed together. Everyone swallowed it, and their mouths were instantly stuffed...
Chapter completed!