Ma Xi is fifteen years old this year. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, he has grown up. However, according to the standards of later generations, Ma Xi is just a young man who has just left his youth. Ma Xi is born into a scholarly family, and Ma Xi is born into a concubine. In order to get rid of the constraints of his background, Ma Xi has studied with his elder brother Ma Luan since childhood. Apart from studying hard every day, Ma Xi does not have much time to exercise. It can be said that he is completely a scholar without any strength.

The army has been a symbol of force since ancient times. Only those who can fight and kill in the army are respected. The most annoying thing in the army is a nerd who drags his back. If he is a nerd who is crying, it will definitely be a existence that will drive grassroots officers crazy.

Maxi has become such an existence now. Maxi has suffered these hardships at home. Although Maxi is a concubine's son, he usually has no worries about food and drink. He only needs to study hard every day and can tease the maid in the house. It's such a happy little life.

But today Maxi has lost the leisure of the past. He is wearing a pair of thin-soled cloth shoes and a long gown. This kind of outfit is a long-distance cross-country outfit? Naturally, Maxi is soon left behind by the running team.

Ma Xi saw that the team had left him far away, and Ma Xi was about to be lazy and stop running. Then he knew that his second devil brother Ma Cheng had already paid attention to him. When he saw Ma Xi stopping and slipping away, Ma Cheng stepped forward with a horse whip and whipped Ma Xi hard. Ma Cheng's horse whip was made of raw cowhide, and there were two bloody trajectories on his body. Ma Xi was still a fifteen-year-old child. He had suffered such pain there and tears immediately came down.

"Ma Cheng, you villain, are you jealous of your studies better than you? You are deliberately trying to punish me for taking advantage of this!" Ma Xi sat on the ground and cried.

Ma Cheng cursed when he saw Ma Xi's appearance: "What? Didn't you agree to join the army at that time? If you don't get up and run two laps, you will go back to Guiyang! And! Insulting Shangguan in the army to behead him. This is your first crime. You will whip you first. If you commit another crime, you will behead him directly!"

After Ma Cheng said that, he waved his whip and wanted to take action again. Ma Xi was so scared that he quickly got up from the ground and ran away.

Under Ma Cheng's supervision, the two laps were running quickly. Although Ma Xi felt that his legs were about to break, Ma Xi was usually well-nourished and much stronger than those farmers. In addition, Ma Cheng was chasing him with a whip behind, so Ma Xi still insisted on running the ten miles.

After reaching the finish line, Ma Xi felt like a fire was burning in his chest. He looked so embarrassed. Ma Xi was about to sit down and have a good rest, but he knew that Ma Cheng shouted in front: "Everyone is there, line up!"

Ma Xi had no choice but to force himself to find Xie Guangkun's small flag and stand behind the team.

The morning exercises in the morning ended, and the sun was already rising, and it was breakfast time. Today's breakfast was still the same as rice porridge, steamed buns, and salted cabbage. Maxi frowned when he saw this vulgar food. At home, he ate rice porridge made with fragrant rice, as well as dried shredded rice, tofu, pickled vegetables and other side dishes. These foods in front of him could see Maxi's eyes.

But it’s not OK to eat it. Maxi ran all morning and was already hungry in her belly. In addition, the guys around her were all voracious, making Maxi feel that these vulgar foods must be extremely delicious.

Maxi tried to take a sip of brown rice porridge and took a bite of salted water to pickle cabbage. When the warm rice porridge entered the belly with the salted cabbage, Maxi felt that his stomach had never felt so comfortable.

After I felt that the food was delicious, Maxi stopped pretending to be fake. He also followed Qiu Ba, holding steamed buns in one hand and rice porridge in the other, and enjoying the rice porridge in one bite of pickles and rice porridge.

After breakfast, we have to start a day of training, and we still stand in the queue in the morning. Now this small team has been training for more than ten days, and the queue has been initially formed. Ma Cheng plans to start teaching these guys to form a formation today.

Ma Cheng was preparing to train this infantry into a line infantry, which is what later generations said to be queuing and shooting formation. Although this formation looks stupid, it is indeed the most perfect infantry formation before the rifled rifle appears. It is very simple. Line infantry can shoot more lead bullets in a short time, and in the words of later generations, it means investing more firepower in unit time.

Before the emergence of online rifles, there were two eras in the development of muskets, one was the era of the mechas and the other was the era of flintlocks. Each weapon progress also promoted the development of tactics.

Because of the bad shooting speed of the mezzanine, in order to ensure the firepower, the number of musketeers must be increased. Therefore, there are three-stage strikes and five-stage strikes, which are more extreme in Europe, and even seven-stage strikes. It can be imagined that the seventh row of people will be in chaos on the battlefield every time they shoot one by one.

With the advancement of craftsmanship, the high-tech weapon of the flintlock rifle appeared, skilled soldiers could fire three to four guns per minute, which could reduce the number of musketeers a lot and make the front battlefield extremely wide. During the Napoleon period, the French army could even use more than 100,000 infantry to organize a wide front line of five kilometers and three kilometers wide. This scale of battle has exceeded the commander's personal ability, so grassroots officers became more and more important.

Whether in Europe or Asia, in the Middle Ages, the training and education of grassroots officers had never been paid attention to in the training and education of grassroots officers. As long as you are alive and you will be selected as grassroots officers after several battles. The officers who appeared in this system naturally had no organizational ability. They were naturally extremely brave when they were at the same time. When the war was unfavorable, they were immediately defeated.

Why did there have been many battles in Chinese history that win more with fewer battles? The disadvantage of grassroots officers is the main cause of failure. When the war is unfavorable, grassroots officers did not have the effect of stabilizing the morale of the army, but instead accelerated the collapse of the army. For example, the Battle of Pengcheng between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, the famous Battle of Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms, the Battle of Feishui between the Former Qin and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, etc., so the army directly commanded by the ancient generals was only 20,000 to 30,000 people, and more than his ability was beyond his ability.

Europe during Napoleon's period had entered modern society, and the army had a complete grassroots officer system, so Napoleon could organize more than 100,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of anti-French alliances to fight for more than ten years. From this era, the example of winning with less will never appear in military history. Even in later generations, the strength of the US military was used to deal with an Iraq that had been sanctioned for more than ten years, and it would be necessary to assemble more than 400,000 troops to dare to take action.

Of course, our protagonist, Ma Cheng, does not know these. He is a third-rate college student who graduated from computer science and does not understand these. He is now training the army only to follow the plots of movies and TV series in later generations. After all, he participated in college students' military training, and college students' military training is essentially training a person's organizational and discipline, and this kind of training ultimately trains grassroots officers. So Ma Cheng was also considered unintentionally and trained a group of qualified grassroots officers suitable for wars in the new era.

Ma Cheng was also lucky. He traveled to the Ming Dynasty, which was no less than that of Europe. According to the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he could have invented the flintlock rifle after being guided by Ma Cheng's golden fingers. Therefore, the line-line tactic taught by Ma Cheng had a great effect. If Ma Cheng traveled to the Han and Tang dynasties, there would be no long-range weapons that surpassed bows and arrows at that time. Even if Ma Cheng had a lot of science knowledge, he would have no choice but to not reach your industrial level.

These more than a hundred people are future grassroots officers and the core of future stable army. Ma Cheng naturally needs to educate these guys well.

Ma Cheng was explaining the importance of line lines to his soldiers. A model soldier came out of the Governor's Office and trotted to Ma Cheng's side.

The model knelt on one knee and said, "Master Qianhu, Master General has an order to order you to return to the yamen immediately!"

Ma Cheng was talking excitedly, but when the model said this, he frowned. What did Ma Shiying do with him so early?

But Ma Shiying didn't dare to ignore the orders. There was no way Ma Cheng had to end today's lecture and instead Xu Dahu took them to continue training. Ma Cheng followed the model back to the yamen.

Ma Cheng came to the second hall of the Governor's Office and saw Ma Shiying wearing official uniform sitting in the room drinking tea. Ma Cheng went into the room and asked, "Dad, why are you looking for your son to come back?"

Ma Shiying cursed when she heard Ma Cheng say this: "Bastard, you are an officer now. Do you also speak like this when you see Shangguan?"

Ma Cheng had no choice but to hold his fists and said, "Master General, Ma Cheng, bid farewell to him!"

Ma Shiying nodded then and said, "Today I am going to visit Lu Zhenguan, and you will accompany me!"

Go to see Lu Jiude? Ma Cheng just beat Lu Jiude's nephew Lu Siye a few days ago to the point of bleeding. Now I'll go to see his uncle. Isn't that good!

"Dad, no! Sir! You just had a conflict with Lu Siye a few days ago. It's not appropriate to go to see his uncle now!"

Ma Shiying snorted and cursed: "You guy still knows it's wrong? Then why did you break the head? Now that I want to join forces with Lu Jiude, I naturally have to come to the door to apologize!"

Ma Cheng stopped clamoring after hearing what Ma Shiying said. Ma Shiying was right. Now that he has decided to support Zhu Yousong as the emperor, he will be a community of interests with Lu Jiude from now on. Ma Shiying naturally does not want to offend Lu Jiude just because of such a fight between his children, so he naturally has to come to apologize in person.

Ma Cheng said nothing and asked, "Sir, do you still need to use the mark?"

"This is naturally. How can you apologize if you hurt someone without showing up?"

Ma Cheng was very reluctant to hear Ma Shiying say this. Who is Lu Jiude? He is a dead eunuch with incomplete abilities. Eunuch is synonymous with psychological perversion here. Who knows what difficult requirements the dead eunuch should make to avenge his nephew.

Ma Shiying knew what he was thinking when he saw Ma Cheng's expression. Ma Shiying cursed: "You guy, don't let the gentleman get angry with a villain. Although Lu Shuangquan is a eunuch, he is capable and skilled in military training. He is not the kind of villain you think that he will revenge!
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