The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, this batch of non-commissioned officers who were considered by Marin to be "defective products" were already very powerful. At least, they have mastered the commonly used words, and also know a lot of military terms. In this day and age, he may not be comparable to those geniuses, but he is definitely qualified to be called a "talent".

These non-commissioned officers may have average thinking ability, but they still have a good grasp of basic knowledge. In East Frisia, there were originally 10,000 pupils in the first class. But there was an exam when the third grade was promoted to the fourth grade, and 4,000 people were eliminated. Those 4,000 people are real scumbags. Many people can't recognize all the words, and they can't figure out simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. If so, those 4,000 people were snatched by many craftsmen as apprentices. After all, they can also write and calculate simply, which is much better than those apprentices who have no cultural foundation at all. Of course, among the 4,000 people who were eliminated, only some of them at the front are worth cultivating, and those at the bottom... Well, they are better than the illiterate...

After that, after the remaining 6,000 people graduated from primary school, only 2,000 continued to enter higher education, and the remaining 4,000 were eliminated. But strictly speaking, these 4,000 people are no longer scumbags, but average students of this era.

As mentioned above, Marin felt that they were inferior to the scumbags of later generations, not because they were stupid, but because they were dragged down by unprofessional teachers. After all, many of the first batch of teachers in Beihai State were of poor quality. In terms of talents, the talents of these non-commissioned officers are not high, but they are not low, and belong to the average level.

Each of them can write a composition with fluent language. Although the words are not beautiful enough and the words are very immature, they can definitely express the meaning clearly. And those who write essays to express the meaning clearly will be eliminated when the third grade is promoted to the fourth grade.

Similar to the education Marin received in his previous life, this group of Beihai primary school students also started writing diaries in the second grade and writing essays in the third grade. Diary requirements are very low, a few words are enough, and a running account is enough. Composition requirements are high, and it is necessary to write articles that are fluent in language and can clearly express meaning. Literary talent is not required, only the ability to explain things clearly...

This is very important in the army, and it comes in handy when writing battle reports. This level, if taken to a local level, is also competent for clerical work. As for literary talents, in this era, I am afraid that only the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty pursued those things? The literacy rate in Europe is already very low, and the requirement of officials is to be able to write documents and reports with fluent language and clear meaning. It just so happens that it is the minimum requirement for these cadets...

In fact, the other nobles of the Beihai Kingdom were very surprised that everyone in this group of non-commissioned officers could write articles with fluent language and clear meaning. Therefore, Schwartz and others felt that it was a waste for Marin to let them serve as soldiers.

Only Marin, a time traveler, who is used to seeing college students in later generations, would be so picky and demanding. But this can't be regarded as wrong, because Marin is confident that after a new batch of teachers are trained to replace those unprofessional temporary rural teachers, they can improve the education of Beihai country by a large margin, and cultivate a class that makes Marin this Only those who are satisfied with the traversers will come out.

so,

Ma Lin would rather wait a few years than release these "defective" non-commissioned officers, lest the standard be lowered for no reason, which would make it difficult to deal with in the future.

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Marin was also very excited after the formation of the new Young Guards. Because none of these 1,000 people has poor understanding. After all, they are also people who have experienced elimination once. Although the teachers are poor, they can survive the high elimination rate of 40%, which proves that the qualifications are still possible. At least, it is better than the illiterate mountain people recruited by Marin from southern Germany. Because of the emphasis on these little guys, Marin went out in person during training. To tell the truth, since becoming the Grand Duke of Beihai, Marin has never trained the army himself. But because of the particularity of this army, Marin made an exception and personally served as an instructor...

Sure enough, Marin felt particularly comfortable during training. Because, these cadets are too cooperative...

As long as Marin puts forward any instructions, there is no need to explain it a second time or even several times, and these cadets can fulfill his requirements without compromise.

Of course, they had ten years of militarized education background, and they were no strangers to orders in the army. For example, when shooting this area, very few people miss the human-shaped target within 50 yards.

Although the humanoid target area is large, it is not easy to shoot with a smoothbore gun within 50 yards without missing the target. After all, the characteristics of the musket are there, which is not conducive to aiming and shooting.

With this good foundation, the next thing will be easy to handle...

Marin asked the Beihai National Military Factory to produce a batch of the best quality lighters, all of which had thickened tube walls. The reason why the tube wall is thickened is mainly to prevent the chamber from exploding. After all, when using smokeless gunpowder, the chamber pressure when shooting is higher than when using black powder. It is easy to go wrong if you don't use a stronger barrel.

As for the problem that the musket is heavier after the thickening of the tube wall, this is nothing. Because, these teenagers have been trained to hold guns since they were young. Not only can they hold muskets, but they don't shake their hands.

When they were in elementary school, they were too young to handle real guns. Therefore, in elementary school military classes, children stand in a military posture with wooden sticks imaginary as muskets, and hold the wooden sticks motionlessly as if aiming and shooting. After several years of training, naturally very few people shake their hands, which is very conducive to accurate shooting.

And at the non-commissioned officer school stage (equivalent to the junior high school stage), when they are practicing military posture with guns, the instructors will tie a small brick to the front end of their wooden sticks (adult soldiers tie a whole piece or even a few bricks directly to the muzzle) Bricks), exercise their arm strength, and less hand shake when shooting.

You must know that when shooting, the muzzle only needs to move a little bit, and the deviation after shooting may be very large. The impact of 10 meters or 20 meters may not be too great, but when shooting over 100 meters, if the muzzle shakes a little, it is impossible to hit the target, even if it is a huge humanoid target.

Therefore, hanging bricks from the muzzle, in addition to exercising the arm strength of the end gun, is mainly to exercise the ability to hold the gun stably. Only by keeping the gun body as still as possible at the moment of shooting can it be possible to shoot more accurately.

After 10 years of training, even soldiers with low talents can shoot at the same level. And the kind of people who are really trembling like patients with cerebral thrombosis have been eliminated as early as when they graduated from elementary school.

At the beginning, out of the 6,000 elementary school graduates, 4,000 were eliminated, and only 1,000 were sent to the non-commissioned officer academy. At that time, a special elimination was carried out. Those who are born with trembling hands when holding a gun are not suitable to be musketeers, and they will naturally be eliminated. But they also have a future, because they were robbed by various factories in Beihai State as apprentices. After all, they can be regarded as "high-achieving students" in this era of culture.

Therefore, the non-commissioned officers who remained in the end were all talented in shooting. At least, after several years of training, it can reach a good level.

In this way, Marin arranged for them to be marksmen, and it was considered to be the best use of them.

After the wind-up flintlock with a total weight of 5 kilograms (the standard flintlock gun weighs 9 pounds, or 4 kilograms) was released, no one thought the gun was heavy. After all, they practiced muzzle hanging bricks every day in the non-commissioned officer academy, and they had already developed a pair of "unicorn arms".

These boys are in the non-commissioned officer school, and Marin didn't treat them badly. Especially in terms of meat, because they have a lot of training, Malinte criticized them for eating meat every day. Even the First Legion didn't have this kind of treatment.

Of course, most of the meat here is fish. After all, fish is cheap. If you eat pork, beef and mutton, Marin can't afford it. As for fish, there is no competition from fishing boats from other countries these days. The medium-sized fishing boats of the North Sea country are criss-crossing the North Sea fishing grounds, and the supply of fish is very sufficient. Since Marin introduced the pickling technology of Chinese cabbage and sauerkraut from the Ming Dynasty, sauerkraut fish has become a standard dish that teenagers in the non-commissioned officer school often eat. Because of eating pickled fish every day, many non-commissioned officers now feel a little sick when they see pickled fish—it’s really too much...

In addition to personally serving as an instructor to train these cadets, Marin also made an exception and took out a socket bayonet that only appeared in the 18th century to let the cadets practice assassination...