I want to be emperor

Because Sanshu City is very small, even if it was the first batch of the Second Cavalry Army to arrive in the city, only a mere regiment of cavalry and the army headquarters could enter the city, and most of the cavalry could only live in tents outside the city. with.

Guo Chengyong was wading in his small single tent at this time, half-closed his eyes, thinking about the upcoming war for a while, and thinking about his family for a while.

I don't know if the second brother's marriage is settled or not.

And the third brother is also going to apply for the university this year. I don't know how his studies are going. With the third brother's excellent grades, he may have high hopes of applying for the university this year.

However, the tuition fee for a four-year university is not a small amount, and it will cost a few hundred yuan more in one year. I am afraid that I will be under a lot of pressure in the next four years.

Both his parents were farmers and could not earn much money, and his younger brothers' education was supported by his own income.

It's just that even if he is an officer and earns a lot of money, he still has to plan carefully if he wants to support a college student.

As for the second younger brother who is already working, although he is working, he is only from a technical secondary school, and he only became a junior clerk when he entered the public examination. Although his job is decent, his income is actually the same. , I'm afraid I can't come up with any spare money.

Thinking of this, Guo Chengyong couldn't help but sigh, it's too expensive for a self-funded college student, and a liberal arts college student...

I knew that I shouldn't have boasted a few years ago, and let my third brother continue to study liberal arts... Now it's all right, it's hard to get off a tiger.

To study liberal arts, the tuition fee will be several hundred more this year, which is not counted as living expenses!
The tuition fees for higher education in the Great Chu Empire have always followed the three principles: free for geniuses, half price for science, and sky-high prices for liberal arts.

Students who can't get scholarships still go to study liberal arts, and ordinary middle-class families will go bankrupt.

Higher education in the Great Chu Empire has always been very expensive at its own expense.

(In the original time and space, at the end of the [-]th century, the annual tuition fee of Cambridge was several hundred pounds, and it was also several hundred dollars higher in the United States.)

Back then, Guo Chengyong did not spend any money on his studies. His studies were excellent enough. He has been receiving scholarships all the way since elementary school, and he was able to study for free!

If it wasn't for his excellent academic performance and his scholarship all the way to study, Guo Chengyong would not even be able to afford junior high school due to his family's previous family conditions...

At the same time, the reason for his poor family background is also the reason why Guo Chengyong did not go to Jinling Science or Guozijian University, even though his grades could be admitted to these two top universities.

However, he still went to the Army Military Academy... Speaking of which, the reason was not a reason to defend his family and defend the country. If he was purely enrolled in the Army Military Academy, not only did he not have to pay a dime for tuition, but he also had full board and lodging... ...and get paid!
As long as you enroll in the military school, you will be awarded the rank of warrant officer and receive salary as an active soldier.

As soon as he entered the military academy, he wrote a letter back home to let his two younger brothers continue their studies instead of dropping out of school early to work in agriculture or work.

This is why countless young students in the Great Chu Empire, especially those from low- and middle-income groups, set their highest goal of applying for several military academies.

It's very simple, tuition, board and lodging are all free, and wages are paid during the study period!

And go to other universities, even if you have excellent grades, you can get a full scholarship.Even some living allowances, but no salary.

There are more students who want to go, and the competition will naturally increase.

The difficulty of applying for the three military academies of the Great Chu Empire is even higher than that of Jinling Institute of Technology and Guozijian Academy, second only to the Royal Institute of Technology.

But the Royal Institute of Technology, they specialize in recruiting geniuses and cultivating scientists. If you enter the exam, you will be an official. This ordinary university is different. Students whose IQ is not enough to be evil, no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to pass the exam...

Although Guo Chengyong also claimed to be a smart person and studied hard enough, but back then he didn't even dare to have the idea of ​​applying for the Royal Institute of Technology...

Nima, that is not something normal people can apply for, and Guo Chengyong is a normal person, not a pervert!
Thinking of the high tuition fees of the third brother gave the army captain a headache, so much so that he hoped that in this war to conquer Kazakhstan, he could earn some extra money so as to subsidize his family.

Just thinking of this, he was a little worried that he would be involved in such a large-scale war.

Although this time the Kazakh Khanate has a great advantage in all aspects, it is unlikely that there will be a bloody battle... Well, those barbarians in Kazakhs who are still in the tribe cannot give back to the Great Chu Empire. What practical pressure is the Army.

But anyway, this is a war!
Since it is a war, there will naturally be casualties. As a grassroots cavalry officer, Guo Chengyong will lead the cavalry to charge after the battle breaks out, and he will charge ahead!
The probability of casualties is actually greater than that of ordinary cavalry.

Now that the war is approaching, even if he is full of confidence in front of his subordinates and colleagues on weekdays, Guo Chengyong still feels worried when he is alone.

After all, he is just an ordinary person. Even though he has received a long period of military education and six years of grassroots service, Guo Chengyong still maintains awe of war.

But being in awe does not mean that he will avoid the battle or even be timid... Even like many colleagues in the army, while he is afraid of war, he is also looking forward to war!

As a cavalry officer who was born as a commoner, he had no relatives or friends to help him.

Because he himself is the biggest background in the family!
Back then, he was the first in several surrounding villages to be admitted to university, and he was admitted to one of the most difficult schools, the "Army Military Academy". When the admission notice was delivered to his home, it was the county education The chief of the department, the captain of the county garrison, the town magistrate and others beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers to his home.

The time when he accepted the admission letter to the Army Military Academy was the happiest moment in his life!
After entering the Army Officer Academy, he studied riding. After three years of theoretical study, he went to the nearby cavalry unit for a one-year internship and graduated.

Because the theoretical academic performance and internship evaluation were all excellent, and at the same time, he volunteered to serve at the grassroots level in the frontier. Therefore, he did not serve long after graduation. It took only two years for him to be promoted and became a lieutenant in the army.

The students of the Army Officer Academy are all admitted to be awarded the rank of warrant officer. After graduation, they are basically awarded the rank of second lieutenant. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, the top three in each first class will be awarded the rank of lieutenant.

Guo Chengyong's superiority is naturally not as good as the top three, and it is impossible to be exceptionally awarded the rank of lieutenant when he graduated.

However, because the academic study and internship results are relatively good, after graduation, he volunteered to serve in the grassroots troops in the frontier. Promoted to lieutenant.

Four years later, he was successively promoted to captain of the army and served in the No. 12 Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the No. 30 Cavalry Division under the Second Cavalry Army. He served as the deputy battalion commander of the Third Cavalry Battalion and the second cavalry sentry officer.

The cavalry battalion, this thing was actually used by cars in the early years, but it was established again after 18 years in Chengshun.

The abolition and re-establishment of the cavalry battalion is a testimony to the continuous reform of the cavalry of the Great Chu Empire.

At the very beginning, the formation of the cavalry unit of the Chu Army was that the regiment governed the battalion, and the battalion governed the sentry... Later, the battalion formation was abolished, and it was changed to a large-scale sentry directly under the regiment, with three battalions.

However, it was gradually discovered that although the cavalry posts with large establishments were easy to use, their military ranks were not easy to match, because the sentry officers were all captains, and the regiment leaders were basically colonels.

Lack of intermediate transitional ranks.

At the same time, it is very good for a cavalry of more than 200 people to be a basic tactical unit, but the internal organization of this basic tactical unit is somewhat unreasonable. For example, the organization of three teams is not very easy to use.

In actual combat, cavalry commanders often split the third cavalry team directly, and then add them to the other two teams to form two cavalry units of equal strength to fight.

In response to these situations, the cavalry unit began to reform, and the level of the cavalry battalion was reset. There were two cavalry posts under the cavalry battalion, and two cavalry teams under the cavalry post.

In fact, it is to determine the actual combat organization of the two cavalry units under the sentinel that the frontline commanders used to like to use, forming a more reasonable fixed organization with a more matching military rank.

Therefore, the strength of the reformed cavalry battalion is actually the same as that of the previous large-scale cavalry post, without any changes, but the title has changed, the rank of the chief officer has also become a major, and the internal organization has also changed.

After the reform, the strength of each cavalry battalion still ranges from more than 170 cavalry to more than 200 cavalry. The specific strength depends on the type of cavalry. There are fewer heavy cavalry, such as heavy cavalry and cuirassiers. It is 170 five rides.

Strictly speaking, the core system of the cavalry of the Great Chu Empire Army has not changed much... It is still the same as before. The most obvious feature is that the strength of its basic cavalry tactical units has not changed much.

There are still more than 100 heavy cavalry, more than 200 light cavalry form a basic tactical unit, and four basic tactical units form a cavalry regiment.

The cavalry formation of the Chu Army is generally similar to the modern Western cavalry troops during the Napoleon period. Don’t ask why, it’s copied... and the Napoleon cavalry formation is: 2 platoons-2 companies-4 cavalry squadrons-1 cavalry regiment.

It must be made clear that the cavalry squadron here is not a cavalry company...the two are not the same concept.

Strictly translated, it is actually more appropriate to translate it as 'cavalry battalion'... But no matter how you translate it, it is not a cavalry company, because there are two cavalry companies under it. You call it a cavalry company, isn't that nonsense? .

It's just that many people in later generations made errors in translation, and the Japanese on the opposite side used the name cavalry squadron, so many people confused the cavalry squadron with the cavalry company.

In the end, many people mistakenly believed that the cavalry regiment of the European cavalry in the Napoleon period or at the same time had four cavalry companies. In fact, it was not. Generally speaking, a cavalry regiment governed three or four cavalry squadrons, and each cavalry squadron had two cavalry companies. A company of cavalry.

So Napoleon's cavalry regiment had six or eight cavalry companies, and the strength of this cavalry company theoretically ranged from more than 80 cavalry to more than 110 cavalry.

The cavalry squadron in the European army during the Napoleonic Wars belonged to the organization between the cavalry company and the cavalry regiment. What is the specific name is a translation issue!

As for the Japanese cavalry squadron after the [-]th century, it was a real cavalry company... In the early Japanese cavalry, there was a brigade above the brigade, and there was a wing above the brigade. This brigade was actually equivalent to the European cavalry in the [-]th century. cavalry squadron.

But then everyone played the small group Dalian formation, so the Japanese canceled the cavalry brigade formation and became a cavalry squadron directly under the cavalry wing.

At the same time, the European army abolished the cavalry squadron and adopted the model of the cavalry company directly under the cavalry regiment.

Eventually there was a situation where the translator called the Li Cavalry Squadron the same as the Cavalry Company.

In fact, everyone is similar in compilation, but the illusion caused by different translations.

The cavalry establishment in the Chu army is currently a cavalry regiment governing four cavalry battalions, two cavalry posts under the cavalry battalion, two cavalry teams under the cavalry post, and squads under the teams.

And Guo Chengyong is the deputy battalion commander of the cavalry battalion and also serves as the second cavalry sentry officer, with the rank of captain of the army.

Such a him, in fact, was the backer of his family and even relatives in his old home...

When he returned to his hometown to visit relatives and worship ancestors in Chongyang last year, he sat at the front, and the clan elders had to respectfully accompany him.

However, it is beautiful in his hometown, but it is very difficult in the army. If he wants to climb up, no one will help him, and he has to rely on himself.

Why did he take the initiative to apply to serve in the frontiers of the Western Regions after graduation... It was because there was no one to help him. If he dared to stay in the cavalry unit in the hinterland of the Central Plains, he could only slowly accumulate qualifications step by step. In this life, he can be a major Retiring from the military ranks is all about burning incense.

However, after serving in the frontier, even if there is no great achievement, there is still hard work and some ordinary small achievements.

Generally speaking, officers serving in frontier regions (including overseas territories) are promoted much faster than officers serving in the Central Plains, and much faster.

If you encounter a large-scale war and make great contributions, then the promotion will be faster, and it is as possible as riding a rocket.

The reason for the disparity is very simple... People who suffer from cold and suffering in the frontiers or overseas fight wars from time to time, but if you eat and drink well in the prosperous Central Plains, if the promotion speed is still the same, who will go to the frontiers or overseas? , don't you have to drill into the bustling hinterland cities one by one!
So joining the army on the frontier of the Western Regions is really hard... This place is either a desert or a Gobi Desert, or an endless prairie. The natural environment is very harsh, and it is thousands of miles away from his hometown. Guo Chengyong came here to count For a long time, I only went back once last year to visit relatives.

But the fast promotion is really fast!
Guo Chengyong served in the Second Cavalry Army for six years. Speaking of it, he didn't actually fight any large-scale battles, and he didn't get much credit. It was just some small fights.

However, in this way, he was still promoted to the captain of the army smoothly, which would be impossible if he changed to other places.

And this year he is only 29 years old. If he has made contributions to the Kazakh Khanate this time, he will be able to cross the threshold of many officers and become a major after a few years.

As for the major in his early thirties, no matter where he puts it, he can be regarded as a young and promising future general candidate.

Therefore, Guo Chengyong is actually looking forward to the arrival of the war. He studied hard for more than ten years and trained hard for many years, in order to make meritorious deeds on the battlefield one day, and then stand out, and even become a general for himself and his family!
But, can this war give him what he wants?

Guo Chengyong, who had many different people or things in his mind, had no intention of taking a lunch break at all, and just squinted his eyes halfway.

But in the evening, a messenger from the regiment headquarters came over, saying that the regiment leader asked all the sentinels to go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting.

After arriving, as the deputy battalion commander and post chief, he naturally had no right to speak, but just listened to the several school officers above arrange the battle plan and give lectures.

Their order is very simple. Their entire No.30 Seventh Cavalry Regiment will set off early tomorrow morning to serve as the vanguard of the entire army to explore the enemy's situation.