A series of problems arose after the Dachu Empire's military entered the breech-loading rifle era and began to apply skirmishing tactics.

However, none of this dissuaded the Da Chu Empire from its determination to carry out a comprehensive change of appearance.

After all, the problems brought about by new weapons and equipment and new tactics are not worth mentioning compared with the huge tactical and even strategic advantages they bring.

This can be fully reflected in the war on the Nanyang Peninsula and the war in North America.

Especially in the complex terrain and climate environment of the Nanyang Peninsula, the effect of breech-loaded rifled weapons is even greater.

In complex terrain, even if the local indigenous people use backward matchlocks or even bows and arrows to ambush, they can still cause certain casualties to the Chu army who use front-loading muskets.

However, with the batch equipment of breech-loading rifled rifles, the Chu army was able to quickly find bunkers to protect themselves when facing small-scale attacks. At the same time, they used breech-loading rifled rifles to fire back, and took advantage of the high rate of fire and high speed of breech-loading rifled rifles.

Precision, quickly annihilate the invading enemy.

If they still use front-loading muskets, then the Chu army will have greater limitations. If they spread out to find bunkers, it will be difficult to fire back. If they line up to defend and fight back, it will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of them.

Resulting in some casualties.

Therefore, the equipment of rear-mounted rifled rifles gives the Chu army better tactical freedom in complex terrain and climate conditions, making it easier to deal with small-scale indigenous attacks.

As for the role of breech-loading rifled rifles in large-scale frontal battles... To be honest, the Chu army is not sure yet, because it has not fought such a battle in the past year or so.

The natives are not stupid, so how can they fight head-on with you when their equipment is extremely backward, lining up to die stupidly!

Not to mention now, even when the Chu army used percussion muskets, the indigenous troops with a little experience would not engage in a large-scale head-on confrontation with the Chu army. That would be a way to die.

This has nothing to do with muskets, the key is that the Chu army’s artillery is too sharp!

As long as you dare to give the Chu army enough time to assemble a large number of artillery, the Chu army will dare to blow your entire defense line into pieces.

The reason why the Chu army put great pressure on the natives in the age of flintlock guns, making the natives shout invincible... is mostly because of the Chu army's artillery.

This is an empire that dared to bring hundreds of artillery pieces to the battlefield in the era of front-loaded smoothbore cannons, and except for the 65mm field cannon, these artillery pieces can basically fire grenades.

A large number of 115mm artillery and an equally large number of 150mm light howitzers are enough to provide the Chu army with sufficient field artillery firepower.

Not to mention if it was a siege, those damn Chu troops could even pull a bunch of 200mm and 250mm mortars onto the battlefield like crazy.

The grenade, which combines wooden sabots and metal disc fuzes, gave the Chu army unstoppable artillery firepower in this era.

And now... the Great Chu Empire has further equipped itself with rifled artillery. Regardless of whether it is a rear-mounted or front-mounted rifled artillery, their biggest advantages for the Chu army are the same.

That is to be able to launch cylindrical grenades, allowing rifled artillery of the same caliber to obtain several times the killing power of smoothbore artillery of the same caliber.

In the past, it might have taken a 150mm spherical grenade to cause relatively large explosive damage to the enemy, but now... a 75mm mountain gun shell is enough, or even more powerful.

In the past, it might have taken two hundred millimeters or even two hundred fifty millimeters of spherical grenades to deal a certain blow to the enemy's solid defenses, but now... the shells of the one hundred and twenty millimeter rifled howitzers are sufficient and even more powerful.

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The Navy has previously used 150mm forward-loading rifled guns to bombard the enemy's solid coastal defense forts and coastal cities in the Indian War and the African battlefield. Its explosive power even exceeded the traditional 300mm-caliber smoothbore guns.
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The Navy has even tried using 150mm semi-armor-piercing projectiles for shelling, and its ability to hit solid fortifications is very good.

The large-scale service of rifled artillery, regardless of whether it was front-loaded or rear-loaded, brought a leap in artillery firepower to the Chu army.

When these were finally reflected on battlefields overseas, it made the Chu army's many overseas military operations smoother and further accelerated the Chu army's expansion in overseas areas.

In the winter of the 34th year of Chengshun, Lieutenant General Qian Xingbang, the commander of the 22nd Army who was in charge of the war in Siam and Burma and the garrison commander of the Nanyang Peninsula, sent a good news to Jinling City.

It is said that the 22nd Army, with the cooperation of garrison troops from Siam, Bangladesh, Hue, and Malacca, after several months of fierce fighting, has completely destroyed all organized resistance in Siam and Myanmar, and found and captured the enemy in the mountains of western Myanmar.

Killed the remaining royal members and officials of the Burmese royal regime.

From now on, there will no longer be any large-scale, organized resistance group in the area.

The above two areas will officially enter normal public security operations in the future.

After receiving the report, Luo Zhixue ordered the Ministry of Military Affairs to reward the officers and soldiers according to their merits. Those who should be promoted should be promoted, and those who should be rewarded should be rewarded.

For some of the senior generals who performed well, as well as a few middle- and low-level officers and even soldier representatives who performed well, Luo Zhixue personally signed the edict of commendation.

More than a dozen soldiers and non-commissioned officers with outstanding military merit were exempted from the examination and allowed to enter the Army Officer School.

Don't look at it as just enrolling in the Army Officer School without taking the exam, giving you a chance to go to school... But in fact, for these soldiers and non-commissioned officers, this is the best way to achieve a class jump, from ordinary people to the upper class of society.

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The Army Officer School of the Great Chu Empire is very valuable in the Great Chu Empire. Not to mention ordinary families, even children from middle-class or even wealthy families are proud to attend the Army Officer School.

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Because enrolling in this school and joining the army is the best way to enter the upper class society in the Chu Empire, achieve a class jump, and maintain prosperity and wealth.

Officers in the Da Chu Empire are treated very well. If they are lucky enough to be stationed overseas to fight, their trophy income will be even higher...

At the same time, officers go from military academy to serving, and then to retirement. Even if they have no merit, they can successfully reach a certain level just by enduring seniority. After reaching a certain level, they transfer to local politics and start directly at the seventh or even sixth rank...

But if you directly participate in the imperial examination and enter politics, you may not be able to advance to a higher level in more than ten years, and you may not be able to reach the eighth grade when you retire at the age of sixty.

For civil servants, there is no such thing as automatic promotion after a certain number of years.

After such a comparison, you can find that the best way to enter politics is: first join the military to gain qualifications, and then switch to local politics after reaching the seventh rank, skipping the ninth and eighth ranks, which are the most difficult and fiercely competitive places in the local area.

Two levels.

Therefore, young people joining the army and middle-aged people joining politics are the ideal life paths for many young scholars in the Chu Empire.

In fact, this was done deliberately by Luo Zhixue, in order to attract young scholars to actively report to the military academy to join the army, improve the overall quality of the officer group, and at the same time enhance the social status of the officers to avoid the situation where the civilized and military are weak.

Joining the army can not only pave the way for a career in politics, but it is also the best way to obtain a knighthood. As a civil servant, unless you reach the level of minister of staff, you basically can't expect to get a knighthood, but joining the army... even if you are just a civilian.

Ordinary lieutenants and colonel officers can also be awarded a title as long as their contribution is great enough and their luck is good enough.

At the same time, it is relatively easy for senior generals to obtain knighthoods.

In addition, the empire's top title, Duke, will not be awarded unless it is for military merit... In the case of Marquis, it will not be awarded unless it is for military merit and major scientific research!

At the same time, all hereditary titles will not be awarded except for military merit!

In other words, in today's Great Chu Empire, if you don't join the army, don't expect to be granted a hereditary title, nor can you expect to be granted a duke title. As for the title of marquis, there is actually no hope for normal people.<

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Because apart from military merit, there is only one way to be awarded the title of Marquis, and that is to become the top genius scientist and make breakthrough scientific research results with huge impact... There are not many scientists in the entire empire who can do this.

, and they are all concentrated in the Royal Institute of Technology.

There are very few normal people who can get into the Royal Institute of Technology these days, they are all perverts!

The path of scientific research and knighthood has nothing to do with ordinary people. It is the path of a very small number of perverted geniuses. Their IQs are less than 100 or even 200, so don’t even dream of it...

Joining the army is much simpler. Even if you are an ordinary student, as long as you work hard enough and have a little talent, there is still hope for you to be admitted to the top two officers.

In fact, if you want to say how smart the freshmen in the two major military academies are, you can't even say... Generally speaking, the prefecture-level top academics in small places are about the same.

For ordinary soldiers in the military, it is basically impossible to go to military academies through formal channels... Although military academies also allow soldiers to self-study and then report to the military academies, and even provide more than ten special admission quotas for active military personnel every year, but

There are so many people competing for those dozen spots, and ordinary soldiers simply cannot compete.

However, if ordinary soldiers make enough contributions, they can be admitted to the Army Officer School without taking the examination.

Luo Zhixue gave these more than ten meritorious soldiers interviews to enter the Army Officer School. They studied books, but what changed was their lives.

This is much better than simply being promoted to a military rank and giving some rewards.

In addition to this group of meritorious soldiers, rewards were also given to a small number of officers and generals who made outstanding contributions.

Among them, Army Lieutenant General Qian Xingbang was promoted from Baron to Viscount.

Many other generals also received many rewards.

These are all rewards that Luo Zhixue handled personally, but more still need to be handled by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs!

The awarding of large-scale rewards also means that large-scale military operations in the Nanyang Peninsula have come to an end, and subsequent conventional security wars will be much simpler.

Chu State has rich experience in public security warfare in overseas territories. It has been implemented steadily for two or three years, and it is basically the same.

What is more important now is the development of the Nanyang Peninsula. Organizing immigration and development is much more important than purely military issues.

However, these things have already been planned before, and now we just need to execute them according to the plan.

According to the Chu Empire's plan for the Nanyang Peninsula, the entire Nanyang Peninsula will be brought under the direct rule of the empire.

A total of five provinces, namely Myanmar, Siam, Malacca, Hue, and Thang Long, will be established. These five provinces will all implement direct rule like the provinces in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

The Dachu Empire wanted to turn this area into an inalienable part of China since ancient times.

With the completion of the direct administration of the Nanyang Peninsula, the Chu Empire also began related planning for many islands in the Nanyang region.

Among the many Southeast Asian islands, the Luzon Islands are the simplest. They were originally colonized by the Spanish. After the Chu State took over, they continued to rule. Through gradual immigration and development, they now have full control of Luzon and Mindao.

There are no indigenous people on the two islands, and most of them are immigrants from Chu State.

There are still many indigenous people on other islands, large and small, but immigration and development will continue in the future, and a number of reservations will be established to allow local indigenous people to move to these reserved islands to continue living.

The same is true for Borneo and Java. The Chu Empire has been promoting immigration and development in these places for more than ten years, with great results.

The population in Borneo and Java Island is now dominated by immigrants from the Chu State. There are very few indigenous people, and they are concentrated in a few remote areas on the edge. These remote areas are reservations planned by the Chu State for these indigenous people.

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To be continued...