The first thousand three hundred and thirty-two chapters of the Tatars
The military's planned officer cadet program will start from junior military academies in various places, then select the best to enter the Royal Youth Military Academy, and finally select to enter the martial arts academy and the sea academy.
When these officers have completed three years of study in the martial arts academy or sea academy and officially enter the military service, they will have completed the training of a basic officer.
These officers who came from the juvenile military academy have completed nine years of military education in the three stages of juvenile military academy, youth military academy, and martial arts school/sea academy.
Among these people, there will definitely be a few who can be admitted to the Royal Academy in the future, and this will be another three years!
According to the current implicit rules of the Tang Empire's military, if you want to be promoted to brigadier general, you must be from the Imperial Academy. For officers who are not from the Imperial Academy, basically, they are the end of the field and are unlikely to have the opportunity to be promoted to generals.
Officially, at least in the past five years, there has not been any such example, and it is estimated that there will not be any in the future.
This also means that a senior general in the Tang Empire often received military education since childhood, and the entire education period lasted for twelve years!
Li Xuan also supports this model, which is a magic weapon to effectively enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, but he also strictly limits it, that is, there can only be one youth military academy, the Royal Youth Military Academy.
Because the students trained by the Youth Military Academy are generally officer candidates between the ages of fifteen and twenty. They will enter the martial arts school or the sea school in the future. The cultivation of three views at this age is very important.
Therefore, Li Xuan must firmly control the loyalty education of these officer candidates.
While increasing their loyalty to the military, they should also increase their loyalty to the royal family.
After being educated by Zhongjun, these officer candidates can enter the martial arts school or the sea school and begin to receive more professional military education. They will formally study the infantry, riding, artillery, baggage, engineering, etc. of the army or the navy.
Navigation, gunnery, land warfare and other subjects.
However, these military reforms did not eliminate the possibility of ordinary soldiers becoming officers. On the contrary, the imperial military still encouraged ordinary soldiers and non-commissioned officers to apply for military academies. As long as they could pass the exam, they would study with ordinary military academies, and then
distribute.
It's not some kind of crash course.
The military treats any officer who can be admitted to the military academy equally. There will be no preference because the person is from a youth military academy, a general preparatory school or a normal school, or because he is a soldier.
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Because they can be admitted to the military academy, these people have already proven their abilities.
However, even if the military encourages soldiers to apply for military academies, it will even provide additional places. But just like the fierce competition among scholars outside to apply for military academies, it is also not easy for soldiers to apply for military academies. There are always only a few who can become officers.
Most people will eventually retire!
However, after retiring, they often receive professional arrangements, such as patrol police, tax police and other positions. These law enforcement agencies are very welcoming to retired soldiers from the military.
If you don't want to be stable and want to continue taking risks and fight and even make a fortune, you can also go to serve in the Western Company's company fleet, or simply work for an ordinary trading company.
The ships of those ordinary trading companies are also armed merchant ships. In order to ensure safety, they also have guns and cannons. With guns and cannons, they naturally need professionals to control and command them.
Basically, in the Tang Dynasty, no matter you join the army, no matter if you are an officer or a soldier, you basically don't have to worry about your future life. Officers are responsible for food and drink, the salary is not low, and employment will be arranged after retirement.
The only thing that makes the majority of poor people feel regretful is that they can no longer divide their fields.
The new recruits were very envious of their seniors. During the Unification War, anyone who joined the army would receive a free piece of land after a certain number of years.
Unfortunately, after the Unification War, this benefit ceased.
After all, people join the army every year, and the official land that can be allocated is limited, and it cannot be allocated forever.
Although there are no more allocated fields, the generous benefits of joining the army still attract countless people to join the army.
However, today's military academy system has greatly restricted ordinary people from becoming officers, because currently, the requirements for military academy enrollment are very high. You need to graduate from preparatory courses or normal schools to apply. Even if ordinary soldiers apply for military academy, in fact, these can
The soldiers who successfully applied for the exam in the end also had a high level of education before. It is unlikely that they could rely on just two or three years of night school and training courses within the army to complete the equivalent of a preparatory education, and then pass the military academy.
of examination.
And this cuts off the possibility of children from poor families becoming officers.
This is what Li Xuan does not want to see. Just as Li Xuan would reserve certain opportunities for children from poor families in general education and civil service selection, he also thinks so in the officer selection system and plans to do so.
The officer cadet program is a more appropriate way.
Because when enrolling students in juvenile military academies in various places, although the standards are high, they are still relatively low. According to the military’s plan, a juvenile military academy will be established in every provincial highway.
Recruiting from primary school graduates, once enrolled, all tuition fees will be waived and living allowances will be provided.
There is no tuition fee, which means that if children from poor families are excellent in their studies, they can still be admitted and complete their studies. Even if they are unable to enter the Royal Youth Military Academy in the end, the academic system of the Junior Military Academy is actually equivalent to that of a middle school, and they can study for three years for free.
Finally, if they fail, they can still enter other general preparatory schools or normal schools.
After careful consideration, Li Xuan finally formally approved the military's officer cadet program in September of the 17th year of Xuanping, and prepared to establish infant military academies in various provinces and provinces across the country.
The jurisdiction of these juvenile military schools does not belong to the departments of the Army Privy Council, nor to the departments under the Naval High Command, nor to the Ministry of War or the Ministry of the Navy, but to the Royal Youth Military School and the Royal Primary School, which bear the royal name.
Like the school, it is under the jurisdiction of the Education Department of Hanlin Academy.
However, considering the military nature of these schools, the local infantry military schools and the Royal Youth Military School, although they are under the management of the Education Department of the Hanlin Academy, are closely connected with the army, navy and the Guards.
Most of the teaching staff in each school are served by retired military officers!
Don't think it's unreliable to let retired soldiers serve as teachers. In fact, it is very reliable, because the overall quality of Datang's military officers is actually much better than that of civilian officials. Regardless of whether it was the beginning of the founding of the country or now, they are basically the best students.
Here, the real geniuses are naturally recruited by the Royal Institute of Technology, while the second-tier students are basically recruited by the military academies. The second-tier students, or those who have no intention of joining the military, apply to various universities and then enter the civil service system.
So don’t think that the officers of the Tang Dynasty were all illiterate. In fact, except for the early years of the founding of the country, where officers came from mixed sources, in fact, for the next nearly ten years, officers were selected from among the scholars.
Therefore, the officers of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they were officers of the army, navy or the Guards, were basically all talented people who could fight on horseback, write essays on horseback, stay up all night, and had knowledge of astronomy, geography, and modern science.
The overall quality is much better than that of civil servants.
Therefore, it is more than enough for retired military officers to serve as teachers in juvenile military schools.
The officer cadet program did not cause much turmoil in society, and even within the military, it did not cause much repercussions, because this kind of thing would not have much impact for a while, no matter how fast it was, these
It will take nine years for officers trained in the officer cadet program to enter the military service.
Relatively speaking, most of the military's attention today is attracted to the north again!
Since the Tang Army entered the Hetao area a few years ago and rebuilt Dongsheng City, it established a defense line of more than 150 kilometers in the Hetao based on Dongsheng City. Although this line of defense is not in the traditional sense,
The Great Wall, but the more than twenty bastions on this line of defense were enough to form a rope that completely divided the Tatars into two.
In the first one or two years, the Tang Army was still limited to defense. Although the Hetao plan was in place, the Tatars were still able to bypass it and enter the Hetao to graze.
But in the past two years, the Army has begun to take the initiative. Relying on Dongsheng City, they began to extend the Hetao direction to the north.
Well, in fact, they started building the city again in the north. They initially built a small bastion ten kilometers away from the outskirts of Dongsheng City, but not long after, they built the second and third bastion.
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All this is almost a replica of when the Tang Army entered the Hetao area.
Although the current Hetao defense line divides the Tatars into two, they can still bypass this defense line and communicate from the north of Dongsheng City. Now the Tang Army wants to continue to extend its direction to the north.
Looking at this posture, it seems that he is going to practice Taoism all the way to Yinshan Mountain.
How can this make the Tatars sit still?
Ever since, starting from the 16th year of Xuanping, the Hetao area, which had been peaceful for only two years, started fighting again!
Around the Hetao defense line, the Tatars and the Ninth Army of the Tang Dynasty Army stationed there were fighting frequently.
Of course, the Tatars are now completely smart. They don't take the initiative to attack those bastions. Without guns and artillery, they simply cannot defeat these seemingly small bastions defended by only hundreds of thousands of men.
, even if it is conquered by force regardless of sacrifice, the price paid will be heavy.
At the same time, they did not engage in any large-scale outdoor decisive battles with the Tang Army!
They have tried this type of battle before, but they couldn't beat it!
It's not fun at all for the two sides to set up their positions for a decisive battle in the wild, so naturally they won't do it.