The first thousand nine hundred and thirty-six chapters of the Tang Dynasty's martial spirit
In the past few decades, after the policy of optimizing the military, it seems that the martial culture of people in the Tang Empire, especially young people, has gone beyond the normal range.
It doesn’t matter that the most popular entertainment project in almost all preparatory schools across the Tang Dynasty is football, but the key point is that these young people play football just to get extra points when they apply for military academies. This is a bit strange.
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From this, we can further prove the martial culture of the Tang Dynasty today. Not only these military academies and the students preparing to apply for military academies, but also the military atmosphere in ordinary universities is quite strong.
Because all college students in Datang are all reserve warrant officers.
The Tang Dynasty has long ago determined the new students in each university, and after admission, they will undergo three months of military training.
It is worth noting that the military training of college students in the Tang Dynasty did not treat bachelors as soldiers. In their three months of training, physical training was only the most basic.
More emphasis is placed on the cultivation of military knowledge such as tactics and military theory, and students will also be divided into groups to study subjects such as infantry, riding, artillery, and baggage.
To put it bluntly, these college students' three-month military training is actually a crash course for military officers.
After three months of study, I cannot say how good these reserve officers are, but they are still capable of being recruited to serve as grassroots officers and command troops at the company and platoon level.
After these college students complete three months of military training of the crash course version for officers, they will receive the rank of reserve warrant officer.
While they were in school, they were reserve officers in the second order of recruitment in the military service system of the Tang Dynasty.
After graduation, you will become the third conscription rank. If you are over 40 years old, you will be transferred to the fourth conscription rank. If you are over 50 years old, you no longer need to serve in the reserve service.
According to the military service system of the Tang Dynasty, if a war breaks out, it is necessary to make up for losses or expand the army to prepare for war, and it is necessary to recruit reserve officers.
The first recruitment is naturally retired officers, who are recruited in batches according to the time of retirement and the level of military rank.
Theoretically speaking, there are enough retired officers in the Tang Dynasty military, so there is no need to recruit reserve officers from ordinary universities.
Because according to the military's estimates, the existing retired reserve officers can fully support the expansion of the Tang Dynasty's army to more than three million people.
This is three million, which can make Datang conquer the world several times.
The current number of troops in the Tang Dynasty is actually just over one million. With such a small number of troops, it already controls the world.
Expanding the army to three million will be enough for Datang to deal with all threats. To put it bluntly, it can circle the earth several times.
Even if the army still needs to continue to expand, as long as there is enough time, the military can also expand the number of officers by expanding military school enrollment, shortening military school training time, etc. Basically, as long as it is not too anxious, the military can solve it on its own.
However, we always have to prevent accidents. If something uncontrollable happens, for example, the military needs to expand its troops by more than three million people in a very short period of time, or the losses are too great and a large number of reinforcements are needed in a short period of time.
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Then it is necessary to recruit the second series of reserves, that is, college students.
If it is not enough, for example, if the army is to be expanded to tens of millions, then it will be necessary to recruit reserve officers who have graduated from colleges and universities and entered the society.
Regardless of whether these college student reserves are used or not, it is undeniable that all college students in the Tang Dynasty are reserve officers of the Tang Empire.
No matter whether they are in school or have graduated, they are all reserve officers of the Tang Dynasty.
If you bring out any college student, no matter if he is a freshman or a middle-aged man who has graduated many years ago, he can directly go into battle and command a platoon of troops. Those with more ability can even directly command a company.
If you take all the nearly 1,600 students at Jinling University of Science and Technology and allocate them to a few senior officers, they can directly form the framework of about two divisions.
As long as a sufficient number of soldiers are replenished, two full divisions can be drawn out directly.
This shows how abnormal the reserve system of the Tang Dynasty was.
It is a pity that, judging from the current national strength of the Tang Dynasty and the threats it faces, it is estimated that these college student reserves will not be recruited in their lifetime.
The military's active duty and retired reserve forces are sufficient to deal with almost all threats.
Even if they threaten to fight more, as long as the Datang military is given a certain amount of preparation time, it can fully respond and there is no need to recruit reserve officers who are non-professional officers.
Lin Ziran's purpose of engaging in this kind of reserve service is to formulate a reserve system to prevent problems before they occur. Who knows what the situation will be like in dozens or hundreds of years.
After all, the Tang Dynasty could not continue to be so strong. There would definitely be challengers in the future, whether they were external challengers or internal rebellions.
This is not a general question, but a necessary question.
Therefore, the reserves are prepared in advance, and no matter what happens, they can directly expand the army by tens of millions. This is where all the confidence of the Tang Empire lies.
This is not only reflected in the reserve force, but also in the reserve of armaments.
The Tang Empire purchases so much ordnance every year, but some of it is actually not used, but is stored directly after purchase. As for when it will be used, no one knows.
For example, several strategic warehouses belonging to the Guards in Jinling City contain enough ordnance to arm at least 100,000 people, from light weapons such as Li Fu rifles to breech-loaded rifled guns, as well as metal-cased bullets, grenades, artillery shells and other ammunition.
As for bedding, food and other military supplies, everything is available.
Moreover, these strategic warehouses are regularly replenished and replaced every year to ensure that the stored materials are the most advanced, intact and available.
These strategic warehouses are used by the Guards for emergency military expansion in response to possible unrest.
What does this turmoil mean?
No one says it, but everyone knows that the Guards are for defense against the army and navy.
Although theoretically all the armed forces of the empire are loyal to the Holy Emperor, and the army and navy are directly controlled by the Holy Emperor, the Guards troops that truly belong to the Holy Emperor are still the Guards. This makes the Guards its own system.
It can be seen that the officers are either relatives of the emperor or disciples of the emperor.
The Guards have their own strategic reserve warehouses, and the Army and Navy also have their own, and the scale is even larger!
It's just that the Army does not have the luxury of the Guards. Most of the weapons and ammunition that the Army previously stocked were second-hand goods. It has an almost massive amount of smoothbore muskets, smoothbore cannons, front-loading rifled guns, cannons and other weapons and ammunition.
Although the performance is not great, the quantity is definitely enough!
Even if the arsenal cannot produce urgently, Datang can arm at least one million troops just by relying on its existing strategic reserves!
What's more, the Army is now preparing to fully stockpile weapons and ammunition for breech-loaded rifled weapons, but the pressure to replace them is still a bit high, so it has not been done yet.