The promotion paths for students in regular classes are even wider, because their cultural background is already relatively good. After enrolling, they do not need to waste time learning cultural knowledge, but can directly learn military knowledge.
They must first complete a three-month primary course, including physical training, basic military knowledge, basic command, etc. After completing the primary course, they will be awarded the rank of warrant officer.
At this time, he has basically entered the threshold of the Tang Dynasty King Master, became one of the official officers, and can also receive salary.
But it's not over yet!
After completing the primary course, they will choose a subject to continue further study based on their personal wishes and learning talents, including infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering, and baggage, which respectively correspond to the infantry and cavalry in the Tang Army.
, artillery, baggage troops, engineers and other arms.
This stage of learning military specialized knowledge lasts two months.
After the above five months of study, you can basically master the most basic troop command capabilities. Of course, the level depends on the student's academic talent. After all, these five months of study are very intensive.
Yes, students basically don't have much rest time from morning to evening, and the courses are very tightly arranged. If students are not talented enough, it is actually difficult to keep up with such intensive courses.
There is nothing that can be done about this. Today's Datang Army is still in the midst of a war, and the Datang Army is in the process of rapid expansion. There is a huge gap for grassroots officers, especially grassroots officers who have been systematically trained.
If the training time is too long, it will be difficult to obtain enough qualified officers in a short period of time.
After five months of study, these students will go through the third stage of study: going to various recruit camps for internships!
The content of the study is to complete the training of new recruits under the guidance of the instructors in the recruit camp, and have initial practical experience and master the skills of training troops, commanding operations, etc. After all, these martial arts school students will usually be sent to the army to directly serve as officers after graduation.
Yes, giving them some experience in the recruit camp will also prevent them from being in a hurry and not knowing what to do when they arrive in the army.
After completing the one-month internship, they will be awarded the rank of second lieutenant and then assigned according to their graduation test scores. Most of them will be assigned to ordinary troops as platoon leaders or deputy captains. This is not a transition, but a position as soon as they arrive.
Actual duties.
A very small number of those with superior grades directly apply for the Imperial Academy. Now the Imperial Academy has a longer academic system, which is also divided into various subjects. The first year is purely theoretical full-time study, and the first half of the second year enters various subjects.
Internship in the army, and awarded the rank of lieutenant, usually serving as combat staff officer of regiment-level and brigade-level troops.
After this round of theoretical study and internship, they actually still have not graduated from the Imperial Academy, because the latest academic system of the Imperial Academy is three years.
In the second half of the second year, they will be transferred back from the field troops and then serve in various ministries of the Privy Council. Those with average grades will hold ordinary positions in each ministry, while the few with the highest grades will be assigned to the operations department.
, serving as combat staff.
The combat staff in the Operations Department are exposed to high-level affairs of the Army, planning detailed combat plans, etc., and they can also learn from the senior combat staff in the Operations Department. Due to the particularity of the work of the Operations Department,
Therefore, the combat staff in the Operations Department has actually become the second echelon of senior officers of the Tang Army. Therefore, it is of great significance to them that these Imperial Academy students with excellent academic performance can enter here for internship.
After the last year of internship, the students of the Royal Academy have completed their studies, and then they will be awarded the rank of captain and re-assigned to various units to directly serve as captains.
But for the students of the Royal Academy, the captain position is just their early transition, because the Tang Army is currently extremely short of high-end talents. Basically, it will not take long for these graduates of the Imperial Academy to become battalion commanders or even regimental commanders, and become the leader of the Tang Dynasty.
A mid-level core officer in the Tang Army.
This set of academic systems for the Martial Arts School and the Royal School was only implemented in March after entering the capital of Zhaoqing. The students in the school graduated in two phases, while the students in the Royal School did not graduate in one phase.
Therefore, the current majority of military officers in the Tang Dynasty are still those who were directly recruited from traditional students in the early stage and studied in the Imperial Academy. Therefore, the entire army has a strong scholarly atmosphere.
Ouyang Gui is a typical scholar officer in the Army of the Tang Dynasty, but compared with others, his starting point is higher!
He had a false reputation as a scholar before, and he did not enter the Royal Academy at first, but first entered the Ministry of War as a civil servant. Later, when he established the navy, because before his family fell into decline, his family had run a shipping company and was responsible for sailing ships.
He was relatively familiar with it, so he was transferred to the Naval Department of the Privy Council as a civilian naval officer, and he started at a very high level. As soon as he was transferred to serve as a civilian officer, he was already a major, second only to Bao Yifen at that time.
Although he was only a civilian naval officer during his days in the navy, in fact, there are few professional naval officers in the Tang Navy today. Most of the officers came from the army full-time, and the basic requirement is to know how to swim.
It's okay if you don't get seasick, and some of them are directly recruited sailors and ship bosses.
As for how to fight a naval battle? Sorry, there are really not many people in the huge Tang Dynasty navy who understand this stuff.
How to fight a naval war? Naturally, I can only fiddle with it and study it slowly, and then explore it bit by bit. I don't have to learn even if I want to.
You know, the newly opened naval professional officer academy, namely Haixuetang, has recruited more than a hundred students, but to be honest, the navy has no idea what they should learn and how to teach them, and it can only be chaotic.
Teach, and then take the students on the ship every day to explore and learn, focusing on navigation knowledge. As for tactics?
Sorry, the current Tang Dynasty navy has no systematic tactics at all. At most, it has artillery skills, and this artillery skills were also learned from the army.
There are no qualified professional naval officers in the navy, so Ouyang Gui, a civilian naval officer, was assigned to Lianzhou Prefecture to form a naval squadron after sitting in an office for several months.
And his military rank gradually increased with the expansion of the Lianzhoufu Squadron, from major to lieutenant colonel and then to colonel.
On the eve of the Battle of Qiongzhoufu, after the Second Squadron was formally established, he became the first commander of the Second Squadron, and his rank was promoted to rear admiral.
This is also the second rear admiral in the naval system, and his status is not ordinary.
However, even though he is a civilian officer, it does not mean that Ouyang Gui is weaker than other naval officers. In fact, Ouyang Gui's success today is inseparable from his ability.
Although he has never led a fleet into a naval battle, he has been thinking hard in the past few months and has imagined how to fight a naval battle countless times in his mind.
Therefore, after signaling the entire fleet to prepare for battle, Ouyang Gui ordered the main fleet under his command to start accelerating and then move forward.
Although he had never fought in a battle, he knew very well that the most important task of this sea-crossing operation was not to defeat many Ming navy ships, but to successfully cover the army's landing.
Therefore, he did not allow the Ming navy on the opposite side to rush up and wreak havoc on the transport ships at the rear.
After the sixteen large ships of the main fleet and the more than thirty small ships behind them began to accelerate, the several Ming Navy ships on the opposite side did not fight, but turned around and turned directly.
However, at this moment, the lookout on the mast of the Lianzhou suddenly shouted: "The enemy fleet!"
Although Ouyang Gui could not detect the Ming Navy fleet on the sea due to the curvature of the earth at this time after picking up the telescope, it does not mean that the lookout soldiers who climbed up the mast could not see it. Otherwise, what would they do?
Let the lookouts climb up the mast and use larger telescopes to observe!
Soon, a lieutenant commander of the navy trotted up to Ouyang Gui: "Admiral, we found twenty-two large enemy ships and more than thirty small boats, about twelve kilometers away from the front of our fleet, and they were speeding towards our fleet.
Come on, the speed is six kilometers, which is equivalent to the speed of our fleet. If our fleet and the enemy fleet maintain their speed and course, they are expected to engage my vanguard in half an hour!"
Ouyang Gui frowned slightly at this time and said: "There are twenty-two large ships and more than thirty small ships. This is more than originally expected!"
But he quickly said: "Send an order to all the ships in the main fleet, and ask them to follow the flagship and turn ten degrees to the left, accelerate and sprint to seize the upper hand!"
"Send an order to Colonel Li and ask him to turn the transport fleet to the right to avoid the war zone and continue the landing!"
After saying this, he turned around and looked at a group of naval officers behind him who were mostly transferred from the army: "This is the first battle of our Datang Navy. I hope you all will fight bravely and don't let the army friends behind see the joke. In the future
Say my navy has no loyal and brave men!"
Many naval officers had serious expressions on their faces and said:
“The staff understands”
"We will never disgrace the majesty of the navy!"
"Let those army bastards see, our navy is also full of good men!"
At this time, Ouyang Guicai nodded slightly, and then said with a smile: "Raise the general's flag and the decisive battle flag!"
At this time, Captain Li Yanxi, who was on the rear transport fleet, also saw the semaphores waved by the flag carriers on the front flagship. For a moment, he clenched his fists and his face became extremely ugly.
Next to him, Luo Youbin, the leader of the Second Mixed Regiment wearing the uniform of an army colonel, could not understand the navy's flag. Seeing that Li Yanxi's expression was not very good, he immediately asked: "What's wrong? There's also the triangular red and black dragon on top.
What does the flag mean?”
Li Yanxi said: "Lord Ouyang has decided to lead the main fleet to entangle the enemy fleet to cover our transport fleet as it continues to cross the sea and land. As for the triangular red dragon flag with a black background, it is the decisive battle flag of our navy, which means..."
Having said this, he paused for a while, took a deep breath, and then said loudly: "The Tang Navy will fight to the death and never retreat!"
After saying that, he stopped talking to Luo Youbin, and then said to the adjutant beside him: "Instruct the fleet to turn twenty degrees to the right, and then send a flag to the flagship: I wish you a great victory, sir!"
After Ouyang Gui on the Lianzhou received the signal signal from Li Yanxi, the rear transport fleet, he smiled slightly and said: It is hard to predict whether you will win or lose this battle. We can only fight to the death!