The difference between the Imperial Academy before and after the restructuring is very big. The Imperial Academy before the restructuring did not have a formal academic system. Although there were also various subjects, students also had to learn these things, but generally they were self-study.
For the main purpose, occasionally Li Xuan and several senior generals would go to class.
This is because the early Tang Dynasty Army did not even have a few qualified mid-level and senior generals, let alone dispatching qualified instructors to teach them. Therefore, the early Imperial Academy was called learning, but it relied more on the academies.
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Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, and Fang Xitong are actually the most typical examples.
Because there is no unified academic system, even if many officers enter the Royal Academy, what they learn is very complicated. Some study theory for a month or two, and some may study for several months.
But most of them went to study for a few months first, but did not graduate. Instead, they continued to serve in the army under the name of Imperial Academy. When they had time, they would go back to Imperial Academy to study.
This situation was quite common in the early days!
In the second year of Xuanping, after the Imperial Academy was restructured, everything changed. The academic system became formalized and at the same time became longer. This also resulted in the first formal class of students in the Imperial Academy after the restructuring.
Not even one of them has graduated yet!
Because after the restructuring of the Royal Academy, its academic system became very long, and it took a total of three years to complete all the studies!
Currently, none of the first batch of Imperial Academy students have graduated, not even those who graduated early!
Because the academic system of the Imperial Academy is too long, and the Tang Army’s demand for high-quality officers is also very large, and the huge difference between geniuses and mediocrities is taken into account, the current three-year academic system of the Imperial Academy is not required to be completed.
For three years, you can request an assessment in advance. After passing the assessment, you can enter the next stage of study in advance, or even graduate directly in advance and officially serve.
This point is actually not the original creation of the Royal Academy, but the method of the Imperial Academy!
The assessment system adopted by the Imperial College of the Tang Dynasty was that newly admitted students were in the lower class. After passing the assessment, they were promoted to the intermediate class, and then they were promoted to the advanced class after passing the assessment. Students in the advanced class could directly take the examination, but not everyone could
Those who can directly participate in the examination must pass the graduation examination. If you pass the graduation examination, you will be awarded the title of Juren, and then you can directly participate in the examination for Jinshi and doctoral subjects.
If students in lower-level and intermediate classes fail to pass the assessment of this level for three consecutive years and successfully advance to a higher level, their student status will be terminated directly.
If a student in an advanced class fails to pass the final exam for three consecutive years, his or her student status will be directly dismissed. However, in the future, he or she will be exempted from taking the exam and directly take the provincial provincial exam!
Of course, the latter two situations have not happened yet, because the Imperial College has not been in operation for a few years, and in order to win over students, the Tang Dynasty also has a very large demand for officials, so the assessment is actually relatively simple.
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The Imperial Academy's method of completing studies ahead of time through examinations is also modeled after the Imperial Academy.
At present, students in Imperial Academy are in the first year of theoretical study. Ordinary Imperial Academy students need to study for a full year. However, if they are talented enough, able to complete their studies in advance and are good enough, they can apply for early assessment.
It's just that this assessment is more difficult than the assessment that ordinary people take after one year of study! But as long as you pass the assessment, you can serve as an intern staff officer in the army in advance.
Even this internship stage can be compressed at present. As long as you perform well, are recommended by the chief officer of the internship unit, and can pass the special difficult assessment, you can end the internship early and return to the Royal Academy to accept the final stage.
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This stage of study involves actually learning various theories of large-scale army operations. However, at this time, Li Xuan imposed a stipulation that this stage of study could not be completed early, and those with excellent grades had to study diligently for the first half of the year.
At the same time, the above-mentioned method of early graduation can only be used at this stage. In a few years, when the Tang Army has enough officers and the demand for officers is not so great, students will definitely need to be honest.
Those who have completed three years of study.
At present, more than ten students in the first batch of Royal Academy have completed the theoretical and practical stages of study ahead of schedule. They are currently undergoing the last round of half-year study. It is expected that in March next year, the first batch of first-class students will graduate early.
Students in this period officially enter the military service.
And the various theoretical levels of these Imperial Academy students who have gone through a complete and systematic study are higher than those of the previous students in the informal classes of the Imperial Academy, and their future will naturally go further than the original old people.
But this is all for the future. Most of the officers of the Tang Dynasty Army, especially the middle and senior officers, are still early students of the Royal Academy. Therefore, the quality of this group of people varies, but they can really serve as regimental officers.
Those who are responsible for such high-level affairs with real power are talents who have emerged after great waves.
After all, the Tang Army currently has more than 100,000 people, but there are only about twenty regiment commanders in the main force. Those who can serve as regiment commanders are all people with outstanding military exploits and outstanding abilities.
As for the group of veteran bandits in the Huangzhushan stage, except for a few people, most of them have been eliminated by the big wave. Some people have changed their jobs to local places and served as patrol police.
He was sent to hang out in various ministries under the Privy Council.
But in the field troops, it is basically difficult to see the earliest bandit generals. They are all students from the martial arts school or the imperial school.
The 6th Infantry Division is no exception. Dai Liliang and other regiment commanders, as well as the deputy commanders below, and the battalion commanders are basically officers who have participated in large-scale battles and have rich war experience.
Even those low-level officers were mostly from martial arts schools, and some of them also had combat experience.
But the quality of the officers of the Sixth Infantry Division is acceptable, which does not mean that the quality of the ordinary soldiers in the Sixth Infantry Division is also satisfactory!
Not to mention ordinary first-class soldiers and second-class soldiers, even many of the non-commissioned officers at all levels who are the backbone of soldiers have never participated in large-scale battles.
And this is the main reason why Cai Erhu is worried!
Therefore, in the face of the active attack and various defeating tactics suggested by his subordinates, Cai Erhu rejected them after careful consideration. He was even quite conservative. In order to prevent the troops on the Fengcheng side from having an accident, he even urgently sent troops to the Fengcheng side.
The troops were also transferred back to Fengcheng.
This basically announces the tactics Cai Erhu is about to adopt: defend Nanchang!
Even Fengcheng voluntarily gave up. After all, the important purpose of keeping Fengcheng in the first place was to maintain the logistics supply line. But if Nanchang is surrounded, then Fengcheng, the rear supply line support point, will be of little use.
In addition, Fengcheng does not have a very strong city defense, and there are not many artillery. The defense relies more on the support from Nanchang, but if Nanchang is surrounded, it will be difficult for Fengcheng to get support.
, so it is better to dispatch troops back to Nanchang to increase Nanchang's defense strength.
Cai Erhu has already made up his mind to defend Nanchang, either until Li Chunjing's army comes back for reinforcements, or until he runs out of ammunition and food!
For this reason, Cai Erhu, who was not very illiterate, had already asked his staff to write several letters for him, and at the same time sent them to Luling and Ganzhou in the rear, and all the way back to Zhaoqing. At the same time, he also sent a letter to Li Chunjing.
The contents of the two letters are also different.
The letter sent to Li Chunjing not only informed Li Chunjing of the 6th Infantry Division's decision to defend Nanchang, but also told Li Chunjing that he did not have to worry about the safety of Nanchang and could rest assured to carry out the Huguang strategy. He, Cai Erhu, would hold on to Nanchang until the army returned for reinforcements.
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However, the letter sent to the south and all the way back to Zhaoqing was different. He informed Zhaoqing that his 6th Infantry Division would defend Nanchang, and also requested the Privy Council to organize troops to reinforce Jiangxi as soon as possible.
After receiving the letter, Li Chunjing didn't say anything, but nodded slightly, and then said: "Send someone to reply and tell me that the overall situation of Jiangxi will be entrusted to the Sixth Infantry Division!"
However, after Li Xuan in Zhaoqing received the Nanchang military report that was rushed from five hundred miles away, he was a little worried and quickly summoned people from the Privy Council to discuss it. No matter how well Li Chunjing fought in Huguang, Nanchang was besieged.
It is a foregone conclusion, but facing the siege of 50,000 to 60,000 main enemy troops and more garrison soldiers, how long Nanchang can defend is a question.
But in the face of Cai Erhu's request for rescue, Zhaoqing in the rear had no choice!
Nowadays, almost every main force of the Datang Army is already on the front line. Even the Second Mixed Regiment, which was originally stationed in Qiongzhou, Leizhou, Lianzhou and other places, has already dispatched troops to go north to Guangxi to suppress the enemy.
The defense gap caused by the arrival of the Fourth Infantry Division.
As for the troops on the Guangdong side, the Second Mixed Regiment needed to guard against Yu Dayou's bandit army in Fujian and the tens of thousands of Ming troops on Nan'ao Island, and they could not be mobilized easily.
As for the Guards, they cannot be easily mobilized, because now the Guards are not only serving as Li Xuan's Guards, they have even taken on the defense of the entire central Guangdong region, especially the Pearl River Delta.
As for other troops, there are two supplementary brigades in Jiangxi, but these two supplementary brigades also need to garrison Ganzhou, Luling and other vast central and southern areas of Jiangxi. Not to mention, although these two supplementary brigades are attached to the brigade
They have a name, but in fact they are just two newly organized battalions. The equipment is also second-hand and old, and the combat effectiveness is worrying.
After some calculations, Li Xuan found that he could no longer squeeze out troops to rescue Nanchang!