Valley Emperor

The officer candidate program planned by the military starts from the junior military academies in various places, then selects the best to enter the Royal Youth Military Academy, and finally selects to enter the martial arts school and the maritime school.

After these officers have studied in the martial arts school or the maritime school for three years, they officially enter the army and serve in the army. At this time, they have completed the training of a basic officer.

These officers from the juvenile military academy have already completed nine years of military education in the three stages of the juvenile military academy, the youth military academy, and the martial arts school/sea school.

And among these people, there will definitely be a few who can be admitted to the Imperial Academy in the future. This is another three years!

According to the unspoken rules of the current military of the Tang Empire, if you want to be promoted to a brigadier general, you must be an officer from the Imperial Academy, not an officer from the Imperial Academy. Officials, at least in the past five years, there has been no such example, and it is unlikely that there will be any in the future.

This also means that a high-ranking 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 strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army, but he also strictly limited one point, that is, there can only be one youth military academy, that is, 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 the three views in this age group is very important.

Therefore, Li Xuan must firmly control the loyalty and education of these officer candidates.

While letting them increase their loyalty to the military, they should also increase their loyalty to the royal family.

After being educated by the loyal monarch, these officers can enter the martial arts school or the maritime school, and begin to receive more professional military education. Navigation, guns, land warfare and other subjects.

However, these military reforms have not cut off the possibility of ordinary soldiers becoming officers. On the contrary, the imperial military still encourages ordinary soldiers and non-commissioned officers to apply for military academies. distribute.

Rather than come up with a crash course or something.

The military treats any officer who can be admitted to a military academy equally. It will not be different just because the person is from a youth military academy, or from a general preparatory school or a normal school, or because he is a soldier. .

Because they can be admitted to the military academy, these people have already proved their ability.

But even if the military encourages soldiers to apply for military academies, they even give extra places. However, 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, and there are always a few who can become officers.

Most people will eventually retire!

However, after retiring, they often get professional arrangements, such as patrol police, tax police and other positions. These law enforcement agencies are very welcome to retired soldiers from the military.

If you don’t want to be stable and want to continue risking wars and even making a fortune, you can also go to serve in the Western Company’s corporate fleet, or simply go to work for an ordinary trading company.

Those ordinary trading companies and their ships are also armed merchant ships. In order to ensure safety, they also have guns. If there are guns, they naturally need professionals to control and command.

Basically in the Tang Dynasty, no matter whether you are an officer or a soldier, you basically don’t have to worry about your future life. Officers are in charge of food and drink, and the treatment is not low.

The only thing that makes the poor children feel pity is that they can't divide the land now.

Those recruits are very envious of those seniors. During the Unification War, anyone who joins the army can get a piece of land for free after a certain number of years.

It is a pity that after the end of the unification war, this benefit is gone.

After all, people join the army every year, and the official land that can be used to divide it is limited, and it is impossible to divide it all the time.

Although it is said that the division of fields is gone, the generous treatment of joining the army still attracts countless people to join the army.

However, the current military academy system greatly limits ordinary people from becoming officers, because at present, the requirements for military academies are very high, and they need to graduate from a preparatory course or a normal school before they can apply for the exam. Even ordinary soldiers apply for the military academy. The soldiers who finally applied for the exam had a rich educational level before. They were unlikely to rely on the education of night schools and training courses within the army in just two or three years to complete the education equivalent to the preparatory stage, and then pass the military academy's education. exam.

And this is to cut off the possibility of underprivileged children becoming officers.

This is also what Li Xuan does not want to see. When it comes to general education and civil service selection, Li Xuan will reserve certain opportunities for underprivileged children. In the military officer selection system, he also thinks the same way, and intends to do so.

The officer candidate program is a more appropriate way.

This is because the standards for recruiting young military academies in various places are high, but relatively low. According to the military's plan, a junior military academy will be set up on each provincial highway. Recruited among elementary school graduates, once enrolled, all tuition fees are waived, and living allowances are issued at the same time.

There is no tuition fee, which means that if the children of the poor family are excellent in their studies, they will also be able to enter and complete their studies. Even if they cannot be admitted to the Royal Youth Military Academy in the end, the educational system of the Junior Military Academy is actually equivalent to a middle school, and it is free to study for three years. Afterwards, if they are unsuccessful, they can still enter other general preparatory schools or normal schools to study.

After careful consideration, Li Xuan finally officially approved the military's officer candidate program in September of the 17th year of Xuanping, preparing to establish infant military academies in various provinces and provinces across the country.

The jurisdiction of these young military academies does not belong to the various departments of the Army Privy Council, nor to the subordinate departments of the Naval Command, nor to the Army Department or the Navy Department, but to the Royal Youth Military Academy and the Royal Primary School, which bear the royal name. Like schools, it is under the jurisdiction of the Education Section of the Hanlin Academy.

However, considering the military attributes of these schools, the Junior Military Academy and the Royal Youth Military Academy in various places, although they are managed by the Education Section of the Imperial Academy, are closely related to the Army, Navy and Guards.

Most of the teaching staff of each school are served by retired military officers!

Don't think that it is unreliable to let a retired soldier serve as a teacher. In fact, this is very reliable, because the overall quality of the officers of the Tang Dynasty is actually much stronger than that of the civilians. Among them, the real genius is naturally recruited by the Royal Institute of Technology, while the second-class is basically recruited by the military academy, and the first-class, or the unintentional military is only to apply for the university 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, the sources of officers were mixed. In fact, for the next ten years, officers were selected from the group of scholars.

Therefore, the officers of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they were in the army, the navy, or the guards, were basically all talents who could fight on horses, write essays when they got off their horses, and all night astronomy, geography, and modern scientific knowledge.

The overall quality is much stronger than that of the civilian group.

Therefore, it is more than enough to have retired military officers serve as teachers in the junior military academy.

The officer candidate program has not caused much disturbance in the society, and even within the military, it has not caused much repercussions, because this kind of thing will have little impact for a while, even if it is fast, these Officers trained in the Officer Candidate Program will not be able to serve in the military until nine years later.

Relatively speaking, most of the attention of the military today has been re-attracted by the north!

Since a few years ago, the Datang Army entered the Hetao area and rebuilt Dongsheng City. Relying on Dongsheng City, they established a Hetao defense line with a length of more than 150 kilometers. Although this line of defense is not in the traditional sense. The Great Wall, but more than twenty bastions on this line of defense were enough to form a rope that completely divided the Tatars in two.

In the first one or two years, the Datang Army was still limited to defense. Although there was a Hetao plan, the Tatars were still able to go around and enter the Hetao for grazing.

But in the past two years, the army has begun to take the initiative to attack. They rely on Dongsheng City to start extending the Hetao direction northward.

Well, in fact, they started to build the city again in the north. At first, they built a small bastion ten kilometers away from the periphery of Dongsheng City~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But it didn't take long before they built the second one. , the third bastion.

All of this is almost a replica of when the Datang Army entered the Hetao area.

Although the current Hetao line of defense has divided the Tatars into two, they can still bypass this line of defense and communicate from the north of Dongsheng City. Now the Datang Army wants to continue to extend the direction northward. Looking at this posture, it seems that he is going to cultivate the Tao all the way to Yin Mountain.

How can this allow the Tatars to sit still.

As a result, in the sixteenth year of Xuanping, the Hetao area, which had been quiet for two years, was once again fighting!

Around the Hetao line of defense, the Tatars and the Ninth Army of the Datang Army stationed there frequently fought.

Of course, the Tatars are completely smart now. They don't take the initiative to attack those bastions at all. Without guns, they can't beat these seemingly small bastions with only a few hundred thousand people defending them. , even if it is conquered by force regardless of sacrifice, the price to pay is heavy.

At the same time, they did not fight any large-scale field battles with the Datang Army!

They have tried this battle mode before, but they can't beat it at all!

The two sides set up a battle in the wild, this kind of thing is not fun at all, they naturally don't do it.