I want to be emperor

Chapter 241
The students in this batch of official classes were selected from the low-ranking officers in the entire army. The reason why the selection range is limited to military officers and civilian officers, and they all have one characteristic in common, that is, they already have Relatively good cultural level.

But in the Rural Protection Army, as long as you Dong Wen can read and write, it is basically impossible to be a big soldier. Even if you only know one or two hundred commonly used characters, you will be trained as a technical unit and become a non-commissioned officer.

When you join the army, if you have a higher level of education and can read and write, then you will be given a warrant officer on the spot, and you will be a deputy captain or other low-level officer deputy to learn to fight and train as an officer. , No matter how bad it is, it is a captain.

In other words, the ordinary soldiers in the Rural Protection Army did not have a relatively high level of education, because those with a relatively high level of education were basically officers, and if they were not good enough, they were also civilian officers.

Therefore, the students in the regular class of the Rural Protection Army can only be selected from the original low-level officers.

On the contrary, the newly opened crash course in the Rural Protection Army is specially set up for non-commissioned officers and soldiers who have done meritorious service. It not only teaches military theory, but also teaches ordinary cultural courses.

The Military Academy in the Baoxiang Army now has full-time study, three months of theoretical study, and three months of practice.

There is a class every half a month, and several classes coexist at the same time, providing refresher classes for officers of various troops.

There is still a three-month schooling period, no internship arrangement, but a cultural course is added, which is a crash course for meritorious officers and soldiers.

Three different officer training courses cover different officer groups, in order to train as many officers as possible for the Rural Protection Army.

Luo Zhixue also personally gave instructions on the military rank arrangements for these military students. For example, for the crash course, since the sources are all non-commissioned officers and soldiers, they will be awarded warrant officers once they enroll, and second lieutenants after graduation.

It is worth noting that in the Great Chu Empire, the rank of Warrant Officer temporarily belongs exclusively to military school students, to be precise, students in the crash course.

The students in the advanced training class are not assigned military ranks. After all, they are all on-the-job advanced training. After studying for half a month or half a month, they will return to the original army to continue serving.

For the students in the regular class, the first batch of students were all selected from serving military officers because of their special origins, so it was naturally impossible to treat them as ordinary military school students.

In terms of the rank arrangement of these people, the military has also adopted a special method, conferring corresponding ranks on the basis of the individual's original rank, and adopting the method of promotion to one or even two ranks.

After all, when they officially entered the school, the Rural Protection Army had not yet implemented the military rank system. At the same time, at that time, there were various positions among them. Many of them had already served as sentry officers and even a few of them were already battalion commanders.
There is no way to arrange their military ranks uniformly, because the military ranks of their original positions are different. If they are uniformly arranged as captains, then for most of them, instead of being promoted, they will be demoted...

And the unified arrangement as a major is too big for many people who are only team officers, and for a few people they have not been promoted yet.

And in the past few months when the Township Protection Army has expanded greatly, not being promoted is tantamount to being demoted.

Don't you see that Han Ziping was only a battalion commander during the battle of Yuzhou, but now a few months have passed, and he is already a brigadier general and brigade commander.

In this special situation, the military rank arrangement of the first batch of formal class students is also a special arrangement, which is directly arranged individually according to their original positions.

But when they went to practice, the lowest was a captain, half of them were majors, and a few were lieutenant colonels.

Whether these people are promoted from internship to graduation depends on their performance during the internship and their military achievements.

But it has to be said that their future is bright and shining.

There are now more officers at the rank of captain and major in the Baoxiang Army, but apart from this group of regular students, there are not many others who can be personally paid attention to by Luo Zhixue.

But the opportunity is there, but whether they can seize it depends on themselves.

In the first batch of formal class students, the arrangement of military ranks is more troublesome, but it will not appear in the second batch.

The 100 people selected by the first batch of regular class students basically skipped out the suitable low-level military officers with high cultural level, and the remaining part of the students with good education who did not enter the formal class will also enter the advanced class one after another. And now they have basically been promoted to relatively high positions, and they are not suitable for continuing full-time study.

As for non-commissioned officers and soldiers with low educational levels, they are not suitable for regular class students. Even if they have studied in literacy classes, their educational level is too low, and it is too troublesome to teach them. For them, they are arranged to study in crash courses of.

Based on this situation, the second batch of students in the official class of the Army Military Academy was directly recruited from the society. The recruitment was not smooth at the beginning, and there were not many people recruited from August to September.

But this situation has been greatly changed after the official founding of the Great Chu Empire.

In September, Luo Zhixue moved various institutions to Hanyang one after another, and the Military Academy also moved here. At this time, the Great Chu Empire was established and Dengji Enke was opened.

In that short period of time, there were a large number of scholars gathered in Hanyang City, and most of these people actually failed to pass the Juren examination.

With so many failed students, the military is naturally not willing to let them go. Even if they are children, they still have a certain level of education. If you catch them, oh no, you can directly study military theory if you recruit them. Take a cultural class for a period of time first.

Not to mention, the military recruited seven No. 80 young scholars who were willing to abandon their pens and join the army. The quality of this group of students is quite high. easy.

The second batch of formal class students included more than 40 students who were recruited one after another, and more than 80 students who were recruited during the encore period, totaling more than 120 students.

Their schooling period is longer, with six months of theoretical study at school, three months of internship, and a total schooling period of nine months.

The main reason is to join the training of basic military skills such as physical fitness. After all, these people used to be scholars, which is different from the first batch of formal class students who were low-level military officers and possessed strong military skills.

The theoretical study time of the second batch of official classes at school will reach six months, and the school will officially start in October. They will have to wait until they enter the army for internship, at least until April.

However, the Great Chu Empire will not wait until they all finish their studies at school before enrolling students. It is estimated that after two months, the third batch of regular class students will be recruited after the preparations are completed.

After all, there is a shortage of officers in the current rural protection army, especially officers with high cultural level and new tactical literacy.

Therefore, a strategy of enrolling a batch of students at intervals of three months was formulated to maintain the rhythm of two groups of students studying at the school at the same time and one group of students doing internships.

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The Army Officer Academy, through three different officer training systems: official version, refresher course, and crash course, has provided the Rural Protection Army with a large number of officers who understand new tactics.

Especially after the first batch of official students went to various units for internships, although most of them still served as staff officers or deputy positions, they still brought considerable changes to the Rural Protection Army.

On the front line of the landing beach on the other side of Shuilin Town, Lieutenant Colonel Ren Yuanqing, the deputy head of the First Infantry Regiment, was the first batch of students in the formal class.

Moreover, among the many students in the first batch of formal classes, their own positions are relatively high, and the military rank awarded after the internship is also one of the highest.

Before Ren Yuanqing officially entered the Military Academy in July, he had already served as the deputy battalion commander in the main force at that time, and participated in a series of previous battles with the army.

Because Ren Yuanqing was born as a child among the refugees, after the preparation of the formal school, he was able to enter the formal class because of his relatively high level of education.

After completing the intense three-month theoretical study, Ren Yuanqing was assigned to the First Infantry Regiment of the old army as the deputy head of the first infantry regiment, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel because he was solidly ranked among the best in the theoretical courses during the graduation assessment.

After taking office, it didn't take long for him to participate in the current battle of crossing the river with the army.

During the daytime battle yesterday, Ren Yuanqing, as the deputy head of the First Infantry Regiment, was in charge of commanding more than a thousand people from the Third Infantry Battalion of the regiment and the First Supply Battalion of the Division's Supply Regiment, and was responsible for the left-wing offensive.

The left-wing troops commanded by Ren Yuanqing performed quite eye-catching. When the battle began, Ren Yuanqing commanded the three two and a half catty field artillery assigned to him, and cooperated with his own infantry to advance rapidly.

Its infantry synergy is almost textbook standard and extremely effective.

After the enemy army retreated, when the cavalry troops stepped forward to intercept, Ren Yuanqing's left wing troops were also the first to step forward to cooperate with the cavalry to complete the outflank and force the main enemy army to surrender.

If you talk about the results of the battle, it doesn't really explain anything. After all, the fighting power they faced during the day yesterday was very weak.

It is an exaggeration to say that with the strength of the main forces such as the Assault Battalion and the First Infantry Regiment at that time, even if the commander is a pig and fights with his eyes closed, he can win a complete victory.

The reason why Lieutenant Colonel Ren Yuanqing performed outstandingly in the battle yesterday was because of the tactics and tactics embodied by the troops he commanded.

The new textbook-like tactics made Major General Li Chengtong, the commander of the first division above, pleasing to the eye.

The next day, Major General Li Chengtong also personally led the division to cross the river, and then ordered the troops to start advancing in depth, and at the same time sent scouts to search for the Ming army, especially the Ming army coming from the direction of Wuchang City.

When dispatching troops to advance, Major General Li Chengtong personally arranged for Lieutenant Colonel Ren Yuanqing to lead the [-]rd Infantry Battalion and the [-]st Battalion, with one sentry post for cavalry and one post for artillery to form a separate regiment-level battle group, located on the right wing of the army, that is, to the south. Advance and cover the flanks of the army, and at the same time, be responsible for conquering the villages and towns along the way and clearing out the scattered Ming troops outside Wuchang City.

(End of this chapter)