The eldest of the Yan family in the Siheyuan

Chapter 469 Choosing a New School Site
But not every selected officer is willing to enter school for advanced studies.

For going to school, they prefer to stay in the army to fight devils. Anyway, they don't think it is necessary for them to go to school. After all, their immediate boss Li Yunlong is also a mud-legged person, so he still serves as a column leader.

Although Li Yunlong understood those who objected to coming to the military academy for advanced studies, he certainly could not agree, so he directly issued an order to force them to come to the military academy for the last month, or they would leave the army.

After Li Yunlong's order was issued, the thorns obediently came to Ping'an County to report within a few days.

Because the first batch of students recruited by the military academy just opened, only 120 soldiers got this training opportunity, and only 30 people were assigned to each subject. Because of time constraints, the training time for the first batch of students was only six months.After these students complete their studies, in addition to returning to the original army, some students with excellent studies will also be selected to stay as teachers.

Moreover, Li Yunlong has already figured out that not only the number of students for the second batch of advanced studies will increase, but the semester time will also increase from the current six months to twelve months, and then from the third batch of students, the semester will increase to 24 months.

In this case, the current school area is definitely not enough. After all, in Li Yunlong's plan, the school's address will be relocated sooner or later.

So after the school was on the right track, Li Yunlong began to study the map of Ping'an County. Although Ping'an County is the largest county among the seven counties, the area is not comparable to those cities in later generations. There is no large area in the county. The available land can be used to build schools.

After all, in Li Yunlong's plan, these two schools are to be built into regular colleges and universities that can accommodate two to 3000 people.And a part of the land should be reserved for greening in the school, so the school’s footprint must not be too small, otherwise it will restrict the development of the school in the future.

Therefore, the addresses of the two schools had to be moved outside the county seat, but the location should not be too far away from the county seat, otherwise it would be a problem for defense, what if there were hostile forces to sabotage.

You must know that the devils have not surrendered yet, even if the devils have surrendered after the school is completed, there are still national troops on the opposite side.

Even if the original historical development is followed, national reunification will have to wait until after [-], which is still five years away.

"Lao Li, what are you doing? Why don't you go and have a look at the school? Why don't you still have a job as a principal, and Lao Ding and Lao Kong have been speaking at school these days. After a few days of study, you are very relaxed as the principal." Zhao Gang came to the command room and saw Li Yunlong staring at the map on the wall, so he said.

"I'm also working on something serious." Li Yunlong turned to Zhao Gang and said, "By the way, Lao Zhao, you came just in time. I have something to discuss with you."

Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang paused and asked curiously: "Oh, Lao Li, what's the matter?
No wonder Zhao Gang was curious. After all, the two had discussed it before. In the army, Li Yunlong was in charge of military matters, while Zhao Gang was in charge of logistics and life. Since Li Yunlong asked him to discuss things, it must not be military matters, otherwise There is no need for Li Yunlong to discuss with him, he can make the decision himself.

"It's like this. Although we have temporarily found a place to run a school, this is not a long-term solution. As our army continues to expand, the shortage of talents will become more and more serious. We must plan ahead and find a solution in advance. The solution is not to wait until the difficulties are met before cramming." Li Yunlong pointed to the locations of the two schools on the map and said to Zhao Gang.

"Aren't we already starting to train talents now, do you still want to do that?" Zhao Gang asked with a frown as he didn't understand Li Yunlong's meaning.

In his view, more than 100 trainees graduate each term, and the talent gap in the army will be resolved within a few years. He doesn't understand why Li Yunlong is so anxious.

In his heart, he never treated these two schools as formal universities, after all, it was just a temporary idea of ​​the few of them.You must know that regular universities need many excellent scholars and professors to serve as teachers, and they are like children playing house here.

Take himself as an example. Although he came from Yenching University, he did not take long courses at Yenching University, and he came out to participate in the revolution very early.

In Li Yunlong's army, he is still the person with the highest level of education. It's not that he looks down on him, but that their army doesn't have the necessary conditions to run a university, and they can't gather so many talents.

"Not enough. The speed of our training of talents can't keep up with the speed of our army's expansion. Think about it carefully, what was our army like when you first came to our army, and what is it like now? Are you imagining two or three years later? What will become of our army?" Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang with a serious face and said.

You know, when Zhao just came to the Xinyi Regiment, at that time, the Xinyi Regiment had less than 3000 people at full count, and the resident was only a few villages, not even the size of a township.

Now, the new regiment has become the first column in North China, and the strength of the troops has grown from less than 3000 before to more than 5 in the regular army alone.Counting the militia squad and the district squad, although the strength has not yet reached 8, there are still [-].

The defense zone has grown from less than one township to seven counties and vast rural bases in North China.

The number of troops and the area of ​​the defense area have increased by dozens of times, and all this has only taken more than two years.

Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang couldn't help being a little shocked. He had been busy with work before and didn't think about it, but now he was shocked when he heard Li Yunlong's words.

That's right, it took more than two years for the army to grow to its current size. After two or three years, if it grows dozens of times......

Zhao Gang couldn't help shivering, and quickly interrupted his inner thoughts.I thought to myself that this is definitely not possible, and that would be too heaven-defying.

With an increase of dozens of times, it still doesn't account for half of the country. This is something he can't imagine. After all, there are still little devils in the country.

Although he knew that it would be a matter of time for the little devil to withdraw from the country, it could not be done in a short while, and the domestic forces were not limited to the little devil, but also the national army.

Although the strength of the Eighth Route Army has developed rapidly since the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it is still not enough to face the Japanese army and the national army.

Among other things, the number of troops alone, the Eighth Route Army is the bottom of the several forces.

You must know that any one of the two opposing forces will have millions of troops, and the Eighth Route Army has only a few hundred thousand troops.

But the national army occupies the central government after all, and in their eyes, people like themselves are just some bandits, otherwise there would be no such thing as communist bandits.

But it's really hard to say what will happen in the future. After all, judging from the current development speed of the Eighth Route Army, it is possible to catch up with the opponent in a few years, but he is still not sure about surpassing the opponent.

So Zhao Gang sighed and said, "Old Li, what do you think we should do now?
"The first thing to do is to make preparations for expanding the scale of the school. After all, the area in the county is limited, which seriously restricts the development of the school. If you want to build a regular university, you must first have a large area." Li Yunlong took out a map of Ping'an County from the drawer and put it on the table and said.

Although Rui had a map hanging on the wall, that map was the line map of the first column. There were not only Ping'an county town but six other county towns ahead, so it didn't look very convenient.

Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang frowned and asked, "Then what do you think? Do you want to move the school outside the city? It's not impossible to put it outside the city, but it's a bit inconvenient to manage, and although Ping'an County is our base camp, but it is easy for the enemy to infiltrate. Compared with inside the city, there are security problems outside the city." Zhao Gang thought for a while and understood Li Yunlong's meaning, but he still said a little worried.

After all, it would be unacceptable if the talents cultivated with great difficulty here were infiltrated by hostile forces and served in one pot.

"I have already considered this point. Look here, there is a river not far from the west of the county seat, and it is less than two kilometers away from the city wall. My idea is to expand the county seat to the west to the river, although the amount of work is a bit large. , but it is not without benefits." Li Yunlong pointed to the map and said to Zhao Gang: "In this way, the area of ​​Ping'an County will be doubled. , but the area inside the city is somewhat small, which restricts the development of the county."

But before Li Yunlong finished speaking, Zhao Gang interjected: "Old Li, although your idea is good, such a large amount of work cannot be completed in a short time. Although we are stationed in Ping'an County now, in the future, you forgot What happened in Northwest Shanxi before? If the enemy invades our base area on a large scale, what if we cannot prevent it? What will we do then? The troops and the people can be moved, but these buildings cannot be moved.”

It's no wonder that Zhao Gang's thoughts are a little radical at this time. After all, no one would have thought of the devil's surrender in a short period of time.

Although he knew that it would be a matter of time before the devils surrendered, and a lot of evidence showed that the Japanese army was already on the decline, but it would definitely last for a year or two. After all, a lean camel was bigger than a horse.

Moreover, the Japanese army still has millions of troops. Although most of them are puppet troops, these troops cannot be solved in a short time.

Zhao Gang didn't know the future development, but Li Yunlong knew, so Li Yunlong said firmly: "Old Zhao, don't worry, the devils are already going downhill, and we are now in the stage of development. It will only become more and more disparity, and it is certain to drive the little devil out of the country."

"And I didn't say that I would invest all my strength to expand the county at once. My idea is to build the school step by step. As for safety, I have also thought about it. Don't forget, we are military. The colleges who have been in the academy for several years are all recruited from the army, and they are not unarmed scholars."

Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang was obviously taken aback: "You mean, assemble these students?"

Zhao Gang really didn't expect this. After all, he was a student in a regular school. Li Yunlong's wild way of thinking really made him a little uncomfortable.

"That's right, in this way, our school will have hundreds of excellent soldiers out of thin air, and the school is so close to the county seat, we can take care of any emergencies, and I also want to transfer some of the defenders in the city Go outside the city." Li Yunlong was right, he really had this idea.

As the headquarters of the first column in Ping'an County, there must be a lot of troops. The Eighth Route Army soldiers defending the county alone have the strength of a regiment, and a main regiment has more than 4000 troops.

Otherwise, the county seat of Ping'an County can't be so crowded. According to Li Yunlong's idea, there is no need to keep so many soldiers in the county seat.

It is divided into half but the city is good. Anyway, the distance is so close, and any situation can be reacted.

But Ping'an County is in the middle of the seven counties, even if the enemy comes here for a while, they will not be able to hit here, and they have enough time to deal with emergencies.

"Then do you think where the school is built?" Zhao Gang took a look at the map and asked aloud.

After all, building a school is not a trivial matter, but one can tell from Li Yunlong's expression that the scale of the school he wants to build will definitely not be small.In this way, all aspects must be carefully considered. After all, such a large construction area consumes a lot of resources.

"It was built by the river, and all the open space was planned into the school. It looks like more than 1000 mu of land, and the two schools each occupy more than 500 mu of land." Li Yunlong pointed to the location of the river outside the city on the map.

Although the area of ​​more than 500 mu of land is not small, it is still not comparable to those large universities in later generations. You must know that some universities often occupy tens of thousands of acres of land.

But there was no way around it. After all, as a person of this era, Zhao Gang had never seen such a big scene.

If Li Yunlong proposed to build a school with [-] mu of land, Zhao Gang would definitely think him crazy.

However, this is not a problem for Li Yunlong. He has already left enough space, otherwise he would not propose to build the school by the river. At worst, it will expand to the opposite side of the river, which can just surround the river, which will greatly affect the greening and environment of the school. There must be benefits, just build a few bridges on the river to connect the two sites.

But this is at least a few years later. According to Li Yunlong's calculations, the few hundred acres of land will be enough for the needs of the school in ten or eight years.

(End of this chapter)