This batch of formal class students are selected from low-level officers in the entire army. The reason why the selection scope is limited to military officers and civilian officers is because they all have a common characteristic, that is, they already have the necessary skills. Relatively good cultural level.
In the Baoxiang Army, as long as you are literate, it is basically impossible to be a big-head soldier. Even if you only recognize one or two hundred common words, you will be trained as a technical unit and become a non-commissioned officer.
When you join the army, if your education level is higher and you can read and write, then you can be given a warrant officer on the spot, and you can become a deputy captain or other low-level deputy officer to learn how to fight, and be trained as an officer. When you are almost done with it. , no matter how bad he is, he is still a captain.
In other words, ordinary soldiers in the Baoxiang Army do not have a relatively high level of education, because those with a relatively high level of education are basically officers, or even civilian officers.
Therefore, the formal class students in the Baoxiang Army can only be selected from the original low-level officers.
On the other hand, the newly opened crash course in the Baoxiang Army is specifically for non-commissioned officers and soldiers who have made meritorious service. It not only teaches military theory, but also ordinary cultural courses.
The officer academy in the Baoxiang Army now has formal classes of full-time study, three months of theoretical study, and three months of internship.
There is a class held every half month, and several classes coexist at the same time to provide refresher courses for officers of various units.
There are still three months of schooling, no internship arrangements, but cultural courses are included, a crash course specifically for meritorious non-commissioned officers and soldiers.
Three different officer training courses cover different groups of officers to cultivate as many rural-protection army officers as possible.
Luo Zhixue also personally gave instructions regarding the rank arrangement of these military academy students. For example, for the crash course, because they 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 is temporarily exclusive to military students, or to be precise, students in the crash course.
Students in the advanced training class are not assigned military ranks. After all, they are all on-the-job for further training. After half a month or more, they will return to the original army and continue serving.
For the students in the formal class, the first batch of students were selected from current military officers because of their special origins. Naturally, it was impossible to treat them as ordinary military students.
In arranging the military ranks of these people, the military has also adopted a special method to confer corresponding titles based on the individual's original titles, and to promote them by one or even two levels.
After all, the Baoxiang Army had not yet implemented a military rank system when they officially entered the school. At the same time, at that time, they had various positions. Many of them had already served as sentry officers and even a few were already battalion commanders.
Their military ranks cannot be uniformly arranged, because their original positions are matched with different military ranks. If they are uniformly arranged as captain, then for most of them, instead of being promoted, they are demoted...
As for the unified arrangement of major, the span is too big for many people who were just team officers, and for a few people, they have not yet been promoted.
And in the past few months when the Baoxiang Army has been greatly expanding, not being promoted is equivalent to being demoted.
Don't you see, Han Ziping was just a battalion commander during the Yuzhou Campaign, but now a few months have passed, and he is already a brigadier general.
Due to this special situation, the military rank arrangement for the first batch of formal class students is also a special arrangement, and is directly arranged individually based on their original positions.
However, when they went to practice, the lowest was a captain, half 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 military merit.
But it has to be said that their future is bright and shining.
There are now many captain and major-level officers in the Baoxiang Army, but apart from this group of formal class students, there are few others that Luo Zhixue can personally pay attention to.
However, the opportunity is there, but whether they can seize it depends on themselves.
Among the first batch of formal class students, the arrangement of military ranks is more troublesome, but it will not happen in the second batch.
The first batch of 100 students selected from the formal class basically skipped all the suitable low-level officers with high cultural level, while the remaining students with good cultural level who did not enter the formal class will gradually enter the advanced class. , and now they have basically been promoted to relatively high positions, and are no longer suitable to continue full-time study.
As for non-commissioned officers and soldiers with low educational levels, they are not suitable as students in formal classes. Even if they have studied in literacy classes, their educational level is too low and teaching them is too troublesome. For them, they are all arranged to study in crash courses. of.
Based on this situation, the second batch of formal class students of the Army Officer Academy were recruited directly from the society. The recruitment was not smooth at the beginning, and there were not many students recruited from August to September.
However, this situation changed greatly after the formal establishment of the Chu Empire.
In September, Luo Zhixue moved various institutions to Hanyang one after another, and the officer academy also moved there. At this time, the Chu Empire was founded and Dengji Enke was opened.
In that short period of time, a large number of scholars gathered in Hanyang City, and most of these people could not actually pass the 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 they are caught, oh, no, they can directly study military theory without having to go through a crash course. Take some cultural classes first.
Not to mention, the military actually recruited 70 or 80 young scholars who were willing to give up writing and join the army. The quality of this group of students is quite high. After all, these people have quite good cultural standards and can teach various military theories. easy.
The second batch of formal class students includes more than 40 students who were enrolled in the previous batch, and more than 80 students were enrolled during the Dengji Enke period, making a total of more than 120 students.
Their schooling period is longer, with six months of theoretical study at school and three months of internship, making the total schooling period nine months.
The main reason is to add basic military skills training such as physical fitness. After all, these people used to be scholars, unlike the first batch of formal class students who were originally low-level officers and had strong military skills.
The second batch of formal classes will have six months of theoretical study at school and will officially start in October. They will have to wait until they enter the army for internship, which will be at least April.
However, the Dachu Empire will not wait until all of them have finished studying in school before enrolling students. It is expected that in two months, after the preparation work is completed, the third batch of formal class students will be enrolled.
After all, today's rural protection army is short of officers, especially officers with high cultural level and new tactical literacy.
Therefore, we formulated a strategy of enrolling one batch of students every three months, maintaining the rhythm of two batches of students studying in school at the same time, and one batch of students doing internships.
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The Army Officer Academy has provided the Baoxiang Army with a large number of officer talents who understand new tactics through three different officer training systems: the formal version, the refresher course, and the crash course.
Especially after the first batch of formal students went to various military units for internships, although most of them still served as staff officers or deputy positions, they still brought considerable changes to the Baoxiang Army.
On the front line of the landing beach on the other side of Shuilin Town, Lieutenant Colonel Ren Yuanqing, deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, was among the first batch of formal class students.
Moreover, among the many students in the first batch of formal classes, their positions are relatively high, and the military ranks awarded after internship are also among the highest.
Before Ren Yuanqing officially entered the officer academy in July, he had already served as 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 refugees, after the formal school was established, he was able to enroll in the formal class because of his relatively high educational level.
After completing three months of intense theoretical study, Ren Yuanqing was assigned to serve as deputy commander of the First Infantry Regiment of the old army because his theoretical courses were among the best in the graduation examination, and he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel.
After taking office, he soon joined the troops in the current cross-river battle.
During yesterday's daytime battle, Ren Yuanqing, as the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, was responsible for commanding the regiment's 3rd Infantry Battalion and the division's 1st Baggage Battalion of more than a thousand people, and was responsible for the left-wing offensive.
The left-wing troops commanded by Ren Yuanqing performed very well. When the battle began, Ren Yuanqing commanded the three two-and-a-half-pound field guns assigned to him to advance rapidly in coordination with his own infantry.
Its infantry and artillery synergy is almost as standard as textbooks and is extremely effective.
After the enemy retreated and the cavalry troops stepped forward to intercept, Ren Yuanqing's left wing troops were the first to step forward to cooperate with the cavalry to complete the outflank and force the enemy's main force to surrender.
If we talk about the results of the battle, it actually doesn't mean much. After all, the enemy they faced was very weak in terms of combat effectiveness during the day yesterday.
To exaggerate, with the strength of the main forces such as the assault battalion and the 1st Infantry Regiment at that time, even if the commander was a pig and fought with his eyes closed, he would still be able to win a complete victory.
The reason why Lieutenant Colonel Ren Yuanqing performed outstandingly in yesterday's battle was because of the tactics and tactics displayed by the troops he commanded.
The new textbook-like tactics delighted Major General Li Chengtong, commander of the First Division above.
The next day, Major General Li Chengtong also personally led the division across the river, and immediately ordered the troops to begin advancing in depth. At the same time, he sent reconnaissance cavalry to search for the Ming army, especially the Ming army coming from the direction of Wuchang City.
When sending troops to advance, Major General Li Chengtong personally arranged for Lieutenant Colonel Ren Yuanqing to lead the 3rd Infantry Battalion and the 1st Baggage Battalion, with one cavalry post and one artillery post to form a separate regimental battle group, located on the right wing of the army, that is, to the south. While advancing, covering the flanks of the army, they were also responsible for conquering the villages and towns along the way and clearing out the scattered Ming troops outside Wuchang City.
