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Chapter 274 Taiyuan Military Academy

(There are far-off guests in the family these days, which will affect their status and do not want to interrupt the updates. Therefore, the number of words in each chapter will be written less, but no matter how small it is, you must guarantee three k. So if you think the number of words is small, please forgive me.)

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The establishment of the Taiyuan Military Academy was another important military measure after Di Lie's military expansion and complete training.

As early as the beginning of the establishment of the teaching camp, Di Lie realized that the teaching camp was just a transitional military training base. In the teaching camp, the trainees learned more about military skills, with fewer theories and more practices, and were more inclined to achieve success. This was a temporary temporary measure that the Tianzhu Army had severely lacked grassroots non-commissioned officers at that time.

In addition to the students who were the chief instructor who graduated from the training sessions after Di Lie, the next three and four batches of students have repeatedly graduated early due to frequent wars. Moreover, due to the need for wars, the selection standards have been lowered. An emergency mass production of a group of non-commissioned officers who were barely qualified but were not as good as the elite non-commissioned officers, including hunters.

Now it has a vast land of Taiyuan and Hedong, with a large population, sufficient food, military and armor, abundant money and materials... The most important thing is to have a broad, solid and powerful rear base with strategic buffering, and relatively abundant time. It is time to end the historical mission of the teaching camp and establish a real military school.

When it comes to running a military academies, Di Lie still has some rules to learn from. After all, he has studied in military academies. Of course, this does not mean that he can definitely set up a model comparable to a modern military academies. Studying and running a school are different things, just like so many students graduate from school every year, but it does not mean that these students have the knowledge and ability to run a school.

Of course, at the end of the Song Dynasty eight hundred years ago, there was no need to run a modern military academies. Just imitate the various academies of this period and build a pure military academies.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was the time when the academies were prosperous. Many academies had been built across the country. The famous ones were Shigu Academy, Yingtianfu Academy, Yuelu Academy, Bailudong Academy, Songyang Academy, Maoshan Academy, etc. However, these academies talk about mystery and Confucianism, and even the world, they would never involve military affairs and martial arts.

Speaking of martial arts, there is martial arts in the Imperial College in the court, but martial arts students learn all about military tactics, camps, formations, and martial arts. Many things are actually not practical on the real battlefield. Especially if the lack of training grassroots military assistants makes the victory or defeat of a war too much depends on the generals, and the generals are timid, hesitant, and shaken. A slight mistake will lead to a disastrous defeat of the army. A defeat will lead to a defeat that will be defeated, and it will be difficult to collect it. The losses caused by this defeat are far greater than the direct killing of the enemy. This is the result of the vertical command of the Song army only reaching the level of the battalion commander, and the teams and all the lack of command initiative in the downward direction.

Di Lie has always paid great attention to the training of grassroots non-commissioned officers and has always been very effective. He has always believed that in an army, the higher the level of grassroots non-commissioned officers, the more combat effectiveness the army will be; a truly strong army should not, nor can it be, only one or several brave generals, war generals, or fierce generals; a loose army can be weaved into a scattered net that cannot be broken or torn, is the most grassroots squad leader in the army, the commander, the team leader...

Di Lie used the teaching battalion as a furnace to mass-cast many grassroots elites, but it was not enough. The Tianzhu Army expanded rapidly and repeatedly. The non-commissioned officers were always lacking than soldiers. To be trained on a large scale, a teaching battalion was obviously incompetent, and a military academy must undertake this mission.

Of course, Di Lie established a military academy not only from a military perspective, but also had more important political purposes. Any modern person with some knowledge of military history knows how Principal Jiang rose. Military academy is not only a military capital, but also a political capital. It can enable a superior to firmly control the army without contacting front-line troops for a long time. It can extend its tentacles to all levels of the army. When all the high, medium and low-level generals in an army are students of the head coach, this head coach is the soul and spiritual leader of the army.

Well, the title of chief instructor has been used for too long and it is time to be promoted to principal.

Di Lie plans to divide the military academy into two categories: senior class and junior class. The junior class mainly accepts training for the leaders, team deputy, team chief, deputy head, Yuhou, and head; while the senior class is aimed at the middle and senior generals above the deputy commander and above the senior generals to train again.

Di Lie, the military academy's campus, had already been looking forward to it, and it was on the former site of Jinyang City. There were also various buildings left by the Tianzhu Army when it surrounded Taiyuan, including the Taiyuan strategy model copied in a proportion of ten to one. In this way, not only the school building and the venue, but also the training model were available, which saved a lot of time and energy. As long as the area required for the school building was expanded, the shooting range, the shooting range, and the training ground were sorted out, and the school could be officially launched.

Di Lie has been busy with the military academy recently. Military newspapers from Yinzhou have come from time to time, and the negotiations are very smooth. Xia State basically agreed to the various terms proposed by the Tianzhu Army. Except for nearly a thousand soldiers, Xia State spent a huge amount of money to redeem the remaining three thousand auxiliary soldiers. Xia State was not willing to pay high redemption to redeem the remaining three thousand auxiliary soldiers. The meaning is that these three thousand people are to be killed or cut, or become slaves, you can do it. The exception is that the craftsmen among the auxiliary soldiers, the host army and the Iron Harrier Army, the Xia State is willing to redeem them at a high price.

Di Lie only approved one sentence to the messenger who rushed to Taiyuan from Yinzhou: "Either buy it in packages or don't want any one."

After receiving such a tough reply, Xia State decided to give up the plan to buy three thousand auxiliary soldiers in a package - it was too expensive. Is the Tianzhu Army leader crazy? These auxiliary soldiers who are not much stronger than slaves are not worth so much money! If it weren't for the fact that these craftsmen would reveal some of the casting techniques of the Qing Party A and the fact that the soldiers who are mostly noble knights were servants, Xia State would never pay attention to their life or death. Even so, Xia State was eventually scared by Di Lie's lion's mouth. He would rather have the technology outflow than buy these lowly craftsmen and craftsmen back.

Di Lie didn't care, so he sent the craftsmen of Xia Kingdom to the Tianshu City Military Industry Department, and placed the soldiers in the cavalry regiments of various brigades as auxiliary soldiers. He ordered them to take care of the horses; the other auxiliary soldiers and servants eliminated the elderly and weak, leaving only a few strong and healthy people to join the army.

Di Lie did not expect that this unintentional act greatly accelerated the manufacturing of his military-industrial firearms: most of these Xia Kingdom craftsmen were domestic masters. When they went to the army, their mission was to repair the exquisite Qing Party Armours at any time. The Qing Party Armours and Xia Kingdom Swords of Xia Kingdom were famous for being excellent. Even the masters of the Northern Song Dynasty court at that time could not copy it. It is believed that these Xia Kingdom craftsmen must have unique secret techniques. When these craftsmen used the secret techniques to improve the manufacturing of gun mechanism parts, the casting efficiency of the most exquisite components was greatly increased, the wear resistance of the barrel was further enhanced, and the daily gun production increased by 30% to 15. There was room for further improvement. Of course, this is a later story.

On the tenth day of June, many farming people around the outskirts of Taiyuan City were surprised to find that the ruins of Jinyang Ancient City had built a very large low wall, encircling the land of seven or eight scattered land, which seemed to be rebuilt Jinyang City. There are four gates in this new city, and a golden lacquer plaque was hung on the gate to the east. After inquiring, I found out that the plaque read: Taiyuan 6th Army Military School.

On this day, on the training ground of the newly established Taiyuan 6th Army Military School, the head of the Tianzhu Army, and the principal Di Lie sat upright in front of the rostrum. Senior officials from the military and political circles in Tianshu City were listed behind. Below the stage were the group of students after the establishment of the military school, with a total of 827 people, all sitting cross-legged and upright on the ground.

The source of the students is divided into three parts. One is the original teaching battalion cadet. After the number of the teaching battalion was revoked, these nearly 400 students naturally transferred to the newly established military academy to continue their unfinished academic studies; the other part is the active generals of each front line troops, including school lieutenant, battalion commander or above, as well as grassroots non-commissioned officers such as Dutou, team chief, and Shi chief. The source of this part also accounts for nearly half; and the other part comes from people with aspirations. Of course, this part of the students must undergo strict political review by the Intelligence Department to avoid any dissidents infiltrating. In fact, if it were not for the concern that the front line defense and repeated restrictions were imposed, the number of people would be far beyond the current number and exceeded the 1,000 mark.

The reason why it is so popular is that there is another nickname for military academy students nowadays. In Tianshu City or Tianzhu Army, the value of this title is definitely comparable to the "prison disciple" or even the "super disciple" of the court.

What does it mean to criticize the disciples of the military, especially to criticize the disciples? Just look at the position of the Tianzhu Army in the teaching battalion, and now it can be imagined. The so-called "soldiers who do not want to be generals are not good soldiers" are fully reflected in the Taiyuan Military Academy enrollment boom.

On this day, in this square that can accommodate thousands of people to practice at the same time, Di Lie made a long declaration - later, in the Jianyan court, some censors called it the declaration of ambition, and there was a shocking statement at that time:

"...If a dynasty cannot defend its territory, it will be a serious dereliction of duty, and this dynasty is not qualified to lead the country again. Similarly, if the people give taxes to the court, they require the court to protect the most basic rights of the people, including personal safety and right to survive. If even this most basic thing cannot be achieved, then the people have the right to abandon the court!"

"... Your old dynasty was destroyed by the Jurchens. Most of you have been used as an excuse and almost captured to a foreign country. I believe that each of you is filled with humiliation and hatred. If saliva can drown the enemy and the eyes can kill the enemy, I believe that the Jurchens are dead. However, using saliva and eyes is what literati and the weak do. I want you to understand one thing-you are soldiers! The biggest difference between soldiers and literati is to act only and not speak. When one day, I will step on the Jin Dynasty to the capital and give the Jurchens a 'recitation', that is the ability - insult and accusation, that is the natural power of the weak, and the strong can only act!"

All the generals of the rostrum, more than 800 students from the stage stood up at the same time, and the majestic voice soared into the sky:

"Action! Action! Action!"

"Glory! Obedience! Loyalty! Sacrifice-"
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