When the autumn harvest came, the KPA was not idle, and the KPA stationed in various places dispersed to the countryside in companies and platoons to help the people harvest grain.

However, this situation mainly occurred in the border areas under the rule of the KPA, where most of the KPA troops were stationed in the border areas to guard against the rapidly increasing strength of the Ming army.

In the face of the kindness of the People's Army, the common people accepted it with a smile, it was not the first time they had encountered this kind of thing, occasionally the People's Army came to the village, they did not come to fight the autumn wind, they saw that someone's house was broken, they would take the initiative to help repair it, and when they saw that someone's water tank was out of water, they took the initiative to fetch water.

It is just a few small things, but it can quickly bring the people closer to the people's army, the people are always afraid of being soldiers, but they are not afraid of the people's army, and the people can feel the people's army's heart.

Of course, the People's Army is not really idle and has nothing to do, running to the people's homes to help, which is actually a training task of the People's Army, such as fetching water, which is exercise.

At the same time, the training of the People's Army can also obtain other benefits, and the relationship between the common people and the People's Army is only one of them, the soldiers of the People's Army are basically born at the bottom of the people, and their homes are also in similar villages, and if they go to help the people, they may have other People's Army soldiers to help in their own homes, which is conducive to internal unity.

In fact, going to the people's homes to help is also part of the people's army's ideological education, and the people's army itself propaganda is the people's army, and going to the people's homes to help in order to make the poor people struggle all over the world is a good manifestation of this.

The People's Army cannot just say it and not do it, otherwise it may cause the soldiers to drift away.

The KPA has a clear goal, and it is working towards this goal, and under the armed of the mind, even if the battlefield is brutal, the soldiers will not be easily intimidated.

The People's Army is actually relatively busy, and the People's Army has sent so many agents to the Ming Dynasty's ruling area, so it naturally understands the movements of the Ming Dynasty, and frantically expands its armaments, thinking that one day it will exterminate the People's Army.

In order to deal with the rapidly growing Ming army, the KPA has been actively preparing.

With the continuous introduction of tiger head guns, the People's Army is rapidly forming one reorganized division after another, and after the formation is completed, it will conduct training and all branches of the armed forces will learn to cooperate in combat.

"Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime."

Fang Nan's words were kept in mind by all the officers of the People's Army, and they seized the time to train every day and worked hard to improve themselves.

Physical training is very important, especially for ordinary soldiers, but for officers, reading and literacy is even more important.

Before the armistice with the Ming court, there were very few literate officers in the People's Army at the battalion commander level, including the battalion commander level, and according to the rules set by Fang Nan, if the battalion commander wanted to be promoted, he must know all the commonly used words, and he couldn't even read and write, how to lead the troops to fight.

Perhaps there are geniuses among the illiterate people who lead troops to fight and are invincible, but many more people have very poor command skills, and when they command troops to carry out combat missions alone, they do not use any tactics at all.

Literacy is only a foundation, and once you know how to read and write, there are books such as "Thirty-six Strategies," "Military Drill Code," and "Geography" that can be watched and studied; as long as one reads a copy of "Thirty-six Strategies" a few times, there is no problem at all for officers to use some simple tactics.

In view of the low literacy rate of officers, after the armistice between the People's Army and the Ming court, Fang Nan issued a military order, requiring literate regiment commanders, political commissars, and deputy regiment commanders to teach the officers in their regiments to read and write and arithmetic.

There is no shortage of officers in the People's Army who have developed limbs and are simple-minded, and the development of limbs means that their personal combat effectiveness is higher, and it is easier for them to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield and to be promoted.

Reading and literacy is obviously a difficult thing for them, but they have to learn if they don't learn, and Fang Nan requires officers above the platoon level to be literate and able to do simple arithmetic.

The People's Army now has only about 300,000 troops, and as long as the People's Army defeats the Ming Dynasty, this number will be at least 1 million in the future, and the current battalion commander will be the regiment commander in the future, and the current company commander will be the battalion commander in the future.

However, it is impossible for a person who does not know a single character to be promoted to division commander, and Fang Nan is not at ease to hand over an army of nearly 10,000 people to the command of a person who does not know a single person.

If he could, Fang Nan even wanted ordinary soldiers to learn to read, read and write, and arithmetic, and when they retired from the army, they could choose to work in the government and become a petty official.

Fang Nan's military order clearly stated that all officers at and above the platoon level were given two years, and within two years, they would be transferred from the main force to the city defense army if they did not know all the common words and did not know arithmetic.

The reorganized divisions were the main forces of the first line, mainly stationed in the border areas, ready to fight the Ming army at any time.

The army stationed in the cities of the People's Army's ruling area is the second-line city defense army, the main task of the city defense army is to defend the city and maintain law and order in the city, the latter is more important than the former, there are basically no bandits and bandits under the rule of the People's Army, there is no need to worry about them attacking the city.

In the future, the city defense force will be transformed into a policeman, completely away from war.

The difference between the first-line troops and the second-line troops is very clear to the officers, they do not want to be left behind in the second-line troops to defend the city, and in the future, they will stay away from the war, and the possibility of promotion is very small.

No one can learn words, just the difference between wanting to learn and not wanting to learn, under Fang Nan's military order, all officers honestly follow the regiment commander, political commissar, deputy regiment commander to learn, pinyin plus simplified characters, so that reading and literacy becomes simple.

The reading and literacy of officers is different from that of students in the academy, and the time that officers can devote to reading and literacy is not as long as that of students, and the teachers will give some big truths in class, but the officers will not, with rapid literacy as the main purpose, they don't need to talk about those big truths, they are already adults, and they understand many truths.

It took almost a year for the officers to learn common words, and in the second year, they directly picked up the "Thirty-six Strategies" and began to lecture.

There are literate officers in the army, literate officials in the government, and what the KPA lacks most now is literate people.

In the army, senior officers can teach middle and lower-ranking officers to read and write, but there are more things on the government's side, and for the time being, they can only absorb the literati and scholars of the old era through the imperial examination.

Fang Nan is waiting, waiting for the batch of students in Huizhou Mansion to graduate, and their graduation time will not be until October next year, and there will be more than a year to go.

As long as this group of students graduates, there will be no shortage of literate people in the People's Army in a short period of time, some students will enter the army, some students will enter the government, and some students will become teachers and teach more students.