The promotion path for students in regular classes is even broader, because their cultural level is already better, and they don't have to waste time learning cultural knowledge after entering the school, but directly learn military knowledge.

They must first complete a three-month elementary course, including physical training, basic military knowledge, basic command and other learning, etc., and after completing the elementary course, they will be awarded the rank of warrant officer.

At this time, it can basically be regarded as stepping into the threshold of the Tang Dynasty Wang Division, becoming one of the official officers, and being able to get a salary.

But that's not all!

After completing the primary course, they will choose a subject to continue their in-depth study according to their personal wishes and learning talents, including infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering, and baggage, which correspond to the infantry, cavalry, artillery, baggage, engineering and other arms in the Tang Army.

This stage is two months for the study of military expertise.

After the above five months of study, basically can barely grasp the most basic troop command ability, of course, what the level, this needs to depend on the student's own academic talent, after all, these five months of study is very compact, students from morning to evening basically do not have much rest time, the course arrangement is very close, if it is not enough talent of students, in fact, it is difficult to keep up with such an intensive course.

There is no way to do this, the Datang Army is still in the midst of war, and the Datang Army is not in the midst of rapid expansion, and there is a considerable gap for grassroots officers, especially grassroots officers who have been systematically trained.

If the training period is too long, it will be difficult to obtain a sufficient number of qualified officers in a short period of time.

After five months of study, these students go through the third stage of their studies: internships at the boot camps!

The learning content is to complete the training of recruits under the guidance of the instructors of the recruit camp, and to have a preliminary practical experience and master the skills of training troops and commanding operations.

After completing a one-month internship, they are awarded the rank of second lieutenant, and then they are assigned according to the test results at graduation, and most of them are assigned to ordinary units as platoon commanders or deputy captains.

The first year is a full-time study of pure theory, and the first half of the second year enters the internship of various units, and is awarded the rank of lieutenant, usually serving as an operational staff officer of the regimental and brigade-level troops.

After this round of theoretical study and internship, they still haven't actually graduated from the Imperial Academy, because the latest academic system of the Imperial Academy is three years.

In the second half of the second year, they will be transferred back from the field troops, and then serve in the various departments of the Privy Council.

The operational staff officers in the War Department are exposed to the high-level affairs of the Army, planning detailed operational plans, etc., and at the same time, they can also learn from the senior operational staff officers in the War Department, and because of the particularity of the work of the War Department, the combat staff officers in the War Department have actually become the second echelon of senior officers of the Datang Army, so it is of great significance to them that these Yuxuetang students with excellent grades can enter here for internship.

After the final year of internship, the students of the Imperial Academy are considered to have completed their studies before being awarded the rank of captain and reassigned to the units as direct captains.

But for the students of the Imperial Academy, the captaincy is only their early excess, because the current Datang Army is extremely lacking in high-end talents, and it will not be long before these graduates of the Imperial Academy will become battalion commanders or even regiment commanders, and become middle-level core officers in the Datang Army.

This set of martial arts academy and imperial academy school system,It was only implemented after entering the Dingdu Zhaoqing,That is, in March,The students in the academy have graduated twice,And the students of the imperial academy have not graduated in the first phase。

Therefore, at present, the main body of officers in the Tang Dynasty is still the officers who were directly recruited from traditional students in the early stage and studied in the Imperial Academy, so the army is actually with a strong scholarly atmosphere.

Ouyang Gui is a typical scholar officer in the Tang Army, but compared to others, his starting point is higher!

He was a pseudo-Ming talent before, and he did not enter the Imperial Academy at the beginning, but first entered the military department as a civilian officer, and later when the navy was formed, because before his family fell into the middle of the road, his family had operated a ship line, and he was more familiar with ship navigation, so he was transferred to the Privy Council Navy Department as a civilian naval officer, and the starting point was very high.

In the days of the Navy, although he was only a civilian naval officer, in fact, there are few professional naval officers in the Tang Navy today, most of them are full-time from the army, the basic condition is to know how to swim without seasickness, and some are directly recruited sailors and ship bosses.

As for how to fight a naval battle? I'm sorry, but there are really few people in the huge Datang Navy who understand this thing.

How to fight a war at sea, naturally, you can only study it blindly and slowly, and then explore it little by little, even if you want to learn, you can't learn it.

You must know that although more than 100 students have recruited more than 100 students in the newly opened naval professional officer academy, that is, the naval academy, to be honest, what should they learn and how to teach, the navy actually has no score, so they can only teach indiscriminately, and then take the students on the ship every day to explore and learn, focusing on navigation knowledge, as for tactics?

I'm sorry, the current Datang Navy has no systematic tactics at all to fight a war, at most there is an artillery technique, and this artillery technique is also learned from the army.

There are no qualified professional naval officers in the navy, so Ouyang Gui, a civilian naval officer, was able to sit in the office for a few months before being assigned to Lianzhou Mansion to form a naval detachment.

And his military rank was gradually increased with the expansion of the scale of the Lianzhou Prefecture Fleet, from major to lieutenant colonel, and then to colonel.

On the eve of the Battle of Qiongzhoufu, after the Second Squadron was officially established, he also became the first commander of the Second Squadron, and his rank was also promoted to rear admiral.

This is also the second rear admiral in the naval system, and his status is not ordinary.

However, even if he is a civilian officer, it does not mean that Ouyang Gui is weaker than other naval officers, in fact, Ouyang Gui can get to where he is today, and his ability is inseparable.

Although he had not led a fleet to a naval battle, he had been pondering it for the past few months, and had imagined in his mind countless times how to fight a naval battle.

Therefore, after ordering the whole fleet to prepare for battle, Ouyang Gui ordered the main fleet under his command to start accelerating, and then advance forward.

Although he had never fought a battle, he knew very well that the most important task of this sea-crossing operation was not to defeat how many ships of the Ming army's naval division, but to successfully cover the landing of the army.

So he did not allow the Ming naval division on the opposite side to rush up and then wreak havoc on the transport ships in the rear.

After the sixteen large ships of the main fleet, and then the more than thirty small boats behind began to accelerate, several ships of the Ming Army Naval Division on the opposite side did not meet the battle, but turned around and turned directly.

However, at this moment, the lookout on the mast of the Lianzhou suddenly shouted: "Enemy fleet! ”

Although at this time, because of the curvature of the earth, Ouyang Gui failed to find the Ming Navy fleet on the sea surface after picking up the telescope, but it does not mean that the lookout who climbed on the mast could not see it, otherwise, why let the lookout climb the mast and use a larger telescope to observe!

Soon, a naval lieutenant trotted in front of Ouyang Gui: "General Qiyu, I found that there are twenty-two large ships and more than thirty small ships of the enemy, about twelve kilometers away from the front of our fleet, and they are heading towards our fleet at a speed of six kilometers, which is the same as the speed of our fleet. ”

Ouyang Gui frowned slightly at this time and said, "There are twenty-two big ships, and there are more than thirty small boats, which is a little more than originally expected!" ”

However, he soon said: "Send an order to all ships of the main fleet, let them follow the flagship to the left and turn ten degrees, accelerate the sprint to seize the upper hand!" ”

"Give Colonel Li an order to lead the transport fleet to turn right to avoid the engagement area and continue to launch a landing!"

After speaking, he turned around and looked at a group of naval officers behind him, most of whom were transferred from the army: "This is the first battle of our Datang Navy, I hope that you will fight bravely, and you must not let the army friends behind you see the jokes, and say that our navy has no loyal and brave men in the future!" ”

Many naval officers had heavy faces on their faces and said one after another:

"The Rank Understands"

"We will never insult the prestige of the navy!"

"Let those army turtles watch, my navy is also a good man!"

At this time, Ouyang Guicai nodded slightly, and then said with a smile: "Raise the flag of the official general, raise the flag of the decisive battle!" ”

At this time, Navy Li Yanxi on the rear transport fleet was a colonel, and he also saw the flag waving on the flagship in front, and for a while he clenched his fists a little, and his face became extremely ugly.

Luo Youbin, the commander of the Second Mixed Regiment who was wearing an army colonel's uniform, couldn't understand the flag of the navy, and when he saw that Li Yanxi's expression was not very good-looking, he immediately asked, "What's wrong?" And what does that triangular black dragon flag with red background above mean? ”

Li Yanxi said: "Lord Ouyang has decided to lead the main fleet to entangle the enemy fleet to cover our transport fleet to continue to cross the sea and land, as for the triangular red background and black dragon flag, it is the decisive battle flag of our navy, which means ......"

Speaking of this, he paused, took a deep breath, and then said loudly: "The Tang Navy, fight to the death and never retreat!" ”

After that, he also stopped paying attention to Luo Youbin, and then said to the adjutant beside him: "Order the fleet to turn to the right twenty degrees, and then send a flag to the flagship: I wish the commander a great victory!" ”

After Ouyang Gui on the Lianzhou received the flag of Li Yanxi of the rear transport fleet, he smiled slightly and said: This victory is unpredictable, and the only way to fight is to die!