The reason for such a fiasco is nothing more than the lack of cohesion of the army, and after the main general was killed or escaped, the entire army lost its backbone, and hundreds of thousands of horses collapsed in an instant, and collapsed at the touch of a button. Why is this happening? The main reason is that there is a lack of a large number of excellent middle and lower-level commanders in the army, and in the case of the loss of the main general, these middle- and lower-level officers cannot bravely stand up and assume the responsibility of commanders. An excellent army should not only have unparalleled generals of wisdom and bravery, but also outstanding middle and lower-level officers at all levels, who can bravely take responsibility in times of crisis, are not afraid of death, and lead their subordinates to fight to the death.

Therefore, cultivating middle- and lower-level officers is undoubtedly a top priority for Liu Ze, and the princes will end up hastily fighting Dong Dong, and the world will fall into a situation of princes fighting from now on, and the time is urgent.

There is a hill twenty miles northeast of Pingyuan City, a radius of several miles, the environment is quiet, and further east, is the Qingliu River. Liu Ze and his entourage of dozens of people are inspecting the site of the military academy here, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, quiet and quiet, and is a very suitable location.

"How about the school being built right down the hill?" Liu Ze asked for everyone's opinions.

"In my opinion, it would be better to build a little further east by the river." Lu Zhi pointed to a clearing by the Qingliu River and said. Lu Zhi will be the inspector of the military academy and will be fully responsible for the management of the military academy. After Liu Ze sent troops to fight, Lu Zhi had nothing to do, so he wrote books and speeches in Pingyuan City, and continued to write the previously unfinished "Shangshu Chapters and Sentences" and "Three Rites Interpretation". But he always remembered that Liu Ze opened a school and built a private school. After Liu Ze came back, he first discussed with him about running a school. Lu Zhi originally thought that Liu Ze's school was to teach Confucianism, but later Liu Ze introduced that this school would be a school specializing in cultivating military talents, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

In the Han Dynasty, due to the low status of military generals, there was no formal martial arts at all, and most of the generals were born in families or in the army, and the art of war they learned was also passed down from the family or taught by the master.

However, Lu Zhi, as a generation of Confucian commanders who are all-round talents in civil and military affairs, can still fully understand Liu Ze's intention to cultivate a large number of outstanding military talents. It is completely possible to seize the opportunity in future wars. So Lu Zhi gladly accepted Liu Ze's request to serve as a school inspector.

Everyone applauded. Only Liu Ze muttered to himself: "East Point...... East Point ......" Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "There it is! ”

"What's there?" Everyone was stunned.

Liu Ze smiled and said: "In the past two days, I have been thinking hard about the name of this school, but I have never been able to think of a suitable one, and Teacher Lu inadvertently said 'East Point'. It reminded me. How about this school be called East Point? ”

"East Point?" Lu Zhi groaned and stroked his beard and said, "Literally." It seems to be a little vulgar and straightforward, but taste it carefully. But there is a different taste, East Point - Purple Qi comes from the East, and the stone becomes gold, well, according to Runde's words, this school will be named East Point Military Academy. ”

Since it was proposed by the lord Liu Ze, and approved by the superintendent Lu Zhi, everyone had no objections.

Liu Ze was a little smug, in later generations, there was a West Point Military Academy in the United States that was famous, and he had the idea to move the entire East Point Military Academy, which was comparable to West Point.

Thus was born the first military school in history. In the following decades, generations of famous generals came out of here, and "Tie out of the East Point" became a kind of glory for military generals. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.

For the next period of time, Liu Ze has been busy with the preparation of the military academy, the construction of the school building, the selection of instructors, and the assessment and selection of cadets. It's not that Liu Ze doesn't trust Lu Zhi, but that the military academy is still in the initial stage, and everything is difficult at the beginning, especially doing something that has never been done before, how can it be done without spending some effort.

The leadership team of the military academy was quickly determined, Liu Ze assumed the position of honorary principal, Lu Zhi served as the superintendent, responsible for the entire daily management of the military academy, Jia Xu concurrently served as the superintendent (director of academic affairs), and Chen Dao, Xu Rong and others served as instructors.

When it comes to the selection of instructors, it really makes Liu Ze stretched, most of his big gang of subordinates are from the grassroots, and they have learned what art of war and battle formations there, Zhao Yun and Guan Hai are good at training, but they also lack systematic military theory, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are even more martial artists, they only know that they charge ahead, and they fight with a brave word. The only people who have served in the regular army are Chen Zhi and Xu Rong, and they can be regarded as knowing a little about the art of war and the changes in battle formations. It seems that if you want to run a military academy well, the first thing is to train teachers, Liu Ze has set up a special normal department in the professional setting of the military academy, and selected some students who are generally rich in theoretical knowledge to focus on training, and after graduation, they can enrich the ranks of instructors.

In addition to the normal department, there are four departments: the infantry command department, the cavalry command department, the staff department, and the logistics support department.

In line with the principle of excellence, the selection of cadets is extremely strict, most of the cadets come from the military, a small number of them come from the civilian sector, after layers of assessment, 500 people are fortunate to become the first batch of cadets of the East Point Military Academy. After becoming a cadet of a military academy, the salary is immediately twice as high as that of ordinary non-commissioned officers, and those who pass the three-year period of study will enter the army as lower-level officers, and those with excellent grades can also be directly promoted to two or three levels.

As for Guan Yu, Zhang Feiguan, Hai Wu, Anguo and others, they were arranged by Liu Ze into a special senior command class, and since they all had positions and could not study full-time, Liu Ze adopted the method of short-term training and rotation training to open a small stove for them.

At the beginning, Zhang Fei was very dissatisfied, but now that he was the official lieutenant of the official residence and the official of Qianshi, he still had to sit at the desk and read like a child, and let his subordinate Xu Rong give him a lecture, which was a hundred unhappy. Liu Ze had no choice but to give a death order, and anyone who could not get a graduation certificate would not be allowed to take up a post. Zhang Fei was helpless, so he could only sit honestly in the classroom and listen carefully, if he really wanted Liu Ze to remove his captain, then he would lose his adult.

For the selection of teaching materials, Liu Ze took a lot of thought. "The Art of War", "The Art of War", and "The Art of War" are naturally compulsory subjects, but for these grassroots students, it is not easy to understand these art of war, and even many people don't even know a few words.

In view of this, Liu Ze decided to use "The Art of War" as the basis to interpret the Art of War in plain language, and named it "Sun Tzu's New Interpretation", incorporating some ancient art of war and some important military theories of later generations.

The text is divided into thirteen chapters, based on the thirteen chapters of Sun Tzu, but the first part of the book talks about the will and spirit of battle. The reason why Liu Ze put this in the position of the first article is precisely because of the conclusion that if an army does not have the belief and tenacious will to win, it cannot be called a victorious army. The real division of the king must have the spirit of the bright sword of the brave who wins when meeting on a narrow road, and even if he fights to the last person, he will not give up easily. Whether you are outnumbered or in a desperate situation, you must bravely face the enemy, even if you fall, it is a mountain and a ridge, and you will turn your back to the enemy's army, even if you are proficient in the art of war, even if you are equipped with excellent weapons, you will still be defeated in the end.

The next 12 articles are roughly the same as Sun Tzu's Art of War, and are divided into several parts: strategic planning, operational command, battlefield changes, military geography, and special operations. Compared with the Art of War, the New Interpretation of Sun Tzu has increased the number of words tenfold, and the content is more extensive, and the independent use of various arms and joint operations have also been written into the commentary on the Art of War, which is placed in the sixth chapter on military posture. Combined operations on foot and on land and water are the focus of the new interpretation, while the use of gunpowder and the operational theory of artillery are undoubtedly unprecedented.

In the field of special operations, information warfare has also been included in the chapter, and interception and counter-interception of enemy intelligence have become the most important research topics.

For different departments, it is also necessary to add some professional books, such as the addition of arithmetic courses in the logistics department.

At this time, although paper has been around for a long time, the books are still copied on the bamboo slips, thinking about how many large rolls of bamboo slips each student carries in and out every day, Liu Ze also has a headache when he thinks about it. Fortunately, the paper mill in the plains had been established to produce high-quality paper with a consistent white and flat thickness, and Liu Ze decided to publish the textbooks in a unified volume to avoid errors in manual copying.

Printing was definitely an earth-shattering event in the Han Dynasty, and Liu Ze directly skipped the stage of engraving printing and adopted the technology of letterpress printing, which advanced the invention of Bi Sheng in the Song Dynasty by a thousand years. To this end, Liu Ze set up a printing workshop, selected capable craftsmen, divided into several groups, molding, lettering, firing, typesetting and printing each as a group, fortunately, the letterpress printing technology is not difficult, after a period of practice, the craftsmen have basically mastered the essentials, 500 sets of teaching materials were quickly printed. Liu Ze used thread to bind the scattered pages together, and also designed a good-looking cover.

When this line-bound book was placed in front of Lu Zhi's desk, even Lu Zhi was surprised. Although the Han Dynasty also used paper to write, after writing, it was rolled up like a bamboo slip, and a thread-bound book like Liu Ze was unheard of, and Lu Zhi couldn't help but claim that it was good. (To be continued......)