'If you don't teach first, you can't use it', and likewise officers can't use it if they don't teach. Most of the loyal soldiers are composed of civilians from 'lowly' backgrounds, and their cultural quality is not high, and they have neither ordinary education nor modern professional national military education, even if they want to learn, they can't learn! Officers are mostly trained little by little in their own army, and the consequence is that they are unable to understand things other than their own experience. Soldiers tend to make fun of those who think about future wars as self-inflicted, even ridiculing and ostracizing them.

This is a very dangerous signal for an army, and firearms warfare is a new affair in this era, and there is nowhere to learn from it, and it is all up to them to explore, study, and sum up. If some people still stick to the old rules and still hold on to the tactics of this era, the harm to the army will be fatal, so Zhao Ta has to be vigilant from time to time.

Because Zhao Tazhi is a general, a brigade, or even the highest commander of a general, a brigade, and even a supreme commander, he represents the will of a unit, and he not only completes the tasks that the troops should undertake, but also bears responsibilities to everyone in the troops, that is, the top must be worthy of the country, and the lower level must be worthy of the soldiers, and this is the duty of the commander. It is often said that there are no incompetent soldiers, only incompetent commanders. This sentence is somewhat biased, but it also correctly reflects the role and responsibility of commanders.

The commander plays a decisive role in the victory of a battle or a war, he determines the direction of the war, and directs the consciousness of the entire army. Only when a commander understands the fighters and the troops can he control and command the troops. He must have the ability to mobilize the resources of various departments of the army and give full play to the role and ability of each person, so that the troops can bring into full play the combat effectiveness of the department. Therefore, the duties of the commander are decisive for the entire force.

The promotion of a gang commander to a captain may not seem to be anything special, especially in a large group combat operation. But it is not so simple to be promoted from captain to chief, he is not only a military commander. He also has to manage more than 100 soldiers under his command. They have to take care of their eating, drinking, and lazing, and they have to ask questions about their joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and they have to organize training and study in ordinary times. Command them to charge in wartime ...

In the same way, when he reached the level of commander, he was in charge of more people, but also more things, and the battalion has always been a basic independent combat unit of the loyal army. Due to the diversification of weapons and equipment, personnel expertise has become somewhat biased, and it often becomes an indispensable main offensive force in the execution of strategic and tactical tasks. Commanders, on the other hand, should have independent command ability and high military quality.

The responsibility on the shoulders of the commander can be said to be very heavy, and the victory of the command battle is the victory of the commander. Failure is also the commander's failure, and at the same time, the failure makes the commander bear greater responsibility, and this responsibility is not only the responsibility of the command, but also the condemnation of the soul. When your warriors come in batches under your command, no amount of severe punishment can erase the condemnation of the heart.

The solution is to require the commander to continue to study so that he has the ability he should have, which is also the original intention of Zhao Ta to establish a school in the army to train officers. Now this expansion is the largest of the Loyal and Brave Army so far, and if we want to improve and maintain our combat effectiveness after a large number of new recruits have joined the army, we need a strong contingent of grassroots officers. The establishment of an officer training corps was an inevitable choice.

The first and foremost problem facing now is to build the skeleton of the new army first, and Zhao Ta has been thinking about this question for a long time. Candidates who can take charge of the army have been transferred, and there must be suitable replacements, but there are no candidates who can control the overall situation. He can only serve as the coach himself, although he can't help but be honest. But I can't think about it that much now. Zhao Yan is the only old army commander who is still there, and he is the deputy marshal. The position of Marquis of Du Yu has always been vacant in the loyal army, in fact, this position is also quite important.

The Marquis of Duyu first appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, when the marshal of the feudal town called the military attache of his cronies as 'Duyu Marquis' and 'Yu Marquis' to enforce the law in the army, and also had this position in the Central Army. In the Western Wei Dynasty, the "Marquis of Yu" was placed, and later generations followed, Sui was the official of the East Palace Guard, in charge of reconnaissance and patrolling. By the time of the fifth dynasty, the Marquis of Du Yu was a senior officer of the forbidden army, and the Later Liang had the Marquis of the six armies of Ma Bu Du, and after the Tang Dynasty, he was a senior officer of the guard and the army, and there were the guards and the pro-army Ma Bu Jun Si Du Yu Hou, the palace Si Du Yu Hou, the guard pro-army Ma Jun Si Du Yu Hou, and the guards and pro-army infantry and military Si Du Yu Marquis, which were the third in command of each division, second only to the history of the commander and the deputy commander of the capital, which is equivalent to the current chief of staff.

In the early days of the establishment of the Loyal and Brave Army, there was no suitable candidate in the army, but Zhao Yan and Zhao Li were just asked to follow Zhao Ren as staff officers to handle the affairs of the army, and Zhao Xin, as the commander of the Guards Battalion, had actually been doing the work of Du Yuhou. Later, Zhao Yan acted as the commander of the leopard generals, but Zhao Li stayed in the camp after the Western Expedition, and when others galloped on the battlefield to make contributions, he was unknown, so that many backward positions surpassed Zhao Li. And Zhao Ta returned to the camp two years later, what he saw with his eyes and heard with his ears made him realize that Zhao Li was the best candidate for the position of Marquis of Duyu.

Staying behind is one of the most tedious things, leading some sick and weak guards to the barracks, if ordinary people do their daily work, they are at peace with what happens. However, Zhao Li did not become depressed, he not only led the officers and soldiers who stayed in the camp to rebuild the camp, but also insisted on strict training and never slackened. Zhao Li even used this time to compile the "Code of Conduct" of the Loyal and Brave Army, which not only involved the selection of troops, training, and military discipline regulations, but also summarized the various combat examples of the Xia army, and formulated the norms for the camping, operation, and training system of their new army under various geographical conditions. Zhao Li was re-appreciated by the prince with his talent in another aspect and was reused.

After the supreme leadership level was determined, the work organization was arranged, and the military department consisted of five headquarters: the General Staff Department, the Military Affairs Department, the Baggage Department, the Artillery Department, and the Military Intelligence Department. The General Staff Department was also managed by Zhao Li, and Zhao Zhi and Zhao Xiao returned to their old professions and succeeded as the Baggage Division and the Artillery Division; Jiang Fei was still in charge of the Intelligence Department, and Zhao Yi was in charge of the Military Affairs Department, becoming the busiest person in the headquarters. The dragon generals commanded the prince to give Xu Biao a long time ago, and Dou Jun, Wang Heng, Sun Ji, and Liu Biao were also promoted and became the main generals of the other four generals.

The Guards Brigade is the prince's pro-army, the brigade commander is not high but needs a person who can serve the public and is most trusted by the prince, and the military talent is secondary, but it makes Zhao Ta difficult, who is happy to choose, and those who can't be selected must think that the prince does not trust him, and Zhao Ta decided to let Jianxi serve in accordance with the tradition of the Great Song Dynasty, no one can say this, no one has the trust of the prince than Xi Ye.

The Guards Brigade has an internal guard brigade with 200 soldiers, but more than half of them are handymen; The two field brigades have 800 soldiers, which is the most important combat strength of the Guards Brigade. Later, there were 300 soldiers in the logistics support brigade, which was under the special management of the prince's inner servant. The most elite and mysterious special brigade, Erwa Lei Zhenshan became the leader of this unit, but although it was changed to a brigade, he still adhered to the principle of preferring shortage to excess, and only set up 200 places...

The reorganization of the army has been carried out in secret, but the details are known only to the officers above the command level, even to the mid-ranking officers who are preparing to take up their posts, and they have received orders to select alternate officers and excellent non-commissioned officers from among their subordinates to prepare for the training corps to study. This order is very common, because in the loyal army, officers are promoted to enter the training team before they can take up new positions, but some people see the clue from this, because the number of participants selected this time is much larger than before, and this training is not organized by generals, but directly into the training team presided over by the army. In terms of rank, it shows that the prince attaches great importance to this training, and in terms of the number of participants, the loyal and brave army may have to be expanded again.

The purpose of the training team organized this time is very clear: First, to train soldiers in pre-selected officers, because the loyal and brave army has grown from more than 3,000 people to 40,000 or 50,000 people in three years, and the replacement cycle from soldiers to officers is too short, resulting in a serious shortage of officers at the grassroots level, whose quality is low, and they need to continue education; In the past, most of the training teams had the main goal of cultivating the ability to serve as the first officer, and they basically did not have the opportunity to receive education in the knowledge and skills of a higher post, and the retraining of the training team could solve their lack of knowledge and skills necessary for taking up their posts, which would help them become competent for their own work as soon as possible and shorten the growth cycle. Third, it is necessary to set up a class for the promotion of middle-level officers, and conduct training in various aspects for the middle-level officers who are about to take up their posts, so that they will be familiar with the roles and characteristics of various arms of the loyal and brave army, so that they will have the ability to command and coordinate operations, and improve their tactical and campaign command skills.

Zhao Ta's New Year passed quickly in a busy situation, and all the people who went out on the seventeenth day of the first month returned to the team. On the 18th day of the first lunar month, an order was issued for reorganization, and the appointment of commanders at all levels was announced. Five days later, the various units completed their adjustments, but before they could catch their breath, some of them received orders to report to the training team, and at the same time, the Military Affairs Department sent personnel to various places to recruit troops, and they had to complete the task of recruiting 35,000 troops within two months. All this was done in a state of surprise to everyone!

On the 25th of the first lunar month, 800 officers and men who participated in the training gathered in front of the Yurang Temple to attend the opening ceremony. The prince who presided over the ceremony did not say much, and after leading everyone to worship the main god Yu Rang, he led the crowd to the right side hall, where the spiritual seats of more than 500 soldiers who died in the battle against Xia were enshrined, and those people were once their close comrades-in-arms, brothers of accomplices, and even their relatives... (To be continued.) )