The sea and land are subordinate to the universe, while human life is governed by the commands of the supreme law.

—Marcus Tulius Cicero (Ancient Roman statesman, orator, orator, jurist, and philosopher)

From the second day of the military conference, Oscar returned to the port barracks with the generals; Only Vipsani was left in Calaris to preside over the implementation of the system of eight districts and one government for the whole of Sardinia. Oscar not only left alone, but also brought with him twenty teachers and twenty outstanding students from the Augustan Family Academy; These 20 cadets will be responsible for teaching the cadets to read and write, while the 20 teachers will ostensibly educate the cadets in tactical texts, but in fact they will be responsible for brainwashing the cadets.

At the same time, Oscar also spent the night drawing a picture of a short sword, and asked Vipsani to send it to the weapons and equipment manufacturing area to build 1,346 swords at once; Two lines of words are engraved on the two sides of the hilt, namely "The First Phase of Augustus Military Academy" and "Presented by Principal Oscar", and the words "Success, Success" are engraved on the sword body. This will be a gift from the Oscars to the cadets on the occasion of their graduation, the so-called "Oscar Short Sword".

In addition to this, Oscar also ordered Vipsani to make ten tokens bearing the seal of the Augustan family, which would serve as a reward for Oscar's top ten cadets on the occasion of graduation. Of course, this reward is not just as simple as a token, and anyone who holds this token can go directly to meet Oscar wherever Oscar is located, regardless of their identity; That's what this token really does.

After arranging these two things, Oscar has nothing to worry about; In the next period of time, Oscar will devote himself wholeheartedly to the affairs of the military academy, because this matter is the biggest thing that will affect the Augustus family in the future. The recruitment of trainees went smoothly, but there was no technical content; It was enough for the commander of each regiment to give an order to his own regiment, and the next morning 270 cadets gathered at the north end of the empty barracks.

Coupled with the 800 cadets who had already been waiting at the North End, a full 1,070 cadets stood in front of Oscar's eyes; In order to complete the specific training plan of the cadets as soon as possible, Oscar asked Luquis to preside over the cadets for three days of military training without even conducting a lecture. The first three days are a complete full day of training, and after that, a certain amount of physical training will be done every day; In order to make these excellent officers better survive on the battlefield.

While Luquis was leading the trainees to train, Oscar began to discuss with Mary the specific plan for the trainees' education; The other generals led their respective legions to begin the training plan for the legions that Luquis had developed. Ultimately. Oscar and Mary set the main curriculum for the cadets into three subjects; They are: disciplines, technical disciplines, and combat instructors (field combat exercises). "Disciplines" are the book knowledge learned in the lecture hall, including tactics, military system, surveying and mapping, and so on.

The study of "technical subjects" is carried out in the school playground and in the field, and covers the use of light and heavy weapons and bows and arrows, communication and communication, building bridges, and how to cross rivers. Horseback riding, stabbing, stone throwing, archery exercises, and the use of "sand tables" to study the use of tactics. Actual combat drills are based on the theories learned in the field to conduct combat training, for example, field surveying, mapping, and visual distance measurement, requiring that the difference between the measured target distance and the actual distance should not exceed 3 or 4 meters.

The exercise was a combination of sand table tactics. Set the trainees as "Red Army" and "Blue Army" to simulate combat attack and defense; Learn how to attack, how to defend, how to command a battle in battle, from the beginning of learning the command of a centurion to the final assumption of how to command when you are the commander of a corpsion, for a battle, you must judge the offensive and defensive methods according to the questions raised by the instructor, and so on.

In short, Oscar and Mary are doing everything they can to improve the battlefield command ability of these cadets; Of course, there is a new thing here, and that is the sand table. The so-called sand table is a simple sand table, which is temporarily piled up on the field with mud and sand and small flags representing the army; The order is as follows: prepare on the diagram, determine the horizontal scale and vertical scale of the sand table. Calculate the size of the sand table, pile up the landforms, set up features and military situations.

Although the sand table made by Oscar himself is only a very rudimentary original sand table, it is already quite a cross-era invention compared to people who have always looked at the world on a map. At least Mary herself, from a military point of view, gave Oscar a very high evaluation of the humble sand table produced; However, this alone could not make the cadets ignore Hannibal's murderous name. So, Oscar came up with a new way; That is to mortalize Hannibal.

The previous Hannibal was somewhat mythologized by the enemy, who specifically referred to the Romans; It may be that the generals who lost the battle want to use this to shirk their responsibilities, or maybe Hannibal has won too many victories. All in all. In the hearts of the Romans, Hannibal was synonymous with extreme terror; It's basically the same as the gods of the heavenly realm and the devils of hell.,Anyway, it's not an existence that human beings can contend with.。

In order for everyone to no longer be afraid of Hannibal in their hearts, and so that the cadets can deal with Hannibal calmly when they encounter Hannibal on the battlefield in the future; Oscar decided to choose some students who love opera among the students to form a drama club. By having them perform in the form of a drama. to show some of Hannibal's very normal side; In the long run, the students will definitely not think that Hannibal is a high god, but will see Hannibal as a more powerful person.

This naïve but practical approach was also approved by Mary. The three days passed quickly, and the formal life of the military school began; In order to make it easier for the students to study hard and be brainwashed, Oscar has developed a demanding drill plan and schedule for the students. Even a little thing like taking a shower, Oscar has to take care of it.

It's late November, and winter has arrived; The cold weather made many students a little lazy, and in order to change this, Oscar decided to let the students wear straw sandals and bathe in cold water every day. This almost cruel method was naturally not easily accepted by the students, but Oscar took the initiative to take the lead in wearing straw sandals and bathing in cold water every day; All the students did so unconditionally after their principal.

Of course, the cadets may not know; Every day after a cold shower, their beloved headmaster would soak in the warm hot water under Mary's service and enjoy a massage of Mary. As the days of the cadets in the military academy pass day by day, the status of Oscar in the hearts of the cadets is getting higher and higher; There are two reasons for this change.

First, for ordinary centurions and captains, they were already the main officers of the corps; Generals such as legion commanders are not unattainable to them, but they are not objects with whom they can eat and drink every day. This is not the case with Oscar, who is clearly the leader of the high-ranking House of Augustus and the commander of the Combined Legion; But he still ate and drank with the students in the name of the principal. Even train together!

second, that is the deliberate arrangement of the Oscars; Do you think the Augustan brainwashing scheme is a useless ornament? It's just that there are many people in the barracks, and it is inconvenient for Oscar to carry out a closed large-scale thorough brainwashing of these students; However, gradual brainwashing is also inevitable. So. These students will unconsciously worship Oscar more and more deeply.

Of course, the cadets in these two batches of 546 legions are not the main force that Oscar is preparing to brainwash; Their brainwashing is just a subtle influence. The real first batch to be brainwashed by Oscar were the 800 remnant cadets; They are the main focus of Oscar's attention. Because the first four months of military school education were just the beginning of them, Oscar did not deliberately brainwash them.

Once the closed Augustan Family Military Academy established by Vipsani is officially completed, these 800 cadets will become the first batch of cadets in the true sense of the word of Augustus; They will receive a more specialized military education and a more comprehensive brainwashing for eight months in a closed military school. Wait until they're done with these eight months. They would have become true Augustan graduates whose level was significantly higher than that of the 546 people.

When the time comes, Oscar will arrange for them to serve as captains and centurions in half of the six legions; Their excellent abilities and stronger military background will give them a better ability to survive on the battlefield than those who are temporary graduates, and they will have more opportunities to build more meritorious deeds. At that time, their presence will completely become the main generals of each legion; Their number also directly determines the combat effectiveness of the corps.

Moreover, the Augustus Military Academy will continue to provide more excellent centurions to captains for the legions under the command of the family in the future with a period of two years of military education. From 1,346 students (800+546) in the first phase, to 500 students in the second phase, the third phase, and the fourth phase...... Soon, all the legions that fought under Oscar would become the legions of the Augustan cadets; And Oscar himself is their principal. And their allegiance!

Life in a military school is undoubtedly boring and tedious, and the variety of training also irritates Oscar; But in order to buy people's hearts, Oscar still persevered. However, Oscar is not an idle person; In order to add some fun to the boring life of the military school, Oscar decided to imitate the training methods of the special forces he used to watch on TV and sneak attack the cadets!

As a result, Oscar formed an elite squad of fifty people; If there is nothing to do, take advantage of the fact that the students are sleeping in the dead of night, light a fire outside the students' military tent or pour water into the military tent. At the time of the first sneak attack, the cadets thought in a hurry that Hannibal's army was coming; Except for one centurion named Hartman, who was quite heroic, the others were simply headless flies, which made Oscar particularly angry.

Since then, night raids have become a must-have course for Oscar every week; In many cases, there were even four sneak attacks in one night. The pain of tossing the students is unbearable. But it is under such devastation and torture that the vigilance of the students is getting stronger and stronger; So much so that later, the students slept with their weapons in their hands, for fear of a sneak attack.

This kind of sneak attack education of Oscar whims became a necessary course for the later Augustus Military Academy. Every Augustan military academy director would organize such sneak attacks against the cadets at irregular times a week; As a direct result, all the generals who graduated from the Augustan Military Academy had a natural sensitivity to sneak attacks. Later in their military careers, they would make very careful arrangements whenever they commanded troops to be stationed or marching, and also to guard against possible enemy attacks.

This cautious and cautious combat style of preventing enemy sneak attacks at all times has also become a characteristic of the graduates of the Augustan Military Academy, which is also something that Oscar did not expect when he used this method to toss the first batch of cadets. Two months is not a long time, and in a blink of an eye, it is the graduation season for the first batch of students; In order for the cadets to remember the unforgettable life of the military academy during these two months. Oscar decided to hold a grand graduation ceremony for them, which would become one of the most important traditions of the Augustan Military Academy in the future. (To be continued.) )