The military plans to carry out the officer candidate program, starting from the early military academies in various places, and then selecting the best to enter the Royal Youth Military Academy, and finally selecting them to enter the Martial Arts Academy and the Sea Academy.

When these officers have studied in the Martial Arts Academy or the Sea Academy for three years and officially enter the army, at this time, they have completed the training of a basic officer.

These officers who were born in the early military academy have completed nine years of military education in the three stages of the young military academy, the youth military academy, and the martial arts academy/sea academy.

And among these people, there will definitely be a few who can be admitted to the Imperial Academy in the future, and this is another three years!

According to the current tacit unspoken rules of the military of the Tang Empire, if you want to be promoted to brigadier general, then you must be an officer from the Imperial Academy, not from the Imperial Academy, basically the colonel is over, and it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to be promoted to a general, at least in the last five years, there is no such example, and in the future, it is estimated that it is unlikely to happen.

This also means that a senior general in the Tang Empire is often a person who has received military education since childhood, and the entire education stage is as long as twelve years!

Li Xuan also supports this model, which is a magic weapon to effectively strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army, but he also strictly limits one point, that is, there can only be one youth military academy, the Royal Youth Military Academy.

Because the students trained by the Youth Military Academy are generally officer candidates between the ages of fifteen and twenty, and they will enter the Martial Arts Academy or the Sea Academy in the future, the cultivation of the three views at this age is very important.

Therefore, Li Xuan must firmly control the loyal education of these officer candidates.

While they should increase their loyalty to the military, they should also increase their loyalty to the royal family.

After the Zhongjun education, these officer candidates can enter the martial arts school or the sea school, and begin to receive more professional military education, and formally study the army's infantry department, cavalry department, artillery department, baggage, engineering, etc., or the navy's navigation, guns, land warfare, and other subjects.

However, these military reforms did not cut off the possibility of ordinary soldiers becoming officers, on the contrary, the imperial military still encouraged ordinary soldiers and non-commissioned officers to apply for military schools, as long as they could be admitted, then they would study with ordinary military cadets and then be assigned.

Instead of making a crash course or something.

The military will treat any officer who can be admitted to a military academy equally, and will not be biased differently because he or she is from a youth military academy, or from an ordinary preparatory school or a normal school, or because he is a soldier.

Because they can be admitted to military schools, these people have already proved their abilities.

However, even if the military encourages soldiers to apply for military schools, they will even give additional places. However, just as the competition for soldiers from outside to apply for military schools is fierce, it is also not easy for soldiers to apply for military schools, and there are always a few who can become officers.

Most of them will retire eventually!

However, after retiring, they often get professional arrangements, such as patrol police, tax police and other positions, these law enforcement agencies, for the military retired soldiers are quite welcome.

If you don't want to be stable, and you want to continue to risk fighting wars or even make a fortune, you can also run to serve in the company fleet of a Western company, or simply go to work for an ordinary trading company.

Those ordinary trading companies, other people's ships are also armed merchant ships, in order to ensure safety, there are also guns, and guns naturally need professionals to control and command.

Basically, in Datang, whether you are in the army, whether you are an officer or a soldier, then basically you don't have to worry about your future life.

The only thing that makes the majority of poor children feel sorry is that they can't divide the land now.

Those recruits were very envious of those predecessors, during the War of Unification, if they joined the army, they could get a piece of land for free after a certain number of years.

Unfortunately, after the War of Unification, this benefit was gone.

After all, there are people joining the army every year, and the official land that can be used to divide it is also limited, and it is impossible to divide it all the time.

Although it is said that the fields are gone, the generous treatment of joining the army still attracts countless people to join the army.

However, today's military academy system greatly limits ordinary people to become officers, because at present, the requirements for military school enrollment are very high, and they need to graduate from preparatory or normal courses before they can apply for the examination, even if ordinary soldiers apply for military schools, in fact, these soldiers who can finally apply for the successful examination, they also have a rich level of education before, and they are unlikely to rely on the education of night schools and training classes within the army in just two or three years to complete the education equivalent to the preparatory stage, and then pass the examination of the military school.

And in this way, it is to cut off the possibility of a poor child becoming an officer.

This is also what Li Xuan does not want to see, when in general education and civil official selection, Li Xuan will reserve a certain opportunity for the children of poor families, in the selection system of officers, he also thinks so, and intends to do so.

And the officer candidate program is a more appropriate way.

According to the military's plan, a junior military school will be set up on each provincial highway to recruit fresh primary school graduates from the province's provincial tracts, and once enrolled, all tuition fees will be exempted, and living allowances will be issued at the same time.

There is no tuition, which means that if the children of the poor family are excellent in their studies, they can also be admitted and complete their studies, even if they cannot be admitted to the Royal Youth Military Academy in the end, but the school system of the young military academy is actually equivalent to middle school, after three years of free study, if they are unsuccessful, they can still enter other ordinary preparatory schools or normal schools to study.

After careful consideration, Li Xuan finally formally approved the military's plan for officer candidates in September of the 17th year of Xuanping, and prepared to establish junior military academies in all provinces and provinces across the country.

The jurisdiction of these junior military schools does not belong to the ministries of the Privy Council of the Army, nor to the ministries of the Naval Command, nor to the Ministry of the Army or the Admiralty, but to the Education Section of the Hanlin Academy, just like the Royal Youth Military Academy and the Royal Primary School, which bear the royal name.

However, considering the military nature of these schools, the local junior military academies and the Royal Youth Military Academy, although they are under the management of the Education Department of the Hanlin Academy, are closely related to the army, navy, and the Guard.

Most of the faculty and staff of the schools are retired military officers!

Don't think that it is unreliable to let retired soldiers serve as teachers, in fact, this is very reliable, because the overall quality of Datang's officers is actually much stronger than that of civilian officials, regardless of whether it is at the beginning of the founding of the country or now, basically among the best students, the real genius is naturally recruited by the Royal Institute of Technology, and the second-class is basically recruited by the military school, and the first-class, or those who have no intention of joining the army are those who apply for various universities and then enter the civil service system.

So don't think that the officers of the Tang Dynasty are illiterate, in fact, except for the early years of the founding of the country, the sources of officers were mixed, in fact, in the next nearly ten years, the officers were selected from the group of scholars.

Therefore, the officers of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they are officers of the army, navy or the Guards, are basically all talents who can get on the horse and can write essays, and they are all talents with astronomy and geography and modern scientific knowledge all night long.

The overall quality is much stronger than that of the civilian group.

So it is more than enough for a retired officer to serve as a teacher in a military school for the young years.

The officer candidate program did not cause much turmoil in society, and even within the military, it did not cause much repercussions, because this kind of thing will not have any impact for a while, and no matter how fast it is, the officers trained in these officer candidate programs will not be able to enter the army after nine years.

In contrast, most of the military's attention is now re-attracted to the north!

Since a few years ago, the Tang Army entered the Hetao area and rebuilt Dongshengcheng, relying on Dongshengcheng to establish a Hetao defense line of more than 150 kilometers, although this defense line is not the Great Wall in the traditional sense, but more than 20 fortresses on this defense line are enough to form a rope and completely divide the Tatars into two.

In the first year or two, the Tang Army was still limited to defense, and although there was a plan for the Hetao, the Tatars were still able to bypass it and then enter the Hetao for grazing.

However, in the past two years, the army has begun to take the initiative, relying on Dongshengcheng and beginning to extend the direction of the Hetao to the north.

Well, in fact, it was in the north that they started to build the city again, and they first built a small fortress ten kilometers away from the periphery of Dongsheng City, but it didn't take long to build the second and third fortresses.

All this is almost a copy of when the Tang Army entered the Hetao area.

Today's Hetao defense line, although the Tatars have been divided into two, but they are still able to bypass this line of defense and contact from the north of Dongsheng City, and now the Tang Army is going to continue to extend the direction to the north.

How could this make the Tatars sit still.

As a result, at the beginning of the sixteenth year of Xuanping, the Hetao area, which had been quiet for less than two years, resumed the war!

Around the Hetao defensive line, the Tatars and the Ninth Army of the Tang Army stationed there fought frequently.

Of course, the Tatars are now completely smart, they don't take the initiative to attack those forts at all, and without guns, they can't defeat these seemingly small scales, only a few hundred thousand people to defend the forts, even if they are forcibly conquered regardless of sacrifice, then the price paid is heavy.

At the same time, they will not fight any large-scale field battles with the Datang Army!

This kind of fighting mode, they have tried it before, and they can't beat it at all!

The two sides set up a decisive battle in the field, this kind of thing is not fun at all, and they naturally don't do it.