The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 465 Military Academy
In the Jinyang city government office, the lights are brightly lit.

Although it was already dark, there were still many civil servants carrying books to and fro on the roads of the Jinyang city government office, as well as eagle wolf Wei Tiqi walking in a hurry. , a general of the Yellow Turban Army with a rather anxious expression.

People along the way saw Xu An coming, no matter what they were doing, they all respectfully saluted Xu An.

Xu An and Yan Zhong walked through the courtyard and entered the house.

The guards closed the door of the house, and the sound of the cold wind outside the window was also shut in the courtyard, and everyone felt a little warmer.

New Year's Eve in the North is a cold season, and in a few days, it may be snowing.

Yan Zhong tightened his collar, glanced out of the window, and said, "This winter seems to be colder than last year."

Gong Du removed the robe he was wearing, and just heard Yan Zhong's voice, he also felt something was wrong, and echoed: "It seems that the winters of the past few years have been getting colder every year."

"In the winter before, I didn't wear as much as I do now, and I didn't feel cold. Now the cold wind in Bingzhou really feels like it's freezing to the bottom of my heart. The winter in Bingzhou is much colder than the winter in Jizhou."

"Something's not quite right..."

Yan Zhong's expression was a little dignified, Gong Du used to be from Jizhou, he thought it was because he was in Bingzhou, and Bingzhou was colder than Jizhou.

But Yan Zhong is from Liangzhou and has traveled in Bingzhou before, but in his impression, Bingzhou is definitely not as cold as it is now.

Xu An's heart skipped a beat. At this moment, he suddenly remembered something, an important thing.

The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty seems to be in the Little Ice Age.

As a result, the temperature of the earth has dropped sharply, and the global food production has been greatly reduced, which has caused severe social turmoil and a sharp drop in population.

Another characteristic of the Little Ice Age is that the weather variability is quite large, that is, the frequency of extreme weather is relatively high.
The period from the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties to the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the first Little Ice Age, while the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Western Jin Dynasty were the second Little Ice Age.

The end of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, and the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty were the third Little Ice Age, and the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty were the fourth Little Ice Age.

At that time, the temperature dropped sharply, causing drought in the north, and a large reduction in grain production, resulting in decades of violent social turmoil and wars. The long-term famine was the root cause of the unrestricted expansion of wars.

Xu An's face was a little gloomy. He had never planted land, nor had he paid attention to the climate. His main attention had always been planning power development and war.

What Yan Zhong and Gong Du mentioned by chance now reminded Xu An of the climate at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

"Won't it affect the harvest too much?"

Xu An's tone was low, and he asked, now Bingzhou has nearly a million more people, and the food pressure it needs has doubled, but it cannot withstand any famine.

He is not an encyclopedia, he knows all the knowledge, he remembers some big things.

But Xu An didn't know how many disasters and plagues occurred during the period from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms.

Even in the history books, many disasters and plagues are only mentioned briefly.

Even if starvation is everywhere, it is just to add a sentence to the book, "When benevolence and righteousness are full, the beasts will eat people, and people will eat each other."

Yan Zhong recalled for a while, paused, and said: "I don't know much about farming. Minggong can ask Fu Qi. He knows better, but it's not too cold now. According to the changes in the past few years Look, it shouldn't affect Bingzhou's harvest too much in the past few years, at least three or four years should not be a big problem, even if the weather gets colder after that, it's just a poor harvest."

"Even if the harvest is not good, it is actually not an important matter for Bingzhou. The land reclaimed in Bingzhou will only increase. Minggong attaches great importance to water conservancy. Now we have a lot of water conservancy projects in Bingzhou, which is also helpful. to increase income."

The heart that Xu An raised, slightly let go.

As long as there are still a few years of stability, then everything has a chance.

Three or four years is almost enough. The Yellow Turban Army will definitely not live in Bingzhou for a lifetime, nor can it live in Bingzhou for a lifetime.

Tomorrow, it will officially enter the first year of Yonghan, which is [-] AD.

Xu An looked at the house, Yan Zhong, Xu You, and Pang Bo were sitting in front of them.

Gong Du, Zhang Yan, He Man, Xu Huang, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and other generals are all in the building.

Although sitting in the house, Xu An could still hear the noise outside the room.

Time seemed to go back to five years ago, and the scene of the lights of the Wanjia appeared in front of Xu An's eyes.

"It's been five years..."

After this year he will be twenty-four years old.

Xu An opened his hands, both palms were calloused from holding the knife for a long time.

Compared to the beginning, now he has led the Yellow Turban Army to an unbelievable level.

History has changed beyond recognition, but Xu An is no longer afraid of it.

Xu An clenched his fists, withdrew his gaze from his palms, and raised his eyes to look at the people in the house.

Everyone's eyes were also focused on Xu An, and there was respect and trust in everyone's eyes.

"How is the matter of establishing a military academy handled?"

Xu An turned his head to look at Yan Zhong, he did not forget his business, he came to Jinyang City to supervise the military academy of the Yellow Turban Army.

Yan Zhong bowed his hands and replied: "The affairs of the military academies have been roughly arranged. Because of the occupied space, Duke Ming made a plan to set up two military academies, one in the city, and expropriated one In the house near the government office, another military academy was set up outside the city, using an old camp built by our army before, and all the facilities have been arranged properly."

Xu An arched his hands and thanked, "Please trouble the military division."

Then Xu An discussed several details with Yan Zhong, and Yan Zhong also answered each one for Xu An.

In the house, Gong Du, Zhang Yan and others were all at a loss, what kind of "military academy" they had never heard of or seen.

Naturally, Xu An also noticed the expressions of the generals. This time, the construction of the military academy is for these generals to contribute more or less, and this is also a matter of the army, so there is no need to hide anything.

"The so-called 'Military Academy' is a school for training generals, just like the 'Meng Academy' opened in Bingzhou now, and there are schools like 'Daotang', but the students trained in the 'Military Academy' People are military officers and generals, not ordinary people who can read and write, nor are they civil servants and Fu Zhu."

Xu An knocked on the desk to attract everyone's attention, and then explained.

Xu Huang and Zhang Yan glanced at each other. They had a good relationship and understood quickly. It sounds like this military academy is a place to teach them the art of war.

"After I finish speaking, if there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me again."

Xu An raised his hand and stopped a group of generals who were hesitant to speak.

"The reason why I set up a military academy is to improve the combat power of my Yellow Turban Army. There is still a big gap between our army and the Han army. Our army's training time is not shorter than that of the Han army, and even exceeds the training of the Han army. time, but at the moment of the same military equipment, it is still somewhat inferior to the Han army."

"I've thought about it for a long time, and I've searched for a long time, and I finally found out that a big reason lies in the officers, the team rate, the commander, and the officers."

Xu An's face was serious, he looked around at the generals in the house, and then continued to speak.

"Most of the officers in our army are promoted from ordinary soldiers. They don't come from aristocratic families, have no powerful backgrounds, and don't have anyone who can read and write."

"Before they joined our Yellow Turban Army, many of them were just traffickers and ordinary civilians. Although they experienced battles, they survived the battlefield and became team leaders and village chiefs..."

Everyone's expressions changed a little, and they all heard some implication of Xu An's words.

Powerful families have knowledge, so they are qualified and have the capital to receive education.

Ordinary people can't even read and write.

All the people here, in fact, many of them are from a not simple background.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou belong to wealthy families, while Lu Bu's family is in decline, but his family education is acceptable.

Both Zhang Liao and Xu Huang came from humble backgrounds. Before joining the Yellow Turban Army, they also served as county officials.

Only He Man, Gong Du, Liu Pi and others are from real grass roots.

Up to now, both He Man and Gong are illiterate, only Liu Pi can.

Xu An's literacy is also thanks to Zhang Liang's teaching.

Ordinary people may never see engraved bamboo slips in their entire lives, let alone receive knowledge.

Those bamboo slips about leading troops to fight are basically in the hands of various aristocratic families.

Hao Zhaoshan guarded Chen Cang with the strength of a thousand people, and resisted Zhuge Liang's tens of thousands of troops. He created a miracle, relying on the experience accumulated on the previous battlefield, but also relying on family learning.

"Army training has regulations in our army. I wrote a book "Infantry Exercise Code" specially for training. There are many training methods in it. You have also made some suggestions and added them. So now the training effect of my Yellow Turban Army is better than that of the Yellow Turban Army. Far superior to the ordinary Han army."

"Whether it is the arrangement of the battle formation, the speed of marching, or the reaction to the battle, they are far better than the Han army's county soldiers."

In the house, when they heard Xu An's words, all the generals couldn't help but nodded secretly. Even Yan Liang and Wen Chou didn't think Xu An's words were wrong.

Although the soldiers under the two of them are the elite of Jizhou, they have also seen the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, not to mention the extremely famous soldiers and elite soldiers in the Yellow Turban Army.

Simply speaking, the ordinary soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army are definitely stronger than the soldiers under his command.

The marching speed of the Yellow Turban Army is also faster than that of the ordinary Han Army.

In fact, in many cases, the strength of an army can be seen just from the speed of its march.

Because the reasons that affect the marching speed of an army are basically crucial.

From willpower, tenacity, morale, to logistics, supplies, and finally to organization, discipline is all factors that affect the speed of a new army.

"Training is taught, so the training of our army is better than that of the ordinary Han army, but the officers of the Han army have received far more education than the officers of our army."

"No one taught our officers how to fight, nor taught our officers how to lead troops. They climbed up from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They survived the battlefield. The battlefield is their school, and the enemy is theirs. teacher."

"They survived, they made military exploits, but their experience is also extremely limited. They survived only to prove that they are qualified soldiers, qualified fighters, not qualified officers. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. Their experience is not enough to keep them alive and make them qualified to lead the troops under them."

Xu An said in a low voice.

"So I plan to set up two military academies in my Taipingdao territory."

"The first one, named 'Taipingdao Army Academy', teaches the most basic combat and military leadership knowledge, and specializes in training middle and lower-level officers, that is, officers from the team leader to the military rank."

"It just so happens that Bingzhou is still peaceful now, and the war has come to an end. We still have some time. My plan is to rotate all the officers in my Yellow Turban Army from the rank to the rank of military candidate to enter the academy to study."

In the house, there was some slight commotion.

In the current Yellow Turban Army, the standing army is about [-] people, and there are more than [-] officers at the rank of military rank, counting the positions of chief and deputy.

If you count the officers in the military station, then I am afraid that there will be even more people.

Xu An stretched out three fingers, and said in a leisurely manner: "Considering the military strength that our army needs to maintain to defend against the Han court, the number of officers enrolled in the first term is tentatively set at [-]. Among these [-] officers, Divided into three departments."

"The first department is the team leader department, the professor team leader, the second department is the chief department, the professor chief, and the third department is the military marquis. Due to time constraints, the schooling period is one year."

What troubled Xu An the most was actually the textbook issue of the Army Academy.

"I wrote a new book called 'Army New Book' for teaching purposes, but I think there must be some omissions in it. The purpose of telling you is that you can also write a related experience of leading troops. Serve as a teaching material to better train officers for our army."

Lu Bu has been a military officer for a long time, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou are also military officers. Gong Du, Zhang Yan, He Man and others are also managers or middle and lower-level managers. They all have their own unique experience , can come in handy.

On the other hand, Xu An also ordered the Eagle Wolf Guards to secretly collect useful experience and methods of leading troops from middle and lower rank officers.

Although Fu Zhu in the army is independent, it is also related to the Eagle Wolf Guard system. They also collected the experience of some middle and lower-level officers who are good at leading troops, recorded it, and sent it to the Eagle Wolf Guard.

The Eagle Wolf Guard also sent a special person to sort out the records, and the problem with the teaching materials was sorted out.

Xu An raised his head and scanned the people in the house again.

"As for the second military academy, I plan to name it 'Jianwutang'."

"'Jianwutang' and 'Taipingdao Army Academy' are both 'military academies', but they have different targets."

Xu An showed a smile, scanned the group of generals in the house, and sneered even more when he saw Gong Du and He Man.

Gong Du instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what Xu An was trying to trick, and He Man was also a little apprehensive.

Xu An said with a smile: "Jiangwutang is the school where I teach the senior officers of the Yellow Turban Army, that is, above the rank of military commander, and of course you generals are also included."

(End of this chapter)