I want to be emperor

Chapter 492 The law-abiding Gan Xinrong
Gan Xinrong, the battalion commander of the 18rd Battalion of the No.[-] Infantry Regiment, a major of the Army, graduated from the sixth phase of the Army Officer Academy.

He is very young, only 19 years old this year, and he is relatively handsome and not tall, so that he looks like he is only fifteen or sixteen years old.

However, this situation is not a strange thing in the Great Chu Empire Army, because most of the officers and even senior generals in the Chu Army are relatively young.

This has a great relationship with the history of the rise of the Great Chu Empire Army.

In fact, in the early days, especially during the Funiu Mountain period, the Chu army was still in the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp. The officers were relatively old, and many of them were middle-aged people in their 40s and [-]s.

However, as the size of the Chu army gradually expanded, this situation changed.

First of all, the Chu army established a military officer school very early. From the early camp school to the military officer school, there are crash courses, advanced courses, and formal courses.

Crash course, this is a school system specially set up for soldiers and non-commissioned officers who have made meritorious service in the army. In the early days, it was a one-month school system, then it was three months, and now it has become a half-year school system.

And these meritorious soldiers who have entered the crash course are often young, with the majority in their teens and twenties.

The advanced training class is specially designed for low-level military officers who are promoted to the front line in the early stage and have a low level of education. The current schooling period is half a year.

Improve their command level through rotation training, and at the same time accept a small number of young and low-level officers who voluntarily surrendered to the Ming army. The average age of this group is a bit older, but they are generally only 30 to [-] years old.

Formal class, this is the class with the strictest enrollment, the longest academic system, and the most subjects studied at the same time in the military academy. A plan has been finalized to wait until next year's enrollment, and the academic system of the formal class will be extended to three years, so that students will have more time to study.

The vast majority of the students in the formal class were failed scholars in the pre-Ming Dynasty, and the requirements for the cultural level of the students were relatively high, and it was not possible for them to be admitted with a rough knowledge of writing.

At the same time, young people are also required. The military academy has never thought of recruiting a group of 45-year-old old guys as officer students.

Therefore, the students in the formal class are young and very young, generally only around 20 years old, and there are even a lot of them in their teens. After all, the minimum age for entering the formal class is 15 years old...

The students trained by the three classes in the above-mentioned military officer school have become the main group of officers in the Chu army. Even the officers who were formerly surrendered or even bandit-born, most of them have participated in advanced training classes in the future.

This also led to a situation, that is, the officers in the Chu Army are generally very young, and the 20-year-old is the mainstream group, and there are actually a lot of officers in their teens.

It is normal for low-level officers to be young people. Most armies in the world, especially officers with a complete promotion system, are the same even in modern armies of later generations.

After all, officers who have just graduated from the military academy are generally only in their twenties.

But like the Chu army, it is rare for middle and senior generals to have a lot of young people. This kind of situation often only occurs in the army in the initial period.

Because at this time, the army is often in the process of large-scale expansion, and a large number of officers have been rapidly promoted during the expansion.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of these officers are also young people.

Chu Jun is in this situation!

Since going south from Funiu Mountain, the size of the Chu army has been expanding at a high speed. It only took a few months to go from tens of millions to tens of thousands of people, and it only took a few months to go from tens of thousands to 20. Just over a year.

It took just over two years to go from 20 to the current over 60 army.

From the early hundreds of people to the current tens of thousands of people, the Chu army only took five short years!
In such a short period of time, the size of the Chu army has expanded to such a large size, which also means that the number of officers required has also been greatly increased.

At full strength, a first-class division of the Chu Army needs more than 400 officers, while there are 27 first-class divisions in the Chu Army, and a total of nearly [-] officers are needed.

Add the second-class divisions, independent artillery brigades, cavalry brigades, and garrison brigades, and then the provincial garrison headquarters, the campaign or border defense headquarters, and the agencies under the four departments and two directors of the Gyeonggi Military Affairs Council.

The number of officers in the Great Chu Empire Army reached tens of thousands.

Among them, there are more than 100 generals at the major general level alone, including division commanders, chiefs of staff of each army/command, deputy commanders, and directors of various agencies directly under the Military Affairs Council.

There are even more brigadier generals, so there must be hundreds of people.

How did so many senior generals come here?

All of them have been promoted successively in the past few years, that is to say, most of these people are still young people.

Even if they are lieutenant generals or senior generals at the general level, most of them are young people.

For example, Li Dongshao, the commander of the border defense of Xuanda, is only 27 years old this year.

The commander of the Northeast Campaign, Army General Li Chengtong, is only 29 years old.

The commander of the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign, Army General Huang Xiangbin, is even younger, only 23 years old.

On the contrary, the commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu border defense, General Huang Dingquan, is slightly older, but he is only 32 years old.

This general is only 30 to [-] years old, so the age of the lieutenant generals and major generals is naturally not that high.

As for the rank of school officer, there are a lot of eighteen or nineteen year olds.

Major Gan Xinrong, the commander of the 18rd Battalion of the No.19 Infantry Regiment, is [-] years old. It would be very unusual for him to be placed in the outside world, but it would be normal for him to be placed in the Chu Army.

Gan Xinrong was not considered an early general of Conglong. He was admitted to the Army Officer Academy after Luo Zhixue proclaimed himself emperor in Hantian.

He is a scholar himself, and he is also a scholar with a good family background. The Gan family is a traditional scholarly family in the Anlu Mansion.
In fact, before Gan Xinrong was admitted to the Army Officer Academy, he never thought that one day he would lead troops to fight and become a lowly warrior among the students...

In the previous ten years of his life, he basically went to the imperial examination to become an official.

It's just that his Gan family also defected to the Great Chu Empire early, and his father and elder brother both entered the Great Chu Empire as officials early.

Father Gan, who was determined to climb the ladder, directly sent the second son of the Gan family, Gan Xinrong, to the school in response to Luo Zhixue, the then emperor of the Great Chu Empire, who called on young people with aspirations to apply for the military academy to join the army and fight for the unification of China. Army Officer Academy.

Well, military academies had a heavy task of enrolling students at that time, but the society still didn’t think highly of military generals, thinking that joining the army was a lowly profession.

The gentry's children are all studying to become officials in the imperial examinations, but few of them go to join the army. However, the formal classes of the Army Officer Academy have a high level of cultural requirements for students...

At that time, the Chu Army was undergoing large-scale expansion, and the enrollment of formal classes was hundreds of thousands... In order to obtain enough students, Luo Zhixue began to call on aspiring young people to apply for the military academy, and asked court officials to recommend aspiring young people people...

As a result, many gentry families who defected to the Great Chu Empire, especially the gentlemen who went to the Great Chu Empire to become officials, had to send their family children to apply for the military academy whether they wanted to or not...

The emperor has called for you to recommend, but you, as a courtier, don't share your majesty's worries and problems?

Be quick, send your son, nephew, etc. to the military academy.

What, when do not know?

I don't even have this political consciousness, and I still want to be promoted?It's a good idea, you will die at the grassroots level in this life. If there are too many people who can't turn back and become an official, I will drive you, a person who has no regard for the overall situation, back to your hometown...

As a result, at that time, many gentry families who had defected to the Great Chu Empire sent their disciples to apply for military academies to join the army, but most of them sent their second sons, and rarely sent their eldest sons to join the army, and some were looking for nephews. Cousins ​​and the like.

Anyway, just recommend one or two people to go there, and it doesn't matter who you recommend.

Otherwise, given the social environment of the past few years, it would be really difficult for the Great Chu Empire to recruit thousands of formal class students from Dao University.

It was against this background that Gan Xinrong entered the Army Officer Academy, and easily passed the cultural level assessment with his cultural level. Although his physical fitness test results were not good, he barely passed.

Thus, he became a student in the sixth period of the Army Academy, studying infantry.

The sixth formal class at that time was also the first batch of formal classes in the Chu Army to adopt a two-year schooling system, and it was also the group with the largest enrollment, with more than 1000 students.

After a year and a half of theoretical study, Gan Xingrong entered the army for an internship with the rank of warrant officer, which is unique to military school students.
He was assigned to the [-]th Division of the Newly Formed Army for half a year as an intern. He also participated in the Qing campaign, gained some combat experience, and received a moderate internship evaluation. He then graduated smoothly and was awarded the rank of Second Lieutenant.

His graduation ranking is not high, and he only ranks in the 800 or so out of more than 600 people in Kinko.

Because the internship evaluation was mediocre and the graduation results were not good, he lost the opportunity to serve in the new main force of the Tenth Division. .

Although his graduation ranking was not high, he was at least one of the first batch of formal class students who received two years of complete military training. His military theory was solid, and his superiors had high hopes for this group of students.

So although he was not retained and assigned to the Tenth Division, he was also assigned to the Fifth Division, one of the main forces.

He went to the Fifth Division and worked as a team officer for a few months. After accumulating a certain amount of experience, he was transferred to the regiment headquarters as a staff officer, and his rank was promoted to lieutenant. Not long after, he was transferred to the division headquarters He served as a combat staff officer and was promoted to captain.

The combined experience of these two staff officers was less than half a year, but it turned him from a second lieutenant into a captain.

Then he was sent to the third battalion as a sentry officer of the first musket post, still with the rank of captain.

During his tenure as a sentry officer, he led the troops in battle step by step. He didn't perform too well, but he wasn't too bad, and he almost never made mistakes.

It gives the impression of stability!

Although he is young, he is very prudent in leading troops and doing things in a stable manner. He seems to be in good order when fighting, but he never makes mistakes!
And this point is very important to the superiors!
(End of this chapter)