The first group of people who came to join the army had already passed on what they had seen and heard in the Longwei military camp back to their hometowns, and those who had been hesitant before immediately made up their minds to sign up for the army.

Fourteen hundred strong. In less than twenty days, the number of the Dragon Guards had increased by nearly one and a half times, and the newcomers were all in good physical fitness. Su Chengyu nodded and instructed Yu Xin, "The recruits will be accepted as they are, and the non-commissioned officers will be in charge of twice as many recruits as the low-level officers, and the training quality will be a little lower."

"But the guidance makes it hard, and the recruit battalion must have a guide every day to carry out ideological education work. Let's recruit 2,000 recruits first. ”

Speaking of this, Su Chengyu felt that the number of guides was insufficient. If there is one instructor per platoon, the recruit battalion alone needs forty or fifty instructors, and now there are only more than thirty instructors in the entire Dragon Guard Army.

It is necessary to recruit another group of scholars as soon as possible to expand the ranks of instructors, Su Chengyu said in his heart, the ideological work of the troops must not be sloppy, otherwise no matter how well equipped they are, they will only be a group of warlords and ruffians.

"Yes!" Yu Xin nodded respectfully, and then continued, "There was also the maritime merchant named Ji Liang who came the day before yesterday and brought a few cannons. But since you were not in the camp, he only parked the wagon at the camp gate and did not unload it, and promised to come back tomorrow. ”

It's really inconvenient to have no weixin transfers this year, Su Chengyu is quite helpless, and secretly thinks about setting up a general logistics department to be in charge of purchasing equipment.

In addition, recently, due to the large purchase of meat and vegetables by the Dragon Guards, some businessmen have begun to rush to buy and hoard. The battalion now more than doubled the cost of military rations. Yu Xin continued, "The whole camp spends more than 1,600 taels a month just for food. Does the subordinate mean to reduce the amount of meat? ”

The imperial court only allocated 130 stone meters and 1,000 taels of military salaries to the Longwei New Army every month, which was not enough for the food consumption of the Longwei Army.

"No, the food must be of good quality and quantity." Su Chengyu shook his head firmly, "I will find a way to deal with logistics." ”

"And it's approaching winter, this winter clothes, quilts ......"

"The military horse was infected with the epidemic and died of disease......

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After Su Chengyu patiently dealt with these trivial matters one by one, he instructed Yu Xin to continue training the soldiers.

"Yes!" Yu Xin bowed on one knee, then turned to leave.

Su Chengyu immediately remembered the matter of improving the military salute. After some thought, he decided to use the military salute of the people's army, which was clean and neat, and the movement was vigorous, and this movement was the most familiar to him.

Then he thought that since there was a military salute, the military song and the military flag should also be designed together.

He returned to the camp and went through all kinds of familiar and passionate music in his mind, and finally decided to choose the tune of "Yellow River Cantata", the majestic melody of this song can sweep away the decadence of Da Ming.

But the lyrics had to be modified to fit the current Dragon Guard, he picked up the pen and wrote while thinking, and soon the lyrics of "Dragon Guard Army Song" appeared on paper:

The wind is howling and the horses are howling

The Yangtze River is roaring, and the Yellow River is roaring

The Great Wall of the Northern Regions is thousands of feet high, and the waves of Poyang Dongting are surging

There are really a lot of heroes who fought against the Qing Dynasty in the fertile wild lakes

Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, dragon guards, and athletes are heroic

He raised his bow and crossbow

The roaring Hongyi heavy cannon

Defend your hometown and defend the Yangtze River

Defend the Yellow River and defend the Ming Dynasty

As for the style of the military flag, it took Su Chengyu a lot of energy, after all, art is his weakness.

It wasn't until dinner time that he suddenly remembered the pattern of the sun and moon that someone had designed in the forum before.

So he drew a rough outline on the paper, and after some revisions, the final draft was a light blue background, with the sun and moon hanging in the upper left corner, occupying a quarter of the entire flag.

After deciding these matters, he instructed Shi Lin to find an embroiderer to make a military flag.

After the soldiers had finished dinner, he gathered all the envoys and began to teach them the military songs of the Dragon Guard Battalion.

As a result of these instructions, some of them learned the rhythm quickly, but more than 70% of them did not understand the rhythm. In the end, at the request of Su Chengyu, these "tone-deaf" spent more than an hour memorizing the melody.

Then Su Chengyu called all the lieutenants and foreign instructors to teach them the new Dragon Guard military salute, and at the same time officially stipulated: In the future, they must not kneel and salute during training and combat, but can only salute each other. As for ceremonial occasions, they are given according to the usual practice. After all, kneeling is still a recognized etiquette in this era.

The next day, Hong Si came to General Su Chengyu's camp with the chief writers of the Mission Office. Tian Zhuangfei immediately presented the two recently completed plays "Ruizhou Tribulation" and "Zhanxia River" to Su Chengyu.

It must be said that this time the script is not as good as the last time Shi Kefa was written, probably because the Ganzhou War happened not long ago, and a lot of information was not known to the chief writers.

They only wrote that the Qing army Jin Shenghuan went down to Nanchang, Linjiang, Ruizhou, Fuzhou and other places until Xiajiang, and the last not-so-famous defender, Deng Wutai, blocked the Qing army's offensive.

However, these two episodes turned out to be "serials", and one more episode has been basically written. As the proposer of this idea, Tian Zhuangfei's creativity amazed Su Chengyu again.

According to the feedback from the missionaries, because the towns that fell in the play are very close to the people of Jiangxi, everyone feels the same way, and the expected effect of the drama is still good.

"My lord, what should I write in the next play?" After reporting on the recent situation, Hong Si asked again.

Su Chengyu thought for a while, and remembered another loyal minister who was as famous as Shi Kefa at the end of the Ming Dynasty - Yan Yingyuan.

This Jiangyin Dianshi - about the same as the current city public security bureau chief - led the people of Jiangyin to face more than 100,000 Qing troops and more than 100 cannons, trapped in the lonely city for 81 days, causing the Qing army to break three kings and eighteen generals in a row, and more than 70,000 people were killed and wounded!

On the day of the breakdown, none of the people surrendered, and only 53 people survived.

Due to the lack of information, Hong Si and the others did not know much about this matter, and after listening to what Su Chengyu said, they were also grieved, and vowed to write an excellent repertoire to pay tribute to the soul of Yan Dian Shizhong.

Su Chengyu roughly planned the outline and let Hong Si and Tian Zhuangfei preside over the compilation, among the four chief writers, this Tian Zhuangfei has been faintly headed, and Su Chengyu also wants to train him well.

In addition, Su Chengyu asked Hong Si to start planning for the recruitment of a new batch of missionaries and chief writers.

This mission cannot be confined to Longnan, Jiangxi is full of smoke, and it is precisely the time when it is necessary to stabilize the people's hearts. Quannan, Dingnan, Xinfeng and other counties will also begin to be included in the scope of mission.

Early the next morning, before the assembly training began, Su Chengyu first gathered the instructors together and reviewed the military song of the Longwei Battalion.

Today's training was supposed to be about turning between queues, but unusually, all the recruits and veterans gathered in the center of the school yard first. Macedo first taught everyone to salute, and also embarrassed this foreigner, and he saluted the military salute in a night, and it is estimated that he stayed up late last night to practice.

After the soldiers roughly grasped the military salute, a banner shining with the sun and moon was held out by two personal soldiers.

Yu Xin shouted: "Put it down!" Raise the military flag and salute! ”