Su Chengyu immediately called Ying Tianxiang, took Hong Si and Tian Zhuangfei, and the four of them read the paper together.

It took a day and a night to complete the examination papers and select a total of 25 people for the mission office.

There are also sixty-four people who are suitable to be instructors. But whether they can finally join the Dragon Guard Army will have to wait for Su Chengyu's interview to be determined.

Due to the vigorous propaganda of the missionary government, Longnan and several surrounding counties have gradually regarded joining the Longwei Army as an honor.

Moreover, this guidance has made the civil and official ranks, and the salary is also quite generous, and it has almost become the first choice for scholars who have no hope of a career.

With these men on board, the Dragon Guard has been able to basically ensure that each platoon is equipped with a guide.

The training pressure of the instructor is also getting heavier and heavier, but with the model of the more excellent old instructor leading the newcomer, Su Chengyu can also cope with it.

He was already considering whether to add a mentoring profession to the Royal Military Academy.

At a time when the soldiers of other armies still have the idea that "being a soldier is to be paid" and "being able to mix for a day is a day", the guidance envoys of the Long Wei Army carried out meticulous ideological guidance work around each soldier, from telling them what they were fighting for and what the Chinese nation was, to guiding them how to realize their ideals in life and how to gain the respect of others.

Now the soldiers of the Dragon Guard Army have begun to have the identity of the Chinese nation and the Ming Dynasty, and have developed the concept of protecting the family and defending the country and the supremacy of honor.

Once this sprout appears, it will surely make the Dragon Guard crush all enemies in terms of morale and will to fight. Not to mention that their equipment is the most advanced in the entire Eastern world, even if they are armed with machetes in hand-to-hand combat, there is no old army that is their opponent.

On the side of Longnan Mission Mansion, Su Chengyu arranged for Tian Zhuangfei to be the ambassador and be responsible for daily work.

This talent has a flexible mind, has a good grasp of the interests and psychology of ordinary people, and with this period of training, he should be able to manage Longnan's propaganda work.

When Ambassador Tian took office, he immediately changed into his brand-new eight-grade official uniform, and walked around the door of Liu Yuanwai's house very unkindly.

But time passed, and he watched the Liu family close the door in fright, and soon felt bored, after all, he and the Liu family were far from being on the same level. He shook his head, returned home, and began to talk about the marriage with the second lady of the Cheng family in Luo County next month.

Hong Si took the newly recruited missionary and chief writer to Xinfeng County to preside over the preparation of the missionary office there.

According to the instructions of the king of Chenzhou, he then went to Dingnan, Anyuan and other counties to spread the missionary work south of Ganzhou. In the future, he will be responsible for overseeing the mission offices in various regions and regularly report to His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou on the status of propaganda work.

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The first month of the second year of Longwu.

That is, nearly five months after the official establishment of the Longwei New Army.

On the vast Dragon Guard cavalry training ground.

More than 100 cavalrymen in a neat formation were speeding past a row of chest-high wooden stakes with three-foot long swords, and the tips of their swords accurately pierced the spherical straw bales on the top of the stakes.

The cavalrymen were dressed in shiny plate armor with a cyan wolf head painted on their chests with sharp teeth exposed. On top of his head is a cyan oval steel helmet, which protects his ears and nose, revealing only his piercing eyes. Under the crotch are all tall and strong Hetao horses, all of them are majestic and powerful.

These are the two heavy cavalry companies under the command of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion of the Dragon Guard Army conducting horizontal charge training.

After the team swept over the stake, the two company commanders quickly coordinated with the heralds in the language of the flag, and each directed the soldiers to turn around and reassemble in formation.

In less than half a minute, the two companies were rearranged in a neat horizontal row. Lian Lian always raised the cavalry sword in his hand and shouted: "Charge!" ”

All the soldiers immediately roared with him: "Charge! ”

On the one hand, this method of repeating the orders of the officers throughout the army can very well boost morale, and on the other hand, in this era when communication is basically based on shouting, it can also ensure that everyone can accurately hear the instructions.

Suddenly, the ground trembled, and more than 140 cavalrymen from two companies rushed towards the target with the momentum of crushing all obstacles.

Since the end of the first two months of basic platoon training, all cavalry have had to perform hundreds of such charge, thrust drills every day.

The other end of the training ground. After Xia Fu first ordered "the whole battalion to form a hollow phalanx", the herald immediately passed on the order.

As the drummer beat a specific drum, the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion immediately ran quickly, and in just over a minute, a phalanx of more than 500 soldiers appeared in the clearing.

A hundred paces away, the cavalry, who had assisted in the training of the infantry, immediately charged. With the dust that obscured the sky, hundreds of cavalry rushed towards the infantry battalion from all directions.

The infantry in the phalanx held the gun in their hands steadily, and their expressions were unwavering. Now that similar training was done dozens of times every three days, they had little sense of the oncoming cavalry.

A few soldiers even whispered about their training experiences.

When the cavalry rushed to a distance of seventy paces, Xia Fu first shouted: "Aim!" Shoot! ”

Although it was not loaded with buckshot, the loud sound of a fiery gun was still terrifying. Then the infantrymen raised their flintlock guns, their bright bayonets pointing diagonally outward, and all the soldiers looked unusually determined. The phalanx immediately turned into a large hedgehog overgrown with bayonets.

Eventually, the cavalry turned to the sides about ten meters in front of the phalanx, waiting to assemble and charge again.

The artillery training grounds, however, were the quietest.

Chen Xiongfei used a telescope to determine the location of the target set by the trainees in the distance, then observed the terrain around him and quickly determined that a mound could be used as a firing position.

As the herald conveyed his order to the officers and men of the 31st Artillery Company, several artillerymen immediately fixed the blasting sticks, cannon brushes, gun gauges and other tools to the side of the gun carriage, and then four of them vigorously lifted the legs of the gun carriage, and the other two pulled the horses with a pair of wheels next to them.

Behind the four horses there was a groove in the axle of the wheel, into which the legs of the gun carriage fit just right, and the soldiers held the gun carriage in place with two iron pins.

The gun originally had a pair of wheels and a pair of wheels that had just been installed, so that the gun carriage immediately turned into a four-wheeled carriage.

The soldiers immediately led their horses and hurried to the position designated by Chen Xiongfei. When they arrived, they disengaged the gun mount from their horses and were ready to fire almost instantly.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the five guns were transferred from firing to another position two miles away, ready to fire.

This may not seem like much, but in the Ming Dynasty, it would take at least two hours to move a cannon weighing nearly a thousand pounds to two miles away! It took more than half an hour just to erect a wooden frame to remove the artillery from the gun mount and load it onto the car.

It took more than ten minutes to load the gun mount. When it arrives at the place, this operation will have to be reversed again.

They had enough time to move their positions once enough for the Dragonguards to circle around them several times.