Chapter 42 Guiding Envoys

"Below is the instructor of the first battalion, three companies and one platoon, Zhang Zhiqing." In a certain barracks, a young man in a military uniform was polite, but he immediately thought of something, and immediately stood up with his hands down, "Due to the shortage of manpower due to guidance, I will be in charge of teaching military discipline and regulations in the first and second platoons of the third company tonight." ”

Similar instructors appeared in other barracks, holding the "Military Discipline Regulations" to explain to the non-commissioned officers one by one. Su Chengyu has told them these contents several times in the past few days, and they have memorized them well.

But in the face of the barracks full of soldiers, the Xiucai instructors were still a little nervous.

These instructions centered on the disciples and protΓ©gΓ©s of the Zodiac Zhou. In addition to Chen Xiongfei and Xia Fuxian, who can fight and Hong Si, who has the most flexible mind, more than 20 other talents have been instructives.

In addition, Su Chengyu selected a total of 31 students from the last time they participated in the recruitment examination of the Mission Office. After the interview, eighteen of them went to the mission house, while the remaining thirteen joined the Longwei New Army as instructors.

To be honest, in order to persuade these more than ten people to join the army, Su Chengyu still spent a lot of effort. However, the imperial court agreed to grant these humanistic official ranks, plus the military salaries were good, and they were finally tempted.

Most of them are enthusiastic scholars who have a sense of responsibility for the country and the nation. In addition, Confucianism was naturally good at ideological work, and Su Chengyu only trained these people briefly, and they quickly became qualified ideological educators.

However, due to the small number of personnel, these instructors could only be assigned to the platoon level, all of which were sergeant ranks, and the rank of platoon deputy and second-in-command. For the time being, Ying Tianxiang is responsible for the convening and management of all instructors.

Su Chengyu's goal is to gradually increase the number of company- and battalion-level instructors when there are sufficient manpower in the future, so as to form a complete ideological education system for the army. The biggest difference between the modern army and the feudal army is not the weaponry, but the people's ideology.

With ideals, a sense of mission, and a sense of honor, and knowing why he is fighting, how can such a soldier not be able to win in the face of an enemy who is forced by his master's coercion or who participates in the war to grab money and women?

The main task of the guidance envoy is to carry out ideological education and propaganda on army policies for the soldiers in accordance with Su Chengyu's training.

Ideals, a sense of mission, and a sense of honor will not appear out of thin air, but must be guided and educated by the outside world. The Guides are these Guides.

The next day's training content is resting, straddle and other movements.

As a result of frequent training, the officer's performance at this time was significantly higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and he began to share the training work, in fact, training others is also the best training for himself.

Su Chengyu still couldn't leave, after all, although Macedo and the others had training experience under the standard system, many of their concepts were still outdated in front of Su Chengyu, and he needed to remind them often.

At the end of the day's drill, Su Chengyu returned to the camp and found that Hong Si and Tian Zhuangfei and others were waiting there.

Hong Si saluted and reported: "Your Highness...... Oh, Lord Commander, "Blood Splattered Yangzhou" has been written, please take a look. ”

Tian Zhuangfei immediately presented a stack of manuscripts, which was the play about Shi Kefa's martyrdom against the Qing Dynasty that Su Chengyu ordered them to complete a few days ago.

To say that these four new chief writers of the mission office are really hard enough, it only took less than five days to write a brand new opera repertoire from scratch. Several of them had barely slept in the first place.

Although Su Chengyu doesn't understand a lot of lyrics, the basic storyline is still fine. The whole drama starts from Shi Kefa's persuasion of Gao Jie to the north, and ends with the end of the Yangzhou ten-day tragedy, the plot is tragic and tragic and tear-jerking, in general, it is a very good script.

When he saw that "Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, two traitors, transferred the main force of the Ming army to Shangjiang, leaving Yangzhou with a thousand miles of empty camps. Shi Kefa only had 3,000 soldiers, and in the face of tens of thousands of Qing troops besieging the city, the situation was as dangerous as an egg. Yangzhou is lost, and the capital Nanjing is no longer in danger. At this time, I suddenly remembered those classic lines in the movie "Peach Blossom Fan".

So he put pen to paper and added a few lines to the paragraph where Shi Kefa swore in Yangzhou. "'The Qing soldiers entered the customs, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and the officials of the frontier were surrendered either to escape. Although Yangzhou is small, we must leave a righteous atmosphere between heaven and earth! The Cabinet said, "Listen to me." Three thousand of you, 1,000 to meet the enemy, 1,000 to defend the interior, and 1,000 to patrol the outside. It is unfavorable to go into battle, defend the city; The defense of the city is unfavorable, street fighting; Street fighting is unfavorable, short-circuited; Shorting is not good, suicide. ’”

Hong Si, Tian Zhuangfei and others saw these few words on the side, only to feel that the blood was surging up, and they were shocked all over, and they couldn't wait to return to Yangzhou at that time, as one of the three thousand soldiers in the Shi Ge Department, they swore to defend Yangzhou!

After a while, Hong Si came back to his senses and said sincerely: "These few sentences of my lord can really be described as the finishing touch of the whole play." ”

Su Chengyu felt ashamed for a while, and secretly apologized to Comrade Kong Shangren, the author of "Peach Blossom Fan", and quickly collected his emotions and instructed Hong Si, "When the missionaries bring people back to the missionary house, I will copy this "Blood Splattered Yangzhou" to them and stage it in various places as soon as possible. ”

He took a few more pieces of paper from the case, "The top one is the recruitment notice I just prepared, and I asked the missionaries to read it after the play. The next few are the repertoire you need to write next, mainly about the recent war in Ganzhou, to let the people know what happened on the front line, and how the officers and soldiers fought to the death. ”

"Yes!" Hong Si and the others bowed and retreated.

The various places in Longnan have been like the New Year recently. In the past few days, local and foreign opera troupes or storytellers have been giving free performances everywhere. These people, who have rarely watched a play once in a few years, have all surrounded the stage, which is much better than those idol concerts in later generations.

Wang Ke took the troupe to eight villages in five days and performed more than ten performances. Now the mission has left a very good impression on the hearts of the people.

At this time, he was leading people to Heigou Village. In the past two days, the troupe he led has just finished rehearsing "Blood Splash Yangzhou".

He has watched the play several times, but every time he watches it again, he is still very excited.

Almost all the people in Heigou Village, rich and poor, gathered here, they had just watched the free play of the mission house a few days ago, but they didn't expect to come again today. A huge red cloth was pulled up on the temporary stage, with a line of big characters on it: Mission Mansion Huimin Performance.

According to the process arranged by Su Chengyu, Wang Ke took the lead on stage, read out some new policies of the imperial court aloud, and then read out the major events that have happened in various parts of the country recently, and finally, under the expectant eyes of the villagers, announced the start of the big play.

Hearing the title of the play, the villagers are looking forward to it even more - this is a new play that they have never heard of before!

Everyone soon understood that what was sung in the play was the matter of Shi Kefa's cabinet guarding Yangzhou not long ago.