The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 44 Military Salute, Military Song, Military Flag
The first group of people who came to join the army had already told their hometown what they had seen and heard in the Longwei barracks. The army was well-groomed, the food was plentiful, and the morale was high. Those who were hesitant before immediately made up their minds to enroll in the army.

One thousand four hundred strong.In less than 20 days, the number of Dragon Guards had nearly doubled and a half, and the newcomers were all strong and healthy.Zhu Linmei nodded and told Yu Xin, "Recruitment is accepted as usual, and the non-commissioned officers first, that is, the low-level officers will be in charge of twice as many recruits, and the training quality can be a little lower.

"But the mentors will work hard. The recruit battalion must have mentors to carry out ideological education work every day. First, recruit [-] recruits."

Speaking of this, Zhu Linmi deeply felt that the number of instructors was insufficient.If there is one guide for each platoon, forty or fifty guides are needed for the new barracks alone, and now the entire Dragon Guard only has more than 30 guides.

It is necessary to recruit a group of scholars as soon as possible to expand the leadership team. Zhu Lin thought in her heart that the ideological work of the army must not be sloppy, otherwise no matter how good the equipment is, it will be just a group of warlords.

"Yes!" Yu Xin nodded respectfully, and then continued, "The sea merchant named Ji Liang came the day before yesterday and brought several cannons. But since you were not in the camp, he only parked the truck in the There is no unloading at the gate of the camp, and it is agreed to come back at Youshi tomorrow."

It is really inconvenient to not have weixin transfers these days. Zhu Linmi was quite helpless, and secretly thought that a general logistics department should be established to take charge of the procurement of equipment.

"In addition, recently, due to the large amount of meat and vegetables purchased by the Dragon Guards, some merchants have started to stock up. Now the entire battalion's military food expenditure has more than doubled." Yu Xin continued, "The entire battalion spends a month on meals alone. More than 600 taels. What do you mean by this subordinate, do you want to reduce the meat?"

The imperial court only allocated 130 shimi and 1000 taels of military pay to the new Longwei army every month, which was not enough for the Longwei army's food consumption.

"No, the quality and quantity of the food must be maintained." Zhu Linmi shook her head firmly, "I will find a solution for the logistics."

"And winter is approaching, these winter clothes, quilts..."

"Army and horses were infected with the epidemic, and [-]% of them died of illness..."

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After Zhu Linming patiently dealt with these trivial matters one by one, she ordered Yu Xin to continue training soldiers.

"Yes!" Yu Xin bowed on one knee, then turned and left.

Zhu Linmei immediately remembered the matter of improving military etiquette.After some deliberation, he decided to use the military salute of the People's Army, which was clean and vigorous, and he was most familiar with this movement.

Then he thought that since there was a military salute, military songs and military flags should also be designed together.

He returned to the general camp, went through all kinds of exciting music familiar to later generations in his mind, and finally decided to choose the tune of "Yellow River Cantata". The vigorous and surging melody of this song can just sweep away Daming's current depression.

But the lyrics had to be modified to suit the current Dragon Guards. He picked up the pen and wrote while thinking, and soon the lyrics of "Dragon Guards Army Song" appeared on the paper:

The wind is roaring, the horse is screaming
The Yangtze River is roaring The Yellow River is roaring
The Great Wall of the Northern Territory is tall and the waves are surging in Poyang Dongting

There are so many anti-Qing heroes in Woyehuze

Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, dragons and guards are heroes

Take up the bow and crossbow

Roaring Hongyi Heavy Cannon

Defend your hometown, defend the Yangtze River
Defend the Yellow River and defend the entire Ming Dynasty

As for the style of the military flag, Zhu Linming spent 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 the moon shining together that was designed by someone on the forum.

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

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

After the soldiers had finished their supper, he called together all the instructors and began to teach them the military songs of the Longwei Battalion.

These instructions make some people understand the temperament quickly, but more than [-]% do not understand the temperament.Finally, at the request of Zhu Linmi, these "tone-deaf" spent more than an hour memorizing the melody by force.

Then Zhu Linmei called all the lieutenants and foreign instructors to teach them the new Dragon Guard military salute. At the same time, it was officially stipulated that in the future, kneeling salutes are not allowed during training and combat, but only military salutes to each other.As for ceremonial occasions, salutes are performed in accordance with past practices.After all, kneeling is still the accepted etiquette of this era.

The next day, Hong Si brought the chief writers from the Mission Office to Zhu Linmi's general camp.Tian Zhuangfei immediately presented the two recently completed plays "Ruizhou Robbery" and "War Xiajiang" to Zhu Linming.

It must be said that the script this time is not as good as the one written by Shi Kefa last time, probably because the war in Ganzhou happened not long ago, and the chief writers had no way of knowing a lot of information.

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

However, these two episodes turned out to be "serial dramas", and the next episode was basically finished.As the proposer of this idea, Tian Zhuangfei's creativity once again amazed Zhu Linmi.

According to the feedback from the missionaries, because the fallen towns in the play are very close to the people of Jiangxi, everyone feels the same way, and coupled with the expected effect of the series, the overall publicity is still good.

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

Zhu Linmi thought for a while, and thought of Yan Yingyuan, another loyal minister who was as famous as Shi Kefa in the late Ming Dynasty.

This Jiangyin Dianshi—approximately equivalent to the current Municipal Public Security Bureau Chief—led the people of Jiangyin to face more than 81 Qing troops and more than a hundred cannons, and was trapped in the isolated city for [-] days. More than [-] people!
On the day the city was broken, none of the people surrendered, and there were only 53 survivors, old and young.

Due to the lack of information, Hong Si and others didn't know much about this matter. After hearing what Zhu Linming said, they were all deeply saddened, and vowed to write an excellent play to pay homage to Yan Dianshi's loyal soul.

Zhu Linmi roughly planned the outline, and asked Hong Si and Tian Zhuangfei to preside over the compilation. Among the four chief writers, this Tian Zhuangfei is faintly headed, and Zhu Linmi also wants to train him well.

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

This mission should not be limited to Longnan. Jiangxi is full of wars, and it is time to stabilize the hearts of the people.Counties such as Quannan, Dingnan, and Xinfeng will also start to be included in the scope of missions.

In the morning of the next day, before the assembly training started, Zhu Linmi first assembled the instructors and reviewed the military songs of the Longwei Battalion.

The content of today's training was originally about turning between queues, etc., but very unusually, all the recruits and veterans first gathered in the center of the school field.Macedo first taught everyone the military salute, and made things difficult for the foreigner. He made the military salute look good in one night, and he probably stayed up late last night to practice.

After the soldiers roughly mastered the military etiquette, a flag shining with the sun and the moon was held out by two soldiers.

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

　Due to the fact that the historical data is not detailed enough, the name of King Yongning that appeared in the previous chapters is incorrect. The correct name should be: Zhu You (the wooden character is next to the upper and lower), and Zhu Youmao is used instead in the text.The name was changed in the previous chapters without affecting the plot.I am deeply sorry for this, and will do my best to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

　　
　
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