On the nineteenth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Army Day of the caravan was protected.

In the morning, a simple high platform was erected on the wide river beach on the west side of the ruins of Sanhui Town. A big drama is being staged on the high platform: the first-level propaganda team of Shu who rushed from Chengdu Mansion to the labor army is performing the classic play of Shu Wangfu: the yellow-haired girl.

The long bamboo poles on both sides of the stage provoked a pair.

On the left is "traitors turn people into ghosts", and on the right is "the son of the world turns ghosts into people".

There were nearly 200 Tusi soldiers sitting in the audience, looking intently at the glamorous yellow-haired girl on the stage, crying and laughing, singing and dancing, poignant and incomprehensible.

Zagu Tusi Bing has been learning Chinese and Chinese characters, but most people can only understand the word "daddy" shouted by the yellow-haired girl, and can only recognize the word "person" on the pair. At this time, the dozen or so comrades-in-arms and translators of Tianquan Tusi played a big role. They memorized the plot and main lines on the stage, and then translated them into Yi according to their own understanding, and told them to these Zagu soldiers who had just received their salaries.

Behind the Zagu Tusi soldiers sat about 600 Hezhou regiment training soldiers who had just been replenished, as well as hundreds of people who had been recaptured by the Protector Army and were rebuilding their homes. Most of the Hezhou regiment's training came from peasant households north of Hezhou, and they were both unfamiliar and nervous about the tense life of the Protector Army. They didn't expect that in this unfamiliar place, they would be able to watch a big drama that they might not be able to watch during the previous Chinese New Year, and they were all very excited, and their necks were stretched out.

Luo Jingyun and Chen Youfu sat side by side. Luo Jingyun said with a smile: "The effect of literary and artistic propaganda is good!" To engage in publicity, the first thing is to attract people, and then to talk about educating people! ”

There is a lot of twitter behind him, both Chinese and Tibetan. Luo Jingyun glanced at his silent old partner beside him, and said with a smile: "When I go to a new place in the future, no matter what, this play can still be played!" As long as you can act, the Protector Army is still the Protector Army! ”

Chen Youfu opened his mouth, and his tone was a little emotional: "The two of us have been working together for a whole year!" In a year, from the sketch mark to the soldier, and from the soldier to the general, it is all a dream to think about! ”

"I used to be just a troublesome little scholar, and I didn't get much better. Mr. Tian once said: The times create heroes! That's true! ”

"The prince of the world also said: The times choose great men! This is the choice of the times for people! Chen Youfu responded with a smile.

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Luo Jingyun and Chen Youfu were talking quietly, and the big drama on the high stage had gradually reached a climax.

In order to make the past baby soldiers in the audience resonate to the greatest extent, the yellow-haired girl on the stage specially tied a "gang canon" that Tibetan women like to wear outside the costume, that is, an apron sewn with colored strips.

When she was humiliated by the great gentry Zhou Shiren, she looked up at the sky helplessly, stood on tiptoe and spun quickly, and by the rotation of her body, she danced her weak and boneless thin arms in a hurry, and finally stumbled miserably, and fell on the stage miserably.

The instincts of the baby soldiers in the audience have finally been resurrected.

People in the world always have something in common about aesthetics; Men always have a hero to save beauty complex for women.

The yellow-haired girl on the stage, with her poignant eyes, water-like tenderness, and tragic life experience, tickled the plateau men who grew up in the cow dung heap under the stage all the time.

Before the play was finished, the audience was already crying. Eventually, the cry turned into an angry roar.

Of course, the baby soldiers also know that they are acting, and they can't rush to the stage to heroically save the beauty. With nowhere to vent their emotions, they pressed their long knives in their hands and began to scream. The recruits are also afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and they will roar with the ethnic minorities.

If the play can't be done, the re-enactment must be chaotic. Luo Jingyun and Chen Youfu discussed it for a while, and decided to carry out ideological education on the spot, and the topic of the discussion was to talk about why the yellow-haired girl was oppressed and why Zhou Shiren was tyrannical and domineering based on his own experience.

A tall soldier with a slightly hunched shoulder jumped onto the stage, shouting incessantly, the big knife in his hand trembling, and crying as he shouted.

Seeing this, Xu Yinhuan, the commander of the Zagu Battalion, hurriedly introduced to the two regiment leaders that this Zagu soldier's name was Tashi Gwa, and everyone called him Tashi, who was a squad leader. The battle was very brave, and he killed more than a dozen local thugs in Sanhui Town alone.

After saying that, Xu Yinhuan stood up and jumped on the stage to personally translate for Tashi.

It turned out that this Tashi Dao, his parents were slaves, and he and his younger siblings were also born slaves. Slave owners never treated them as human beings.

His father was sick, and before his breath was broken, he was thrown into the bottomless valley by the slave owner; His mother carried water for the slave owner, and died of exhaustion on the towering stone steps; His brother herded horses for slave owners, and when one of the horses ran, he was beaten to death; His sister was spoiled by the slave owners, and finally went mad and was thrown into the stables to eat. He himself was sent to the battlefield to grab territory for the slave owner, only to become a slave of another Tusi.

Today he watched the play and finally understood, why did the slave owners dare to bully them? It's because the slave owners are in the same league as the traitors of the imperial court! As long as the big traitor, the master who supports the slave owner, is defeated, the slave owner will no longer dare to bully a baby like him!

At the end, Tashi also excitedly said that the whole world belongs to the emperor. There is a big traitor around the emperor, why does the emperor ignore it? It can be seen that this emperor is also a bastard, and he is also in the same league as the slave owner. Therefore, he suggested that the emperor should be made by His Royal Highness the Great Prince. In this world, only the son of the world treats these lowly babies as human beings, gives them food, clothes them, heals them, gives them houses to live in, and gives them silver.

When the prince becomes the emperor, he will definitely gouge out the eyes and tongues of the traitors and slave owners, pick up their skin and cramp, and let them turn over and become human beings, and they will no longer be oppressed by others!

Xu Yinhuan, who spoke Tibetan well, translated most of Tashi's speeches, except for the one that suggested that the prince should be emperor.

The only Tibetan language that the recruits and ordinary people in the audience could understand was a word with a strong accent that kept popping out of Tashi's mouth: "Drama!" Actors! ”

But in addition to the recruits and civilians, there were also 200 miscellaneous soldiers in the audience, and they all understood Tashi's speech. Tashi shouted a word on stage, and they responded to it off the stage.

"It works great! Brother-in-law really has a way, even the barbarians of Zagu admire it so much! Luo Jingyun admired in his heart. He decided to immediately write today's case into the briefing of the supervising army and asked Mr. Sun to see if there was any value in promoting it in various units.

Just as Luo Jingyun was thinking about something, he saw a few fast horses running. The first general was the deputy head of the regiment, He Qiukou.

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Last night, He Qiukou received an order from the General Staff Headquarters, asking him to immediately report to Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun in Sanhui Town, and he didn't say anything. In a hurry, he immediately put on armor and set off from Yingshan County with his guards.

Nearly 200 miles of rotten roads made He Qiukou run for three full hours. When he arrived at the place, he saw two commanders of the field army with a large group of Tusi soldiers, recruits and civilians watching the big show, which made him scratch his head for a while.

The regiment headquarters is on a small slope next to Sanhui Town. In the Chinese military tent, Chen Youfu brought a bowl of water to He Qiukou and gave him a dough cake. Watching He Qiukou swallow a few bites, Chen Youfu gave Luo Jingyun a look.

Luo Jingyun took out a piece of yellow letterhead from his arms and solemnly read it:

"The prince has a will: From now on, he will serve as the head of the Fourth Regiment of the National Protector Army, and also the captain of the Shunqing Protector Brigade!"

"Command!" He Qiukou hurriedly put down the water bowl, went to Luo Jingyun and knelt down on one knee to the will, and then held the will above his head with both hands. He stood up and accepted the will, didn't ask about his task, and asked Chen Youfu in the first sentence: "Regiment commander, you fought well, why did you withdraw?!" ”

"This is to ask our prison army, the prince ordered him to pass on the decree!" Chen Youfu smiled wryly, "Where do I want to go?" It would be nice to be able to return home with a large army one day! Hey, but ......."

"The reason for the transfer, I can't say it now, the prince ordered me to convey it to the head of the regiment and Lin Yan together. However, I can show the wind in advance: Head Chen is transferred, it is another reuse, in short, it is not a demotion, let alone a dismissal. Luo Jingyun smiled mysteriously at He Qiukou, and then asked him to take advantage of Lin Yan's arrival to talk about the situation in Pengzhou and Yingshan first.

“…… My eldest brother is now eyeing that silver! ”

He Qiukou told the two of them about He Zengshan's secret plan: "The eldest brother said that the price of grain is high now, and it is profitable to grow grain. Yuechi is a rich county rich in grain, and the local tyrants in the city are no poorer than Guang'an City! Think about it, two hundred horses, even if one horse is a hundred catties, two hundred horses are three hundred and twenty thousand taels! It's enough for three regiments of the National Protector Army to pay a year's salary! No wonder Wang Gao and Wang Guangxing, the two thieves, were reluctant to move Yuechi, and they refused to move their nests, so they were hiding in the city and dumping silver ingots! ”

"Listen to Mr. Shu, a lot of silver was also seized in Guang'an City, that is, the grain was eaten up." Chen Youfu said with a smile.

After a big victory, everyone was in a good mood, but Chen Youfu still felt that he should give He Qiukou a reminder: "The silver and food of the local tyrants were all stolen from the people. The National Protector Army must first ensure that the people are fed and clothed. Spring is coming, and the idle land must be divided in time, as well as farm tools and seeds. Shizi said well, without the people, the national protector army is water without a source, a tree without roots, and no matter how many troops there are, it is useless. ”

"Head Chen is about to be transferred, and he didn't forget to ask a few words." Luo Jingyun smiled and made a joke about Chen Youfu. At this time, they heard a rush of footsteps outside the tent, and then a report: "Lin Yan, the commander of the third battalion of the fourth regiment, is ordered to report!" ”

"Come in!" Chen Youfu smiled and ordered loudly.

As soon as the tent curtain was lifted, Lin Yan walked in from outside the tent.

Since the Battle of the Land Pass in August last year, He Qiukou has not met Lin Yan a few times.

At the end of the year, after the large-scale offensive of the local rioters began, Lin Yan's 3rd Battalion, as the only mobile force of the 4th Regiment, quickly turned from Xinzheng Dam to Pengzhou along the left bank of the Jialing River, and relieved the siege of Yingshan. At that time, He Qiukou only had time to say a few words in a hurry, and the two broke up. After that, the 3rd Battalion was the vanguard of the 4th Regiment, and He Qiukou took the Huzhuang Brigade of two states and counties as the rearguard, and the two never met again.

Now goodbye, after two months of fighting, Lin Yan's eyebrows were not tired, but they were even more heroic.

"General He is also here!"

Lin Yan saluted the three commanders and reported the situation of the third battalion: "The construction of our battalion's camp is going well!" Every seventy paces of the line of defense there was a protruding enemy platform with trenches, deer barricades and traps outside; There are also bunkers at the pier.

Within the line of defense are prospects, beacons and warehouses. The conductor has a flagpole, which is used in flag language during the day and lanterns at night. Coupled with the sound of the horn, it can ensure smooth conduct.

The only thing missing is the cannon! Can't control the river. It is also not very convenient to contact the rear, and if you want to save trouble, you can only throw bamboo chips into the Ba River......

As long as the throttle gives us another ten days, the end will be impregnable! But the fire guns and tiger squat guns of the three battalions were too old and there were not enough of them. Three chiefs, can you find a chance to tell the prince about it, so that the Changping Mountain Hero Battalion can also see some new guys......"

"I didn't come to you to talk about the three camps." Chen Youfu interrupted Lin Yan and said, "The prince has a will!" ”

"Then please ask the head of the regiment to make a decree." Lin Yan smiled and said.

"I don't know the will, let the prison army read it." Chen Youfu stood up as he said and knelt down to Luo Jingyun. When Lin Yan saw it, he quickly smiled and knelt down.

"You don't have to kneel, it's the dictation of the son of the world that Gonggong Zhang came to pass on." Luo Jingyun pulled the two up and asked, "The prince first asked Camp Chief Lin, are you married?" ”

Hey? How could the big tent of the Chinese army ask about these men and women? Whether it was Lin Yan, the party, or Chen Youfu and He Qiukou, the two observers, they were immediately dumbfounded.

"The prince of the world, you have to tell the truth!" Luo Jingyun became serious: "This is not your personal matter, this is a major event in the world!" ”

"Report to the prince, the last general is not yet married, and there is no marriage contract!"

"Good!" Luo Jingyun smiled. Then he asked Lin Yan a second question, "I wonder if Camp Commander Lin is good?" ”