Chapter 123: The Teaching Team's Classroom
When Goxinga ambushed Huang Daping in the mountains, he took in dozens of orphans for the first time. However, in the course of previous campaigns, there will be more or less new recruits in the baggage company, plus the orphans taken in by Saishan'a during his stay, the Qing army now has an infantry company in its hands from eight or nine years old to eleven or twelve years old. Xiande and the others naturally hate these little ghosts who waste food, but Guo Xinga likes them very much, and in Guo Xing's eyes, they are the hope of the future.
Guoxinga really gave these orphans a company formation, with Fushun as the company commander, of course, this children's company has no military pay and only a small number of weapons are symbolically distributed. However, the far-sighted Saishana and Fengshenga and others asserted that this children's company was the most potential company of the Zuoling, and it can be seen from the training arrangements of this company.
Although children are not even able to fight and have never been on combat missions, their military training has never stopped. Every afternoon and evening, they would be personally drilled by the best soldiers of each company, and the training subjects ranged from hand-to-hand combat to artillery firing, covering all the subjects of the Qing army at present. They will not be special forces in the future, but commanders, because they will come to train after the cultural class in the morning.
Every morning and morning, the children have two cultural classes, the first of which is taught by Hyunde and Fengsheng. Feng Sheng'a is responsible for enlightening and preaching the spirit of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, and is too proficient in human feelings and sophistication, so he can only be responsible for teaching calligraphy. In the second lesson, the battalion and company commanders who have actually commanded various battles summarize and tell about the battles they have experienced from their own perspectives, so that the children can learn military command.
Of course, there is a third class, which is usually held in the evening, but it is not permanent, whether there will be this class or not depends entirely on the mood of the speaker, and the speaker is the supreme ruler of the leader, Goxinga. The soldiers of the Children's Company liked this lesson very much, because this lesson was very novel, there was no fixed content, it was basically what Guo Xinga thought of and said. It may be astronomy and geography, or the situation of countries around the world, or the sharing of famous war examples in ancient and modern times, which are all very magical things like listening to Journey to the West.
Some smart company platoon commanders saw something different, Guo Xing'a didn't play with a group of children, this was a great effort to cultivate. Therefore, a few people like Acton, Cao Meng, Li Zhi and others who reacted quickly pulled their cronies and platoon commanders to audit early in the morning, and later found that there were more and more people, and almost most of the platoon commanders came to listen to the lecture with their own small benches. Every time the class started, the children were surrounded by a group of company leaders, like a parent-teacher conference.
When the time came, Guo Xing'a immediately announced that the children's company would be renamed the teaching team, and the captain would be Guo Xing'a's own leader. The platoon commanders of each company can apply to join the training, and during the training period, they can concurrently serve as squad and platoon leaders in the training team. Acton and a few others who reacted quickly naturally grabbed the opportunity to sign up, and the others didn't even have the opportunity to sign up. Goxinga once again announced that in view of the limited number of places, the training team will only accept soldiers who have received meritorious service awards or officers who are ready to be promoted, and will no longer accept individual registration.
Guo Xing'a never went to a military school and didn't understand those systematic command training skills, so he turned his classes into improvised, and the content was aimlessly whatever he thought of. However, the company commanders who mainly talked about military command training in the second section were even more apprehensive, and their content was not much, and they were speechless after a few words. It turned out that it was easy to fool in the face of a group of children, but now there are more than a dozen platoon first-class robes below, especially a company commander with old qualifications like Acton, it's really hard to mix! Later, Goxinga announced that since everyone's combat experience was almost shared, when this second class was replaced with an English class, the teachers who did not have to go to class cheered.
Rong Hong, who teaches English, is not happy at all, at least on the side of the Taiping Army, he is still a guest of state affairs, and in Guoxinga, he can only be regarded as an English teacher whose freedom is restricted. Moreover, Guo Xinga also forced him to attend morning Chinese classes with the teaching team, and although the identities of teachers and students here are always changed, Rong Hong still feels very humiliated.
When Yung Hong was in Guangdong and Shanghai, he had studied Chinese with missionaries, and although he was not very good at listening, speaking, reading and writing, he definitely did not want to study with a group of street children and soldiers. First of all, Yung felt that his Chinese could cope with the situation he needed to face. Secondly, it is unseemly to mingle with rude soldiers. In the end, he was very disgusted with the evil thoughts that Phong Sheng Ah was spreading.
However, Rong Hong has no ability to resist, the so-called heroes do not suffer immediate losses, and when Rong Hong faced the terrifying Guoxinga, he wisely chose to be a good man. So except that he doesn't have to participate in military training, Rong Hong lives almost the same life as the teaching team. After three or two days, Feng Sheng'a was not so evil.
There are no holidays here in Goxinga, and everyone adds meat on Chinese New Year's Eve to be the biggest treat. Because the hateful long hair is not old, people have a "laying egg" festival, and the Qing army has to prevent the long hair sneak attack. Since there was no holiday, training and so on naturally went on as usual, and after five days as an English teacher and five days as a Chinese student, Rong Hong participated in the legendary evening class for the first time.
When Guoxing's murderous and domineering figure walked into the classroom, Rong Hong was very angry and didn't get up to greet him, although this was very impolite, but this was already the limit of Rong Hong's ability to resist. He only dared to express his dissatisfaction in this way of sitting on the flock, and could only fight over some polite details, and it just so happened that Guo Xinga didn't care much about the details. Of course, Rong Hong was not the only one sitting in the flock, and a handsome young man dressed strangely did not get up, and Rong Hong, who found his comrade, secretly changed his seat and ran to the young man's side.
"Today let's talk about why we fight! It seems that we have been thinking about this question all the time, let's discuss it together! "Goxinga was polite for a short time, and after sitting down, he went straight to the point. However, he smoked cigarettes, drank tea, and crossed Erlang's legs very undignified.
"It's all waiting for me to say! That's not a discussion, you talk first! Acton, you come first! Why are you fighting? "Guo Xing'a's lecture style is very much in line with his identity as a leader, and it is completely the routine of rural patriarchs holding meetings.
"Sweep away the rebels and serve the court!" Acton, who was named, stood up suddenly, and his posture was very standard, standing upright like a javelin, and replied with a roar.
"Discuss, discuss! Don't be so formal, talk about your heart, and don't censor you! "Goxinga doesn't look like an army commander at all.
"Hehe, let the court come, it's coming!" Acton smiled embarrassedly, and his upright posture did not relax.
"Hmmm! We have many brothers who are fighting because the court let us fight! Guo Xing'a nodded in affirmation, and asked Fuquan, who was his assistant teacher, to write this first point on the blackboard.
Rong Hong admires Guo Xing'a's self-made teaching equipment very much, the smoothed wooden board is brushed with ink to make a blackboard, and lime is mixed with water to make chalk. When Rong Hong decided to teach Chinese the Bible in the future, if the conditions were difficult, he must learn the inventions and creations of Guoxinga.
"Then you are affordable enough, the same court let the war, people have to mean it, you have to save your life first. You're really desperate, and the wound on your body looks scary now! Gohinga motioned for Acton to show the crowd his eternal military medal, a shocking wound on his thigh.
"It's not affordable, I'm afraid of death, and I want to run!" Everyone is very familiar with Guoxinga, and they are willing to dig their hearts in front of him, and Acton is a diehard member of Guoxinga.
"And how did you hold on?" Guo Xing'a smoked in a chic manner.
"My lord, you are so kind to me, I am a little specialist who can't be picked out by throwing it into the pile, and it was you who promoted me to the position of company commander. You teach me how to manage these brothers, you teach me to fight hands-on, you treat me as a brother, if I run away, how can I be worthy of you. And these brothers of mine, they were all brought out by me, if I run away, who cares about them! So I'm going to die, and I can't run! "The Qing army fought all the way to the wind, and in the only tough battle, Acton relied on these two beliefs to fight to the death and not retreat, blocking Huang Daping's strong attack.
"Good work!" Goxinga looked at Acton with a reassuring expression.
"Cao Meng, Li Zhi! What's the situation with you two brothers! Talk about it too! After Acton sat down, Gohinga ordered two of the best of the bandits.
"Our brothers were born as soldiers among bandits, and they started to fight for you, my lord, and if we didn't go to war at that time, you would have to kill us!" Li Zhi had a lot of contacts with Guoxing'a in private, even more than many banner people, and he took less care of words.
"Hahaha......" Guo Xing smiled and motioned for Li Zhi to continue, and the others also laughed.
"Later! How to say it! My lord, you really treat us as your own people, and everyone treats us as their own, of course we are willing to follow our lords. And we turned out to be a group of bandits, and we can be officials with adults! If you want to have a future as an official, of course you have to work hard. Besides, we owe you our lives! We really don't understand anything else, so we know how to repay it! If you don't kill us, give us back the future, and you have to fight for you! Cao Meng just stood with him, and Li Zhi became their spokesperson, but Li Zhi's words have actually incorporated a lot of things about Guoxing's brainwashing and education into it.
"You! ......" Guo Xing'a smiled and pointed at Li Zhi.
"I owe you two lives, and one for my brother!" People are familiar and big and small, Li Zhi can already say witty things casually in front of Guo Xing'a.
"Liao Xing'e, Wang Yaojiang, you two also talk about it!" Motioning for Li Zhi and Cao Meng to sit down, Guo Xing'a found two more Taiping Army soldiers to come out, these two people have become platoon commanders with outstanding combat achievements, and they will definitely be able to go further in the future.
"I'm ashamed to say that our brothers voted for you because they were afraid of death." Liao Xing'e and Wang Yaojiang were a little embarrassed.
"Abandon the darkness and turn to the light, abandon the darkness and turn to the light......" Guo Xing'a hurriedly took the next sentence, but he can't let the soldiers characterize themselves as greedy for life and afraid of death.
The young man around Rong Hong has been listening carefully, but he didn't say a word, and Rong Hong wanted to talk to him several times, but he didn't respond. This time, Guo Xing'a said "abandon the darkness and turn to the light", but he suddenly snorted heavily. Rong Hong was taken aback, this guy is openly rebelling against the brutal dictator Guo Xing! But it seems that everyone is used to it, and no one cares, if it weren't for Liao Xing'e and Wang Yaojiang nodding to this young man in shame, Rong Hong almost thought that he was a transparent person that only he could see.
"Let's focus on what we think now!" Guo Xinga was also a little afraid that the young man would embarrass him even more.
"Follow you, we are comfortable, not to mention the achievements, at least no one bullies us. In the future, we can also have our own official position, even if we don't have an official position, we can still have our own land, and fight for a wife! There is also a thankful retribution, you give us a life, and without you, our brothers still have to suffer the anger of those birdmen! "The two of them don't think much, one is to run for a future, and the other is Guoxing's brainwashing education.
"You two starving sons of glory, who bullied you, that is the birdman? Tell me the fuck clearly! The young man next to Rong Hong suddenly burst out, and picked up the stationery and bench at hand just like Wang Liao and the others threw it over.