Author: Fat Bird Goes First

Su Ze's literary skill is only Level 3, and all he can remember are the selected ancient texts from high school Chinese textbooks.

But when it comes to novels, there is an article that is very suitable.

"Du Shiniang sank the treasure chest in anger"!

This novel is a classic short story written by Feng Menglong, a famous novelist in the late Ming Dynasty. It is included in "Warning Words", one of the three chapters. It can be said to be the pinnacle of popular novels in the late Ming Dynasty!

It mainly tells the story of the heroine Du Shiniang who fell in love with Li Jia and wanted to redeem herself and become a good person. Li Jia was cowardly by nature and was instigated by others to betray Du Shiniang. In the end, Du Shiniang took her treasure box and sank to the bottom of the river angrily.

This story breaks through the traditional story frame of a talented man and a beautiful woman, and depicts Li Jia, a cowardly and hypocritical scholar.

The heroine Du Shiniang dares to love and hate, and is kind-hearted and loves justice more than wealth. She is also a very distinctive female image in the history of literature.

Feng Menglong's novels were popular all over the country in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. They can be said to be the pinnacle of ancient Chinese short stories. The next peak period of popular literature will not come until the late Qing Dynasty.

In terms of story structure, this short article can also be said to be quite exciting.

With twists and turns and constant reversals, the plot can be said to be both unexpected and reasonable.

It can even be said that this article excerpts the dialogue and it is a wonderful excerpt!

After Su Ze wrote the article silently, he read it twice carefully and added punctuation marks to the article.

There are no punctuation marks in ancient books.

When starting to read, one of the main tasks of the teacher is to teach students how to segment sentences.

However, although there are no punctuation marks in books, readers will draw circles at the end of sentences. This circle is called "sentence reading".

For example, many ancient Chinese books published by Zhonghua Book Company have the so-called "Sentence Reading" version, which is a version with punctuation marks added to the book to facilitate modern people's reading.

Since it is a popular reading, Su Ze of course has to use punctuation marks.

The entire article was written in vernacular, and after adding punctuation marks, Su Ze called Xiong Wu, who was literate, to read it again.

Xiong Wu took the article. Although he had never seen those strange punctuation marks, he quickly understood that they were used to break up sentences.

Sure enough, with the punctuation marks, Xiong Wu could read faster and more smoothly. After reading the whole story, he stood up angrily and said:

"My lord, where is this Li Jia! I must kill this ungrateful scholar!"

Su Ze said: "Sit down! This is just a script I wrote!"

Xiong Wu said in despair: "Ms. sir, is there really no such wonderful woman as Du Shiniang in this world?"

Seeing Xiong Wu's reaction, Su Ze was relieved about "Du Shiniang Angered and Sinking the Treasure Box". This article would be appreciated by both refined and popular people, and it would definitely be the first hit in tabloid sales.

Su Ze asked Xiong Wu to hand over the manuscript to Yao Chun for typesetting and printing. The length of "Du Shiniang's Fury and Sinking of the Treasure Box" was not short and could just fill two pages. Now all four pages of the tabloid had been filled.

When Yao Chun printed a sample of the magazine, Su Ze inserted an advertisement for Yu Zongyuan Bookstore in the corner. He planned to put the tabloid on sale in the bookstore first. This advertisement could be regarded as a return for the young master's generous investment.

Everything is ready, the next step is the name of the tabloid.

The Fuzhou Prefecture tabloid has no name, because apart from the official Di Bao, Fuzhou Prefecture has only one newspaper, so it naturally does not need a name.

But Nanping County is different. Now that Huang Shixing wants to run a newspaper, Su Ze's tabloid wants to compete with him. It can't do without a famous name.

Su Ze thought for a while, said sorry to Feng Menglong again, and wrote the words "surprised by the crime" on the header.

This name can be said to be easy to understand, but it also makes people want to read the specific content. It can be said to be quite a headline.

And it immediately made clear the nature of newspapers as popular reading materials, giving ordinary people the motivation to buy them.

After finishing all this, Su Ze handed the revised sample magazine to Yao Chun and Xiong Wu and ordered them to print fifty copies.

Su Ze was also very busy in the next few days. First, Lin Mojun came to ask for advice on the follow-up training.

Lin Mojun is also a very good thinker. She asked Su Ze:

"Since the cannon team can be divided into two columns to shoot, why not divide into three columns?"

Su Ze also didn't expect that Lin Mojun had already begun to think about such a problem. She was indeed an extremely talented military genius.

In fact, during the Napoleonic era, various European countries at that time conducted discussions and research on whether the infantry should be divided into two or three columns.

Three columns taking turns to load will definitely have a higher firing frequency than two columns taking turns to load and fire, which means more firepower.

But in subsequent research, Napoleon discovered that the effect of the three columns was very low, and would even drag down the entire team.

First of all, when the third column fires, it can easily cause casualties to the soldiers in the first column.

Because of the poor stability of gun guns these days, this phenomenon will often occur whether it is exploding the chamber or detaining the gun prematurely.

Don't underestimate people's panic. On a precarious battlefield, the probability of soldiers making mistakes is much higher than ordinary people imagine.

Forgetting to use the purge bar, or accidentally pulling the trigger when using the purge bar to reload, are common occurrences, and once this happens in the third column, it will cause damage to the soldiers in the front row.

When marching, the soldiers in the two rows can clearly see the road ahead, but the soldiers in the third row can only stumble forward blindly. On the uneven battlefield with messy corpses, the soldiers in the third row can easily fall.

After listening to Su Ze's explanation, Lin Mojun nodded. She actually tried to practice with a three-row phalanx, and the result was exactly as Su Ze said. The three-row phalanx was very unstable, and the soldiers in the third row

It is easy to fall.

Lin Mojun asked again: "What the musketry team fears most is being attacked. Does sir have any good ideas?"

As a military genius, Lin Mojun naturally thought of ways to defeat the enemy after seeing the advantages and power of the gun.

In her opinion, the blunderbuss is not invincible.

The reloading speed is slow, but if you can rush in front of the gunners quickly, you still have a good chance of defeating the gunners.

It is no problem to fight bandits with poor discipline like the Black Mountain Bandits, but the Japanese pirates themselves are good at sudden attacks. If they are attacked by Japanese pirates holding Japanese swords, it will be difficult for the musketry team to continue to maintain their formation.

Su Ze nodded. Lin Mojun's thinking was very correct, but Su Ze also thought of a way to deal with it.

"This is the next stage of my training."

Su Ze took out a pamphlet and handed it to Lin Mojun. Lin Mojun opened it and saw the "Bayonet Drill Plan".

"bayonet?"

Lin Mojun said doubtfully: "Isn't the bayonet used after all the ammunition?"

Su Ze then remembered that the blunderbuss also had a bayonet.

It's just that the bayonet of the blunderbuss is different from the bayonet of later rifles. The bayonet of the blunderbuss is inserted into the barrel of the gun.

Because it needs to be inserted into the barrel of the gun, the bayonet of the gun is basically used as a last resort, that is, after the ammunition is used up, it is used desperately.

However, Su Ze's improved bayonet was mounted on the barrel of the blunderbuss, which meant that it could still be fired after being equipped.

Lin Mojun's eyes lit up. If the gunman was equipped with a bayonet, wouldn't he become a spearman?

That way you won’t be afraid of Japanese pirates’ advance tactics!

Lin Mojun smiled and left with the "Bayonet Drill Plan", and Su Ze had new thoughts.

Su Ze didn't take out the bayonet before because the bayonet was not as useful as he thought.

Bayonets actually appeared very early, because the earliest muskets in Europe were used together with pikemen. After pikemen were eliminated, it became a natural choice to install bayonets on musketeers.

At that time, the Russian army generally liked to use bayonets. The Russian general Suvorov had a famous saying, "The bayonet is a hero, the bullet is a fool." The Russian army at that time preferred bayonet impact.

But in fact this is not the case. The bayonet is not as effective as imagined on a mature battlefield with thermal weapons.

Napoleon once counted wounded soldiers and found that 98% of the soldiers were injured by bullets and only 2% were injured by bayonets.

So from this time on, Napoleon took the initiative to cancel the bayonets among the musketeers in the line, and specially set up bayonet columns. The main function was not to kill the enemy, but to rush in and destroy the enemy's morale.

But the art of war is dead, and people are alive.

During the Napoleonic Wars, it was already an era of thermal weapon bombardment, but this is not the case today.

For the Japanese who like to use assault tactics, the bayonet is a very good defensive tactic.

Bayonet charges are also a good way to demoralize the opponent. Su Ze found that he had made the mistake of bookish empiricism, and he still had to make tactics based on local conditions.

There were many plain battles on the Western battlefield, and a large number of formation battles evolved. In modern times, the tactics of lightning maneuver warfare were born.

But on the Eastern battlefield, due to the complex terrain, guerrilla tactics are more practical.

Even on the Eastern battlefield of World War II, bayonet fighting was still a tactic that both the enemy and ourselves needed to practice and master seriously.

Su Ze reviewed his preconceptions and heard a system prompt.

[Summary of "adapting measures to local conditions", military skill experience +40, Lv4, 41/400]

The art of war skills have been upgraded again. It seems that I still need to communicate more with Lin Baihu!

Every time she communicates with Lin Mojun, Su Ze's military skills increase. Is she the legendary "experience baby"?

Seeing that the Art of War skill was about to reach Level 5, Su Ze had the idea of ​​going to the school field. The situation in the southeast region was becoming increasingly unstable. Improving the Art of War skill to Level 5 as soon as possible would also make the Changning Guard stronger.

In the days that followed, Su Ze studied at the guard station while training at the guard school grounds.

Lin Mojun is indeed an excellent "experience baby". Every time he communicates with her, Su Ze gains a level of experience in the art of war. Su Ze can't help but feel that he has really found a treasure.

In addition to sharing the art of war with Lin Mojun, Su Ze also taught ordinary soldiers how to read and asked them to summarize their training experience every day.

Compared with the cold weapon age, the firearms age has greater demand for officers.

Su Ze originally planned to build the Changning Guard's gun team into an officer corps, so Su Ze trained them according to the standards of grassroots officers.
To be continued...