Chapter 76 Watching Arrangements
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Motherfucker, go faster!"
"Why can't you move your legs? Can't you take a bigger step?"
"Did you not eat last night, or did you not eat this morning? After eating such fragrant braised pork, you don't even have the energy to go on the road?!"
"Hurry up and hurry up. If we can't make it seventy miles today and it delays us watching the movie, I won't do anything to him when I look back!"
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After Li Yan, the red lady, the captain, and the generals in charge of the flag worked hard to share (boast) about their first movie-watching experience last night, the lower-level generals and even ordinary soldiers all had a great deal of interest in the "movie"
I'm curious and want to see what happens tonight.
Therefore, the generals tried their best to mobilize the soldiers to hurry up.
Although not all the soldiers were interested in "movies" they didn't know anything about, but with the mobilization of the generals and the inertia of the previous few days, the journey on this day was still not slow, even faster than the previous two days.
One point faster.
In this way, when it got dark, Li Yan reported the good news to Zhu Aona.
"Your Highness, it's just dark today, and the soldiers have already traveled more than seventy miles!"
"Very good!" Zhu Ayao smiled broadly, "Then we are going to show a movie tonight!"
Li Yan added: "The soldiers are all tired from traveling today. In addition, the movie lasts for more than an hour. Even if we only plan to show half of it tonight, it will still take more than half an hour. Therefore, I want the soldiers to set up camp early."
Rest."
Zhu Yasuo nodded, "Mr. Li will just make arrangements for this matter."
Zhu Yuluo was quite satisfied with the speed of the soldiers.
Although some armies can march hundreds of miles in a day, the reason why they are called hasty marches is because they are marching for urgent matters, not for a long journey.
If the soldiers were really forced to travel hundreds of miles every day, given the current physical conditions of the soldiers, they would all be useless in two or three days.
Hao Guangming has also analyzed that sixty or seventy miles per day should be the most appropriate traveling speed for the Red Lady Department.
If this speed can be maintained, the more than three thousand miles from Beijing to Chengdu can be covered within two months.
In this way, there will be one month left in Chengdu to make arrangements to deal with Zhang Xianzhong's troops.
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At night.
After the officers had dinner, they all washed their faces with hot water, soaked their feet, and then organized the officers to watch movies in different areas.
In order to give the soldiers a good movie-watching experience for the first time in their lives, Hao Guangming provided Zhu Yura with four projectors this time.
One was placed in the cavalry camp, and thousands of people watched the movie together.
Two sets were placed in the infantry camp, and four thousand-man teams were divided into two groups to watch the movie in turn.
This is not only to enhance the viewing experience of the soldiers, but also to allow the other half to take necessary precautions.
Although the camp site is in the wilderness, and the general army will not launch an attack at night, it is not afraid of ten thousand, but afraid of the worst, and it is always right to be vigilant.
As for the baggage camp, a projector was installed, and more than 3,000 people watched the movie together.
Zhu Aelao took the red lady, Fei Zhen'e, Fang Zhenghua and others to set up the projection screen.
The projector Hao Guangming bought cost several thousand dollars, and it can guarantee the highest resolution within a hundred inches.
But Hao Guangming feels that for Ming people who have never seen a movie before, clarity is not important, but big enough is important.
Therefore, at his suggestion, the screen used for projection was more than four meters long and three meters high.
There was no such a wide curtain in the Red Lady's Department, and Zhu Auao brought it from Hao Guangming's side.
After Zhu Yulao arranged the four curtains, she went to the infantry camp to adjust the projector and play the movie.
At the same time, under the organization of the generals, the soldiers who were sitting cross-legged on the ground stretched their necks to look at the strange things, and whispered with their comrades around them.
"Shuan Zhu, what do you think this movie is about?"
"How do I know? Let's not talk about holding the flag. It's similar to a shadow puppet show, except that it's all performed by real people. It's much better to watch."
"The real people acting are the opera singers, right? I remember one year when Mr. Fan's wife celebrated her 80th birthday, he invited an opera troupe to sing 'Eight Immortals' Birthday Congratulations', which was really good. I didn't know about this movie.
Isn’t that scene good to watch?”
"It should look better, right? Didn't Zhang Qi say that this movie is played by a TV? The machine that plays the movie was given to the princess by the gods. We are told not to tamper with it. If it breaks, we can't afford to pay for it.
Say, you will lose your life."
"I'm telling you...hey, it seems like it's about to start!"
Although Zhu Yuluo was trained by Hao Guangming on the other side, she knew how to adjust the projector and how to play it.
But thinking about thousands of soldiers watching, she was still a little panicked during the actual operation.
Fortunately, Hao Guangming provided guidance at any time through a Bluetooth headset, so she was able to adjust the projector smoothly.
She directly skipped the one-minute introduction about the production company, director, producer, etc. at the beginning of the movie.
Therefore, many people only saw a ray of light projected onto the thick white cloth that was over 10 feet long, and then the screen turned into an earthy yellow color, and several large characters appeared - 1942!
At this time, Zhu Yulao pressed the pause button on the projector, then connected the Bluetooth speaker with her mobile phone and played a background introduction she had recorded long ago.
"The soldiers have traveled more than seventy miles today, which is a great thing.
Because I know that whether it is the Ming Dynasty official army or other so-called elite troops, it is good to be able to cover forty or fifty miles in a day.
Although I cannot bring enough canned meat to reward you for the time being, I can show you a movie.
I won’t say much about what the movie is. What I want to explain to you soldiers here is the background of the story told in the movie.
About three hundred years later, the Central Plains suffered another rare drought, causing a great famine..."
Except for verbally praising the soldiers, what was said next was basically the same as what was previously told to Li Yan and others.
After the recording was played, Zhu Yurao allowed the movie to continue playing where it had previously paused.
This movie is called "1942".
The reason why I chose this movie is that it will be very immersive for the soldiers of the Red Lady Division, who are almost all from Henan.
The end of the Ming Dynasty was only three or four hundred years away from later generations. Although the dialects are slightly different, the overall flavor is still the same.
In addition, most of the soldiers in the Red Lady Division were farmers displaced by famine, making this movie even more immersive.
For the first time watching a movie, it is very important to have a sense of immersion.
Therefore, this time, Hao Guangming and Zhu Yurao did not seek any education from movies, but only wanted them to quickly accept movies as spiritual food and enjoy watching movies.
After the movie started, there was no sound below.
First, the generals have long warned not to talk while watching a movie, as it will disturb everyone.
Second, from the beginning of this movie, all the soldiers were fascinated by it.
After all, to them, what is shown in this movie is like what is happening in another land, and this land has the same name as their hometown, called Henan.
After the movie started, Zhu Yurao did not stay here, but took people to the other side of the infantry camp to adjust another projector...
Half an hour and a quarter later, Zhu Yurao looked at the time and came to the area where the movie was first played in the infantry camp, and turned off the projector.
The soldiers all looked in and were entranced. Some men even shed tears as they thought of similar experiences in the past.
Seeing that the movie suddenly disappeared, the soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then they couldn't help but burst into an uproar.
"Why don't you let it go?"
"I haven't finished reading it yet. Why is it gone?"
"Did some turtle grandson touch something belonging to the gods?"
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"Soldiers!"
Zhu Yuyao stood on a high platform and spoke with a powerful loudspeaker.
"It is true that the movie is not finished yet, there is still half of it. But don't forget that we agreed in advance that this movie is too long, so we can only watch half tonight and the remaining half later."
Hearing Zhu Yuluo's words, the soldiers, who were furious because they could not watch the movie, immediately remembered what they had agreed to say.
This matter must be agreed upon in advance, otherwise Zhu Yuyao would not dare to stop the movie that was halfway through - she knew how uncomfortable it would be to watch only half of the movie.
At this time, the generals also loudly scolded the soldiers who had been shouting just now, and asked them to quiet down quickly.
Chapter completed!