The situation in Shandong did not change much, but the 4th and 6th Divisions outflanked from the left flank of the 7th Division, on the one hand, to disperse the forces of the Qing army, and on the other hand, to ensure the safety of the flank of the 7th Division, after all, the next battle was carried out with the 7th Division as the core.

Ma Yingkui's division has been tested by the Shandong battlefield, and many of the backbone of the division are from the old first division, and its combat effectiveness has already surpassed the fourth and sixth divisions under Ma Yingkui's training.

The situation of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side has not changed much, there are still more than 300,000 people and horses gathered in the line from Cangzhou to Wuqiang, in addition to relying on the city wall, the Qing soldiers still built a large number of fortifications.

"Eighty thousand versus three hundred thousand? Has your staff analyzed the composition of the Qing soldiers? If they were all like Kong Youde's troops, this battle would still be difficult to fight. Luo Jian frowned and said to Yi Bangcai.

Luo Jian's meaning is not that he does not trust the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht, but that the Qing troops are all strongholds for defense, and if the Wehrmacht wants to move forward, it will inevitably attack the fortifications one by one, and the consumption of ammunition will increase greatly, so Luo Jian is worried that the production of the rear military factories will not be able to keep up.

"Don't worry too much about the governor, we are now more than 80,000 horses on the battlefield in Shandong, we also have two cavalry brigades in Jinan training, and they have been training for more than three months, so they should have a certain combat effectiveness, not to mention that after careful analysis by the General Staff, the real combat effectiveness of the Qing troops will not exceed 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the rest are miscellaneous troops except for auxiliary troops, and they do not have strong combat effectiveness."

Yi Bangcai has obviously basically figured out the situation in the whole territory of Shandong. He spoke with great confidence.

"Miscellaneous troops?" Luo Jian subconsciously asked.

"yes. Grand Governor. Most of these Qing soldiers were the Ming army and the Dashun army who had defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past, and they had no combat effectiveness, and in the Qing soldiers, their grandmother did not hurt them, and their uncles did not love them, and they often did not receive military salaries, and they were even full of food and hungry, so they could still be expected to have combat effectiveness? Yi Bang said and laughed.

Luo Jian had also carefully analyzed it before. Although the Qing soldiers now have nearly a million people, but the miscellaneous teams are indeed a lot, these miscellaneous teams are mostly the Ming army and the Dashun army that surrendered after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, after the Manchu Qing accepted their surrender, it was too late to streamline and reorganize them, and the Yangzhou army had begun to rise, and these teams were large-scale routs in the face of the Yangzhou army and the later national defense army, which had caused a serious psychological shadow in the hearts of these teams, and the Manchu court really did not expect them to play much role, and they could not eat enough on weekdays. Not to mention training.

But there were still some elites in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Luo Jian calculated them carefully. At least nearly 100,000 horses near Beijing are really combative, and these Qing soldiers have basically been replaced with Mini guns, and under the desperate training of the Manchu court regardless of cost and Kong Youde, the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

The other is the Hong Chengchou Group entrenched in the two lakes, although the Hong Group has more than 300,000 horses, but Luo Jian estimates that there are only nearly 100,000 horses that are difficult to deal with.

Although Henan's Haoge group has 150,000 or 60,000 horses, it basically stays in the era of cold weapons, and does not switch to Mini guns on a large scale; although these men and horses have a certain combat effectiveness, they are estimated to not be able to resist for long in the face of an army that has been replaced by a new rifle with a division and a brigade.

After hastily finishing dinner, Luo Jian returned to the room and began to write letters, the first letter was addressed to Shi Kefa, telling him all the main contents of today's conversation with Kong Yinzhi, and also talking about some of his own thoughts.

Fundamentally speaking, Shi Kefa and the main leaders of the Nanjing government are still loyal supporters of Confucianism, and they have basically received Confucian education since childhood, although there are some differences in specific ideas, but the roots are still in Confucianism.

Luo Jian had been avoiding this issue before, and he had been worried that he would mess up the thinking within the government, which would affect the normal work.

The second letter was addressed to Liu Zhaoji, and he also made some analysis of the military strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, pointing out that from the perspective of the battlefield across the country, the deployment of the Qing army's troops was like a dumbbell, and if they were cut off from the middle, they would not be able to take care of each other, and the first army was currently undertaking the combat mission of "cutting off the waist."

Luo Jian hoped that the First Army would be able to wipe out the Haoge group cleanly and completely as quickly as possible, and then move to the north and south in a timely manner according to the development of the war in the north and south directions.

After writing the two letters, Luo Jian looked at his watch, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and he was about to wash up and sleep, but he remembered the "miscellaneous" team that Yi Bang Cai said, and his heart moved, and he walked to the door and asked the guards to invite Yi Bang Cai over.

Luo Jian handed over the two letters that had been sealed to Yi Bangcai, and asked him to send them to Nanjing and Xuzhou overnight.

"Chief of Staff, you have to arrange for someone to rush to Jinan as soon as possible overnight, let people make more tin horns, and print as many leaflets as possible." Luo Jian thought for a moment before saying to Yi Bangcai.

"Flyers? Metropolitan Governor, what is a leaflet? But he had never heard the word.

Luo Jian took out a blank piece of paper, sketched a few random strokes on the paper with a pencil, and a simple figure picture appeared on the paper, and then wrote a few lines on the side of the picture and handed it to Yi Bangcai.

Yi Bang took the paper and looked at it for a moment to understand what Luo Jian meant. "The Metropolitan Governor is going to fight a heart-to-heart war! Most of the Qing soldiers were illiterate, and it was clear at a glance when they looked at these pictures, which was great! ”

"These are just a few of my random thoughts, and if you go down to study and study it well, let people draw more pictures, with simple text explanations, the effect will definitely be very good. Then let the intelligence department contact the Ministry of Security and try to get as many of these leaflets as possible to the Qing soldiers. Luo Jian explained.

"Okay, Governor, I'll arrange for someone to do it." Yi Bang agreed, and went out with the paper in his hand, and Luo Jian washed up and slept.

The next day was a good day, and after having breakfast in a hurry, Luo Jian rushed to Tai'an with Yi Bangcai, and when the sun was about to set, he finally arrived at Tai'an City.

On the way, a messenger reported that Huang Degong was waiting in Tai'an City, and Luo Jian rushed to the post house to see Huang Degong.

Seeing Luo Jian, Lao Huang looked very excited, obviously he had already sensed that this year's all-out offensive against the Manchu Qing would never stop like the previous times.

"Xinghua, we're going to fight to the end this time, right?" As soon as they met, Huang Degong asked urgently.

"I said Lao Huang, why are you in such a hurry? You've got to make us have a drink, right? It's been a day of running, and it's really tiring. Seeing that Huang Degong was in a hurry, Luo Jian couldn't help laughing.

Huang Degong scratched his head a little embarrassed, and then invited Luo Jian and Yi Bang into the room and sat down.

"Xinghua, can you also issue some Yangzhou Type II and new artillery to the Second and Fifth Divisions? I heard that this old boy Hong Chengchou is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and now their main focus is on Li Chengdong's boy, once they turn to the east, whether our two divisions can withstand me is really bottomless. ”

Huang Degong waited for Luo Jian and Yi Bang to sit down and drank a large glass of water by themselves, and then spoke.

"Lao Huang, you don't have to worry about this, after the first army trains the new tactics, it will launch an attack on the Qing soldiers in Guide, Haoge estimates that he can't stand it, the Manchu Qing is unlikely to give up Henan, and the reinforcements from the Southern Hong Chengchou Group to Henan are predictable, and then your pressure will be less." Luo Jian said with a smile.

Listening to Luo Jian's words, Huang Degong lowered his head and pondered for a long time, then raised his head and said: "Xinghua, then you mean that we are mainly to contain Hong Chengchou so that he can't spare troops to reinforce Henan?" ”

"It's not exactly what it means, with the current combat effectiveness of the first army, it won't take too long to solve the Haoge Department, as long as the first army is well fought, it is estimated that it will be too late for Hong Chengchou to reinforce him. At that time, it will depend on how the battle is fought in the north, and if it goes well, the first army will move south to eliminate the Hong group. Luo Jian told Huang Degong in detail about his strategic intentions, and Huang Degong nodded again and again when he heard it.

"Xinghua, don't worry, I will take the second division and the fifth division to drag Hong Chengchou, the old boy, with all my might, so that he will not be able to reinforce Henan. I know the bottom of the Fifth Division, but I don't know what the situation of the Second Division is now, I have been in Shandong for a long time, and I am blind to the situation of the Second Division. ”

"The training of the Second Division is not bad, some time ago the General Staff sent someone to conduct a special assessment, you can rest assured that even if it is not as good as the Fifth Division, it will not be too far behind."

Luo Jian's words are true, Li Benshen has not fought a tough battle since he arrived in Anqing, and this kid has been holding his breath, always wanting to earn the name of the main division for the second division.

After talking about the general strategic intention, Luo Jian explained in detail to Huang Degong the propaganda war he had thought of last night, and asked Huang Degong to use more propaganda warfare to disintegrate the Han army in the Qing army when he arrived in Lianghu.

"Lao Huang, you are not young anymore, don't always rush to the front line, pay more attention to safety, now the Qing soldiers are also equipped with a large number of long-range rifles, but the bullets don't have eyes. When you go back to Nanjing, go to Xiao Liu, I have already explained to him, put on new rifles for all your guards, and he also has a body armor there, he doesn't need it in Nanjing, you take it and put it on. ”

Luo Jian carefully explained, Huang Degong is nearly sixty years old, and the current battlefield is more dangerous than the era of cold weapons, once he is close to the battle line, anything can happen.

"Xinghua, you can rest assured, it's not so easy for the Tartars to want my Lao Huang's life, but the guards are replaced with new rifles, and I have to take this one, although there are only two hundred, but they can still come in handy at a critical time." Huang Degong said nonchalantly.

After Luo Jian finished explaining, Yibang took out a map again and gave Huang Degong a detailed introduction to the deployment of Qing troops in Hubei.

There are about 1340,000 Qing soldiers in Hubei, and there are more than 20,000 defenders in Jiujiang, led by Lu Guangzu, the former commander-in-chief of the Zuomengeng Division.

There are also more than 20,000 people in Ezhou, led by Li Guoying, the former commander-in-chief of Zuomengeng's department, and the rest are basically stationed around the three towns of Wuhan.

Yi Bang explained in detail on the map, although Luo Jian had known this for a long time, he still listened carefully, looking at the winding Yangtze River on the map, an idea suddenly popped up.

"Minister Huang, Chief of Staff, I have an idea, you two carefully analyze it and see if it is feasible?" (To be continued.) )