Liu Zhaoji's combat meeting was also being held, but the meeting was a little breathless.

"What exactly is Hauge's intentions? Will it be an all-out defense, or will it be a decisive battle with us? What the hell is going on with your staff? Haven't figured out the situation yet? "Liu Zhaoji is a little angry.

In fact, this is not to blame the staff of the First Army, the scouts have long been dispatched, and the deployment of the Qing troops is now well understood, but the details of the security department placed in the Qing troops earlier were all transferred to Beijing due to the transfer of the Duoduo army, but the Hauge army did not have time to place them again.

"Commander, I don't think it's any wonder to the General Staff, they've done their best. I think that no matter what Hauge's intentions are, the key is always to defend to Guide and Henan, and it is the Qing soldiers who are anxious now, not us. As long as we fight steadily, it will not be a problem to capture Guide. ”

Zhuang Zigu saw that Chief of Staff He Ying was scolded by Liu Zhaoji and couldn't raise his head, so he persuaded beside him.

In fact, Liu Zhaoji did not really blame Chief of Staff He Ying, but the enemy's intentions were unclear, and he was a little anxious in his heart.

Just when Liu Zhaoji was discussing with the commanders of the divisions and regiments how to attack Guide, a staff officer sent a long letter. The letter was written by Luo Jian to Liu Zhaoji, and the five stars on the envelope indicate that the letter is not only urgent, but also top secret.

The letter was written by Luo Jian before he set out for Shandong from Nanjing, and was mainly about tactical issues. Although the First Army had a division and a brigade replaced with new equipment, Luo Jian was worried that the First Army would go down from Liu Zhaoji onwards, and the tactical concept would still stay on the Yangzhou Type 1 rifle. In this way, the role of the new equipment cannot be fully utilized. The combat effect will be greatly reduced.

The sudden arrival of the letter made Liu Zhaoji frightened. Holding the letter in his hand, Liu Zhaoji did not speak for a long time and fell into deep thought.

Luo Jian's worries were not unreasonable, although Liu Zhaoji learned some infantry tactics in the Marine Corps, but these were local rather than the entire campaign level. As far as Liu Zhaoji himself is concerned, he really didn't think about how the tactical thinking of the troops should be adjusted with these new equipment, and he received a letter from Luo Jian today. Only then did I realize that the problem was really serious.

"This letter was written by the Governor of the Metropolitan Government, Uncle Xian, you read this letter to everyone, everyone should listen carefully and think about it." Liu Zhaoji handed the letter in his hand to Zhuang Zigu and asked him to read it to everyone.

Hearing that it was a letter from the Metropolitan Governor, everyone's expressions became serious, and Zhuang Zigu also read it to everyone seriously.

"After temporarily suspending combat operations, the troops began a half-month tactical exercise, and the starting point and end point of the exercise were how to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the new equipment." Liu Zhaoji listened to the contents of the letter again. After thinking seriously for a moment, I finally made up my mind.

"Sharpen the knife and cut firewood". Of course, Liu Zhaoji understands this reason: Now that the First Army is in a period of transition, the entire army will be completely redressed in the near future, and if the combat concept is not changed and the combat results are not good, then it is better to continue to use the previous equipment.

"Time is still too tight, why is Xinghua in such a hurry? It would be nice if I had given me another two or three months. ”

After the meeting, Liu Zhaoji said to Zhuang Zigu. In fact, Liu Zhaoji knew why Luo Jian was in a hurry, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had basically learned the production technology of Yangzhou one-style rifles, but their production capacity was limited, and the time was still short, the Manchu army did not have a large number of equipment, if they waited any longer, when they were equipped with a large number of this old-fashioned rifle, the disadvantage of the number of the national defense force would be even more exposed.

On the official road from Xinyi to Tai'an, a cavalry team of more than 300 people is galloping rapidly, and the horse's hooves are stepping on the frozen snow, making a crisp sound.

On both sides of the official road are sparse villages, some villages are next to the official road, from the official road, there are dozens of thatched houses or a few brick houses in the middle, it is almost noon, there is not much cooking smoke in the village, everything that catches the eye gives people the feeling of depression.

This group of cavalry is none other than Luo Jian, and some of the staff officers and guards of the General Staff are hurrying to the Seventh Division.

"Metropolitan Governor, the county seat of Surabaya is ahead, should we go into the city to rest?" Zhao Quan, the captain of the escort team, patted the horse, rushed to Luo Jian's war horse in a few steps and asked, it is not early, if you don't spend the night in Surabaya, it will be troublesome to miss the accommodation, and the guards did not carry camping equipment.

"Okay, let's go to Surabaya City for the night and leave early tomorrow morning." Luo Jian looked at the sky and said to Zhao Quan.

Zhao Quan responded, and shouted on the horse, "Listen, go to Surabaya City for the night." After saying that, he turned his horse's head and ran towards another road, which was the road leading to the county seat of Surabaya.

More than ten miles away from Surabaya City, the war horse trotted to arrive, the not tall city wall of Surabaya City can already be seen, and after three or four days on the horse, Luo Jian feels really tired.

Zhao Quan walked in front with more than a dozen guards, five or six carriages parked in front of the city gate and the people standing by the carriage attracted Zhao Quan's attention, and as soon as he raised his hand to the back, the guards all stopped, protecting Luo Jian's war horse in the middle.

With a reins in his horse, Zhao Quan slowly walked in front of the group, "Who are you?" What do you do at the gates? ”

"Dare to ask, but it's Luo Jian Luo Xinghua, the Grand Governor?" A man dressed as a Confucian came forward and asked Zhao Quan, looking about his early fifties, wearing a Confucian hat on his head, but no hair was exposed on his sideburns, but he looked like he was bald and wearing a hat.

"Who are you? What is the matter with the Metropolitan Governor? Zhao Quan glanced at the old Confucian in front of him vigilantly, and his tone was a little unkind. Now everyone in Nanjing City can afford to see the experts of the research institute and the technicians in various factories, the nerds in Confucian clothes are not looked down upon by everyone, and they can't do anything for a day, there are still many such people in Nanjing, and their lives are very difficult.

But the Confucian student in front of him seems to be living a good life, and the face of the Confucian jacket on his body is silk, and looking at this posture, it is obviously from a big family.

"The old man is Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi, and he has been waiting for the governor of Dadu here for many days. I hope the general will inform the Grand Governor. Please see you at the time! The old Confucian said this with some pride. It also seems to be very confident.

"Eye-catching? What is it? Zhao Quan said to himself, but he didn't dare to make a claim, so he still patted his horse to Luo Jian's side and reported the situation to Luo Jian.

"People from the Qufu Kong family?" Luo Jian was a little strange, how could someone from the Kong family appear in Surabaya.

Luo Jian of the Confucian family in Qufu is no stranger, Luo Jian paid attention to it before entering Shandong, as a descendant of Confucius, the Confucian family in Qufu, Shandong was valued by the imperial courts of all dynasties. Whether it was the Jin State of the Song Dynasty or the Yuan Dynasty, they were all generous to the Confucian family.

In another time and space, various online forums also have a lot of discussions about the Confucian family in Qufu, and they have all kinds of concepts, but in general, they still feel that in the face of foreign invasion, the integrity of the Kong family is not good enough, and Luo Jian basically has this concept.

Previously, when the Wehrmacht captured Jinan, it did not march towards Qufu, and when Luo Jian went to Shandong the last time, Qufu was still controlled by the Qing soldiers, and it was a year ago. Ma Yingkui's division advanced westward from Tai'an, and all the few Qing troops in Qufu were withdrawn. Qufu was then occupied by the Wehrmacht.

Luo Jian knew from the battle report that Qufu had been occupied, but this news did not attract his attention, it was only a county town, and it was no different from other county seats.

"Metropolitan Governor, can you see this 'Eye-Eyed Prince'?" Zhao Quan saw that Luo Jian was thinking, and then glanced at the old Confucian who was waiting anxiously in front of him, and asked Luo Jian.

"Hehe, he's not a 'Prince-eyed', he is the Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the descendant of the Sage Kong." Luo Jian said with a smile to Zhao Quan.

"Huh? Descendants of the saints of Confucius? Governor, I'm making a joke. Zhao Quan rubbed his head and said embarrassedly.

"You kid, you don't usually study seriously, and you think about going to the battlefield all day long." Luo Jian scolded with a smile. In fact, it's no wonder that Zhao Quan, usually the talents only teach reading and literacy, where will they tell them such "profound" "words of the sage".

"Governor, can you see him?" Zhao Quan glanced at the old Confucian again, thinking that he was the descendant of Sage Kong, and felt that he was a little rude just now, so he wanted him to wait a little less.

"See him, you go and tell him, let him come to the inn to find us, I'll talk to him, what do you mean by waiting for us here?" Luo Jian was a little amused when he saw Zhao Quan's anxious appearance, Zhao Quan, who had just been literate, was not a scholar, but his worship of Sage Kong was inherited from Xiucai, who taught them to read and hyphenation.

Luo Jian patted his horse and walked over, and the old Confucian stood on the side of the road with a group of people dressed as Confucians.

"Mr. Laokong is waiting, but it is not a place to talk outside the city, how about inviting the old man to the post house to talk about it?" Luo Jian turned over and dismounted, and said with a fist at Kong Yinzhi.

"Don't dare to get off the horse, we have already prepared a courtyard in Surabaya City, how about inviting the governor to stay with a face?" After Kong Yinzhi bowed and clasped his fists in salute, he raised his head and said.

"That's not necessary, there is a post house in the city, Luo Jian is a post house to live in all the way, but he is not used to living in a yard." Hearing that they had specially arranged a courtyard in Surabaya City, Luo Jian was a little unhappy in his heart and said lightly.

Kong Yinzhi still wanted to speak, Luo Jian waved his hand, turned over and got on the horse, then turned around and said to him: "Mr. Kong wants to teach Luo, please ask the post house to talk about it, otherwise please go back." With that, he patted the horse and walked towards the city gate.

Luo Jian and his entourage entered the city directly, leaving Kong Yinzhi and the others waiting outside the city gate to look at their backs in amazement.

In fact, Luo Jian did not have a prejudice against Confucianism, but he had studied the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" when he had nothing to do, and these so-called "words of the sage" should have extremely high philosophical value from an academic point of view.

If you want to say that he is tired of Confucianism, Luo Jian is tired of this kind of Confucianism that has been repeatedly revised, not the original Confucian scholarship.

It's just that the descendants of Confucius did not carry forward Confucius's Confucianism, from a historical point of view, the descendants of Confucius basically relied on the signboard of their ancestors to mix rice, and the rulers of all dynasties also needed this signboard, which made their lives very good, and they also had a very high social status in all dynasties.

Kong Yinzhi, the current head of the Confucian family, is also regarded as inheriting the mantle of the ancestors of the previous dynasties, Kong Yinzhi is not the descendant of the Confucian family, but he was not only enshrined as the Holy Prince, but also successively added the prince Taibao and the prince Taifu, which can be described as "the grace of the king". But as soon as Li Zicheng entered Shandong, when he was still far away from Qufu, the Confucian Mansion issued Zhu Xi, and asked people to worship the dragon throne of Emperor Yongchang of Dashun State, and offered horses and silver, and knelt down to accept the letter.

A few days later, the Dashun army ran away, came to the Qingyi army, the three surnamed Yan Shenggong knew the mistake and changed it, that is, on the "first entry of the table", to the Qing court to show loyalty, praise the Qing emperor "mountains and rivers and the sun and the moon are shining, the country is the same as the universe and forever", said that "the ministers and other Que erect Confucianism, the chapter sewing is slightly end, the inheritance of the special grace of the generations, the new dynasty is now celebrated, the Chonglong of Zhan Xue, and the fear of the future."

Then, in response to the shaving order issued by the Qing government, the three surnamed Kong Yinzhi held a grand shaving ceremony, "respectfully setting up incense and reading the holy message", and ordered the clansmen to shave their hair.

Now that the Wehrmacht has recovered Qufu, Kong Yinzhi immediately turned around and ran to Surabaya County to wait for the governor to go north.

Luo Jian knew these causes and consequences, so he didn't have a very good face for Kong Yinzhi, but the Kong family had a great influence among scholars, and it was not the time to "bring down the Confucian Temple", so Luo Jian wanted to take time to meet them. (To be continued.) )