Although in terms of the current needs of the team, rifled guns and rocket artillery are more effective than cement. However, in terms of the order in which the two new products are actually put into use, I am afraid that cement will still be in front of those two types of artillery. The main reason for this is that once the cement is developed, it can be put into trial immediately, and it can be used to build a new building for the team or to improve the road conditions between the team's various bases. Those two guns have only been prototyped so far, and it will take a long time to ensure their reliability and to compile a usable manual for the artillerymen. Therefore, in the words of Li Junwu in his report, in the course of the "Flying Dragon Army's preparation for Operation Temper No. 2," there is no need to count on these two new artillery pieces to help in the war.

Although the new guns could not be used in the upcoming operation, they were still encouraged by the success of the two types of guns for the Military Department. In their opinion, the ultimate focus of the "Flying Dragon Army" is still on the battle of Youzhou, which is likely to occur in the near future. Both the "Operation Temper No. 1" that has already been carried out earlier and the "Operation Temper No. 2" that is about to be carried out are only preparations for the big battle that follows, and it does not matter whether or not new artillery can be used -- in a certain sense, over-reliance on the advanced nature of weapons is not conducive to the training of the troops.

Compared with the fact that the "Five-Five" rifle had just been successfully trial-produced, and on the premise that the bullet problem had not yet been solved, the brothers of the Military Department were 100 times unable to look down on the situation of front-loading guns, and now the commanders of the Military Department are much more mature. On the one hand, he praised the military department's ideological progress, and on the other hand, he assured all the brothers that all the brothers in the ministry of science and technology will go all out to complete the shiyan finalization of the two new artillery pieces in the shortest possible time, so that the "Flying Dragon Army" can use these two kinds of battlefield weapons as soon as possible.

In this regard, Qian Yuanshan and other brothers in the military department naturally expressed their gratitude again and again, and hoped that the soldiers of the artillery battalion under their command would be involved in the finalization stage of the artillery, so that they could master these two weapons in the shortest possible time. Regarding the request of Qian Yuanshan and others, Li Junwu and the Ministry of Science and Technology he represents naturally have no opinions.

After the report of the Ministry of Science and Technology is over, the reports of the most important departments of the team are all completed, and the remaining departments, except for the Ministry of Agriculture, because its work is related to the meals of team members and the selection of recruits of the "Flying Dragon Army", and the personnel controlled by the department is quite large, and there is still a certain status in the various departments of the team, such as the material management department, the archives, the infirmary and other departments because their role in the team is far less than the previous departments. Therefore, among the remaining departments, only Zhao Min'an of the Ministry of Agriculture made a long report, and has very detailed data and future development, and the reports of the other departments are very brief. In particular, departments like the infirmary, whose sole member, Lin Xiaoyu, is now far away in Kaifeng, did not even make a report, and the head of the department, Lin Xiaoyu, just greeted everyone through the radio.

Contrary to the contents of the reports of the archives and the infirmary, which were so short that they did not have a single word, the "Kaifeng Detention Center", which had just been established for a year and had been given the opportunity to give a report at the plenary meeting for the first time, instead came up with a very comprehensive and detailed report. This report not only reported to the plenary session on the work of the "Kaifeng Left-behind Office" in the past year, introduced various major events in Kaifeng City in the past year, and the movements of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but also described in detail that Xu Shao'an, together with Zhao Kuangyin and Liu Shouyi, led the Shenji Army to accompany Chai Rong to the south to conquer Huainan again, swept the prefectures and counties in Jiangbei in one fell swoop, and drove the Southern Tang Shili to the south of the Yangtze River.

Chai Rong's southern expedition can be regarded as a continuation of last year's southern expedition that did not achieve full success. Because in the second southern expedition, Chai Rong adopted a combat strategy centered on the Shenji Army, and put the Shenji Army into the battlefield as soon as he came up, so with the strong support of various firearms, the Zhou army attacked the city all the way and won a decisive victory before the rainy season in the Huainan area, thus avoiding the repeat of last year's heavy rain and having to return to the court.

After a big victory, Chai Rong naturally wanted to reward his merits. As the actual commander of the Shenji Army of the Later Zhou Dynasty, although Xu Shao'an's military position was still that of the Shenji Army, he was given the title of Caizhou Defense Envoy - only a remote leader, not really a local official - and was given the false title of Wusan official from the fourth rank of General Xuanwei. ,

In addition to these official positions and rank promotions, Chai Rong also rewarded Xu Shaoan with a lot of property. From this series of rewards, it can be seen that Chai Rong is very kind to Xu Shao'an, and at the same time, it can be seen that he intends to win over Xu Shao'an so that he can use it for his own use.

If it is a military general of this era, in the face of such honors and rewards, I am afraid that I will be grateful for it a long time ago, and I will follow this Ming Junying to dominate the world. But for Xu Shao'an, who has the identity of a traverser, all this Chai Rong did has no practical effect. On the one hand, Xu Shao'an, who usually seems to be very arrogant and does things roughly, sees the fundamentals of his foothold in this era very clearly. He knew that once he left the support behind the team—historical knowledge, science, security, etc.—he would become a "water without a source and a tree without roots", and could be drowned in the rolling tide of history like a small wave at any time, and disappear in an instant.

On the other hand, although Xu Shao'an has a limited understanding of history, he has also learned a lot of historical knowledge about this era, Chai Rong, and Zhao Kuangyin from Zhang Weixin. More than two years later, he will die on the way to the Northern Expedition, and because his son Chai Zongxun is young and ignorant, Zhao Kuangyin, who is already in charge of the army, will get and grasp the opportunity of "adding a yellow robe" - provided that history will not change drastically because of the appearance of the Crossing Crowd.

Although as long as Xu Shaoan stood on the right side when Zhao Kuangyin bullied the orphans and widows of the old Chai family, with his current identity and ability, there will be no shortage of glory and wealth. However, Xu Shao'an, who was a soldier in his previous life and in his current life, had no good impression of the Zhao Song Dynasty, which had always been described as poor and weak in history, and had never been able to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun by his own Liliang, but had extremely suppressed the martial arts.

For Xu Shao'an, instead of being a general in that nest dynasty, it is better to return to Youzhou and work with the traverser brothers, relying on his own strength, to fight for a completely different world for himself, for the team, and for the Han people there. Therefore, Chai Rong's favor and wooing did not shake Xu Shaoan's belief in the slightest.

Moreover, with the expansion of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" into the "Flying Dragon Army", various new weapons are gradually equipped with troops, and the strength of the team is becoming stronger and stronger, Xu Shaoan's belief is also quietly changing, and a larger goal has begun to loom in his mind, but he himself has not noticed it himself - in fact, including several other committee members, many people in the crossing team have begun to have this vague goal, but there is just a lack of people or things to make this goal clear.

Of course, Xu Shao'an, who was far away from the Shili District, the core of the team, and led a small detachment stationed in Kaifeng, was also very aware of his situation. Therefore, while firmly maintaining his beliefs in his heart, Xu Shaoan has always shown a grateful look for Chai Rong's favor and wooing. He did not refuse all kinds of rewards, and accepted them calmly. For Xu Shao'an, as long as Chai Rong didn't let him do anything that harmed the interests of the team, or asked him to betray the team or betray the team, he would neither mind contributing his own liliang to the Later Zhou court, nor would he mind getting the reward he deserved from Chai Rong.

In the previous meeting, Lin Xiaoyu, who was the nominal head of the department, because she basically did not perform her duties in the previous year, she did not even make a report on the work of her department in the previous year, but although Lin Xiaoyu did not make a report, Xu Shaoan summarized Lin Xiaoyu's work and activities in Kaifeng City in his own report - Lin Xiaoyu, as the only female doctor in the Tai Hospital, has basically become Queen Fu's personal doctor, and she is always by the other party's side. Provide medical services to them.

Because it involves a lot of Empress Fu's privacy, when Lin Xiaoyu talks to Xu Shaoan about his experience in the palace, he can only say it more concisely, and it is impossible to explain everything in harmony. Therefore, Xu Shaoan's report only roughly talked about Lin Xiaoyu's affairs in the palace. In fact, because Lin Xiaoyu often accompanies Queen Fu, the long-term contact not only approached the distance between the two women, but also produced two results.

First, as time went by, Lin Xiaoyu had more and more contact with Queen Fu, and gradually became a celebrity around Queen Fu, and the two were like sisters. Empress Fu not only often gave rewards, but also because Lin Xiaoyu came from "overseas" and had some special insights and opinions, so Empress Fu began to let Lin Xiaoyu participate in the upbringing of her young son Chai Zongxun after obtaining Chai Rong's consent. On the one hand, Lin Xiaoyu provided medical services to Chai Zongxun, and on the other hand, at the request of Empress Fu, he told the young Chai Zongxun some overseas stories to increase the knowledge of this little guy - of course, because Chai Zongxun was too young, these overseas stories could only be told through storytelling.

If the first result was deliberately pursued by Lin Xiaoyu, then the second result can be regarded as a side effect of the first result, which was unexpected by Lin Xiaoyu - as her relationship with Empress Fu and Chai Zongxun became closer and closer, it was natural that the number of times she met Chai Rong increased. And with the increase of contact, this rather illusory character, who originally only existed in books and historical stories, gradually became clear and real in Lin Xiaoyu's mind, and was restored to a real, flesh-and-blood person, a wise and resolute man.

And when such a man often appeared in front of her, Lin Xiaoyu's feelings, which had been completely closed by herself, quietly cracked a small gap. It's just that this gap is so narrow that Lin Xiaoyu himself didn't notice it at all.

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