Lin Ziran wanted to tap the war potential of the territory under his rule as much as possible and organize an army within the limit of tolerance for expansion.

If you win, then you will have more territory, and more territory means more taxes, more population, which means that you can form more armies, and then grab more territory, and so on, until you unify Daheng!

If you lose, everything will be over!

When Lin Ziran thought so, most of the other feudal towns thought the same way.

Therefore, Luo'an County seems to be calm, but in fact the storm is surging, and every feudal town, whether it is Jian Minggang or Li Dingjun, or Li Kun, Zhao Song, or even Du Zhikuan next door, they all have similar ideas.

Squeeze the potential of your territory as much as possible, pull out an army within the limits of what you can bear, and then fight externally.

Therefore, in the recent period, especially after the fall of Feng Haozhong, everyone has been busy expanding their armaments, and they are all expanding armaments within the limits of what they can bear.

And it's impossible to maintain this limit state for long!

Maybe there will be no problem in half a year, but after more than a year, then they will have to collapse internally.

There are tens of thousands of troops, and Zhao Song, who has the smallest territory and the poorest finances, maintains 20,000 troops.

And Jianminggang, which occupies three counties and one district, plus half of Lingchang County, even has more than 60,000 troops.

With their territory, no one can maintain such an army for a long time.

Even Lin Ziran, who has Tsingshan Petroleum Company to solve the financial problem, is unlikely to rely on such a small territory to raise 20,000 people for a long time.

It's not about money, it's about the fact that after a large number of young and strong laborers enter the army, there will be a serious shortage of people in agriculture and industrial production, even if there are old and young women and children.

Therefore, looking at the situation in Luo'an County, it is actually easy to judge that there will be a war between these large feudal towns in a short period of three or five months, or a year in a long time.

Because at that time, if they don't expand externally, they will have to collapse internally.

I don't know how others prepare for war, but Lin Ziran tried his best to train for military warfare.

The training of the troops is maintained in a high-intensity state for a long time, and this kind of high-intensity training needs to provide the soldiers with sufficient food every day, otherwise the soldiers will become skinny and skinny while training......

In addition, the consumption of ammunition and other materials is also very large!

Ammunition consumption, even if you use training bullets most of the time, but this training bullet also costs money!

And you have to have the soldiers shoot a dozen live ammunition, 20,000 soldiers each soldier shoots ten rounds of live ammunition, that's 200,000 rounds of ammunition.

Moreover, the main infantry on the front line fought more live ammunition.

Not to mention the live-fire training of artillery, every time they conduct live-fire training, they are directly smashed out by hundreds or even thousands.

In late November, in order to increase the combat capability of the troops, especially to simulate large-scale battles.

The Sixth Division conducted a large-scale live-fire exercise within the military restricted area of Qingshan Town and Sanyang Town.

The exercises of the other units were okay and did not cost much money, but the live-fire exercises of the artillery units cost money.

When the three field artillery battalions in the First Artillery Regiment and the heavy artillery regiment directly under them were conducting live-fire exercises, the shells fired made Ding Quankun, who was in charge of logistics, look not very good-looking......

Moreover, Kong Deyi, who had just served as the director of artillery, also said with a triumphant expression: "Although the rapid fire covering shooting that is being carried out now has not fully reached the standard I set in terms of artillery accuracy, the rate of fire of our rapid fire is no less than that of the artillery units of the previous main divisions. ”

Ding Quankun on the side immediately couldn't help but step forward and said, "Do you know how much money this live-fire exercise has been fought?" ”

Ding Quankun stretched out his finger: "At least 10,000!" ”

"It's just a short while, and more than 10,000 gold coins have been knocked out!"

Kong Deyi didn't bother to pay attention to him, he was the director of artillery, and he was only responsible for training and directing artillery operations, as for how the shells came from and how expensive they were, it was none of his business, this was Ding Quankun's business.

Luo Mazi on the side was already secretly calculating in his heart, such a short period of effort would cost tens of thousands of shells, if it was a complete campaign artillery support, and a few more rapid fires, wouldn't it be more than ten or two hundred thousand gone?

This money is enough for him Luo Mazi to go to the Yiqing Courtyard in the town how many times?

Luo Mazi was secretly respectful, while Liang Chenglei, the new commander of the cavalry regiment, looked unhappy and muttered in a low voice: "They all say that our cavalry spends money, but their artillery directly shoots out the gold coins!" ”

At most, their cavalry spends a little more money on horse material, and they use sabers and muskets in battle, and at most they waste a little money for bullets, not to mention training, which doesn't cost a few dollars.

Like these artillerymen there, it is tens of thousands of dollars to engage in a random live-fire exercise, even if it is an empty pack of ammunition for training on weekdays, it is expensive!

This bunch of losers!

The commanders of several infantry regiments who accompanied the artillery live-fire exercises, and others, were somewhat contradictory about this.

On the one hand, this artillery is awesome, and it can better support their infantry on the battlefield.

But this artillery is too expensive, this military expenditure is limited, and the more artillery spends money, the less money their infantry spends.

Xu Zhongshu, commander of the First Infantry Regiment, Lu Sanzhen, commander of the Second Infantry Regiment, Deng Liangan, commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, and Shi Jingyuan, commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, glanced at each other, and finally chose to remain silent.

This kind of thing, it's hard to say, really want to make Conte look ugly on an occasion like today, when he turns back to fight, the artillery comes to bomb by mistake, is it difficult for him to run to the adults to complain?

However, a middle-aged man standing next to Lin Ziran who was pinned to the doctor's military lord saw the live-fire exercise of this artillery unit, and finally frowned slightly, and then turned to Lin Ziran and whispered: "My lord, according to this method of fighting, I am afraid that at least two hundred transport carriages will be added to the baggage regiment!" ”

Lin Ziran turned his head and said with a smile: "The consumption of ammunition is indeed greater than expected, and the current transportation capacity of the baggage regiment is a little insufficient. ”

The middle-aged man said: "Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best to do my best to do the heavy business!" ”

This person is Dai Honghai, deputy director of the Food and Salary Division and also head of the Logistics Section.

He is not a descendant cultivated by Lin Ziran himself, nor is he an early peasant officer, nor is he a talent that Lin Ziran dug up from outside before, but he defected himself, and he also defected with soldiers.

This person was originally a senior logistics officer under Feng Haozhong's seat.

When Feng Haozhong was defeated, he broke through and fled with part of the logistics troops, and the process was extremely miserable, and even his younger brother died at the hands of the pursuing troops.

In the end, he led hundreds of remnants of soldiers to drive a transport ship full of ordnance and ammunition to Lin Ziran.

He not only brought hundreds of people, but also a boatload of ordnance and weapons to come over, and this person is a very professional logistics professional, he was still a high-achieving student who graduated from Luohai Military Academy back then, Lin Ziran naturally would not treat him badly.

Even if it is to buy horse bones for his daughter, he will make a posture of reusing this person.

Even in order to arrange this person, Lin Ziran specially added the position of deputy director of the Grain and Salary Division.

Of course, this is mainly due to Ding Quankun's long-term inconvenience, and the actual affairs of the Commissariat Department are handled by the previous deputy director, in other words, in fact, the Commissariat Department is already short of a real deputy director.

After throwing over, this person worked hard, that is, every ten days and half a month, he either explicitly persuaded or hinted that Lin Ziran would send troops south to kill Jian Minggang, and said that he was willing to be a pioneer and take the lead.

This man wants to go south to find Jian Minggang for revenge!

Lin Ziran knew his motives and understood his approach, but he still didn't like this person to persuade him to play Jian Minggang every once in a while.

Besides, as long as Lin Ziran has the heart to fight for Luo'an County, then it will be a matter of time before he fights Jian Minggang, and he doesn't need Dai Honghai to persuade Lin Ziran to fight.

The problem is, the timing has to be right!

Lin Ziran is waiting for such an opportunity now!

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