With the support of the Second Heavy Cavalry Regiment led by Tang Youfeng, Lin Ziran and Hao Ren finally went north with their baggage again.

There were no accidents in the follow-up, and it was smooth to arrive at the front line of Chongguang City.

It would be inaccurate to say that they arrived at the front line, because they actually arrived at the Luo'an army camp about five kilometers away from Chongguang City, which was still several kilometers away from the front line.

But in this huge military camp, Lin Ziran has already fully felt the cruelty of war.

On their way to the camp, they saw makeshift graves scattered all over the hills, all of which were the graves of the war dead.

There is no end in sight to the mountains!

Entering the camp, when passing through a square, Lin Ziran saw countless wounded soldiers, and heard that because of the shortage of medicine, many soldiers could not get effective treatment, so they could only lie in the hospital and wait for death, and the temporary field hospital area was not large enough, and many of the wounded soldiers brought back from the front line were lying directly in the open air in the square.

Lin Ziran even saw a few soldiers who were seriously injured, but they were not completely dead, and were loaded into the carriage by the corpse collection team and the corpses.

Countless graves and wounded soldiers, hollow and numb soldiers in the big battalion!

The cruelty of this Chongguang battle exceeded Lin Ziran's imagination.

At this time, Lin Ziran was glad that he didn't have to go to the front line with the patrol battalion, otherwise, if he went to the huge meat grinder on the Chongguang front, it would be very suspenseful whether he could come back alive.

At least Hao Ren doesn't have much confidence!

"Brother Lin, if you say goodbye today, I don't know if we will see each other in the future." Hao Ren's words were full of embarrassment.

Now that the supplies are escorted and arrived, they will be considered to have completed the task, and Lin Ziran will return to Qingshan Town with the people, and then wait for the next batch of supplies to arrive in Qingshan Town to start the second round of northbound escort missions.

As for Hao Ren, he had to take dozens of heavy soldiers under his command to report directly to the front line.

When I see so many dead and wounded, and I am about to go to the front line, it may not be long before I become one of the wounded soldiers, I am afraid that I can't calm down.

Hao Ren also can't be calm!

Although Hao Ren forcibly kept his composure, he just sighed, but Lin Ziran could still feel his panic.

But Lin Ziran didn't know what to say.

Console?

Everyone's a big man, comfort a fart!

And they are all soldiers, it is normal to go to the battlefield in this troubled world, Lin Ziran himself doesn't know when he will die on the battlefield, and he comforts others!

After being silent for a moment, Lin Ziran said: "The guns are not long-eyed, you just be careful!" ”

Hao Ren said: "Maybe! ”

Lin Ziran was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Don't worry, even if you die on the battlefield, you will be a good man again in eighteen years!" ”

Hao Ren was silent!

After half a day, he grinned: "Haha, it doesn't take eighteen years, fifteen or sixteen years later, Lao Tzu will be a good man again!" ”

Seeing Hao Ren away, Lin Ziran felt a little heavy.

Seeing so many dead and wounded, to be honest, it had a great impact on Lin Ziran.

This kind of impact is even greater than when facing the attack of Guang'an cavalry before!

The previous battles were all small-scale battles, with occasional casualties, and they were all on the scale of dozens of people and hundreds of people, even if the scene was more tragic, but there was a limit.

However, on the front line of Chongguangcheng, even if Lin Ziran did not come to the battlefield in person, he did not see the scene of the outbreak of the battle.

But only to see so many graves and wounded soldiers in the rear, then the cruelty of the war can already be felt.

With shock and exclamation, Lin Ziran led the army back to Qingshan Town.

On the way back, because there was no drag from a large number of supplies, and there were not too many heavy weapons, the speed of the southward journey was very fast, and I was even able to walk more than 20 kilometers in a day.

In this way, it will not take three days, Lin Ziran will return to Qingshan Town with people.

In the past few days when he went north, Qingshan Town was still the same, and Scar and Wu Dajiang joined forces with more than 200 people to guard it, and this Qingshan Town naturally couldn't be chaotic.

In the next few days, Lin Ziran did not focus on the refinery and oil fields as usual, but focused on the training of the patrol battalion.

This time when he went north, he entrusted Hao Ren to get a complete training drill for Luo Anjun, and then followed this training drill to train the soldiers.

In the past, Lin Ziran's training of the patrol battalion was more of a basic training, mainly lined up and loaded.

But now, he is more training company and platoon level tactics.

However, it did not completely copy the method in the training drills, for example, in the infantry training drills of the Luo An Army, soldiers were required to fire within 80 meters of the enemy, and it was recommended that officers should close the firing distance as much as possible, and it was best to be able to advance to within 30 meters or even 20 meters for a salvo, and launch a bayonet charge directly after the salvo was completed.

However, this tactic was only suitable for troops with muskets, and not for the Aoyama Patrol Battalion, which used rifled guns.

As for the firing distance, Lin Ziran asked the troops to open fire at a distance of 300 meters or even 400 meters if they had a good field of vision, and asked the soldiers to aim and shoot so as to use the range of rifled guns to kill and injure some enemy soldiers first.

When it reaches about 200 meters, this distance will become an important killing range for the troops.

The distance of two hundred meters is already far beyond the effective range of a smoothbore gun, but for a rifled gun, this distance can be said to be relatively close.

At the same time, Lin Ziran no longer forcibly asked the troops to list a dense formation for salvo fire, but relied on the chest wall and other fortifications for defensive operations as much as possible, so as to make better use of the range and accuracy of rifled guns.

When they were attacked by the Guang'an cavalry before, they used the carriage as a fortification to block the impact of the enemy cavalry, and then they also used the fortifications composed of breastwork, trenches, and carriages to hold on to the spot.

Proper use of fortifications for defensive operations can bring out the power of rifled guns better than blind formations for frontal battles.

At the same time, it can also avoid exposing the shortcomings of the inadequate training of their own troops and the limited fighting determination of their soldiers.

Now Lin Ziran stays in the city gate barracks every day, and he doesn't have the heart to pay attention to other things at all.

Even after the equipment and spare parts needed to build the oil refining equipment arrived, Lin Ziran did not go to the oil refinery, but just asked Luo Mazi to organize Nangong Hou and others to assemble the oil refining equipment and increase production capacity.

Today's Lin Ziran is bent on improving the combat effectiveness of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion to deal with more crises.

Escorting supplies to the north has already been attacked before, and when transporting materials for the second or even third time in the future, I am afraid that he will not be attacked by the Guang'an Army, so he must prepare in advance.

In addition to training troops, Lin Ziran also asked Luo Mazi and Wu Dajiang to recruit new soldiers in the surrounding areas, on the one hand, to supplement the lack of losses, and on the other hand, to continue to expand the army.

Now Lin Ziran took the Qingshan Patrol Battalion to escort supplies north, and the Third Division helped solve a large part of the military expenses of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion.

After all, the emperor is not hungry and sends soldiers!

Since the Third Division helped Lin Ziran raise some people, Lin Ziran also had the spare strength to expand the army.

Lin Ziran's goal is not big, he just wants to recruit two more infantry companies, and by the way, the cavalry, artillery, and baggage units will also be expanded.

Strive to complete the small goal of exceeding 1,000 troops first!