Lin Ziran didn't think that Jian Minggang and Zhao Song would really support Feng Haozhong to recover Pingdan County and march into Guang'an County.

I guess all of them are conspirators.

Then again, he Lin Ziran himself is like this.

Maybe Feng Haozhong also has a lot of plans.

Because they're all essentially the same kind of people: careerists!

Regardless of their ability, talent, and strength, these people are all people who want to kill other opponents and unify Luo An and even the entire Nanhai Prefecture.

These people say that they want to cooperate with each other, then they must dig holes for each other, and in the end, who can be cheated and who wins, that is naturally another matter.

Lin Ziran can be sure that these people have dug a pit, and they should all have their own plans.

But this is actually not important, because Lin Ziran also has his own plan.

He doesn't care if Guang'an is not Guang'an or anything, but now there are five feudal towns in Luo'an County, too many!

A small Luo'an County, it is enough to have its own clan town, what Feng Haozhong, what Jian Minggang, what Zhao Song and Li Dingjun should be swept into the garbage heap of history.

Now the counterattack on Guang'an is an opportunity, let them fight with the Guang'an people, consume their strength, and then find an opportunity to suppress several other feudal towns, and expand their territory by the way.

If they have a chance, then they will be served, then Lin Ziran can wake up with a smile in his dreams.

Treating others with himself, Lin Ziran felt that several other feudal towns were also deliberately trying to trap themselves.

In this case, Lin Ziran naturally would not passively sit and watch the changes in the situation, let alone follow their pace stupidly, but began to actively prepare.

Lin Ziran began to contact Jian Minggang, Feng Haozhong, and Zhao Song frequently, and even corresponded several times with Li Kun from Guang'an and Li Dingjun further south.

But this kind of connection is nothing more than you testing me, I testing you, what you say can't be taken seriously, and it is difficult to completely change the overall situation.

Therefore, Lin Ziran's focus is still on the training of his sixth division.

On Earth, when he was very young, Lin Ziran knew that there was such a governance as a gun out of power.

Although some kind of intrigue and intrigue are somewhat useful, they need to rely on their own strength.

Only if the Sixth Division under his command is strong enough, then he will be able to use it on this basis, and when the time comes, he will be able to get what he wants, regardless of whether he uses stratagems or works directly.

Therefore, Lin Ziran was in contact with several other feudal towns on the one hand, and on the other hand, he continued to increase the training of his own troops.

Now his Sixth Division has completed the expansion plan formulated in the summer and autumn, and its nine infantry battalions, three artillery battalions, three baggage battalions, and three cavalry companies have all been fully equipped.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the troops, Lin Ziran even fully equipped the baggage troops with Mini rifles, so that the baggage soldiers in the baggage troops could also transform into infantry battalions at any time to participate in front-line battles.

At the same time, there are hundreds of recruits in the recruit camp who are constantly training, and once there is a change, these recruits can be replenished to the troops at any time, and at the same time, a new infantry battalion can be directly formed based on these recruits.

In terms of weapons and equipment, Lin Ziran purchased a large number of Fuyuan muskets and artillery and other weapons and equipment through the channels of the previous Nanzhou Bank, in addition to filling the existing troops, he also reserved at least a batch of spare Mini rifles and artillery, and these reserved rifles and artillery were all old guns and cannons.

A lot of the guns and cannons purchased by Lin Ziran in the early days were second-hand goods, such as those second-hand guns, which were small in power and had almost reached their lifespan, so they simply pulled them back and threw them into the recruit camp as training guns for artillery recruits, and they were also regarded as strategic reserves, and they could also be directly pulled out to participate in the war as artillery units of the regular army when necessary.

The same is true for second-hand muskets, many of those second-hand Fuyuan muskets are old, the quality of the barrel is not good, and the service life of the barrel is further reduced after modification, and the earlier modification technology is not good, plus there are few early guns, and training and combat are used very frequently.

Therefore, many of the rifles of the early second-hand musket converted from the Mini rifle were seriously worn.

Therefore, these early second-hand musket converted Mini rifles are now gradually withdrawn from the front-line troops, some of which are thrown into the new barracks as training guns, and the other part is mothballed as strategic reserves.

It's not just guns that have strategic reserves, but all sorts of other messes that are quite stockpiled.

Cavalry sabers, officers' sabers, revolvers, even sapper shovels, flags, even military uniforms, tents, and the like were all stocked, and even salted meat, which the soldiers hated so much, was stocked up.

Lin Ziran also knew that this thing was not delicious, and the soldiers were very disgusted with eating it, but it was the same as other feudal towns.

It's okay to eat fresh beef for daily supplies, but it's not nonsense to supply fresh meat during the war, or the marinated meat is simple and crisp, and it can be used for 35 years after marinating.

However, there are more reserves, and the most expensive ones are all kinds of ammunition!

Especially the shells, which are as many as possible, should be stockpiled.

In addition to the artillery shells directly attached to the artillery units, a batch of artillery shells was specially reserved for emergencies, and all the shells were counted, and now the number of shells attached to each field gun under Lin Ziran's command has reached 500 rounds.

The heavy artillery units of the 3rd Artillery Battalion also had 150 rounds of shells.

In order to reserve these shells, it cost Lin Ziran more than 700,000 yuan!

The reason why the price is so expensive is because Nanzhou Bank is too black-hearted.

A new type of grenade used in a nine-pound field gun dares to sell for 30 yuan, which is the same price as the Fuyuan musket!

What's even more infuriating is that this is just a shell, not including the propellant.

And the propellant of this new artillery is not ordinary black powder, but a maroon medicine cake, which is also very expensive.

Most of the money Lin Ziran spent on stockpiling shells was spent on these two things.

As for the solid shell, this thing is just an iron lump, which is worthless, and the Aoyama Machinery Factory will be able to mass-produce it on its own.

In fact, the Aoyama Machinery Factory is also able to produce grenades on its own, but the quality is too poor.

With the self-produced grenade of Aoyama Machinery Factory, the pressure bearing capacity of the shell is relatively poor, and the fuse processing capacity of the metal disc is also poor, which also means that too much propellant can not be loaded when fired, resulting in a limited range, and the timing of detonation is not very accurate, even if the mute rate is relatively high, there are often cases where the shell has exploded in mid-air before the knife is on the enemy's head.

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