Since Lin Ziran said that he was going to have dinner in Fengyan Town, he wanted to have dinner in Fengyan Town.

Even in the follow-up attack, the defenders resisted very tenaciously, even after the second mixed regiment entered the battle, although the defenders were defeated and retreated, and even after the city wall defense line was lost, they still retreated to the city and relied on the buildings in the city to resist.

However, in the face of this situation, Lin Ziran directly put the artillery unit in front and directly launched a large-scale artillery bombardment of the urban area.

Subsequently, five catties of artillery were directly transferred into the city for close-range artillery bombardment, killing and wounding those stubborn defenders.

Fengyan Town is just a small town to put it bluntly, not to mention the town, the residents in the town are not even as large as the number of armies fighting on both sides.

In such a small place, even if the defenders retreated to the city, they would not be able to hold out for long, not to mention that the Sixth Division still had an absolute superiority in artillery and troops.

After several hours of fierce fighting between the two sides, the remnants of the defenders who had been divided and surrounded finally could not hold on, and several remnants surrendered one after another.

This made Lin Ziran very envious of Feng Haozhong, the soldiers brought out by this person were not simple.

After entering the city, through questioning the prisoners of war, it was learned that only a small regiment of the 3rd Division was guarding the place in this battle, with a total strength of less than 1,100 men, and only four artillery pieces.

According to post-war statistics, during the two days of fierce fighting, nearly 100 people were directly killed, more than 300 people were wounded, and more than 100 people were directly killed or wounded, with a casualty rate of nearly 40 percent.

In the end, after the city was divided and surrounded, these remnants could not hold on, and there was no hope of breaking through the siege before they had to surrender.

As for the headquarters of the 6th Division, which was the attacking side, the total loss of each division was more than 600 people in two days of fierce fighting, and nearly 100 of them were deserters killed by themselves!

This battle is undoubtedly the most brutal battle and the heaviest casualties that Lin Ziran fought when he raised his troops.

But what made Lin Ziran relieved was that although the battle had a bad start and the Eighth Infantry Battalion simply lost his face, it was able to successfully reverse the situation through various means.

Otherwise, he's probably going to capsize in this little Fengyan town!

After successfully capturing Fengyan Town, Lin Ziran had dinner directly in the city, and after dinner, he looked at the complete battle report of the battle compiled by Wu Guanlin, and the more he looked at it, the more helpless he felt.

The battle itself was won, but the overall performance of the troops was actually quite poor.

In the battle report compiled by the General Staff Office, it was pointed out that in the course of a series of battles, there were at least a dozen fatal loopholes on their side.

If the enemy had not had too few troops, or had had too many pieces of artillery, perhaps the attack would have been carried out with resentment.

At the same time, the command of the officers of the various units was also unsatisfactory.

Xu Zhongshu, the front-line commander, naturally has no problem commanding, he is a professional officer, and there is no problem at all in commanding this kind of battle, and the problem appears in many battalion commanders and company commanders.

The command level of these middle- and low-ranking officers is seriously insufficient, and even many times they will misunderstand the orders, and then make some actions that make the superiors confused, and many people still feel that they are all children of destiny and often act on their own.

Generally speaking, among all the middle and senior officers above the company commander level who participated in the offensive, except for a few people such as Xu Zhongshu and Zhang Hanqiu, the performance of the others was not good.

Compared with the low quality of the officers, the performance of the soldiers is actually more normal.

Although the performance of the soldiers was not very good, considering that many of them were new recruits, they did not have enough time to train, and they had not fought many battles before, so the poor performance was understandable.

And in the third attack this afternoon, the soldiers have generally adapted to the war, and their performance can be regarded as okay.

After reading the detailed battle report, Lin Ziran was very envious of Feng Haozhong!

Look at the army under other people's hands, and then compare the army under your own hands, it's really a lot of money to throw around!

The defenders in their early 1,000s were able to create so much trouble for themselves because they had an absolute artillery advantage and the other side did not have any perfect fortifications.

And after more than half of the casualties, even after their regiment commanders were killed, they could continue to resist and fight under the leadership of the battalion commander or even the company commander.

If it weren't for the fact that their own troops later divided and surrounded them, and completely cut off their desire to continue to resist or break through, they probably wouldn't have surrendered.

No wonder Feng Haozhong's troops are actually not more than Li Dingjun and Zhao Song, the actual strength of the three is about the same, but it makes Jian Minggang regard it as a big problem.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to join forces with Li Kun to kill Feng Haozhong's subordinates.

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This third division has good combat effectiveness!

In order to show respect for these officers and men of the Third Division, who had good combat effectiveness, Lin Ziran ordered that the more than 400 prisoners of war of the Third Division who surrendered must be strictly guarded.

At the same time, he also instructed Luo Mazi to start persuading people to surrender from these prisoners of war, especially those sergeants and junior officers.

Since recruiting a large number of people from the Guang'an prisoners of war, Lin Ziran felt that recruiting people from the prisoners of war was a way to quickly increase the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Many of these prisoners of war were professional officers and veterans, and these people were still very valuable, especially for Lin Ziran, an army that seriously lacked professional officers and veterans.

In addition, it is important to note that in the wars of the feudal towns, it is normal for the winning side to directly absorb the troops of the losers.

The defeated POWs were usually not too resistant.

How did Jian Minggang's more than 40,000 troops come to be now?

Most of them were actually the original people under Cheng Lingfeng, who were reorganized after he was absorbed and dispersed.

Of course, this is limited to ordinary soldiers and junior officers, and it depends on the situation for middle and senior officers.

Lin Ziran asked Luo Mazi to recruit the men in the prisoners of war, and the main targets were also those sergeants and junior officers.

Sergeants are veterans who have been in the army for many years, artillery is generally a gun commander, and infantry is often a team commander or platoon commander.

Not to mention low-ranking officers, who generally hold positions such as company commanders and adjutants.

These two are the backbone of an army.

With these two kinds of people, a group of recruits can be directly replenished, and an army can be pulled out in a short time.

In addition to these two main goals, ordinary soldiers are also the focus of the fight.

In fact, there are some recruits or soldiers with poor quality among these soldiers, but they are not bad, they are much stronger than directly recruited recruits, and they can be recruited as much as they want.

As for the remaining middle and high-ranking officers, depending on the situation, it is best to be willing to surrender, and directly give them false posts, observe them for a period of time, and then appoint them according to the situation.

If they are not willing to surrender, it is impossible to kill, and they will not even be locked up forever, but they will be locked up in a prisoner of war camp first, and then when the time is right, they will naturally be able to regain their freedom.

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