When people from Guang'an kept saying this, Feng Haozhong didn't say anything.

He didn't even say a word from beginning to end!

He just listened, silent!

However, from the frowning brow he frowned from time to time, he knew that his heart was not at peace!

At the same time, the southernmost part of Luo'an County, Dingjiang City on the banks of the Luo River.

This city on the banks of the Luo River is not standard to say that it is a city, it should be said to be a fortress.

Because the city was a standard fortress structure, it was staffed by a large number of soldiers and heavy artillery, and even had a small harbor with more than a dozen steam-ironclad warships with towering chimneys, steel hulls, and large-caliber smoothbore guns.

But there are no civilians in the city!

It was a fortress for purely military purposes, or rather a barracks.

This fortress is the core fortress of the southern defense line of Luoan County, 'Dingjiang Fortress'.

The vast Luo River flows all the way south from the north, and after passing through the Dingjiang Fortress, it will enter the Luohai County basin in the south, and finally go straight to the Endless Sea.

The Luo River and the Dingjiang fortress on the bank of the river are the most important strategic bases for the Luo An Army to resist the powerful Luo Navy in the past ten years.

The troops stationed at the fortress were the 2nd Division of the Luo'an Army.

The second division is the main force of the southern defense line, and the strength of the whole division once reached more than 20,000 at its peak, even if it was continuously transferred, but now there are still about 15,000 people, responsible for the Dingjiang fortress and the surrounding defense line.

At this time, Li Dingjun, the commander of the Second Division, stood at the head of the Dingjiang fortress, looking at the Luohe River below and the 30,000 troops outside the city who were camping and deploying artillery positions.

The army of Luohai County!

They picked the best time in the last decade to kill them, in the midst of civil strife in Roan County.

Li Dingjun didn't stay on Luo Haijun for too long, but quickly looked to the north!

In the past ten years, the Luo army has twice tried to go north to capture Luo'an County, but they have been blocked by the Luo An army relying on the Dingjiang fortress.

However, the Dingjiang Fortress was able to block the Northern Expedition of Luohai County, in addition to the local terrain advantages and the strong defense of the fortress, it was also inseparable from the strong support from the rear.

The troops stationed in the fortress could not have held out for long without strong support from the rear.

But now that Roan County is in civil strife, will his second division still be able to get strong support from the rear?

He doesn't need anyone to tell him, he knows!

No!

The civil strife between the Cheng family and the Jian family for the county guard led to the outbreak of the civil war in Luo'an, and even led to the prying eyes of countless people from the outside.

If Luo An is still a whole, then it is already in a shaky state at this time.

But for some in Roan, the change was an opportunity, a rare opportunity.

At least that's the case for Lin Zi.

Without this turmoil, Lin Ziran would not have been able to obtain the title of a supplementary brigade, let alone take the opportunity to control the surrounding four towns.

When Lin Ziran led his troops to control the surrounding four towns, he generally did not encounter any resistance, at least no large-scale military resistance, that is, there were a few people who opposed it in Jinghu Town.

However, it was only verbally opposed, but it did not dare to make actual resistance.

And for these objections, especially these people are still some energetic people, according to the conventional opposition roles, Lin Ziran thinks that they may contact a certain upper-level boss in the future, or even directly contact the Cheng family or the Jian family, and then cause trouble for Lin Ziran.

In order to avoid this kind of trouble and strangle the tasks and dangers in the cradle, Lin Ziran directly asked these opponents to be sent to the labor team one by one, so that they could contribute to the construction of the oilfield area.

Overall, however, some opposition has not become mainstream.

When he successively controlled Lishan Town and Jinghu Town, even the five towns in the north of Guan County were under his control, if he continued to expand, he would either go north into Guang'an County, but that place was very sensitive, Feng Haozhong's third division was in the area of Chongguangcheng, and many towns in the rear were also garrisoned by troops of the third division.

If Lin Ziran led his troops north, maybe Feng Haozhong thought he was going to do something, and then sent troops to attack him.

To the east, it is a big mountain, the traffic is very inconvenient, and there is not much expansion value.

To the south, it is the hinterland of Lianguan County, and the county seat of Lianguan County is in the central region of the county, Lin Ziran has no plans to take the county seat directly.

To the west, it is the Luo River, and on the other side of the Luo River is Pingdan County, which is a good place, but because Pingdan County is a large coal-producing county, the county guard has always been the focus of attention, and the local militia is not easy to provoke.

The coal bosses are a group of people who have become rich, they are very rich, not to mention the militia groups they raise, and the equipment is good.

Lin Ziran estimated that he would not be able to convince the local coal bosses to take refuge in him, and then offer the guards and other militia groups in the mining areas with both hands.

So far, five towns is already the limit of recent expansion, and if you continue to expand, it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble.

What's more, Lin Ziran also received the news that the war between the Cheng family and the Jian family is getting more and more intense, and the more fierce the fight, the faster they can distinguish the victory and defeat, whether the Cheng family wins or the Jian family wins, it is estimated that it will not take long to see the difference.

In this case, Lin Ziran needs to stop the pace of expansion, and then continue to recruit and train troops to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible.

In this way, we will be able to preserve the fruits of these victories in the future.

In the barracks of the oilfield area, Lin Ziran, accompanied by everyone, watched the live-fire training of the nine-kilogram artillery that had just arrived in Qingshan Town.

These six nine-pound new smoothbore field guns are the latest products of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, and they are the same type of artillery as the six five-pound new field guns purchased by Lin Ziran before.

According to Zhou Li, this new type of nine-catty artillery only began mass production this year, and it is currently only equipped with the regular army in Luohai County, and the number of equipment is not much, only a few dozen.

As for why Hongxiang Commercial Bank was able to get these six doors and sell them to Lin Ziran, this is their own problem, but one of the shareholders of Hongxiang Commercial Bank is Luo Hai'an's family, and they are all related people to the county guard, so it is reasonable to get this kind of artillery.

Not long after it was established, the backbone ** soldiers were all transferred from the previous two artillery companies of the Third Artillery Company, and they were preparing nervously at this time.

And Lin Ziran was watching them prepare from behind!

At this time, Wu Guanlin stepped forward and said, "My lord, from the previous test, the range of these six nine-pound artillery pieces is larger than our original five-pound new artillery, and the power is also stronger, once the training is successful, it is enough to become our strategic support firepower!" ”