Lin Ziran Yongchang was forty-nine years old because of the outbreak of the Luo'an Civil War, and he got the number of the Third Division Supplementary Brigade, and there began to be thousands of men and horses under his hands, which can be regarded as becoming a feudal town, but at that time it was at most a small feudal town.

It didn't take long for Lin Ziran, who was entrenched in Lianguan County, to get the number of the Sixth Division, and became one of the five major feudal towns in Luo'an at that time, with more than 10,000 troops!

In the fiftieth year of Yongchang, Feng Haozhong was destroyed, and Lin Ziran took the opportunity to occupy the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang, and also seized the four towns of Nan'an, so that the territory under his command expanded to the scale of twenty-two towns.

However, in the spring and summer of this year, after Li Kun tossed himself to the end, the army under Lin Ziran had rapidly swelled to 30,000 people, and took over all of Nan'an County and most of Pingdan County.

Lin Ziran, who has developed so rapidly, has already surprised many people.

But now they were even more surprised when they heard that the Sixth Division under Lin Ziran had cleanly defeated the more than 10,000 troops of the county guard outside Pingdan County.

Could it be that Lin Ziran really has the strength to unify Luo'an County?

Not mentioning the thoughts of these ordinary people, after the war, Lin Ziran directly held a war report meeting in the military camp outside the city.

Analyze the course of the battle, discuss what was done well, what was not good enough, what needs to be improved.

This is also a tradition of the Sixth Division, which analyzes the battle report and sums up experience after the battle.

It's just that this time at the war report meeting, most of the topics revolved around rear-loading rifled guns and rear-loading rifled guns.

And the rhetoric is pretty much the same.

That is, it is necessary to get more rear-loading guns as soon as possible, and at every turn, it means a battalion and a regiment and so on.

The problem of rear-loading rifles is easy to solve, anyway, they are just modified, and the monthly production is not low, and at least a few thousand can be modified every month and sent to the front line.

But the problem of the rear-loading gun is that it cannot be solved in a short time.

Qingshan Machinery Factory is such a large scale, and now it is very good to be able to build a few rear-loading guns in the mode of laboratory production at any cost, and there is basically no hope for dozens of dozens of equipment in a short time.

In addition to talking about the equipment and capacity of rear-loading guns, there are also some that are worth noting.

Wu Guanlin proposed: "Limited by the rear-loading rifle modification capacity, it is difficult to fully equip the whole army in a short period of time, the premise is that a small amount of equipment can be equipped in each unit for medium and long-distance precision hunting, and at the same time used to perform some small-scale combat missions!" ”

"Just like today's battle, the breech-loading rifle attached to an infantry regiment is only the size of a company, but the firepower exerted by the breech-loading rifle of this company is enough to match that of a battalion, not to mention, and at the same time, it also kills and wounds a large number of enemy officers!"

"If it weren't for the massive death of the enemy's officers, their troops would not have collapsed so quickly!"

After hearing this, Lin Ziran nodded slightly and said: "This method is good, there are already light infantry companies in each unit, you can equip them with a part of the reinforcement firepower first, and at the same time, cooperate with the training of other line infantry companies, so that after the rear-loading rifles are distributed to other troops, the soldiers will not be difficult to adapt to because of the unfamiliarity of the equipment." ”

In fact, this thing has been done before, but there is no clear statement, and this time, it is confirmed.

Because according to the Tsingshan Machinery Factory's modified production capacity of four or five thousand pieces per month, the scale of the Sixth Division is getting bigger and bigger day by day.

A month ago, there were only 20,000 people, but now they have become 30,000 people, and after a few days of accepting these prisoners of war, it is estimated that they will be able to run for 40,000 people.

The rear-loading rifles needed by 40,000 people would have to be at least more than 30,000, and the Qingshan Machinery Factory would have to make every effort to modify them, and it would have to be a year shorter.

However, war waits for no one.

Now that Lin Ziran and Jian Minggang are completely done, this is an exaggeration to say that it is a life-and-death war, which will not give both sides too much time to wait and prepare.

Now Lin Ziran is thinking about taking advantage of the fact that the county guard is not familiar with the equipment and tactics of his troops, and he will kill a wave first and strive to get more results.

Otherwise, he was worried that if it dragged on for so many months, the other party would also come up with a large wave of rear-loading rifles and even rear-loading guns.

The Luo'an Arsenal under Jianminggang is much larger than the Qingshan Machinery Factory.

Castle Peak Machinery Factory was able to use the Fuyuan rifle to convert a rear-loading rifle, and so could they.

Aoyama Machinery Factory was able to build steel breech-loading rifled guns, and they were even better!

Therefore, it is impossible for Lin Ziran to give Jian Minggang too much time to imitate and produce a large number of breech-loading rifled weapons before fighting.

That's self-defeating!

At the battle report meeting that afternoon, Lin Ziran had already revealed his tone to many generals, asking them to continue to prepare, thinking that the southward battle had just begun.

Sure enough, in the evening of the same day, Lin Ziran once again summoned the main generals to participate in the strategic meeting!

At the strategy meeting, Lin Ziran didn't say much, and after making some opening remarks, he nodded slightly to Wu Guanlin.

At this time, Wu Guanlin, chief of the staff office, stood up, only he was wearing a general's uniform, Wu Guanlin, who was wearing the military badge of the Shaoqing Army, held the command list on the huge military map on the wall and said: "My lord, colleagues, the staff office has determined the strategic direction of the next step in the south in accordance with the instructions of the lord, and according to the current development of the war situation!" ”

"After a short rest and replenishment, the troops will use this to fight south!"

"In order for the enemy to learn of the outcome of the Battle of Pin Thanh and to retreat quickly, we need to move quickly and try to seize a number of strategic points before the enemy reacts, and this is where our main goal is."

As he spoke, Wu Guanlin pointed to a point on the map with his baton, where there were two big characters: Shi Yan.

"Our next combat target is Shiyan Town, which is located 25 kilometers south of Pingdan County, just on the north bank of the Nanzi River, a tributary to the west of the Luo River, and about six kilometers away from the main stream of the Luo River."

"You all know that although the South Purple River is not big, its navigable capacity is still okay, and it can allow small and medium-sized steam inland river ships to navigate, and the logistics supply of most of the troops of the county guard army in Pingdan County and Yonggu County is replenished through the river of the South Purple River!"

"And Shiyan Town is located on the north bank of the South Purple River, and the river section there is very narrow."

"Once we conquer Shiyan Town, we will be able to use artillery to completely block the Nanzihe River, and then cut off their logistical supply!"

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