Lin Ziran was quite surprised by the solicitation of Feng Haozhong, the commander of the Third Division.

What kind of troops are tense, it is necessary to mobilize local militia regiments to train and supplement brigades, and it is nonsense to point and guard the rear, and now the northern front with Chongguangcheng as the core is very calm.

Although there are almost 20,000 Guang'an troops on the opposite side, but Chongguang City is a natural pass, the third division of the Luo'an Army was almost supported by the whole county, nearly 20,000 casualties, dozens of heavy artillery were mobilized, hundreds of ordinary field artillery, and it took several months to conquer Chongguang City.

If the Guang'an Army does not have absolute superiority in strength and artillery, it is absolutely impossible to conquer Chongguangcheng!

And does the Guang'an Army have absolute superiority in strength and firepower?

They don't!

If they had, they wouldn't have lost Chongguang City in the first place.

Therefore, the northern defense line with Chongguangcheng as the core is very safe, and as long as the third division does not take the initiative to give up, it is almost impossible for the Guang'an Army to conquer it.

In this case, although the strength of the Third Division was frustrated, and the Provisional Brigade and the Sixth Brigade were also separated from the Third Division one after another, Feng Haozhong only had more than 10,000 troops left.

But there is still no shortage of troops.

What's more, there is actually no danger in the rear, and the Guang'an army can't cross the defense line of Chongguangcheng and then run to the hinterland behind Chongguangcheng.

As for the Jian family and the Cheng family, although they don't know what the specific battle situation is, it is estimated that they are also fighting each other, and in the end, no matter who wins or loses, it is unlikely to push Feng Haozhong to the opposite side, Feng Haozhong, who has an army of more than 10,000 people, is naturally in an invincible position.

However, now Feng Haozhong is saying that there is a shortage of troops, so he wants to turn Lin Ziran's Qingshan Patrol Battalion into a supplementary brigade, and then guard the rear of Chongguang City.

This is clearly an excuse!

The real purpose is just to win over Lin Zi.

Why did he woo himself?

Could it be that he is also as ambitious as the Jian family?

Lin Ziran thinks it's very possible!

None of these people are simple characters, all of them are careerists, the difference is only how ambitious they are.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Ziran said: "Lord Feng's attention really makes Lin panic, but now that the situation is chaotic, ensuring the strategic security of the rear of the front-line army is also my Lin Ziran's responsibility that cannot be postponed!" ”

This basically means that he agreed to take this supplementary brigade.

Because he agreed, it was actually more of a statement, and it was impossible for Feng Haozhong to directly command him Lin Ziran anyway.

But if you don't agree, this may cause Feng Haozhong to be unnecessarily guarded and even suppressed, what if this Feng Haozhong is funny, when he conquers the city and expands his territory, he directly sends troops to kill Qingshan Town?

Another very important point is that if you choose to move closer to Feng Haozhong on the surface, there will not be too much risk.

This is different from the Cheng family or the Jian family, throwing into one of these two parties, the potential risk is too great, if you stand on the wrong team, it will be over, even if you don't stand on the wrong team, but it is estimated that you will be forced to participate in the war.

But Feng Haozhong is different, he is the real power faction of the military, and he is also a neutral faction, even if there may be some action in the future, but at least there is no action in front of him.

In a short period of time, leaning towards Feng Haozhong will not be too risky.

Besides, everyone knows very well that this is just a superficial close-up, and it doesn't mean that he, Lin Ziran, has become Feng Haozhong's subordinate.

None of you are stupid!

After getting Lin Ziran's answer, Jiang Xiaqing smiled: "Okay, it's good that Lord Lin has this idea!" ”

What Jiang Xiaqing wants is just an attitude from Lin Ziran.

He knew very well that what kind of supplementary brigade his lord gave was just a temptation, just to know Lin Ziran's attitude.

As for the actual change, everyone knows that there will be no such thing.

What should the former Qingshan Patrol Battalion look like, and what will the future supplementary brigade look like.

Jiang Xiaqing left with Lin Ziran's reply.

Before leaving, he said that within a few days, the letter of appointment of the supplementary brigade would be delivered.

As for the replenishment of the brigade's military supplies and the like, both sides tacitly did not mention this topic, Feng Haozhong would definitely not help Lin Ziran raise a private army, even if he wanted to raise it, he couldn't afford it, and his own third division was about to be unable to raise it now.

Lin Ziran didn't expect this.

He just showed favor to Feng Haozhong, and by the way, he got another name in the regular army, which would also facilitate the follow-up anti-bandit action.

While waiting for the appointment letter, Lin Ziran also accelerated the deployment of troops.

Now that the external environment has almost been settled, at least the surrounding sides will not do anything to stop their bandits.

The next step is to take action.

In order to expand his territory and act better, Lin Ziran personally found Wu Guanlin and Xu Zhongshu, the only professional officers under his hands, to discuss the battle plan.

In fact, the formulation of the battle plan is not very complicated, because there is no regular army in the vicinity, and the opponent is only the local militia groups in various places, and even these local militia groups may not be able to fight.

Because at that time, Lin Ziran will act in the name of Feng Haozhong asking him to suppress the bandits, and he will even act under the banner of the supplementary brigade of the Third Division, in the name of suppressing bandits, and actually control the locality.

When the time comes, he represents the actions of the regular army.

In this case, not all local militia groups will resist.

In order to better carry out follow-up anti-bandit operations.

Lin Ziran changed the guards and adjusted the existing units to mobilize the troops for action.

At present, the Qingshan Garrison Battalion has a total of 2,000 troops, and has two full-strength infantry battalions, the First Infantry Battalion and the Second Infantry Battalion, each with four infantry companies and a total of more than 600 personnel.

In addition to the infantry with a total strength of more than 1,200 men, the Qingshan Patrol Battalion also had two cavalry companies, the first cavalry company was a light infantry company with only 150 cavalry, and the second cavalry company was a dragoon company with a strength of 200 cavalry.

Then there were two artillery companies, each with six five-pound guns and auxiliary forces such as transporters and grooms, and each artillery company had nearly 100 people.

There was also a large baggage company, with a large number of baggage wagons and two hundred and fifty baggage soldiers.

Then came Lin Ziran's personal guards, the number of which was not much, only more than eighty people.

The above two infantry battalions, two cavalry companies, two artillery companies, one baggage company, and one personal guard constitute all the strength of the current Qingshan Patrol Battalion, which is just over 2,000 men.

In fact, the Qingshan Patrol Battalion also has a third infantry battalion, but there is only one empty shelf at present, because the recruits for the third infantry battalion are still being recruited, so they can't even make up the numbers.

However, even if there are only 2,000 people, and the strength of these 2,000 people is not good, at the same time, some troops have to be left to watch the family.

But that's enough!

Because their enemies are weaker!

For example, their priority target is Sanyang Town, where there are only more than two hundred town guards!

Pull over thousands of people by yourself, and you can scare them to death!