After the time entered November, it is rumored that many places in the central and northern regions of Daheng have cooled down significantly, and several states in the north have been snowing heavily, but in Nanhai Prefecture, the sun is still shining and warm like spring.

Many of the soldiers in training were even shirtless, and even Lin Ziran, who was watching the training from the sidelines, only wore a long-sleeved single shirt.

The winter in Nanhai Prefecture only exists literally in Lin Ziran's feelings, anyway, Lin Ziran didn't wear any thick clothes last year and this year's two winters, at most it was long sleeves and a woolen jacket, no more, any more will cause heat stroke.

Looking at the soldiers of the Second Artillery Battalion in front, waving sweat and repeating the loading training, the soldiers who were willing to train would feel very boring, but Lin Ziran was not boring to watch.

Because Lin Ziran was counting the time with a pocket watch while watching.

He did not calculate the time it took for a single artillery group to reload and open the guns, but how many shells the entire artillery battalion could fire in twenty minutes.

The speed of a single artillery group has little effect on the strength of the artillery support of the entire army, and what he needs is a steady increase in the loading and firing rate of an entire artillery battalion.

After reading it, he said to Xu Jin on the side: "Yes, it's better than last week's drill!" ”

Xu Jin grinned and said, "Thanks to the guidance of the adult's supervision, otherwise our second battalion would not have been able to improve so quickly!" ”

Lin Ziran said: "This loading training is almost over, and you have to pay attention to the shooting training later!" ”

Xu Jin said: "Don't worry, my lord, I was already carrying out the special training of the artillery commander when it was first formed, and the artillery commanders will also carry out special artillery skills learning after completing the daily training, and I will not let the adults down." ”

Lin Ziran nodded slightly: "Then I'm looking forward to the live-fire exercise of the second battalion!" ”

After watching the training, Lin Ziran left the training ground and returned to his headquarters, and on the way, he also asked Wu Guanlin: "How are the two artillery companies of the mixed regiment?" ”

Wu Guanlin said: "Lord Qiyu, artillery is the middle force of the battle, the two mixed regiment artillery companies have always attached great importance to the humble duty, before we lacked artillery, so these two artillery companies each have only three five-pound field guns, some time ago we purchased a batch of new artillery, the humble post in accordance with the instructions of the adult, allocated a five-pound field gun each, two nine-pound field guns to supplement the artillery company of the two mixed regiments. ”

"At the same time, it is also the members of the ** group that have been transferred to the past, and now these two artillery companies are fully manned, but in terms of combat effectiveness, I am afraid that there are still some differences with the First Artillery Battalion, after all, the training time is short!"

Lin Ziran said: "Well, there is no way to do it, but it is precisely because of the short time that the training must be more hard, so that you can hit every shot as soon as possible." ”

When saying this, Lin Ziran once again felt that time was pressing.

Since the civil unrest in Luo'an in July, Lin Ziran has been feeling that there is not enough time.

It's not that he's busy, it's that there's too little time left for him to expand his army training.

Since July, he has been recruiting soldiers on a large scale and purchasing weapons and equipment.

On the surface, his army had already expanded to more than 10,000 people in October, but his family knew his own affairs, and there were few of these 10,000 people who could fight, because most of them were new recruits.

Strictly speaking, when it entered November, Lin Ziran's various departments were truly fully staffed.

So far, there are now three combat units under Lin Ziran's command.

The core main force is to supplement the brigade headquarters.

It has jurisdiction over the First Infantry Corps, the Second Infantry Regiment, the Ninth Infantry Battalion, the First Artillery Regiment, the First Baggage Regiment, the First Cavalry Company, the Third Cavalry Company, the Engineer Company, the Health Company and other auxiliary units, with a total strength of a little more than 8,000 troops.

Then there was the first mixed regiment of about 1,000 people, and the second mixed regiment of 1,200 people.

The sum of the three is more than 10,000 people.

Of course, this only counts the paid combat and auxiliary combatants, not the civilian men who were temporarily conscripted during the war

In addition, in fact, there are other troops under Lin Ziran's command, that is, the guards of each town.

But Lin Ziran is different from other feudal towns, he doesn't want to see other independent armed forces in the places under his rule, so Lin Ziran is to incorporate the guards of each town or the militia of the gentry, among which the elite are supplemented to the regular army as recruits, and the ordinary ones are selected and trained as patrol officers in various places, and some unqualified ones are directly eliminated.

However, in order to prevent the layoffs from making trouble or having no means of livelihood, these layoffs can work for Tsingshan Petroleum Company.

The main purpose of rectifying the militia groups in various places is not that Lin Ziran is to recruit them and increase their strength, in fact, these militia groups basically have no combat effectiveness, and it is too much of an obstacle to pull them on the battlefield to gather people.

The main purpose of co-ordinating them is to avoid wasting funds.

Most of these secret regiments are raised at the expense of the local town guards, and a militia group of 100 people will cost tens of thousands of people a year, and Lianguan County has 12 towns of all sizes, and each town has a militia group, although most of them are less than 100 people, but there are also militia groups in some towns that are estimated to have more than 100 or even two or three hundred people.

After taking Lianguan County, Lin Ziran counted the number of people, and in the entire Lianguan County, the scale of the militia reached more than 1,000 people, and it costs more than 100,000 local funds every year.

If this money is spent on the militia group, it is better for Lin Ziran to take it himself to train the regular army, and it is good to even have an infantry battalion.

So now, Lianguan County no longer has the local militia that is common in other places, and how to deal with the many bandits after there is no local militia, Lin Ziran said that he has tens of thousands of troops in his hands.

Seeing that the training of the troops was almost over, Lin Ziran also put the matter of suppressing bandits on the agenda, and in mid-November, Lin Ziran convened a meeting of the main officers of the various departments under his command.

"There have been letters from several towns in front of us, saying that bandits are raging and that after the militia group was withdrawn, although the patrol force in various places has increased, it can only maintain local ordinary law and order, and it is still beyond the power of the bandits!"

"Now that the departments are just beginning, it is just time to train with war, so that the brothers can open their eyes and see blood!"

Lin Ziran's idea is very simple, he wants to let the troops get a certain amount of actual combat training through the suppression of bandits, although the training obtained in this way is very limited, but it is better than not firing a shot and directly pulling it up for a decisive battle.

Let them go out to suppress the bandits and fire a few shots, see the blood, and initially adapt to the atmosphere of the battle, so that when they fight with other feudal towns in the future, they will not run out before they have been fought.

Lin Ziran's words were naturally readily agreed!

It's just that many people from old bandits feel weird after hearing the word bandits!

Luo Mazi muttered in his heart: It seems that we are also bandits, right?

What is this?

Bandits and bandits?

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