Since marching into Pingdan County, Lin Ziran has successively accepted tens of thousands of people from the original Li Kun's subordinates, and organized the Third Mixed Regiment, the Fourth Mixed Regiment, and the Fifth Mixed Brigade.

Subsequently, he sent two mixed regiments to the city of Chongguang and the east bank of Lingchang, under the command of Wu Dajiang and Wang Dao (Scar) respectively.

At the same time, in order to allow the troops in these two directions to have a unified command structure, he simply promoted Wu Dajiang and Wang Dao to the position of Shaoqing Brigade Commander respectively.

Therefore, within the current Sixth Division system,

Wu Dajiang served as the commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade outside Chongguang City, and his command was the 1st Mixed Regiment and the 3rd Mixed Regiment, but the cavalry and artillery units of the two mixed regiments were already integrated together and directly belonged to the command of the mixed brigade.

Similarly, the 2nd Mixed Regiment and the 4th Mixed Regiment on the east bank of Lingchang were also reorganized into the 2nd Mixed Brigade in this way, with Wang Dao as the brigade commander.

Now, Lu Sanzhen, who temporarily stayed in Pingdan City, has become the commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade in the Sixth Division system.

In addition, there is a mixed brigade that is the fifth mixed brigade led by Xiao Xiangyu, but Xiao Xiangyu is different from the three brigade commanders in front, and they brought 5,000 men and horses to come over.

Anyway, Lu Sanzhen has now become the commander of the fourth mixed brigade in the Sixth Division system, which shows that Lin Ziran attaches great importance to him.

This person is very early with Lin Ziran, he is one of the earliest peasant officers, and Wu Dajiang is the same group of early officers, and he has worked hard to learn and improve himself, and has always led troops in the front-line troops.

After all, there were many officers who followed Lin Ziran in the early days, but the only ones who could really get up were him and Wu Dajiang.

It's just that unlike the other three mixed brigade commanders, who all have five or six thousand people under their hands, the current Lu Sanzhen only has more than six hundred people under his hands!

Because of the temporary 6th Mixed Brigade, there is no one else except for an infantry battalion for the time being.

The scheduled recruits of the 6th Mixed Brigade will be selected from this group of prisoners of war.

After all, there are more than 8,000 prisoners of war, and even if some of them are unwilling to continue to serve as soldiers and eat food, it is conservatively estimated that it will not be a problem to form a mixed brigade.

In addition to recruiting prisoners of war and training the Sixth Mixed Brigade, Lu Sanzhen also has another task, that is, to assist in maintaining the logistics line.

Although it is said that the logistics supply of this distance from Pingdan County to Shiyan Town will be responsible for the baggage regiment, the point guard of Pingdan County still needs to be done by the Sixth Mixed Brigade, which currently has only a few hundred people.

And once he has integrated the 6th Mixed Brigade, then he will immediately lead his army south to reinforce the headquarters of the 6th Division.

Just when Lu Sanzhen was reorganizing the prisoners of war in the back, Lin Ziran also successfully arrived outside Shiyan Town with the headquarters of the Sixth Division and the Fifth Mixed Brigade.

Because the time was urgent, and the distance was only more than 20 kilometers, and the road was easy to walk, Lin Ziran led the troops south in the morning, and by the evening, he had already arrived outside Shiyan Town.

In fact, in the early afternoon, part of the forward force of the headquarters of the Sixth Division had already arrived outside Shiyan Town.

It's just that there is only one light infantry battalion and a divisional cavalry regiment, which is fast to the south, but there is no heavy firepower, so naturally there is no way to attack the city in advance.

After the arrival of these forward troops, the main task was to clear the surroundings, reconnoiter the surrounding conditions in detail, sort out the surrounding terrain and the deployment of enemy troops, and prepare for the subsequent formal attack of the large army.

After leading the main force to arrive, the garrison of the troops and various preparations were naturally handled by others, and Lin Ziran took advantage of the fact that it was still early, and took a group of generals to climb a small hill and observe Shiyan Town in front with binoculars.

The scale of Shiyan Town is not large, after all, it is just an ordinary town, and at the same time, it is in the hinterland, and it is not a frontier town or anything like that, so although the geographical location is relatively important, there are no fortresses.

However, judging from what the telescope had observed, the 36th Regiment of the county garrison stationed here had taken great pains to build relatively complete fortifications outside the city, and breastworks and moats could be seen everywhere.

At the same time, you can also see two raised rear batteries, one large and one small, and according to the size of this battery, the two batteries together have almost twenty guns.

In addition, in the port south of the outskirts of the city, there are also several ships, and one of them is an ironclad ship of two or three hundred tons.

Traditionally, such a fortification would be pretty good for a small town.

However, if this is all the case, then Lin Ziran doesn't think that Shiyan Town can stop the pace of his own army!

After putting down the binoculars, Lin Ziran said to Wu Guanlin: "What is the opinion of the staff office in this battle?" ”

Wu Guanlin said: "Lord Qiyu, my colleagues in the General Staff Office have already formulated a preliminary battle plan based on the situation of some of Shiyan Town that they have obtained before, and the overall plan will be based on artillery firepower. After attracting firepower from the front of part of the main force, the first corps attacked from the flank! ”

"But this is only a preliminary plan, the detailed plan needs to be adjusted according to the current actual situation, we will fight at night, tomorrow morning, you can see the perfect battle plan!"

Lin Ziran nodded slightly after hearing this, then looked around again, glanced at the operational staff officers of several staff offices a few more times, and then said, "Well, then it's hard work for the brothers of the staff office!" ”

Wu Guanlin said: "My lord's words are serious! ”

The operational staff officers of several other staff offices also said that they were not working hard and so on.

In short, a harmonious appearance of monarchs and ministers.

After this simple inspection, Lin Ziran did not delay everyone's time, and returned to the barracks directly, and asked the generals under him to do what they should do.

Now we are at a critical juncture, whether it is the operational staff officers of the General Staff Office, the logistics officers of the Food and Salary Department, or the chief officers of various units, they all have a lot of things waiting for them to deal with.

When the night gradually became the general, Lin Ziran called Kong Deyi over again: "During the day, I have already measured the shooting of Zhuyuan!" ”

Comte: "It's already measured, and we will be able to launch an artillery bombardment at dawn tomorrow!" ”

Lin Ziran said: "Other artillery units were deployed according to the predetermined plan, but the experimental post-loading artillery began to carry out intermittent shelling of the enemy from the night!" ”

In this regard, Kong Deyi hesitated a little: "I'm afraid I'm not afraid of the shelling effect at night, and we only have one rear-loading gun!" ”

Lin Ziran said: "The result of the battle is not important, the important thing is to keep the enemy army with a sense of urgency!" ”

Under Lin Ziran's order, the defenders in Shiyan Town completely lost sleep that night!

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