When Luo Mazi was surprised, in the defense line of the Hetai Army, more than a dozen senior generals of the Hetai Army sat around, all of them with very ugly faces, and many of them were still scolding.

"Xu Teng, this bastard, it doesn't matter if you secretly leave us and run away by yourself, you even dare to send someone back to deliver a letter for us to continue to defend!"

"Fart, he wants our brother's life to buy him time to escape!"

"What else is there to say, don't blame us for being unjust if he Xu Teng is unkind, let's go directly to Lin Ziran!"

"Now that the South China Navy has become a general trend, the reunification of Nanhai Prefecture is already a sure thing, and we, as a member of Nanhai Prefecture, should contribute to the reunification of the South China Sea!"

"I just don't know what Lin Ziran will think, we are sixty or seventy thousand Ma Toucheng, how will he arrange us?"

In fact, when Lin Ziran received that the Hetai army in the encirclement wanted to surrender collectively, he was also a little stunned, this is the first time that so many people have collectively surrendered.

In addition, how to settle these people is also a troublesome matter.

The expected final general attack or even surrender did not happen, because when the remaining Hetai army found that Xu Teng had quietly retreated with more than 10,000 people last night, the remaining 60,000 or 70,000 Hetai troops had already announced their surrender under the leadership of senior generals.

After Xu Teng, who was on the way to escape, knew about this situation, he couldn't help but be annoyed, and he also counted on the sixty or seventy thousand Hetai troops behind him to hold out for a few days, give him a withdrawal to Hetai County to reorganize the army, and organize troops to buy time.

But I didn't expect that I had just retreated, and the Hetai army behind me couldn't wait to surrender to Lin Ziran.

"These traitors, damned traitors, knew I should have killed them all before leaving!"

Xu Teng was angry, but he had no choice but to urge the troops to flee east as soon as possible.

Xu Teng ran away, and the remaining sixty or seventy thousand Hetai troops didn't fight, and they surrendered directly and neatly, which also made Lin Ziran a little embarrassed.

There are too many Hetai troops who surrendered at once, and it is not easy to arrange.

This is not only a few thousand people who surrendered to sincerity, but sixty or seventy thousand people, and they surrendered with sincerity, one by one shouting what to contribute to the reunification of Nanhai Prefecture and to the unification of Daheng.

Lin Ziran is also not good at doing too much in the past to avoid a relatively large negative impression.

On the same day, after Lin Ziran discussed with Wu Guanlin, Xu Zhongshu and other important generals under his command, he decided to reorganize the Hetai Army on the spot.

First of all, it is necessary to select some outstanding soldiers, especially technical arms, to supplement the existing main forces, and strive to fully equip the existing nine infantry divisions, six cavalry divisions, six heavy artillery regiments, and one garrison brigade.

Subsequently, personnel were selected to be reorganized on the spot to form the 10th Division, the 11th Division, the 7th Cavalry Division, and the 7th Heavy Artillery Regiment.

However, after the reorganization of the above-mentioned troops, there is still a large surplus of soldiers.

This reorganized Hetai Army is not only the 60,000 or 70,000 people who surrendered to Cheng, but also the tens of thousands of people who surrendered during the previous battle on the northern flank, adding up to more than 100,000 people.

And the selected troops are about 50,000 when they are full.

There are about 50,000 defectors left to be resettled.

As for reorganizing them all, Lin Ziran had no such plan.

At present, there are 11 divisions, seven cavalry divisions, seven heavy artillery regiments, and one garrison mixed brigade, with a total strength of nearly 240,000 troops.

For a Nanhai state, this number of troops is not small.

After Duke Meng unified the whole state, the total number of troops in the period when he began to fight abroad was about 200,000.

If there are too many troops, the financial burden on Nanhai Prefecture is too great, especially considering that the current Nanhai Navy is equipped with rear-loading rifled weapons, and the weapons are more expensive than the smoothbore guns and artillery weapons of Duke Meng's era, and the consumption of ammunition during combat is also multiplied, so even if Lin Ziran wants to expand the army to 300,000 or even 400,000, Nanhai Prefecture cannot afford to raise it.

Unless he, like Shao Bing and Xu Teng before, saves military spending by arrears of salaries and other measures.

But this kind of thing Shao Bing and Xu Teng and the other feudal towns have already taught Lin Ziran a very good lesson, that is, if you do it like this, the loyalty of the troops is really too scummy, and it is okay when you fight a good battle, but if you encounter a tough battle and a strong enemy, the one who surrenders is called a neat one, and there is no psychological burden at all.

Therefore, Lin Ziran would rather have fewer troops than be in arrears.

The same is true for officers, although this time Lin Ziran did not plan to do too much, many officers of Toucheng are planning to use, but they also do not plan to reuse it, among these officers of Toucheng, after being selected, middle and low-level officers will be arranged to Luo'an Military Academy for accelerated education, not only to educate them to learn new tactics, but more importantly, to arrange them to study ideological education.

After passing the ideological education, they will be arranged to serve in the army, and if they do not pass the test, they will not be able to serve again.

As for the high-ranking generals, it is an extravagant hope to give them any ideological education lessons, all of them are human spirits, and it is not easy to brainwash......

Therefore, for those who have a good attitude, Lin Ziran plans to arrange idle positions for them, such as various consultants, staff consultants, artillery consultants, and infantry consultants.

Anyway, the title of consultant is not issued casually, so Lin Ziran also formulated the level of consultant, and made out a special consultant, a first-class consultant, a second-class consultant, a third-class consultant, and the like, according to the original military lords of the Toucheng officers.

A small number of high-ranking generals with sincere attitudes but also talented can arrange for some deputy posts, such as the General Staff Office, the Logistics Department, and other organs within the headquarters.

After all, these are all professional generals who have been fighting in the war for many years, and there is absolutely no problem in doing some theoretical paperwork.

As for military power, don't count on it.

Since going south and north, Lin Ziran has not given military power to external generals.

The troops under his command, from the division commander to the brigade commander, to the regiment commander, all of them were descendants of the former battalion academy and now the Luo'an Military Academy, and there was no external general.

It's just that the number of officers under his command is also limited, and now these troops are already difficult to arrange, and the regimental commanders and even officers at the level of brigade commanders of many units are all forced to serve by ducks, not to mention battalion commanders and company commanders.

Many grass-roots officers who have just graduated have become regular and company commanders after a few months of internship, and they have directly become battalion commanders after serving as company commanders for a few months.

So even if Lin Ziran wants to continue to expand the army, there are not enough officers.

Due to factors such as finances and insufficient number of officers, Lin Ziran only planned to use Hetai County's troops to reorganize about 50,000 troops, and the remaining 50,000 people were selected to reorganize a garrison division, that is, the garrison of the Fifth Garrison Division.

The remaining 30,000 or 40,000 people are reorganized into three engineer divisions, so what, let's build roads and dig ditches first!

After sorting it out in this way, Lin Ziran can be regarded as determining the rectification plan of the 100,000 Hetai troops who surrendered to Chengcheng.

However, although the rectification of these Hetai troops had just begun, the operations of the Southern Navy were continuing, and Lin Ziran only hurriedly stayed in Huaijiang County for two days before continuing to advance eastward with his troops again.

Xu Teng is still running ahead, and Xu Teng still has 50,000 troops in Hetai County, which need to be cleaned up one by one.