When he first took control of Luo'an County, Lin Ziran was limited by the size of the population due to insufficient financial revenue, so in the early months, through the reorganization movement, a large number of troops were streamlined, a large number of low-quality troops were eliminated, and a lean army policy was adopted.

At one point, the total number of troops was reduced to about 80,000.

However, this situation did not last long, and soon the army was rapidly expanding due to the southward movement.

In order to support the southward campaign, the Luo'an army recruited at least tens of thousands of recruits in Luo'an County, and originally planned to train and replenish the troops to supplement the combat losses.

But in fact, the casualties of the Luoan garrison fighting in the south were much lower than expected.

Added up, the current casualties are only a few thousand, and many of them are only lightly wounded, and they can return to the army after simple treatment, and the number of soldiers who have lost their combat effectiveness, such as those killed and seriously injured, is actually just over 1,000 people.

This means that most of the tens of thousands of recruits recruited in Roan County have been expanded rather than supplemented.

In addition, more surrendered soldiers were accepted.

The troops under Lin Ziran successively eliminated more than 70,000 troops under Shao Bing's command through several large-scale battles, defeating or surrendering, surrendering, etc.

However, it is worth noting that the total number of enemy troops killed and wounded is actually not large, at best less than 10,000, and the rest either voluntarily surrendered or were forced to surrender.

It's just a high-ranking general above Shaoqing, and dozens of people have been captured or surrendered.

But for them, Lin Ziran's attitude is still very tough, the limited use of surrender, and those who are forced to surrender are not used.

There are even more middle- and low-ranking officers, who are also used in limited quantities and need to be re-educated.

In terms of ordinary soldiers, it is more relaxed, mainly if you are willing to continue to serve in the army, and if you pass the quality in all aspects, you can continue to serve in the army, and you can be integrated into various units.

Except for a very small number of these people, who were added to the existing units, most of them were used to reorganize into the Sixth Division, the Seventh Division, the Fourth Mixed Brigade, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, and the Fourth Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Well, we have to include a Luohai fleet, the Luohai fleet is completely committed to Lin Ziran, hundreds of warships of all sizes, and tens of thousands of naval officers and men.

Most of these newly reorganized troops from the surrendered army are still in the process of being reorganized, and even the Sixth Division, which was the first to be reorganized, is still remaining on the front line of Qiuhe for on-the-spot reorganization.

According to past experience, one month is almost a success, but if we want to form a relatively large combat capacity, I am afraid it will take more than two months to reorganize.

However, because the soldiers of this kind of reorganized unit are all veterans, once the reorganization is successful, it will be able to display greater combat effectiveness immediately.

Of course, in the early stage, the quality of officers must be passed.

In fact, there is now a serious shortage of officers under Lin Ziran's command.

So far, the officers under Lin Ziran's command have basically been trained by themselves, and the only officers with relatively high quality are the Luo'an Military Academy, that is, the students of the first to seventh formal classes in the Suiying Academy, and there are only more than 700 people in total.

Such a small number of people are naturally unable to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops, so a large number of middle and low-level officers under Lin Ziran's command are actually officers in the crash course, and most of them are officers after the accelerated education of meritorious soldiers.

This is actually not normal for the officers in the contemporary Daheng feudal towns.

More than 200 years ago, Daheng had already implemented the professionalization of officers, and the officers were all professional officers who had studied in military academies for many years, and many officers had the experience of attending junior military academies when they were teenagers, then attending military academies, and then entering the military after graduation.

Even if an ordinary soldier has made a meritorious service, it is very rare to say that he has become an officer directly, and an ordinary soldier can be promoted to a sergeant after making a meritorious service, or it can be said that he has applied for a military academy to become an officer, but very few of them are directly promoted to an officer.

As for Lin Ziran, due to the small number of regular officers under his command, he was forced to use a large number of officers from soldiers, of course, not directly promoted, but promoted after a crash course education.

But even so, the officers under Lin Ziran are still in short supply, ordinary platoon commanders and company commanders are good to say, it's a big deal to use crash course officers, but it is not easy to handle officers at the level of battalion commanders and regiment commanders.

These middle-level officers have very high requirements for professionalism, especially the troops under Lin Ziran's command still use new tactics, and if they want to play with these new tactics, they have high requirements for the professionalism of the officers.

In this regard, Lin Ziran also has no good way, so he can only take many temporary measures, such as merit-based promotion, for officers with good performance, even if they are young and have little qualifications, they are directly promoted and used.

At the same time, a large number of newly commissioned officers in the regular squad will be trained.

Even the eighth batch of students, who have only been in school for a few months, have already been transferred to the army in advance for internships, saying that they are internships, but in fact they have basically started to lead the troops directly.

But even so, Lin Ziran did not use those officers who surrendered or surrendered on a large scale.

At most, some of the selected middle and low-ranking officers will be retrained and educated before they are appointed.

In order to maintain the loyalty of the troops and maintain the uniformity of the troops, Lin Ziran would rather have a shortage of officers and the combat effectiveness would not be available for a while and a half, rather than use those surrendered officers on a large scale.

Most of these traditional old-style officers are career officers.

What is a career officer?

They regard serving in the army as a profession, and for them, there is no difference between serving Shao Bing, Jian Minggang, and Lin Ziran.

They generally lack loyalty to a particular feudal town.

And no matter how Lin Ziran blows it himself, it is undeniable that he Lin Ziran is still just a feudal town.

Once Lin Ziran is defeated, it will be a matter of minutes for them to betray Lin Ziran.

Therefore, Lin Ziran doesn't need them!

Lin Ziran would rather use those young officers who were immature and often made mistakes due to lack of experience when fighting, but they were cultivated by themselves, and at the same time received political education and fought for the reunification of Daheng.

Under such circumstances, it will be relatively difficult for the new units to form combat effectiveness for a while and a half, and they will mainly have to rely on the existing units in the early stage of operations.

But even the current troops are more than enough to cope with the current situation.

After taking control of Luo Haicheng for the third day, Lin Ziran got a report from Xu Zhongshu of the First Division.

Xu Zhongshu said that the 1st Division had successfully joined up with the 2nd Mixed Brigade and made contact with the enemy's 1st Forward, but no large-scale fighting broke out between the two sides for the time being.

Because the other party did not have the idea of continuing to advance westward at all, but stationed on the spot, and sent a representative to contact Xu Zhongshu.

What to engage with?

Naturally, it is a matter of surrender!

Shao Bingdu is dead, Luo Haicheng is lost, and in the face of Lin Ziran, who has more than 100,000 troops, they still have a fart!

They want to negotiate with Lin Ziran while they still have tens of thousands of troops in their hands and strive for a better ending!

For this kind of thing, Xu Zhongshu naturally didn't dare to decide on his own, and directly sent someone to report the relevant situation to Lin Ziran.

After Lin Ziran saw their conditions, he snorted coldly: "I want to divide the two counties in the east of Luohai, hmph, it seems that they are still dreaming and haven't woken up, so I ordered the second division to immediately march east for reinforcements and annihilate the enemy army!" ”

After hearing this, Wu Guanlin was a little puzzled: "My lord, now fight directly?" Now that our troops have been fighting fiercely for a long time, they are tired, and the supply of ammunition is also slightly tight, and it will take some time for the Fuyuan Factory and the Nanzhou Factory to completely switch to production. ”

Lin Ziran shook his head: "What are we going to do?" ”

"Unify Nanhai Prefecture and unify Daheng!"

"We will never compromise with these Daheng sinners and national traitors, pass it on, beat me hard, and defeat the arrogance of these local separatists who undermine the unification of Daheng!"

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