Before sending troops south to Lianguan County, Lin Ziran further reorganized and expanded the existing troops.

The main thing is to reorganize the supplementary battalion into the fourth reinforced battalion, the new fifth infantry battalion, the new fourth artillery company, and the fourth baggage company.

According to Lin Ziran's usual method of expansion, veterans were drawn from the old units and expanded into new units with veterans as a framework.

This will certainly reduce the combat effectiveness of the old troops, but at least it can allow the new troops to set up a framework as soon as possible.

In this process, Lin Ziran made new personnel adjustments.

Lin Ziran's personnel adjustments are relatively frequent, for example, Scar's position is transferred very frequently, he previously served as the captain of the pro-soldier team, and served as the commander of the fourth chasseur company, and then transferred to the first cavalry company as the company commander, followed by the commander of the second infantry battalion for a period of time, and then served as the commander of the third infantry battalion, and now, he was transferred by Lin Ziran to the southbound detachment as the commander, and at the same time served as the commander of the fifth infantry battalion.

Scar's position changes frequently, not because of how awesome his ability is, but because he is one of the few people under Lin Ziran who can be trusted.

His military command talent is not worth mentioning, but he has always been Lin Ziran's confidant, and he is even more reliable than Luo Mazi.

When Lin Ziran asked him to take the above positions, he was more thinking about controlling these troops and building loyalty, rather than letting Scar take him to war.

Even if Scar is now going south with a southbound detachment of more than a thousand people, Lin Ziran still asked Xu Zhongshu, a former professional officer of the Guang'an Army, to be his deputy.

When the time comes, there will really be a war, and the one who commands the battle will have to rely on Xu Zhongshu.

Several others have also been relocated.

For example, Wu Dajiang, he served as the commander of the First Infantry Battalion before, but now that the supplementary battalion has become the fourth infantry battalion, and it is also a reinforced battalion, Lin Ziran transferred Wu Dajiang to the fourth reinforced battalion as the battalion commander.

In the past half a year, although Wu Dajiang has not been able to show much talent, he still shows enough loyalty, and at the same time, his ability is actually barely good, at least a little stronger than other crash course officers, and it is still barely feasible to command the troops to fight in a step-by-step manner.

Whether it is the southbound detachment or the fourth reinforced battalion stationed in Qingshan Town, these two troops are fighting independently, and they are dozens of kilometers away from Nanguang City, where Lin Ziran is currently located, Lin Ziran has to focus on the issue of control and loyalty, relatively speaking, command ability is still secondary.

Scar and Wu Dajiang were transferred to the outside to take charge of themselves, and the personnel of the other units also changed, and Song You, a cavalryman who was born as an old bandit, became the new company commander of the 1st Cavalry Company.

Zhao Laoqi, the former commander of the supplementary battalion, was transferred back by Lin Ziran to serve as the commander of the third infantry battalion, but his position was still in name, and Lin Zi would then select one from several candidates to serve as the real commander of the third infantry battalion.

The main force under Lin Ziran, the commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, was Deng Youwei, who was the first to defect to Lin Ziran and was born as a prisoner of war sergeant in Guang'an.

Although he was born as a sergeant, he has been in the army for many years, and he is much better at commanding battles than those crash course officers, and he has shown enough loyalty after so long.

That's why he was able to serve as the company commander of the infantry company before, and some time ago he was the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, and now he is being promoted to the battalion commander and is also being cleaned up.

In addition to these more important battalion commanders and the like, Lin Ziran also promoted a large number of grassroots officers such as company commanders and deputy company commanders, and these people are almost all crash course officers.

But they are all talents cultivated by Lin Ziran himself in the past six months or so!

The above-mentioned personnel changes also reflect Lin Ziran's principle of employing people.

Competence is important, but loyalty is even more important.

Compared with others, Lin Ziran obviously trusted Scar and Wu Dajiang more than the first batch of bandits and peasants, and also trusted the officers trained by the crash course more.

There are actually a lot of outsiders, and there are many capable ones, but Lin Ziran is afraid!

Therefore, for outsiders, Lin Ziran still has a relatively large defensive mind.

Wu Guanlin and Xu Zhongshu are very capable, but they still haven't been able to control the military power.

Of course, Lin Ziran is not suppressing, he doesn't use them, he just doesn't let them lead troops directly.

Among the two of them, Wu Guanlin is the chief of the staff office, and Xu Zhongshu is the deputy director of the staff office, which are both positions of real power.

Although they do not have direct control over the troops, the General Staff Office is in fact the command structure of the entire supplementary brigade.

In other words, in fact, Wu Guanlin and Xu Zhongshu commanded an entire supplementary brigade.

In the early stage, it was Lin Ziran who agreed with the battle plan they proposed.

But now Lin Ziran is also planning to change, after all, these professional officers under his command can't always be pressed, and now in addition to Wu Guanlin and Xu Zhongshu, there are several other professional officers in the staff office, plus now there are several artillery officers such as Kong Deyi and others in the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment.

So as long as the performance is qualified and Lin Ziran sees their loyalty, then Lin Ziran will slowly release them to lead the troops.

The current Xu Zhongshu is an attempt, first let him concurrently serve as the chief of staff of the southbound detachment, saying that he is the chief of staff, but in fact, Scar basically does not know how to command operations, so in fact, Xu Zhongshu will be the actual commander of the southbound detachment.

And how he performs will affect Lin Ziran's subsequent appointment to him, and even Lin Ziran's appointment of several other professional officers who have taken refuge in him.

Xu Zhongshu didn't know Lin Ziran's consideration of him, but he could guess a little bit, after all, everyone is smart and not stupid.

As an officer who surrendered to Cheng, he was able to serve as the deputy chief of the staff office for a long time, and Lin Ziran also adopted many of the operational opinions he put forward, so he was already quite satisfied.

And now that Lin Ziran asked him to serve as the chief of staff of the southbound detachment, he could guess that this was Lin Ziran's further test for himself.

After passing the test, then the follow-up is a step to the sky, the battalion commander does not say anything about the battalion commander, and the follow-up may directly serve as the commander of the southbound detachment, or a similar position.

So at the beginning of the southward journey, he was constantly cheering himself up, and this time he must do a beautiful job when he went south, and strive to be able to take over the position of commander of the southbound detachment logically after Scar was transferred.

After the troops set out from Sanyang Town, they did not go directly south along the Luo River, but advanced in the southeast direction, and first arrived at one of the five towns in the north of Lianguan, Jinghu Town under the control of Lin Ziran to rest and replenish, and then set off for the county seat.

At this time, the southbound detachment was actually only more than twenty kilometers away from the county seat.

The southbound detachment set off from Jinghu Town and continued southward, and the officials and gentry in Lianguan County were already noisy.

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