Before Shao Bing led the army north, it directly led to Jian Minggang and Feng Haozhong, who were still fighting and killing in front of them, turned enemies into friends and became allies in an instant, and Li Dingjun also directly counterattacked in front of the battle.

The final result was that Shao Bing led the Luo Navy to be besieged by three parties, and almost all the troops were annihilated, and Shao Bing fled back to Luohai County in disgrace.

Shao Binggang was defeated and fled back to Luohai County, and Li Dingjun and Feng Haozhong joined forces to fight Jian Minggang......

After a month of fighting, the three parties found that they could not completely destroy each other, so they directly made peace.

But not long after, Feng Haozhong pulled Jian Minggang, Zhao Song, and Lin Ziran on the Northern Expedition, counterattacked Pingdan County, and shouted the slogan of conquering Chongguangcheng and recovering Guang'an.

As a result, not long after this fight, the Guang'an people themselves were divided, and Du Zhikuan sold Li Kun.

And Li Kun was even more ruthless, and directly turned around and joined forces with Jian Minggang to deal with Feng Haozhong.

Even Lin Ziran took the opportunity to send troops south to seize the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang.

Now that Jian Minggang and Li Kun have joined forces to clean up Feng Haozhong, Feng Haozhong is not finished yet, and Li Kun is already thinking about joining forces with Lin Ziran and Zhao Song to deal with Jian Minggang.

Even when necessary, Li Kun can instantly turn enemies into friends with Feng Haozhong!

The relationship between these feudal towns is very chaotic, there is no so-called enemy or ally, only interests.

Based on these realities, unless Jian Minggang's brain burned out, it would be impossible for him to directly dispatch a main force of 10,000 or 20,000 to attack him.

No matter how much his sixth division cooks, he can drag more than 10,000 people for ten days and half a month or even longer.

With this time, it is estimated that it is enough for Li Dingjun, Feng Haozhong, and Li Kun to destroy Jian Minggang several times!

But what really worries Lin Ziran is.

Even if the other party only sends a few thousand people, it will be a big trouble!

This means that after taking the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang, he will continue to take the opportunity to go south, completely take the entire central and northern regions on the east bank of Luo'an, and even directly open up the plan to contact Li Dingjun even if it fails, but this is not too important.

After all, Lin Ziran's previous idea was to make a wave if he had the opportunity, and forget it if he didn't have the opportunity.

More importantly, Jian Minggang attaches so much importance to himself, and directly sent thousands of troops to the east bank of Lingchang, and he doesn't know how many troops will be reinforced at any time.

This will greatly restrain the strength of the 6th Division.

The Sixth Division under his command has a total of more than 10,000 troops, and the defense line on the east bank of Nanguang City must deploy troops, Qingshan Town must deploy troops, Sanyang Town must deploy troops, and even Guanxian County must also deploy a certain number of troops, and now a large number of troops need to be deployed here.

This left his Sixth Division insufficient.

When he pondered, he was constantly thinking in his mind about how many troops should be deployed in Nanguang City, how many troops should be deployed in Qingshan Town and Sanyang Town, how many troops should be deployed in Lianguan County, especially in the area on both sides of the Lianhe River, and how many troops should be deployed here.

But thinking about it, he found that his troops were not enough!

Ma Dan, this is forcing himself to expand his army again!

After pondering for a long time, Lin Ziran spoke: "It seems that it is time to prepare for the Third Infantry Regiment!" ”

Everyone was a little surprised by Lin Ziran's words, but they all showed a look of approval.

Wu Guanlin said: "In this situation, our troops are indeed less, if the Third Infantry Regiment is formed, it will be enough to greatly alleviate the tension of our troops!" ”

Luo Mazi also said: "Now that we have taken the east bank of Lingchang, there are many people and money in this place, and we have also added a lot of prisoners of war, and the militia groups in various towns have also been absorbed by us one after another, and the soldiers and funds required for the expansion of the army are not a problem!" ”

Everyone else agreed, they were all soldiers, and they all liked the expansion of the army.

More troops means more positions, higher positions.

For example, Zhang Hanqiu, who has been officially appointed as the commander of the 8th Infantry Battalion, is looking forward to continuing to expand.

Because he was decisive and ruthless in the previous battle, his command was not bad, which made Lin Ziran very optimistic, and he removed his agent as soon as the battle ended.

And this person was born in the Suiying Academy, and he was the only two emerging infantry officers in the early Suiying Academy, and like Deng Liangan, the commander of the Seventh Infantry Battalion, they were all Lin Ziran's protégés.

As long as he performs well, if there are any promotion opportunities in the future, he will definitely be prioritized.

He himself knows this, so he is even more looking forward to the expansion of the army.

Although he did not expect to become the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment immediately, after the expansion of the unit, it would be easier for him to be promoted to regiment commander in the future.

So Zhang Hanqiu said: "My lord, without further ado, we should start recruiting immediately!" ”

Everyone's reaction was also within Lin Ziran's expectations, and it was strange that they didn't support such a thing as army expansion.

Lin Ziran pondered for a while and said to Wu Guanlin: "The General Staff Office will come up with a plan for the formation of the Third Infantry Regiment as soon as possible."

Wu Guanlin said: "The formation plan of the Third Infantry Regiment has been formulated before, and now it can be directly applied with a slight modification or two. ”

Then he said to Luo Mazi: "The recruitment work of the supervision and training department should be launched as soon as possible, and the training of the new battalion should be done well. ”

Luo Mazi immediately said: "Don't worry, my lord, the people of the recruitment department have already started to open recruitment stations in the towns on the east bank of Lingchang since the day before yesterday, and they are also preparing to open a second recruit training camp in the area of Lianguan County. ”

Then he said to Qiu Honglin, deputy director of the Commissariat Department: "The corresponding ordnance must also be prepared, and after the recruits complete the training of recruits and are incorporated into various units, there can be no personnel and other equipment!" ”

Originally, this should have been said to Ding Quankun, the director of the Grain Department, but Ding Quankun is still staying in Sanyang Town, and only Qiu Honglin, the deputy director of the Grain and Salary Department, came over, so he told him.

Qiu Honglin was not actually a soldier, he used to work in the Tsingshan Petroleum Company, but he was later transferred to work in the Salary Department, and finally became the deputy director of the Salary Department.

Although this person is not from a military background, he is now also wearing a military uniform, and he said in the tone of others: "Don't worry, my lord, the department must prepare the corresponding equipment in advance, and there will be no delay!" ”

With a series of orders, the formation of the 3rd Infantry Regiment began smoothly.

In fact, the preparation for the establishment of the 3rd Infantry Regiment has been discussed for a long time, and there is a perfect paper plan on the side of the General Staff Office, but it has not been implemented.

Even now there is an independent Ninth Infantry Battalion, and there are hundreds of recruits in the recruit battalion who can become the Tenth Infantry Battalion at any time.

However, the 3rd Infantry Regiment was still not established, mainly because the previous financial constraints were too tight, and it was becoming more and more difficult to recruit soldiers.

But now, many of the problems are no longer a problem.

Therefore, when Jian Minggang sent 3,000 troops to the south of the east bank of Lingchang, Lin Ziran also officially issued an order to form the Third Infantry Regiment.

According to the plan, the existing 9th Infantry Battalion will be directly integrated into the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and at the same time, a number of backbones will be transferred from other units, and a large number of new recruits will be added to form the 10th Infantry Battalion and the 11th Infantry Battalion.

The three infantry battalions would constitute the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

As long as this regiment can be successfully organized, then there will be three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a baggage regiment and two small-scale mixed regiments under Lin Ziran's command in the future.

This would greatly alleviate the current troop strain.

The only question is, will Jian Minggang give him time to slowly train his new troops?

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