He had long wanted to swallow the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, and he had already made a lot of preparations before.

After the end of the Nanguang Campaign, Lin Ziran provided the soldiers of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment with bonuses during the campaign.

However, the follow-up salary was not provided immediately.

It wasn't until Kong Deyi came to the door that Lin Ziran naturally shirked it, saying that the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment was a unit directly under the county guard, and it was also assigned to the Third Division to fight before, and it had nothing to do with their supplementary brigade, so there was no reason for him to let Lin Ziran bear the salary.

Kong Deyi naturally knew what Lin Ziran wanted, and he just wanted to take the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment to join the supplementary brigade with his complete statement.

He himself was driven out by Feng Haozhong, and he had complaints about Feng Haozhong, if Lin Ziran was replaced by Jian Minggang or Zhao Song, he would agree without saying a word.

But Lin Ziran's strength is still relatively weak, he is worried that Lin Ziran will be short-lived and will be finished soon, so he will be entangled.

But it was only a few days of entanglement, and it didn't take long for him to find the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment again, saying that the position of deputy commander of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment had been vacant for a while, and asked Lin Ziran to arrange for a deputy regiment commander to come over.

This can be regarded as one of the manifestations of Lin Ziran's dedication.

Lin Ziran then ordered the food and salary department to directly send people to pay salaries to the soldiers of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Lin Ziran's statement is that all the troops of the supplementary brigade are paid in this way, and since the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment is temporarily under his command and he bears the salary, it is natural that he must follow the rules of the supplementary brigade.

In this way, almost all the officers and men of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment knew that the salary they took was given by Lin Ziran.

Kong Deyi was actually a little reluctant, but he couldn't help it.

However, he still firmly controlled the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, especially when Xu Jin was also transferred, the company commanders and even platoon commanders of the remaining artillery companies were all his henchmen.

Although he has already worked for Lin Ziran, he still wants to maintain his independence.

This situation is naturally not allowed by Lin Ziran.

On the one hand, he continued to install manpower in the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment, especially taking the opportunity of letting the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment help train the artillery crew, and directly dispatched a full 19 artillery groups to the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment, which was called the 2nd Artillery Group.

And that's not enough!

This time, Lin Ziran intends to completely change the status quo, and he wants to completely incorporate the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment into his command.

After agreeing with Wu Guanlin on the formation and training of regiment-level troops, Lin Ziran summoned Kong Deyi from Nanguang City.

After seeing Kong Deyi, Lin Ziran said loudly: "Brother Kong, it's hard work all the way!" ”

Kong De said: "My lord's words are serious, I came by carriage on the way to my humble position, what kind of hard work can I talk about there!" ”

This is true, Daheng is popular here, private or public passenger carriages are generally with leaf springs, high-end carriages on the seat sofa will also compress springs and cushions, plus the speed of the carriage is not fast, so the high-end carriage at normal speed, the comfort will not be much worse than the sedan of later generations.

After a few polite words from both sides, Lin Ziran took the lead in talking about the current reform of the regimental establishment of the troops.

"Now that so many troops are all under direct command, the words are too complicated!" Lin Ziran said: "For this reason, the General Staff Office has already made an adjustment plan and is ready to set up a regiment-level establishment!" ”

Set up a group?

Kong De thought about it, the supplementary brigade seemed to be only a few thousand people, and this regiment should not be the kind of small regiment with a large number of several hundred people, because he knew that an infantry battalion of the supplementary brigade had more than 600 people.

If a regiment is to be set up, it is estimated that a large regiment of 2,000 or more people will be set up.

But it doesn't seem necessary, right?

He knew that Lin Ziran's supplementary brigade had five or six thousand people.

However, these five or six thousand people are not pure infantry, but the total number of various arms and even auxiliary troops, and the front-line combat strength is not so many.

It is estimated that the total number of infantry units in the establishment of large regiments is not enough for two regiments.

It is better to fight directly with the battalions under the command of the supplementary brigade now.

He didn't know that Lin Ziran had already engaged in the establishment of several new troops in the past few days, and they were still expanding.

Lin Ziran's pace of army expansion has never stopped, before it was five or six thousand, but now there are eight thousand, and after a month or two, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands.

Otherwise, Lin Ziran would not have thought about setting up a regiment-level establishment.

Although Kong Deyi and Lin Ziran have fought side by side once, and the current Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment is under the command of Lin Ziran on the surface, in fact, he still doesn't know much about Lin Ziran's family background.

He had been staying in Nanguang City before, and what he knew was Lin Ziran's department in Nanguang City, and he knew that Lin Ziran also had troops in other places, but what he knew was not very clear.

only vaguely knew that there were five or six thousand people under Lin Ziran's command, and he also knew that Lin Ziran was expanding the army.

But the expansion of the army requires money, so much money from him Lin Ziran?

Kong Deyi knew that Lin Ziran had an oil company, and this oil company was very profitable, but even if it made money, it was impossible to rely on one company to support tens of thousands of people, right?

He guessed right, even with the high profits of Qingshan Petroleum Company, it would not be able to support Lin Ziran's expansion of more than 10,000 troops.

But now Lin Ziran has won the entire Lianguan County, and he can support thousands of people by relying on this Lianguan County.

Moreover, Tsingshan Petroleum Company is still expanding, and several new oil wells are being explored, and judging from the reserves of Tsingshan Oilfield, it is a high probability to increase oil production.

At the same time, the refinery has been continuously expanding, after the completion of the third phase of the project, Lin Ziran is still investing money into the expansion every month, and the current daily production capacity of the refinery has increased to 300 barrels of kerosene.

When the oil produced from these wells under investigation, kerosene production could be increased immediately.

At the same time, he also plans to set up a new oil refinery in Sanyo Town.

He has already set a small target for Tsingshan Petroleum to increase its kerosene production capacity to 400 barrels per day this year.

Lianguan County's land revenue, coupled with the high profits of oil companies, is enough to support Lin Ziran's expansion of more than 10,000 troops.

Since they all plan to expand to more than 10,000 people in the next few months, it is inevitable to set up a regimental-level establishment in advance and improve the command system of the troops.

When Lin Ziran continued to tell Kong Deyi that he was going to set up two infantry regiments and an artillery regiment first, he finally knew why Lin Ziran called him over.

"What about this artillery regiment, I hope Brother Kong will be the commander of this artillery regiment!"

"Of course, the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment can't relax, so it will be organized into a third artillery battalion and belong to this new artillery regiment!"

"The new artillery regiment will have three artillery battalions, thirty-six field guns and nineteen heavy guns, a total of fifty-four guns!"

Lin Ziran's words made Kong Deyi silent.

He heard that this was a very obvious rise and fall from the light, once he became the commander of this regiment, I was afraid that the commander of the Third Artillery Battalion, which was reorganized from the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, would immediately become Lin Ziran's confidant.

But he didn't stay silent for long, and soon said: "Since your Excellency trusts your humble post so much, your humble post will not disappoint your lord, and you will definitely bring this new artillery regiment well!" ”

Since they have all taken refuge in here, and Lin Ziran's supplementary brigade will soon become an army of more than 10,000 people, it should also have a future if he follows Lin Ziran.

In this way, it is better to take refuge more thoroughly.

Seeing this, Lin Ziran immediately smiled: "Okay, in the future, our brothers will join forces to do a great cause!" ”

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