Wu Guanlin's worried troops were exhausted after a long period of fighting, and the problem of shortage of logistics and materials did not appear.

Because there was no large-scale war at all.

The 2nd Division, escorted by the navy, passed directly through the Luo River and then moved eastward along the river network, and they did not intend to join the 1st Division directly, but prepared to make a detour through the river and land about ten kilometers behind the enemy's rear.

At the same time, after hearing that Lin Ziran refused their request to keep the two counties in the eastern part of Luohai to raise troops, and also sent the second division to reinforce them, they were not stupid enough to wait for the first and second divisions and the second mixed brigade and other troops to launch a large-scale attack.

They themselves retreated first.

Before retreating, he also released a bold statement, saying that there is no place to stay here.

However, the next day, the Second Division had completely blocked their retreat, and many people directly announced their surrender on the spot.

The 2nd Division, together with the 1st Division, launched an attack on a small number of recalcitrant troops, and the enemy was routed on the spot, and the remnants of the army abandoned their armor and almost all their baggage and heavy weapons and fled in the direction of Anlong County.

In this battle, the total strength of the two sides reached 60,000 or 70,000 people, but in fact, the troops of the two sides that fought were less than 5,000 people, and the enemy army of more than 30,000 people and more than 10,000 people had not seen the Luo An army, so they surrendered first.

There were also more than 20,000 people who rushed towards Anlong County without looking back, because they had abandoned almost all their baggage and heavy weapons, and fled as fast as they could.

There was a short skirmish between the enemy forces of only about three thousand men and an infantry regiment of the 2nd Division, with a total of about a hundred casualties on both sides!

In other words, this large-scale battle, which was conceived by the two sides with 60,000 or 70,000 people, ended with more than 5,000 people on both sides fighting and 100 casualties.

For this result, Lin Ziran was speechless!

He can't blame the front-line troops for not leaving too many enemy troops, so that almost more than 10,000 enemies fled to Anlong County, after all, the enemy troops are running empty-handed, and the speed is fast, and Luo Anjun is behind unless they are the same, don't chase anything empty-handed, otherwise it will be difficult to catch up.

So Lin Ziran didn't blame the front-line generals, but the staff officers on the staff office were very dissatisfied with this result.

It was believed that the front-line troops were too light on the enemy when they deployed for battle, and they did not expect the opponent's retreat to be so crisp and decisive, so that more than 10,000 people fled back to Anlong County.

After these people return to Anlong County, they will definitely join the more than 10,000 people who are still in Anlong County, and they will most likely stay in Anlong County in the future, which will inevitably have a certain impact on the subsequent unification of Nanhai Prefecture.

Lin Ziran felt a little speechless about this, people want to run, what can you do?

Wu Guanlin, a staff officer, has more and more stringent requirements for the front-line troops, but Lin Ziran didn't say anything, which is actually a good thing.

The military system set up by Lin Ziran is a very typical general staff system.

The role of the Office of Staff is very important, and it is also very important to maintain the authority of the Office, and this becomes more and more evident over time.

In the past, front-line generals could not deny the staff officers of the General Staff Office, thinking that they liked to stay behind and point fingers.

But now, the generals of the front-line troops have basically agreed with the various operational plans of the General Staff Office.

If you don't agree, you can't do it, if you don't agree and don't implement it, that's disobeying military orders, and the consequences will be serious.

The staff office is not satisfied and there is no way, now that the 10,000 Duoluo navy has run back to Anlong County, unless Lin Ziran decides to attack Anlong County now, otherwise he can't do anything with them.

However, Lin Ziran didn't have the heart to attack Anlong County now, on the contrary, he decided to support Anlong County like Shao Bing at the beginning.

Why?

Because to the east of Anlong County is Hetai County!

Xu Teng, the county guard of Hetai County, was ambitious and had long wanted to move westward.

That is, the Dongdingzhou on his side also has a great pressure on him, and the Hetai defense line must be strictly guarded, otherwise he will advance westward on the front foot, and the army of Dongdingzhou on the back foot will be killed.

Nowadays, the situation in the various feudal towns of Daheng is relatively similar, you want to grab other people's territory, and others also want to grab your territory, so many times it is a matter of pulling the whole body, but it is not that you can fight.

When Lin Ziran decided to go south, he first made a solid defense line in the north and northwest, and then took advantage of the chaos in Guang'an County and Hexi County when they were messed up by the New Army in the South China Sea and could not be separated for the time being, and quickly went south, and took Luohai City in less than a month.

Although Guang'an County and Hexi County had the intention to take the opportunity to go south, their troop mobilization was not completed at this time.

Xu Teng's side is different, although he has a lot of troops, but the territory is small, the financial income is not high, and the interior is also a little unstable, and there is a huge pressure from Dongdingzhou on the side, not that if you want to go west, you can go west.

But even so, Xu Teng's threat is also very great, and Lin Ziran has no idea of fighting Xu Teng for the time being, so he still needs the barrier of Anlong County.

Therefore, Lin Ziran quickly sent people to Anlong County, which was not to accuse Anlong County of collecting Luohai's rout and other things, but to resist Hetai County.

At the same time, Lin Ziran also promised to provide 20,000 Fuyuan smoothbore muskets to Anlong County for free.

Anyway, these are old smoothbore guns, there is no value in modification, and I don't need to use them myself, it is just right to give away people as favors.

As for the rear-loading rifled rifle, don't expect it, Shao Bing didn't sell it to others at the beginning, and he Lin Ziran didn't either.

Win over Anlong County, stabilize the eastern front, and at the same time completely pacify the rest of Luohai County, completely integrate the two Luo regions, and expand the army, and replace it with more Luo'an III rear-loading rifles and rear-loading rifled guns, this is what Lin Ziran has to do at present.

Based on this, Lin Ziran quickly issued a military order, based on the Second Mixed Brigade, to incorporate the Luo Hai soldiers who had surrendered to Cheng after the previous battle on the east bank of the Luo River, and expanded it into the Eighth Division.

Subsequently, it was ordered to reorganize the 5th Cavalry Brigade by surrendering troops and to form the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment by using some of the captured large-caliber smoothbore heavy artillery.

At the same time, the Luo'an Garrison Headquarters was renamed the South China Navy Command, and the number of the troops under its command was also renamed the First Division of the South China Sea......

The change of name and number was also to announce to outsiders Lin Ziran's determination to unify Nanhai Prefecture.

After the reorganization and expansion, the Yugoslav Navy will have eight divisions and one mixed brigade, five cavalry brigades, six smoothbore heavy artillery regiments, one experimental artillery regiment, and one independent forward-loading rifled artillery regiment.

The total strength is expected to reach nearly 150,000.

However, this is still not the focus of Lin Ziran's army expansion, in fact, the focus of Lin Ziran's army expansion is not how many new people are recruited, but the change of guns.

In terms of soldiers, in addition to the tens of thousands of recruits recruited at the beginning, the follow-up soldiers are mainly Toucheng soldiers.

Even so, in fact, there are still many people whose quality is not up to standard, or who are unwilling to join the army, have left the army, compared to the total strength of the Luohai County and Luo'an Army in the past exceeded 200,000.

Now Lin Ziran also controls the land of the two counties, but the total number of troops maintained is only about 150,000.

From this aspect, Lin Ziran's expansion of the army is not too much.

And the real expansion of the army is actually a change of guns and cannons!

Lin Ziran has officially issued a military order, and the troops are fully equipped with Luo'an III rifles, whether it is a rifle used by the infantry, a short-barreled cavalry rifle used by the cavalry, or a naval version of the rifle used by the naval sailors.

In addition, it is preparing to equip all units with steel breech-loading rifled guns one after another, and strive to completely replace the field artillery of all divisions and the artillery of various artillery regiments with breech-loading rifled guns!

These two points are Lin Ziran's big moves!

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