A brigade stationed not far from the county town of Pingdan directly mutinied and surrounded the county seat where Li Kun was located, while the remaining gunboats of the Third Artillery Fleet in the port on the outskirts of the city defected to the rebels, and some remained loyal to Li Kun, and a battle broke out in the harbor between the two sides.

In the end, the rebel fleet won the battle and completely blockaded the port of Pindan.

Since yesterday, the rebels have begun to storm the county town of Pingdan, and finally Li Kun broke through under the cover of the escort troops, and went directly south to gather the troops who were still loyal to him.

Because since yesterday, the rebels have completely blockaded Pingdan County and the surrounding areas, and no people are allowed to enter and exit, so the news has been blocked, but it still hasn't been blocked for long.

Otherwise, Lin Ziran would not have gotten the news the next day.

Li Kun is finished like this?

Lin Ziran couldn't believe it!

This foreign enemy has not yet made a move against Li Kun, and the generals under him can't help but mutiny first, and the number of troops who have defected is increasing.

There are more than 20,000 people under Li Kun's command, which adds up to thousands of defections.

In this case, Li Kun is definitely finished.

This is not because Li Kun can't clean up the internal rebellion, in fact, with Li Kun's current situation, given a certain amount of time, he can still clean up the mess.

But will someone else give him time?

No!

Because it was only half a day later, Lin Ziran got the news again that Zhao Song in the west had already sent troops directly!

Zhao Song, who was poor and crazy, after seeing that Li Kun was extremely weak due to civil strife, directly co-opted a brigade under Li Kun's department, and then sent troops to Pingdan!

Immediately after that, the Jianming Gang Department in the south also moved, and directly sent troops to Pingdan!

Under the civil strife, two major foreign enemies invaded.

In this case, Li Kun's department is even more chaotic, and many troops see that the opportunity is not good, and they directly announce that they have surrendered to Zhao Song or Jian Minggang.

Li Kun is finished!

The end is extremely fast, and it is estimated that even he will be forced to do so.

In this case, Lin Ziran also knew that he couldn't drag it out any longer!

Li Kun is completely finished, even if he wants to save him, he can't save him, in this case, he can naturally grab as much territory as possible.

In the evening of the same day, Lin Ziran issued an urgent military order, allowing the First Mixed Regiment stationed in Nanguangcheng to quickly go north to take over Nan'an County.

At the same time, a number of envoys were sent to Pingdan County and other places with letters in hand, and what to do, it was natural to recruit the regiment commanders and brigade commanders of Li Kun's department.

In particular, the rebel army in Pingdan County has more than 5,000 people, and if they can be successfully recruited, it will be extremely beneficial to their follow-up actions.

While sending troops to grab the territory, Lin Ziran sent people to urgently go south to contact Li Dingjun and Zhao Song.

They even sent people to contact Du Zhikuan in the north and Shao Bing further south.

Li Kun's finish completely broke the balance in Luo'an County.

Even ordinary people can think of Jian Minggang's strategy at this time: strictly defend the southern defense line, resist Li Dingjun's troops, and at the same time send a part of the troops to block Lin Ziran, and then concentrate superior forces to kill Zhao Song first.

After killing Zhao Song, he sent troops east to clean up Lin Ziran.

Of course, it is similar to fight Lin Ziran first, and then Zhao Song.

Finally, after recovering several counties in the north, he waved his troops south to clean up Li Dingjun.

At that time, the unification of Luoan County can be expected!

And this situation is something that Lin Ziran, Zhao Song, Li Dingjun and even Du Zhikuan in the north do not want to see.

Perhaps, Shao Bing, who is further south, will not be willing to see Jian Minggang unify Luo'an County.

Therefore, at this time, in terms of targeting Jian Minggang, other feudal towns are naturally allies.

The first to reply to Lin Ziran was not Zhao Song or Li Dingjun, but Du Zhikuan!

A handwritten letter from Du Zhikuan, along with a high-speed passenger ship, went straight to Sanyang Town.

In the letter, Du Zhikuan said that accepting Lin Ziran's plan to exchange kerosene for aid would provide Lin Ziran with a batch of artillery, muskets, and military rations in the next half month, with a total value of one million Heng Yuan.

At the same time, he also said that if Lin Ziran was willing, Guang'an could directly send troops south to fight with the Sixth Division!

In this regard, Lin Ziran replied, thanking Brother Du for his great help, as for the matter of sending troops to fight together, there is no need for this for the time being, but if the matter really reaches the point of no return, it is indispensable to ask Brother Du to help at that time.

Du Zhikuan, like Shao Bing, also did not want Jian Minggang to unify Luo'an County, or they did not want anyone to unify Luo'an County.

Because the capture of Roan County is their established plan.

For the huge Nanhai Prefecture, although Luo'an County is small, it is extremely important.

Because of its special geographical location, it has a very high military strategic value, and although the area of Luo'an County is small, it is the second largest grain producing area in Nanhai Prefecture, and at the same time, the three counties and one district under the control of Jianminggang are rich in high-grade iron ore, and the industry is also quite good.

If Luohai County is the essence of Nanhai Prefecture, even Luo'an County is the strategic hinterland of Nanhai Prefecture!

At the same time, there is also a very important point that the combat effectiveness of the Luo An Army is stronger.

The successive county guards of Luohai County all wanted to take Luo'an County, but why did Shao Bing fail until now.

The reason is very simple, the combat effectiveness of the Luo Navy is generally worse than that of the Luo An Army, and it is much worse!

Luohai County is the essence of Nanhai Prefecture, there is no shortage of food, there is no shortage of various resources, and Luohai City is the top three megacities in the Daheng Empire.

The navy under the Luo Navy even has ironclad ships that are several thousand tons large.

To put it simply, they are not short of money, let alone any advanced equipment.

But the combat effectiveness of their army has never been able to rise.

As for Luo'an County, the money is not as much as that of Luohai County, but it cannot be said to be less, and the combat effectiveness of the army in Luo'an County is generally strong, this is because when Cheng Lingfeng led the army in the battle back then, the combat effectiveness of the army under his command was extremely strong.

Therefore, whether it is Du Zhikuan or Shao Bing, if they want to go further, it is difficult to say elsewhere, but Luo'an County must be won, and it must be won first.

It didn't take long for Li Dingjun and Zhao Song to reply to the letter one after another, their replies were normal, and they talked a lot, the core meaning was to advance and retreat together, and everyone would deal with Jian Minggang together.

But it's hard to say what they're thinking in their hearts.

When Lin Ziran sent people to contact other feudal towns, the army under his command also began to move.

After receiving the order, the 1st Mixed Regiment quickly went north to take over several local towns.

Li Kun also stationed too many troops in the area on the east bank of the Luo River without Nan'an County, because this place was too dangerous, unless he sent heavy troops to guard it, otherwise it would be useless.

Whether it is Du Zhikuan or Lin Ziran, they can easily send troops to conquer this area.

The focus of Li Kun's garrison was still on the west bank of the Luo River.

But!

The heavy garrison mentioned here is all the old Huang calendar, because when the first mixed regiment arrived in this area and crossed the river, it was the local Li Kun garrison that assisted them in crossing the river.

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