Jian Liangyu, who was in the Jian family, came to Qingshan Town to see Lin Zi, and then, just five days later, Lin Ziran met a special person again.

This person is still a child of the Cheng family who had a friendship with Lin Ziran: Cheng Hongbin.

A few months ago, Lin Ziran also escorted Cheng Hongbin's Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment to Chongguang City, and encountered Fang Yuanxin's cavalry attack on the way.

Later, this Cheng Hongbin led the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment to arrive at Chongguang City, and commanded the heavy artillery to crack open the turtle shell of Chongguang City, so that the Third Division could conquer Chongguang City.

After the Third Division conquered Chongguangcheng, it continued to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Guang'an, but the heavy artillery units of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment naturally did not follow at the first time, but followed later, but because of this, they escaped.

When the 3rd Division was ambushed, if the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment was also there, it would be hellish if the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment could escape back with the mobility of the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Now that the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment continues to garrison Chongguang City, Cheng Hongbin should also stay in Chongguang City according to reason, but Lin Ziran did not expect to see this person in Qingshan Town.

"Brother Cheng, I haven't seen you for a few months!" When Lin Ziran saw Cheng Hongbin, he strode forward and greeted him loudly.

Cheng Hongbin also laughed: "I've always been like this, but Brother Lin, you, have changed a lot in the past few months!" ”

Do I have a change?

How I don't know myself.

Although Lin Ziran has eaten and drunk well in the past few months, his whole person has not changed much, and he is still the same.

But obviously, this Cheng Hongbin is not referring to the changes in his Lin Ziran's personal appearance, but referring to other things, which may be his Qingshan Patrol Battalion.

It is not a secret that the recruitment of troops in the Qingshan Patrol Battalion is not a secret, and many local militia groups do this, but it is rare that they can do it on such a large scale as the Qingshan Patrol Battalion.

Even if you want to keep it a secret, you can't keep it a secret, and now in order to recruit enough qualified soldiers, the Qingshan Patrol Battalion has expanded the place of recruiting new recruits to several surrounding towns.

Therefore, the recruitment of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion is not a secret, and those who want to know can basically know it, even if they don't know the details, but they will probably know.

Obviously, Cheng Hongbin also knows.

No, after the two of them exchanged pleasantries for a while, Lin Ziran didn't have time to ask Cheng Hongbin about his intention, Cheng Hongbin just changed the topic to his Qingshan Patrol Camp.

"I still remember a few months ago, Brother Lin, your Qingshan Patrol Battalion had less than a thousand people, but it's only been a long time now, and it's two thousand people!"

"And I also saw the drill of your battalion on the road, the queue is neat, the advance and retreat are the same, with such elite soldiers, your battalion can be alone even in the third division!"

Cheng Hongbin said this, but Lin Ziran was calm, which didn't sound like an ordinary compliment.

Although his Qingshan Patrol Battalion has already embarked on the regular, his own family knows his own affairs, and the comprehensive quality of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion is still some distance from the regular army.

The quality of the single-wheeled officers and men is absolutely impossible to compare with those regular elite units of the Third Division.

Lin Ziran said: "Brother Cheng praises it, my patrol battalion can be compared with the regular army, but it's just a local militia group!" ”

After saying that, Lin Ziran changed his words: "Anyway, Brother Cheng came to my Qingshan Town this time, I don't know what happened?" ”

Cheng Hongbin said: "I'm going back to the county town, and I happened to be passing by, so I stopped by to take a look at Brother Lin!" ”

Lin Ziran naturally didn't believe it, if Cheng Hongbin wanted to go back to the county seat, he could take a boat all the way from Chongguang City and go down the river to the county seat.

If he wants to come to Qingshan Town, he has to get off the boat from Sanyang Ferry, and then run more than ten kilometers to come over, so this is a bit far by the way.

So he didn't speak, but continued to wait for Cheng Hongbin to speak.

Cheng Hongbin really continued: "In addition, I also want to discuss one thing with Brother Lin!" ”

It seems that something is really wrong, Lin Ziran remained silent, pretending to be curious: "Oh, I don't know what's going on, Brother Cheng just speak!" ”

Cheng Hongbin said: "I am not satisfied with Brother Lin, this time I will go back to the county town to accept the promotion, if nothing else, I will serve as the brigade commander of the sixth brigade of the third division!" ”

"But Brother Lin, you also know that some time ago, the Third Division suffered heavy losses, and the Fourth Brigade under the Third Division belonged to the Sixth Brigade with the heaviest losses, no, I just thought, Brother Lin, the Qingshan Patrol Battalion on your side is good, so I asked Brother Lin, can you help Brother Cheng and me, come to the Sixth Brigade, as long as Brother Lin comes, a regiment commander is absolutely indispensable to you."

Hearing this, Lin Ziran did not have the slightest surprise, but suddenly had a lot of vigilance in his heart.

The Jian family had just arrived on the front foot, and the Cheng family had arrived on the back foot, and they were all doing the same thing, that is, trying to draw themselves and their Qingshan patrol battalion under their command.

This had to make Lin Ziran suspicious and vigilant.

is still the same sentence, his family knows his own affairs, and the Qingshan Patrol Battalion seems to have a lot of troops now, but the overall quality is just like that, and there is no way to compare with the regular army for the time being.

At the same time, the existence of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion is not a secret, on the contrary, it is all public, after all, two thousand people are staying in Qingshan Town, and at the same time, Lin Ziran has a Qingshan Petroleum Company, which is basically public, and it is impossible to hide it.

However, why didn't they come to the door before, but now they come to the door?

There's definitely something strange here.

Lin Ziran was vigilant, and Cheng Hongbin continued: "Now that we are fighting in Luo'an and the two counties, the troops are not enough, and what about Chongguangcheng, if nothing else, some troops will soon be transferred, but the defense of Chongguangcheng is not easy, and we need to guard against at least one or two thousand Guang'an troops on the opposite side!" ”

"But only in this kind of hard time, can you and I have the opportunity to make contributions!"

Opportunity? I think it's dangerous!

Luo'an has tens of thousands of regular troops, even if it is at war with the two counties at the same time, it is not necessary to mobilize local militia groups like themselves to the front line, this has allowed themselves to go to the front line, this is not a danger.

So in the face of Cheng Hongbin's invitation, Lin Ziran was naturally sloppy, saying that we are just patrolling the camp, the combat strength is weak, and the bandits in Qingshan Town are also serious and so on, in short, they are dragging it first.

I didn't say yes, but I didn't say no.

Because intuition tells Lin Ziran that something is going to happen, and even something may have happened.

Although he didn't know what really happened now, the Jian family and the Cheng family came one after another to woo him.

This made Lin Ziran smell the breath of the storm!

He couldn't just crash into it, or he wouldn't know how he would have died.

After sending Cheng Hongbin away, it was only the second day that Lin Ziran welcomed another guest, and he was also a guest from Guang'an County!