After the capture of Dongdingzhou by the South China Navy, a large number of officers and men of the South China Navy were promoted, not only officers, but also a large number of backbone sergeants and even ordinary soldiers.

And Lin Haishu was also promoted.

He was transferred to the 16th Division's Cavalry Regiment as a company commander of the 1st Cavalry Company and was awarded the rank of sergeant.

This kind of promotion is an ordinary promotion, but even so, it is relatively rare, purely in terms of combat merits, he is actually a little unqualified.

His military achievements are average, and his qualifications are too shallow, even if the qualifications of other colleagues are very shallow, but he is even shallow.

He graduated and served in advance before the Eastern Crusade, and during this period he was already promoted from corporal to sergeant, and this promotion has basically exhausted the combat exploits he had accumulated before.

And this time, because of the big promotion caused by the expansion, it stands to reason that he has no chance, but at this time, his second place in the riding department gave him a chance.

As the second graduating in the riding department, he has not shown too much sluggishness so far, on the contrary, he has made a small contribution, which makes him still a key training object in the heart of the above.

In addition, there are indeed a lot of opportunities for expansion and promotion this time, so after all the people who should be promoted are arranged, the remaining part of the promotion positions will naturally be arranged for people like Lin Haishu who have been focused on training.

After being promoted, Lin Haishu didn't say that he was too happy, and if possible, he preferred to stay in the original army.

The original unit belonged to the Second Cavalry Army, a front-line combat unit, and if there was a combat mission in the future, the main cavalry unit of the Second Cavalry Army would definitely go to the front line.

But now it is the divisional cavalry regiment that has been transferred to the 16th Division, even though the military lord has been promoted and has become the company commander of the cavalry company, there are more than 100 cavalry under his hands, and the follow-up will continue to replenish until this cavalry company is fully formed.

However, the 16th Division, as an integrated unit, needs to stay in the rear for reorganization for a long time to come, including ideological re-education of these reorganized soldiers, adaptive training in new tactics of the South China Navy, and so on.

Only after the reorganization is completed can this reorganized unit have initial combat effectiveness and be put into the battlefield.

Judging from the previous experience of the Southern Navy's reorganization, this reorganizational time will take at least one month, and if you want to achieve better results, then it will take at least two months.

But this month's rearmament time is very necessary and worth it.

The soldiers in these integrated units are all veterans, and they are all regular army soldiers in various feudal towns in Dongding Prefecture, most of them have more than several years of service, and their physical fitness and basic tactical literacy are not bad, and they have generally used rear-loading rifled rifles on a large scale before, and they have enough experience in the use of new rifles.

Once the reorganization is completed, the reorganized troops will often be able to have a certain combat effectiveness, and after a little more time, they will be able to be used as the main force of the ordinary regular army.

It takes much less time than recruiting new recruits directly, and the troops that can be obtained are more combative.

If you directly recruit recruits to train the troops, it will cost more and take longer, just the training time of recruits will take at least three months, otherwise, pulling them out will be typical cannon fodder.

After completing three months of recruit training, they must undergo at least one month of adaptive training when they are integrated into the army, otherwise, they will be trained in battle, but in this case, the casualty rate of recruits is too large.

If all goes well, it will take at least four months to get the troops that have been barely able to fight!

How to put it, even if it is just to turn an ordinary young man into a qualified soldier, even if it is just physical exercise, it will take at least three or four months.

If you want to get a force whose combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the main force of the regular army, then it will take even longer!

This situation is also the reason why the Yugoslav Navy rarely directly recruits new recruits and then organizes and trains new recruit units, because the reason is very simple, it takes a long time, and its combat effectiveness cannot be guaranteed.

Therefore, the current expansion of the South China Navy is a two-step process.

On the one hand, it is reorganized, and on the other hand, it is constantly recruiting new recruits for training, and then replenishing them to various units.

The 16th Division will also go through this pattern, where the current soldiers are all integrated soldiers, but after three months, some of them will be eliminated and incorporated into the garrison division, and the vacant places will be filled by new recruits who have undergone full recruit training.

After the Southern Navy entered Dongdingzhou, the recruit recruitment points in the counties were already opened.

It's just that the number of recruits is still small.

On the one hand, the population of Dongding Prefecture is originally like Nanhai Prefecture, and a large number of qualified soldiers have participated in the troops of the original three major feudal towns, but the Southern Navy is unwilling to lower the standard of recruiting new soldiers, so it is still a bit difficult to continue to recruit new soldiers.

However, the impact was not great, and the expansion of the Southern Navy had always relied not on recruiting new recruits, but on constantly defeating the opponent and then reorganizing the opponent.

It is estimated that other armies will encounter a lot of trouble if they carry out such a reorganization, but the South China Navy will not, because as long as the South China Navy voluntarily continues to join the army, the qualified soldiers.

Only for soldiers!

The source of trouble, that is, the officers, has never been wanted.

When Lin Haishu accompanied the troops to carry out the reorganization, the actions of the various units of the South China Navy did not stop.

On the surface, the fighting in Dongdingzhou has basically ended, and only a small number of small-scale ammunition operations remain, and these combat tasks are often not undertaken by the regular army, but by the garrison division.

However, the troops of the Southern Navy in Dongding Prefecture are constantly moving!

The war continues!

The trajectory of the movement of the South China Navy is very obvious, the main forces are converging in the northwest direction, and a certain number of troops are also deployed in the northeast direction.

However, in the northeastern direction, it took the initiative to abandon a large area of land near Jingzhou and took the initiative to shrink to a place 30 kilometers away from Jingzhou for defense.

Because there are some hills, jungles and a few small rivers here, in the eastern coastal area, it is relatively rare to be suitable for the terrain for defense, and further west, it is really a flat river, which is very suitable for attack, but it is very unreliable for defense.

From this deployment, we can also see the direction of the South Navy's next move.

The northwest line takes the initiative, and the northeast line is the main defense.

Although the transfer of the Southern Navy was secretive, such a large-scale transfer could not hide it from people at all, and soon Feng Ziqi of Zisheng Prefecture in the north knew about it.