The hinterland of Guang'an is one of the important grain producing areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Luo River, although its area is not large, but it is extremely fertile and rich in grain.

With Chongguangcheng and Nanzi Mountains as the interval, to the south is the first big plain in the middle and lower reaches of the Luo River, the 'Liangluo Plain', the Liangluo Plain is large, fertile, and has a lot of minerals, it is the core area of Nanhai Prefecture, this kind of rich place is actually placed in the whole Daheng, it is a rare good place.

It is also relying on the Liangluo Plain that the industry and commerce of Nanhai Prefecture have developed so rapidly.

The Guang'an Plain in the north is much smaller in area, but it is still very fertile and is an important grain producing area.

At the same time, the eastern part of the highland is very rich in forestry resources, and it is an important timber industry supply base in Nanhai Prefecture, with many furniture factories.

However, in Lin Ziran's opinion, the most important thing in this place is still Luohe!

The Luo River runs through almost the entire Quang An County, and the importance of the Luo River is undoubted.

This is also one of the important reasons why Lin Ziran wants to seize Guang'an County and open up the Luo River!

The strategic plan has been decided, but there should be no war in the short term, and Lin Ziran still needs time to complete the refitting and reorganization of the troops.

When I went south to Luohai County before, I received a large number of surrendered troops, and many of the new troops that were mainly reorganized from these surrendered troops still needed special training in new tactics, and it took a month or two to get used to them.

Coupled with the time to change clothes, and more importantly, the time to hoard supplies, on the whole, the Southern Navy under Lin Ziran needs to be ready for war at least after the spring of the fifty-second year of Yongchang.

Only at that time can the reorganization of the troops be considered preliminarily complete, and at the same time, the refitting of the Luo'an-3 rifles can also be completed, and if the artillery is loaded, there should be several hundred guns by that time.

Even more important is the stockpiling of all-metal bullets and rifled shells.

Although the production capacity of the Fuyuan and Nanzhou factories is huge, and with the help of the Luo'an Arsenal and the Aoyama Machinery Factory, it also takes a certain amount of time to produce and stock up on a large number of bullets and shells.

Therefore, in the next few months, Lin Ziran, who had been very big before, seemed to be quiet.

And successively sent envoys to the surrounding counties to carry out activities, what did they say?

It's nothing more than that you don't have to be afraid, our Southern Navy has no intention of expansion, what is shouting to unify Nanhai Prefecture, Daheng's slogan, it's just a slogan, everyone is a feudal town, you should also know the importance of shouting slogans, but don't take it seriously.

However, in addition to these public envoys, more spies were also sent to the surrounding counties to reconnoiter the military deployment and terrain of each county.

This is naturally for the next step of expansion!

Nanhai State must be reunified!

Even in order to better cope with the next step of external expansion, Lin Ziran specially instructed the establishment of a part of the garrison force to undertake the bombing of the locality, maintain public order, and assist the front-line troops in carrying out combat tasks.

In the past, Luo'an County and Luohai County actually had a large number of local militia troops, and these militia troops also assumed the heavy responsibility of local garrison forces, so the troops of the various feudal towns in Luo'an County and the Luo Navy were actually regular field troops, not ordinary local garrison troops.

After Lin Ziran took charge of Luo'an County, he mined large-scale bandits and forcibly eliminated militia groups in various places, forming a situation in which there were only regular troops in Luo'an County, but there were no militia groups.

The task of local security is entrusted to the patrol police.

Later, when he entered Luohai County, he also adopted a similar approach.

However, it soon became clear that in this way, a large number of regular army troops were required to be stationed in many cities and other places, and although there were patrols, the patrols were only patrols after all.

In order to free up the hands of the regular army troops, the General Staff Office has proposed several times to set up subordinate units to be responsible for local ammunition and pressure tasks, whether it is to call local militia groups, garrison troops, or even armed patrol police, it does not matter, but it needs to be there.

In response to this situation, and taking into account the problem of the shortage of troops after the subsequent war, Lin Ziran officially established local garrison forces, but in order to unify the armed forces, these local garrisons still belong to the regular army, not some militia groups or armed patrols.

However, the garrison units in these places are positioned as second-line troops, and their training and equipment can be poor, and at the same time, they can adopt a semi-professional state.

To this end, Lin Ziran ordered the formation of the First Garrison Division and the Second Garrison Division of the South China Sea to be stationed in various parts of Luo'an County and Luohai County respectively.

Moreover, the troops of these two garrison divisions were stationed in various places in companies and battalions.

Taking Lianguan County as an example, there is oil in Lianguan County, so there are many powerful troops stationed in this area for a long time, but now it has been replaced by the second regiment under the first garrison division.

The regiment is organized like the regular army, with three infantry battalions, each of which has four infantry companies.

However, in fact, this first garrison regiment usually only retains the backbone personnel of each unit, and there are only about 1,000 full-time soldiers, and how can the remaining gap of more than 1,000 people be replenished?

Rely on semi-professional soldiers to replenish, that is, militia!

To this end, Lin Ziran specially formulated a militia system, using retired soldiers and local young people to form a semi-professional militia.

It is necessary to concentrate on training at intervals, and give subsidies during training, but what to do on weekdays, which can effectively reduce salary expenses.

If the situation is tense, the militia can be directly replenished and expanded to more than 2,000 people to fight.

In terms of equipment, the Fuyuan rifle is mainly equipped with the replaced Fuyuan rifle, which is also the Qingshan II rifle, and the regular army under Lin Ziran has gradually withdrawn all these modified 18 mm caliber breeched guns.

However, this Fuyuan rifle is also a breech-loading rifled rifle, there are a lot of stocks, and there are a lot of paper shell bullets in stock, so it is wasted if you don't use it.

The artillery is mainly equipped with new smoothbore guns that have appeared in recent years.

In addition, it will also give a very small number of breech-loading rifled guns whose body life has reached the end of the term, and the rifled guns hand-built by the early Qingshan Machinery Factory and Luo'an Arsenal are actually not of good quality, and the frequency of combat before is high, and at the same time, in order to train the artillery of the new rifled artillery, as soon as possible to form combat effectiveness, this live-fire training is also a lot.

By now, many of the early rifled guns have reached their limit of tube life, so they are transferred to second-line troops and recruit training camps for training.

Anyway, if you usually train, you only use training bullets, and occasionally you will shoot a live ammunition, and even if you hit live ammunition, you will use a reduced charge.

As for the use of normal charges or even strong charges, I will blow up the chamber to you in minutes!

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