Although Shiyan Town is a small town, it is also relatively important because it is located at the intersection of the two streams in the upper reaches of the Nanzi River, and the county guard left a regiment here, and at the same time, it also hoarded a lot of materials here to distribute and transport to the front-line troops.

To put it bluntly, this small town was used by the troops of the county guard as a material transfer point on the front line, otherwise there would not have been a regiment of troops left for defense.

At a distance of more than 20 kilometers, some of the defeated soldiers who escaped from outside Pingdan City fled back to Shiyan Town that day, and brought the news of the defeat of the army in Pingdan City.

"The main force of the Eighth Division, which had a 12,000-strong army and specially reinforced an artillery battalion, was defeated like this?"

The head of a regiment stationed in the local area looked incredulous!

This regiment commander was also the commander of the Eighth Division, and after hearing that the main force of his own troops had suffered a crushing defeat, he couldn't believe that what he heard was true.

Even if their Eighth Division was temporarily established after they went north to Pingdan County, even if many people still temporarily accepted Li Kun's original division, the thousands of people in it were still the main force of the county guard.

In particular, a main infantry brigade, which was the main force drawn from the 1st Division.

And yet it was defeated?

Moreover, even the division commander was killed on the spot, and most of the other generals were either killed or captured, and the most senior general who finally fled back to Shiyan Town was actually only one Doctor Commander, and he was also the injured Doctor Commander.

The whole person is bad.

What about an army of 12,000 men, and the main force of the reinforced artillery, which was completely routed in just one morning?

After hearing the news, the commander of the 36th Regiment of the 8th Division, on the one hand, urgently reported to the rear and the 7th and 9th Divisions of the Northwest Front, and on the other hand, he also sent people to report to Lingchang quickly.

The main force of the headquarters of the 12,000-strong Eighth Division outside Binh Dan was completely annihilated, and this news must be reported in time.

At the same time, he himself was in a hurry, and his soldiers began to strengthen the fortifications of Shiyan Town.

He could already predict that Lin Ziran's sixth division would come to Shiyan Town next.

Once Shiyan Town is lost, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Even the 7th and 9th Divisions fighting in Yonggu County were likely to be flanked from front to back, and then the whole army would be annihilated.

Shiyan Town this night is also brightly lit!

The soldiers didn't even get enough sleep because they had to work on the fortifications overnight.

Early the next morning, in the military camp outside Pingdan City, Lin Ziran, who was dressed in military uniform, began to slowly move south with a large number of generals with panda eyes and bloodshot eyes.

In the front, around, and in the rear, nearly 20,000 troops are heading south one after another!

As for why yesterday, the Sixth Division had only more than 18,000 people inside and outside Pingdan City, but today it has become 20,000, naturally because since yesterday, more than 1,000 prisoners of war soldiers have announced their surrender.

Being a soldier is just food, who to be a soldier is not a soldier!

For the vast majority of soldiers, there is no difference between being a soldier for Li Kun, a soldier for Jian Minggang, and a soldier for Lin Ziran.

Many soldiers were actually soldiers under Li Kun's command before, and later defected to Jianminggang, and now they have taken refuge under Lin Ziran.

Don't laugh at them for not being loyal.

People are really just to have enough to eat, besides, this is a civil war between feudal towns, and it is not a war between Daheng and foreigners, so not to mention the soldiers, many officers and even middle and high-ranking generals surrender to Cheng There is no psychological pressure at all.

If Lin Ziran is defeated one day, it is estimated that the generals under his command will also bring soldiers to his family.

How to say it, life has to pass, what to eat if you are not a soldier!

Many middle and senior generals didn't sleep all night last night to arrange the opening of the troops, and after the arrangements were made, Lin Ziran didn't leave them by his side and watched them yawn without listening, but directly let them go back to the troops.

After they each returned to the army, they could take a simple nap in the carriage, otherwise, if they continued like this, Lin Ziran was afraid that they would not be killed by the enemy, and he would fall down because he stayed up all night.

When Lin Ziran personally led the army south, Lin Ziran was left behind to sit in Pingdan City, and the prisoners of war who began to reorganize non-stop.

This time, the time to go south was urgent, and at the same time, the number of prisoners of war who surrendered was very large, so it was impossible to say that they were directly integrated into the army and led south together.

Therefore, Lin Ziran first led the main force of the Sixth Division Headquarters to the south, leaving Lu Sanzhen with a part of his troops to recruit these prisoners of war with the cooperation of the relevant personnel of the Recruitment Section of the Supervision and Training Office and the Recruit Section of the Staff Office, and integrate these prisoners of war into the army as soon as possible.

According to the established plan, the technical arms of these prisoners of war, especially the two major technical arms of artillery and cavalry, are also priority recruits because of their small numbers.

At the same time, a large number of senior soldiers, that is, those sergeants, are also recruited first.

These people belong to the ranks of ordinary soldiers, even if they surrender and accept them directly, there is no big problem, and at the same time, they are senior technical troops, and they are the backbone soldiers that the Sixth Division currently lacks the most, so as long as they surrender, they are open to acceptance.

Ordinary soldiers, on the other hand, adopt the principle of voluntariness, and those who are willing to surrender directly come over, if they are unwilling, they will continue to stay in the prisoner of war camp as a civilian servant, and help transport supplies in the future.

The officers, on the other hand, were treated differently.

If it is a prisoner of war officer who took the initiative to lead the troops to surrender at the beginning, then he will be promoted and used directly according to the situation, or even let them continue to lead the troops, this is to make Lin Ziran's gesture of tolerance.

After all, these people all showed their attitude at the beginning and came over with their troops to mutiny, not the kind of forced surrender.

Among the many officers who were forced to surrender, the middle- and low-ranking officers who were willing to surrender were also on the basis of the principle of voluntariness, and after a certain amount of inquiry and investigation, they were directly dismissed and appointed, but they would not be allowed to directly take up the actual posts of the front-line troops, but would be allowed to take up civilian posts first and observe for a period of time.

If you don't want to, continue to be locked up as coolies!

If it is a high-ranking officer, especially several regimental commanders or even a division chief of staff among the prisoners of war, such a person cannot be treated casually.

Seeing that each person's different influences will be treated differently, and how to deal with it in the future is not something that Deng Youwei can intervene in.

Lu Sanzhen was still very concerned about the recruitment of prisoners of war, because when he stayed, Lin Ziran had already promoted him in advance, and he was promoted to the brigade commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade and the commander of the Shaoqing Army.

What about Brigade Commander Shaoqing, this is something that Lu Sanzhen couldn't even imagine a few years ago, that one day, he will be able to become the commander of thousands of people and lead the party!

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