The first mixed regiment crossed the river with the garrison troops deployed in Nan'an County by Li Kun's department.

However, this was only before, when the First Mixed Regiment crossed the river, these Li Kun's troops were already bearing the number of the Fourth Mixed Regiment of the Sixth Division.

Because these Li Kun's subordinates stationed in Nan'an County had already chosen Lin Ziran to recruit when the first mixed regiment had just gone north.

Li Kun is completely finished, and many of his subordinates have also begun to run for their own future.

It's impossible to establish yourself as a king, and the three major feudal towns outside are all eyeing up for territory, and there will be you to establish yourself as a king.

The best option is to choose one of them.

And this kind of refuge can't be taken indiscriminately, for example, in Li Kun's department in Nan'an County, if they want to take refuge in Jianminggang, it is unlikely.

Because Lin Ziran's Sixth Division has already been killed, at this critical moment, if you don't surrender, you will be the enemy, since it is the enemy, there is nothing to say, just start fighting.

Therefore, the 3,000 people in Nan'an County, they had no choice at all, because when the First Mixed Regiment went north, Lin Ziran had already sent the Second Infantry Regiment and some auxiliary troops at the same time, and directly crossed the river to the defense line on the west bank of Nanguang City under the cover of the Sixth Artillery Fleet.

The defense line on the east and west sides of Nanguang City is the only feasible passage for Nan'an County to go south, as long as it controls the place, the thousands of people under Li Kun's command in the north will not be able to run at all.

In order to quickly control the defense line on the west bank of Nanguang City, Lin Ziran offered a good price to recruit the local defenders this time, including retaining the original post and paying one month of salary arrears.

So for the sake of his own future and the lives of his brothers, the head of the garrison regiment stationed there chose to surrender to Lin Ziran without hesitation.

The unit was organized into the 3rd Mixed Regiment.

When the defense line on the west bank of Nanguang City was also controlled by Lin Ziran, the next thing in Nan'an County was very simple, Lin Ziran didn't even send a large number of troops over, just let the first mixed regiment go north, and then let the messenger go to persuade him to surrender with a handwritten letter, that is, he successfully incorporated the local garrison of about 3,000 people and organized it into the fourth mixed regiment.

The whole process did not even break out into large-scale battles.

In fact, a similar situation happened in other places, whether it was Zhao Song and Jian Minggang, the troops they sent did not encounter much resistance in the process of advancing.

Everyone knows that Li Kun is finished, so naturally he will not resist desperately, and many of them directly surrendered to Zhao Song or Jian Minggang.

After the Nan'an garrison and the Nanguangcheng garrison were initially recruited, with a total of about 5,000 people, and were divided into two mixed regiments, the first mixed regiment was stationed in Nan'an County together with the third mixed regiment that had just surrendered.

The 2nd Infantry Regiment and other units moved rapidly south along the west bank of the Luo River with the newly incorporated 4th Mixed Regiment.

At the same time, Lin Ziran once again personally led more than 5,000 people, including the First Infantry Corps, to cross the river under the cover of gunboats.

After merging the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 4th Mixed Regiment, a total of more than 10,000 people quickly moved south and went straight to the county seat of Pingdan County, where there were still more than 5,000 rebels waiting for them to persuade them to surrender.

When Lin Ziran personally led the troops south, he went straight to the county seat of Pingdan County.

In Pingdan County, Xiao Xiangyu, the commander of the 12th Brigade of the Third Army of Guang'an, looked tired and occasionally sighed!

At this time, on the table in front of him, there were three letters, which were written by Lin Ziran, Zhao Song, and Jian Minggang.

Although the person who wrote the letter is different, and the rhetoric is also different, the core meaning is the same, that is, to persuade him to surrender to the past!

However, the current situation is different from what he Xiao Xiangyu expected, he has never considered the question of who will defect after the mutiny.

What he wanted was to replace Li Kun, and he would become the new commander of the Third Army in Guang'an, not to say that he would take refuge in a certain feudal town.

But when he started the army, he realized that everything he had planned before had become a joke!

He didn't expect that as soon as Li Kun was finished, almost the entire Third Army of Guang'an would completely collapse, and he would not be given the opportunity to replace Li Kun at all!

This feudal town is not something that anyone can do if they want to!

In this situation, he has not many choices left, either choose one of the feudal towns to defect, or shrink into the county town and establish himself as king, but this basically has no future, because even if he wants to do this, his soldiers are not willing to do it.

Shrinking into a small county town and making enemies of the three major feudal towns, this matter makes my scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Of course, he also has another choice, which is to declare his departure and become a rich man himself, which is also the common choice of many defeated feudal towns.

As long as they publicly announce their departure from the wilderness and give up their troops and territory, other feudal towns will generally not play the trick of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and will even send them out of the country.

This is not to say that there is no threat to the feudal towns after the wilderness, in fact, it is more to reduce the resistance of those feudal towns and leave them a way out.

If even if they voluntarily give up their rights, then they will resist to the end.

That's why this happens.

However, this is the most unacceptable choice for Xiao Xiangyu.

He is still young, only thirty-eight years old this year, this young age is the golden age for a general, and he is not willing to retire.

Then the only choice left for him is to surrender.

But even if it is Toucheng, he wants to be the most reliable in Toucheng.

Now Lin Ziran, Zhao Song, and Jian Minggang have all taken the initiative to recruit him, and the conditions offered are also very superior, such as Lin Ziran, he wrote in his personal letter that if his brother comes to vote, he is willing to be entrusted with a mixed brigade, and over time, he will be entrusted with the heavy responsibility of a division.

Needless to say, this mixed brigade refers to Xiao Xiangyu's current troops, and more than 5,000 people can just be organized into a mixed brigade.

In the future, if it continues to develop, this mixed brigade will be upgraded to a division.

Other conditions include keeping the original department unchanged, that is, there will be no large-scale changes to the troops under Xiao Xiangyu's current command, and there will be no messy small actions to override him.

And the conditions for Jian Minggang and Zhao Song to start are also relatively similar.

All in all, the conditions are very lucrative, and being able to continue to lead troops also promises the future.

So what is in front of Xiao Xiangyu now is to make a choice, who to turn to.

Among these three people, Zhao Song was the first to be excluded by him, Zhao Song was a poor bastard, but he maintained a huge army, and I heard that the people in Yonggu County were already struggling to make a living.

Even if it now occupies part of the territory of Pingdan County, it only occupies part of the poor places, and the places that are really rich in coal mines are occupied by Jianminggang or Lin Ziran.

Zhao Song's side, I can't go, I have to starve every day if I go!

And most importantly, there is no future with such a poor bastard.

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