The chaotic battle in Pingdan County was first known to Lin Ziran.

Anyway, he was still nominally on the side of the coalition army, and he also sent a few people to Pingdan County to serve as liaison officers, and also secretly sent spies to collect information.

Although it is impossible to collect secret information, such as the secret agreement between Feng Haozhong and Du Zhikuan before, Jian Liangzhi suddenly reached a joint agreement with Li Kun, and there was no news collected before, but when the Seventh Division joined forces with Li Kun's Guang'an Second Army, they still got the news as soon as possible and transmitted it back to Sanyang Town.

After receiving the report, Lin Ziran's first feeling was that it was all messed up.

Now the situation is messy.

The Third Army of Guang'an withdrew north to the area of Chongguangcheng, which made almost the entire Nan'an County extremely empty, not to mention, and more importantly, Li Kun's Second Army was attacked from many sides.

If Lin Ziran had honestly sent troops north to Nan'an before, then Li Kun's troops would have been surrounded on all sides.

The sudden retreat of the Third Army of Guang'an caused other confusion, and Jian Liangzhi's Seventh Division directly joined forces with Li Kun's Second Army, and then began to fight around Feng Haozhong.

Although the situation on Zhao Song's side in the west is unknown, it is estimated that it will not rest.

But no matter whether Zhao Song intervenes or not, Feng Haozhong's situation will become quite bad.

And now the question in front of Lin Ziran is, what should he do in this complex situation?

He looked at the large map hanging on the wall for a long time, and finally set his eyes on the east bank of the Luo River in Lingchang County.

Lingchang County straddles both sides of the Luo River, and although the west bank of the Luo River is larger, there are also six towns on the east bank, with a total area of nearly 1,000 square kilometers.

What's more, this area is a traditional agricultural area, with a large food yield and a large population.

In these six towns alone, the grain production and population are comparable to more than half of Lianguan County.

After pondering for a long time about the six towns in the eastern part of Lingchang County, Lin Ziran said loudly: "Come on, call the generals for a meeting!" ”

Now the situation in Pingdan County is very obvious, as Li Kun suddenly fell to Jian Minggang because of Du Zhikuan's betrayal, and began to join forces with the Seventh Division.

Feng Haozhong's situation will be very bad, it is very likely that he will fall short, and he will be killed by joining forces in the end, even if he does not die, he will have to shed his skin in the end, even if he can still keep thousands of remnants in the end, but what can he do?

Now Cheng Lingfeng doesn't have thousands of people under him, but what can he do, he can only hide in a few towns in the southeast, and he is in danger.

Feng Haozhong is finished!

Once Feng Haozhong is finished, it means that such a large place as Lingchang County will be controlled by the county guard.

And this is not in Lin Ziran's interests, if it is possible, he would rather send troops to aid Feng Haozhong at this time, at least let Feng Haozhong's strength be preserved and continue to fight against Jian Minggang.

However, the combat effectiveness of his troops was limited, and more importantly, there was a lack of sections to cross the river.

He didn't even have an ironclad ship under his hands, and there was no way to cover the troops crossing the river.

Since you can't help, you have to follow the trend.

Lingchang County is such a big territory, but it can't all be snatched by the county guard.

While Pingdan County was still fighting, he had to hurry up and swallow the six towns in the eastern part of Lingchang County first.

It didn't take long for Wu Guanlin and other generals to arrive one after another.

After everyone arrived, Lin Ziran distributed the report from the spies to the generals.

After everyone saw it, Lin Ziran spoke: "There has been a change over there in Pingdan County, Jian Liangzhi's Seventh Division has joined forces with Li Kun's Guang'an Second Army to besiege the Third Division. ”

"Judging from the current situation, Feng Haozhong can't hold on, even if he can resist, but he will definitely not be able to look east, this time is our chance, the opportunity to seize the six towns in the east of Lingchang!"

Wu Guanlin also put down the spies' report at this time, and said excitedly: "My lord, this time is a rare opportunity, there are not many troops on the six towns in the east of Lingchang, Feng Haozhong has transferred a large number of troops to the north, and only one or two thousand people are left in the six towns in the east at most, as long as we act decisively and quickly, at most three days, we will be able to pocket the entire six towns on the east bank of Lingchang!" ”

"With these six towns, our food problem can be completely alleviated, and at the same time, we can get sufficient military replenishment, and with these six towns as a basis, we can expand the army by at least 3,000 soldiers and horses."

Xu Zhongshu also spoke at this time: "From a military point of view, whether it is the county guard or the third division, the current main force is gathered in the west bank of Luo'an, if we want to go south to the six towns, we will not encounter much resistance, the only more troublesome thing is that after the end of the Pingdan war, it will be difficult for the county guard to attack us!" ”

Now Jianminggang is the strongest of the many feudal towns, and the exact number of its troops is not clear to outsiders, but the staff officers within the Sixth Division estimate that according to the current situation, the regular army directly under the county guard is at least 40,000 people.

If the follow-up county guard takes the Sixth Division as a thorn in the side, then the current strength of the Sixth Division will be more dangerous.

However, Deng Liangan, the commander of the 7th Infantry Battalion and the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Corps, has a different opinion: "Risks and opportunities always coexist, and if we don't go any further, there will inevitably be risks!" ”

"As long as the risk is controllable, then we can do it, and now it seems that the risk is controllable for the time being!"

"Most of the core essence areas of our Luo'an County are on the west bank of the Luo River, not to mention the area on the east bank of our country, not to mention the area on the east bank, and compared to the entire Luo'an, it is not a rich area.

"If they want to cross the river to attack our army in the future, it will not be so easy to successfully cross the river and attack under the defense of our army!"

"In addition, we are not alone, even if Li Kun and Jian Minggang have joined forces now, but will they join forces after Feng Haozhong is finished? Li Kun is not a person who is willing to live under others. ”

"And there is Zhao Song, he has been in Yonggu County before, but this does not mean that he is willing to stay in Yonggu County all the time, if he wants to develop, Zhao Song must expand externally, to the west is Hexi County, Hexi Iron Horse is not easy to mess with, to the north is Guang'an County, but there is the Nanzi Mountain Range."

"The direction of expansion he can choose is either Pingdan County in the east or Lingchang County in the southeast!"

"As soon as Feng Haozhong is finished, Zhao Song will definitely send troops!"

"With Li Kun and Zhao Song sharing the pressure for us, the threat we face is much smaller!"

"Besides, everyone knows the truth of the cold tooth death, don't dare it be Li Kun or Zhao Song or even Li Dingjun, they will not sit back and watch the county guard swallow us, and then integrate the three counties of Lingchang, Lianguan, and Pingdan, because what awaits them in this way will also be perish!"

"Therefore, the Ministry of Duties suggests that troops should be dispatched immediately to seize the six towns in the east of Lingchang, and even if there is a chance, they can continue to go south, open up contact with Li Dingjun's department, and join forces to resist the county guard at that time!"

Listening to Deng Liangan's words, Lin Ziran nodded slightly, worthy of being a young general of his own lineage, this remark is methodical and reasonable, and more importantly, it is full of passion!

Everyone's discussion continued, but Lin Ziran had already decided to send troops south.

Just like Deng Liangan said, there must be risks, but as long as they are well grasped, the risks are controllable.

But if this opportunity is missed, then the situation will be even more difficult in the future.

Even the material and financial resources and even the population of Guan County are limited, not to mention the financial resources, even if it is to maintain an army of 10,000 people with the current population, it is already very reluctant.

The potential source of troops is almost exhausted.

Lin Ziran couldn't expand his army if he wanted to.

He didn't have money or guns, and now he can't even recruit a soldier......

When everyone was almost discussed, Lin Ziran tapped the table with his fingers, and when everyone stopped talking and looked at him together, Lin Ziran said slowly: "This time the opportunity is rare, this official has decided to send troops south!" ”

"The General Staff Office immediately came up with a corresponding battle plan, the Logistics Office immediately arranged for the baggage supplies to go south, the Food and Salary Department did a good job of replenishing the troops, and all units should also be prepared immediately!"

"We want to take down the entire six towns on the east bank of Lingchang as much as possible before the war in Pingdan County is over!"

Lin Ziran made a decision, and naturally there was nothing to discuss next, and various agencies and troops began to act quickly.

Wu Guanlin began to take the staff officers of the General Staff Office to formulate a detailed battle plan.

As a matter of fact, the staff officers of the General Staff Office study all kinds of operational plans every day, and there are all kinds of contingency plans, not to mention fighting in the south, even if they are going north to Chongguang City, or crossing the river and marching into Pingdan County.

There are dozens of various battle plans.

It's just that these are preliminary plans, and these years have been chaotic, the situation has changed too quickly, and all kinds of predetermined battle plans cannot keep up with the changes in the situation.

For example, in many previous battle plans, the defense line of Nanguangcheng was the top priority, and it was necessary to always maintain a heavy garrison, but now, the Third Army, which was most likely to threaten Nanguangcheng, took the initiative to withdraw to Chongguangcheng, and some spies reported back that the Third Army of Guang'an did not even stay in Chongguangcheng, but returned to the hinterland of Guang'an.

Lin Ziran didn't know what Du Zhikuan's Guang'an Third Army was going to do, but he knew that the northern threat of Nanguangcheng was temporarily gone.

In addition, the coastal defense line on the east bank of Luo'an, represented by Sanyang Town, was only stationed in key points in the past, but now it seems that whether it is Li Kun, Feng Haozhong, or Jian Liangzhi, it is unlikely that they will directly cross the river to attack Lianguan County.

With the continuous change of external pressure, the deployment of this force also needs to be constantly adjusted.

The staff office was revised according to many previous battle plans, only half a day plus an all-nighter, and early the next morning, Lin Ziran came up with a complete battle plan.

Time was pressing, and Lin Ziran approved the battle plan as soon as possible.

Lin Ziran, who announced one of the five major feudal towns in Luo'an, also officially joined this feudal town chaos.

The news that Lin Ziran mobilized his troops to quickly move south was naturally impossible to hide.

After all, Lin Ziran and Feng Haozhong are not far apart in a straight line, if there is no Luo River to separate, the cavalry can kill them with one attack.

Therefore, whether it is Feng Haozhong, Jian Liangzhi, or Li Kun, they all got the news as soon as possible.

Not long after, the 11th Brigade under Du Zhikuan on the side of Chongguang City also got the news, and Zhao Song's department also got the news.

In just three days, even Jian Minggang on the other side of the county town got the news.

The reaction of all parties to Lin Ziran's dispatch of troops south to the six towns in the eastern part of Lingchang County was mixed.

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