Looking at these brothers who lost their families and organizations due to sudden changes, but still trusted him unconditionally, Lin Xiao felt very guilty.

It's time to get along with them more and communicate more with them in the future, after all, they are not in the former people's army now, and he can no longer treat them as subordinates.

They are now real brothers, a group of brothers in life and death who have lost the warmth of their families, the care of the organization, no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, and only returned to China with their blood!

"Okay brothers, then I'll talk to you about my thoughts......"

suffered a little loss, and the red-eyed Duan Zhenghong was quite slanderous about Lin Xiao's failure to fight the war of annihilation, but Lin Xiao had his own ideas.

Since he had a deep discussion with He Shouxin, Lin Xiao felt the need to change the original plan.

At present, the domestic situation is a piece of erosion, except for the area of Yunnan and Guizhou where the Great Western Army is entrenched, with the fall of Guangzhou again, the territory actually controlled by the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty is only from Wuzhou in the east to Guilin in the north, and most of Guangxi is in the north, the Qing army has been directly to Ning, the remnants of the officers and soldiers of the Ming army have no fighting spirit, and more and more people have fled into Yunnan, and even avoided Vietnam, Thailand, Burma and other places.

There is not much time left for the traversal, if it is delayed any longer, according to the original historical trajectory, Zhu Youlang, the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was soon forced to join Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo's Great Western Army, and was placed under house arrest by Sun Kewang in Anlong Mansion for three years.

At that time, the entire territory of Guangxi will fall, and Nanming will not even have an outlet to the sea, and the old port camp will really have to passively land behind enemy lines.

Therefore, Lin Xiao felt that they might not have enough time to pacify Annan, so they could only change the "pacification" strategy to the "appeasement" strategy.

Now, Lin Xiao hopes that those lost their souls of the Vietnamese army will return to Hanoi to report the news, bring panic to Hanoi, and strive to force the small court in Hanoi with military might.

As for the question of Annan's ownership, I am afraid that we will have to wait for the domestic crisis to be resolved.

At the same time, Lin Xiao's other plan was to use Haiphong as a base to establish a base area of at least 300 to 400 square kilometers of abundant food and clothing between the Taiping River and the Zhujiang River, and to create a momentum through the connections of He Shouxin, Gong Zhenhao, and other firms, so as to attract a large number of domestic refugees to take refuge.

Because Lin Xiao urgently needs to expand the army!

Lin Xiao was ready to recruit troops again among the refugees, after all, their current strength was too small, and it was impossible to open up the situation in a short time after returning to China.

Even if the old port battalion is strong, if there is no one to defend the territory, it will be in vain in the end.

As for the remnants of the Ming army in the country, Lin Xiao didn't expect it at all, with the urine of officials and warlords in the late Ming Dynasty, Lin Xiao thought that it would be a blessing not to be constrained everywhere.

There is still a long way to go!

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In view of the problems summed up at the discussion meeting, and in order to facilitate command, Lin Xiao decided to reorganize the Jiugang Battalion of less than 400 people into three infantry companies, each with three platoons and nine squads, according to the establishment standards of the people's army in later generations.

Each infantry squad consists of nine squad leaders, according to the principle of the three-three system pioneered by Marshal Lin in later generations, divided into fire group, assault group, and support group, each group of three people, the squad leader is equipped with an M4A1 carbine, and the rest have a rifle.

Each infantry platoon has three squads, plus a platoon commander and a communicator (responsible for the division number and orders), a total of 30 people.

Each infantry company has 90 people in three infantry platoons, 9 people in a reconnaissance squad (equipped with an M4A1 carbine), 9 people in a machine gun squad (to be equipped with 2 machine guns, in addition to the main and deputy shooters, 5 ammunition men and one M4A1 carbine, which is currently in short supply), 8 people in the division chief and cooking squad, plus the chief and deputy company commanders, and 2 communicators, the whole company has a total of 120 people.

An infantry company is likely to be an independent combat unit in the future, Lin Xiao is ready to give all the configurations, except for training problems, the machine guns have not yet been equipped, and the rest of the equipment is in place.

Of the remaining 30 or so, Lin Xiao temporarily organized them into a logistics platoon, mainly responsible for defending Haiphong Town, guarding prisoners, and helping Yu Jifan take care of the wounded in the newly established field hospital.

Lin Xiao appointed Ding Shuai, a special combat member, as the commander of the first company; Liu Xulei is the commander of the second company; Zhu Yu Jia is the commander of the third company.

The deputy company commander and squad platoon commander of each company are selected and appointed by the company commander, and Lin Xiao instructed that these indigenous grassroots officers must be trained with heart.

At the same time, considering the threat of the Annan official army's battle elephant array, Lin Xiao finally decided to let Li Tao take the special combat members of the fireteam and sniper group to the "Longshenglun" to receive three machine guns and two sniper rifles of the US army.

Duan Zhenghong and the others got the M249 squad machine gun, which is common to the M16 rifle and is also a 5.56mm caliber M109 US military cartridge, equipped with two magazines of 100 rounds and 200 rounds, with an effective range of 1000 meters and a rate of fire of up to 1000 rounds per minute. It can be used as a heavy machine gun when mounted on a bracket and fed with a metal cartridge chain box, and is equipped with a replaceable barrel for fierce firepower.

Xu Tianshi and Zhang Chenfeng got a Remington R700 sniper rifle with a steel-shelled optical scope and a muzzle muffler, which is a long-range precision strike weapon commonly known as the "bird sniper" that is standard in the US infantry, using 7.62mm large-caliber rifle cartridges, with a maximum accuracy range of 800 meters, equipped with a 5-round magazine, and the accuracy of this gun in the effective range is very high.

In fact, Li Tao also found a small number of Barrett M82A1 semi-automatic sniper rifles preferred by the US special forces and marines in the container, which uses 12.7mm large-caliber bullets with amazing lethality, and is equipped with an M3 super optical sight, with a maximum accurate range of 1850 meters, and a maximum range of up to a terrifying 2500 meters. It can fire a variety of bullets such as sniper bullets, armor-piercing bullets, incendiary bombs, and armor-piercing incendiary bullets in addition to ordinary bullets, and is commonly used to destroy high-value targets such as enemy bunkers and vehicles.

The disadvantage is that this cargo is too heavy, the total weight of the machine gun of the M249 squad is only 10 kilograms, but this cargo weighs 13 kilograms, and it is difficult for ordinary people to hold it.

Lin Xiao felt that this gun was too terrifying in the current time and space, and it was not convenient to carry it if there was no vehicle, so there was no need to use it for the time being, so Li Tao did not take it out.

After the reorganization was completed, Lin Xiao and Xiao Kaifeng urged the three companies to step up training, focusing on the tactical coordination of combat teams as units when defending and charging, so as to avoid another swarm of bees.

As for the 150 sailors of the "Unicorn," they were also reorganized into two squadrons, with Captain Zhang Jinshan and Gunnery Chief Guan Erdao concurrently serving as squadron leaders. Each squadron is divided into three squads, each with 25 people, mainly practicing coordinated defensive tactics, and Xiao Kaifeng personally organizes drills.

Lin Xiao meant that in the future, these sailors will be artillery on the ship, and marines on the shore, but for the time being, they only need to train the defense and guard tactics of the station, and they will not be used to attack the fortifications.

The sailors who can go to sea are precious and can't afford to consume them!

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A few days later, Lin Xiao took Li Tao and Xiao Kaifeng back to the "Lufeng Wheel" and summoned Chen Yiming and a few of them to hold a small meeting to solicit opinions on the issue of "appeasement".

At the meeting, there were basically no objections, only Zhou Xiaojie proposed whether it was possible to advance the base area along the coast another 50 kilometers north and take down Halong Bay.

Because there, there is a large coal mine - Hongji Coal Mine. Zhou Xiaojie, who came from later generations, knew that it was a high-quality open-pit coal mine, the largest coal base in Vietnam, and even accounted for ninety percent of the country's output. What's more, it is very close to Haiphong and right on the seaside, so it is extremely convenient to transport by sea.

It seems that Zhou Xiaojie, a chemical expert, has entered the working mode, and Lin Xiao immediately said that it was a good idea.