The entire army of the 8th Division of the Sheriff's Office deployed in Pingdan County was destroyed, and most of the soldiers even transformed directly into soldiers under Lin Ziran's command.
This makes Jianming Gang extremely passive!
It doesn't matter if we lose the southern part of Pingdan County. The key thing is that after the 8th Division is finished, it directly puts the 5th Division and 7th Division still fighting in the Yonggu County area under a huge threat.
Not only is the convenient river logistics transportation cut off, but more importantly, it will be attacked from behind at any time.
After receiving the news that the entire Eighth Division had been destroyed and even Shiyan Town had been lost, many people in Luo'an County were panicked.
Because it will be difficult for them to send a large number of main troops to the north for reinforcements in the short term.
The troops under Jianminggang were not unlimited. He did not hesitate to suppress all other expenditures to maintain the army. The total number of troops was only seventy or eighty thousand. In Yonggu County, there were thirty thousand fighting with Zhao Song, and Pingdan
The 15,000 people in the county were originally used to prevent Lin Ziran from going south. In addition, there were more than 20,000 people in the south and the east bank of the Luo River combined.
There are only more than 10,000 people left in the county town and the west bank of Lingchang.
Now that the Eighth Division in Pingdan County is finished, if you want to stop Lin Ziran from continuing to move south, you must either deploy the Fifth Division and the Seventh Division in Yonggu County to return to the south, or let the First Division garrisoned in the County Guards area
A division of more than 10,000 people marched north to fight.
There were arguments and arguments, and finally Jian Minggang made the decision himself, ordering the 5th and 7th Divisions to immediately return south to recapture Shiyan Town. At the same time, his eldest son Jian Liangzhi would serve as the commander of the 1st Division and lead part of the main force of the 1st Division northward for reinforcements.
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At the same time, some troops from the south and the east bank of the Luo River were mobilized back to defend the county.
The core strategy of this series is to assemble the main force of three divisions totaling 40,000 people, and strive to severely damage or even annihilate Lin Ziran's troops in the Shiyan Town area.
This also means that Jian Minggang has changed the original strategy of dealing with Zhao Song first, then Li Dingjun, which is the best way to deal with Lin Ziran.
Instead, killing Lin Ziran was given the highest priority.
But whether it can be done is another matter.
Even many generals under Jianminggang believed that strategically speaking, this choice was not wrong. After all, Lin Ziran has become the biggest enemy of the county governor's mansion. Compared with Lin Ziran, Zhao Songhe
Li Dingjun is just a supporting role.
Moreover, Zhao Song and Li Dingjun probably wanted to fight Jian Minggang and Lin Ziran to death, preferably in a situation where both sides would lose. This also meant that they would most likely not send troops until things changed decisively.
Because they sent troops to help Lin Ziran, and once Lin Ziran killed Jian Minggang, anyone could guess what he would do next. He would definitely turn around and attack Zhao Song and Li Dingjun.
And the development of the matter was indeed as they expected. When the 5th and 7th Divisions began to retreat, although Zhao Song's troops followed them up, they mainly focused on surveillance and did not catch up to contain the battle.
As for Li Dingjun in the south, he was even calmer. He watched helplessly as the county governor deployed a large number of troops to the north, but he remained indifferent.
You must know that if he decides to send troops at this time, he will go directly north with more than 20,000 troops. Jian Minggang's less than 10,000 troops left in the south cannot stop him no matter what.
But Li Dingjun didn’t do that!
It must be said that Jian Minggang's series of arrangements were very rational. He was sure that Zhao Song and Li Dingjun would not send troops, so he had the courage to mobilize troops everywhere.
Seeing the three divisions from the Sheriff's Mansion continuously gathering, the atmosphere in Shiyan Town gradually became tense.
The current development of the situation is still somewhat different from what Lin Ziran expected before.
At first, he thought about joining forces with Zhao Song to kill the 5th and 7th Divisions of the Sheriff's Mansion first, but he didn't expect that Zhao Song would directly find various excuses to evade, saying that the losses were large, the troops were insufficient, and the ammunition was insufficient.
There is no way to launch a counterattack or anything like that.
Not to mention Li Dingjun in the south, he still used the same old excuse of not being prepared.
They made it clear that they wanted to watch the show on the side and wait for both Jian Minggang and Lin Ziran to suffer losses!
However, even so, Lin Ziran was still mentally prepared.
He was even confident of defeating Jian Minggang's army.
The Sixth Division today is no longer the Sixth Division a month ago.
Now in Shiyan Town and Pingdan County, the strength of the Sixth Division has expanded to more than 33,000 people.
The Sixth Division had 18,000 troops at its headquarters, plus more than 5,000 troops from the 5th Mixed Brigade who surrendered. Subsequently, a full 10,000 people were reorganized from the surrendered or surrendered soldiers of the Eighth Division.
In addition to the Sixth Mixed Brigade and the Fifth Infantry Regiment that were initially reorganized, the Sixth Infantry Regiment and the Second Cavalry Regiment were later reorganized.
Now its total military strength has reached more than 33,000 people.
At the same time, a large number of the original guns and artillery of Li Kun's 8th Division were also accepted, especially the original heavy artillery battalion of Li Kun's command, which was almost fully integrated.
The original artillery regiment of the Eighth Division and an independent artillery battalion were also fully accepted.
This means that the Sixth Division in this area directly has hundreds of more artillery pieces, and has newly established the Second Artillery Regiment, two artillery battalions belonging to the mixed brigade, and an independent heavy artillery battalion.
Regardless of whether it is in terms of military strength or artillery, although the units of the Sixth Division in Shiyan Town and Pingdan City are still slightly inferior to the 40,000 troops in the Sheriff's Mansion, they are not too far behind.
What's more important is that after Lin Ziran's troops were reorganized, they were gathered together, while the 40,000-strong army of the Sheriff's Mansion was divided into two directions and marched towards Shiyan Town.
Therefore, at the strategic meeting in Shiyan Town, under the instructions of Lin Ziran, Wu Guanlin from the staff office had already formulated various strategies to defeat them.
Wu Guanlin pointed to the deployment of the enemy and ourselves on the military map and said: "According to the current situation, the enemy's approximately 30,000 people in the northwest are still 30 kilometers away from us, while the first division coming up from the south is farther away, about five
More than ten kilometers!”
"According to their marching speed, it is estimated that the enemy's fifth and seventh divisions will arrive in two days!"
"In three days, the enemy's first division will be able to reach the other side of the Nanzi River. However, considering the time required to cross the river, it is estimated that it will take four days for them to reach the north bank!"
"And what we have to do is to concentrate our forces and defeat one of them before they arrive!"
"Our preliminary plan is to take the initiative to advance westward tomorrow, directly defeat the main forces of the enemy's Fifth Division and Seventh Division in mobile warfare in the field, and then turn around and attack the First Division in the south. Although time is very tight, as long as
All ministries will carry out their plans according to their predetermined plans, and they will definitely be able to defeat each army one by one."
After Wu Guanlin's preliminary introduction, no one raised any questions, because this combat plan has been discussed for two or three days, and everything that should be discussed has been discussed. Today's strategic meeting is said to be a combat meeting, but in fact it is just a communication meeting
The final battle order!
Therefore, Lin Ziran soon spoke: "The troops will set off early tomorrow morning. The First Infantry Regiment, which serves as the vanguard, must arrive at the preset battlefield as soon as possible and attack the enemy through skirmishing operations. However, they must not be reluctant to fight. Try their best.
Take advantage of your rifle range, and the 1st Cavalry Regiment will also cooperate with you in the battle!"
"Contain the enemy troops and let them enter our preset battlefield. We cannot let them come too early or too late, otherwise we will be very passive!"
"The rest of the troops will accompany me tomorrow!"
After saying that, Lin Ziran stood up, put his hands on the table, and leaned over the rectangular table to look at the more than 20 generals under his command!
He said in a firm tone: "As long as these 30,000 enemy troops in front of us are annihilated, there is hope for the unification of Luo An!"
"For the unification of Luo An, and for the people of Luo An, I ask you to work hard in this battle!"