Lin Ziran, who went south with the Second Division, Fourth Division and other troops, soon received a battle report from the First Division on the right front.
After seeing the results of the battle, Lin Ziran directly ordered the adjutant: "From the recruit camp, a thousand recruits who have completed training will be transferred to the first division!"
"In addition, meritorious officers should be promoted and rewarded, and meritorious officers should not be neglected!"
Wu Guanlin on the side said: "In this case, the surrendered soldiers from the enemy's Fourth Division will not need to be transferred to the First Division. If you select one or two, it is estimated that five or six thousand people can be selected to form a mixed army."
Traveling!"
Wu Guanlin said: "The nearly 20,000 surrendered troops from the previous enemy's Sixth and Seventh Divisions are also selecting qualified soldiers and preparing to establish the Sixth Division in accordance with your instructions."
"If you calculate it this way, it will be one division and one mixed brigade. Once it becomes a division, it will be enough to greatly alleviate the current strength situation of our army!"
Lin Ziran said at this time: "The reorganization work of the Sixth Division still needs to be strengthened. Our time is tight and we cannot let them come slowly. We must speed up. The enemy's Fourth Division has dropped troops and selected them for reorganization on the spot.
Four mixed groups formed a brigade.”
"For the follow-up related work, I will instruct the Quanxu Division, Logistics Division and other departments, and your Staff Office will also come up with corresponding training and deployment plans!"
After Lin Ziran led the Luo'an garrison southward, he has defeated three enemy divisions, and all of them were surrounded and defeated. Many of the enemy troops surrendered or surrendered!"
Calculated now, there are probably 30,000 former Romanian navy soldiers captured or surrendered by various units. Even after subsequent selection, about 20,000 people can probably be selected.
With these 20,000 people, plus the weapons and equipment we captured, it is enough for Lin Ziran to form a division and a mixed brigade!
However, although the new troops are important, maintaining the existing main force heading south is even more important!
Just listen to Lin Ziran continue: "Not only the first division, but also the second division must use our own recruits as much as possible to replenish the soldiers!"
"There is also the issue of weapons and equipment. The Fourth Division must replace the captured breech-loading guns as soon as possible."
Wu Guanlin said: "Don't worry, sir, the re-equipment work of the Fourth Division has been completed. The troops are moving south while allowing the soldiers to adapt. And in order to speed up the troops' adaptation, we did not choose the Nanhai rifle, but the captured Fuyuan breech-loading rifle."
, the modification plan of this Fuyuan breech-loading gun is exactly the same as our Qingshan Type 2 rifle. In addition, the Fourth Division also had a batch of Fuyuan breech-loading guns before, so it is very fast to adapt!"
This time when they went south to fight, Lin Ziran's troops defeated the enemy's main force of 40,000 troops. Not only did they take 30,000 prisoners, they also had a large amount of weapons, ammunition, war horses and other supplies.
Not less than 30,000 Nanhai rifles and Fuyuan breech-loading rifles were seized, and the number was about half.
Among them, the Fuyuan breech-loading rifles can not only provide tens of thousands of them for the 4th Division's emergency replacement, but the rest can also be equipped with the 4th Mixed Brigade.
The captured Nanhai rifles can also continue to be equipped with the newly formed Sixth Division.
In addition, more than ten 100mm front-loading rifled guns that were still in good condition were seized. Although the performance of these guns is far inferior to that of breech-loading artillery, they are still rifled guns, and their effective range is much better than that of smoothbore guns.
Therefore, Lin Ziran also specially organized these front-loading rifled guns into a separate artillery battalion, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the headquarters like the experimental artillery regiment.
A large number of war horses were captured, including at least two thousand of the finest Nanhai war horses. These fine Nanzhou war horses will become important materials for Lin Ziran to expand his cavalry force.
The number of these things is relatively small. Each Nanzhou horse racecourse is basically directly controlled by the officials of each vassal town. It is difficult to find it among the people. Although Lin Ziran controlled Luoan County, he also controlled two official racecourses in Luoan County, but the output
There are still not many horses in Nanzhou.
As for the captured Shayang horses, there are even more, but Lin Ziran himself is not short of Shayang horses. The number of Shayang horses among the people is too large. If Lin Ziran is willing, he can collect tens of thousands of Shayang horses in minutes.
Yangma comes out.
But what's the use of so many Shayang horses? They can't be used as service horses. More importantly, it's too expensive to raise so many horses.
Of course, it is always a good thing to seize these horses, which can be used to supplement losses, and can be used as riding horses or draft horses for new troops, so that there is no need to spend money to buy horses.
The reorganization of the Sixth Division and the Fourth Mixed Brigade cannot be done in a hurry. Even if it is reorganized on the spot, it will take at least ten days and a half. Otherwise, even the basic organization will not be established.
After all, Lin Ziran only wanted to surrender his troops, not officers. He needed to send officers to rebuild the structure, and then recruit new recruits who surrendered, so that the reorganization could be successful.
During this time, Lin Ziran continued to lead the first and second divisions, the fourth division, the first and second cavalry brigades, two heavy artillery regiments, the experimental artillery regiment, the independent artillery battalion, the security regiment and other troops southward.
And the speed going south is simply overwhelming and extremely fast!
Because the three reorganized divisions deployed by Luohai County on the northern front have nearly 40,000 troops, they are already doomed!
Even though there are still a few militia groups or local garrison troops in the rear, they are unable to resist the Luo An Army's massive march south.
Forget about them, the previous 40,000-strong army was destroyed. How could a mere local garrison resist Luo An's army moving south!
Shao Bing was extremely anxious about this!
Even if all the 25,000 troops on the northern front collapsed in one day, the Fourth Division also suffered a rapid defeat after encountering the enemy.
This directly caused all of Shao Bing's plans to come to nothing!
Without the Fourth Division to contain Luo An's army heading south, it would be impossible to buy time for the reinforcements in the rear.
In the end, there was no choice but to trade space for time. About 20,000 reinforcements starting from the county stopped taking the initiative to move north. Instead, they stopped in Menglin County in the middle of Luohai and deployed based on Qiuhe, a tributary of Luohe.
Line of defense.
The county reinforcements led by Shao Bing personally stayed at the Qiu River line, and ordered the 35,000 troops on the east bank of Luo'an to urgently withdraw from Anlong County to speed up and fight with him as soon as possible.
Shao Bing's current strategic intention is obvious, which is to rely on the terrain advantages of Qiuhe and the advantages of his Luo Hai fleet to deploy defenses to interrupt the southward movement of Luo An's army and buy enough time.
As for doing this, it would be equivalent to directly giving up half of the central and northern areas of Luohai County to Lin Ziran. There is no way around it.
If you don't choose favorable terrain to defend and wait for the reinforcements to return from Anlong County, then you may be defeated before you can wait for the reinforcements.
Even so far, Shao Bing still cannot understand that his army was defeated so quickly, but this does not prevent him from having a deeper understanding of the combat effectiveness of Luo An's army.
Now Shao Bing had to admit that before he found a reliable response method, he would probably die badly if he directly engaged Luo An's army in a head-on confrontation such as a large-scale battle.
So he prepared to rely on the Qiu River and the fleet to defend!
As long as the opponent cannot cross the Qiu River, no matter how strong the opponent's combat effectiveness is, it will be useless. You can slowly find a way to deal with it in the future.
As for the other party forcibly crossing the river, you think it is a lie to think that the Luo Hai Fleet under his command is false!
It wasn't what Shao Bing said. All the opponent's artillery firepower combined was not as strong as the firepower of a squadron under his command.
And there are five such squadrons in the Luo Hai Fleet!
The generals under his command also swore that even if Lin Ziran had three heads and six arms, he could not defeat the Qiuhe defense line with the help of the navy!