With the support of the Second Heavy Cavalry Regiment led by Tang Youfeng, Lin Ziran and Hao Ren finally headed north again with their baggage.
There were no surprises in the follow-up, and we arrived at the front line of Chongguang City smoothly.
It is not accurate to say that they arrived at the front line, because they actually arrived at the Luo'an Army Camp, about five kilometers away from Chongguang City, which was still several kilometers away from the front line.
But in this huge military camp, Lin Ziran had already fully felt the cruelty of war.
On their way here, they saw temporary graves all over the mountains and plains outside the camp. These were the graves of the war dead.
There is no end in sight across the mountains and plains!
Entering the camp and passing through a square, Lin Ziran saw countless wounded soldiers. He heard that due to the shortage of medicine, many soldiers could not receive effective treatment and could only lie in the hospital and wait to die. The temporary field hospital
The area is not large enough, so many wounded soldiers brought back from the front line are lying directly in the square.
Lin Ziran even saw several soldiers who, although seriously injured, had not completely died, were loaded into carriages along with the corpses by the corpse collection team.
Countless graves and wounded soldiers, empty and numb soldiers in the camp!
The cruelty of this Chongguang battle exceeded Lin Ziran's imagination.
At this time, Lin Ziran was just glad that he didn't have to go to the front line with the patrol battalion. Otherwise, if he went to the huge meat grinder of the Chongguang front line, it would be very uncertain whether he could come back alive.
At least Hao Ren doesn't have much confidence!
"Brother Lin, after we say goodbye today, I don't know if we will see each other again in the future." Hao Ren's words were full of sadness.
Now that they have completed the mission after escorting the supplies, Lin Ziran will take the civilian workers back to Qingshan Town, and then wait for the next batch of supplies to arrive in Qingshan Town to start the second round of escort missions northward.
As for Hao Ren, he wanted to report directly to the front line with his dozens of heavy troops.
When you see so many dead and wounded, and when you are about to go to the front line and may soon become one of the wounded soldiers, you may not be able to calm down.
Hao Ren also couldn't calm down!
Although Hao Ren forced himself to remain calm and just sighed, Lin Ziran could still feel his fear.
But Lin Ziran didn't know what to say.
comfort?
We are all grown men, so comfort me!
Moreover, they are all soldiers. It is normal to go to the battlefield in this troubled world. Lin Ziran himself did not know when he would die on the battlefield, and he comforted others!
After a moment of silence, Lin Ziran said: "Guns don't have eyesight, just be careful!"
Hao Ren said: "Maybe!"
Lin Ziran was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Don't worry, even if you die in battle, you will be a good man again after eighteen years!"
Hao Ren was silent!
After a long time, he grinned: "Haha, it doesn't take eighteen years. I will be a good man again in fifteen or sixteen years!"
Lin Ziran felt a little heavy after seeing Hao Ren off.
Seeing so many dead and injured people, to be honest, it had a great impact on Lin Ziran.
This impact was even greater than when we faced the Guang'an cavalry attack before!
The previous battles were all small-scale battles, with occasional casualties, and they were all involving dozens or hundreds of people. Even if the scenes were more brutal, there was a limit.
However, on the front line of Chongguang City, even though Lin Ziran did not visit the battlefield in person, he did not see the battle break out.
But just seeing so many graves and wounded soldiers in the rear, you can already feel the cruelty of war.
With shock and sigh, Lin Ziran led his army back to Qingshan Town.
On the way back, there were not a lot of supplies and there were not many heavy weapons, so the speed of going south was very fast, and we could even walk more than 20 kilometers in one day.
In less than three days, Lin Ziran returned to Qingshan Town with his people.
During the few days he went north, Qingshan Town was still there. Scar and Wu Dajiang teamed up with more than 200 people to guard it. Naturally, there would be no chaos in Qingshan Town.
In the following days, Lin Ziran did not focus on the refinery and oil fields as usual, but focused on the training of the patrol camp.
This time when he went north, he entrusted Hao Ren to obtain the complete training manual of Luo Anjun, and then trained the soldiers according to this training manual.
In the past, Lin Ziran's training for the patrol camp was more about basic training, focusing on formation and loading.
But now, he is training more on company and platoon level tactics.
However, the methods in the training drills are not completely copied. For example, in the Luo An Army's infantry training drills, soldiers are required to fire within 80 meters of the enemy, and officers are advised to shorten the firing distance as much as possible. It is best to be able to move forward.
Fire a volley within thirty meters or even twenty meters, and immediately launch a bayonet charge after the salvo is completed.
However, this tactic is only suitable for troops using smoothbore guns, and is not suitable for the Qingshan Patrol Battalion using rifled guns.
Regarding the shooting distance, Lin Ziran asked the troops to fire at a distance of 300 meters or even 400 meters if they had good visibility, and asked the soldiers to aim and shoot, so as to use the range of the rifled gun to kill some of the enemy troops first.
When it reaches about two hundred meters, this distance will become an important killing range for the troops.
A distance of two hundred meters is far beyond the effective range of a smoothbore gun. However, for a rifled gun, this distance can be said to be relatively close.
At the same time, Lin Ziran no longer forced his troops to form dense formations for salvos, but instead relied on parapets and other fortifications to conduct defensive operations as much as possible to better utilize the range and accuracy of rifled guns.
When they were attacked by Guang'an cavalry before, they used horse-drawn carriages as fortifications to block the impact of the enemy cavalry. Later, they also used fortifications composed of parapets, trenches, horse-drawn carriages, etc. to hold on to the spot.
Proper use of fortifications for defensive operations can better bring out the power of rifled guns than blindly lining up for a head-on decisive battle.
At the same time, this can also avoid exposing the shortcomings of insufficient training of one's own troops and limited soldiers' fighting determination.
Nowadays, Lin Ziran stays in the city gate barracks every day and has no time to pay attention to other things.
Even after the equipment and spare parts needed for the subsequent construction of the refining equipment arrived, Lin Ziran did not go to the refinery. He just asked Luo Mazi to organize Nangong Hou and others to assemble the refining equipment to increase production capacity.
Today, Lin Ziran is obsessed with improving the combat effectiveness of Qingshan Patrol Battalion to deal with more crises.
He had been attacked before when he escorted supplies north. When he transported supplies for the second or third time, he might not be attacked by the Guang'an army. He had to prepare in advance.
In addition to training troops, Lin Ziran also asked Luo Mazi and Wu Dajiang to recruit new soldiers in surrounding areas. On the one hand, they were used to supplement the lost personnel, and on the other hand, they were also used to continue to expand the army.
Now Lin Ziran is taking the Qingshan Patrol Battalion to escort the supplies northward, and the Third Division has helped pay for a large part of the military expenses of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion.
After all, the emperor is not hungry enough to send troops!
Since the Third Division helps Lin Ziran support some people, Lin Ziran will have the remaining energy to expand the army.
Lin Ziran's goal was not big, he just wanted to recruit two more infantry companies, and by the way, expand the cavalry, artillery and baggage units by one or two.
Strive to first achieve the small goal of breaking through the 1,000-strong total force!