People from Qingshan Town have gone north to Guang'an more times. Although the previous times they were escorting baggage, this time they were going about fifteen kilometers north to garrison Fenglan Town, but the difference is not big.
After Lin Ziran received the order, he asked the relevant troops to prepare on the same day. Three days later, he officially led the troops northward.
There are some differences between going north this time and before, that is, when they went north to escort supplies, Lin Ziran and the others only had to bring supplies for the road.
But this time, if he is stationed in Fenglan Town, he will need to continue to provide logistical supplies. Even if it is only more than ten kilometers away from Qingshan Town, the relevant logistics and transportation work must still be prepared.
Lin Ziran specially left Scar to be responsible for the transportation of supplies. As for what other people said, to be honest, Lin Ziran couldn't believe it.
Wu Dajiang and Lu Sanzhen are both people who can't even make a fart even if they kick. They will only obey Lin Ziran's orders, but they will only obey orders to death. If they are left to deal with certain aspects of affairs alone, they will easily end up in a dead end.
Can't get out.
As for Luo Mazi, this man was quite clever, but he was so clever that Lin Ziran doubted that without him around to supervise him, he would have been able to escape easily if he encountered a few bandits while transporting luggage.
Only Scar, although he has almost no tactical ability and is not a qualified officer at all, is still Lin Ziran's old confidant and is not an old-fashioned person.
Lin Ziran was relatively relieved to leave the logistics and transportation tasks to him.
Don't worry, there is nothing you can do. Lin Ziran can't find anyone more suitable than Scar.
Let Scar be responsible for the logistics and transportation tasks in the rear, while Lin Ziran himself led three infantry companies, a cavalry platoon, and an artillery platoon to go north first.
It was smooth sailing along the way, because there was only about ten kilometers to go, and Lin Ziran set out early in the morning to avoid accidents, so they successfully arrived at Fenglan Town in the afternoon.
Fenglan Town is located in the northeast of Qingshan Town. The surrounding terrain is not flat. Like the northern area of Qingshan Town, it is a hilly area.
This place belonged to Guang'an County before, but this Fenglan Town, like Qingshan Town, is a remote place, and it is not a strategic or economic important place. Before the war, neither side paid much attention to it.
Even now after the war broke out, this place is not considered a strategic location or a major transportation thoroughfare. When Lin Ziran and the others escorted supplies before, they did not go through Fenglan Town.
But if it was simply to encircle and suppress the small group of Guang'an rebels active in the southern area of Chongguang City, this place would have a certain strategic value.
It is one of the passages used by several Guang'an troops to move south to Luo'an County, but it is not suitable for large armies to pass through.
It can be seen from the importance of Fenglan Town that the task assigned by Jian Liangzhi to Lin Ziran is not too heavy, because the Guang'an rebels are unlikely to come here. Even if they come, this place has hilly terrain.
The cavalry in the Guang'an rebel army also could not play a big role.
It's not just Lin Ziran. Judging from the report, several other patrol battalions, guards and other local second-line troops that have accepted similar tasks are also stationed in places like this.
As for several truly key strategic points, they are all garrisoned by regular troops, and it is not their turn for the second-line troops in other places to take action.
After arriving in Fenglan Town, Lin Ziran entered the city immediately, and then inspected the situation in the city and the city's defense facilities.
The city was previously garrisoned by the Luo An Army, but there were only a few dozen of them, and they were town guards recruited locally in recent months.
When Luo An's army went north, they just captured this town. After they captured it, because the town had no strategic value, even the regular army was too lazy to stay behind. They just appointed a garrison, and then asked the garrison to recruit dozens of garrison troops on the spot.
The guards only maintain local law and order.
Fenglan Town is a small town, with only a thousand residents before the war. The entire town is only a few hundred meters in radius. The defense facilities of this small town are not very good. The city wall is only more than three meters high and is very thin.
There is only room for people to stand on the top of the city wall. It is not as good as the city wall in Qingshan Town. Without any heavy artillery, even a nine-pound field cannon can destroy the city wall a few times.
On the contrary, the surrounding terrain is good. The town is built on the bend of a small river. The west and south face the river, and the north and east are wide flat lands. However, there is also a moat dug under the two walls that can be ignored.
, but the moat is more than one meter deep and only one or two meters wide. It is called a moat, but it is better to be called a drainage channel...
After reading the basic situation of Fenglan Town, Lin Ziran knew that if this place was really attacked by a large group of enemies, the existing city defense facilities would probably be too much and the city defense facilities would have to be temporarily strengthened.
So the first thing after entering the city, Lin Ziran found the guard of Fenglan Town and asked him to mobilize the young people in the city to help strengthen the city defense, mainly to thicken some of the city walls, especially the northern and eastern walls.
There is no need to thicken all the walls. After all, although Fenglan Town is small, the two city walls combined are nearly a few hundred meters larger. Lin Ziran just wants to thicken a few sections of the city walls for the placement of artillery and as a base for soldiers.
Defense combat platform.
As for the other city walls, do whatever you like!
Anyway, the troops under Lin Ziran's command all use Mini rifles, which have a very long range. As long as they occupy a few strategic points and build a fire blockade, even if the walls in other places are broken, it is estimated that the enemy will have to rush up if they want to.
Break through your own fire blockade first.
Lin Ziran's defense method is a kind of key defense. He only sticks to a few tactical support points and defends other places as long as he can. If he can't, he will be defeated.
In addition to serious defense arrangements, Lin Ziran also specially found people to prepare a large number of rafts, boats and the like on the southern city wall, near the river.
Once things went bad, he would immediately escape through the south city wall and along the river.
In order to prevent the enemy from intercepting and preventing the large troops from escaping, he specially asked Luo Mazi to arrange for many horses to be prepared by the river, all of which were top-notch Nanzhou horses.
Once the large force is intercepted and unable to break through, he will immediately mount his horse and flee!
Yes!
Without even seeing the enemy, Lin Ziran had already prepared an escape route for himself.
When Lin Ziran made such arrangements, Luo Mazi showed admiration: "Sir, you are wise. I have heard that famous generals in ancient times considered defeat before thinking about victory. Your arrangements today are completely comparable to famous generals throughout the ages!"