The Eighth Division of the County Shoufu deployed in Pingdan County was completely wiped out, and even most of the soldiers in it were directly transformed into soldiers under Lin Ziran.

This makes Jian Minggang's side extremely passive!

It doesn't matter if you lose the southern part of Pingdan County, the key thing is that after the end of the Eighth Division, the Fifth Division and the Seventh Division, which are still fighting in the area of Yonggu County, will be greatly threatened.

Not only is the convenient logistics of river transportation cut off, but more importantly, it will be attacked from behind at any time.

When they received the news that the Eighth Division had been wiped out and even Shiyan Town had been lost, many people in Luo'an County were panicked.

Because they will be able to meet for a while, it will be difficult to send a large number of main forces to the north for reinforcements.

The troops under Jian Minggang are not unlimited, he does not hesitate to suppress all the other expenses to maintain the army, the total number is only seventy or eighty thousand, there are 30,000 people fighting with Zhao Song on the side of Yonggu County, and 15,000 people in Pingdan County were originally used to prevent Lin Ziran from going south, and there are more than 20,000 people in the south and on the east bank of the Luo River.

There are only more than 10,000 people left in the county town and the west bank of Lingchang.

Now that the Eighth Division of Pingdan County is finished, if you want to stop Lin Ziran from continuing to move south, you can either transfer the Fifth Division and the Seventh Division in Yonggu County back to defend southward, or let more than 10,000 people of the First Division stationed in the area of the county guard go north to face the battle.

Arguments went on and on, and finally Jian Minggang personally made the decision, ordering the Fifth Division and the Seventh Division to immediately return south to recapture Shiyan Town, and at the same time, his eldest son Jian Liangzhi would serve as the commander of the First Division, leading part of the main force of the First Division to the north for reinforcements.

At the same time, a part of the troops from the south and the east bank of the Luo River were transferred back to the county seat.

The core strategy of this series is to gather the main force of 40,000 people in three divisions, and strive to inflict heavy damage or even annihilation of Lin Ziran's troops in the area of Shiyan Town.

This also means that Jian Minggang has changed the original strategy of first solving Zhao Song, and then solving Li Dingjun, which is the most suitable to solve Lin Ziran.

Instead, he put killing Lin Ziran in the highest priority.

But whether it can be done or not is another matter.

Even many generals under Jian Minggang think that strategically speaking, this choice is not wrong, after all, Lin Ziran has become the biggest enemy of the county guard, and compared with Lin Ziran, Zhao Song and Li Dingjun are just supporting roles.

Moreover, Zhao Song and Li Dingjun estimated that they would like Jian Minggang and Lin Ziran to fight to the death, and it is best to lose both, which also means that before things change decisively, they will most likely not send troops.

Because their sending troops is tantamount to helping Lin Ziran, and once Lin Ziran kills Jian Minggang, anyone can guess what he will do next, and he will definitely turn around and fight Zhao Song and Li Dingjun.

And the development of things was indeed the same as they expected, when the Fifth and Seventh Divisions began to retreat, although Zhao Song's men and horses also followed, they were mainly monitoring, and they did not catch up at all to lead the battle.

As for Li Dingjun in the south, he was even more calm, watching the county guard deploy a large number of troops to the north, but he was still indifferent.

You must know that if he decides to send troops at this time, he will go north directly with more than 20,000 troops, and the less than 10,000 troops left in the south of Jianminggang will not be able to stop it in any case.

But Li Dingjun didn't do it!

I have to say that Jian Minggang's series of arrangements are very rational, he just saw that Zhao Song and Li Dingjun would not send troops, so he had the courage to mobilize troops everywhere.

Seeing that the three divisions of the county guard mansion continued to converge, the atmosphere in Shiyan Town gradually became tense.

The current development of the situation is still a little different from what Lin Ziran expected before.

At first, he still thought about joining forces with Zhao Song to kill the Fifth and Seventh Divisions of the county guard first, but he didn't expect Zhao Song to directly find all kinds of excuses to shirk, saying that there were big losses, insufficient troops, and insufficient ammunition to launch a counteroffensive.

As for Li Dingjun in the south, let alone use the old excuse that he was not ready.

They made it clear that they wanted to watch the play on the side, and wait for Jian Minggang and Lin Ziran to lose both!

However, even so, Lin Ziran was still prepared.

Even the army of Jian Minggang is confident in defeating Jian Minggang.

Today's Sixth Division is no longer the Sixth Division of a month ago.

At present, in the area of Shiyan Town and Pingdan County, the strength of the Sixth Division has swelled to more than 33,000 people.

The headquarters of the Sixth Division was 18,000 people, plus more than 5,000 people from the Fifth Mixed Brigade who surrendered to Chengcheng, and subsequently reorganized 10,000 people from the soldiers who surrendered or surrendered to the Eighth Division.

In addition to the 6th Mixed Brigade and the 5th Infantry Regiment, which were reorganized at the beginning, the 6th Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment were subsequently reorganized.

Today, its total strength has reached more than 33,000 people.

At the same time, it also accepted a large number of the original guns of Li Kun's department and the Eighth Division, especially the original heavy artillery battalion of Li Kun's department, which was almost completely absorbed.

The original artillery regiment of the 8th Division, as well as an independent artillery battalion, were also fully accepted.

This means that the Sixth Division in this area has directly produced more than 100 artillery pieces, and the Second Artillery Regiment and two artillery battalions belonging to the mixed brigade and one independent heavy artillery battalion have been newly organized.

Whether in terms of strength or artillery, although the units of the Sixth Division in the vicinity of Shiyan Town and Pingdan City were still slightly inferior to the 40,000 troops of the county guard, they were not too much worse.

What's more critical is that after the troops under Lin Ziran were reorganized, they were concentrated, while the 40,000 troops of the county guard were divided into two directions and marched towards Shiyan Town.

Therefore, at the strategic meeting in Shiyan Town, under Lin Ziran's instructions, Wu Guanlin of the General Staff Office had already worked out various strategies for breaking down.

Wu Guanlin pointed to the deployment of the enemy and us on the military map and said: "According to the current situation, about 30,000 people in the northwest of the enemy army are still 30 kilometers away from us, and the first division from the south is farther away, about 50 kilometers away!" ”

"According to the speed of their march, 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 South Purple River, but considering the crossing of 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 to defeat one of them before they arrive!"

"Our initial plan is to take the initiative to advance westward tomorrow, directly defeat the main forces of the enemy's Fifth and Seventh Divisions in field mobile warfare, and then turn around and attack the first division in the south.

After Wu Guanlin's initial introduction was completed, everyone did not raise all kinds of questions, because this battle plan had been discussed for two or three days, and everything that should have been discussed had been discussed.

Therefore, soon Lin Ziran spoke: "The troops will set off early tomorrow morning, and the first step of the vanguard army must arrive at the preset battlefield as soon as possible, and attack the enemy through skirmishers, but do not fall in love with the battle, try to give full play to your rifle range advantage, in addition, the first cavalry regiment will also cooperate with you in battle!" ”

"Contain the enemy and let them enter our preset battlefield, we can't let them come early, and we can't let them come late, otherwise we will be very passive!"

"The rest of the troops, go with this officer tomorrow!"

As he spoke, Lin Ziran stood up, pressed his hands on the table, and leaned over to look at the more than twenty generals on the rectangular table!

In a firm tone, he said: "As long as the 30,000 enemy troops in front of you are annihilated, there is hope for the reunification of Luo'an!" ”

"For the unification of Luo'an, for the sake of my Luo'an people, please be sure to work hard in this battle!"

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