Chapter Sixty-Nine: Defeat Before Victory
The people of Qingshan Town have also gone north to Guang'an more often, although the first few times they were escorted baggage, and this time they went north about fifteen kilometers to garrison Fenglan Town, but the difference is not big.
After Lin Ziran received the order, he asked the relevant troops to prepare that day, and three days later he officially led the troops north.
There are some differences between going north this time and before, that is, when they went north to escort supplies before, Lin Ziran and they only needed to bring the materials used on the road.
And this time, if he is stationed in Fenglan Town, he needs to continue to provide logistics supplies by himself, even if it is only more than ten kilometers away from Qingshan Town, but the relevant logistics and transportation work must still be prepared.
Lin Ziran specially left a scar behind him to be responsible for the transportation of supplies, as for the words of others, to be honest, Lin Ziran couldn't believe it.
Wu Dajiang and Lu Sanzhen are both people who can't let out a fart even if they kick a kick, they will only obey Lin Ziran's orders, but they will only listen to death orders, and if they are allowed to deal with certain aspects of affairs alone, they will easily go to a dead end and fall into a dead end and can't get out.
And Luo Mazi, this person is clever, but he is too clever, Lin Ziran is very suspicious that he is not by his side to urge him, when he is transporting baggage, he can just escape if he encounters a few bandits to rob the road.
Only Scar, although he has almost no tactical ability, he is not a qualified officer at all, but he is also Lin Ziran's old henchman, and he is not old-fashioned.
Leaving the task of logistics and transportation to him, Lin Ziran is still more relieved.
If you don't worry, there is no way, Lin Ziran can't find a second person more suitable than Scar.
Let Scar be in charge of logistics and transportation tasks in the rear, while Lin Ziran himself personally led three infantry companies, a cavalry platoon, and an artillery platoon to the north first.
The road was smooth, because there were only more than ten kilometers of road, and Lin Ziran set off early in the morning in order to avoid accidents, so they arrived at Fenglan Town smoothly in the afternoon.
Fenglan Town, located in the northeast of Qingshan Town, the surrounding terrain is not flat, and the northern area of Qingshan Town is the same as the hilly area.
This place used to belong to Guang'an County, but this Fenglan Town, like Qingshan Town, is a remote place, and it is not a strategic or economic place, and it was not valued by both sides before the war.
Even now, after the outbreak of the war, this place is not a strategic place or a major transportation route, and when Lin Ziran and them escorted supplies before, they did not go to Fenglan Town.
However, if it was simply for the purpose of encircling and suppressing the small group of Guang'an rebels active in the southern area of Chongguang City, this place would still have a certain strategic value.
It was one of several passages for the Guang'an army to go south to Luo'an County, but it was not suitable for the passage of large armies.
It can also be seen from the importance of Fenglan Town that the task assigned by Jian Liangzhi to Lin Ziran is not heavy, because it is unlikely that the Guang'an rebels will come here, and even if they come, this place belongs to the hilly terrain, and the cavalry in the Guang'an rebels will not play a big role.
It's not just Lin Ziran, judging from the report, several other local second-line troops such as patrol battalions and guards that have accepted similar tasks are also stationed in places like this.
As for the real key strategic points, they are all garrisoned by regular troops, and it is not their turn to play with second-line troops in these places.
After arriving in Fenglan Town, Lin Ziran entered the city as soon as possible, and then inspected the situation in the city and the city's defense facilities.
The city had also been garrisoned by the Luo'an Army, but there were only a few dozen of them, and they had been recruited on the spot in recent months.
When Luo An's army went north, it only conquered this town, and after conquering it, because the town had no strategic value, even the regular army was too lazy to stay, but just appointed a town guard, and then asked the town guard to recruit dozens of town guards on the spot to maintain local law and order.
The town of Fenglan Town is very small, there are only a thousand residents before the war, the whole town is only a few hundred meters in radius, so the defense facilities of the town are not good, the city wall is more than three meters high, and it is very thin, the top of the city wall can only barely stand people, it is not as good as the city wall of Qingshan Town, no heavy artillery, even if it is a field gun of nine catties a few more times can collapse the city wall.
However, the surrounding terrain is good, the town is built on the edge of a small river, the west and south face the river, the north and east are wide flat land, but under the city walls on these two sides, there is also a section of moat that can almost be ignored, but the depth of the moat is more than one meter, and the width is only one or two meters, which is said to be a moat, but it is more like a drainage canal......
After reading the basic situation of Fenglan Town, Lin Ziran knew that if this place really encountered a large number of enemies to attack, it was estimated that the existing city defense facilities would be enough, and the city defense facilities must be temporarily strengthened.
So the first thing he did after entering the city, Lin Ziran found the town guard of Fenglan Town, and asked him to mobilize the young people in the city to help strengthen the city defense, mainly to thicken part of the city wall, especially part of the city wall in the north and east.
There is no need to thicken all of them, after all, although Fenglan Town is small, but these two city walls add up to a few hundred meters larger, Lin Ziran just wants to thicken a few sections of the city wall for arranging artillery and serving as a defensive combat platform for soldiers.
As for the other walls, love it!
Anyway, the troops under Lin Ziran's command all use Mini rifles, and the range is very long, as long as they occupy a few strategic points and build a firepower blockade line, even if the walls in other places are broken, it is estimated that the enemy must first break through his own firepower blockade line if he wants to rush up.
Lin Ziran's arming method is a kind of key defense, only holding on to a few tactical support points, and the rest of the places can be defended, and they can't be pulled down.
In addition to the deployment of the eight classics, Lin Ziran also specially found people to prepare a large number of rafts, boats and the like on the southern city wall, that is, near the river.
As soon as things went wrong, he immediately fled along the river through the southern wall.
In order to prevent the enemy from intercepting and the large army could not escape, he also specially asked Luo Mazi to arrange for people to prepare a number of horses by the river, all of which were top-level Nanzhou horses.
As soon as the large army is intercepted and unable to break through, he will immediately fly on his horse and flee!
Yes!
I didn't see the enemy, Lin Ziran had already prepared an escape route for himself first.
When Lin Ziran arranged it like this, Luo Mazi showed admiration on his face: "The adults are wise, and the little ones who heard that the famous generals of the ancient times are all worried about defeat before they win, and the arrangement of the adults today is completely comparable to the famous generals of the ages!" ”