Since escaping from the mountains, the combat effectiveness of the men and horses under Lin Ziran's hands is not good.

At the beginning, they were all bandits, and many of them were like Luo Mazi and Ding Quankun, who were full of people who wanted to escape, and the only ones who were slightly more reliable were Scar and Zhao Laoqi.

After staying in Qingshan Town, although Lin Ziran set up a patrol battalion in Qingshan Town, and then began to recruit new recruits, the actual combat effectiveness of the trained patrol battalion was still not good, and the officers were all bandits and peasants.

After Wu Guanlin took refuge and recruited Xu Zhongshu and them, the Qingshan Patrol Battalion became a little formalized, but because the training time was too short and the expansion speed was too fast, there was a lack of veteran backbone and too many recruits.

This continues to the present.

Before the civil strife in Luo'an County, he had at most 2,000 people under his command, but more than half of the more than 2,000 people were recruited in the first half of the year.

After the civil strife in Luo'an County, the patrol battalion became a supplementary brigade, and in just over a month, the supplementary brigade quickly swelled to more than 5,000 people now.

Of the more than 5,000 people, 3,000 were recruited in the last month, and many of them had not even completed a month's recruit training.

In order to dare the time and set up a shelf as soon as possible, Lin Ziran had to urgently supplement the recruits who had just been trained for ten days and half a month to the troops.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to make up so many people.

Therefore, he can only use a small number of veterans as the backbone, and expand with a large number of new soldiers.

The 3rd Infantry Battalion, and now the 5th Infantry Battalion, are in this pattern.

Even the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 2nd Infantry Battalion now have a large number of recruits who have not even completed their recruit training.

This will inevitably lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness, but Lin Ziran has no choice.

This situation is tense, in order to protect Qingshan Town, in order to protect Qingshan Petroleum Company, he must defend Qingshan Town, hold Nanguang City, and now even the central and even southern areas of Guanxian County must be taken down and establish a southern defense line.

Otherwise, if it is Jian Minggang, Feng Haozhong, or someone else in the future, they will be killed directly from the south of Lianguan County, and there will be no precautions at all in the south.

Therefore, it was necessary to set up a southern defense line in the central and southern regions of Lianguan County.

Finally, there is also a very important point that Lin Ziran did not expect the troops to be able to fight, as long as there were many of them.

Anyway, compared to the elite level of the soldiers, it is impossible to compare with the regular army of Feng Haozhong and others, even if it is trained for another year and a half, it can't be compared, they are all old troops for many years, and more importantly, the officers inside are all professional soldiers, and the quality of all aspects can beat those officers who were born in crash classes under their hands.

So it's hard to simply pursue quality.

You have to pursue quantity.

If he pulls out tens of thousands of horses, no matter how effective his combat strength is, when people look at these tens of thousands of horses, they have to carefully weigh whether they are not.

After all, Lin Ziran knew that his troops couldn't fight, but others didn't know, and even if they knew, they couldn't be sure.

If Feng Haozhong and the others wanted to clean up Lin Ziran, who only had two or three thousand people, even if Lin Ziran's subordinates were all elites, it was estimated that they would not hesitate at all.

However, if they wanted to start a war with Lin Ziran, who had tens of thousands of troops, even if they knew that the combat effectiveness of the troops under Lin Ziran was not good, they would have more scruples.

This is the reason why Lin Ziran insisted on replenishing a large number of new soldiers despite the decline in the combat effectiveness of the existing troops.

Anyway, it is estimated that the civil strife in Luo'an County will not end for a while, so I will first set up the shelves, and then let the troops train slowly, as long as there is a buffer time of one or two months, even if these new troops cannot be pulled out to fight, but it should always be possible to scare people.

Yes, Lin Ziran's purpose is to scare people, not to really expect these troops to fight with Feng Haozhong and Jian Minggang.

Under this backdrop, the 4th Infantry Battalion was formed, and the 5th Infantry Battalion was also formed.

Even the supplementary battalion was supplemented with a large number of new recruits, organized into a complete infantry battalion plus other auxiliary units, and organized into a reinforced battalion with a total strength of nearly 1,000 troops.

When Lin Ziran sent troops south to prepare to enter the county seat of Lianguan County.

The troops under his command have been divided into three major parts.

The first part is the supplementary brigade headquarters under the command of Lin Ziran himself, and it is also the garrison of Nanguangcheng and Sanyang Town, with jurisdiction over the first infantry battalion, the second infantry battalion, the third infantry battalion, the first artillery battalion, the first baggage battalion, and the first cavalry company, with a total strength of 3,200 people.

In addition, there are about 500 people in the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment that is temporarily under his command, but maintains greater independence, but this heavy artillery regiment Lin Ziran has been planning to pull over, and Kong Deyi's performance is also quite cooperative, and there is no way if he doesn't cooperate, but now Lin Ziran pays to raise the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, and even the ammunition for those heavy artillery is Lin Ziran helped to purchase and replenish.

But of the total strength of 3,700 troops, more than 1,000 were recruits who had just joined the army for less than a month.

Especially the 3rd Infantry Battalion, which is simply less than a hundred veterans, and the others are all recruits who have just joined the army for less than a month, which is said to be the 3rd Infantry Battalion, but it is more difficult to say that it is a new battalion.

Even Kong Deyi's Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, Lin Ziran added hundreds of recruits to him.

Not to mention that in recent days, the 1st Infantry Battalion, the 2nd Infantry Battalion, and the 3rd Infantry Battalion have again been transferred out of some veterans, and in order to make up for the shortfall, another four or five hundred new recruits have been added.

Although these recruits have been nominally assigned to various units, in fact, in Sanyang Town and Nanguang City, these recruits are still trained individually, because they have not even completed physical training and line training, and most of them do not even know how to load and shoot......

In addition to supplementing the brigade headquarters, the other part is the Fourth Infantry Battalion stationed in Qingshan Town and guarding the northern mountainous areas, well, in fact, it is the previous supplementary battalion, and now Lin Ziran has given the number of the Fourth Infantry Battalion to this unit.

The Fourth Infantry Battalion is a reinforced battalion for the time being, and now it has four infantry companies, an artillery platoon, a cavalry platoon, and a baggage platoon, with a total strength of more than 800 people, and more than 300 of them are pure recruits.

The third part is the troops preparing to go south to Lianguan County, and Lin Ziran is organized as the southward detachment of the supplementary brigade of the Third Division, with the newly formed Fifth Infantry Battalion as the main body, and the second dragoon company is additionally attached to the newly formed Fourth Artillery Company, with only three five-pound field guns drawn from the First Artillery Company, and the fourth baggage company, with a total strength of more than 1,100 people.

Combined, the total strength of the above three parts of the army amounted to five thousand seven hundred people, well, including the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Anyway, Lin Ziran already regarded the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment as a dish in his bowl.

However, of these 5,700 recruits, more than 3,000 are recruits who have been in the army for less than a month, and only about 1,000 of them have been in the army for more than three months.

And those who have been in the army for more than half a year have less than 1,000 people, and the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment has to occupy several hundred people.

Just look at the time when the soldiers under the supplementary brigade joined the army, then you can know how poor the combat effectiveness of this unit under Lin Ziran is.

So now Lin Ziran is simply breaking the jar and breaking it, and there is no hope for combat effectiveness, and now he is purely relying on the number of people to scare people.

Elite soldiers are not reliable or not, more people and more guns are the king!

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