With the formation of the Eighth Infantry Battalion, the two infantry regiments under Lin Ziran are also fully equipped, but this does not mean that they can be pulled out to fight, most of them are recruits who have only been in the army for a month to three months.

In the future, it is necessary to continue training to improve combat capability.

Although the 9th Infantry Battalion has not yet been formed, it will be able to complete the training of recruits within a month.

In this way, the expansion plan of the nine infantry battalions has been completed, and other auxiliary units, such as baggage troops and engineering troops, will be supplemented and strengthened in the future.

In addition, Lin Ziran has been trying to find a way to expand the cavalry, but it is a pity that he has not been able to get a large number of war horses.

In the past few months, although some Nanzhou war horses have been obtained through some channels, the number is not large, and they can only be supplemented to the First Cavalry Company, so that the number of cavalry of the First Cavalry Company has expanded to a full number of two hundred and fifty cavalry.

The cavalry company under Lin Ziran belongs to the large cavalry company, which is a little different from the small cavalry company in other feudal towns.

Because of the lack of war horses, the mounts of the middle and senior officers of the army company under Lin Ziran could only choose Shayang horses.

Of course, the lack of war horses is only one of the reasons, and the other reason is that the horses attached to the officers are not the same as the war horses of ordinary cavalry.

The cavalry's war horse naturally needs to be explosive, and it must be very good in other aspects, while the officer's mount does not require the ability to sprint, but the endurance of the war horse is relatively high, because during the battle, in order to better command the troops, the officers are commanded on horses.

This is not to pretend to be forced, but to gain a better view to command the troops in battle.

If they were to command a battle on foot, they would not even be able to see their own troops, let alone observe the entire battlefield, because of the height.

In addition, there is the factor of thick smoke billowing from the battlefield.

The gunpowder used in these years is black powder, and white smoke will come out when fired, and the white smoke from one gun and two guns is nothing, but the smoke generated by thousands of muskets and dozens or hundreds of gunpowder fired continuously is enough to envelop the entire battlefield.

This situation is similar to the scene when firecrackers and fireworks are set off in some towns and villages during the Chinese New Year's Eve New Year in a certain area of the earth, and the whole street is full of smoke......

On the battlefield in these years, the situation is almost the same, especially when there is no wind.

Therefore, it is a helpless choice for officers to command the battle on horseback, not because they like to pretend to be forced or not afraid of death, and people also know that it is dangerous to ride on a horse.

After all, although there were no Minnie rifles in other feudal towns in these years, there were still hunters, and the front-loading rifled guns used by the hunters could also accurately hit targets about 200 meters, but the loading speed was too slow.

But even if it is dangerous, you have to ride a horse to command the battle.

Officers fight on horseback, and the requirements for horses are not the same as those of cavalry, there are not too many requirements, as long as they are tall, if they are too short, they will not have the effect of standing tall and seeing far, because officers have to ride horses all the time to command the battle

As for the rest, it's not too demanding, just so-so.

In this case, the conditions are naturally to give priority to the best war horses, such as Nanzhou horses, but if there are no Nanzhou horses, in fact, Shayang horses can also make do.

At present, under Lin Ziran's command, most of the officers' mounts are Shayang horses.

There is a shortage of war horses, and it is difficult to expand the regular cavalry troops, so until now, only the first cavalry company can charge with a saber under Lin Ziran.

As for the 2nd Cavalry Company and the 3rd Cavalry Company, they both belonged to dragoons who mounted and maneuvered, dismounted and fought.

But even so, Lin Ziran is thinking about continuing to engage in this kind of dragoon in the future.

After all, dragoons are also cavalry, not ......

All the troops had already taken on the regular stage, so that Lin Ziran's attention was also withdrawn and re-thrown to the west bank of the Luo River.

The Guang'an people on the west bank are still the same, and there is no big move after occupying Pingdan County, but tens of thousands of people gather in Pingdan County, and no one will think that they are so willing to be calm, they are just waiting for opportunities and changes.

This opportunity, this change, is the battle between the two counties of Luo An and Luo Hai on the other side of the county town.

More precisely, it was a battle between the combined forces of Jian Minggang and Feng Haozhong and the combined forces of Luo Haijun and Li Dingjun.

This is a major battle with a total of nearly 100,000 troops on both sides, and its victory or defeat will directly affect the situation in the entire Luo'an County, as well as Luohai, Luo'an, Guang'an, and even several surrounding counties.

To put it mildly, this can even affect the development of the situation in the entire Nanhai Prefecture.

If the Luo Navy can defeat the combined forces of Jian Minggang and Feng Haozhong, it means that the Luo Navy will be able to control Luo'an County, and no matter how bad it is, it will be most of Luo'an County.

This is a task that many previous Luohai County guards have not been able to complete, but the current Luohai County Warden Shao Bing has the opportunity to complete this great cause.

With Luohai County's industrial and agricultural and even population base, once Luo'an County is taken as a strategic location, it is extremely promising to continue to expand and even unify the entire Nanhai Prefecture in the future.

But in Lin Ziran's opinion, Shao Bing estimated that there was no such hope.

It is estimated that except for Shao Bing himself, no one wants to see Luo Haijun defeat Jian Feng's coalition army.

I didn't see that the people of Guang'an took the initiative to stop the pace of going south, so that the Jian Feng coalition army could resist the Luo Navy with peace of mind!

And there's also a Nanzhou Bank on the side.

Three days ago, Lin Ziran was chatting nonsense with Zhou Liming on the surface, but in fact, when he was knocking on the side to find out the news, he learned from Zhou Li's mouth that Nanzhou Bank had provided a large amount of weapons and equipment to Jian Minggang and Feng Haozhong in the name of several commercial banks, especially the ammunition that consumed a lot, and it was transported over one by one.

What's even more interesting is that it is estimated that many people know that the merchant fleet of Nanzhou Bank is transporting ordnance for the Jian Feng coalition army, and the Luo Hai naval artillery force under Shao Bing is not weak, enough to blockade the entire Luo River Valley.

However, the fleet of the Nanzhou Bank still swaggered back and forth on the Luo River.

From this alone, Lin Ziran could judge that Shao Bing, the guard of Luohai County, wanted to take advantage of the civil strife in Luo'an to take Luo'an County, and there was basically no hope.

Lin Ziran felt that Shao Bing's chances of seizing Luo'an County were not as high as his own!

It's good that I don't have so many enemies as Shao Bing!

Maybe the Bank of Southern State will support itself at that time.

In this case, it was not surprising when Lin Ziran learned that Li Dingjun had abandoned the Luo Navy, rebelled directly at the critical moment of the war between the two sides, and attacked the main force of the Luo Navy.

On October 13, in the southern suburbs of Luo'an County, Li Dingjun abandoned Luo Haijun at a critical moment, and joined forces with Jian Minggang and Feng Haozhong to inflict a heavy blow on the more than 40,000 troops led by Shao Bing.

In this battle, the Luo navy led by Shao Bing was almost completely lost, leaving only seven or eight thousand people, and fled south in embarrassment under the cover of the gunboat force.

What's even more interesting is that Shao Binggang fled in embarrassment, and the time for these three days has not yet arrived, Feng Haozhong is joining forces with Li Dingjun and Jian Minggang to start a war!

The situation changed so quickly that Lin Ziran in the north was surprised.

Lin Ziran knew that they would definitely turn their faces, but he didn't expect them to turn their faces so quickly, it was only less than three days, and what was he talking about following the example of Guang'an County, and several major feudal towns uniting to force a certain county guard.

There was talk at the front, and the war was going on later.

After receiving the county town and starting another war, Lin Ziran knew that the war on the county side would not end for a while.

There are so many people and horses, and there are still fights!

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