In the northwest direction of Luo'an County, Zhao Song received the news that the Guang'an army was moving south!

When a group of subordinates anxiously asked him what to do, Zhao Song looked relaxed: "I heard that Lin Ziran on the other side of Lianguan County only guarded the east bank of the Nanguang defense line, we can also learn from him, just guard our side, what about Pingdan County to give them Guang'an people!" ”

The subordinate said: "Then why don't we go south to the county seat?" That's the tax payload of our county of Luo'an. ”

Zhao Song still smiled: "The area around the county is a grain producing area, not to mention the developed industry and commerce, this year's tax accounts for nearly half of my Luo'an County, if there is a chance in such a good place, it will naturally be controlled, but such a good place is stared at by so many people, we can't eat without a good tooth." ”

"Let them grab it first, and we'll continue to grind our teeth!"

"When we sharpen our teeth, we can swallow them in one gulp!"

When he said this, Zhao Song didn't have the relaxed look he had before, but was ruthless.

Zhao Song did not move, which made Li Kun, the commander of the Second Army of Guang'an, who was going south from Pingdan County near the side of the Luo River, feel a lot more relieved.

He was not worried that Lin Ziran would cross the river to capture the west bank of the Nanguang defensive line, as far as Lin Ziran had a few men and horses, he didn't even have a steam ironclad ship, and it was impossible to even cross the river.

Even if he crosses the river, it is impossible for him to capture the west bank of the southern defensive line.

When Li Kun led the army south, he left a regiment behind to garrison, and there were two steam ironclad ships to assist in the defense.

Such a defensive force was enough to discourage Lin Ziran from any attempt to cross the river and occupy the west bank.

Li Kun was still worried that Zhao Song in the northwest would lead his army eastward and then intercept him in Pingdan County.

However, the scouts sent out reported that the Fourth Division under Zhao Song had no intention of advancing eastward at all.

Although Li Kun didn't know what Zhao Song's plan was, it also made him feel a lot more at ease.

Since Zhao Song did not advance eastward, then he did not need to hide and tuck, and the marching speed, which was originally very conservative, suddenly accelerated.

Anyway, he also knew that the Third Army in the background was already coming towards Pingdan County, and even if Zhao Song wanted to advance eastward, he would have to consider the Third Army.

Of course, it was impossible for Li Kun to hand over the rear route to the Third Army, so he would not move the garrison of the defense line on the west bank of Nanguang City.

You still have to defend your own way out.

Otherwise, he didn't know that he was sold by Du Zhikuan of the Third Army.

Although the three army commanders in Guang'an County are a whole on the surface, the internal competition is also very large, and the reason why they have maintained cooperation before is purely because Guang'an has just become independent and faces the huge threat of the Luo An Army, and at the same time, their Guang'an County is originally the smallest one in the surrounding counties, if they are still fighting with each other, they will have been swallowed by Cheng Lingfeng or other surrounding counties.

But!

Now the situation has changed, Luo'an County with the rebellion of the Jian family, it became divided in an instant, the Cheng family and the Jian family first fought back and forth, the three major military real power generals remained neutral, and now the Cheng family is finished, only thousands of remnants fled to the southeast, and the Jian family won a superficial victory.

However, after the victory, the Jian family was not able to control the three major military generals, and Feng Haozhong even went south directly to fight Jian Minggang.

Today's Luo'an County is a mess, and it has no strength to threaten Guang'an County at all.

The current Gwangan County can be said to have achieved the best period of stability and development in history.

However, when the external threat is gone, the three major families in Guang'an County naturally have their own little Jiujiu.

Therefore, on the one hand, Li Kun wanted to go south first to reap the benefits, but also had to prevent Du Zhikuan of the Third Army from selling him.

After all, although the three major families of Guang'an are still unified, who doesn't want to kill the other two and then become the county guard, or even the Luo Guang garrison!

Li Kun thinks so himself, and he thinks the other two will think the same way.

Therefore, it is necessary to go south to reap benefits, and even grab land, but you also have to guard against Du Zhikuan, and you have to guard against your own people.

Li Kun accelerated southward, and Du Zhikuan led the army southward, also bypassing the northern part of Lianguan County and heading south from the west bank of the Luo River, which made Lin Ziran feel very good.

He didn't know what the situation was outside, anyway, there were all kinds of messy news, one would say that Feng Haozhong and Jian Minggang had fought, one would say that Zhao Song led the army eastward, and another would say that Luo Haijun had also gone north.

Lin Ziran couldn't even judge the truth of these news.

So he simply didn't care.

No matter how bad the trouble is outside, what he has to do now is to continue to expand his strength.

These things have been done all the time, and the people sent out by Lin Ziran have already recruited soldiers in almost the entire Lianguan County, not only in the north, but even in the central and southern parts of the country.

In this regard, the county guards and other officials in the county seat of Lianguan County did not express any opinions.

Now Luo'an County is completely chaotic, the old county guard Cheng Lingfeng was defeated and fled, and Jian Minggang appointed himself as the county guard, but he was not accepted by anyone.

Even Lin Ziran had not yet recognized Jian Minggang's position as the county guard, and Feng Haozhong simply led his troops south, saying that Jian Minggang had destroyed the peace of Luo'an and wanted to kill Jian Minggang.

Under this kind of chaos, those county guards who have no military power have almost no sense of existence.

These civil officials were silent, but Lin Ziran was not silent.

Now Luo'an County is completely chaotic, and Lin Ziran doesn't know the battle situation in the west and south, but he knows that in the entire Lianguan County now, there is only one supplementary brigade like himself, and there are not even many official militia groups.

In the past period of time, many militia groups have been successively incorporated by Cheng Lingfeng, Jian Minggang, Feng Haozhong and others in various names, except for the men and horses under Lin Ziran and several other groups of people who they don't look down on, they have basically been incorporated cleanly.

The Nanguangcheng side has initially stabilized, and the Guang'an army in the north is only stationed at the ferry, and has no intention of going south at all, and the scouts sent by Lin Ziran did not find out that they have heavy artillery troops, so they set their sights on other places in Lianguan County, especially the county seat of Lianguan County.

Now that Lianguan County is empty, there are no other forces at all, and now the entire Luo'an County is in chaos, and no one knows that it will eventually become the new county guard of Luo'an County.

In this case, Lin Ziran felt that he could increase the pace of expansion.

The number of troops stationed in Nanguangcheng must be small, but Lin Ziran is preparing to transfer a company from each of the three existing infantry battalions to directly replenish the new recruits.

On the basis of these three companies, the 5th Infantry Battalion was formed.

Then transfer a large part of the cavalry, and if the artillery is to be transferred, two field artillery batteries will be transferred at will.

In this way, a thousand people were ready to go south to start the expansion pace set by Lin Ziran.

As for the decline in combat effectiveness, it is inevitable, but Lin Ziran doesn't care!

His troops have never been strong in combat!

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