Liang Chenglei's worries were correct, after the battle report was sent back to Ansu City, Lin Ziran was nothing, and the staff department and other departments also felt okay, but Qiu Honglin and others from the logistics department scolded again, saying that Liang Chenglei was a loser.

The Battle of Zhenbei City, from the day of the general attack, to the surrender of the whole defender, lasted for a total of 12 days.

The Navy has invested a total of 33 warships of various types, including the inland waterway, offshore and Luohai cruisers.

On the surface, the army prepared a total of five infantry corps, two artillery brigades, and one cavalry corps for the battle of Zhenbeicheng, in addition to the dozens of civilian ships temporarily recruited by the logistics department and more than 50,000 young men of all kinds.

At the same time, the 12th Army and the 13th Army both existed as strategic reserves, and they did not go to Azhen Beicheng from beginning to end, but have been conducting reorganization training in Fengyang, Jingshi and other places, and by the way, they have cleared up the local messy irregular armed forces.

In the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, there were three infantry corps, one cavalry corps, and two artillery brigades.

Not all of the above-mentioned units participated in the front-line battles, for example, the six cavalry divisions in it, three cavalry divisions were on the periphery, especially on the periphery of the northern flank, carrying out strategic blockade tasks, and some cavalry divisions were in the rear, peripheral point guards, logistics supply lines, perimeter guards, etc.

In other words, the troops that actually participated in the attack on Zhenbei City were only three infantry corps and two artillery brigades, well, you have to count dozens of battleships of the navy.

However, even so, the attacking forces had a huge superiority in numbers, especially in artillery.

No matter how strong the firepower was covered, it took only 12 days to occupy most of the enemy's defense line, and then forced the enemy to surrender.

In the process, the army and navy suffered a total of more than 5,000 casualties, of which about 2,000 were killed on the spot or seriously wounded, and more than 3,000 were wounded.

This casualty figure is acceptable for a fortified battle, after all, the enemy army is more than 100,000 people, and relying on the fortifications to defend to the death, it is already good to be able to take Zhenbei City with 5,000 casualties.

Compared with the previous battle of Jingshi, it is much better, you must know that in the previous battle of Beijing, there were more than 10,000 casualties in the first few days of the battle.

Although the troops participating in the war had been on the offensive all along, and most of the units maintained a relatively large full force rate after the battle, in fact it was based on the fact that a large number of recruits were constantly replenished by train to the north every day.

Compared with the casualty rate of the previous battle of Jingzhou, the casualty rate on the side of Zhenbei City is not large.

Compared to the relatively small number of casualties, the consumption of ammunition is very large.

On the naval side alone, about 10,000 rounds of shells of various calibers were consumed!

The Army, on the other hand, consumed more than 30,000 rounds of shells for barreled artillery, in addition to an even larger number of more than 50,000 rounds of rapid-fire mortar shells.

Combined, the army and navy consumed nearly 100,000 rounds of different artillery shells in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng.

During the most intense period of the battle, that is, the day when the enemy's 9th Division launched a counteroffensive, in just one day, the army and navy fired 30,000 shells of various types!

The artillery support was no less than that of the original Battle of Jingzhou.

At the same time, the consumption of bullets has also reached a new high!

During the campaign, more than 5 million rounds of 13-millimeter rifle ammunition were consumed, and the rifle ammunition reserves of the participating units were exhausted, and they were forced to withdraw from friendly forces, and the logistics units urgently transported supplies.

In addition, there is another big consumer of ammunition, which is heavy machine guns!

There were not many heavy machine guns in the various units participating in the war, but about 800,000 rounds of 11-millimeter heavy machine gun ammunition were consumed, so that the barrels of the multiple machine guns were scrapped and had to be repaired simply to replace the barrels.

Moreover, the heavy machine gun ammunition prepared before the war was actually only about 300,000 rounds.

The next 500,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition were urgently dispatched in the next few days.

Because the 300,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition prepared in advance only lasted for five days before all of them were fired, this bullet consumption rate once again made the Imperial Army realize how terrifying the bullet consumption rate of the heavy machine gun was, and at the same time, it also recognized the powerful firepower of the heavy machine gun.

So much so that when Liang Chenglei coordinated with the logistics department to draw ammunition, he clearly said that even if other materials can be less, heavy machine gun ammunition cannot be missing.

100,000 rounds of artillery shells, 6 million rounds of rifle and machine gun bullets, this is the ammunition fired by the Jingzhou Front Army in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng!

This data made the generals of the logistics department scold!

Although it seems that the total ammunition consumption in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng is not as good as that in the Battle of Jingzhou, the difficulty and intensity of the Battle of Jingshi are much stronger than the Battle of Zhenbeicheng.

At that time, during the Battle of the Beijing Division, the defenders were not short of ammunition, and they relied on the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau to hoard and reserve a large amount of ammunition in advance, even if the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was captured in the future, but the defenders of the Beijing Division were still not short of ammunition.

At that time, the Jingzhou Front fought until the final capture of the Jingshi, and the enemy army actually did not use up their ammunition reserves.

It can be imagined that the firepower pressure at that time was very high.

Moreover, the area of the Jingshi city is huge, and it is much more difficult to attack a super city with a population of more than one million.

But the Battle of Zhenbei City is different, this broken place seems to be a tough battle, but in fact the area is very small, the combat area is concentrated, and the enemy's will to resist is not as strong as the enemy's will to resist in the Battle of Jingshi.

In this case, the attacking troops also consumed a lot of ammunition, which made the logistics department very unhappy.

At the same time, he was also very worried, because after this battle of Zhenbeicheng, the logistics department had basically declared that all kinds of ammunition had been hoarded before the Jingzhou Battle was launched.

The Battle of the Southern Front of Jingzhou, the Battle of Jingshi, the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, and many other small and medium-sized battles, this series of battles has already exhausted the ammunition reserved by the logistics department before the war.

The ammunition used by the front-line troops now was continuously produced by the rear arsenals during this period of time, and then urgently transported to the front.

Lin Ziran was also aware of the problem of insufficient logistics supply, but he did not let the troops stop the pace of marching, especially the offensive in the middle and upper reaches of the Jinghe River must be continued.

It was not easy to fight an annihilation operation in the Battle of Zhenbei City, killing more than 100,000 living forces and a large number of technical equipment of the enemy army in one fell swoop.

Now there are indeed supply difficulties on our side, but the tall military workers in the rear are working overtime to produce ammunition, and as long as the logistics line is normal, then the ammunition can be sent far and continuously.

Relatively speaking, the enemy army in Pingnan Prefecture is now more difficult, a large number of their main forces were annihilated in the Zhenbeicheng area, and at the same time lost a large number of technical weapons, it is difficult for them to rebuild a large-scale force in a short time, and it is even more difficult to obtain a large number of weapons such as rear-loading rifled guns and cannons in a short time, and even the ammunition they cannot replenish in a large amount in a short time.

Now is the best time to take advantage of the enemy's weakness to completely destroy all resistance in Pingnan Prefecture and seize Pingnan Prefecture in one fell swoop.

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