From 25 May to 7 June, the Daheng Unified Army continued to fight for 12 days, annihilating 230,000 enemy troops with more than 7,000 casualties.

This record is enough to make Lin Ziran, who is always paying attention to the situation on the front line in the rear, relieved.

The entire Battle of Mihe lasted only a short period of twelve days!

In 12 days, the three-state coalition army was killed more than 10,000, wounded more than 30,000, and captured 90,000, and another 70,000 surrendered to the Daheng Unification Army anyway, losing almost all the more than 300 breech-loading rifled guns on the southern front.

Of course, in fact, there are still tens of thousands of three-state coalition troops who are currently unknown, some are deserters, some are sneaking through the encirclement and retreating north, anyway, no one knows where they went.

On the other hand, the Daheng Unification Army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, about 5,000 wounded, and a total of more than 7,000 casualties, mainly during the first day of crossing the river and the later period of storming the three towns on the southern front.

In addition to personnel, the Daheng Unification Army also paid a huge price, at what cost?

Loss of technical equipment, as well as ammunition!

During the whole campaign, one river gunboat was sunk, three were damaged, and more than 50 barreled guns were lost due to various reasons, some were destroyed by the enemy's suppressed artillery counterattack, some were blown up by artillery errors, and some were lost during transportation.

The loss of more than fifty guns is nothing, the key is to shoot out a large amount of ammunition!

In particular, on the first day of crossing the river, almost all the artillery units did not rest, and continued to shell all kinds of enemy targets, and many artillery units with heavy tasks, their artillery, especially the loaders, were tired and lay down, and had to temporarily organize other soldiers, and even baggage soldiers to help.

In just these 12 days, the army and navy of the Daheng Unification Army have exhausted the ammunition carried by each unit, not to mention that they have also gone through many replenishments.

On the first day of the battle to cross the river, the army and navy fired more than 20,000 shells in one day, and this is only about the shells of the barreled artillery, not including the rapid-fire mortars.

Rapid-fire mortars are consumed in larger quantities because they are equipped with more equipment, have a faster rate of fire, and are used very frequently by infantry units.

Although the shells of this rapid-fire mortar gun were specially used to use low-cost iron cast shells in order to control the cost, they could not hold a large number!

When the battle report in this battle was sent to Lin Ziran, who was sitting in Ansu City in the rear, Lin Ziran had not yet expressed his opinion, and the people on the logistics department were shouting to let the front-line troops control the consumption of ammunition.

Because the people in the logistics department found that about one-third of the ammunition they had hoarded and prepared had been consumed by these losers.

You must know that the ammunition that the logistics department has painstakingly prepared is expected to be used for at least three months, maintain five large-scale battles, and even take down the supply of artillery shells for the entire Jingzhou!

As a result, it was only twelve days, and only one southern front was fought, and only one of the Mihe defense lines and the three towns of the southern front were captured, and one-third of the artillery shells were consumed!

How can you fight behind this?

In this regard, Lin Ziran is also helpless!

More shells were consumed in this battle than the artillery shells fired by the Daheng United Army in the whole of last year!

That's only 12 days!

This made Lin Ziran have a headache, if it continues like this, this has not yet hit the Beijing Division, and it is estimated that the artillery shells of the troops will have to be used up.

But at this time, Wu Guanlin said: "We use more shells, and the enemy army also uses more shells, and their production capacity is far less than ours." ”

"According to the judgment of the battlefield and the analysis of the captured enemy data, the enemy used almost all the artillery and ammunition that could be called up during the entire campaign, and most of it was consumed in the battle, and the rest was also captured by our army."

"North of Guan Chongcheng, they will not be able to mobilize more than a hundred rear-loading artillery pieces now, and there will be no more than 10,000 shells!"

"As long as we go north fast enough, then we can reach the Jingshi to control or block the Jingzhou Machine Bureau before the enemy replenishes the artillery and shells, they are rootless duckweed, it is impossible to get a large number of rear-loading weapons and ammunition, we can still maintain a huge firepower advantage!"

"Sometimes the advantage in firepower is not more or less, but how long the enemy can go, so in the follow-up battle, our shell consumption will not be so large, because we no longer need to launch intensive artillery bombardment to suppress the opponent!"

Wu Guanlin's words made everyone feel a lot more at ease.

This is indeed a fact, the enemy's firepower in the area of the Mihe defense line is actually very large, 300 barreled artillery, which has never been encountered before by the Daheng unified army.

In the face of such an enemy, if you want to gain an advantage in firepower, you can only have more artillery and shoot more shells than them.

Otherwise, it will be you who will be suppressed!

Although a huge price was paid, it finally broke through the Mihe defense line, and more importantly, the main force of the enemy's southern front was annihilated as a whole.

After destroying these more than 200,000 enemy troops, the 20,000 enemy troops in Guan Chongcheng are not to worry, and the only thing to consider in the follow-up is the Jingshi.

The Ji royal family will definitely not be willing to fail, they will mobilize the remaining troops to defend the Beijing Division, and Gaoqing Prefecture, Ningwu Prefecture and even Pingnan Prefecture will not watch the Daheng Unification Army conquer the Jingshi, a city of great strategic and political significance.

At that time, there is a possibility that the Jingshi side will become a huge fortress, and I am afraid it will not be easy to fight.

And how can this be changed?

Velocity!

Before the enemy reacts, a large number of troops are mobilized to gather in front of the Beijing Division, and if the Beijing Division is killed, it is naturally the best if it can capture the Beijing Division first, if not, then it will be surrounded and sent reinforcements, in short, a large number of enemy troops cannot be gathered in the Beijing Division, a super city with a population of one million.

Otherwise, it will cause huge trouble to the follow-up Daheng unified army action.

Lin Ziran could see this situation, and Wu Guanlin and a large number of elite officers had already seen it, and the troops of the Jingzhou Front Army did not even wait for the subsequent railway line trains to run and wait for the train transportation after conquering the southern line, but continued to go north directly.

The two cavalry armies at the front didn't even pay attention to the thousands of defenders in Guan Chongcheng, and went directly around the outskirts of the city!

As for why the defenders in Guan Chongcheng have changed from tens of thousands to two thousand, it is naturally because they have run away!

The Daheng Unification Army has conquered the Mihe River garrisoned by more than 200,000 troops and the defense line of the three towns on the southern front, and Guan Chongcheng, who has only more than 20,000 people, can still stop the pace of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Daheng Unification Army?

Just kidding, Prince Kang is not stupid, as soon as he learned that the three towns on the southern front had been conquered and the troops were wiped out, he smeared oil on the soles of his feet and fled north directly with more than 20,000 people.

This is not to say that he is afraid of death, but he knows very well that nearly 200,000 troops in the three towns on the southern front have not been able to hold it, and it is impossible for the 20,000 troops in Guan Chongcheng to stop the northward march of the unified army, and staying here is tantamount to death.

It is better to return to Beijing with 20,000 remnants to prepare for war.

As soon as Prince Kang left, there were only a few thousand defenders left in this Guan Chongcheng, saying that they were defenders, but in fact, they were all patrol officers and young men who made up a number, and they didn't need the Daheng unified army to attack, and they took the initiative to surrender......

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