In the Nanhai Crusade of that year, not long after the launch of the Eastern Crusade, Duke Meng was accidentally killed on the battlefield, which led to the inability of the Eastern Crusade.

But the death of Duke Meng back then was just an accident, and it can't be said that Lin Ziran is now expected to die on the battlefield.

If you want Lin Ziran to die on the battlefield, it is better to think about how to defeat the Southern Navy head-on on the battlefield, which is more realistic.

Directly sent assassins to Luohai City to assassinate Lin Ziran, don't think that Yuan Yonghan didn't try, it's just that the assassins he sent died without even touching Lin Ziran's side.

Every feudal town is heavily protected, and it is not so easy to assassinate.

If these great feudal towns could really be easily assassinated, those great feudal towns of Daheng would have died thousands of times long ago!

These conspiracy methods must be used, even if the success rate is not high, they must be tried, in case they succeed in assassinating Lin Ziran by luck.

It's just that these means are destined to be useless, so now Yuan Yonghan needs to think about how to resist the future Southern Navy's Eastern Crusade!

Contacting other states to once again form an encirclement and suppression posture against the Southern Navy, this is not very likely, Ningyu Prefecture has been crippled, and it is estimated that they will not be able to protect themselves.

Zhongluozhou is too much of a feudal town, and a few small feudal towns can't afford to make any waves, and in Quyang Prefecture, the second army of the three major legions is finished, and now the remaining two major legions are grabbing their own territory.

Even if they wanted to go south again, the Luo River Gorge was not so easy to break through.

In the end, it was his turn, Yuan Yonghan's strength was not damaged, but could he resist the Eastern Expedition of the Southern Navy only by himself?

Yuan Yonghan did not have this confidence.

If he had this confidence, he would not have united with the feudal towns of other states to suppress the Southern Navy before.

What should I do if I can't stop it?

After pondering for a while, Yuan Yonghan began to write a letter, and after writing a letter, he called a confidant in: "Go to Donghai City and hand over this letter to Wang Bing!" ”

Immediately after he wrote a second letter, he called in a confidant after writing: "You go to the north and hand over the letter to Xia Yiming."

Wang Bing, one of the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou, is also the nominal commander of Dongdingzhou, but his strength is the smallest among the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou, if it weren't for the fear of Xia Yiming, the garrison of Dongdingzhou, one of the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou in the north, he would have sent troops to kill Wang Bing.

And Xia Yiming, the garrison envoy of Dongdingzhou, is not inferior to Yuan Yonghan, the patrol envoy, in terms of strength, controls a large area in the northeast, although the troops under his command are a little less, but they take the route of elite soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command is quite good.

In the entire situation in Dongdingzhou, Yuan Yonghan and Xia Yiming controlled a large area in the south and north respectively, while Xia Yiming in the east controlled a small area and had few troops.

But people also have their own way of survival, that is, to be a wall grass!

When Yuan Yonghan in the south was strong, he Wang Bing and Xia Yiming united.

When Xia Yiming was strong, he stood on Yuan Yonghan's side again.

And whether it is Yuan Yonghan or Xia Yiming, they are unwilling to annex Wang Bing, so this has created a situation where the three major feudal towns in Dongding Prefecture coexist, and it has been maintained for nearly 20 years.

Now, Yuan Yonghan wrote to Wang Bing and Xia Yiming, and he said one thing, that is, the Southern Navy is coming, and it is time for us to put aside each other's prejudices and reunite against the Nanhai Prefecture army as we did twenty years ago!

Otherwise, it will be broken by each one, and it will be finished in the end!

It's just that these two letters can successfully persuade Wang Bing and Xia Yiming to give up their past prejudices and finally join forces with him Yuan Yonghan against the Southern Navy?

There is a possibility, after all, everyone is not stupid, they all know the truth of survival and death, Yuan Yonghan is unlikely to block the Eastern Crusade of the Southern Navy on his own.

The military potential that a unified Nanhai Prefecture can mobilize is so strong that even the entire Dongding Prefecture is enough to confront it, let alone Yuan Yonghan's department, which only occupies about 40 percent of the strength of Dongding Prefecture.

Once Yuan Yonghan is defeated by the Southern Navy, then the fate of Wang Bing and Xia Yiming can also be predicted, and it will definitely be over.

However, Yuan Yonghan definitely did not think that they would sincerely unite against the South China Navy.

It is more likely that he will help him Yuan Yonghan block the attack of the Southern Navy, but this help is limited.

They must be thinking of letting themselves and the South China Navy fight to the death, and it is best to consume each other and hide behind themselves to pick up the cheap.

Who made Yuan Yonghan's territory in the southwest of Dongdingzhou, which just borders Nanhai Prefecture, and the territory of the other two Dongdingzhou feudal towns does not border Nanhai Prefecture.

However, even so, this limited help is what Yuan Yonghan needs.

No matter what, blocking the South China Navy is the top priority.

So even if there is no shadow of the Southern Navy's Eastern Crusade now, Yuan Yonghan, who has a sense of crisis, has already begun to lay out.

On the one hand, it was to find a coalition with the other two major feudal towns, and on the other hand, it was to start strengthening the defense line of Hetai.

Hetai Heights, now the Southern Navy occupies the western part, Yuan Yonghan's department occupies the eastern part, and the two parts of the defense line add up, in fact, it is the complete Hetai Heights defense line.

In the past, Yuan Yonghan's division was in an offensive posture most of the time, so he didn't pay much attention to the deployment of the defensive line, but now it is different, and the foreseeable future is that Yuan Yonghan's division will be at a disadvantage, so it is necessary to rely on a solid defensive line to defend.

Strengthening the line of defense has become inevitable.

At the same time, Yuan Yonghan also asked his arsenal to speed up the modification of rifles, and as much as possible to convert all the smoothbore guns that could be modified into rear-loading rifles.

According to his estimates, in three months at most, by working overtime day and night to start emergency modifications, his arsenal will be able to convert the remaining part of the smoothbore guns that can be converted into rear-loading rifles.

Combined with the modifications that have been made over the past few months, he will have at least 150,000 rear-loading rifles at his disposal.

At the same time, he is also looking for rear-loading rifles all over the world, preferably rear-loading rifles that can directly fire metal bullets, small-caliber rear-loading rifles, well, advanced rear-loading rifles like Luoan III rifles.

But now the rear-loading rifle has just come out, and don't look at it as just a rifle, but the technical content of the Roan III rifle is still very high, and the technical content of the barrel and even the bullet is very high, which is a considerable challenge to the industrial strength.

Some small and medium-sized arsenals of average scale and technical strength can produce hundreds or thousands of them on a small scale, but it is impossible to produce tens of thousands or even more of the Roan III rifles in a short period of time.

That would have to be as large as the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, a large arsenal with leading technology, and there would have to be a large number of supporting enterprises behind it, and in the entire Daheng Empire, there were only a handful of people who could do this, and each of them was a big feudal town.

Or simply import it abroad.

However, these are far from quenching thirst!

So after the purchase failed, Yuan Yonghan changed his approach, and he directly purchased those smoothbore guns with good barrel quality that could be converted into rear-loading rifles, and then modified them himself.

In this way, in a short time there is hope for a preliminary solution to the problem of equipment for rear-loading rifles.

But if he still has a way to solve the rifle, then the rear-loading artillery will be completely blind.

This thing can't be bought now, and it can't be modified with old smoothbore guns, and his own arsenal can't produce it, so he can only retreat to continue to work on those front-loading rifled guns.

Although it is front-loaded, it is also a rifled gun, even if it is not as good as a steel rear-loading rifled gun, but it is much stronger than the original smoothbore gun.

Now that Yuan Yonghan is preparing for war in many aspects, the Nanhai Prefecture in the west naturally knows about it.

After all, fools know that the Southern Navy will definitely go east in the next step, and you can't expect Yuan Yonghan to wait for death stupidly.

People will always rebel.

But Lin Ziran is not worried!

There is an all-round gap between the two sides in terms of capital, population, and industry, and now the South Korean Navy is already fully equipped with Luo'an III rifles and rear-loading artillery, and the heavy artillery regiments with 100-mm cannons and 150-mm howitzers as the core are all rushing to the top of ten.

After the Yugoslav Navy completes its reorganization and then launches the Eastern Crusade, the huge gap in the strength of the two forces, especially in artillery, will be widened wirelessly, and finally become a huge strategic advantage.

For Yuan Yonghan, Lin Ziran is not worried.

What Lin Ziran is really worried about is that the other big feudal towns, especially the few big feudal towns in the central and northern parts of the country that occupy a large area of territory and have a complete national defense industry, and the Ji royal family, they are the biggest threat to his unification of Daheng.

Because they are very likely to install breech-loading rifles and artillery on a large scale in the near future, the superiority of the South Navy's equipment, especially artillery, will be offset at that time.

Although the industrial scale of Nanhai Prefecture is good, it is only a state, and there are many states with good industries in the Daheng Empire, and even if you only talk about arsenals, the scale is larger than that of Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, and there are several arsenals with more advanced technology, which are all in the hands of those big feudal towns.

Nowadays, it is no secret that the rear-loading guns used in Nanhai Prefecture have already spread all over the world with the internal war in Nanhai Prefecture, and they have not seen that the distant Orr Kingdom has come to the door to procure.

The other feudal towns of Daheng also knew about the rear-loading guns early, and they were all trying to find a way to change their clothes.

Most of them are similar to Yuan Yonghan, and they don't have a powerful arsenal under their hands, so they can't produce breech-loading rifles and rear-loading artillery on their own.

But those powerful big feudal towns are different, they have enough industrial strength to produce rear-loading guns.

And as time goes by, they will be equipped with more rear-loading guns, and then the Southern Navy under Lin Ziran will face more pressure.

This is also why Lin Ziran only gave the troops three months to reorganize, and if there is no accident in three months, the Eastern Crusade will be launched.

Lin Ziran wanted to try his best to quickly open up the situation and expand his strength when the Southern Navy still had an advantage in equipment, and finally be able to compete with those big feudal towns.

Time is not waiting for me!