South Zicheng is actually not a big city, in the early years, it was at most a small border checkpoint, that is, later the railway, plus the south of Dongdingzhou, Zishengzhou began to garrison troops here, and then gradually developed.

However, the scale is still not large, and the permanent residents are mainly merchants and railway workers, in addition to the garrison.

Five kilometers south of Nanzicheng, that is, on the side of Dongdingzhou, there is also a similar town called Dafeng Town, but its scale is smaller.

There is no difference in nature between the two towns, both belong to the border railway station for military service.

In the middle of the two towns, there is the border between Dongding Prefecture and Zisheng Prefecture and the military buffer zone, and there can be no railway connection, this time to attack Zisheng Prefecture, the main force of the Southern Navy is from the line of Dafeng Town to attack the enemy five kilometers away.

Thanks to the fact that the two sides only have a buffer zone of five kilometers, the artillery units of the South China Navy can directly deploy artillery positions on the front line of Dafeng Town to open fire, and only some of those who need to go forward to support will advance a few kilometers to approach the artillery bombardment.

After this artillery bombardment started, a large number of shells fell on the side of Nanzi City in an instant.

But to the surprise of the Southern Navy, it didn't take long for the Zisheng Army on the opposite side to fire back.

Moreover, through ballistic data analysis, the technical officer found that the place where the enemy's artillery opened fire was at least four kilometers away.

What does this mean?

This means that it is a breech-loading rifled gun.

And no less!

In the first time, the Zisheng army used at least nearly 30 breech-loading rifled guns to counterattack, and the effective range was all more than four kilometers, and some even reached an effective range of five kilometers.

Fortunately, based on the preliminary judgment of the explosion power of the enemy's shells after they landed, the caliber of these enemy guns should be 75 mm guns, and there are no large-caliber heavy guns.

After determining that the enemy had a lot of rear-loading artillery, the artillery unit immediately launched relevant actions, and the technicians began to determine the enemy's three artillery positions through the opponent's ballistics, visual and other directions, and then used 100-mm cannons and 120-mm howitzers to carry out counter-artillery operations.

This was the first war in the history of Blue Star in which both sides adopted rear-loading rifled guns!

The counter-artillery operations of the artillery units of the South China Navy were relatively smooth, and it did not take long for the enemy's artillery to weaken considerably.

This situation was quickly reported to Lin Ziran's side, and Lin Ziran climbed the mountain with a group of officers, and then took a telescope to look at the Zisheng Army's defense line five kilometers away.

It's just that from the telescope, I can't actually see the enemy's artillery positions directly.

The artillery of the Zisheng Army was not stupid, and they did not stupidly put out the artillery directly, but deployed it on the anticline, which is also the reason why although the counter-artillery operation of the South China Navy was effective, it still failed to completely destroy the enemy's artillery position.

"How many of them are there, and have you found them anywhere else?" Lin Ziran didn't pay attention to one or two enemy artillery positions, he paid attention to whether the enemy army had been equipped on a large scale.

Wu Guanlin said: "According to the current situation, we have found the artillery positions of their three rear-loading guns, and it is preliminarily judged that the number of rear-loading guns of the enemy army should be about 30, and in terms of range and power, it should be about the same as our 75-mm artillery." ”

"On other fronts, there are no reports that the enemy has been found to have rear-loading guns!"

Lin Ziran nodded slightly after hearing this: "If there is only so much, then let the artillery troops work harder and suppress them!" ”

The artillery units under his command, except for those newly reorganized artillery units in Dongdingzhou, all the artillery units in the previous 300,000 troops have been reequipped with rear-loading artillery, and some of the divisional artillery regiments are 56 full strength, but because of the shortage of artillery production capacity, the number of equipment in most of the divisional artillery regiments is only more than 40, and some of the newly formed units are even more, only more than 30.

Well, during the war, it was actually very difficult to achieve full capacity of the whole army.

However, even so, at present, the number of rear-loading guns of various calibers equipped by various units of the army of the South China Navy has reached 900, and this number is still increasing rapidly.

The opponent has only a few dozen rear-loading guns, which is nothing at all.

But what Lin Ziran was worried about was that this was only a part of their rear-loading artillery, and their other units were also equipped with more rear-loading artillery.

Therefore, although he showed that he was calm, after the inspection, Lin Ziran said to Wu Guanlin in private: "The northward operation must be further accelerated, and we cannot wait until the enemy army is equipped with rear-loading artillery on a large scale before fighting." ”

"The front-line troops have reported that the front-line infantry of the opposing side are generally equipped with rear-loading rifles, even if most of them are still equipped with modified 18mm rear-loading rifles, and the number of imitation Luoan III rifles they are equipped with is still relatively small, but this is enough to offset the performance advantage of our rifles.

Now our biggest equipment advantage is artillery, and the other side has the first machine bureau, even if the output is not as good as the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, but it is possible to produce dozens or even hundreds of guns a month, we can't wait until they are equipped with rear-loading artillery on a large scale before fighting! ”

"You must be the first to crush the enemy's resistance, and then fight into the enemy's hinterland!"

Have to? After Wu Guanlin heard this, he knew the subtext of Lin Ziran's words.

It is nothing more than that time is of the essence now, and in order to compete for time, even if the casualty rate is larger, it is acceptable.

But Lin Ziran, as the commander of the Southern Navy, naturally would not say such things in person.

But Wu Guanlin can't help but understand!

Immediately said: "I understand that the General Staff will immediately accelerate the development of the battle!" ”

Lin Ziran nodded slightly: "This burden is very heavy, hard work!" ”

This burden is not an ordinary burden.

If the General Staff Department accelerates the battle plan in the future, it will definitely increase the casualty rate of some troops, and then the front-line troops will have more or less opinions, and who will this opinion go to?

It's definitely not for Lin Ziran.

You must know that Lin Ziran loves soldiers like children, and this afternoon, Lin Ziran also went to the field hospital in person to comfort some unlucky people who were injured on the first day of the war.

During the period, I shook hands with the representatives of the wounded soldiers, well, but unfortunately there was no camera, otherwise I could have taken a group photo.

Later, he shook hands with several delegates who had made meritorious contributions that day and were selected to serve as role models to boost morale, and gave them the Order of Qingyun.

There was an appearance of the supreme commander and the grassroots soldiers fighting together.