There are many reasons why both sides do not want to fight a long and expensive offensive and defensive battle, and they are more inclined to eliminate their opponents in mobile warfare.

Of course, if the situation was not right, Lin Ziran would not hesitate to lead the troops back to Shiyan Town or even withdraw to Pingdan County.

It's just that Lin Ziran is confident that this kind of thing will not happen.

His troops have already experienced two major victories in a row, and the morale of the army is in an excellent state.

At the same time, the Sixth Division is no longer the Sixth Division of a year or two ago, when it was still the supplementary brigade of the Third Division and when the Sixth Division was first established, most of the soldiers under Lin Ziran were recruits, and many of them did not even complete the training of recruits.

But now it is different, after a year or two of accumulation, most of the officers and men in the Sixth Division are veterans who have been in the army for more than a year, and many of them are veterans who have experienced battles and seen blood.

At this time, the Sixth Division, in terms of the quality of pure ordinary soldiers, was actually not much worse than the main forces of other feudal towns.

After all, people will grow, and after this period of continuous fighting, not only did their troops gain military morale, but also allowed the soldiers to experience two large-scale battles and initially grow up.

Today's Sixth Division, the morale of the army is available!

At the same time, the ammunition reserves are also in good condition, and before going south, Lin Ziran let the logistics department spend a lot of time and energy to transport a large number of weapons and ammunition, and at the same time seized a large number of weapons and pills.

These weapons and ammunition were even enough for more than 30,000 people in the headquarters of the Sixth Division to launch two or three large-scale battles in a row.

Not to mention that the 6th Division now has rear-loading guns to help!

Yesterday, the Qingshan Machinery Factory sent a 75 mm steel rear-loading rifled gun, which was actually completed yesterday, but after a few shells were tested in a hurry, it was directly expedited and transported all the way from Qingshan Town to Sanyang Town, and then loaded onto a camouflage passenger ship that had been waiting for a long time.

The camouflaged passenger ship sailed in the darkness of the night, avoiding a potential threat, and arrived in Shiyan in the middle of the night late yesterday.

In this way, Lin Ziran has two 75 mm rear-loading rifled guns on hand, don't look at only two, but the rear-loading guns with metal fixed ammunition have a much stronger rate of fire than the front-loading guns.

In many contemporary feudal towns, including the front-loading smoothbore guns equipped by Lin Ziran's Sixth Division, even if they are relatively small-caliber artillery such as five-kilogram field guns, the rate of fire is relatively low.

In actual combat, if rapid fire is carried out at the beginning of the battle, then a well-trained soldier can do about two rounds per minute, but this rate of fire does not last for a few minutes, and it must be reduced quickly, otherwise it is not a problem of scrapping the barrel, but the overheated barrel will directly lead to the inability to reload or even explode.

Therefore, in most cases, in order to ensure a continuous firing state, the combat rate of fire of these front-loading bronze or wrought iron guns was often only two or even three minutes.

Of course, if the enemy is about to rush up, the artillerymen are forced to use shotguns to kill the enemy at close range in order to protect themselves, so that the combat rate of fire will be very high, and two or three rounds or more can be fired in a minute.

But these rear-loading steel rifled guns are different, the barrel is more bearable, and the loading is more convenient.

In the past many combat tests, this test gun was able to maintain a combat rate of fire of about two to three rounds per minute under normal circumstances.

In fact, no matter how fast it is, the barrel can withstand it, and reloading is not a problem, but it is difficult for the gun to reset and aim.

This is an inherent flaw in all annealed guns, both front-loading and rear-loading, but if the reset problem is solved, the combat rate of fire of steel rear-loading guns can skyrocket to ten rounds or more in an instant.

And this rate of fire is difficult to achieve with the previous bronze and iron guns, so they also become rear-loading tube annealed guns, and it is impossible to reach this rate of fire, because the barrel itself cannot withstand this limit.

With these two rear-loading guns, which can reach several times the rate of fire of front-loading smoothbore guns, it is equivalent to a few more front-loading artillery batteries.

Of course, what is more important is not the rate of fire, but the effective range!

An effective range of five thousand meters is enough to become a nightmare for all contemporary enemies!

In addition to the rear-loading artillery, the Aoyama rear-loading rifle, which has begun to be widely equipped, is also his killer weapon, and at present, in addition to the entire regiment of the First Infantry Corps and the entire battalion of the garrison battalion, which are equipped with this kind of rear-loading rifle, several other infantry regiments are also equipped with one or more light infantry companies equipped with rear-loading rifles.

The total number of Castle Peak breech-loading rifles attached to the whole army reached nearly 4,000.

These two new weapons have been a great success in the previous battles of Pingdan City and Shiyan Town.

Now, it will be the third time that they will appear on the stage of a large-scale battlefield, and Lin Ziran is confident that they will not let themselves down.

Everything is well prepared, Lin Ziran has reason to believe that he can lead the Sixth Division to win this battle.

However, today's sudden heavy rain has caused errors in many previous tactical arrangements.

Although the mobility of ordinary infantry was not affected, the mobility of artillery units and baggage units was greatly affected.

Many of the front-loading guns of the Sixth Division, like those of other feudal towns, focused on range and power, and relatively neglected weight, although there were a large number of horses and horses, but it was still very troublesome to maneuver in muddy roads.

Lin Ziran saw with his own eyes that the wheels of a 120-mm front-loading field gun had fallen into a muddy puddle, and in order to pull out the special artillery, the artillerymen under his command not only temporarily arranged more horses in front, but also transferred many soldiers to push and pull directly, which took a lot of effort to pull out this one-ton cannon and start again.

At first glance, it seems that this can be pulled out with little impact, but the key thing is that if you do this along the way, the speed will not be improved.

Affected by the muddy roads on rainy days, the artillery and baggage troops moved slowly, and in this case, Lin Ziran could only hope that the first corps and the first cavalry regiment of the forward troops could effectively complete their tasks, harass the enemy and lead the enemy into his own preset battlefield.

I just don't know if the muddy roads after the heavy rain will have a big impact on the mobility of the First Infantry Corps.

When Lin Ziran was so worried, Xu Zhongshu, who led the first step of the corps on the front line, also ushered in the first big battle after the westward advance.

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