Although the troops on the third line of the northern front can still rely on the advantages of equipment and terrain to stabilize the situation, after a long time, problems will inevitably arise!

Therefore, the battle of the Daheng Unification Army in Ningyu Prefecture and Zhongluo Prefecture cannot be delayed for too long, otherwise, Lin Ziran would rather not fight in these two directions.

This is also the reason why the Daheng Unification Army seems to be huge, but it can only send the Fourth Army to Ningyu Prefecture, in fact, it is also because it can't draw more troops, and it is unwilling to draw too many troops.

At the same time, it was also a time limit for the troops of the Fourth Army, three months!

The battle must be resolved within three months, and it cannot be dragged on for too long!

The three-month time node is very important, and the Daheng unified army must stabilize the rear within three months to free up its hands to deal with the situation in the north.

That's right, although the pressure on the northern front is increasing, and the size of the enemy's forces has already exceeded that of the Daheng unified army, the Daheng unified army is still preparing to take the initiative to attack in a certain direction.

It's not that the Daheng Unification Army doesn't want to slowly fight defensive operations, but the Daheng Unification Army can't afford it!

What happens if this continues to be consumed?

The number of rear-loading guns and artillery equipment of the troops in the northern states will increase, and the firepower advantage of the Daheng unified army will gradually decrease.

Don't think that only the Daheng unified army is artilleryism, in fact, almost all the troops of Daheng's feudal towns are artilleryism, and now the northern states are playing with their lives to produce equipment artillery.

At the same time, the population of the seven northern states is larger and the industrial strength is stronger, which can mobilize more troops, so in the overall comparison of troops, the Daheng unified army will also be at a disadvantage.

At the same time, if the troops continue to fight, the ammunition consumption will be too great.

Even if the problem of troop and ammunition consumption is not considered, the financial system of the Daheng Unification Army will not be able to last long!

Now that the financial system has been de facto bankrupt, it can only be forcibly maintained by demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall, if it drags on for too long, the financial system of the Daheng unified army will completely collapse, and when the time comes, it will be finished without others fighting!

Therefore, if we passively defend and carry out a war of attrition, it will be very unfavorable to the Daheng unified army, and the Daheng unified army must take the initiative to attack, open up the situation as soon as possible, and limit the duration of the unification war to a certain range.

At the same time, it was also based on the strategic consideration of carrying out various defeats on the northern states.

After all, the northern states are not a whole, even if it seems that an alliance agreement has been reached now, but this is only an alliance, as long as the Daheng unified army is aimed at one of them to fight to the death, then Lin Ziran does not believe that other feudal towns can really fight with themselves in order to protect this state, and even wipe out all their families.

As long as the seven northern states are not of one heart, then the Daheng unified army will have great confidence to break through one by one!

In order to prepare for the war in the north three months later, Lin Ziran instructed the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory to officially start building a heavy machine gun production line to produce water-cooled heavy machine guns.

The military also quickly formalized the water-cooled machine gun and granted the designation of the Type 53 heavy machine gun.

The finalized Type 53 heavy machine gun, with a caliber of 11 mm, fires a new 11 mm rifle cartridge and uses the same type of ammunition as the new rifle of the scheduled 11 mm caliber to simplify logistics.

The water-cooled barrel is fed with a chain of 300 rounds, and the cartridge belt can be continued.

Theoretically, the rate of fire of the gun can reach 600 rounds per minute, of course, it is difficult to achieve in actual operation, and there is no need to achieve this rate of fire, the general use is point fire, long point fire, it is impossible to pull the trigger and hold on, for this reason, even a rate of fire regulator is specially designed, which can be adjusted to a slow rate of fire mode of 100 rounds per minute according to the needs of actual combat.

It can be mounted on a triangular gun mount or a wheel gun mount, and the gun carriage can also be mounted with a strong shield, and can also be mounted on a battleship in addition to army requirements.

Although the weight of the gun is relatively heavy, it can still be carried by multiple soldiers for emergency maneuvering or deployment, if you are marching for a long time, you can put it on a carriage to march, or put it on a wheel gun carriage and walk by a puller, or you can remove the gun body and gun carriage and carry it by a pack horse respectively.

At the same time, a temporary machine gun test battalion will be set up to equip the experimental model machine guns that were produced in the early stage, and key non-commissioned officers will be selected from various units to conduct training in the operation and combat operation of machine guns.

After the training of the experimental machine gun battalion is completed, it is estimated that the mass production of machine guns will also come up, and then it will be able to lay the foundation for the army to popularize equipment.

When the rear was heavily machine-gunned, the Fourth Army also officially entered Ningyu Prefecture!

The Fourth Army, under the leadership of the army commander Liang Chenglei Zhongqing, had already begun to prepare half a month ago, and now it has officially entered Ningyu Prefecture from Qingyuan County.

Naturally, this attracted the attention of the outside feudal towns, but it was no longer important.

The important thing is that the Daheng Unification Army is ready to clean up Ningyu Prefecture and completely solve the threat of Ningyu Prefecture, which is located in the southwest rear of Nanhai Prefecture!

Otherwise, in the future, when the northern states of the northern line are engaged in a strategic decisive battle, if Ning Yuzhou directly sends troops to kill the Nanhai Prefecture, it will be over.

After the Fourth Army entered Ningyu Prefecture, it moved quickly and soon penetrated 100 kilometers into the enemy's hinterland.

This has something to do with the fact that the Fourth Army is well prepared, but also because the enemy is weak.

Ning Yuzhou actually had a lot of troops before, but when he entered Nanhai Prefecture before, he had already been killed by the Daheng Unification Army with 100,000 main troops.

After losing the 100,000 main forces, Ning Yuzhou's side has not been able to ease his breath.

Although they relied on the original troops to carry out an emergency expansion, they were undertrained and lacked equipment, especially the lack of new rear-loading guns.

So much so that it was difficult for them to resist the onslaught of the Fourth Army!

In just five days after the Fourth Army entered Ningyu Prefecture, it had already established its strategic superiority in the early stage, successively captured a series of important tactical support points on the front line, and annihilated tens of thousands of enemy troops.

The battle in the direction of Ningyu Prefecture is progressing smoothly, and it can even be said that the overall situation has been decided!

In this way, the Daheng unified army will be able to shift its attention to the direction of Zhongluozhou.

After the first army and the first cavalry army in the early stage of preparation, officially entered Zhongluozhou, for a time, the Daheng unified army is to restart the war, and is to directly set off a large-scale war on two fronts.

However, it is worth noting that even if the two fronts are fighting at the same time, the ammunition and other supplies consumed by the Daheng Unification Army for this purpose are actually not much, and they are not even as good as one-third of the previous Zishengzhou Battles and Quyangzhou Battles!

Whether it is in the direction of Ningyu Prefecture or Zhongluozhou, the enemy is relatively weak.

The strength of the enemy army in the direction of Ningyu Prefecture has not been able to recover after being damaged, and more than a dozen feudal towns in the direction of Zhongluozhou are fighting on their own, and it is impossible to cause any practical trouble to the advancing Daheng United Army.

In addition, in these combat effectiveness, especially in the battle in the direction of Zhongluozhou, the Daheng United Army used cavalry units on a large scale and frequently, even if the cavalry troops suffered certain losses for this, but they did not hesitate.

This is also an effective reduction in the ammunition consumption of the main forces!

On the premise of controlling the consumption of ammunition, killing the enemy forces in these two directions is also Lin Ziran's strategic task for the front-line troops.

If the consumption of ammunition is not controlled, it will be difficult for the Daheng unified army to stock up on ammunition for the northern front during this time period.

The war in the direction of Ningyu Prefecture and Zhongluo Prefecture has once again made the northern states vigilant!

Within a few days, the Third Army stationed on the northeast line of Dongdingzhou urgently reported that it had suffered a large-scale counterattack by enemy troops in the direction of Jingzhou!

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