After the appointment of four important generals as secretaries, the adjustment of the top level also came to an end.

In the next few days, the main arrangement is defense!

According to the current situation, the Daheng unified army needs to face the main enemy of the seven northern states, in addition to Zhongluo Prefecture in the west and Ningyu Prefecture in the south, these two southern states in Zhongluo Prefecture have long been in chaos in the feudal towns, and there are more than a dozen large and small feudal towns, which are similar to the previous Nanhai Prefecture.

And Ning Yuzhou, before the Daheng unified army, the former Yuyu Navy killed 100,000 main forces, until now has not eased up, if it was not to fight in the north, the Daheng unified army would have sent troops to attack Ningyu Prefecture, with the current strength of Ning Yuzhou, there is no way to resist.

Now, the time is ripe.

In another super-large-scale full-front battle with the northern states, the Daheng unified army will not be able to hold it, but if some troops are dispatched to fight Ningyu Prefecture or Zhongluo Prefecture, it will not be a big problem.

Therefore, in principle, the overall strategic defensive posture is maintained on the northern fronts, just like the previous defense line in the northeast of Dongdingzhou and the northern defense line of Zishengzhou, and the current northern part of Quyang Prefecture also needs to adopt a strategic defensive posture, unless the enemy takes the initiative to attack, otherwise as far as possible to avoid taking the initiative to attack on a large scale.

After a month or two, it is necessary to first get rid of the two unstable factors in the south, Ningyu Prefecture and Zhongluo Prefecture, and finally it is time to gather all forces and have a decisive battle with the northern states.

Therefore, the rhythm of the war needs to be controlled.

For this reason, Lin Ziran also made certain adjustments to the deployment of various armies.

First of all, the three main forces of the northern front, of which the Second Army continued to garrison Quyang Prefecture, the Fifth Army continued to garrison Zishengzhou, and the Third Army continued to garrison Dongdingzhou.

Of course, these three armies alone are not enough, so behind these three main armies, there are also the Sixth Army stationed in Quyang Prefecture, the Seventh Army stationed in Dongdingzhou, the Eighth Army stationed in Zishengzhou, and the Second Cavalry Army will return east to defend Chongke City, but these three infantry corps and the Second Cavalry Army are not all stationed in the first line, but at the strategic points of transportation in the rear, they can maneuver by rail at any time, not only to support the state, but also to quickly support the neighboring states.

After all, except for the Second Cavalry Corps, these units are all newly organized units, and they still need to continue to be trained and reorganized, so they are stationed at strategic points in the rear, acting as a strategic reserve while suppressing the localities, and at the same time reorganizing and training.

Overall, a total of six infantry corps and one cavalry corps were deployed on various defensive lines in the north!

In addition, there are the Ninth Army and the Third Cavalry Army stationed in these two new units, which also need to be more special, this army is also a new formation of troops, which needs more training time, and it is estimated that it will not be able to be put into the battlefield at least a few months, so the deployment of this unit must be further back, mainly deployed in the Luo River Gorge along the Luo River, Chongguang Fortress and other areas, on the one hand, it is to control and defend the Luo River channel, and on the other hand, it can also use the Luo River for rapid maneuver and act as the last strategic reserve.

The 1st Army and the 1st Cavalry Corps will serve as the main forces in the subsequent offensive against Nakju.

The Fourth Army, deployed in Nanhai Prefecture in the rear, will become the main force attacking Ningyu Prefecture.

A total of nine corps, three cavalry corps, three independent artillery brigades, four independent artillery regiments, in addition to an expanded garrison division and a number of independent regiments responsible for some special areas, constitute the entire field force of the Daheng Unification Army at present, with a total strength of about 550,000 troops.

This strength looks like a lot, but in fact, it is still insufficient for the current Daheng Unification Army, and each unit is assigned a task slowly.

In the past, when it only controlled Nanhai Prefecture, the strength of the Nanhai Navy at that time was more than 200,000, and its strength was very large, and it was very easy to deal with multi-front operations.

However, with the successive capture of Dongdingzhou, Zishengzhou, and Quyang Prefecture, the territory expanded, the control area expanded, and there were more enemies and more fronts.

However, there is no way to do it if the troops are insufficient, the current troops are different from the previous troops, and when smoothbore guns were used in the past, the consumption of the troops was not so large, although most of the people ate and chewed, and although the consumption of ammunition was not small, compared with the current combat methods, it was a big gap.

The people in it have not changed much, but the consumption of ammunition and the price of weapons and equipment have increased exponentially!

In the era of smoothbore guns, a soldier carried fifty rounds of ammunition with him, and after the war was over, it is estimated that these bullets may not be used up.

But now, after using a breech-loading rifled rifle, soldiers will shoot dozens or even hundreds of rounds on average in a large-scale battle.

In the days of shotguns, you could kill a person with 200 rounds of ammunition, because at that time everyone was facing each other and fighting in line......

But now the rifle is more powerful, but it takes more bullets to kill an enemy, because no one will be stupid enough to play line combat with you, they are all hiding in the trenches, using the terrain to fight on their stomachs, the rifles are more advanced, the rate of fire is faster, but the actual hit rate is lower.

In many battles, the soldiers of the Daheng Unification Army can kill an enemy army with an average of thousands of bullets, which is a data that makes the logistics officers of the Daheng Unification Army very worried......

Fortunately, the Daheng unified army does not rely much on rifle fire to kill and injure enemy troops now, more often, rifle fire is only auxiliary firepower, and the protagonist on the battlefield is artillery.

In the battle, the weapons that caused the main casualties to the enemy were not rifles, but artillery, all kinds of powerful rifled artillery, rapid-fire mortars, and even grenades, which were the main weapons of the Daheng United Army to kill and injure the enemy.

But well, artillery consumes more shells and is more expensive!

As technology progresses, the resulting weapons become more and more advanced, and the tactics continue to change.

As a result, the cost of war is getting higher and higher!

What dragged down the financial system of the Daheng United Army?

It's not these hundreds of thousands of people, nor is it a huge number of horses, although these hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of horses consume a huge amount, these expenses are all food, and Daheng is not short of food.

What dragged down the finances of the Daheng United Army was huge, far exceeding the consumption of ammunition and the high cost of weapons compared to the previous era of smoothbore guns.

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