The Qingyun Medal was created by Lin Ziran, in the past, there was no system such as military merit medals in the Daheng Empire.

Lin Ziran, on the premise of retaining the key reward means of promoting and making a fortune for meritorious service, developed the Qingyun Medal and awarded it, which is divided into one, second, and third classes, regardless of officers and soldiers, as long as they make great contributions, they can get it, of course, the specific meritorious service standards for different positions to obtain the Qingyun Medal are also different.

However, this kind of first-of-its-kind thing has not been recognized much for a while, and the soldiers are not very interested in this kind of purely honorable reward, and many people want to be promoted and make a fortune.

Even many people are thinking that in the future, they will really unify Daheng, and it is their own pursuit to be knighted as the founder of the country.

The Daheng Empire is a traditional monarchy, and the civil war in Daheng today is not a revolution or anything like that, but a very typical war for hegemony.

The victor will be able to create the fifth dynasty of Daheng in more than a thousand years!

And it is reasonable that those founding heroes who followed the victors were knighted.

What, although the unification of Daheng and the re-emergence of the bloody ideal are also very important, the glory and wealth, and the title are equally important.

In the past two days, what Lin Ziran has done is to inspect and offer condolences.

As for those detailed battle orders, they were all issued by the General Staff, for example, after a while, the General Staff would let a certain unit, at the risk of huge casualties, storm part of the enemy's positions, just to quickly open the gap.

The resulting casualties and the dissatisfaction of the officers of the specific units must have nothing to do with Lin Ziran.

Because the person in charge is Wu Guanlin.

This is the burden that Wu Guanlin bears!

Wu Guanlin knows this!

Although the staff system now being implemented in the South China Navy gives the General Staff tremendous power on the surface, in fact the General Staff only has the power to train and direct operations, and it is not really capable of controlling the entire army.

Moreover, every strategic plan of the General Staff actually needs Lin Ziran's approval before it can be implemented.

Therefore, on the surface, all military operations of the South China Navy, especially the strategic choices, were planned and carried out by the General Staff, but in fact it was Lin Ziran who really made the decision.

How to say it.

Where to fight and when to fight is Lin Ziran's final say, and the authority of the General Staff is to prepare and fight specifically.

For example, now, Lin Ziran feels that the war in the north cannot be delayed for too long, otherwise, if it drags on for a month or two, it is estimated that Feng Ziqi will be able to have hundreds of more rear-loading artillery pieces on hand, and it will be more troublesome to fight at that time, and it will further cause the subsequent situation to deteriorate.

Therefore, he asked the troops to quickly open up the situation and speed up this war with Zishengzhou.

As for how to do it and what kind of strategy and tactics should be adopted, this requires the staff headquarters to formulate relevant operational plans.

Turning the battle plan into concrete action is the responsibility of the generals of the front-line units.

Lin Ziran didn't say that he had made a strategic direction, formulated a battle plan, and then led the troops to fight a battle, even if he had only a few hundred people under his command a few years ago, he had never done such a thing.

Even in these large-scale battles, Lin Ziran was on the front line to command, but even so, Lin Ziran would not personally command the troops.

He went to the front line in person, just to sit on the front line, so that the 200,000 troops on the front line were leaderless, which led to chaos, and it was also to boost morale.

After Wu Guanlin left, Lin Ziran looked at the South Purple City in front of him again.

There was still the sound of gunfire, and the first-line attacking troops of the Southern Navy were already under the cover of artillery, gradually advancing towards the defense line of South Zicheng, and the second division at the forefront was estimated to be able to enter the infantry combat distance in a short time.

Will the enemy be able to hold off your own attack?

It depends!

If the enemy only had these twenty or thirty rear-loading guns, then even if they had nearly 50,000 troops deployed in the defense line of about five kilometers in South Purple City and the surrounding area, it would be impossible to block their own attack.

Although the enemy has 50,000 troops stationed and has a certain defensive line, its frontal attack is more than the enemy's strength, and it also has an artillery advantage.

Moreover, the entire defense line and deployment of the enemy army were not actually strictly defended, but only the most basic line of defense, after all, they were probably preparing to take the initiative to attack south.

Therefore, it is a high probability to successfully conquer South Purple City.

However, if the enemy has more rear-loading artillery, the situation will change to a certain extent, and even relying on one's own infantry and artillery units alone may not be able to quickly take down the enemy.

Maybe three to five days, or even longer.

And this time is unacceptable to Lin Ziran, and it is unacceptable to the Southern Navy.

Therefore, the Southern Navy still has a second-hand preparation, that is, its own best detour outflanking!

The 50,000 cavalry units with two cavalry corps as the core have already carried out a large-scale strategic detour, and if nothing else, they will be able to bypass the opponent's defense line and directly insert themselves into the enemy's back at this time tomorrow.

That would not only cut off the enemy's reinforcements and supply lines, but also cut off the enemy's nearly 150,000 troops and encircle some of them.

In this line, in addition to the South Purple City and the surrounding five kilometers of about 50,000 troops, the Zisheng Army also deployed troops on the east and west sides, and on a front more than 20 kilometers wide, there were almost more than 150,000 troops.

For the Zisheng Army, it is quite rare to be able to send reinforcements from all over the country in just ten days, and increase the number of troops in this area to more than 150,000 in a short period of time.

Moreover, the reinforcements of the Zisheng Army are still coming by train every day, and if Lin Ziran waits for another four or five days, the number of enemy troops on the opposite side can reach at least 200,000.

If you wait for half a month, the Zisheng army on the opposite side will be ready to take the initiative to attack.

When the time comes, it is not certain who will fight whom!

However, Lin Ziran launched the attack first, and after taking Dongdingzhou, the troops only began to move continuously after a very short rest and replenishment, and finally completed the combat preparations in front of the Zisheng army.

The time difference of half a month determines who is the attacker and who is the defender.

The five-day time difference determines the victory or defeat of this battle, because in these five-day time difference, the South China Navy has the advantage of strength and the strategic initiative.

In the current situation, even if the troops deployed by the Zisheng Army in South Purple City are strong in combat and even have more rear-loading artillery, this can no longer change the status quo that they are at a huge strategic disadvantage.

If the cavalry troops are also used to cut off the enemy's front-line troops, it is enough for the Southern Navy to form an absolute superiority on the front line of South Purple City, even if this superior force can only last for three or five days.

These three to five days were enough for the artillery units of the Southern Navy to plow every inch of the defense line of the Southern Purple City.

So far, no such unit has been able to withstand the massive shelling of the South China Navy!

Zi Shengjun, the same is not good!