For example, Lin Ziran has already begun to let Fuyuan Ordnance Factory develop machine guns, and put forward many concepts, such as using bullet chains to feed ammunition, using the power of bullets after firing to complete a series of automatic unshell loading actions, if not, then make a hand-cranked machine gun.

The concept of machine guns, which can be fired continuously, was not proposed and practiced by Lin Ziran before.

I just don't know when the research and development will be successful, if the research and development is successful, Lin Ziran will have a greater grasp of the unification of Daheng.

But even if there is no machine gun, it will not affect Lin Ziran's road to unification of Daheng.

A lot of things don't just look at one or two new weapons!

In particular, in this kind of large-scale reunification war, whether or not the weapons are advanced is only one of them.

What really determines victory or defeat is the number of people, industrial capacity, agricultural capacity, mineral resources, the beliefs of the ruling class, the middle class, and the people, etc., and these combine to make the real war capability.

It is very difficult for a single new weapon to truly change the trend of the overall war.

However, then again, the current territory under Lin Ziran's control is to have a population, minerals to minerals, grain to have grain, and industry to have industry, basically there is no shortage of anything, everything.

But what is very unfortunate is that if the northern states are united, they will not lack anything, and even their population, various resources, and industrial capacity will be even larger.

At this time, if the northern states can be completely united, even if Lin Ziran has rear-loading guns and machine guns under his hands, it will inevitably end up being defeated and killed.

Because the northern states have a better industrial base, they can give you a lot of rear-loading guns and machine guns that can be copied every minute, and if the war drags on for a year and a half, they will be able to use the stronger potential to pile up more and more advanced weapons and equipment.

However, this is unlikely, because the northern states cannot be truly integrated.

As long as they can't completely give up their prejudices, even if they unite on the surface, Lin Ziran is not afraid, and he can still eliminate them one by one by breaking them down.

At this time, the equipment advantage can be more reflected.

Lin Ziran wants to unify Daheng, the senior generals under him, and even the ordinary officers also want to unify Daheng, as for the ordinary soldiers, they actually want to unify Daheng, not for Lin Ziran or any overall situation, but according to the tradition of Daheng for more than a thousand years, if Lin Ziran can really unify Daheng, even ordinary soldiers will get great benefits at that time, and it is inevitable to obtain military merit land or other benefits, even if the chance of obtaining land is a little smaller, but people believe that In other areas, it is also possible to obtain sufficient benefits to supplement.

Because of these things, it can be said that it has become the cultural tradition of Daheng people, deeply engraved in the bones of Daheng people, what if the second son cannot inherit the family business? When you join the army and fight, you have land, titles, and money......

Therefore, even if this is a civil war, it will not be possible to give a large amount of land to the soldiers at that time, but it will still be compensated in other ways.

In short, the benefits will not be less!

This is the tradition of Daheng for more than 1,000 years, and it can even be said that Daheng people are based on the foundation of the world!

No one has ever broken this military merit system of the Daheng people!

Now no one believes that Lin Ziran will break this tradition.

Therefore, within the Southern Navy, whether it is ordinary soldiers, senior generals, or ordinary officers, they are all looking forward to being able to unify Daheng and bring great benefits.

Even if it is a folk, the voice of support for Lin Ziran is very huge!

While the Southern Navy killed other large feudal towns, it also eliminated many small and medium-sized feudal towns and bandits from all walks of life, resulting in a good internal security environment and smooth trade routes in Nanhai Prefecture, Dongding Prefecture, Zisheng Prefecture and other regions.

At the same time, the tax restriction order was promoted, which changed the high-intensity exploitation policy of the previous era of feudal town chaos, although the current tax rate is still very high, far less than before the Heng Olympic War more than 50 years ago, but it is better for the majority of farmers to eat the grain they grow.

In the past, the vast majority of the farmers in Daheng grew a lot of grain, but in the end, they didn't even have much rations, because most of the grain was taken away by the feudal towns in the name of taxes, etc., and then exported and sold in exchange for funds for military expenses......

Now, Lin Ziran only relies on a tax restriction order to let the farmers have enough to eat, which is enough to harvest the support of tens of millions of people!

The old aristocracy, gentry and other upper echelons have already begun to enter the ruling system under Lin Ziran's rule, and countless people have joined the army and entered politics, and they have begun to bind their interests to Lin Ziran's interests.

Ordinary citizens, workers, they also reaped the benefits, the tax rate was reduced, the trade routes were smooth, especially now that the ongoing war consumed all kinds of industrial commodities greatly, all kinds of orders were innumerable, created more jobs, and even indirectly increased the income of the workers, which had jobs, income, and was able to support their families.

So far, in fact, Lin Ziran has done very little in terms of internal affairs, and even basically maintained the ruling model of the previous feudal town era, and the only change he made was to reduce the tax rate and eliminate banditry.

But these two points alone are already significant, enough to benefit the vast majority of people.

can bring them benefits, they naturally support Lin Ziran.

People are very simple, if you can give me benefits, I will support you, it's as simple as that!

Within the Southern Naval Group, the people in the control area are all supporting Lin Ziran, and now it is okay to say that the last sentence is expected.

And to unify Daheng, then first of all, we must unify the six southern states of Daheng, we must first take Quyang Prefecture, we must first open up the transportation of the four states, we must first lay down the Luohe Gorge, and we must first take Qingde City.

It can be seen that the important strategic position of Qingde City!

In order to safely take Qingde City, Lin Ziran asked the troops to make the most detailed preparations, and the staff team of the General Staff Department also studied it repeatedly.

Finally, on 18 December, after a long period of preparation, and even after several days of tentative attacks, the Southern Navy finally launched an attack on the defense line of Gyeongdeok City.

At dawn on the 18th, 20 minutes before dawn, the artillery units of the South China Navy, which had already been prepared outside the city, concentrated several hundred artillery pieces and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the predetermined enemy targets.

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