On 3 May, Lin Ziran arrived at Guang'an City on a warship and presided over the last operational mobilization meeting for the counterattack.

In Guang'an City, Ye Hongwei, chief of staff of the Northern Front Command and chief of staff of the First Army, was explaining the current situation to everyone.

"According to the instructions of the state commander, the detailed battle plan formulated by our northern front command, and the troops have now been mobilized in place!"

"On the front line of Guang'an City, our army takes the first division, the third division and four heavy artillery regiments of the first army as the main force, and the main purpose is to force the enemy into a state of engagement in the early stage, and cannot easily evacuate, once the main force of the second army succeeds in a roundabout, immediately launch a frontal onslaught, use the absolute heavy artillery firepower advantage to crush the enemy's frontal resistance, and cooperate with the second army to further compress the enemy's activity space!"

"On the left flank, the second and fifth divisions of our Second Army will carry out a short-distance roundabout attack, arrive here as soon as possible, that is, Feiyang Town, fifteen kilometers northwest of Guang'an City, further compress the enemy's space, and then continue to advance eastward to the bank of the Luo River according to the situation, completely strangle the enemy's retreat, and at the same time use the divisional artillery carried to block the Luo River!"

"At the same time, the 1st Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division of our army formed a rapid assault force, went out in advance, penetrated directly into the southern part of the Luo River Gorge, and after defeating the local defenders, blocked the southern part of the Luo River Gorge, completely blocked the enemy's retreat, and intercepted the enemy's reinforcements at the same time!"

"The Ninth Division of the Second Army will remain behind the left flank as a strategic reserve, and will also be put into front-line operations if necessary!"

Ye Hongwei, chief of staff of the Northern Front Command and chief of staff of the First Army, pointed and explained with a baton: "In this battle, our army will invest a total of five infantry divisions, two cavalry divisions, and four heavy artillery regiments of the main force, in addition to the third garrison division will also cooperate in the operation, responsible for logistics escort tasks, in addition to three recruit brigades in the rear, which can provide the front-line troops with about 15,000 recruits who have been trained for a month!" ”

"The naval forces will also send a fleet of gunboats to provide land support and front-line material escort to the Luo River."

"Not counting the recruits who are expected to replenish the battle losses, the number of front-line combat troops of our army and navy is expected to reach 110,000, with 26 warships, a total of 280 75-mm field guns and howitzers, 46 100-mm field guns, 73 150-mm howitzers, and 180 newly equipped 60-mm and 80-mm rapid-fire mortars."

"Although compared to the total strength of the enemy's army of about 140,000 people, our army is still at a certain disadvantage in terms of strength, but this disadvantage is not big, but we have an absolute firepower advantage!"

"According to the information we have gathered, the proportion of enemy units equipped with breech-loading rifles is not very high, and it is estimated that only one-third of the troops are equipped with modified breech-loading rifles, and the rest are still using smoothbore guns. The same is true for artillery, which is expected to have only about a few dozen front-loading rifled guns, and the rest are ordinary smoothbore guns. ”

"Therefore, in terms of firepower, we will have an absolute advantage!"

Ye Hongwei Shaoqing continued: "In order to ensure the supply of weapons and ammunition for the troops, and also considering the huge consumption of our army's breezed rifled weapons and ammunition, we have also made sufficient preparations in terms of ammunition supply!" ”

"In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the counterattack campaign, our army has allocated a large amount of ammunition to various units one after another, and the ammunition currently distributed to all units, including the ammunition carried by soldiers and the ammunition reserved by logistics departments at all levels within the division, is an average of 300 rounds per rifle and 250 rounds per 75-millimeter shell per artillery."

"In addition, the strategic ammunition reserves in the rear of our army are enough to provide the front-line troops with an average of two hundred rounds of ammunition per rifle and two hundred and fifty shells!"

"In this battle, we have prepared 500 rounds of ammunition for each rifle and 500 rounds of shells for each artillery, which is enough ammunition to support us to launch many large-scale battles in a row!"

The words of Ye Hongwei, chief of staff of the Northern Front Command and chief of staff of the First Army, made Lin Ziran nod slightly, and then only listened to him speak:

"Now we can make all the preparations, even if we can't do it, such as this shell, I have also borrowed from various sources to meet the needs of the front line as much as possible!"

"Gentlemen, you must know that in this counterattack operation, the weapons and ammunition we prepared were all the hard-earned money of the people of Nanhai Prefecture, and the people in the rear were frugal in food and clothing, which is why we have gathered so many weapons and ammunition on the front line!"

"Therefore, we cannot live up to the expectations of the people of Nanhai Prefecture!"

"In this battle, it is necessary to make a full swing, the roundabout troops must complete the detour within the predetermined time, and the frontal attacking troops must show the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and difficulties after the all-out attack, and break through the enemy's frontal defense line as soon as possible!"

"With this victory, the overall situation of the reunification of our Nanhai Prefecture has been decided, and there is hope for the reunification of our Daheng!"

"If this battle is lost, there is no hope for the reunification of my Nanhai Prefecture, and there is no hope for the reunification of Daheng!"

"I implore all of you to do your best for the unification of Daheng!"

Lin Ziran's words made the group of generals below all look suspicious!

In fact, there is no need for Lin Ziran to say that they all know the importance of this battle.

Now the southern navy is facing encirclement on all sides, with Yuan Yonghan in the east, Ningyu Prefecture in the west, Zhongluo Prefecture in the northwest, and Quyang Prefecture in the north.

They want to take advantage of the fact that the South China Navy has a firm foothold to snuff out the reunification of Nanhai Prefecture and the hope of Daheng in advance.

This kind of thing is absolutely intolerable!

I saw Xu Zhongshu, the commander of the First Army and the commander of the Northern Front, stand up: "Lord Governor, please rest assured, our army has made all preparations for this battle, and this battle will be won!" ”

The commander of the Second Army, an early student of the Suiying Academy, and Lin Ziran's hardcore descendant Zhang Hanqiu stood up: "Teacher, don't worry, even if I pay all the price, I, Zhang Hanqiu, will never give up!" ”

After the two army commanders expressed their positions, the other division commanders and brigade commanders naturally patted their chests and assured.

Although it is all about the scene, at least it shows the attitude.

After the mobilization meeting, Lin Ziran took a group of generals to the front line to inspect, went to the artillery position, went to the front line trenches, and took out a telescope to observe the position of the Quyang Army in front.

When Lin Ziran inspected, in fact, the surrounding troops had already begun to act, and the cavalry troops had already taken the lead, directly making a large-scale detour.

At dawn the next day, Guang'an City, which had been silent for half a month, once again sounded with dense cannon fire!

More than 100 divisional artillery pieces and more than 100 medium and large-caliber heavy artillery pieces carried out a large-scale artillery bombardment towards the Quyang Prefecture positions on the opposite side and even their rear!

Thus announced the beginning of the counterattack campaign on the Northern Front!