Chapter 504: Daheng Must Be Unified
This distance is almost impossible for the logistics department to solve under normal circumstances, and the plan adopted by the South China Navy is to take as much food as possible to eat the enemy for such consumable materials as grain and grass.
What, in the entire Daheng range, other things may be lacking, but only there will be no shortage of food!
Even if the peasants generally did not have enough to eat, it was also because of the oppression of the feudal towns, in fact, in the war-torn period of Daheng, the feudal towns still exported a large amount of grain to the outside world every year in exchange for more funds.
When the South China Navy operates in various places, it may encounter the problem of shortage of ammunition, but it has never encountered the problem of shortage of grain and grass, and it rarely transports it from distant places, often from nearby areas.
At the time of the Battle of Zishengzhou, the huge amount of military rations needed by the Southern Navy was all collected and transported from Dongding Prefecture, but not a single grain of grain from Nanhai Prefecture was used!
Now marching into Quyang Prefecture, grain and grass will also be transferred from Zisheng Prefecture nearby.
Now, the South China Navy is going one step further, although it also transfers from the rear, but as much as possible, it collects ammunition directly from the front line to free up transportation capacity.
Food, such things can be collected on the spot, but ammunition is very difficult.
The bullets are all fine, and most of the other feudal towns have now begun to copy the Luo'an III rifle, and some of them can be captured, but there is basically no way to do it, at most they can occasionally capture 1.75 mm shells, and more still need to be transported from the rear.
However, the South Navy still has a lot of artillery......
This requires very high capacity,
That is to say, you can also make limited use of the western railway in Quyang Prefecture, otherwise you will have to be completely blinded.
Although there were fewer locomotives and wagons, they could still use them to some extent, and they also modified the carriages on the spot, so that the wheels of the carriages could travel on the rails and be pulled by horses, which appeared decades ago and was once very popular in the mining areas.
After many measures were taken, it was possible to barely maintain the supply of the troops at the front!
Despite the intense logistics of the army, the actions of the Southern Navy did not stop, and at the same time, in terms of specific tactics, it began to rely more on cavalry units.
The cavalry unit seems to consume a lot, but it mainly consumes the grain and grass needed by the horses, and this thing is everywhere, and it can be collected on the spot with a little effort, and the consumption of cannonballs is actually not much.
Although there are also cavalry artillery units in the cavalry units, the overall number is not large, and most of the time the cavalry units rarely use these cavalry guns, and the overall shell consumption level is still relatively low.
At the same time, the cavalry unit also has the ability to quickly maneuver over short distances, and it is very useful to perform some roundabout outflanking tactics.
Effectively using the rapid assault capability of the cavalry troops, the Southern Navy advanced westward along the railway line all the way, and in just half a month, it continued to advance 200 kilometers from Grand City to the west, and it was only less than 100 kilometers away from Qingdeok City at this time.
On average, more than 10 kilometers per day was advanced, and this speed was achieved when it was blocked by multiple enemy forces.
This is already a very high speed for a large force advancing on foot.
The appearance of the Southern Navy less than a hundred kilometers away from Qingde City made the high-level officials of Quyang Prefecture extremely panicked, on the one hand, they mobilized troops from all directions and gathered to Qingde City, and on the other hand, like Feng Ziqi at the beginning, they kept sending people to contact the northern states.
Even the rhetoric is similar, if you don't send troops south, we're going to be finished!
We're finished, and you're not far from finished!
However, even if reinforcements were coming, it would not be possible to cross hundreds of kilometers south to Qingdecheng for reinforcements in just a few days.
The Southern Navy, on the other hand, is only a few days away from Gyeongdeok City.
Even some of the scouts had already appeared dozens of kilometers away from Qingde City.
The Southern Navy is coming!
This news made the entire Qingde City panic, not only the defenders, but even ordinary people.
A large number of citizens of Qingdecheng began to flee from Qingdecheng with their families, and went to the surrounding cities, especially in rural areas to avoid the war.
The overall situation was similar to that of Chongke City at the beginning, before the Southern Navy arrived at Chongke City to attack, many people in the city had fled, and during the battle, casualties were inevitable.
At the beginning, the Zishengzhou Army used the entire urban area as a defense line, and when the artillery units of the Southern Navy carried out artillery bombardments, they were mainly aimed at buildings.
A large number of innocent people have been affected by the war!
The people on the side of Qingde City also heard about the situation on the side of Chongke City, so they naturally did not want to continue to be in the city and become cannon fodder for the two sides to fight.
In the days when Gyeongdeok City was in fear, a large number of people fled, and even a considerable number of them fled east along the railway line......
Why?
Because there is no war on the Eastern Front!
After the Southern Navy came all the way, this rear was naturally not a battlefield, and the people fled to the east, which could effectively avoid the war.
Of course, if the Southern Navy is defeated, the subsequent battlefield can also affect this region, but the key thing is that few people think that the Southern Navy will be defeated.
In addition, there is also a very key point that in fact, among the people, even people from other states, they have a very good feeling for Lin Ziran and the Southern Navy.
At present, Lin Ziran is under the rule of the three states, the war has subsided, and the government decree is unified, there are not so many chaotic bandits, local armed forces, and the overall trend is stable.
At the same time, the issuance of the tax restriction order is also to make the life of the people under his rule better.
This kind of place is actually very rare for Daheng, who is currently in troubled times.
The people are not blind, and it doesn't matter if they don't know about the situation, if they know and the situation allows, they are happy to go to live under Lin Ziran's rule.
The fleeing of the people, Lin Ziran also saw it!
Especially when he led his troops to the outskirts of Gyeongdeok City less than ten kilometers!
Looking at the groups of people dragging their families on the road, Lin Ziran felt very complicated in his heart, their escape was because of the war, and the war was brought by himself.
But he quickly figured it out again, in this world, even if they don't have their own Southern Navy, they are not fighting these feudal towns, and the feudal towns are fighting, and the exploitation of the people is really too powerful.
If he unifies Daheng, he will be able to give them a stable life, suppress the high-intensity exploitation that has lasted for many years, and make the lives of the people of Daheng better1
That's the best outcome!
Daheng, must be unified!
And it can only be unified by oneself!
Others, no!