Chapter 576: The World Pays Attention
Nowadays, all countries are paying close attention to Daheng's unification war, and there are even a large number of intelligence officers from other countries, under various names, such as diplomats, military attachés, merchants, expatriates, etc., collecting many battle details in the Jingshi Battle and even the entire Daheng Unification War.
They not only pay attention to the succession of the battle, they pay more attention to the outcome of the battle, especially the specific application of the new rear-loading rifled weapons and the various tactical and strategic changes behind it.
In the past two years, the civil war in the Great Heng Empire, the large-scale application of breeched rifled weapons has attracted the attention of many countries in the Blue Star, and they have all recognized the huge performance advantages of breeched weapons, for which the Olisa Empire and other major powers have begun to imitate and produce breeched weapons, even small and medium-sized countries that do not have their own research and development production capacity, but also began to seek breeched rifled weapons all over the world.
Among them, the Orr Kingdom began to find weapons companies under the control of the Daheng Unification Army last year to procure, and other small and medium-sized countries either directly found the Daheng Unification Army, or contacted other big countries.
In short, with the Daheng Unification Army taking the lead in the large-scale application of breech-loading rifled guns in the unification war and achieving excellent results, rear-loading rifled weapons have begun to be valued by all countries.
However, the emergence of new weapons has brought not only an increase in performance, but also a huge change in tactics and even strategy.
And it is far more difficult to get to know these things than simply copying a breech-loading rifled gun.
Today, countries hope to understand the huge tactical and strategic changes brought about by the era of breech-loading rifled weapons in the Great Heng Unification War, so that they can adjust the development of their own armies.
For many reasons, many people are now paying attention to the Daheng Unification War, and the Jingshi Battle in front of them, which is very likely to affect the trend of the entire Daheng Unification War.
Under such circumstances, the Battle of Jingshi can be described as the world's attention!
This kind of excessive attention has actually brought more pressure to the Jingzhou Front of the Daheng Unification Army.
Although Liang Chenglei has a large number of troops, if he really wants to storm the capital area, even if he only conquers the Nancheng District on the south bank of the Jing River, I am afraid that he will need to pay a lot of price.
If the attack on the capital division will lead to a huge cost, it will cause a series of negative effects, such as making those northern seven states and towns think that although the Daheng unified army is strong, they can still rely on the city to resist, and then further prolong the time of the unification war, and even cause unplanned unnecessary negative effects.
Therefore, the Battle of Jingshi must be fought, and it must be fought beautifully, and it must not suffer too heavy casualties in the Battle of Beijing.
And this is also in line with the previous strategy of the Daheng Unification Army and the Jingzhou Front.
The Jingzhou Front Army did not think of risking the lives of tens of thousands or even more soldiers to fill the bottomless pit in the capital area.
The strategy of the Jingzhou Front of the Daheng Unification Army was to blockade the Jingshi and trap them.
Although the Tri-State Coalition was more prepared than expected, they hoarded a large amount of food in the capital area in advance, and even let a large number of people leave the city in advance to save food consumption during the defense of the city.
Judging by the current situation, even if the Jingshi is blocked, the other party can hold out for more than three months with the food reserves in the city.
It was impossible for the Jingzhou Front to spend three months with the enemy in the capital area.
So it must be attacked!
Liang Chenglei of the Jingzhou Front, with a group of senior generals and numerous operational staff officers, carefully analyzed the cause of the entire station, and then formulated a perfect attack plan.
The whole attack plan is completely different from the traditional siege battle plan, first of all, there is no battle plan such as seizing the city wall in the whole siege operation.
Because although the capital area has an inner city wall, but the outer vast urban area is actually not a city wall, which is also an important feature of the gradual development of many large cities, with the increase of urban population, the expansion of the urban area, and the more and more advanced weapons, many large cities have gradually canceled the city wall, and there is only the inner city wall to retain, and the newly expanded outer city is generally not protected by the city wall.
Nowadays, the base camp of the Daheng Unification Army, Luohai City, which has a population of more than 800,000 people, also has only one inner city wall, and a large area of the city is not protected by a city wall, but this does not mean that there are no protective facilities, generally speaking, large cities will build forts, small fortresses and other defensive facilities in the peripheral areas.
Of course, typical military fortresses such as Chongguangcheng Fortress and Dingjiang Fortress are a different matter, and small and medium-sized cities are also a different matter.
In fact, even if the capital division has an outer city wall, it is useless.
The two years of the Daheng Unification War have fully demonstrated that the defensive operations of the city wall in these years have not yet been used to dig a trench casually.
In the era of smoothbore guns, the defensive role of various castles, city walls and other defensive facilities was still great, but with the emergence of rear-loading rifled guns, the defensive facilities of various castles were not good.
Everyone knows that it only took a few days before and after the army under Lin Ziran took the Dingjiang Fortress, and the real battle time was even only one day.
In the bombardment of rear-loading artillery, the artillery positions erected on the head of the city were completely destroyed, and the soldiers on the head of the city were intensively killed, and finally had to make sandbags, trenches and other things on the head of the city, but this still failed to stop the bombardment of large-caliber heavy artillery.
Later, everyone learned smartly, and they all dug trenches directly during defensive operations, although they still couldn't stop the attack of the army under Lin Ziran, but the trench defense system was always better than the castle.
In today's Battle of Jingshi, it is obvious that the defenders did not regard the city wall as the core of the defensive line, but built complex defensive facilities on the periphery.
Several high ground outside the city were deployed by them to artillery positions and trenches.
At the same time, this series of trench defense systems was directly linked to the outer city of the capital area, and many of the strong buildings in the city were transformed into fortresses, and sandbags were piled up at the street entrances and other places.
The whole defense is completely different from the defense of the era of smoothbore guns in the early years.
In view of this different defensive measure, the offensive plan formulated by the Daheng Unification Army was also different from usual.
The battle plan drawn up by Liang Chenglei and others seems to be extremely complicated, but in simple terms, it is actually a steady and steady battle, relying on strong firepower and superior forces to advance gradually.
Specifically, at the predetermined breakthrough site, a large amount of firepower and troops are gathered to launch an attack, and after the breakthrough, a small detour is carried out, and then the enemy forces in some blocks are encircled, and then the superior forces are concentrated to clear house by house, and after all the remnants of the enemy are cleared, the attack on the next area is started, and so on.
In fact, the siege battle plan formulated by the Jingzhou Front Army is still the combat method they are best at: roundabout operations!
The large army is a strategic detour, and the small army is a tactical detour, but in the urban environment, the terrain is more complicated, so the roundabout operation will be more complicated.
But the principles remain the same.
To a certain extent, this is still an ordinary offensive and defensive battle for the Daheng United Army, but the battle site has changed from a complex trench system in the field to an urban area.