At the head of Nanguang City, in the evening, Lin Ziran carried out his third routine inspection today.

With several days of high-intensity defensive reinforcement, the defense line of the southern Guangdong coast now looks much better than before.

When they first came to Nanguang City, the defense line in this place was basically not reinforced, and they all relied on the fixed defense line built before, consisting of an outer trench, an inner platform trench, and an artillery position.

But with the continuous reinforcement in the past few days, there has been a lot of change.

Wu Guanlin still followed Lin Ziran and introduced the changes in the defense line for Lin Ziran:

"According to the instructions of the adults, we have deployed three obstacles of sharp bamboo and wooden fences at intervals of 50 meters outside the first layer of trench defense line for 200 meters, which can effectively block the enemy's dense formation advance, and carry out intensive fire strikes when the enemy destroys and passes through the obstacles."

"At the same time, triangular thistles were also laid in these passages, but there were not many of them, and they could only be laid in some important areas to hinder the rapid advance of the enemy's army!"

"We have also planted a large number of bombs in distress in some areas, and ignited them through the arquebus, so we must be able to surprise the enemy at that time!"

With Wu Guanlin's explanation, Lin Ziran showed a satisfied look.

Lin Ziran was not clear about the deployment of the defense line in these years, but he knew what the defense line of World War I and World War II should be like in the future, trenches and barbed wire and mines were all necessary.

There is naturally no barbed wire, but you can use a distance horse instead, but the distance from the horse is more time-consuming and laborious, and it is difficult to cover the entire defense line, so Lin Ziran simply uses bamboo and wood fences and the like, especially in front of several protrusions, a large number of bamboo and wood fences are arranged.

Its function is not to completely stop the enemy, but only to slow down the enemy's passage, but also to destroy the enemy's opposing advance formation, and buy time for your own troops to kill and wound the enemy.

Mines are also absent, but they can be replaced with bombs.

As for thistle terrestris, that's incidental.

These perimeter fortifications were deployed to a distance of 500 meters from the first trench line.

Although this distance from the first layer of trench defense line is not yet able to kill, it is already within the efficient killing range of a large number of artillery at the head of the city, even if it is five pounds of field artillery at this distance, it is enough to inflict greater damage on the attacking enemy infantry troops.

Lin Ziran nodded slightly: "Yes, it seems that you still have worked hard, you have to do this work so seriously, carefully!" ”

Wu Guanlin listened with a happy smile on his face.

This feeling of being valued and praised by others has not been experienced for a long time before coming to Qingshan Town, but after coming to Qingshan Town, he has found the value of his life.

Although the Supplementary Brigade is a little smaller, he is the chief of staff, but he gives full play to his talents.

This feeling is really cool!

After the darkness, Wu Guanlin continued: "The second line of platform defense line, we have also made improvements, in addition to strengthening the anti-artillery capability, after detailed discussions with Commander Kong, the deployment of the artillery unit has been adjusted to a certain extent!" ”

"The main heavy artillery firepower will be deployed on this strongest No. 1 battery, in addition to the third artillery company of the supplementary brigade, nine eighteen-pound cannon guns and four twenty-four-pound heavy howitzers of the sixth heavy artillery regiment, and two large-caliber mortars are deployed here, the effective range of these guns is enough to cover the entire frontal battlefield, and at the same time, when necessary, it can also turn the muzzle to directly block the entire Luo River!"

Lin Ziran looked at these heavy artillery, and then looked at Luo He on the left: "Do you heavy artillery regiment have the confidence to block the frontal battlefield and Luo He?" ”

This time, he didn't say it to Wu Guanlin, nor did he say it to the company commander of the Third Artillery Company, but to Kong Deyi beside him.

If nothing else, this person will be the main artillery commander, and no one else has his specialty.

Kong Deyi immediately said: "The narrowest part of this section of the Luo River is only 1,500 meters, and our fort is only more than 1,500 meters away from the other side of the river. Moreover, our eighteen-pound cannon is not an ordinary field heavy artillery, but a fortress heavy artillery originally deployed in the Chongguangcheng fort by the Guang'an people, this kind of cannon heavy artillery, the body has reached 25 times, and the effective firing range can reach 2,000 meters, and if the accuracy requirements are relaxed, the maximum firing range can even reach 4,000 meters. ”

"With our heavy artillery firepower, it is completely possible to block the mass passage of the enemy fleet."

"And there is also the help of the Third Artillery Company, although the caliber of the artillery of the Third Artillery Company is a little smaller, but the effective range is very long, which is enough to effectively support the heavy artillery units."

Hearing Kong Deyi's affirmative reply, Lin Ziran nodded.

In fact, he doesn't need to ask him to know that the range of these heavy cannons is enough, this is an eighteen-pound cannon heavy artillery, and the effective range is more than two thousand meters.

Even the effective firing range of the six new-type nine-pound field guns can reach 1,500 meters, and even at 1,900 meters, they can maintain a certain accuracy, but the power is a little less.

At this time, Wu Guanlin continued: "The other part of the artillery, we deployed on the battery on the left side of the defensive line, mainly to block and support the frontal battlefield. ”

"There are also six five-pound field guns, which are scattered and deployed on three salient batteries!"

"A total of thirty-seven artillery pieces form a combination of far and near, which is enough to cover the entire frontal battlefield and the Luo River channel!"

When he said this, Wu Guanlin was full of pride.

Although he was not born in artillery, but as a professional officer, the head of Luohai County at that time, he has received formal military education since he was a teenager, and he is very proficient in various theories.

This time, he was the first to put forward the artillery deployment plan, and even Kong Deyi, the sixth heavy artillery regiment, also expressed his approval of the deployment plan.

It is not easy for an officer from the infantry section to be able to do this.

So, he has the capital of pride.

Lin Ziran continued to move forward, inspecting the No. 2 battery again, and at the same time inspecting the defensive line of several important salient parts.

He was initially satisfied with the reinforced and improved defense line.

After the inspection, there was nothing to do all night, and when he had breakfast the next day, Luo Mazi came in at a trot.

But this time Luo Mazi didn't say the familiar sentence to him: Adults are not good.

Instead, he said: "My lord, everyone in Guang'an is here!" ”

When Lin Ziran heard this, his first reaction was: "Is the Guang'an army coming?" So fast? ”

Luo Mazi said: "No, their army has not yet come, it is their messenger." ”

What did the Guang'an envoy do at this time? Could it be that you want to buy me Lin Ziran?

Just kidding, I, Lin Ziran, am so easy to buy!

After pondering for a while, Lin Ziran said: "Let's go, I will meet this Guang'an envoy for a while." ”

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