In order to ensure the operation of these artillery, the arsenal in the rear has been working overtime every day to produce artillery shells in recent months, and the logistics department has organized a large number of ships to transport them to the front line of Chongguang City for stockpiling.

Just one hundred and fifty mm howitzer shells were prepared on average of five hundred rounds each.

There were plenty of shells for these guns to fight from the first day of the campaign until the capture of Chongguang Castle!

All these have brought great confidence to the staff office and the front-line generals.

As for Lin Ziran himself, he is even more confident.

He knew better than his generals how powerful rear-loading artillery and rear-loading muskets were, combined with new tactics!

The Chongguangcheng Fortress is actually very similar to the Dingjiang Fortress, both of which are defensive lines with a large fortress as the core.

It has been proved in the previous battle of Dingjiang Fortress that although the fortress defense line has a certain degree of resistance to these heavy artillery with range advantages and great power, it is actually not very useful.

The fortress defense system is actually more to give full play to the power of its own guns and cannons, forming crossfire, and at the same time, it can also resist the direct fire of the enemy's artillery with solid shells.

The bastion defense system was well suited to the era of smoothbore guns, but not to the era of breech-loading rifles.

To put it bluntly, the fortress defense system is outdated!

Because when the batteries in the fortress are easily suppressed by the long-range rear-loading guns, they can even be directly destroyed.

At the same time, the infantry line at the head of the wall will be repeatedly bombarded by the rifled artillery of the attacking side.

In the era of rifling, the defensive system of the fortress was not as effective as ordinary trenches, at least the soldiers in the trenches could still hide in the trenches to avoid artillery bombardment, and most of the casualties were also killed by heavy artillery bombardment, rather than being killed directly.

So what does it mean that the upcoming Battle of Chongguang Castle is a battle with great confidence for both warring sides?

This means that both sides will not back down easily, which means that the war will be even more brutal!

On February 6, seeing that both inside and outside he already knew that he was going to attack the Guangcheng fortress, Lin Ziran did not continue to hide, but openly took a command of personnel to take a warship along the north of the Luo River.

He wants to personally fight outside Chongguang City, watch his heavy artillery bombardment and rush the fortress, and watch his soldiers rush to the head of Chongguang City!

He wants to lead a large army into the hinterland of Guang'an and quickly lay down the situation in the north!

On 8 February, Lin Ziran, who had made a short stop in Luo'an City and Sanhe Town, successfully arrived at the Southern Navy camp outside Chongguang City.

The Southern Navy Camp is not far from Chongguang City, only about four thousand meters.

That's quite an interesting distance.

At this distance, the enemy's smoothbore artillery could not hit, but a large number of their own breech-loading rifled guns could build artillery positions on the spot and directly hit the shells on the enemy's heads.

After Lin Ziran arrived at the camp, he went to inspect the artillery position as soon as possible!

The artillery positions in the camp here were quite large, and several low hills were all equipped with artillery.

"So far, our three heavy artillery regiments, two field artillery regiments, plus the smoothbore heavy artillery previously deployed here, all the artillery has been deployed, and the troops are carrying out the final ammunition transportation!"

Artillery Chief Conde, who accompanied the inspection, said: "The number of shells we have delivered to the front line has already supported the operation, and there are still shells being transported from the rear!" ”

"According to the plan, after the start of the battle, we will fire at least 20,000 shells in a short period of time, and we will carry out concentrated strikes on the detected enemy batteries and the main infantry defense line, and the rear camp will carry out concentrated strikes, and we will continue to shell in the future, and strive to fire 50,000 shells in the shortest possible time!"

"50,000 shells are enough to plow every inch of the enemy's defense line!"

When Comte said this, he looked in high spirits, as if the enemy's fortress was like tofu scum in front of the heavy artillery under his command.

To tell the truth, Kong Deyi has been an artilleryman for so many years, and he has never tried such arrogance!

It is nothing to concentrate a few hundred artillery pieces, and it is nothing to shoot tens of thousands of shells at one time, the armies of the various feudal towns in Daheng are all supporters of artillery, and many feudal towns can pull out hundreds of artillery pieces, and it is normal to shoot tens of thousands of artillery shells in a large-scale battle.

But most of these hundreds of guns are rifled guns, and the cylindrical shells of rifled guns are much more powerful than spherical grenades.

The explosion power of those dozens of 150-mm howitzers is even greater than the explosion power of the round grenades of 200-mm smoothbore mortars, and they are particularly accurate!

Of course, the ammunition for these breech-loading rifled guns was also extremely expensive, and they were made of the latest maroon propellant, which was much more expensive than the traditional black gunpowder propellant, and even the cartridge had to be wrapped in silk.

At the same time, the latest type of collision fuze, copper shells, etc., were used, which directly led to the fact that the shells fired by these rear-loading guns far exceeded the shells used by traditional smoothbore guns in price.

The people from the Ordnance Department said that in the Battle of Chongguang City this time, they prepared ammunition worth millions of Hengyuan!

And this million, which is the cost price of the factory, does not contain a trace of profit.

If it is a normal weapon procurement, this batch of ammunition will cost 1.5 million Heng Yuan, to say the least.

Millions of Hengyuan shells, this is the confidence of everyone in the Southern Navy to conquer and take Chongguang City.

Two days later, when all the troops were ready, Lin Ziran held an enlarged meeting and conveyed the following instructions to all middle and senior officers above the regimental level: The Battle of Chongguangcheng is related to the overall situation of the reunification of the South China Sea and the reunification of Daheng, and all the officers and men of all units must work hard to fight for the reunification of the South China Sea, and the reunification of Daheng!

After the official order was issued, on the morning of February 9, on a hill in the camp of the Southern Navy, Lin Ziran climbed the mountain with a vote of senior generals. ”

After Lin Ziran sat down, he first looked left and right, and a large number of artillery positions on the left and right were already ready, and then he looked ahead, which was the defense line of Chongguang City!

Finally, he gently raised his right hand and slowly pressed down: "Let's start!" ”

As Lin Ziran gave the final order, the flag soldiers behind him immediately waved the flag towards the surrounding artillery positions!

After a few seconds, the rumbling sound continued!

In the sky, the whistling of cannonballs across the sky continued to sound.

A few seconds later, a few kilometers away on the defense line of Chongguang City, there were clouds of fire and smoke, and after a few seconds, the dense and dull explosion sound reached the ears of Lin Ziran and the others!

The battle of Chongguang City has officially begun!

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