Lin Ziran didn't know how the outside world was changing, and even if he did, he wouldn't care too much for the time being.

Now he was concerned with the internal affairs of the Empire, especially the War of Unification.

Although the unification war is not over yet, although it has taken most of the area of Jingzhou and controlled the Jingzhou industry, which is already affiliated with the vital Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, the northern states have lost at least 60 percent of the supply of advanced weapons and ammunition.

But the northern states are still resisting, and they still have some large and small arsenals to produce supplementary weapons and ammunition, although the scale of this weapons and ammunition is not too large, but it still gives them the courage to continue to resist.

Of course, the resistance of many of these feudal towns is not actually to resist unification, nor does it mean that they think they can overthrow Lin Ziran and become the emperor themselves, after all, they are also smart people, and they know very well that Lin Ziran has risen completely, especially after the establishment of the emperor, the general trend has become unstoppable.

In fact, many of their continued resistance stems from a kind of unwillingness, thinking that everyone is a feudal town, why can you Lin Ziran finally be the emperor and start a new dynasty, we have to bow to the wind, and finally disappear into history and turn into dust?

This unwillingness supported them to resist.

Of course, there are still some people who are counting on this resistance to show their strength in order to seek better conditions for solicitation.

That's right, now many feudal towns in the northern states have actually secretly contacted the people under Lin Ziran's hands.

But basically the conditions can't be negotiated, these feudal towns want too much, basically they all want to continue to maintain independence and become the emperor of the soil.

And this is what Lin Ziran does not allow!

As soon as this new dynasty was established, it made a bunch of independent kingdoms, feudal towns and the like, so that it would be the same as the Ji royal family in the previous decades, and could only be a titular Daheng Tianzi!

So even if the war continues, Lin Ziran must completely dispel their independent mentality!

If they are unwilling to take the initiative to give up their independent power, then Lin Ziran will kill them completely.

Anyway, the war of reunification has already affected most of Daheng, and there has been one battle in this big battle, and it is not worse than the next few battles.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the current Lin Dynasty of the Great Heng Empire has completely controlled the overall situation, and no matter how the northern feudal towns toss, they will not be able to jump out of Lin Ziran's palm.

Therefore, Lin Ziran was not in a hurry, and slowly reorganized the army for war, steadily advancing step by step, until the complete reunification of the country.

Lin Ziran's strategy of steady progress is also embodied in the actual war.

So far, the troops of the Imperial Army are still in a strategic defensive posture on the northern front of Zhongluozhou, the northern line of Quyang Prefecture, and the northern front of Zishengzhou, and they do not even have the intention of taking the initiative to attack.

On the front line of Gyeongju, after controlling most of Gyeongju, a large-scale offensive was also stopped in the northeast.

More forces were concentrated on the front line of Zhenbei City.

The next major strategic offensive direction of the Imperial Army was Pingnan Prefecture.

Or more precisely, the Mirror River Basin!

The next stage of the Imperial Army's goal was to completely control the Mirror River valley and divide the northern states of the entire Great Heng Empire into two parts.

At the same time, it is also to control Pingnan Prefecture, a large agricultural state and a large state of mineral resources, and provide various resources for the industrial development of the Jingzhou area in the next step.

And in order to open up the Jinghe River and control Pingnan Prefecture, you must first take Zhenbei City.

In fact, Pingnan Prefecture has already drawn a large number of troops, and even most of the forces are stationed in Zhenbei City, once it can conquer Zhenbei City, it is to annihilate a large number of enemy troops in the battle of Zhenbei City, then it will be much easier to enter Pingnan Prefecture in the future.

In view of the particularity of the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, the Imperial Army specially requested the assistance of the Imperial Navy, and at the same time mobilized a large number of troops on the periphery and hoarded a large amount of supplies before the war.

One ship after another sailed up the Jing River, with large-tonnage ships sailing all the way to Taixu Town, ten kilometers south of Zhenbei City.

This town of Taixu was originally just a very ordinary town along the river, with a small inland port, but the geographical location of this place is good, and the coast is very suitable for building as a port.

After observing the conditions here, the army's engineering units began to carry out emergency construction here to build a wharf and port, and in order to quickly berth and unload supplies, they also used emergency methods to build three temporary trestles along the river to berth and unload the cargo of ships of more than 1,000 tons.

A large number of people and materials arrived in Taixu Town through the Jinghe Shipping, and then transferred to the front line of Zhenbei City.

With the arrival of a large number of personnel and materials, heavy artillery, ammunition and weapons, the reinforcement fleet sent by the navy has finally arrived there.

The cruiser Luo Hai sailed cautiously along the way, and even adopted a light load mode in order to pass safely, and even did not dare to carry too much coal.

This way cautiously, I finally arrived at the river section south of Zhenbei City.

After the arrival of the naval reinforcement fleet, coupled with the previous Jinghe fleet, the navy can be regarded as having made a bloody investment in this battle of Zhenbei City, and will provide 37 warships of all sizes to participate in the battle.

These warships included two 200-mm guns, more than 60 150-mm guns, more than 40 120-mm guns, more than 70 100-mm guns, and more than 100 75-mm guns.

Even if considering the layout of the naval guns and the narrow river section, there is no way to fire all the artillery aimed at the enemy position in Zhenbei City during the battle, but when the time comes, if the battle really starts, the fire support of 200 naval guns can still be guaranteed through reasonable arrangements.

Fire support of two hundred medium and large-caliber naval guns!

For this reason, the navy has used all the warships that can be used.

The navy gives face in this way, and the army is naturally unwilling to be looked down upon by the navy, and if the fight is not smooth at this time, then it will be too embarrassing.

To this end, Liang Chenglei personally transferred various units to form a huge Zhenbeicheng Campaign to participate in the battle, including the Third Army, the Fourth Army, and the Seventh Army, three infantry corps, two artillery brigades to provide fire support, and the Second Cavalry Corps to coordinate operations on the periphery.

Behind this are the two strategic reserve forces of the 12th Army and the 13th Army.

Originally, the Jingzhou Front Army also had an Eighth Army, but at present, the Eighth Army has undertaken the extremely important task of defending the middle and lower reaches of the Jinghe River and the Jingcheng District, and other cities along the middle and lower reaches of the Jinghe River, and it cannot be transferred at all.