The feudal towns have their own interests and ambitions, as well as their own scruples, so suppressing Lin Ziran is not the task of the Zishengzhou family, but the unified task of all the feudal towns.

This kind of thing has not happened before, in the past few decades, Daheng has never been unified, and there has never been a big feudal town that controls more than two states at the same time, that is, the major feudal towns are afraid of each other and tear each other down.

As soon as he saw that a large feudal town was rising, the other feudal towns would consciously unite and destroy him.

Now Lin Ziran also enjoys this kind of treatment!

Lin Ziran, who is still in Dongdingzhou, although he doesn't know what the outside feudal towns will do, he can still guess the general reaction.

And the worst-case scenario is nothing more than war!

And unfortunately, the South China Navy has always been preparing for war!

Even this crusade is not the whole goal of the recent expansion of the South China Navy, it is only the strategic goal of the first stage.

After taking Dongdingzhou, it stopped and did not continue to advance, it was purely because the logistics could not keep up for a while, and it was necessary to establish a logistics system in Dongdingzhou, and hoard ammunition, and the troops also needed to rest and recuperate after continuous high-intensity operations and mobility.

This also gives outsiders a false impression that the Southern Navy under Lin Ziran is only targeting Dongdingzhou.

However, before the complete capture of Dongdingzhou, the staff officers of the staff under the command of the South China Navy Command had already perfected the final battle plan and began to mobilize troops and stock up on ammunition.

What battle plan?

The battle plan for attacking Zisheng Prefecture.

This is also the strategic goal of the second phase of the entire Eastern Crusade Plan.

Moreover, the reason why Lin Ziran continued to wage wars was not because he was afraid of the joint suppression of other feudal towns, but because he was worried that other feudal towns would be equipped with guns and cannons on a large scale in the future, causing the Southern Navy to lose its equipment advantage.

Now Lin Ziran and even most of the top brass of the Southern Navy are thinking that they can expand their power as much as possible while they still have equipment advantages, and it is best to be able to kill important potential opponents first.

Zishengzhou is such an important potential opponent.

Their first machine bureau has already successfully developed rear-loading rifled guns, and in the past half a month, they have even begun small-scale trial production, and perhaps in a few months, they will be able to be equipped with hundreds or even hundreds of rear-loading rifled guns.

Therefore, the top brass of the Southern Navy have a very unanimous opinion that Zishengzhou must be killed as soon as possible.

The current situation in the south of Daheng is very interesting, Zishengzhou is mobilizing and preparing to enter Dongdingzhou, and other feudal towns also want to take the opportunity to besiege the southern navy and seize territory.

On the other hand, the Southern Navy is also making final preparations for war, with troops continuing to be mobilized, and a large number of logistical materials are transported day and night by river, and after arriving in Dongdingzhou by sea, they are transported to the northwest and northeast fronts through the railway network within Dongdingzhou.

At the same time, the South China Navy also carried out a large-scale reorganization of the Dongdingzhou troops that surrendered and surrendered in accordance with the past tradition.

In the Battle of Dongdingzhou, there were many prisoners of war captured by the Southern Navy, and there were at least about 150,000 prisoners of war alone, of which in the Battle of Hetai Heights, tens of thousands of prisoners were captured in one breath, and many people were captured later.

In addition, there are some people who have taken the initiative to surrender, and this part of the people is even more, with a total of more than 200,000 people, and most of these people who surrendered to Chengcheng are not the front-line regular army of the three major feudal towns, but local militia groups, temporary recruits and new armies.

These people make Lin Ziran feel big!

Previously, the total size of the troops in the three major feudal towns of Dongding Prefecture was very large, and their front-line regular army, mobilization army, local militia and other armed forces combined, the total number was probably 600,000, don't doubt this number, Yuan Yonghan's family had more than 250,000 troops.

However, less than half of these units are actually standing regular troops, and the rest are local militia groups or new units that have been urgently recruited and trained in recent months, and their combat effectiveness is weak, and many of them have only been trained for less than half a month, and they have been sent a smoothbore gun to the battlefield.

Of these 600,000 people, in fact, the vast majority of them did not go to the battlefield at all, for example, a considerable number of local militia groups, the vast majority of whom did not participate in the war, and when the South China Navy arrived in various places, they all surrendered very neatly.

Otherwise, if the Southern Navy wants to take Dongdingzhou, I am afraid it will be much more troublesome.

In order to deal with the subsequent threat, the newly organized troops were directly five infantry divisions, another artillery brigade, and two cavalry divisions, with a total number of about 90,000 people.

This figure is completely based on how many of the soldiers in Dongding Prefecture are willing to join the army and meet the conditions.

Hundreds of thousands of miles to reorganize about 90,000 people, which seems to be very low, but you must know that the South China Navy had a total of only 300,000 people before, so it can be seen that the expansion of the South China Navy is very large.

For today's expansion, the South Korean Navy began to stock up on weapons and ammunition months in advance, and many Roan III rifles were already ready, as were rear-loading artillery.

At present, some of the guns and artillery that the reorganized troops need to have are weapons and ammunition that are directly hoarded from the rear, and of course, they cannot be satisfied in a short period of time, so most of the reorganized troops are equipped with their original modified rear-loading rifles in the early stage, and in the case of artillery, a part of the front-loading rifled guns are selected to be used first, and then slowly re-equipped.

The number of troops was expanded by 90,000 at one time, and at the same time, nearly 10,000 new recruits were added from the rear to ensure that the overall size of the South China Navy was not less than 400,000.

In addition to the regular army, in the process of reorganizing the Yugoslav Navy, it is natural that we will not forget the reorganization of garrison divisions and engineer divisions, and in short, the principle of reorganization is to ensure that these hundreds of thousands of people will not be displaced to the localities and thus endanger the localities.

What's more, although the garrison division that came out was a little worse, there was still no problem with the ammunition pressure place, which could free up the hands of the regular army to fight the enemy.

Even if it is an engineer division, it can play a big role, for example, it can be used as a transport unit.

During this crusade, the transport regiments under the Logistics Department of the South China Navy, except for some of the temporarily recruited civilians, were actually many engineer divisions.

To put it bluntly, the engineer division is a group of young and strong laborers, who can also be used to transport materials in addition to doing engineering.

In the process of reorganization, the South China Navy has ushered in a new round of great promotion!

Everyone likes promotion, so it has greatly increased the morale of the army.