The coalition forces in the northern states are now in urgent need of rear-loading guns, and there are not many arsenals that can produce rear-loading guns on a large scale.

There were also medium-sized arsenals, although they were also able to produce, but the output was too low to play much of a role in such a time of war.

It has to be a large arsenal like the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, or the Zisheng Prefecture No. 1 Machinery Bureau before it was destroyed, or the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

According to external sources, the Machinery Bureau is currently imitating and producing Luo'an III rifles, which has been able to produce 10,000 rifles per month, and is also capable of imitating the production of breech-loading rifled guns, and it is rumored that they produced more than 30 breech-loading rifled guns last month.

Jingzhou is pretty good, there is a Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

However, even the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau cannot say that it can produce hundreds or thousands of rear-loading guns in a short period of time, dozens of guns a month, and it has to accumulate more than a year to make hundreds of artillery.

Moreover, the production capacity of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is not all for its own use, and it has to supply the troops of some surrounding feudal towns, such as Gaoqingzhou itself, which does not have a large arsenal, so it needs the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau to provide them with rear-loading rifled weapons.

Of course, it's okay if the royal family of Jingzhou Ji doesn't provide it, but they won't send troops south to Jingzhou to join the coalition to resist Lin Ziran's Daheng Unification Army.

Since it is a union of the seven northern states, all parties must need to make certain compromises and concessions, otherwise no one is a fool, such as Gaoqingzhou, Jingzhou does not provide him with rear-loading rifled guns, and people will not stupidly send troops equipped with only smoothbore guns to the south to participate in the war, that is not to participate in the war, but to die.

But in general, the various rifled weapons produced by the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau are now basically concentrated on the Mihe line.

However, due to the short period of time, it is estimated that they are only equipped with dozens of breech-loading rifled guns, and they are scattered on the entire front, and the rear-loading artillery support received by the troops crossing the river is at most more than 20 guns.

It is completely incomparable with the dozens of divisional artillery on the side of the 10th Division and the independent artillery units in the rear, with a total of more than seventy guns.

Moreover, most of the artillery they are equipped with is still 75 mm guns, with an effective firing range of only four or five thousand meters, while on the side of the Daheng United Army, there are 100 mm cannons, with an effective firing range of more than 7,000 meters.

The 100-mm cannon, which has a higher technical content than the 75-mm field gun, is more difficult to mass-produce, and without a certain amount of time to accumulate, even the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau cannot be mass-produced in a short time.

Therefore, the current Daheng unified army has a greater advantage in rear-loading rifled guns, especially large-caliber, long-range heavy artillery.

And the use of a 100-mm cannon can effectively suppress the enemy's artillery position, then the opponent's is also a breech-loading rifled gun, which can also be suppressed, after all, the difference in range is relatively large.

The number of rear-loading rifled guns of the Tri-State Coalition Army is small, and the firing range is inferior to that of people, so it is not surprising that they were completely suppressed.

After the artillery units were completely suppressed, it was very difficult for their infantry units to gain another advantage on the battlefield and cross the river.

However, in this operation to block the enemy's crossing of the river, the enemy's artillery support capability displayed in the early stage still attracted the attention of the Daheng Unification Army.

The 10th Division soon sent the relevant operational reports and analyses to the Third Army Headquarters, and on the same day, the Third Army Headquarters quickly sent the report that the enemy was equipped with a large number of rear-loading rifled guns, together with the combat report this time, to the friendly forces and Luohaicheng.

When Lin Ziran received the battle report of the Third Army, it was already a few days later, after all, even if he took the train and the ferry of the Nanzihe, it would take several days for this report to come all the way back from the front line in Dongdingzhou.

As for the Third Army's mention of the enemy in the Battle of Leishi Crossing, the enemy was equipped with at least 20 breech-loading guns to support the operation, and inflicted some casualties on the defending troops of the 10th Division in the early stage of the battle, and at the same time judged that the enemy should also be equipped with a larger number of breech-loading guns in other directions.

Lin Ziran attaches great importance to it.

The speed at which the enemy is equipped with rear-loading artillery directly affects how long the firepower advantage of the follow-up Daheng unified army can be maintained.

It is an irrevocable reality that the enemy is constantly equipping with rear-loading artillery on a large scale, and as time passes, the advantage of one's own artillery will decrease.

However, there is no way around it!

Now that the seven northern states are united, the industrial production capacity is much stronger than that of the six southern states, even if they will still have intrigue within themselves, and they will not be able to form a rope, but there will still be relatively big troubles in the long run.

The equipment advantage is gradually being lost, and according to the current situation, there is no way for the Daheng unified army to immediately launch a large-scale Northern Expedition campaign.

The Daheng Unification Army needs time to replenish and re-accumulate all the supplies it needs to launch a large-scale campaign, especially ammunition.

In this case, then Lin Ziran began to consider the advantages of other aspects, that is, tactical and strategic advantages.

Even if the other party's equipment level also rises at that time, he can't take advantage of more, but he will still have advantages in other aspects.

First, its own rich combat experience in the era of new tactics and rifled rear-loading guns is something that the troops of the seven northern states cannot have. ，

Second, this is actually the most important, and it is even the most critical strategic advantage of the current Daheng Unification Army.

That is, the Daheng Unification Army is a whole, and the Northern Seven Prefectures are not a whole, it seems to be a coalition army, but they actually don't even have a unified command structure, and even if they do, it is impossible to really command the troops of all the feudal towns in the Seven Prefectures.

They are still fighting on their own!

And this is the biggest strategic advantage of the Daheng Unification Army!

It is also Lin Ziran's greatest hope for the unification of Daheng!

It is very difficult to lay down an overall situation by relying on the same or two advanced weapons, whether it is a breech-loading rifled gun or a machine gun, and what can really lay the situation is a strategic advantage.

Therefore, Lin Ziran has even higher hopes for the front-line troops to take Ningyu Prefecture and Zhongluo Prefecture as soon as possible.

The top priority now is not the northern front, but to solve the threat of Ningyu Prefecture as soon as possible, and then take Zhongluo Prefecture, and connect the entire six southern states together, so that more forces can be integrated in the future, and in the case of the overall disadvantage, the seven northern states will be broken individually!