Chapter 598: Battle of Zhenbei City

The new Lin Dynasty has already decided to set the capital in Beijing, but considering that the Ji Dynasty has set the capital in Xiping for three hundred years, and its influence in this place is extremely huge, so if the new dynasty wants to set the capital here, it will definitely need to be rectified.

Not only the Jingcheng District, but also the entire Xiping County where the Jingcheng District is located, and Fengyang County above Xiping County, is the entire Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is the political, economic and cultural center of the Daheng people for thousands of years, and after the Lin Dynasty fixed the capital of Xiping City, it will continue to be the political, cultural and economic center of the Daheng people.

In such an important area, the new dynasty had to carry out a thorough rectification in order to keep the whole of Gyeongju under the strong control of the imperial family.

Just like the original Ji dynasty was able to control Jingzhou strongly, even if the twelve external states rebelled, but Jingzhou was still under the control of the Ji family.

In the future, the Lin dynasty also needs to completely control Jingzhou, no matter how the outside world changes, Jingzhou must unswervingly stand on the side of the royal family.

And it's not easy to do that!

Before Zhao Laoqi set off, Lin Ziran discussed the Jingzhou rectification plan with Zhao Laoqi in detail in Ansu City, and Lin Ziran instructed Zhao Laoqi: Jingzhou must change, change from the ideological level, if you can't change your thinking, then change people!

On the way to Jingshi, Zhao Laoqi has been pondering Lin Ziran's words!

Zhao Laoqi has no education, he didn't even finish elementary school when he was a child, and he only read for two or three years when he died, and he barely knew how to write books, but his cultural level was still very low.

But just because the level of education is not good doesn't mean that he is stupid!

In the early days, the vote of people who started with Lin Ziran either died on the battlefield or were unknown to everyone, and only a few people have been following Lin Ziran to climb up, and Zhao Laoqi is one of these few people.

This already shows that this person is not stupid, and even very shrewd.

He pondered Lin Ziran's words for a long time, and asked many people for advice, and finally decided on a rectification plan, and arrived in Jingzhou with a large number of officials and patrol police to deal with this matter.

In addition to repairing and tidying up the palace and the office buildings of various institutions and restoring the urban area initially, Zhao Laoqi also needed to rectify public order and eliminate dangerous elements.

And the latter is more important!

During this period, it was inevitable to wipe out the remnants of the previous dynasty, the rebels of the former dynasty, especially the rebels who fled and hid with weapons, and so on.

In the end, he still has a task that Lin Ziran did not explicitly explain, but hinted at, that is, to solve the financial problem as much as possible in the process of rectification and purge.

To put it bluntly, it is to let Zhao Laoqi go over to make a fortune in order to make up for the huge deficit in military spending.

Therefore, Zhao Laoqi's visit to Beijing this time was a heavy task, even if more than 2,000 patrol officers were transferred from Nanhai Prefecture and Dongding Prefecture, but there was no way to do these things by relying on patrol police alone.

He also needs the military's help.

The Eighth Army garrisoned an entire infantry division in the southern bank of the Jingshi area, a regiment in the Beicheng District, and a regiment in the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau area.

In the Beijing Division, in addition to the troops directly under the military headquarters, the Eighth Army garrisoned one division and two regiments.

This is where Zhao Laoqi's greatest confidence lies in the rectification and cleanup of the Jingshi area in the later period.

At the same time, another part of the Eighth Army was stationed at Quping Naval Base, Dongheguan, Fengyang City and other places.

To put it simply, the Eighth Army was deployed along the middle and lower reaches of the Jinghe River, and from Fengyang City to the south along the river, Jingshi City, Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, Dongheguan, and Quping Naval Base were their defense areas.

While controlling the middle and lower reaches of the Jing River, it is also possible to make emergency maneuvers along the Jing River by boat at any time when necessary.

To some extent, the Eighth Army can also be regarded as a strategic reserve force in the Jingzhou area.

Of course, as long as there is really no way to do it on the front line, Liang Chenglei will not use the Eighth Army, and the follow-up matters of the Eighth Military Pass will not be mobilized if it can be mobilized.

However, the front line of Zhenbei City does need a strategic reserve, and after thinking about it for a long time, Liang Chenglei reported to Lin Ziran and requested that the 12th Army and the 13th Army be transferred to the front line and used as strategic reserves.

The Twelfth Army and the Thirteenth Army, these two armies were formed in the previous battle of the southern front of Jingzhou, using the surrender of the Sanzhou Coalition Army and the surrendered soldiers.

According to the usual method of dealing with the Imperial Army, it was still only a reorganized soldier, and it was a voluntary continuation of the army, and the soldiers were qualified in all aspects.

All others who are unwilling to continue to serve in the army, or who are not qualified to meet the conditions, will be sent to the engineer division.

On the basis of these surrendered volunteers, together with officers drawn from various units, the Twelfth Army and the Third Division were formed.

In fact, the reorganization of these two units has just been completed, and the organizational structure in all aspects has just been completed, and they have not yet had time to carry out adaptive training or change weapons and equipment.

However, the front line is in urgent need of troops, and the tasks are relatively tight, so they are preparing to move closer to the front, and continue to reorganize while acting as a strategic reserve.

In fact, the Imperial Army also has two newly reorganized units in the Beijing Division, namely the 14th Army and the 15th Army.

This was reorganized on the basis of the surrendered soldiers in the Jingshi Campaign, the Fengyang Campaign, and many other battles, but the 14th Army and the 15th Army currently have only one name, and the divisions, brigades, and regiments under the command are still in the early stage of reorganization, and there is no way to use them at all, even if they are used nominally.

At present, there are no commanders of these two corps companies, division commanders of each division, officers of the subordinate units are not in place, and even most of the soldiers have not yet had time to be selected.

To put it simply, these two armies currently only exist on paper, and if they want to take initial shape, they will have to take shape in a month at the earliest, and if they want to be pulled into the battlefield, I am afraid that they will need another period of training.

Liang Chenglei knew very well that the 14th and 15th armies would not be used.

The 12th and 13th armies are said to be strategic reserves, but they can't really have any hope, because this kind of reorganized troops, which have just formed and have not even completed their training, have absolutely no combat effectiveness.

To attack the northern city, you have to rely on the existing three infantry armies!

Half a month after Lin Ziran hastily ascended the throne as emperor on July 22, that is, on August 7, Liang Chenglei officially issued an order to launch a general attack on Zhenbei City.

Hundreds of medium and large-caliber artillery pieces of the Imperial Army and Navy fired countless shells at the defense line of the fortress of Zhenbei City, thus starting the general offensive of Zhenbei City.

If nothing else, this battle will also be the third and final large-scale battle in the entire Jingzhou area.

It can even be said to be the last large-scale and decisive battle on the eastern battlefield in the Daheng Unification War.