Now Quyang Prefecture has launched a large-scale attack on the Luohe Gorge, and has also sent reinforcements east to Zisheng Prefecture.

In the next step, the Southern Navy needs to face the intervention forces of the northern states and the enemy forces in Quyang Prefecture at the same time, well, there are also Jingzhou troops in the northeast.

There are too many enemies around, so Lin Ziran can't afford to delay it in time, and he can't drag it out, but the first battle will drag on for a year and a half, maybe the surrounding enemies will be equipped with rear-loading guns, and it will be even more difficult to fight at that time.

It's hard to fight in urban areas, what should I do?

Now it seems that the best solution is to capture Zhongyan Mountain first, and use the height advantage of Zhongyan Mountain to accurately cover the urban area.

However, what Lin Ziran is worried about is that even if Zhongyan Mountain is taken, I am afraid that it will be difficult to Chongke Chongke City in a short period of time in the future.

Lin Ziran, who was a little uncertain, stood up and looked at the large military map on the wall, and after looking at it for a long time, he suddenly turned around, "How long will it take for the intervention army from the north to arrive?" How long will it take for the Quyang Army to arrive in the west? ”

Hearing Lin Ziran suddenly ask, the others couldn't react for a while, but none of the people here were stupid, although most of them were young, but they were able to stand out in a group of young people, and naturally they were all smart people, and several of them had already vaguely guessed why Lin Ziran asked this.

Wu Guanlin said, "The first group of about 40,000 to 50,000 intervening troops in the north is expected to arrive in six days, but we have already sent the First Cavalry Army to sabotage the railway to intercept it. Their second main force is estimated to have at least 100,000 people and is expected to arrive within half a month.

In the west of Quyang Prefecture, the number of reinforcements they sent is not much, it is estimated that there are only 50,000 people, and they can arrive in about seven days! ”

Lin Ziran continued to ask, "Can we bypass this Chongke City?" ”

Wu Guanlin said, "No, once we bypass Chongke City, the nearly 100,000 enemy troops in Chongke City will have a huge impact on our follow-up operations, I am afraid that we will fall into the encirclement if we are not careful, and at the same time it is more difficult in logistics, Chongke City is the center point of the railway network in Zisheng Prefecture, and the two major railway trunk lines in Zisheng Prefecture and east and west are intersecting here, if you bypass Chongke City, it will be difficult to use the railway line, and it will be more troublesome in logistics and transportation!" ”

Lin Ziran continued: "If we conquer Zhongyan Mountain, deploy heavy artillery here to continue to bombard the city accurately, and at the same time leave a certain amount of troops to contain the enemy forces in the city, and then transfer some troops to fight Quyang Prefecture and the northern intervention army, is there any difficulty in troop mobilization, and can logistics be supplied?" ”

Speaking of which, the meaning is already very clear, Lin Ziran is not going to plan to fight to the death in Chongke City and the 100,000 defenders who are shrinking in the city, but to leave a certain number of troops to contain them, and at the same time, if heavy artillery is deployed in Zhongyan Mountain, it can also cover the enemy.

Even the troops left to contain are not much, one is thirty or fifty thousand, it is almost the same, the enemy army is not easy to fight in the city, but if they dare to come out, even if it is thirty or fifty thousand troops, they can fight them in the field.

In this way, the South China Navy will be able to gather more than 100,000 troops to fight the enemy's reinforcements.

Lin Ziran wanted to use Chongke City as a bait to lure enemy reinforcements to arrive, and finally annihilate them directly on the way to the enemy's reinforcements, and directly solve the threat of the enemy's superior forces that he might face in the future.

Siege point reinforcement!

This strategic concept made a group of generals ponder, and they were all carefully considering the advantages and disadvantages and how to implement this strategy.

Surround the point to help, these four words are simple, but it also depends on whether there is a possibility of implementation and how big the risk is.

After all, Chongke City is a big city, and there are nearly 100,000 enemy troops in it.

How many troops need to be left in order to effectively contain the enemy, how to allocate the troops, how many infantry, artillery, cavalry, and how to distribute the food, grass and ammunition in the army.

What tactics should be used to contain them, what terrain or tactical key points can be used to deploy heavy troops, and so on. ，

How many troops are needed to attack and send reinforcements at the same time, how to allocate them, and how to ensure logistics without the central station of the railway network in Chongke City?

Is it to fight the intervention army in the north first, or to move west first to defeat the intervention army in Quyang Prefecture?

These are all questions that need to be carefully considered.

It is definitely not a pat on the head to be able to make a final decision directly, and many details need to be considered and considered.

This is also the reason why Lin Ziran wanted to surround the point to help, but still asked a series of questions and asked his subordinates to discuss.

This strategic meeting did not last long, and all the generals present were very familiar with the current situation on the battlefield.

It was initially decided that the entire strategic concept would be divided into three steps, the first step was to go south to Zhongyan Mountain, which was too threatening, whether it was for itself or the enemy, and after taking the place, it would be much easier to attack the city or contain the enemy army in the future.

The second step is to divide the troops, leaving two infantry divisions of the Fifth Army, a cavalry division and most of the heavy artillery units, including two train guns. The entire containment force is about 50,000 people, and the proportion of artillery is quite large!

At the same time, the 1st Cavalry Corps continued to delay the southward movement of the northern intervention army and buy a few more days.

At the same time, with the Second Army and the Fifth Army drawing out an infantry division and the Second Cavalry Army as the main force, they quickly advanced westward and first killed the 70,000 source troops in Quyang Prefecture.

The third step was to quickly move north and cooperate with the First Cavalry Army, kill the first batch of 50,000 interventionists in the northern states, and then meet the enemy's second batch of interventionists.

The core of the strategy of encircling and sending reinforcements is to strive to kill the enemy troops on the road from which they come from, and not to give them the opportunity to shrink into a certain fortress or big city.

After the general strategy is decided, the next thing is to formulate a detailed plan, which Lin Ziran doesn't care, and naturally has the staff and the generals of each army to do it.

For example, in order to maintain the logistical supply of the attacking troops, the logistics department plans to transfer almost all the carriages and service horses, and at the same time forcibly requisition all the carriages from the nearby people, and at the same time recruit at least 50,000 people to participate in the logistics supply.

At the same time, the engineering unit decided to lay a simple temporary railway about 20 kilometers long directly outside Chongke City, specifically connecting the southern line to the northern line, and strive to restore the opening of the north-south railway in Zisheng Prefecture as soon as possible, so as to provide logistical support for the follow-up troops to go north to send reinforcements and provide logistical support for the intervention forces in the northern states.

But in order to prevent accidents, the engineering troops still made the first to start repairing, and if the battle in the north goes smoothly, there will be no loss, but in case the war drags on for a long time, and Chongke City has not been taken for a long time, then this temporary connecting railway is very important.

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