Listening to Lin Ziran's words, many generals laughed, and Lu Sanzhen said: "My lord is right, those soft bones are afraid." ”

Wu Guanlin was also smiling: "The enemy took the initiative to stop the pace of defense, which was also expected by our staff office, for which we have already prepared a corresponding combat plan!" ”

"And judging from our previous battles, especially today's counterattack operation of the First Infantry Corps, with the firepower superiority of our rear-loading rifles, even if we take the initiative to attack, there is no problem."

"And now we still have two rear-loading steel cannons, which are enough to clear their artillery positions one by one from a distance!"

Lin Ziran said at this time: "Go back and have a good rest, and we will set off early tomorrow morning!" ”

"Let Xu Zhongshu test the deployment of one or two enemy forces tomorrow!"

After Lin Ziran gave the order, there was nothing to do all night, and the next day, when the sky was just dawning, the tens of thousands of horses of the Sixth Division set off again.

The cavalry troops were in the front, and the two flanks were two mixed brigades, and in the center were the headquarters of the Sixth Division and a large number of baggage troops and artillery units.

In addition to the officers and men of the 6th Division, there were actually thousands of temporarily conscripted civilians in the huge marching contingent to transport heavy artillery.

Originally, there was no need for so many people, after all, the baggage troops and artillery units of the Sixth Division had a large number of service horses and carriages, and there were actually not too many ordinary people for logistics and transportation, because the Sixth Division was a very standard mule-horse army.

However, there was a heavy rain yesterday morning, and then there was a light rain last night, and the gloomy sky and the occasional rain made the ground extremely muddy, and the road was slippery.

Many of the wagons were stuck in muddy roads and it was difficult to pass quickly.

In order to move forward quickly, this is to recruit a large number of people to help transport the baggage.

Not only the people, but also the baggage soldiers of the Sixth Division itself, the soldiers of the engineering battalion, and the artillerymen will also be painstakingly transporting artillery and baggage.

In order to speed up, Lin Ziran even asked ordinary infantry to help push carts and the like.

But even though the road is more difficult to walk, but the terrain is flat, the horse-drawn people can finally continue to move forward.

In the afternoon, the main force led by Lin Ziran finally arrived at Niujiao Mountain, and in order to avoid accidents, they did not continue to advance, but camped to rest.

Because the enemy army is about five kilometers in front of them!

Strictly speaking, as long as he was a few hundred meters ahead, Lin Ziran could directly let those two rear-loading steel cannons bombard the enemy's camp!

But Lin Ziran didn't do this, although the two rear-loading steel cannons had a long range, after all, the number was small, and they could only play the role of surprise attacks in this kind of battle of tens of thousands of people, so he planned to hide it first, and then give the enemy's artillery unit a ruthless attack during the day tomorrow.

Lin Ziran didn't need these two rear-loading steel cannons to kill or injure many enemy troops, he only needed to be able to temporarily suppress some of the enemy's new nine-pound field guns and heavy artillery positions at that time.

As long as you can suppress the new nine-pound field artillery with the longest range in the hands of the enemy, then your new nine-pound field artillery can be deployed in the front, and then suppress a large number of other artillery pieces of the enemy, and cover your own large number of eighteen-pound short-barreled howitzers and five-pound field guns to come forward to suppress the enemy's infantry defense line.

And then get a full artillery advantage!

As long as you can gain the advantage of artillery, then you can expect a big victory!

With the current technical level of steel post-assembly and running, it is very difficult for a machinery factory of this scale to be built by Tsingshan Machinery Factory, and so far there is no way to achieve industrial production, so it can only rely on a large amount of manpower and material resources to build a small-scale laboratory.

The production is extremely limited, and it is not possible to produce a few doors in a month.

In this case, it makes no sense to try to kill or injure as many enemy troops as possible by directly using steel breech-loading guns to intensively shell enemy infantry.

Because even if the infantry phalanx of other people stood there and did not move, it would be impossible for you to let these two steel cannons fight for a whole day, and it would be impossible to inflict wounding injuries on the tens of thousands of troops on the other side.

In Lin Ziran's plan, the core and even the only role of the current two steel rear-loading guns is to use the huge effective range and high accuracy to directly suppress the enemy's artillery position.

Especially to suppress the enemy's cannons with a relatively long range!

As long as the enemy's field artillery and cannons are suppressed, then a large number of front-loading smoothbore field guns and cannons can play a huge role, completely suppressing the opponent's artillery, and then gaining an artillery advantage on the entire battlefield.

In this case, although there were only two 75-mm steel rear-loading guns, the strategic role was extremely important.

This is also why in the evening of the same day, Lin Ziran had already asked the artillery unit to go out to find a suitable place to build an artillery position.

Early the next morning, when the troops began to set off, the two rear-loading guns in the artillery unit went directly forward under the cover of the cavalry troops, and then the horse-drawn people pushed and forcibly pulled the two rear-loading guns with more than 800 kilograms up a mountain about 100 meters high!

At the same time, Lin Ziran also set his headquarters on the highest terrain and the best line of sight within a radius of several kilometers.

While the subordinate officers were busy mobilizing and deploying troops, Lin Ziran came to the artillery position of the rear-loading artillery on the side.

This artillery position is actually very small, after all, there are only two guns.

However, there were a lot of shells in the back.

It is difficult to produce artillery industrially, but artillery shells, even if they are all-metal fixed shells, can be industrially produced, and the Aoyama Machinery Factory in the rear has been working day and night to produce all kinds of artillery shells, and the all-metal fixed shells used in these 75-mm rear-loading guns are even more important.

Just now there are more than 800 shells in the bunkers on the top of the hill and on the back slope, and on average, each gun is enough for 400 shells.

And that's not all, in fact, the supply line behind is still transporting all kinds of shells, and this 75mm all-metal fixed ammunition is no exception.

After Lin Ziran came to the artillery position, he originally took a group of artillery officers to personally test and calculate the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and Kong Deyi, who formulated the artillery plan, quickly brought people over: "My lord! ”

Lin Ziran said: "How's the preparation?" Were there any problems with the follow-up shelling? ”

Kong De said: "Lord Hui, we are calculating and firing Zhu Yuan on the enemy's artillery positions one by one according to the information we have detected, and according to the distance between the enemy and us, there is no problem with the shelling!" ”

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