Nanzhou Machinery Bureau and Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, the two major arsenals, because of their huge scale, go to the factory area is not in the central city of Luohai City, but built in the suburbs of Luohai City, because of the huge scale and even itself can be regarded as a small city.

The Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is no exception!

Anyway, the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is such a big arsenal, and it doesn't mean that it is built in the Jingshi City, even if the Jingshi is attacked by force at that time, if the entire Jingshi Capital cannot be taken, there is a great hope of destroying the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

At this time, Wu Guanlin continued to talk about the battle plan, and the core combat target of the first phase was not somewhere, but the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

The operational goal of the second stage is to control some strategic points in Jingzhou, including Jingzhou, Fengyang City, and Zhenbei City, all of which have one characteristic, that is, they belong to the cities along the 'Jinghe', the largest river in Daheng.

In other words, in fact, the goal of the second phase of the operation is to control the coastal cities of the Jinghe River in Jingzhou, so as to open up the Jinghe channel and prepare for the next step of entering Pingnan Prefecture.

The strategic goal of the third stage is a strategic place in the hinterland of Daheng, although their industry is not very good, but they have rich mineral resources, and almost all of Pingnan Prefecture is plain, and the quality of the land is not bad, all of which belong to arable land.

The state's huge grain production makes it the second most populous state in Daheng, with a population of nearly 30 million, more than Nanhai Prefecture.

In addition, it has the richest reserves and the best quality iron ore and anthracite coal in Dahengli, which have been flowing down the river and providing a boost for the industrial development of Jingzhou after entering Jingzhou.

Of course, this is not actually the main reason for the Daheng Unification Army to attack Pingnan Prefecture in the third stage, the main reason is that if you attack this state, there is Jinghe shipping to rely on, and it is convenient to transport supplies......

As for Nanhu Prefecture, which is also convenient, the upper reaches of the Luo River, it is a pity that when the Luo River enters Quyang Prefecture from Nanhu Prefecture, it will flow through a section of the Nine Bends Canyon.

This canyon is not like the Luohe Gorge, it is said to be a canyon, but in fact, it is only a mountain range on both sides, and a basin in the middle, with dozens of kilometers at the widest place and several kilometers at the narrow place.

Nine Bends This is a pure canyon, only a few hundred meters wide of the river, lined with cliffs, although it is still navigable, but there are many bends, and relying on this kind of canyon, it is easy to arrange a fortress.

If you want to open up the Nine Bends Canyon, it is too difficult, and the Daheng Unification Army did not consider directly forcing through the Nine Bends Canyon.

It's not just the Daheng Unification Army, in fact, in the past thousand years, in so many wars, there has not been a general who will stupidly forcibly attack the Nine Bends Canyon, why?

You can go around it......

This place is not like the Luo River Gorge, there are mountains on both sides, and there is no way to go around.

Although there are mountains on both sides of this nine-bend canyon, they are actually not too high, if you go around a little farther, it will be a flat river!

Therefore, for thousands of years, there has not been that fool who has not left the avenue and has to go to the Nine Bends Canyon.

When you get to the side of the Daheng Unification Army, you can actually bypass it, but the material consumption of the Daheng Unification Army far exceeds that of the ancient army, and if you bypass it, it will be difficult to supply it.

So simply ignore Nanhuzhou for now, and after preparing to take Jingzhou, Pingnanzhou will go south in an instant.

Since there is no railway connection between Zisheng Prefecture and Pingnan Prefecture, and there are no rivers, the main direction of attack will be placed on the Jingzhou side, relying on the Jinghe River shipping to maintain the logistical supply of the attacking army.

Part of the troops in the direction of the northern front of Zishengzhou cooperated with the attack.

As long as after taking Jingzhou, and then taking Pingnan Prefecture, which is an important place for industry, agriculture and population, then the subsequent unification war will be easy to fight.

Then there will be a lack of stamina at that time, but even if it is consumed, it can consume the other five continents to death!

And this is the fourth stage!

The entire Northern Expedition of the Daheng Unification Army was planned to destroy the Gyeongju Machinery Bureau as the first stage, and the control of the southern part of Gyeongju and the Jinghe River Valley in the middle was the second stage.

The third stage is to go north along the Jingjing River and control Pingnan Prefecture.

As for the subsequent wars with the other five northern states, they are classified as the fourth stage.

In fact, up to now, the fourth stage of the battle plan has only a general battle plan, and it is only a preliminary decision that after taking Pingnan Prefecture, the forces will be transferred to Nanhu Prefecture, so that they can control the upper reaches of the Luo River.

Take complete control of the banks of the two most important rivers in Daheng.

Jing River and Luo River, but the most important rivers in Daheng, and the navigation conditions are very good, especially the Luo River, from Luo Hai City all the way to the north, to Luo An City, this section of the channel, the water depth of the main channel is more than ten meters, even if it is a 10,000-ton ironclad ship can be navigable.

Luo'an City goes up to Qingde City, and thousands of inland river ships can also be navigated, even if Qingde City goes all the way to the north, through the Nine Bends Gorge into Nanhu Prefecture, it can also be navigated all the way to more than 1,000 tons of inland river vessels.

Although the navigable capacity of the Jing River is a little worse, it is not much worse, the main gap is that the navigable capacity of the downstream is not so large, but the section of the Aojing Division at the mouth of the sea can still be navigated by 10,000 tons of sea vessels.

And more importantly, the navigability of these two largest rivers in Daheng is not only their main stream, but also many tributaries.

Why hasn't the railway system developed in Nanhai Prefecture until now? But it's not because of technical problems, it's purely because of the dense network of the Luo River in Nanhai Prefecture, except for Qingyuan County in the west, other counties can be navigated by inland river vessels.

Among them, the Nanluo River goes all the way to the east, penetrating deep into the highlands of Hetai, and its navigation conditions are excellent.

Therefore, the preliminary plan of the fourth stage is to control the upper reaches of the Luo River, completely control the two major rivers in Daheng, and use these two major rivers to completely open up the north-south transportation.

Relying on these two rivers and their tributaries, supplemented by the scattered railway networks in the states, the Daheng unified army was able to open up the transportation network of most of the states in the control area in a short time, and divide the northwest and northeast states of the northern states.

As for how to fight the Northwest Prefecture and the three Northeast states in the end, in fact, this is no longer a difficult problem, because at that time, from a strategic point of view, the Daheng Unification War can be said to have completely established the victory, and the follow-up is just the end.

After Wu Guanlin finished talking about the overall strategic plan, he also talked about the deployment of troops: "This time for the Northern Expedition, attacking Jingzhou is the top priority, and a large number of major troops must be invested in the early stage, and for this reason, we have continuously mobilized the Fourth Army, the Eighth Army, the Second Cavalry Army, the Third Cavalry Army, the First Artillery Brigade, and the Third Artillery Brigade to reinforce the direction of Dongdingzhou in the early stage. ”

"Together with the Third Army and the Seventh Army, our army will concentrate four infantry corps, two cavalry corps, and two artillery brigades in the direction of Dongdingzhou."

"There are twelve infantry divisions, ten cavalry divisions, and six heavy artillery regiments."