"The movement of the South Navy is very strange, in recent days, a large number of military trains have arrived at the front line close to our side by rail, but our people have not found this situation in the northeast, and their troops on the northeast line have taken the initiative to retreat at least thirty kilometers!"

"What are they trying to do? It is reasonable to take the initiative to shrink the defense on the eastern front, but why did they not retreat to the difficult terrain on the northwestern front, which is close to us, and can they have the confidence to block our attack in the plain terrain? ”

Immediately, a subordinate said: "There are a lot of cavalry in the Southern Navy, maybe they want to rely on the cavalry troops to gain a tactical advantage over our army on the plain terrain!" ”

"There are now two cavalry corps on the side of the Southern Navy, and there are also cavalry regiments in each division, and the total number of cavalry is more than 100,000 cavalry, and the cavalry strength they have invested in Dongdingzhou is more than 70,000."

"Now they have collected a lot of cavalry from Dongdingzhou, not to mention that they can get another 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry, and the number of cavalry is very large!"

"When they fought Dongdingzhou before, their cavalry troops were very active, and they frequently outflanked the troops of Dongdingzhou through a wide range of strategic detours!"

The words of his subordinates made Feng Ziqi frown, this damn Nanhai Prefecture has a large population and a strong industry, but it is still a cavalry state!

The top war horse in the Daheng Empire is called the Nanzhou Horse.

Nanhai Prefecture is the origin of Nanzhou horses, although now Nanhai Prefecture is no longer the only production area of Nanzhou horses, not even the largest production area, but Nanhai Prefecture is still one of the top war horse producing states in the Daheng Empire.

A single state can get 100,000 cavalry, and these 100,000 cavalry are all cavalry with top Nanzhou horses, but few states can do it, not even Jingzhou, and they can't do it in Zishengzhou.

These 100,000 cavalry are a great threat!

It seems that this time when they go south, they can't engage in any mobile battles, they played like this in Dongdingzhou before, and in the end, they even lost their bottoms.

This time, when going south, we have to put on a posture in a dignified manner, gradually move south along the railway line, and drag down the southern navy through a head-on duel.

As for the head-to-head duel, the opponent's firepower advantage!

said that he Feng Ziqi didn't seem to have a rear-loading gun!

When rear-loading guns first appeared in Nanhai Prefecture, he sent people to collect information, got a lot of samples, and even poached the technicians of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.

As a result, the First Machinery Bureau under his command had successfully copied the Luoan III rifle as early as half a year ago, and solved various technical problems in mass production and began mass production, as for the steel breech-loading rifled gun, it was also successfully copied and began mass production two months ago.

And because of the tense situation, it was overtime and desperate production, for which he requisitioned several factories with private capital.

At present, the troops under his command have been equipped with at least 50,000 Luoan III rifles, and most of the other units are also equipped with breech-loading rifled units modified from smoothbore guns.

The main regular army has long been fully reloaded with rifled guns.

Previously, Yuan Yonghan and the others were able to make most of the troops equipped with modified rear-loading rifled guns, and Feng Ziqi, who controlled the land of a state, was even more able to do it.

There are a little fewer steel breech-loading rifled guns, but there are dozens of them, and dozens more can be obtained every month in the future.

Although the scale of the First Machine Bureau under his command is not as large as that of the Nanzhou Machine Bureau, which can produce hundreds of artillery pieces of different types and sizes a month, it is not a problem to produce dozens of guns a month if he tries to do so.

The actual situation was just as expected by Lin Ziran and other high-ranking officials of the Southern Navy, and if Feng Ziqi was given a few more months, Feng Ziqi would dare to equip all the nearly 300,000 main forces under his command with rear-loading guns.

And this is precisely the reason why the South China Navy could not wait to launch the Eastern Expedition and then continued to launch the Northern Expedition.

Lin Ziran didn't care about the external reaction at all, and even didn't bother to pay attention to the changes in the three directions of Zhongluozhou, Quyangzhou, and Jingzhou, but only strictly ordered the troops to rely on the defense line to defend it, and at the same time reinforced a small number of troops for them.

And the main force is still converging towards Zishengzhou!

On 29 September, 10 days after the South China Navy conquered Dongdingzhou, the South China Navy had actually completed the transfer of front-line troops.

Nearly 200,000 troops gathered in one place, cavalry, artillery, and infantry are complete, and the scale of cavalry and artillery is still very large.

If there is only the eastern defense line, only the new unit of the Sixth Army will be the core of the defensive mission, and this Sixth Army has also been transferred and deployed one and a half divisions to the west to support the movement of the troops on the northern front, in fact, the main force of the eastern front is less than 30,000 men.

In addition, the Seventh Army, a new unit that is still in the process of being reorganized, is deployed here.

Therefore, it seems that the strength of the Southern Navy on the Eastern Front is still very strong, with about 100,000 people, but unfortunately, most of them cannot be fought for the time being.

This is why such a conservative defensive strategy was adopted on the Eastern Front.

On September 30, Lin Ziran took a train to the front line of the northern front.

After arriving at the front line in the evening of the same day, he delivered a speech at the railway station, in which he once again held high the banner of the unification of Daheng, and declared that there would always be a part of them willing to rise again and fight bravely for the unification of Daheng.

There is no doubt that they belong to the people who bravely stand up and fight.

In fact, the content of this speech is mainly aimed at the officers and men of the whole army and the people of the two states, and as for the views of other states, it does not matter, at least for now.

That night, Lin Ziran convened a meeting of the main generals and formally approved the battle plan.

War is already inevitable!

When the Zishengzhou army in the north also believed that the movement of the southern navy on the northern front was to prevent them from going south, and wanted to use the cavalry advantage to gain an advantage in the great plains of the northern front.

However, the South China Navy has already done a good job of taking the initiative to attack, and it is still the kind of war that is not declared.

Naturally, there should be no formal declaration of war or anything like that, at most it would be a public opinion propaganda to convince the people under its rule that the war was just.

But in reality, few people really think that the war between the feudal towns is just.

Even if the public opinion propaganda of the Southern Navy is already in place, to be honest, in addition to brainwashing the officers of the Southern Navy's own vote, ordinary people outside are actually not very interested in Lin Ziran's set of Daheng unification and the like.

It is very simple for them to support Lin Ziran, just because Lin Ziran unified Nanhai Prefecture, brought them a stable life, and also reduced taxes.

But even so, Lin Ziran still continued to do all kinds of public opinion propaganda.

Public opinion propaganda this thing, it's better to do it than not to do it well, if you don't believe it in a short time, then slowly brainwash it, wash him 10,000 times and don't be afraid that he won't believe it!

And the most important thing is that it doesn't matter whether outsiders believe it or not, the key is that the officers and men of the South China Navy, especially those hot-blooded officers, must believe it!

Now Lin Ziran's public opinion propaganda is not for outsiders, but for his own people, to be precise, for the young officers under his command.

The young officers of the Southern Navy need a reason to fight!

Lin Ziran gave them a reason!