Don't think that Wu Guanlin's strategic plan is simple, but in fact, it is the greatest advantage of the Luo'an garrison.

That is the long-range artillery ability of the rear-loading artillery, and the artillery firepower advantage extended on this basis, as well as the positional warfare and storming capabilities brought by it.

As for playing mobile warfare, playing field encounters and the like, it is difficult to give full play to the artillery advantages of the Luoan garrison.

Exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses, this is the core of Wu Guanlin's seemingly simple battle plan!

After the battle plan was initially approved, Wu Guanlin urgently led people to improve the detailed plan, but those were small details that could be slowly improved in the future.

As for now, Lin Ziran has already begun to mobilize troops!

He first ordered the Fifth Division to hold the northern defensive line, and to put the northeastern region on alert.

Then the 3rd Division was ordered to hold the northwest defense line, and at the same time appropriately send troops south to guard against Qiuhua County.

These two orders were used to stabilize the rear, and the southbound troops also received Lin Ziran's orders one by one and began to move south one after another.

In order to conceal the strategic attempt and prevent Shao Bing or Du Zhikuan from discovering in advance that Luo'an County was going to attack Luohai County, Lin Ziran strictly ordered all troops to conceal their whereabouts.

He even specially set up a fake 'summer exercise' in Lingchang County to conceal the real mobilization.

The real situation is that the Fourth Division and other troops have quietly moved south.

After the time entered August, even Lin Ziran himself had already begun to go south with the first division.

Because it was a secret operation, although the army went south, those people in the direction of the county town thought that the first division was going to participate in the exercise.

Of course, Lin Ziran also knew that the whereabouts of his troops could not be concealed for a long time.

Whether it is the movement of troops or the movement of a large number of weapons and ammunition, it is relatively large, and ordinary people may be kept in the dark for a long time, but for those professional military spies, even through the conventional situation, they can judge the abnormality.

As for the careful analysis of the anomaly, Lin Ziran is going to lead the army south to fight Luohai County, I am afraid that more detailed evidence and more time will be needed.

On August 7, Lin Ziran, who had been hiding all the way and walking day and night, finally arrived at Dingjiang Fortress with his troops.

The next day, on the morning of 8 August, Lin Ziran convened the generals of the various units heading south and held the last strategic meeting before launching the southward operation.

At the strategic meeting, Wu Guanlin explained the specific battle plan: "According to the battle plan, the official attack will be launched in the early hours of tomorrow morning!" ”

Wu Guanlin said as he pointed to the military map with the command list: "In order to break through the enemy's front-to-face defense line, our army will concentrate most of the main forces in the area south of Dingjiang, including the first division, the second division, three cavalry brigades, two heavy artillery regiments, and an experimental artillery regiment to launch a surprise attack, and each unit will strive to arrive at the scheduled departure position before 5:30 tomorrow." ”

"At 5:30 a.m. our troops will carry out artillery bombardment on time, the first wave of shelling will last fifteen minutes, and after a pause of five minutes, a second round of shelling will be launched in order to confuse the enemy and kill and wound the enemy."

"Ten minutes after the second round of shelling, all units should launch an attack on time, especially the first division in the direction of the main attack, and be sure to break through the enemy's first line of defense within the scheduled time and open a southward passage for the follow-up troops!"

"In order for the 1st Division to break through the enemy's defense, our army will concentrate at least 150 artillery pieces on the 1st Army's defense line, including the experimental artillery regiment, for artillery bombardment."

On the eastern front of the Luo River, the second mixed brigade is still in charge, and the tactical task of the brigade is mainly to contain and confuse the enemy. ”

After Wu Guanlin briefly explained the battle plan, he explained it in detail afterwards.

This is not just about the battle plan, in fact, a lot of content has nothing to do with front-line battles, but logistics, tactical coordination, and so on.

Don't look at the southbound battle plan, it is all the way flat, but in fact, the detailed battle plan has more than 50 pages, covering all aspects completely.

The reason why Wu Guanlin said a lot of content that had nothing to do with the battle was that the preparation time was too hasty, and it was only about half a month's preparation time before and after, and all the troops went south directly after receiving the order, and the transfer of logistics materials was also relatively slow to mobilize for the sake of secrecy.

After all, if the Luo'an garrison transports boats of supplies to the south, the spies of Luohai County don't have to do anything, and they can directly squat near the dock of the county town and count the boats, and they can preliminarily determine what the Luo'an garrison is going to do!

As a result, in the initial operations to the south, they will rely more on the stockpiling of ammunition in the southern defense line.

However, as long as the Luo River can be blocked and the Luo Hai Fleet is prevented from going up the river to attack the Luo River shipping, then there will be many follow-up open large-scale supply transportation, and a large number of them can be transported in a few days.

After a detailed tactical meeting, the generals of each department returned to their units to prepare for the final battle matters.

These generals are actually much busier than Lin Ziran now.

At best, Lin Ziran had a meeting in the morning, and then ......

Then he was fine.

The orders had already been given, and all he needed to do was wait for news from the troops, and he couldn't even inspect them.

Because the troops have either arrived at the front or are on their way to the front.

Now the only one who remains in Dingjiang Fortress is actually his garrison regiment.

From noon onward, Lin Ziran successively received reports on the situation of various troops, most of which were reports on the movement of troops.

The experimental artillery regiment said that it had successfully crossed the Dingjiang River and was expected to arrive at the scheduled artillery position in the evening.

The 1st Division, as the main attacking force, also arrived at the scheduled departure position in the afternoon, and this departure was actually about two or three thousand meters away from the front line.

The reason why he did not step forward immediately was to avoid getting too close and being discovered by the opposing garrison.

It was not until the second half of the night that the front-line troops would move directly to the front line through the predetermined route, and then wait for the shelling to end, while resting for a short time, and when the shelling was over, it was time for them to charge.

This is done to avoid leaving too much time for the enemy to prepare!

This time, for the sake of suddenness, Lin Ziran fought undeclared, playing a sneak attack, how could he let the troops expose their whereabouts at the last moment.

In fact, at this time, there were still a small number of troops from the Fifth Division and the Third Division in Lingchang County in the north, plus all kinds of chaotic personnel temporarily transferred, who were still living in the military exercise area planned by the Luo'an Garrison.

From time to time, they also released empty guns and the like, and made fake drills as fake and real.

After a day's waiting, Lin Ziran actually couldn't sleep that night, so he was lost for a few hours, and by five o'clock in the morning, he had already gotten up again.

After a simple freshening up, I climbed to the highest place of the Dingjiang Fortress, that is, the watchtower.

Then he sat on the Taishi chair that Luo Mazi brought up, eating breakfast and waiting!

As we waited, the sky over there gradually whitened, and suddenly, a faint flash of light suddenly appeared on the edge of the southern sky, and after a while, I heard a dense and dull explosion!

At this time, Luo Mazi shouted: "My lord, it's already time to attack!" ”

Lin Ziran ate the last bite of the bun in his hand, and after drinking the milk again, he said, "Don't make a fuss!" ”

Then he picked up the binoculars and took a closer look!

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