In fact, the staff office did not wait for three days to send the battle plan, and in fact, after Wu Guanlin returned that day, he took a group of combat staff officers to make a plan.

By the afternoon of the next day, Wu Guanlin had already found Lin Ziran with the preliminary plan and let Lin Ziran see it.

In this preliminary plan, the General Staff Office plans to implement a strategic defensive posture in the northwest and northern defense lines, and to leave behind a certain number of forward-loading heavy artillery units to rely on the northwest and northern defense lines to strictly defend to the death.

After preventing their own army from moving south, Hexi County and Guang'an Army made some changes.

According to the general staff's prediction, the Fifth Division of the northern defense line is already fully manned, and the troops of the northwest defense line are also rapidly changing their breech-loading rifles, as long as these two troops do not advance and rely on fixed fortifications for defensive operations, even if Guang'an County and Hexi County send large troops to attack, they will be able to hold at least a month or even longer.

As long as the northwest and northern defense lines are not lost, then the Luoan garrison will be able to draw the rest of the main forces south, including three main divisions, two heavy artillery regiments, one experimental artillery regiment, three cavalry brigades and other units.

It is expected that the front-line troops going south will reach more than 55,000 people!

There are more than 55,000 people, which seems to be not much compared with the 100,000 troops of the Luo Navy.

But in fact, there are not so many troops left in Shao Bing's hands to guard the Luo Navy, Shao Bing has at least 40,000 troops in Anlong County, if he didn't help Anlong County to defend, the little force in Anlong County would have been killed by the army of Hetai County.

The 200,000 troops of Hetai County are no smaller than Lin Ziran, or even greater.

At the same time, Shao Bing also had to guard against Qingyuan County and Qiuhua County in the west, coupled with local ammunition pressure, in fact, Shao Bing's available troops were also very tight.

According to the intelligence, Luohai County is deployed in the northern defense line, that is, the front line to defend Luo'an County, and the deployment of about 25,000 troops is about 25,000 people.

As a garrison on weekdays, this number is actually not small.

In contrast, Lin Ziran was deployed in the northern defense line, and there were only 15,000 people guarding against Guang'an County.

Because as long as these fixed-deployment troops can withstand the first wave of the enemy's attack, it will not be long before reinforcements continue to arrive.

Of the remaining 25,000 men, about 15,000 were deployed in the northwestern part of Nahae County, and this force was on guard against Roan County as well as against Qiuhua County.

There are another 5,000 people in the southwestern region, and about 15,000 mobile troops around Luohai City.

On the whole, the defense of Luohai County was focused on the eastern and northern fronts. There were about 40,000 troops on the eastern front, and 40,000 troops on the northern front, plus mobile troops in the northwest.

In the southwest, there are not many troops, because Qingyuan County in the southwest is relatively poor and has a small population, and there is no sense of existence in the entire Nanhai Prefecture.

Not only Qingyuan County, but even Qiuhua County, which is northwest of Luohai County and west of Luo'an County, also has no sense of existence, most of the land in these two broken places is relatively barren, and the population is actually very small.

Basically, the essence of the entire Nanhai Prefecture is on both sides of the Luo River, and there are extensive arable land plains on both sides, also known as the lower reaches of the Luo River Plain, and then the western region of Nanhai Prefecture, Hetai County on the side of Linji Dongding Prefecture, is also a relatively fertile area with a large population.

The lower reaches of the Luo River Plain are basically within the scope of Luohai County and Luoan County

Otherwise, over the years, several people who have hoped to unify Luohai County are the county guards of Luohai County or Luo'an County.

Because these two counties are taken together, they can basically represent most of Nanhai Prefecture.

More than 50 percent of the population, more than 70 percent of grain production, and more than 90 percent of industrial production capacity are no jokes.

One Luohai City has a population of hundreds of thousands, and the industrial output value is more than half of the entire Nanhai Prefecture!

This is also why Lin Ziran is desperate to take Luohai County!

As for the other surrounding states, Qiuhua County in the west is a poor place, and if you want anything, it is a waste of precious window time for strategic advantage to fight now.

Ningmei County in the east is better, but it is worth mentioning that the place where these two counties meet is hilly terrain and deep forests, which has great limitations for the operation of large armies, and there are tens of thousands of troops in Ningmei County.

Guang'an County in the north is a good place, but a heavy Guangcheng fortress is blocked, and it takes time to bite down, not to mention, it is easy to lose a large number of troops.

There is also an Anlong County in the southeast, this broken place is a powder keg, Hetai County is eyeing Anlong County, and the 200,000 army can be killed at any time, Lin Ziran will only run to Anlong County when his brain is pumped.

After turning around this circle, Lin Ziran just found that it was easier and more cost-effective to fight Luohai County.

The only trouble is that the Navy is a little worse.

But this is not impossible to solve, as long as you don't stupidly let the troops go directly down the river by boat, then there is a way to solve this problem.

Wu Guanlin: That's what the battle plan formulated by their staff office!

It seems that the marching route is still all the way south along the Luo River, but in fact, the marching route of the troops will leave the Luo River for several kilometers.

At the same time, even if the fleet cooperated with the battle, it did not expect the fleet to defeat the enemy's naval fleet head-on, and then control the Luo River, and the role of the fleet was to assist, and at the same time escort the river supply line in the rear.

So how to control the Luo River?

The solution of the General Staff is actually quite simple.

That is, the use of experimental artillery regiments to directly block the Luo River.

The experimental artillery regiment followed the main forces all the way south, and as long as the enemy fleet dared to approach or go north along the river, then it would directly shell with breech-loading guns, especially those 150-mm heavy howitzers.

More than 20 rear-loading guns are used to block the Luo River, although the enemy fleet seems to be a little less, but this kind of fighting is a way that I can fight you, but you can't fight me, safe and efficient.

If the enemy fleet comes and is beaten repeatedly, no matter how many enemy river warships there are, they will have to be destroyed one by one.

As long as there are no problems with the experimental artillery regiment, it will not only be able to block the Luo River, but also assist the infantry units all the way through.

In the past, many battleships have fully surfaced the performance advantages of these rear-loading guns, and when they have the performance advantages of these rear-loading guns, a large number of front-loading smoothbore guns in Luo'an County can calmly shell, and then give full play to the artillery firepower of the entire Luo'an garrison.

Therefore, in the end, the southward battle plan that Lin Ziran saw was actually very simple and direct, not complicated at all, that is, to kill all the way along the Luo River, kill gods when encountering gods, and kill Buddhas when encountering Buddhas!

It's a completely flat battle plan!

But after Lin Ziran read it, he expressed his approval of this battle plan.

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