When he was still in Hetai County before, Xu Teng had not heard of the power of the Southern Navy, not only that he had heard about it, but he had seen the detailed information about the Southern Navy collected by many subordinates.

Even he has Lin Ziran's complete development trajectory from the beginning of Qingshan Town to the present.

Therefore, although Xu Teng had not been in contact with Lin Ziran and the Southern Navy before, he was no stranger to Lin Ziran and the Southern Navy.

A few years ago, he knew very well that the South China Navy was equipped with a large number of rear-loading rifled rifles and rear-loading rifled artillery, and these advanced weapons would definitely bring great tactical advantages to the South China Navy, which can be seen from the destruction process of the feudal towns in the Liangluo region such as Jianminggang and Shao Bing.

Almost everyone knew that Lin Ziran at that time, with this army equipped with advanced breech-loading rifled weapons, quickly defeated these feudal towns with an unstoppable momentum, and then occupied the Liangluo region.

But Xu Teng didn't think that the equipment performance advantage of the Southern Navy under Lin Ziran was invincible!

If you want to talk about breech-loading rifled rifles, he also has them!

The Hetai Army under his command was also heavily equipped with Fuyuan rifles converted from Fuyuan smoothbore muskets.

The high-quality barrel of the Fuyuan smoothbore musket can be easily modified to become a rear-loading rifled rifle that has always been usable.

Just use the eight or nine layers of the new Fuyuan smoothbore musket to pull a rifling, and then open a clamshell at the end, you don't even have to worry about the specific design, Lin Ziran has already made it, and the others just do it.

Custom-packed paper shell bullets are also very simple things, not too complicated.

However, the rear-loading gun is a little more difficult, the barrel of this thing is too demanding on materials, and if you want to mass-produce steel breech-loading rifled guns, you must first have a technologically advanced steel plant that can produce this high-quality steel.

Xu Teng couldn't figure it out, but the arsenal under his command followed the example of the front-loading rifled guns made by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau before, and came up with dozens of 100-millimeter front-loading rifled iron casts or guns, and their effective firing range was also quite considerable, but the barrel life was relatively low.

There is no way to do this, the barrel of the front-loading rifled gun they produce is not a pure steel barrel, but an ordinary iron cast barrel, and the rifling will be polished out after a few shots.

But if the front-loading rifled gun is of poor quality and can barely be used, then the barrel of the rifle is completely out of the way.

The barrel life of the artillery is poor, but it can't hit a few shots, so it can be used anyway, as long as these guns play a role at a critical moment.

But compared to artillery, rifles are more frequently used consumables, and it is very common for soldiers who use rear-loading rifles to shoot dozens or even hundreds of rounds in a fierce battle.

If it is said that the breech-loading rifled rifle is polished with hundreds of bullets, this is simply unbearable, which means that before a big war is over, the rifled rifles of the soldiers will become smoothbore rifles, and the rifled rifles with polished rifles are not as good as pure muskets.

In the final analysis, Xu Teng lacked a large arsenal, or more precisely, a matching leading steel plant.

It is not possible to provide a large number of qualified steel for making guns and guns.

To put it bluntly, it is a matter of materials, not processing or design!

Making a smoothbore gun, making a bronze cannon iron cannon, or even pulling a rifling or something, can be done for many arsenals in Daheng, but it is not easy to produce qualified breezed barrels and barrel steel by yourself.

Even if you look at the entire Dahengli, there are no more than five steel plants that can do this!

Even if it is the barrel of the Fuyuan musket before, its quality is quite high, otherwise, the fame of the Fuyuan musket will not be so great, and it will even be sold to other states and even abroad, Fuyuan Ordnance Factory used to produce hundreds of thousands of Fuyuan muskets a year, and a small Nanhai State can not digest it, most of them are sold to other states and even abroad.

And why did the Fuyuan musket sell so well? The reason why many feudal towns now use relatively new Fuyuan muskets to modify breezed rifles is because the steel barrels of other people are of good quality!

Xu Teng used the huge number of Fuyuan muskets in his hand to select the better modifications for rear-loading rifled rifles, even if he has not let all the troops under his command be reequipped with modified Fuyuan rifles, but they are still equipped with one-third of the number.

The troops who participated in the attack before were all equipped with modified Fuyuan rifles.

At the same time, it is also equipped with dozens of only front-loading rifled guns.

But the two attacks before and after made Xu Teng completely change his mind!

In the past, he had only heard about how powerful the Southern Navy was, but at the same time, he also thought that the Hetai Army under his command could suppress the opponent's weapon performance advantage by virtue of its numerical superiority and more elite officers and soldiers.

Not to mention that he also made a lot of changes and began to use skirmishers on a large scale.

But he didn't expect that his troops would still be vulnerable when the real fight started.

Now he finally knows why Jian Minggang, Shao Bing, and Du Zhikuan lost so quickly, and even had no power to resist.

The root cause of all this is that the combat effectiveness of the South Navy is too strong.

This kind of strength is not even a simple superiority in equipment performance or quantity, or a single issue such as the quality of officers and soldiers, but more of a transcendence of war thinking.

The South China Navy is fighting again with a way of fighting that it does not understand!

And Xu Teng couldn't find a way to counteract for a while!

The point is not that it can't, but that it won't be for a while.

If he is given a few months, he can completely integrate the troops, improve the straggler tactics of the troops, and rebuild the command system of the troops.

But the problem now is that Lin Ziran didn't give him so much time.

The reinforcements of the Southern Navy have already arrived, and when the other side has more and more reinforcements, then let alone attack, it is estimated that the other side will have to counterattack.

And will you be able to block the opponent's counterattack?

Xu Teng thought about this problem very carefully, and finally he came to a conclusion: with the current situation, on the side of Nanyun City, relying on some temporary field fortifications, even if he has more than 100,000 troops, it is estimated that he will not be able to stop the opponent's attack.

People didn't even have to fight much, they just bombed it all the way with rear-loading artillery, and their hundreds of thousands of troops had to collapse one after another.

But it's not that it can't be held, these rudimentary field fortifications are useless, but what if there is a strong one?

He Xu Teng still has a lot of confidence to hold on.

Du Zhikuan couldn't hold the defense line of Chongguang City, that was because Du Zhikuan's fool was too stupid to command the troops to fight, and Du Zhikuan's troops were too small!

However, if he was to guard it himself, he would have the confidence to break Lin Ziran's teeth!

Therefore, he asked the 50,000 troops in the rear to stop advancing, and began to choose suitable terrain to build a defensive line, and then he would retreat to this defensive line with a large army to resist Lin Ziran's southern navy.

Relying on the defense line with 150,000 troops to carry out defensive operations, in order to wait for the attack and kill a large number of the living forces of the Southern Navy, this is the choice Xu Teng has made at present.

If Du Zhikuan knew Xu Teng's thoughts at this moment, he would definitely have a look of disdain: Ignorance is terrible, what did Lao Tzu go through when he led the army to defend Chongguang City, do you know?

Paralysis, in addition to hundreds of medium-caliber guns, there are dozens of heavy artillery shelling day and night, many times, the fortifications of the anti-artillery are good, but the soldiers hiding inside are all shocked to death.

Otherwise, how could the defense line of Chongguang City fall so easily!

The fortifications of the defense line of Chongguang City can't be carried by them, and you ordinary fortifications will only be damn if they can resist it!

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