The battle report said that the enemy's rear-loading artillery fire was extremely ferocious, and at the beginning of the battle, it completely suppressed its own smoothbore artillery units, and only one battalion of front-loading rifled guns was able to avoid being hit at the beginning of the battle because it was deployed backwards, and carried out a certain degree of return fire, but it was soon suppressed by the opponent's rear-loading artillery through long-range shelling.

There is no doubt that the troops under Lin Ziran were able to gain such a big tactical advantage, all because of this rear-loading artillery!

But how the hell was this damn breech-loading gun made?

After pondering for a long time, Shao Bing said, "Call everyone over for an emergency meeting!" ”

"By the way, call someone from the Machine Bureau later!"

The former's emergency meeting is naturally to discuss the next deployment, the northern defense line is finished, how to stop Lin Ziran's southward army in the future, this is a big problem, first of all, where to draw troops is a big trouble.

And the people of the latter's Machinery Bureau, Shao Bing naturally needs to ask the people of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, when will they be able to build all the rear-loading artillery!

It is not wrong for Shao Bing to focus on rear-loading artillery, but in fact, this is not enough!

The troops under Shao Bing's command, and even the troops under Jianminggang before, the troops of Li Dingjun and others were difficult to cope with in Shanhaiguan, where they were fighting with the troops under Lin Ziran.

The point is not how strong the troops under Lin Ziran are, but that they don't know how to deal with the new tactics of the troops under Lin Ziran!

How to say it, the troops under Lin Ziran's command are fighting in a completely different way from the troops of other feudal towns.

For example, in a simple battle between infantry, in normal times, there is no need to consider where the enemy is at all, because both sides are fighting face to face in dense formations!

But in the battle with the Luoan garrison, those soldiers were all like rats, either lying on the ground or hiding, it was difficult to find them without saying anything, and even if they did, it would be difficult to hit.

There is also the aspect of the use of artillery.

In fact, the artillery of the major feudal towns is mainly used to attack the enemy infantry, so the artillery units are generally deployed in the front.

However, the Luoan garrison took advantage of the range and rate of fire of the rear-loading artillery to suppress the enemy's artillery units first.

As a result, the enemy's artillery units suffered massive losses in the early stages of the battle.

There are other differences, and these differences, which add up, make them unable to adapt.

They have not been exposed to these methods of warfare, nor have they learned how to deal with them, most of them can only deal with them in a way that they can understand, and a few will keep up with the times and improve the old tactics to a certain extent.

But it didn't work well!

Needless to say, the tactics of the line era to deal with the war in the era of rear-loading guns are no different from suicide!

The latter, on the other hand, lacked enough time to adapt, because before they could figure out how to deal with it, they were defeated or died, or they were in prisoner of war camps.

Although Lin Ziran doesn't need to surrender officers, he doesn't let it go, and now many surrendered officers are still in the prisoner of war camp, building roads and digging canals, and shining for Luo'an's infrastructure construction.

This means that even a handful of hostile generals in previous wars have been able to figure out how to deal with them, but they have either died or are in prisoner of war camps.

And under Shao Bing's hands, naturally there is no one!

The combination of weapons and tactics is the real Luo'an garrison, and this Luo'an garrison is the reason why the connection between Jianminggang's department, Li Dingjun's department, Zhao Song's department, and now Shao Bing's department was defeated.

It's a pity that, for the time being, Shao Bing obviously didn't notice this!

In fact, in the past few months, few people have noticed this, only the large number of breech-loading rifles in the Roan garrison, and now the rear-loading artillery, and the enormous power of these rear-loading weapons.

But in reality, very few people really pay attention to the tactical details or even the detailed formation of the Luoan garrison.

Of course, all this is also related to the fact that Lin Ziran's rise was too short, and it was only a few months before and after, that is, from the control of the two counties to sweep the whole county, and then can't wait to go south to Luohai County, in this process, the other feudal towns have not even had time to learn the experience and lessons of these wars.

Shao Bing soon gathered many generals and began to make emergency deployments.

In order to deal with the dilemma of the northern front, Shao Bing ordered about 15,000 troops of the Fourth Division deployed on the northwest defense line to march eastward, arrive at Luohe and carry out defensive operations with the cooperation of the fleet, initially restraining Lin Ziran's southward pace, and buying time for follow-up reinforcements, and at the same time, several cavalry units in the hinterland will also urgently maneuver to the north for reinforcements.

At the same time, three divisions with a total of 35,000 troops were urgently transferred to the Eastern Front, that is, Anlong County.

At the same time, two divisions were transferred from the area of Luohai City, with a total of 20,000 people going north.

Eventually, these 55,000 troops would converge and, together with the Fourth Division, try to completely block the enemy's southward advance.

Considering the huge number of enemy troops heading south, there are also 50,000 or 60,000 people, and it is estimated that it is enough to rely on these forces to stop the enemy's southward movement, so the above-mentioned troops are only an emergency plan in the early stage.

In the future, soldiers will be urgently recruited to supplement the troops in the direction of the county town, and strive to send another 20,000 reinforcements to the front line within a month to further stabilize the defensive line.

In the end, Shao Bing will continue to draw troops from other directions, and by only recruiting soldiers, he will gather a total of hundreds of thousands of troops within three months to completely defeat Lin Ziran's southbound troops.

And the premise of all this is, of course, time!

It was necessary that the Fourth Division of Luohai could delay Lin Ziran's southward movement with the cooperation of the fleet and buy time for the arrival of the first batch of reinforcements.

In the future, the first batch of reinforcements will be needed to continue to stabilize the defensive line, drag Lin Ziran's troops, and buy more time for rear mobilization.

In the end, it is to gather an army of 100,000 to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop!

But will the Fourth Division really be able to buy Shao Bing enough time?

Shao Bing didn't know, but now he can only believe in the Fourth Division, because in the entire northern and northwest defense lines, there is only such a complete force as the Fourth Division left, who else can he count on if he doesn't expect the Fourth Division?

After Cui Xiangde, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Luo Navy, received the urgent order from the herald, he did not dare to delay, and directly led his troops eastward to prepare to block the Luo River and prevent Lin Ziran's troops from continuing southward.

It's just that on the way east, Cui Xiangde seems worried!

The two divisions in the north are finished, and it is said that the whole army was defeated in less than half a day, this battle is not easy to fight!

After only a few days of marching, Cui Xiangde finally knew why the 6th and 7th Divisions had been defeated so cleanly.

Because of his 4th Division, he was attacked by enemy cavalry on the march, and then a large number of enemy infantry artillery forces appeared.

A fierce battle ensued!

During the whole battle, Cui Xiangde asked himself to command properly, and the troops also carried out his orders well.

But it was defeated.

It's not the kind that is inexplicable, surprising, or even indignant.

But it was defeated without suspense and in a desperate way!

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