The Second Cavalry Corps of the Daheng Unification Army captured a city with a population of nearly 200,000 without even entering the city!

Even after the remaining patrols and militiamen who maintained law and order in Guan Chongcheng took the initiative to surrender, their main cavalry unit did not enter the city, but only symbolically sent a cavalry regiment into the city to take over......

In fact, this cavalry regiment also stayed in Guan Chongcheng for a day, and when the follow-up troops of the Third Army arrived, this cavalry regiment hurriedly continued to pursue their main force north.

The Second Cavalry Army and the Third Cavalry Army were in a hurry, not because they wanted to pursue Prince Kang's northward fleeing troops, but Prince Kang fled by train, which would have actually run to the Beijing Division, and the six legs of the cavalry troops could not run the train......

The cavalry troops were in a hurry to go north, that was to strategically blockade the Beijing Division, intercept troops from other regions into the Beijing Division, and seize the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau before the enemy destroyed the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

Of course, if there is a chance to steal chickens and directly seize Jingshi, it will also be a good thing to see.

The cavalry unit has two core strategic tasks, blocking the channel for external forces to enter the Beijing Division, blocking the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, and if it can be captured, it will be captured, and if it is not captured, it will be contained, and if it is really not possible, it will bombard the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

The troops of the Third Army that arrived at Guan Chongcheng were also in a hurry, and even the main force did not enter the city, but went directly north, leaving only one regiment to garrison and wait for the handover of the follow-up troops.

So much so that after surrendering to Chengcheng, the whole of Guan Chongcheng, including the officials, gentry, and patrol militia, were confused, because they found that the Daheng Unification Army didn't care much about them, but only took over the weapons, ammunition, and grain warehouses in the city, and controlled the banks and other key nodes.

They even need to manage the security and other affairs in the city

But this doesn't mean that the Daheng Unification Army really doesn't care about this Guan Chongcheng, but this is also a county town with a population of more than 200,000.

No, when the troops of the Fourth Army arrived, the city was fully taken over by the Daheng Unification Army.

The Jingzhou Front Army of the Daheng Unification Army has a total of six armies, namely two cavalry corps and four infantry corps.

Among the four infantry corps, the Third Army did not participate in the battle of the Three Towns on the Southern Front because it suffered a lot of losses in the early stage of crossing the river, but was used as a strategic reserve, mainly to prevent emergencies, and also to rest and replenish.

After the end of the battle of the three towns on the southern front, the third army also completed the replenishment of new recruits and the replenishment of weapons and ammunition, and the third army, which was once again fully manned, assumed the task of the vanguard of the whole army and became the first batch of infantry troops to go north.

In other words, the current Third Army and the Eighth Army are the main infantry units that are rushing north to attack!

The Seventh Army will continue to follow as the second group of troops heading north.

As for the Fourth Army in the rear, it was the main force in the Battle of the Three Towns on the Southern Front, plus a part of the troops had to be left to deal with prisoners of war, etc., so the time to go north would be a little slower.

Considering that the Fourth Army had suffered a lot of combat consumption and was relatively tired before, it was necessary to give them a period of rest and replenishment, and as for taking over Guan Chongcheng and guarding the prisoners, it was also one of their tasks to reorganize the Chengcheng troops.

Taking over Guan Chongcheng, guarding, and reorganizing the hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and the surrender troops behind it is actually just a trivial matter, and the main thing is to rest and replenish, acting as a strategic reserve for the Jingzhou Front, and at the same time ensuring the rear of the front-line army.

In the Southern Front Campaign, the Daheng Unification Army captured more than 100,000 prisoners, and there were more than 70,000 rebel troops.

This adds up to 170,000, although these troops have been fully disarmed, and they can't turn over any storms, but according to the consistent principle of the Daheng unified army, soldiers will be selected from these surrendered and surrendered troops in the future, and they will be used to reorganize the new troops.

And this task is mainly the responsibility of the Fourth Army.

The Fourth Army needs to transfer some officers and key soldiers to serve as the backbone of the newly integrated troops.

On 10 June, Lin Ziran formally ordered the formation of the 12th Army and the 13th Army, which included a total of six infantry divisions, two cavalry divisions, and two independent artillery regiments.

The required soldiers were selected from the surrendered troops, and the required equipment was selected from the captured equipment.

In fact, only the two armies could not accommodate the surrendered and surrendered troops, so some more people would be transferred to reorganize the two garrison divisions, and the rest would be reorganized into engineer divisions.

After the work of these reorganized troops is arranged, it is naturally the responsibility of the subordinate agencies, and Lin Ziran has not paid much attention to it, and the Daheng Unification Army is very skilled in these things.

You must know that almost most of the troops in the Daheng Unification Army were reorganized from the troops of the various feudal towns that surrendered and surrendered.

The newly recruited and trained troops add up to only about 100,000 people.

If you do this kind of thing a lot, you will naturally become familiar with it.

Even, this situation is the main willingness of many feudal town troops to surrender at the last moment, because ordinary soldiers and grassroots people do not have to worry about unemployment.

Ordinary soldiers can continue to serve as long as they are willing and chosen.

Junior officers can go to crash courses for retraining if they are selected at the same time, and after passing the qualifications, they can be arranged to enter the units.

Middle and high-ranking officers don't expect to continue to lead troops, but Lin Ziran generally won't treat them badly, he will keep their military titles, give them a title or a false position such as a senior advisor, although it is said that they will be placed under house arrest in the early stage, and it is impossible to gain real freedom, but they should eat and drink.

At the same time, after the complete defeat of the feudal towns they were loyal to, and at the same time if their personal attitude is relatively good, they will be released from house arrest in advance, and most of them choose to be rich men, while some continue to serve in the army.

Although there is no way to continue to lead the army in a short period of time, many positions in the army command that do not have real power can still be held, for example, there are actually many senior generals in the general staff who can help make suggestions with the situation of advisers.

Because of their excellent staff officers, good attitudes, and really good personal abilities, some of them have already been given the opportunity to make a comeback and serve in the field troops as deputy chief of staff, chiefs of various sections under the army, artillery staff officers, cavalry staff officers, and so on.

A few of them are even division and brigade commanders who have served as garrison divisions.

Lin Ziran didn't completely block their way, and left some openings.

Leave them with a little hope, otherwise, they will not see any hope, and they will resist desperately.

This time dealing with the surrender of these 170,000, surrendering the troops, the same is true.

However, at this time, Lin Ziran didn't pay much attention to these surrendered troops, he paid more attention to the situation of the two cavalry corps and the third army that continued to move north.

It's just that in the first few days, everything was calm!

It was not until 18 June that a medium-sized battle broke out between the 2nd Cavalry Corps and the enemy, and the 2nd Cavalry Corps held off a Jingzhou force of about 8,000 men about 50 kilometers southeast of the Beijing Division.

This unit was ordered to go to Beijing for reinforcements.

For several days, the 2nd Cavalry Corps and the 3rd Cavalry Corps continued to contact and engage the enemy, thus announcing the beginning of the Battle of Jingshi!