It is inevitable to go south, but how to go south, where to fight after going south, and how to fight these are all things that need to be discussed.

At this time, Lin Ziran didn't say much anymore, just listened to the generals under his command discussing. At this time, they were all talking about it, and all kinds of messy things were said.

Some people say that they crossed the river at night and attacked southward, some said that they went into battle directly with heavy artillery to destroy the Dingjiang fortress, and some said that they went around the lower reaches of the Dingjiang River, ran to the upper part to find a place where it was easy to cross the river, and forcibly crossed the river under the cover of the artillery of the artillery unit.

Regarding everyone's proposals, Lin Ziran only listened, not said.

Because, in fact, today's occasion, to put it bluntly, is not to find solutions, but more to give those staff officers of the General Staff Office some flexibility, some inspiration, and some suggestions.

More than a dozen operational staff officers of the General Staff Office were all listening from behind at this time.

The battle plan of the troops under Lin Ziran was never made by the commander-in-chief of the unit, but by the staff team.

Strategic plans, which are basically made by the General Staff Office.

Previously, from Pingdan City to Shiyan Town in the south, and then to break through the Northwest Army, the First Division, and then to attack the county seat, and then to the north to Yonggu County, all the detailed battle plans for this series of strategies were formulated by the General Staff Office.

Therefore, the detailed follow-up battle plan has to wait for the staff office to come up with the plan.

After all, it is a large-scale battle of tens of thousands, and it needs to be fully coordinated and commanded, otherwise it will not even be able to send logistics supplies.

With the change of weapons, the change of tactics, and the increase in the depth of the battlefield, fighting a war is no longer an era in which the commander-in-chief of the unit can fight as he wants.

If you run so blindly that the troops and logistics are out of touch, you will run out of ammunition and food in a minute, and the whole army will be wiped out!

Now that the war has tended to be professionalized, otherwise Lin Ziran would not have set up a large staff team.

The next day, Lin Ziran saw the preliminary battle plan sent by Wu Guanlin.

The operational plan formulated by the General Staff Office was very simple, that is, to storm the Dingjiang fortress.

However, it was only such a strong attack on the Dingjiang fortress, and its detailed plan was written for dozens of pages, in addition to the strong attack on the Dingjiang fortress, there was also a partial division to detour the Dingjiang with the intensity of the operation, and attack the depth of the enemy's rear.

There is also the plan of the fleet to take advantage of the night to breathe the enemy fleet in the port of Dingjiang.

There were also plans for engineer units to dig tunnels and prepare for planting explosives to destroy enemy fortifications.

Of course, the most important thing is that the heavy artillery units come forward to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment of the enemy.

In short, everything revolves around the storming of Dingjiang Fortress, with more than 10 sub-plans attached, and the total number of troops will include three divisions, a cavalry brigade, two heavy artillery regiments, and the Luo'an fleet.

After briefly flipping through the battle plan, Lin Ziran said: "Do you really want to attack?" Can't take a detour? ”

Wu Guanlin said: "The colleagues in the staff office have already made a deduction, if we go around, there is actually no problem in forcibly crossing the river, we can use a large number of heavy artillery to cover and forcibly cross the river, but even if we cross the river, it is useless, after all, we are not directly south to Luohai County......

"In addition, once we divide our forces and cross the river, then the main force of the enemy army can advance west from the Dingjiang fortress at any time, and then block our land supply lines, and even attack the county town again."

"At the same time, they can also frequently attack our river-crossing boats through the Dingjiang River, and many situations are combined, when the time comes, the troops who go south after crossing the river are afraid that they will become rootless duckweed!"

"If you are besieged, we have also skipped it, but Dingjiang Fortress has been a military town since then, and there are probably a lot of food, weapons and ammunition hoarded inside, and it is estimated that there is no obvious effect in the siege for a year and a half, and the other party can still ......supply through the Luo River at any time."

"Even if we have rear-loading artillery to blockade it, they can still secretly resupply at night!"

"Therefore, it is not advisable to besiege, especially with the support of the other party and Luohai County!"

Listening to Wu Guanlin's explanation, Lin Ziran also sighed slightly, in fact, he knew all this, but he still thought about whether there was any way to use other tactics instead of attacking.

The assault meant a huge consumption of ammunition and even soldiers, which Lin Ziran did not want to see.

But the 30,000 people rely on the southern defense line established by the Dingjiang Fortress, and if you don't fight the Dingjiang Fortress, you basically don't expect to be able to break through the entire southern defense line.

This is the same as the defense line of Chongguang City, whether you want to go north or south, you must first open the canyon where Chongguang City is located, otherwise you can only climb the South Purple Mountain Range......

The Dingjiang Fortress is similar, with a Dingjiang River in the west and a Xintaihe River in the east, which completely cuts the north and south.

It is not impossible to force yourself to cross the river to the south, but it will be very uncomfortable.

Moreover, whether it is Lin Ziran himself or the staff officers of the staff office, they actually have a certain degree of confidence in their own troops.

If the Dingjiang fortress is stormed, then your own side will have an overall advantage in artillery and rifle firepower, troops, and even strategic initiative.

How to say it, when to fight, and how to fight are all decided by them, and Li Dingjun and they can only defend passively.

Even if Lin Ziran was ruthless, he could completely surround the Dingjiang Fortress far away, and he would not attack it, but only besiege it.

And the purpose of the siege is not to get them to surrender or something, but to keep them from coming out.

Then Lin Ziran could directly send officials to take over the huge Dingjiang County.

Only a lonely military fortress was left for Li Dingjun!

Therefore, now the initiative is in the hands of Lin Ziran. Even if you plan to attack, you can still have a big advantage.

After the initial decision to attack, Lin Ziran did not delay, and soon summoned his generals again, but this time it was not discussed, but a combat order was issued.

On 26 May, Lin Ziran officially ordered his troops to go south and personally led his troops to fight south.

This time, Lin Ziran brought most of the troops with him, leaving only one brigade to garrison in the county town, and he himself took three divisions, two cavalry brigades, two heavy artillery regiments, an experimental artillery battalion, and the Luo'an fleet to the south.

At the same time, he also ordered Wang Dao to lead the Second Mixed Brigade to launch an operation on the east bank of the Luo River and launch an attack on the place in front of him.

The east bank of the Luo River has never been the center of gravity of Luo'an County, the place is not big, nor is it a rich place, and Li Dingjun's center of gravity is not the east bank, but the west bank.

But on the West Bank, he personally led an army of nearly 60,000 to the south!

Among the 60,000 troops, in addition to the six 75-mm rear-loading guns scheduled for the experimental artillery battalion, there was also a test large-caliber steel rear-loading howitzer that was rushed out of the work!

This artillery is a bit special, it is only eleven times the diameter, the combat weight is more than two tons, and the firing range is about four thousand meters!

But this thing has a caliber of 150 millimeters!

The caliber of 150 millimeters, coupled with the unique large charge of cylindrical shells, makes the shells of this artillery full of explosive power.

Because it's amazing!

More powerful than the shells of the original more than two hundred mm front-loading smoothbore mortars, and much larger!

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