Lin Ziran, who is still based in Chongke City, has frequently issued various orders to adjust the troops in recent days.

The scope of its adjustment is not only in Zisheng Prefecture, but also includes Dongding Prefecture, and even the troops in the direction of Nanhai Prefecture are also within the scope of mobilization.

The purpose of this transfer is to adopt a strategic defensive posture in the direction of Jingzhou and the direction of the northern prefectures, and at the same time to mobilize troops to quickly attack Quyang Prefecture.

Considering that the enemies on different fronts are different, some are strong and some are weak, and at the same time, it is also necessary to take into account the current position of the various units of the South China Navy, logistics supply, and many other situations, so the adjustment of the South China Navy is very complicated.

After all, in many cases, it is a move that affects the whole body, and some seemingly small adjustments may have serious consequences.

Therefore, the adjustment of the entire army does not mean that Lin Ziran looked at a map and then directly gave an order, but the adjustment and deployment plan of the entire army was the result of comprehensive discussions at many strategic meetings, and the decision was made after fully considering many circumstances.

Of course, in the end, Lin Ziran still needs to look at the review, approve it, and then issue the order.

According to the adjustment deployment plan, the follow-up Southern Navy will adopt a strategic defensive posture in the direction of Jingzhou and the northern part of Zishengzhou, and the deployed forces will be mainly composed of a part of the main force with some second-line forces, and at the same time begin to build a large number of fortifications, and deploy artillery positions at key nodes.

In the western direction of Zisheng Prefecture and the northern part of Nanhai Prefecture, the main forces will be concentrated to carry out a flanking attack on the troops of Quyang Prefecture, and the troops dispatched from these two directions will be the absolute main force.

Including the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, and the two cavalry corps will be dispatched!

In order to cope with the multi-front operation, the Southern Navy carried out a large-scale reorganization of the surrender and surrender of the Zisheng Army, the Quyang Prefecture Intervention Army, and the surrender and surrender troops of the northern states in the northward Zishengzhou Campaign.

After the mixed organization and other means, a part of the army will be expanded, and finally the regular army of the South China Navy will have 25 infantry divisions, 17 cavalry divisions, four field artillery brigades, two independent siege heavy artillery regiments, and one garrison brigade.

The total strength of the regular army is about 450,000.

In addition, the size of the garrison division of the Southern Navy will also increase, reaching 11 garrison divisions and two coastal defense regiments, but the combat effectiveness of the garrison division of the Southern Navy has always been very scummy, and the establishment of the garrison division is purely to settle those soldiers who surrendered sincerely, and at the same time to suppress the interior by the way, but it has never planned to let them go to the front.

As for those engineer divisions, not to mention, they are purely militarized construction teams, transport teams and the like, which are actually no different from the young men who are recruited.

Of the more than 400,000 people who can fight, some are deployed in Nanhai Prefecture, some are in Dongding Prefecture, and on the Zisheng Prefecture side, it is much more.

At present, the regular army strength of the Southern Navy deployed in Zisheng Prefecture accounts for the majority of the regular strength of the Southern Navy.

This is also the reason why Lin Ziran has never stayed in Luohai City in the rear, but has always been on the front line.

With so many main forces here, Lin Ziran didn't come to sit in person, he didn't worry!

After the adjustment according to the unified deployment, the deployment of various units of the Yugoslav Navy will be further optimized.

In the direction of Nanhai Prefecture, there is the First Army to defend the northern line, facing Zhongluozhou and Quyang Prefecture, and in the next offensive of Quyang Prefecture, the First Army will undertake the attack from south to north, break through the Luohe Gorge, and directly enter Quyang Prefecture.

The Fourth Army was to defend Ningyu Prefecture, and at the same time to defend coastal areas such as Luohai County and Anlong County.

In the direction of Dongdingzhou, there is the Third Army, which is mainly to defend against the direction of Jingzhou and part of the northeastern coastal areas of Dongdingzhou. In addition to the Third Army, there is also the Seventh Army, which belongs to the newly integrated troops, which are currently mainly deployed along the eastern coast of Dongdingzhou, a number of important strategic points, and its troop deployment is mainly deployed around the railway line, if necessary, it can be reinforced to Zishengzhou by railway at any time, and the army is not only used to deploy the rear of Dongdingzhou, but also to be used as a strategic reserve in the direction of Zishengzhou.

On the Zishengzhou side, there were the Second Army, the Fifth Army, the Sixth Army, the Eighth Army, the First Cavalry Army, the Second Cavalry Army, the First Artillery Brigade, the Second Artillery Brigade, the Third Artillery Brigade, and the 25th Division, which was temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of the headquarters.

Among the above-mentioned troops, the Fifth Army was deployed on the northern front of Zisheng Prefecture to guard against the intervention armies of the northern states, although the number of troops was a little smaller, but with the 10th Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment and the Third Artillery Brigade, as long as the troops did not waste the battle, and the speed of reinforcements in the northern states was not too terrifying, it should be no problem to stabilize the northern front for a few months.

The remaining large main force of the Second Army, the Sixth Army, the 25th Division, two cavalry corps, and two artillery brigades will launch a fierce attack on Quyang Prefecture from east to west.

The newly established Eighth Army is reorganized while acting as a strategic reserve, mainly deployed at the crossroads of Chongke City, and can be used to reinforce the Fifth Army on the northern front at any time through the railway, or to reinforce the main forces such as the Second Army in the west.

Whether it is the Seventh Army deployed in the hinterland of Dongdingzhou or the Eighth Army deployed in the hinterland of Zishengzhou, these two newly organized troops belong to the strategic reserve forces, and if everything goes well, they will not participate in the war, but will stay in the rear to continue to reorganize, and once there is a need for war, then they will quickly enter the battlefield.

In fact, the adjustment of the above-mentioned troops is more of a provocation in details, and the general direction of each unit has not changed, after all, it is impossible for Lin Ziran to transfer the First Army deployed on the northern front of Nanhai Prefecture to Zisheng Prefecture in a big bend.

At the same time, there is not much change in equipment, the rifle is mainly based on the Luoan III rifle, supplemented by the Fuyuan rifle modified from the 18-mm smoothbore gun, and the artillery is uniformly equipped with 75-mm divisional artillery and large-caliber artillery of various calibers.

The only problem is that with the expansion of the troops and the continuation of the war, there is a relatively large shortage of artillery in the artillery units of various units, forcing the Yugoslav Navy to use captured front-loading rifled guns and a small number of large-caliber smoothbore heavy guns on a large scale.

There is no way, the expansion of the South China Navy is too fast, and there are frequent wars, which now not only leads to the need to meet the artillery needs of the newly expanded troops, but also needs to supplement the artillery of the original artillery units.

Artillery has a service life, and if it is used too much, or if it is carried out frequently during rapid fire during battle, it will soon lead to the scrapping of the barrel and need to be replaced.

Although today's technology can make steel breech-loading rifled guns, but to be honest, the technology is just like that, and the overall quality of its barrel is not expected to be high, and the artillery units of the South China Navy have formulated strict restrictions on the use of artillery in various combat situations, such as rapid fire should be limited to a certain period of time, for example, if continuous combat fire, the rate of fire should not exceed how much.

Rao is so, and the attrition rate of the steel breech-loading rifled guns of the Southern Navy is also very large.

Not to mention, when artillery is fighting, many times the battle situation is urgent, and it will not be operated strictly in accordance with the operation manual, and it is not uncommon to increase the combat rate of fire and lengthen the time of rapid fire.

All this led to an artificial increase in the attrition rate of the South Navy's steel breech-loading rifled guns.

As a result, the South China Navy needs to constantly replenish or repair its artillery units for active service.

In this way, even though Lin Ziran has a Nanzhou Machinery Bureau under his hands, it is difficult to supply it in a short time.

The shortage of artillery units in the various units has become an inevitable situation.

At present, apart from the two main forces, the First Division and the Second Division, there is no third divisional artillery regiment with a standard number of 56 guns.

Many of them have only more than 40 doors, and some even have more than 30 doors.

However, although the artillery units of the Southern Navy are lacking, they still have an absolute advantage in firepower compared with the artillery units of other feudal towns.

This advantage gave the South Navy a great strategic advantage in the Dongdingzhou Campaign and the Zishengzhou Campaign.

And now attacking Quyang Prefecture, the South China Navy will also make great use of the advantages of these breech-loading rifled guns.

Taking advantage of the large-scale armament of other states with rear-loading artillery, it is the unanimous idea of the top brass of the Southern Navy to make use of the advantages of rear-loading artillery as much as possible to lay the tide of the war.

Therefore, as soon as the adjustment of this unit was completed, the Southern Navy could not wait to launch a formal attack on Quyang Prefecture, and did not give Quyang Prefecture and the northern states time to react at all.

Just when other states thought that after the Southern Navy swallowed Dongding Prefecture and Zisheng Prefecture in a row, it would temporarily stop the pace of expansion, so as to give the troops time to take a breath, which was used to rest, reorganize, replenish, etc., and at the same time, it was also to use the time to rectify and digest Dongding Prefecture and Zisheng Prefecture.

But what they didn't expect was that the Southern Navy was still gritting its teeth and launched an offensive against Quyang Prefecture about 20 days after the Battle of Chongke City, that is, on November 16.

At this time, the northern states have not even completed the next stage of coalition negotiations......

Of course, the situation of the South China Navy itself is not much better, and many troops are quite tired, especially the main force of the Second Army, which has been running around in many places, and the physical consumption of the officers and men is extremely great.

In addition, there is also a big problem in ammunition reserves, after many battles in Dongdingzhou and Zishengzhou, a large amount of ammunition in the previous reserves of the Southern Navy has actually been exhausted, and now it is using recently produced ammunition.

Now all the large and small arsenals in the rear are working day and night, but they still seem to be insufficient.

For this reason, the Yugoslav Navy can only reduce the supply of ammunition to some of its troops and focus on ensuring the supply of ammunition to some of its troops.

At the same time, Lin Ziran has clearly asked all troops to pay attention to the use of ammunition and not to use ammunition indiscriminately.

In the previous battles, some generals who refused to change their ways, did not even bother to turn their brains when they encountered the enemy, and directly bombed them with a group of shells, they were admonished and warned, and in a very few cases, they were even demoted or even retired.

Qiu Honglin, the head of the logistics department, who quarreled with the front-line generals every day because of logistics supply matters, said: "Any dog is better than them, at least the dog will not indiscriminately order artillery and waste ammunition!" ”！