On December 10, on the outskirts of Qingde City, the prefecture city of Quyang Prefecture, a large number of soldiers of the Southern Navy had appeared, forming a semi-encirclement posture against Qingde City.

Lin Ziran, who was wearing a winter coat, led a group of generals with long leather boots and climbed a small mountain outside the city against the cold wind!

There were also a large number of sappers on this high mountain at this time, and the artillerymen were busy building batteries and deploying artillery.

This is the outskirts of Dongcheng District, Qingdeok City, the terrain is relatively high, the most suitable for erecting heavy artillery, if you erect a 100-millimeter long-range heavy artillery here, it is enough to cover almost all the enemy's defense line on the outskirts of Dongcheng and part of the urban area of Dongcheng District.

Holding a telescope and looking at Qingde City in front of him, he couldn't see anything if he looked at it simply, he could only vaguely see the traces of fortifications in some nodes on the outskirts of the city.

After briefly observing the enemy's defense line outside the city, Lin Ziran said: "It seems that the enemy army has been preparing for some days, so be careful when you fight later!" ”

Kong Deyi, the artillery director, came out again: "Don't worry, my lord, these field fortifications can't stop our heavy artillery!" ”

Wu Guanlin said: "A single fortification will definitely not be able to stop our heavy artillery, but it must be taken into account that their defense area in the suburbs is too large, and from early observations, they have built more than one defense line, at least two, possibly three, these three fortifications are connected with each other, and the depth has reached more than five kilometers." It would be impossible to destroy these lines one by one with heavy artillery! ”

The heavy artillery of the Southern Navy is powerful, this is something that everyone knows, and it is estimated that the enemy army knows that the heavy artillery of the Southern Navy is powerful, and it must have been specially adjusted for this time.

In this way, their multi-layered defense line is to take into account the situation of avoiding heavy artillery bombardment!

Lin Ziran nodded and said: "The staff here must come up with a more secure combat plan, if the plan cannot be determined, you can fight a few armed reconnaissance to see if the enemy army is real!" ”

After all, Lin Ziran is a little nostalgic for the past battles.

More than a year, or even a few months ago, how could a war be so complicated!

Especially when it first marched into Dongdingzhou, the Southern Navy bombed all the way, and the enemy army was still stupid, even the fortifications were built with fortifications such as breastworks, and fortifications such as anti-artillery were useless.

At that time, the Southern Navy was fighting, and fighting the enemy was like an adult beating a three-year-old child, without exerting all his strength, and the opponent could cry for a long time with a casual fist.

However, as time passed, the surrounding enemy forces gradually figured out the reality of the Southern Navy.

I know the performance advantages of the rear-loading artillery of the Southern Navy, the cavalry superiority of the Southern Navy, and the special tactics of the infantry of the Southern Navy.

In this regard, they made frequent changes, as early as in Nanhai Prefecture, Shao Bing and they began to change their tactics, abandoning line tactics, relying on the defensive line to defend and wait for the attack, and began to install breech-loading rifles on a large scale.

By the time of the Eastward Campaign, the feudal towns of Dongdingzhou had already begun to play skirmisher tactics on a large scale and mobile combat, but they were not eggs, and they were beaten by the cavalry of the Southern Navy!

When it came to the Battle of Zishengzhou, the Zishengzhou Army encountered by the Southern Navy knew that the cavalry of the Southern Navy was also very good, and began to play the combat method of defending the city, and finally this combat method was exerted to the extreme in the Battle of Chongke City.

It has to be said that street fighting in urban areas is the only effective means for other feudal forces to block the pace of the Southern Navy's offensive at present.

Otherwise, it was either firepower or cavalry, both of which were unlikely to outcompete the Southern Navy.

Even now it is difficult for them to have even the advantage of troops.

Nowadays, the only feasible way is to rely on a certain big city, prepare a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food in advance, and rely on the buildings in the urban area to carry it to the death, turning the traditional offensive and defensive war into a war of attrition.

But the Southern Navy also began to change its thinking, at that time, the Southern Navy did not attack the urban area of Chongke City, but turned to fight the enemy reinforcements, and finally killed all the reinforcements on the periphery, and then turned back to attack Chongke City.

At that time, Chongke City had basically lost the strategic value of defense, forcing Feng Ziqi to take the initiative to retreat.

Now, the enemy forces in Qingdeok City obviously want to replicate this combat model, and they have also improved the tactics of the defenders in the Battle of Chongke City.

For example, the defense system on the outskirts of the city is obviously much more perfect!

For the increasingly innovative enemy army, Lin Ziran naturally will not have any contempt, he instructed the staff to be cautious and not to underestimate the enemy.

It is not easy for the Southern Navy to come all the way to the present, and for this battle of Qingdecheng, they have paid a lot of price, and they can't afford to lose the price!

In this regard, Wu Guanlin and others and other senior generals have also become more cautious, and they have repeatedly thought about various tactical plans.

Some people even suggested that we should not attack the eastern part of Qingdecheng at all, and we detoured south and captured the small town 25 kilometers south of Qingdecheng, where there is also a small port city along the river, although the port is a little smaller, but there is also infrastructure for ships to berth.

As for the railway line, it is quite possible to build another temporary railway of tens of kilometers.

Anyway, the strategic goal of the Southern Navy is not to capture a certain place, but to open up the navigation of the Luo River, and then to open up the transportation around the entire south, so attacking the eastern city of Qingdecheng is not the core goal itself.

Besides, even if Dongcheng District is captured, then there is still a Xicheng District on the west bank of the Luo River, and if you need to cross the river to attack Xicheng District at that time, the difficulty will not be much less than attacking Dongcheng District now.

Many senior generals were a little moved by this proposal.

This is related to the special urban division method of Qingdecheng, which is located along the Luo River, and there are Dongcheng District and Xicheng District on the east and west banks of the Luo River.

Because of historical reasons, Qingdecheng was built on the east bank of the Luo River several hundred years earlier, but after the continuous development of Qingde City, the west bank of the Luo River was slowly developed, and finally the situation of the east and west urban areas was formed, but the main industrial and commercial area of the city is still in Dongcheng District, and the Xicheng Bureau has only developed in recent decades, mainly residential areas, especially the middle and low-class people.

The Southern Navy came all the way from Zishengzhou in the east, and this arrival was naturally Dongcheng District.

In the future, Dongcheng District will be taken, then it is necessary to cross the river to take Xicheng District, otherwise, people will be able to shell Dongcheng District from the West Bank City at any time.