In the previous battle of the southern front of Jingzhou, the imperial army and navy had already killed most of the troops of the three-state coalition forces in Jingzhou, Ningwuzhou, and Gaoqingzhou, and the battle of Jingshi completely defeated the last remaining forces of the above-mentioned three-state coalition forces.

This means that after these two large-scale strategic decisive battles, the main forces of the above three states have been completely defeated.

As a direct result, when the Sixth Army and the Third Cavalry Army continued to attack along the northeast, even if they did not receive too much support from the rear for ammunition and logistics, they were still smooth sailing, and they were about to enter Gaoqing Prefecture and Ningwu Prefecture.

Along the way, the Sixth Army and the Third Cavalry Army were not strongly intercepted by Ningwu Prefecture and Gaoqing Prefecture at all!

Niangwu Prefecture and Gaoqing Prefecture are now seen to have a lot of troops, but in fact, the main force of the troops they have on hand is very small, some of them are the original second-line troops, and some are simply recruited recruit troops, and there is no combat effectiveness at all.

Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the Sixth Army and the Third Cavalry Army continue to move north and take Gaoqing Prefecture and Ningwu Prefecture, and it will not be too long.

This is also the reason why the feudal towns of Gaoqing Prefecture and Ningwu Prefecture have successively sent personnel to contact the Lin Dynasty, trying to use the last bit of bargaining chips in exchange for better conditions for surrender!

However, in the Battle of the Southern Front of Jingzhou and the Battle of Jingshi, the troops of Pingnan Prefecture did not participate in the war on a large scale, that is, in the Battle of Jingshi and the Battle of Fengyang, there were only 30,000 or 40,000 troops of Pingnan Prefecture participating in the battle.

However, the loss of these troops did not completely break the bones of Pingnan Prefecture, at least, they can now gather more than 100,000 troops to garrison the defense line of Zhenbeicheng.

However, if the Imperial Army can annihilate the 100,000 troops of Pingnan Prefecture in one fell swoop in the Battle of Zhenbei City, I am afraid that there will be no way for the Pingnan Prefecture side to organize a second force of such a large scale to resist.

Therefore, the Battle of Zhenbei City is very likely to be the last large-scale battle in the Eastern Battlefield in the Daheng Unification War!

After this battle, even though there will be some small and medium-sized battles in Pingnan Prefecture in the future, it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

In view of the importance of the Battle of Zhenbei City, Liang Chenglei did not fight in the rear, he took a large number of officers from the headquarters, directly from Taixu Town, the headquarters station, to the front line of Zhenbei City, to observe and command the troops to fight at close range.

After arriving at the front line, Liang Chenglei and his team did not swagger to a certain hill to observe, but a group of people went to a trench on the second line and observed at a hidden observation point.

In the early war, Liang Chenglei and other senior generals, and even Lin Ziran before, in order to better observe the entire battlefield, generally ran to a certain hill to watch the battle condescendingly, and even sometimes set up tents and sat on the Taishi chair drinking tea to watch the battle.

Anyway, at that time, the enemy was still using smoothbore guns, and the firing range was limited, and it was very safe to fight a few kilometers from the battlefield.

But not anymore!

The range of the current artillery is too long, and the enemy army is generally equipped with breech-loading rifled guns, even though they do not have a large number of breech-loading rifled guns, but there are still some of them.

If you swagger to the top of the hill to watch the battle, and are discovered by the enemy, you will shoot directly at a rapid fire, then it will be over.

Not to mention that the senior generals should be careful when watching the battle, the officers on the front line should be even more careful when leading the army to fight.

In the early days, when the officers of the Imperial Army led the troops in battle, they would directly command on horseback, and then dismount and follow the troops to advance and command.

Later, that is, now, the officers who command the troops on the front line no longer wear conspicuous and special officer uniforms, but wear relatively ordinary combat uniforms.

This was not only the case with the officers of the Imperial Army, but also with the enemy, who seldom foolishly wandered around in conspicuous mid- and high-ranking officer uniforms.

This is because with the popularization of rifled guns, the ability to strike precision at medium and long distances has been greatly improved, and some soldiers with good marksmanship can even hunt and kill enemy officers accurately from a distance of three or four hundred meters.

In the early days, the officers of the Imperial Army or other feudal towns had suffered this kind of loss, so now everyone has learned to be smart, and when fighting on the front line, there are very few people who wear regular officer uniforms or even formal uniforms and other clothing with obvious officer characteristics.

Generally, the distinction is based on the identification of military rank on the epaulettes, collar badges or cuffs, rather than mainly military uniforms as in the past.

In the front-line position, Wen Zuoxin, the commander of the 15th Infantry Regiment to which the Fourth Division belongs, was wearing a gray and even somewhat wrinkled officer's combat uniform.

The young doctor Wen Zuoxin, at the observation port in the trench, looked at several enemy positions in front of him, and some boredom flashed in his heart.

Several enemy positions in front were even more difficult to gnaw than expected, and the artillery units in the rear, which were bombarded with 150 mm heavy artillery, failed to destroy a single fortress position in front.

The first few times, I thought that I had destroyed the enemy's fortress with heavy artillery, and when I tried to launch an infantry attack, the other side came out with a bunch of infantry and opened fire, and after repeating it several times, it turned out that dozens of people were killed and wounded by the troops under his command.

At this time, Wen Zuoxin had already guessed that the other party's fortress was probably not a simple civil fortification, and there were probably complex, extremely deep trenches and anti-artillery holes inside, otherwise, it would be impossible to block the bombardment of 150 mm heavy artillery.

At this time, the artillery support could not be counted on, so they could only find a way to get rid of this fortress by themselves, although their own troops still had the support of stronger 200-millimeter naval guns, but limited by the firing range, it was impossible to provide fire support here.

After observing the opponent's defensive facilities in detail, this time Wen Zuoxin personally arranged the attack, mobilized a number of rapid-fire mortar guns and heavy machine guns under his command, and at the same time dispatched a company of advanced troops to prepare for a forced breakthrough.

He had encountered this situation several times, and he had also encountered similar stubborn resistance in the Battle of Jingshi before, but he was always taken down by his troops one by one, and for this, he even found a lot of practical experience.

Rather than other generals who directly use fire cover and then launch a large-area, multi-layered skirmish charge, he prefers to use flexible tactics to deal with the enemy.

It's not that you can't take it down by charging directly, in fact, if you take advantage of the strength advantage, there is a high probability that you can still take it, after all, the enemy's fire interception is also limited, and the opponent has no machine guns, so he can only rely on rear-loading rifles and artillery to intercept.

As long as your own forces are large enough and willing to pay a certain price for casualties, you can launch a large-scale and multi-level charge by spreading out, and in most cases you will be able to rush forward.

However, the casualties in this way will be relatively large, and if it is not very necessary, Wen Zuoxin will not adopt this offensive method.

Wen Zuoxin prefers to use flexible tactics to deal with the enemy!

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