Many reasons lead to the fact that neither side wants to fight a long and expensive offensive and defensive battle. They are more inclined to eliminate their opponents in mobile warfare.
Of course, if something goes wrong, Lin Ziran will still lead his troops back to Shiyan Town or even to Pingdan County without hesitation.
But Lin Ziran was confident that this wouldn't happen.
His troops have experienced two major victories in a row, and their morale is in excellent condition.
At the same time, the Sixth Division is no longer the Sixth Division a year or two ago. When it was still the supplementary brigade of the Third Division and when the Sixth Division was first established, most of Lin Ziran's soldiers were new recruits, and many of them even
Not even the recruit training was completed.
But things are different now. After one or two years of accumulation, most of the soldiers in the Sixth Division are veterans who have been in the army for more than a year, and many of them are veterans who have experienced war and seen blood.
At this time, the Sixth Division, in terms of the quality of ordinary soldiers, was actually not much worse than the main forces in other feudal towns.
After all, people will grow. After this period of continuous fighting, not only did our troops gain morale, but also the soldiers experienced two large-scale battles and initially grew up.
Today's Sixth Division, the morale and morale of the army can be used!
At the same time, the ammunition reserve was also in good condition. Before going south, Lin Ziran had the logistics department spend a lot of time and energy transporting a large number of weapons and ammunition, and also seized a large number of weapon pills.
These weapons and ammunition are even enough for the 30,000-strong Sixth Division headquarters to launch two or three large-scale battles in a row.
Not to mention that the Sixth Division now has breech-loaded guns to help out!
Yesterday, Qingshan Machinery Factory sent another 75mm steel breech-loading rifled gun. In fact, this thing was only completed yesterday. After hurriedly testing a few rounds, it was directly transported by expedited transportation, all the way from
Qingshan Town rushed to transport it to Sanyang Town, and then loaded it on a disguised passenger ship that had been waiting for a long time.
The camouflaged passenger ship sailed in the night, avoided potential threats, and arrived in Shiyan Town in the middle of the night yesterday.
In this way, Lin Ziran now has two 75mm breech-loading rifled cannons on hand. Even though there are only two, the breech-loading cannons using metal fixed ammunition have a much higher rate of fire than the front-loading cannons. Really.
In battle, the ammunition delivery capability is definitely no worse than a company of nine-pound artillery. If the ammunition delivery capability is continuous, it is even comparable to an entire forward-loaded artillery battalion.
Many contemporary vassal towns, including Lin Ziran's 6th Division, are equipped with front-mounted smoothbore cannons. Even small-caliber artillery such as the five-pound field gun has a relatively low rate of fire.
In actual combat, if rapid fire is carried out at the beginning of the battle, well-trained soldiers can do about two rounds per minute, but this rate of fire cannot last for a few minutes and must be reduced soon, otherwise everything will be
It is not a matter of the barrel being scrapped, but that the overheated barrel will directly lead to failure to load or even explode the chamber.
Therefore, in most cases, in order to ensure continuous firing, the combat rate of fire of these front-mounted bronze or wrought iron artillery is often only one round every two minutes or even three minutes.
Of course, if the enemy is about to rush up, the artillerymen are forced to use shotguns to kill the enemy at close range in order to protect themselves. In this case, the combat rate of fire will be very high, and two, three or more rounds can be fired per minute.
But these breech-mounted steel rifled guns are different. The barrel has a stronger bearing capacity and is easier to load.
In many combat tests in the past, this experimental artillery was able to maintain a combat rate of fire of about two to three rounds per minute under normal circumstances.
In fact, no matter how fast the gun barrel is, it can withstand it, and loading is not a problem, but the gun is difficult to reset and aim.
This is an inherent flaw of all annealing guns, whether front-mounted or rear-mounted. However, if the reset problem is solved, the combat rate of fire of the steel breech-mounted artillery can instantly increase to ten rounds or more.
This rate of fire was difficult to achieve with previous bronze and iron artillery pieces. Then they became breech-loaded annealing guns, and it was impossible to achieve this rate of fire because the barrel itself could not withstand this limit.
With these two breech-loaded artillery pieces whose combat rate of fire can reach several times that of the front-mounted smoothbore guns, it is equivalent to having several more front-loading artillery batteries.
Of course, the more important thing is not the rate of fire, but the effective range!
The effective range of five thousand meters is enough to become a nightmare for all contemporary enemies!
In addition to breech-loading artillery, the Qingshan breech-loading rifle that has begun to be widely equipped is also his trump card. Currently, in addition to the entire 1st Infantry Regiment and the entire guard battalion, several other infantry regiments are also equipped with this breech-loading rifle.
They are each equipped with one or more light infantry companies equipped with breech-loading rifles.
The total number of Qingshan breech-loading rifles assigned to the entire army has reached nearly 4,000.
These two new weapons have achieved great success in the previous battles of Pingdan City and Shiyan Town.
Now, it will be their third time on the large-scale battlefield, and Lin Ziran believes that they will not let him down.
Lin Ziran, who had prepared everything well, had reason to believe that he could lead the Sixth Division to win this battle.
However, today's sudden heavy rain caused errors in many of the previous tactical arrangements.
Although the mobility of ordinary infantry was not affected, the mobility of artillery troops and baggage troops was greatly affected.
Many of the front-loaded artillery of the Sixth Division, like the artillery of other feudal towns, focus on range and power and relatively ignore weight. Although they are pulled by a large number of draft horses, it is still very troublesome to maneuver on muddy roads.
Lin Ziran saw with his own eyes that the wheels of a 120mm front-mounted field gun got stuck in a puddle. In order to pull out the specialized artillery, his artillerymen not only temporarily arranged extra draft horses in front, but also temporarily arranged extra draft horses in front.
A lot of soldiers were mobilized to push and pull it directly. It took a lot of effort to pull out this one-ton artillery piece and start again.
At first glance, it seems that this can be done without much impact, but the key point is that if you do it all the way, the speed will not increase.
Affected by the muddy roads on rainy days, the artillery and baggage troops moved slowly. In this case, Lin Ziran could only hope that the forward troops, the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 1st Cavalry Regiment, could effectively complete their tasks and harass the enemy while simultaneously
The enemy has introduced our own preset battlefield.
I just don’t know whether the muddy roads after heavy rain will have a great impact on the mobility of the First Infantry Regiment.
While Lin Ziran was so worried, Xu Zhongshu, who was leading the First Infantry Regiment on the front line, also ushered in the first battle after marching westward.