Generally speaking, the barrel life of artillery used by the army is much longer than that of naval guns, but it is also limited. Some artillery units that frequently engage in combat will lose their barrel life after continuous combat.
This time, the battle of Jingzhou is expected to be a series of battles. It is definitely not the battle of Mihe and the battle of Jingshi. It is to control the entire Jingzhou, and then go north along the Jinghe River to Pingnanzhou.
It is expected that there will be more than two very large-scale battles, and as for medium-scale battles, there will be even more.
The most important thing is that if nothing goes wrong, these battles will break out within three months!
In order to prevent the army's artillery unit from having the barrels of some early-service artillery expire or develop quality problems, the Ordnance Department simply replaced some of the artillery of the units scheduled to participate in the war in the past few months.
, the original second-hand goods were reserved for use by second-line troops or troops not participating in the Jingzhou Campaign, and were replaced with newly produced artillery.
Especially the artillery unit of the Third Army, almost all the artillery pieces that were in early service were replaced.
Because this unit will be the core main force, the battle in Jingzhou will largely depend on the performance of the Third Army and the Second Cavalry Army.
As for other troops, their comprehensive combat capabilities in all aspects are somewhat inferior. They can fight, but they should not expect too much.
This artillery is all brand new, not to mention a large amount of ammunition.
After all, whether it is weapons or ammunition, once a fight starts, it will be difficult to replenish them in a short time.
Even in the following months, the arsenal will continue to produce ammunition and send it to the front line, but production takes time and transportation also takes time.
Therefore, frontline troops must stock up on sufficient ammunition in advance!
This is the fundamental reason why the logistics department prepares so much ammunition in advance.
Once a war breaks out, even if there are arsenals with huge production capacity in the rear, there is no way to produce and transport ammunition to the front line in a short time. This all takes time.
In this Jingzhou battle, although troop mobilization and strategy were one of the main actions, in fact, in the past few months, most of the work of the Daheng United Army was still focused on ammunition supply.
In the past six months, there have been no large-scale battles in the Daheng United Army as a whole. Except for the Fourth Army entering Ningyu Prefecture and the First Army entering Zhongluo Prefecture and continuing to fight, the other units are actually resting and recuperating most of the time.
, occasionally the troops on the northern front would fight with the enemy, but the duration was relatively short.
For most of the units of the Daheng United Army in recent months, they have been in a rest and replenishment stage, and many soldiers have even received a short period of leave.
However, this is only limited to soldiers in the combat troops!
In the past few months, everyone in the Logistics Department, whether it is Qiu Honglin, the head of the Logistics Department, or ordinary soldiers in the Logistics Department at the lowest level, has been extremely busy!
Qiu Honglin even traveled between states in the south, coordinating and organizing logistics and transportation work.
This exhausting work is the only way to send a lot of ammunition to the front line.
Of course, there is actually another organization that is also very busy, that is, the former Defense Production Committee and the current War Production Committee. They have to coordinate and distribute the production of major factories, ensure material supplies, etc.
In the past few months, it seems that the Daheng United Army has not made any big moves, but in fact it has been busy, waiting for a large-scale Northern Expedition.
And now, it's time!
On the day of the Northern Expedition Operation Meeting, that is, May 15, Lin Ziran officially approved the Northern Expedition Operation Plan.
Subsequently, multiple combat orders were officially issued from the front.
Including the Tenth Army and the Eleventh Army heading to the rear, the order required these two armies to control the rear and strictly guard against any unusual movements by the two southern countries.
Orders to implement strategic defense were also sent to the First Army in Zhongluo Prefecture, the Second Army in Quyang Prefecture, and the Fifth Army in Zisheng Prefecture.
Finally, and more importantly, combat orders were issued to all units scheduled to participate in the Jingzhou Campaign.
At the same time, in order to coordinate the Jingzhou Campaign, command more than 200,000 troops and coordinate the naval fleet, Lin Ziran established the Jingzhou Campaign Headquarters and appointed his close confidant, former Fourth Army Commander Liang Chenglei Zhongqing, as the commander-in-chief of the Jingzhou Campaign.
At the same time, elite officers and generals were transferred from the General Staff Department, Military and Political Department, Logistics Department of the Army Headquarters, as well as the Seventh Army of the Third Army and other troops originally stationed in Dongdingzhou to form various agencies under the Jingzhou campaign command.
For the Jingzhou Campaign Command, this was the first time that Lin Ziran had set up a command organization similar to the size of a legion, so he was very cautious and did not directly establish a legion. Instead, he adopted a command headquarters with an obvious temporary nature.
If things go well, then the Jingzhou Campaign Headquarters will slowly transform into the first legion of the Daheng Unified Army. If things don't go well, then it will be automatically revoked after the Jingzhou Campaign ends.
This is Lin Ziran's reaction to the fact that the size of the army is getting larger and larger, there are more and more military-level troops, and it is impossible for him to go to the front line and personally command at every turn, so it is necessary to establish a command organization similar to the corps level.
However, considering the issue of military power control and considering many other influences, Lin Ziran was very cautious on this issue and did not directly establish a legion. Instead, he tested it by establishing the Jingzhou Campaign Command.
According to the tradition of the Daheng Empire, if the army goes up higher, it should set up a "legion". The "legion" in the Daheng tradition is not a fixed establishment, but more similar to a war zone. It is responsible for a certain war zone and a certain front.
, even a certain war!
Therefore, the organization of each legion is also different. It may have multiple corps under its jurisdiction, or even multiple divisions or brigades directly under its jurisdiction. The number of troops under its jurisdiction may be tens of thousands, but it may also be more than 100,000 or even more than 200,000.
But once this legion is established, it will not be easy to change in the future, because in the past few hundred years in Daheng, a certain legion has been regarded as a fixed number, but the troops under its jurisdiction will change.
The real temporary designation is usually a certain headquarters, headquarters or the like.
For example, during the Heng'ao War, the Daheng Empire established the Southern Expedition Army Headquarters, which was fully responsible for the army's warfare on the southern continent.
At the same time, it established the Southern Front Command, the Western Front Command, and the Eastern Front Command, based on the two southern states of the mainland, plus the southern tributary kingdoms of Tanner Kingdom and Khasi Kingdom as defense areas.
The back-oriented headquarters.
However, these four major headquarters only existed briefly for about three years and were gradually abolished.
However, the thirteen legions and the Black Sword Corps that were successively established in the Daheng Empire have never revoked the designations of these fourteen legion-level troops. They only have more or less troops under their jurisdiction.
Most of the time, the highest military command unit in the Daheng Empire is the legion.