Chapter five hundred and eighty first soldiers approaching the palace
After receiving Lin Ziran's letter, Liang Chenglei also learned from Lin Ziran's letter the huge pressure the unified army was facing now.
If the war drags on for a long time, unnecessary changes may occur, and the subsequent negative impact will be relatively large.
In this case, it is necessary to appropriately speed up the process in the capital.
Originally, Liang Chenglei planned to use the Battle of the Capital to drain the last drop of blood from the three surrounding states.
As long as he spends a month or two like this, he will be able to completely consume the mobile forces of the three surrounding states!
But Liang Chenglei is also a high-level general of the Daheng United Army, and he considers issues not only from a military perspective, but also from other aspects.
For this reason, he decided to speed up the progress of the Battle of the Capital.
Following Liang Chenglei's order, the units of the Jingzhou Front accelerated their attacks, especially the units in the Nan'an City area, whose attacks became more and more frequent.
Under this situation, the Jingzhou defenders in Nan'an City were becoming increasingly uncomfortable.
The offensive force of the Daheng United Army adopted a strategy of artillery bombardment and infantry nibbling away piece by piece. It seemed like they were attacking bit by bit, but in fact the overall progress was very fast.
Especially in terms of the military strength and firepower of the two sides, there is a huge gap, and the gap in firepower is showing an increasing effect.
Just one week into the battle, the defenders' artillery still had enough shells to support the infantry and even launch long-range suppressive counterattacks.
But after a week of continuous high-intensity fighting, their shells were already consumed.
They also encountered a problem that the Daheng United Army has faced many times, that is, the single ammunition stored in advance was originally expected to last three months or even half a year, but they did not expect that under high-intensity battles, the shells would only last a week!
The most important thing is that they have no ammunition replenishment!
Although the offensive troops of the Daheng United Army consumed ammunition very quickly due to the high-intensity combat in the early stage, so much so that a week after the attack, many troops' ammunition reserves had been exhausted. However, the problem is that the Daheng United Army still has ammunition behind them.
It can be replenished continuously.
Even though the amount of ammunition replenished is not very sufficient, it is at least replenished.
But the defenders on the opposite side have no ammunition to replenish!
As a result, the two sides fought fiercely with hundreds of artillery pieces and hundreds of thousands of breech-loading rifles for about a week, during which time they consumed countless shells and bullets.
Its intensive firepower and huge ammunition consumption left everyone watching the battle stunned!
According to the intensity of firepower of both sides in the Battle of the Capital, I am afraid that even if many countries use all their national strength, they may not be able to maintain this intensity of fighting for a week.
Even the spectators from the big countries were worried after watching the Battle of the Capital. Damn it, these Daheng people fought too hard.
The Battle of the Capital lasted only a week, and the ammunition fired was probably enough to consume the ammunition reserves of a medium-sized country. If we continue to fight like this in the future, wouldn't it mean that it would go bankrupt in a matter of minutes?
Fortunately, this kind of high-intensity battle lasted for about a week. After seven or eight days, the defenders' firepower, especially the artillery counterattack, became sparse.
The artillery fire of the Daheng United Army on the attacking side was not so intensive.
Only in this way can the spectators from all over the world breathe a sigh of relief!
Damn it, if they continue fighting like this in the first week of the Battle of the Capital, they will wonder if the ammunition of the Daheng people is free.
However, this also made them deeply realize that the future war model may be completely changed.
how to change?
Weapons and equipment bring changes in tactics and even strategies, and this change relies heavily on a country's industrial capabilities.
If it were not an industrial country, it would be impossible to fight a war of this type!
Of course, there is one non-industrial country exception, and that is the Kingdom of Orr!
The military representatives of the Orr Kingdom, as military observers, directly followed the Daheng United Army to watch the battle. They had a deeper understanding of this battle, and these military observers of the Orr Kingdom, after watching
After the Battle of Jingshi, my first impression was to report to China that we must increase the purchase of breech-loaded rifled weapons, especially to stockpile enough ammunition.
As for money, the Orr Kingdom is not short of money!
Even if the Orr Kingdom does not have a large-scale industrial system, it cannot even mass-produce these breech-loading rifled weapons and ammunition on its own. Even the bullets have to be imported. But if they have money, they can spend tens or even hundreds of millions directly.
Enough for them to hoard a huge amount of weapons and ammunition to fight a high-intensity modern war.
Even the Orr Kingdom is still thinking about taking advantage of the fact that they have just equipped breech-loading rifled weapons and several opponents in neighboring countries are not equipped with breech-loading rifled weapons to take a preemptive strike.
They began to contact and purchase from the Daheng United Army the year before last. Last year, they began to accept new weapons one after another. Although due to the huge demand within the Daheng United Army, they did not receive many new weapons.
But they still accepted some of them, and also accepted a large number of Luoan II rifles/Fuyuan rifles, which are breech-loading rifles modified from 18mm smoothbore guns.
The Daheng Unified Army modified many of these breech-loading rifled rifles modified from smoothbore guns, and later captured hundreds of thousands of them, because in the past few years, various vassals and towns in Daheng have been destroyed due to the war.
demand, and at the same time it was impossible to mass-produce a new type of 13mm breech-loading rifle such as the Luoan III rifle, so everyone focused on modification.
In the Daheng Unified Army, the internal first-line troops have completely dismantled this transitional weapon. They are only equipped with second-line local garrison troops and patrol law enforcement troops. Therefore, there is a lot of extra reserves, part of which is directly exported.
Arrive at the Orr Kingdom.
Of course, the Orr Kingdom themselves actually look down on these transitional weapons. They just bought them for transition. Once the ordered Luoan III rifles arrive in large quantities, they will continue to transfer them to them at low prices or simply for free.
A little brother from a poor country.
No matter what, the Orr Kingdom now has more than 100,000 18mm modified breech-loading rifles, and about 3,000 Roan III rifles.
About fifty more breech-loading rifled artillery pieces have arrived one after another, so people are already thinking about taking advantage of the equipment advantage to make a splash.
External countries have different ideas, and none of them can interfere with the actions of the Jingzhou Front of the Daheng United Army.
After Liang Chenglei ordered the troops to speed up the attack, although the casualties increased, the progress was greatly accelerated.
Especially a week after the battle broke out, when the defenders' ammunition was depleted and there was not enough ammunition to support it, the unified army's attack became smoother.
On July 16, the United Army's troops in the city had completely occupied the Dongcheng District and Nancheng District of Beijing District. The frontline troops had directly arrived in the inner city. The nearest frontline troops were only 500 meters away from the palace.
If not, there is only a palace wall and the open space outside the palace wall.
When the battle reached this point, in fact, the defenders in the city, especially those in the south bank area, had almost used up all their ammunition and suffered heavy casualties. This loss of personnel does not mean that they were all casualties. Although the casualties were large, more were still divided.
Surrendered after being surrounded.
At this time, even if they wanted to continue resisting, they were unable to resist the fierce attack of the United Army due to lack of troops, lack of ammunition, and low morale.
Sure enough, just three days later, Xicheng District was completely captured by the unified army.
At this time, the unified army had completed the siege of the inner city!
However, the unified army did not continue the attack.
This was not because the United Army lacked ammunition or suffered too many casualties and was unable to attack, but because military chaos broke out in the inner city at this time.