Liang Chenglei's worries were correct. After the battle report was sent back to Ansu City, Lin Ziran was fine. The staff department and other departments also felt okay, but Qiu Honglin and others from the logistics department cursed Liang Chenglei again.
He's a loser.
The Battle of Zhenbeicheng lasted for twelve days, starting from the day of the general attack until the entire defender surrendered.
The Navy has invested a total of thirty-three warships of various types, including inland river, offshore and Luo Hai cruisers.
The Army is even more exaggerated. On the surface, the Army has prepared a total of five infantry corps, two artillery brigades, and a cavalry corps for the Battle of Zhenbeicheng. In addition, the numbers directly belonging to the Logistics Department must be included in the temporary recruitment.
Ten civilian ships and more than 50,000 young people of all types.
However, civilians recruited by the Logistics Department cannot be included in the combat force sequence. At the same time, the Twelfth Army and the Thirteenth Army both exist as strategic reserves. They never went to Azhen North City from beginning to end, but stayed in Fengyang.
Conduct reorganization training in the capital and other places, and at the same time eliminate the chaotic local irregular armed forces.
In the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, the actual forces deployed included three infantry corps, one cavalry corps, and two artillery brigades.
Not all the above-mentioned troops are involved in front-line battles. For example, among the six cavalry divisions, three cavalry divisions are on the periphery, especially on the northern flank, performing strategic blockade tasks. In addition, some cavalry divisions are in the rear and guard the periphery.
Logistics supply lines, peripheral security, etc.
In other words, the actual troops involved in the attack on Zhenbeicheng were only three infantry corps and two artillery brigades. Well, we also have to count dozens of warships from the Navy.
But even so, the offensive force still occupies a huge advantage in strength, especially in artillery, which has an overwhelming advantage.
Under the cover of strong firepower superiority, it only took twelve days to occupy most of the enemy's defense lines, thus forcing the enemy to surrender.
During this process, the army and navy suffered total casualties of about 5,000 people, including about 2,000 casualties who were killed on the spot or seriously injured, and more than 3,000 people were injured.
This number of casualties is acceptable for a fortified battle. After all, the enemy army still exceeds 100,000 people, and they rely on fortifications to defend. Being able to capture Zhenbei City with 5,000 casualties is already considered good.
Compared with the previous Battle of the Capital, it was much better. You must know that in the previous Battle of the Capital, the number of casualties exceeded 10,000 a few days before the war started.
Although all the units participating in the war had been on the offensive at that time, and most of the units still maintained a relatively high occupancy rate after the war, in fact this was based on the continuous replenishment of a large number of new recruits taking trains north every day.
Compared with the casualty rate in the previous battle of Jingzhou, the casualty rate in Zhenbeicheng was not that high.
Compared with the relatively small number of casualties, the consumption of ammunition was very large.
The navy alone consumed approximately tens of thousands of artillery shells of various calibers!
The army, on the other hand, consumed more than 30,000 rounds of barrel artillery shells, in addition to a greater number of more than 50,000 rounds of rapid-fire mortar shells.
Taken together, the army and navy consumed nearly 100,000 rounds of various types of artillery shells in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng.
During the most intense period of the battle, that is, the day when the enemy's 9th Division launched a counterattack, the army and navy fired 30,000 artillery shells of various types in just one day!
The intensity of artillery support was no less than that of the original Battle of Jingzhou.
At the same time, bullet consumption has also reached a new high!
During the battle, more than five million rounds of 13mm rifle ammunition were consumed, which completely depleted the rifle ammunition reserves of all participating units. They were forced to withdraw supplies from friendly forces, and the logistics troops urgently transported supplies.
In addition, another big consumer of ammunition is the heavy machine gun!
There were actually not many heavy machine guns in the various units participating in the war, but they consumed about 800,000 rounds of 11mm heavy machine gun bullets, so that the barrels of the multiple machine guns were all damaged and had to be repaired simply.
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Moreover, the heavy machine gun bullets prepared before the war actually only amounted to about 300,000 rounds.
The remaining 500,000 rounds of heavy machine gun bullets were urgently dispatched in the next few days.
Because the 300,000 rounds of heavy machine gun bullets prepared in advance only lasted five days before they were all fired. This bullet consumption rate once again made the Imperial Army realize how terrifying the bullet consumption rate of the heavy machine gun was.
It also made me more aware of the powerful firepower of heavy machine guns.
So much so that when Liang Chenglei coordinated with the logistics department to allocate ammunition, he made it clear that even if other supplies could be reduced, heavy machine gun bullets could not be reduced.
One hundred thousand rounds of artillery shells, six million rounds of rifles, and machine gun bullets. This is the ammunition fired by the Jingzhou Front Army in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng!
This data made the generals in the logistics department curse!
Although it seems that the total ammunition consumption in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng is not as good as that in the Battle of Jingzhou, the difficulty and intensity of the Battle of Jingshi are much greater than that of the Battle of Zhenbeicheng.
During the Battle of Jingshi, the defenders were not short of ammunition. They relied on the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau to stockpile a large amount of ammunition in advance. Even if the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was subsequently captured, the defenders of the Capital still had no shortage of ammunition.
At that time, the Jingzhou Front fought until they finally captured the capital, but the enemy had not even exhausted their ammunition reserves.
It can be imagined from this that the firepower pressure at that time was very high.
Moreover, the urban area of the capital is huge, and it is much more difficult to attack a super city with a population of one million.
But the Battle of Zhenbeicheng is different. This place seems to be a fortified battle, but in fact it is very small, the combat area is concentrated, and the enemy's will to resist is not as strong as the enemy's will to resist in the Battle of Jingshi.
Under such circumstances, the offensive troops consumed so much ammunition, which made the logistics department very dissatisfied.
I was dissatisfied and worried at the same time, because after the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, the various ammunition stored by the logistics department before the launch of the Jingzhou Campaign had basically been declared exhausted.
The Battle of the Southern Front of Jingzhou, the Battle of Jingshi, the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, plus many other small and medium-sized battles, this series of battles has exhausted the ammunition stored by the logistics department before the war.
The ammunition currently used by frontline troops was continuously produced by rear arsenals during this period and then urgently transported to the frontline.
Lin Ziran was also aware of the problem of insufficient logistics supply, but he did not let the troops stop their advance, especially the offensive in the middle and upper reaches of the Mirror River must be continued.
It was not easy to carry out an annihilation operation in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, killing more than 100,000 enemy troops and a large amount of technical equipment in one fell swoop. If our own side voluntarily stops moving northward due to insufficient ammunition supply, then the enemy will be able to obtain
Breathing time.
We do have supply difficulties now, but the tall ordnance workers at the rear are working overtime to produce ammunition. As long as the logistics line is normal, ammunition can be sent up far and wide.
Relatively speaking, the enemy forces in Pingnan Prefecture are now more difficult. A large number of their main troops were annihilated in the Zhenbeicheng area, and a large number of technical weapons were lost. It is difficult for them to rebuild a large-scale army in a short period of time, and it is even more difficult for them to rebuild a large-scale army in a short time.
They obtained a large number of breech-loading rifled guns and other weapons in a short period of time, and even ammunition could not be replenished in large quantities in a short period of time.
Now is the best time to take advantage of the enemy's weakness to completely destroy all resistance in Pingnan Prefecture and seize Pingnan Prefecture.