Army Major General Yang Xiangfei said while looking at the battle report: "The new grenade can enable our large number of field artillery to fire explosive grenades."
"What these bring is not only more grenades to be projected, but also the accuracy of the grenade launch is greatly improved than before. It is better to shoot more accurately than before. According to the hit rate of grenades in today's field artillery, , firing one is equivalent to three or four fired by the previous mortar unit."
"And our new grenade can also be used on old mortars, and it also increases the rate of fire of the mortars."
"In this way, when we are fighting fortifications, the grenade firepower we can exert is more than ten times more than before."
On the side, Army Major General Lian Juncai, the logistics director of the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command, frowned and said: "Ten times the firepower is certainly a pity, but it also means more grenade consumption, even if there is not ten times the ammunition. consumption, but there must be seven or eight times.”
"Judging from the consumption of new grenades in the Battle of Jinzhou, our emergency reserve of new grenades on the Tongguan front line is far from enough!"
After hearing this, Huang Dingquan said: "It seems that our general offensive in Tongguan will have to be delayed for a while, and we will wait until more new grenades are shipped later!"
"You can't use good things without using them. Why don't you rush to let the soldiers fill the battle line with their own flesh and blood?"
"Lao Yang, please adjust the battle plan a little or two. The battle plan will be temporarily postponed for half a month."
Chief of Staff Major General Yang Xiangfei said: "I will adjust the battle plan when I get back. It is not a big problem to delay it for half a month. Maybe we can wait half a month before fighting again. There will be even fewer enemies on the opposite side. After all, the Seventeenth Division is now Bian has already captured Jinzhou and is now heading towards Hanzhong City. Sun Chuanting and the others cannot remain indifferent. There is a high probability that they will deploy troops from other places to reinforce Hanzhong. In this way, we will have less pressure when we attack Tongguan later. ."
Huang Dingquan nodded slightly, and then said to the Minister of Logistics, Major General Lian Juncai: "Old Lian, you need to worry more about this new grenade!"
Major General Lian Juncai nodded slightly, and then said: "I will write a letter later and send five hundred miles to Jinling City to express my interest."
"Also, I will rush to Xuzhou in person tomorrow. Many of the ammunition produced by Dangtu Factory and Hantian Factory are transported to Yangzhou via the Yangtze River, and then transported north through the canal, and Xuzhou is a strategic transfer station. In addition to supplying a batch of new grenades produced by these two major factories to us, there are also quite a few batches supplied to Xuanda and Jiliao."
"I'm going to see if I can intercept a shipment of new grenades heading north."
"In addition, I will send my deputy to Xiangyang to take charge. Although the ammunition factory in Xiangyang Arsenal has a lower production capacity, it is closer to us. I will try to stop all their production capacity and prevent others from getting involved."
Lian Juncai spoke with strong confidence!
Although he, Lian Juncai, had never been to the front line to fight with the enemy, as a veteran logistics officer, he had served as a dragon during the Funiu Mountain period and had always worked in the logistics system.
Last year, he served as the director of the Transportation Department of the Logistics Department in Jinling City. When the five major campaign headquarters were established last winter, he was transferred to the Tongguan front line and served as the director of the logistics department of the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command.
This transfer is a very typical gold-plated transfer.
Because at that time, the Dachu Empire had already decided to launch the Western Front Campaign in the fifth year of Chengshun, and the Western Front Campaign was specifically responsible for the Shanxi Campaign Command and the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command.
In other words, in the fifth year of Chengshun, only Shanxi and Shaanxi-Gansu had large-scale military operations.
And only when there is war can there be merit!
Therefore, the position of logistics minister of these two campaign headquarters has also attracted the attention of many people. After all, as long as you go to the front line and become the logistics minister, you are considered to be on the front line, and you can get credit for the entire Western Front campaign. Partially.
You can continue to advance if you have merit!
Even Juncai didn't expect that he could actually lead the army. He also knew that he was not the material, but he wanted to continue to take a step forward and strive to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the army before the unification of China. It was best to be Be able to secure the position of deputy director of the Logistics Department.
Thanks to his deep qualifications and connections, he successfully competed for the position of Logistics Director of the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command.
Now, since the new grenades are of great use and are still in short supply, all major armies are eyeing the new grenades.
At this time, Lian Juncai knew that he needed to show his role.
When selecting candidates, Huang Dingquan also gave advice to the emperor, hoping to send him, Lian Juncai, to be the logistics minister to work together.
And why did Huang Dingquan have to be chosen as the logistics minister of this crucial Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command when so many generals did not choose him? It's not because of his deep qualifications and rich connections.
Therefore, he must strive for as many shares of new grenades as possible to ensure that the Western Front army can use new grenades to reflect his own value.
Not to mention, if the war on the Western Front goes smoothly, as the logistics director of the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command, his contribution will certainly not be small.
Just when Huang Dingquan and others received the battle report of the Battle of Jinzhou, they decided to postpone the offensive against Tongguan, and then began to do everything possible to search for more new grenades.
In Chang'an, Xi'an Prefecture, Sun Chuanting frowned at the battle report sent from Hanzhong Prefecture.
Fifteen thousand troops were garrisoned, and it had been repaired repeatedly for several years. Jinzhou City, which was built almost like Tietong, only lasted two days before being breached by Chu thieves.
This far exceeded his expectations.
Even though the defenders in Jinzhou City did not have many new long-barreled artillery pieces, only ten, they had a lot of various short-barreled artillery pieces. The total number of various short-barreled old-style artillery pieces weighing more than 100 kilograms totaled at least There are hundreds of doors.
When these short-barreled artillery are used in defensive operations, with the cooperation of new field artillery, the effect will not be too bad.
Among the fifteen thousand defenders, there were even five thousand New Qin troops under his command. These New Qin troops were equipped with almost two thousand new thieves-killing muskets.
The overall strength of the defenders in Jinzhou City is not bad. According to Sun Chuanting's estimate, even if they cannot defeat the Chu bandits of 10,000 or 20,000, they should not be a big problem if they persist for three to five months. Even if the situation worsens, It should be able to last a month.
One month is enough time to dispatch troops and generals to reinforce and relieve the siege.
But what I didn't expect was that Jinzhou City was declared destroyed after only defending it for two days. Even if the march and preparation time of the Chu bandits were included, the total was only six days.
As a result, Sun Chuanting did not have enough time to mobilize reinforcements.
Jinzhou City was breached, and almost all the fifteen thousand defenders were destroyed. This opened the door to the hinterland of Hanzhong, and Hanzhong Fucheng in the rear did not have many heavy troops garrisoned. After all, Sun Chuanting's military strength was also limited, although he was known as his subordinate. There are hundreds of thousands of troops, but they are all called...
If some young civilians are excluded, the number of troops under his command is actually only 60,000 to 70,000.
Of the 60,000 to 70,000 people, about 30,000 were from the New Qin Army, and the remaining 40,000 or so were guardsmen or soldiers recruited by the local government.
With these troops, 30,000 people were concentrated on the Tongguan front line to fight against the Chu bandit army on the Tongguan front line.
More than 10,000 people gathered on the front lines of Luonan and Shangzhou to resist the Chu bandits in the direction of Lu.
Thousands more people were deployed on the east bank of the Yellow River, located on the Jiezhou and Wenxi lines in Shanxi, to prevent the Chu army from crossing the mountains from this direction and directly entering the plain area around Linfen. On the one hand, they were to help Zuo Liangyu, This prevents Zuo Liangyu from being beaten by the Chu army in this direction. On the other hand, it also prevents the Chu thieves from crossing the Yellow River in this direction and then launching an attack to the hinterland of Guanzhong to the west.
More than 15,000 people were deployed in Jinzhou to prevent the Chu bandits from entering the hinterland of Hanzhong from this direction and cutting off the connection between Guanzhong and Sichuan.
As the Central Plains and North China were successively captured by Chu thieves, Sichuan has become the rear area of the Xi Ming regime and the main supplier of money and food. The money and food from Sichuan is an important support for maintaining Sun Chuanting's operations.
In the end, there were still tens of thousands of people scattered and deployed in various cities in the rear areas of Chang'an and Hanzhong.
As for the rear of Hanzhong Mansion, that is, Hanzhong Mansion City and other places, the total strength is estimated to be only 2,000 troops, plus tens of millions of guest soldiers from Sichuan. It is impossible to stop the menacing Chu thieves by relying on them alone.
Sun Chuanting already had limited troops, but now the more than 10,000 defenders in Jinzhou were wiped out. Sun Chuanting didn't even know where to draw his troops for a while.
But no matter how small the troops are, they still have to be mobilized!
After pondering for a long time, Sun Chuanting finally ordered to mobilize 3,000 troops from the Shangzhou and Luonan front lines and 5,000 troops from the Tongguan front line.
Then another two thousand soldiers were mobilized from Chang'an and other rear cities, so that the total strength was 10,000.
At the same time, an urgent order was sent to Sichuan, asking Sichuan to quickly dispatch at least 150 million troops to reinforce Hanzhong Prefecture.
When Sun Chuanting mobilized troops, he mobilized only regular troops. As for the Minfu County braves, they were not used at all. These Minfu County braves could not fight at all. Years of war experience between the Ming army and the Chu thieves told him that it was impossible to send these troops all the way. The young people brought here will not have the second result except wasting food.
Relying on the local remnants of Hanzhong Prefecture, plus the tens of thousands of reinforcements sent by himself, plus the Sichuan reinforcements who don't know when they will come, and they don't know how many reinforcements they will arrive in the end, can these troops hold Hanzhong Prefecture?
Sun Chuanting doesn’t know!
But he has no better choice!
He had to face not only the tens of thousands of Chu thieves on the Hanzhong Mansion side, but also the tens of thousands of Chu thieves on the Tongguan front line.
Judging from the reports reported by the spies, the Chu thieves have been making great moves recently. Various vehicles transporting ammunition and food are traveling between Tongguan and Luoyang almost day and night.
He knew very well that the time for the Chu thieves to launch an attack on Tongguan was not far away. (To be continued)
