I want to be emperor

Chapter 475: Sun Chuanting Has No Choice
Army Major General Yang Xiangfei said while watching the battle report: "The new type of grenade can enable a large number of our field artillery to fire explosive grenades."

"What these bring about is not only more grenades projected, but also the shooting accuracy of the grenades has been greatly improved than before. This is not as good as hitting more accurately. Calculated according to the hit rate of grenades in field artillery today. , One shot out is equivalent to three or four shot out by the mortar troops in the past."

"And our new howitzer can also be used on the old mortar, and also increased the rate of fire of the mortar."

"In this way, when we are fighting fortified positions, the firepower of the grenade we can unleash is more than ten times that of the past."

On the side, Major General Lian Juncai, the logistics director of the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command, frowned and said: "Ten times the firepower is a pity, but it also means more grenade consumption, even if there is no ten times the ammunition. Consumption, but there must be seven or eight times."

"Judging from the consumption of new-style grenades in the Jinzhou Battle, the new-style grenades we have emergency reserves on the Tongguan front line are far from enough!"

After hearing this, Huang Dingquan said: "It seems that our general attack in Tongguan has to be delayed for a while, and we can wait for more new grenades to be brought up later!"

"There can't be good things that don't go unused. Let the soldiers fill the battle line with flesh and blood in a hurry!"

"Old Yang, you adjust the battle plan by one or two, and temporarily postpone the battle plan for half a month."

Chief of Staff Major General Yang Xiangfei said: "I'll adjust the battle plan when I go back. It's not a big problem to postpone it for half a month. Maybe wait half a month before fighting again. The enemy on the opposite side will be even fewer. After all, the Seventeenth Division is now Bian has already captured Jinzhou, and now they are 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, the pressure will be less when we attack Tongguan later. .”

Huang Dingquan nodded slightly, and then turned to Major General Lian Juncai, the head of logistics, and said, "Old Lian, you need to worry about this new grenade!"

Major General Lian Juncai nodded slightly, and then said: "I will write a letter later, and send it five hundred miles to Jinling City to express my love and interests."

"Also, tomorrow I will hurry up and go to Xuzhou personally. Many of the ammunition produced by Dangtu Factory and Hantian Factory are transported to Yangzhou via the Yangtze River, and then transported to the north through the canal. Xuzhou is a strategic transit point. In addition to supplying us with a batch of new-style grenades produced by these two factories, there are quite a few batches that are supplied to Xuanda and Jiliao."

"I'll see if I can intercept a shipment of new grenades headed north."
"In addition, I will send my deputy to sit in Xiangyang. Although the production capacity of the ammunition factory in Xiangyang Armory is lower, it is closer to us. I will try to stop all their production capacity and prevent others from getting involved."

When Lian Juncai spoke, he had great confidence!
Although Lian Juncai has never been to the front line to fight against the enemy, as a veteran logistics officer, he has been a dragon since the Funiu Mountain period, and has always been working in the logistics system.

Last year, he was also the director of the Transportation Department of the Logistics Department in Jinling City. When the five major campaign commands were established last winter, he was transferred to the front line of Tongguan to serve 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 Great Chu Empire had already decided to launch the Western Front Campaign in the fifth year of Chengshun, and the Western Front Campaign was specifically in charge of 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 there is a war to be credited!

Therefore, the position of the logistics minister of these two campaign commands 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 can be considered as the front line, and the credit for the entire Western Front campaign can be Divide a part.

Only credit can continue to be promoted!
Even Juncai never expected that he could really lead troops. He also knew that he was not that kind of material, but he wanted to continue to take a step forward and strive to win the rank of lieutenant general in the army before the unification of China. Able to secure the position of Deputy Minister of the Logistics Department.

Thanks to his profound qualifications and connections, he also successfully competed for the post of logistics chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command.

Now, since the new type of grenade is very effective and is still in short supply, all major troops are staring at the new type of grenade.

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 and partner with him.

And why did Huang Dingquan not choose so many generals at the beginning, but insisted on choosing him to be the logistics director of the vital Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command?It's not because of his profound 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 the new grenade to reflect his own value.

Not to mention, if the battle on the Western Front goes well, his contribution as the logistics director of the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command will certainly not be small.

Just when Huang Dingquan and the others received the report of the Battle of Jinzhou, they decided to postpone the offensive on 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 by Hanzhong Prefecture.

Fifteen thousand troops were garrisoned, and after repeated repairs for several years, Jinzhou City, which was built almost like Tietong, was broken by the Chu thieves after only holding on for two days.

This far exceeded his estimate.

Even if the defenders in Jinzhou City don't have many new long-barreled artillery pieces, only ten, there are quite a few short-barreled artillery pieces. There are hundreds of doors.

When these short-barreled artillery are used in defensive operations, with the cooperation of the new field artillery, the effect will not be too bad.

And among the [-] defenders, there are [-] new Qin troops under his command, and these new Qin troops are equipped with almost [-] new-style thief-killing guns.

The overall strength of the defenders in Jinzhou City is not bad. According to Sun Chuanting's estimation, even if they are unable to defeat the attack of [-] to [-] Chu thieves, it should not be a big problem if they persist for three to five months. It should be able to last a month.

One month is enough to send troops to reinforce and rescue the siege.

But what I didn't expect was that Jinzhou City was declared destroyed after only two days of defense. Even if the march and preparation time of the Chu bandits were counted, it only took six days in total.

As a result, Sun Chuanting simply didn't have enough time to mobilize reinforcements.

Jinzhou City was breached, and the 10,000 defenders were almost wiped out. This opened the door to the hinterland of Hanzhong, but there were not many heavy troops stationed in the Hanzhong city in the rear. After all, Sun Chuanting's troops were limited. There are [-]+ in the army, but that's all called...

If some civilian husbands and young men are excluded, the strength of his troops is actually only 7 to [-].

Among the 7 or [-] people, about [-] are from the New Qin Army, and the remaining [-] are from the guards or recruited by the local government.

With these troops, 3 people were concentrated on the front line of Tongguan to fight against the army of Chu thieves on the front line of Tongguan.

More than [-] people gathered on the front lines of Luonan and Shangzhou to resist the Chu thieves from Lu's direction.

There are also thousands of people 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 plains around Linfen. On the one hand, it is to help Zuo Liangyu, To prevent Zuo Liangyu from being destroyed by the Chu army in this direction, on the other hand, it is also to prevent the Chu thieves from crossing the Yellow River from this direction and then attacking the hinterland of Guanzhong in the west.

More than 5000 people were deployed in Jinzhou to prevent Chu thieves from entering the hinterland of Hanzhong from this direction and cut off the connection between Guanzhong and Sichuan.

After the Central Plains and North China were successively captured by the Chu thieves, Sichuan has become the rear area of ​​the Western Ming regime and the main supply of money and food. The money and food from Sichuan are an important support for maintaining Sun Chuanting's troops.

In the end, there were [-] people left scattered and deployed in Chang'an, Hanzhong and other rear cities.

As for the rear of Hanzhong Mansion, that is, Hanzhong Fucheng and other places, the combined strength is estimated to be only [-] troops, plus tens of millions of guest soldiers from Sichuan. It is impossible to stop the menacing Chu thieves only by relying on them.

Sun Chuanting originally had limited troops, but now the more than 1 defenders in Jinzhou have been wiped out. Sun Chuanting didn't know where to draw troops for a while.

But no matter how small the troops are, they have to be transferred!

After pondering for a long time, Sun Chuanting finally ordered the deployment of [-] troops from the Shangzhou and Luonan front lines, and [-] troops from the Tongguan front line.

Then [-] soldiers were drawn from Chang'an and other cities in the rear, which was considered to be a total of [-] troops.

At the same time, an urgent order was sent to Sichuan to quickly dispatch at least 5000 million troops to reinforce Hanzhong Prefecture.

When Sun Chuanting mobilized troops, they were all regular troops. As for the minfu county braves and the like, they didn't move at all. There will be no second result other than wasting food when the young and strong people bring it over.

Relying on the local remnants of Hanzhong Mansion, plus the tens of thousands of reinforcements I sent in the past, plus I don’t know when they will come, and I don’t know how many Sichuan reinforcements will come in the end. Can these troops hold Hanzhong Mansion?
Sun Chuanting didn't know!

But he has no better choice!
What he needs to face is not only the tens of thousands of Chu thieves on the Hanzhong mansion, but also the tens of thousands of Chu thieves on the front line of Tongguan.

Judging from the reports reported by the spies, the Chu thieves have been doing a lot recently, and various vehicles transporting ammunition and food are traveling between Tongguan and Luoyang almost non-stop day and night.

He knew very well that the time for the Chu thief to attack Tongguan was not far away.

(End of this chapter)