To a certain extent, if they choose to surrender to the South China Navy, although these officers will lose their real power in the early stage, as long as they pass the loyalty test in the future, then most of them will still be able to continue to serve in the army.

Those who are unwilling to continue to serve in the army, or who are loyal to Lin Ziran, are not embarrassed, it is impossible to let them go, but at most it is a house arrest, and they will not be directly put into prison or killed.

On the whole, in addition to not giving real power, the South China Navy was relatively tolerant of the officers of the surrender force, even those who were forced to surrender.

This is also the main reason why many other feudal town troops will choose to surrender when they can't do anything.

If Lin Ziran likes to kill prisoners and persecute the generals who surrender to Cheng, then many people would rather die than surrender.

The defenders in the city of Gran chose to surrender for their lives and future, which allowed the Southern Navy to save a lot of ammunition originally planned to attack the city, especially the shells of heavy artillery!

The Southern Navy came from Zisheng Prefecture, but there was not all the way to railway transportation, from the western railway focus of Zisheng Prefecture to Grand City, there was nearly 40 kilometers of railway-free belt in between, this section of the journey, all need carriages for transportation, and the difficulty of logistics supply is quite large.

Being able to save ammunition is naturally a good thing.

What's more, it saves time by not having to siege the city.

Now time is the most important thing for the Southern Navy.

Faced with the threat of the seven northern states, the Southern Navy needs to seize every day to solve Quyang Prefecture as quickly as possible.

In the future, it is necessary to kill Ningyu Prefecture to stabilize the rear, and then it is necessary to take down Zhongluo Prefecture and completely unify the six southern states.

Only then will we be able to gather more troops to start a war with the seven northern states!

Not with one of the seven northern states, but with seven at the same time!

This is something that cannot be helped, and it is not that the Southern Navy itself is willing to choose, but that the seven northern states have already united against the Southern Navy.

Now in the northern part of Zishengzhou, there are more and more coalition forces in the seven northern states, and they are not limited to the northern part of Zishengzhou, but in the northeastern area of Dongdingzhou, that is, the front line of Jingzhou.

In the future, if the southern navy enters Quyang Prefecture, it is estimated that the army of the northern state will also appear in the northern part of Quyang Prefecture.

At that time, the entire northern front will face the threat of the northern states!

The pressure can be imagined.

After the defenders in the city announced their surrender, because the city was not destroyed, the railway station was intact, and a lot of locomotives and train cars were obtained, which made the subsequent westward advance of the Southern Navy easier.

A large number of engineer divisions and conscripted men in the rear have been working day and night to lay a railway line of more than 40 kilometers in a short period of time to connect the railway line in Zisheng Prefecture with the railway line in Quyang Zhou.

At that time, this railway line will be able to go all the way west and finally reach Qingde City, the state city of Quyang Prefecture along the Luo River.

If Qingdecheng can be taken in the future, then the navy will fully open up a fast transportation channel with the rear of Nanhai Prefecture.

Of course, before that, we have to take down several strategic points in the Luo River Gorge and along the Luo River.

However, if Quyang Prefecture even loses the state city of Qingdecheng, then it is impossible for other places to hold it, and there is a high probability that they will choose to flee north like Feng Ziqi.

Even, in order to avoid complications, the South China Navy allowed the enemy to flee north in the subsequent westward expansion process.

In the process of advancing westward, they actually encountered several enemy retreats, but because these enemy forces retreated to the north, the southern navy only symbolically pursued them, and finally let them leave.

The Southern Navy did not have time to make any extraneous matters now, and now their strategic goal was to continue westward along the railway line and take the city of Gyeongdeok.

At the same time, in the Luohe Gorge, the First Army led by Xu Zhongshu also officially launched a large-scale attack!

It's just that the terrain of the Luohe Gorge is really not conducive to attacking, and many places are only a few kilometers wide, but the entire canyon is more than ten kilometers long.

The Luohe Gorge has been a strategic location since ancient times, not to mention that there are fortresses at both ends of the south and the north, and even the middle zone is full of permanent fortifications.

The northern section of the Quyang Prefecture is only about five kilometers long, but the five-kilometer canyon is full of fortifications.

This thing is harder to fight than the fortress of Guangcheng!

Chongguang City Fortress is just a fortress, but this Luohe Gorge, a whole canyon is a fortress......

If you want to fight this place, you can only use stupid methods, slowly pry open their turtle shells all the way, and gradually advance, you can't rush it, otherwise, the Luohe Gorge will easily become a meat grinder!

The First Army's offensive in the Luo River Gorge was more to contain the enemy forces in this direction and prevent them from having a chance to return to Qingdecheng.

After all, while the entire canyon is fortified, it also needs a large number of soldiers to be stationed, and a fortress without enough soldiers to garrison it cannot stop the attack of the First Army.

The First Army launched an attack and pinned down the enemy forces in the direction of the Luohe Gorge, and at the same time, the Second Army and other main forces led by Lin Ziran himself were already directly killing Qingde City.

Although there were enemy blockades along the way, most of them did not need the Second Army and other infantry units to arrive, and the two cavalry corps in the front had already packed up the enemy, and occasionally there were a few hard bones, and after the arrival of the main forces such as the Second Army, a burst of artillery bombardment would successfully kill the opponent.

This westward march is similar to when the Southern Navy went north from South Purple City to Chongke City.

What affects the speed of the advance of the South China Navy is not how strong the enemy army is, but the speed of the troops' march and logistical supply.

Although it was along the railway line, in fact, the march of the South Navy was mainly on foot, and the small number of train wagons captured along the way were used to transport baggage.

The construction of the emergency temporary railway in the rear has not yet been completed, and this is a temporary railway of more than 40 kilometers, and it is estimated that the railway will not be repaired when the South Korean Navy takes Qingdecheng.

On the march, even if it is a march on foot, it is not bad, but the logistics and transportation troubles are relatively big, although it is advancing along the railway line, but there is a lack of train cars, and the temporary railway in the rear has not been repaired, and it is impossible to mobilize train cars from Zisheng Prefecture.

Therefore, this journey of nearly 300 kilometers to the west is a huge challenge to the logistics supply system of the South China Navy.

This is far beyond the ability of the logistics units of the South China Navy to maintain high-intensity combat operations.

From the railway station to the front line, the critical supply distance of transportation by horse-drawn carriages, manpower, etc., can only be maintained at about 100 kilometers.

But now, this distance has directly reached more than 340 kilometers, far exceeding the front-line supply distance of the Southern Navy!