Outside the Luohe Gorge in Guang'an County, in light rain, Yang Jun, the commander of the Quyang Second Army Corps, wore a raincoat and shuttled through the wounded barracks with a group of generals.

Look at the many wounded soldiers howling and wailing in the mourning camp, and a large body in the open space outside in the rainforest.

Yang Jun did not have the slightest joy of conquering the Luohe Gorge.

Instead, he frowned!

This battle was both expected and unexpected.

What he expected was that he relied on the superiority of his huge forces, forcefully divided his troops to bypass the defense line of the Third Division of the Southern Navy, and finally interspersed in a roundabout way, and finally forced the Southern Navy to retreat, and then seized the Luohe Gorge, a strategic passage to the south.

But what he didn't expect was that this time the attack on the Luohe Gorge had an absolute superiority of troops, and it also had a large number of heavy artillery and inland warships to help the battle, and the attack on the Luohe Gorge, which was only defended by more than 10,000 people, killed and wounded more than 10,000 people in just two days!

The casualty figure was too big to believe!

Originally, he was still in the rear to coordinate and command, but on the first day of the general offensive, there were thousands of casualties, so he personally went to the front line on the same day, but the second day of the attack still suffered huge casualties, at that time he watched countless of his own soldiers being torn apart by the shells and bullets of the Southern Navy.

If it weren't for the successful detour of the partial division troops sent out by themselves, and the fact that the opponent was very likely to run out of ammunition, the enemy took the initiative to retreat in order to avoid being surrounded, I am afraid that his own casualties would have been even greater.

Even, he once doubted that if the other side had enough ammunition to stubbornly defend it, he would have more than 100,000 troops, and whether he could take the Luohe Gorge was a matter of two words.

Naturally, he didn't know that the great results of the Third Division were based on the fact that most of the ammunition was consumed.

Breech-loading rifled weapons are easy to use, but the ammunition consumption is also huge.

In the era of smoothbore guns, a soldier was issued fifty rounds of ammunition, and often the war ended before the bullets were finished, but in the current era of breech-loading rifled guns, dozens of rounds of ammunition are not enough for a battle.

The ammunition was consumed too much, the replenishment was insufficient, and at the same time, faced with the danger of the rear road being cut off, the 3rd Division chose to retreat on its own initiative.

Otherwise, the 3rd Division would not have retreated!

As long as the ammunition is sufficient, the 3rd Division is fully confident that it will hold for a long time, even if it is besieged.

It's a pity that there is not enough ammunition!

Today's South China Navy has entered the era of rear-loading rifled weapons and equipment, and the amount of ammunition consumed is extremely large, and they are all new weapons.

In the previous months, a large number of troops were consumed in the Northern Expedition, and a large number were consumed in the subsequent eastward march to Anlong County and Hetai County, and the newly produced ammunition in the rear was basically sent to the Eastern Front.

Before that, the 3rd Division could only rely on its own ammunition reserves to fight, which naturally could not last long.

Although the Third Division retreated, and the Quyang Second Army also successfully captured the Luohe Gorge, Yang Jun was not happy.

The dead and wounded are all his descendants!

Although Quyang Prefecture is nominally a unified state, the state order is just an empty shelf, and the real power is controlled by the commanders of the four major army corps of Quyang Prefecture, and the four major army corps of Quyang are the real masters of Quyang Prefecture.

Yang Jun's second army is the strongest force in Quyang Prefecture, with more than 200,000 troops in his hands, controlling half of Quyang Prefecture, almost the sum of the strength of the other three major legions.

This time going south is not the overall operation of Quyang Prefecture, but the private action of Yang Jun's Second Army, the purpose is very simple, to kill Lin Ziran and seize Nanhai Prefecture, even if you can't capture the entire Nanhai Prefecture, but you must also take Guang'an County.

It's just that he didn't expect that the first battle he led the main force south would suffer such heavy casualties.

Obviously, in the previous small-scale tentative attack, the South Korean Navy on the opposite side did not show such a strong force, why did the opponent's firepower be so fierce when it came to the general attack?

Even if they are equipped with rear-loading guns, it can't be so exaggerated!

Rear loading guns, Yang Jun is also no stranger, since this thing appeared, in a very short period of time, in fact, it has been widely spread, those small feudal towns in Nanhai Prefecture know that the Fuyuan musket is converted into a breech-loading rifled rifle, and the feudal towns in other states are naturally no exception.

Yuan Yonghan also converted the smoothbore gun into a rear-loading rifled rifle, and the same is true for Yang Jun, the interesting thing is that the smoothbore gun they were equipped with before was actually a Fuyuan musket, and this modification did not need to be redesigned, and it was directly modified according to the Fuyuan rifle.

As for the rear-loading artillery, there is no way to do this, but the front-loading rifled gun can still be done, and the arsenal under Xu Teng and Yuan Yonghan can be tossed out of the front-loading rifled gun so badly, and he Yang Jun has an artillery factory with good technology.

Therefore, this rifled weapon is not a new thing in today's Daheng, especially in Nanhai Prefecture and the surrounding areas, and the learning ability of each feudal town is very strong, and they are afraid that their weapons and equipment will lag behind others and finally be robbed of their territory, so after the appearance of the rear-loading rifle, these feudal towns are all very positive.

Similarly, the appearance of rear-loading rifled weapons, especially rear-loading rifled guns, is also the reason why many feudal towns want to kill Lin Ziran and take Luohai City.

Breech-loading rifled guns are okay, medium-sized arsenals can be made, although the performance will be a little worse, but it can also be used, but it is not possible to use a smoothbore gun for modification.

But the rear-loading rifled gun is not easy to do, this thing has too high technical requirements, and now in the entire Daheng Empire, there are few arsenals that can produce this kind of rear-loading rifled gun with extremely high technical requirements, and none of them are in the hands of Dafanzhen.

In the entire southern region of Daheng, there is just such a Nanzhou Machinery Bureau with this technical strength.

Kill Lin Ziran, take Luo Haicheng, and pocket the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, and the entire industrial system, and you can get a breech-loading rifled rifle and a rear-loading rifled gun.

Whether it is for Yuan Yonghan or Yang Jun, or for Ningyu Prefecture and Zhongluo Prefecture, the attraction is huge.

Not to mention that it can also take the Nanhai Prefecture region, once the Nanhai Prefecture region is integrated, it will immediately become a big domain town, enough to affect the situation of Daheng!

The huge strength of Nanhai State is the reason why they want to enter Nanhai State!

Not only to be able to get it for himself, but also to prevent Lin Ziran from getting it!

With the potential of Nanhai Prefecture, especially its industrial strength, after Lin Ziran truly unifies Nanhai Prefecture, the war potential that Nanhai Prefecture can break out is amazing!

How much the feudal towns in the states were afraid of the Southern Navy under Duke Meng's command back then, and now they are also afraid of the Southern Navy under Lin Ziran's command!

Even more fearful!

Lin Ziran must die!

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