Once the Southern Navy captures Zhongyan Mountain and deploys a large number of artillery on it and sets up artillery observation points, some important buildings in the city, such as warehouses, such as his state capital and some key tactical nodes for the defense of the city, will probably be shelled by the enemy's heavy artillery one by one.

Moreover, the enemy's artillery observers, holding high-powered binoculars on the hill and looking at Chongke City, can have a clear view, and the defenders in the city will not have any secrets, and if they move their forces slightly, it is estimated that they will be subjected to intensive artillery bombardment.

Once Zhongyan Mountain is lost, Chongke City will be in no danger to defend, and even hiding in the city will have to be cautious, always worrying about the accurate landing of the cannonballs on him.

Therefore, Zhongyanshan can't be lost, even if he is heartbroken by the loss of the third division, he has to continue to pit hard.

As for withdrawing the Third Division first and letting other units defend it, it is no different from giving up directly, and the other units are far inferior to the Third Division in terms of equipment and will to fight.

And most importantly, loyalty!

The Third Division is his descendant unit, a native of his hometown, and his personal loyalty is extremely high, and now the casualties have been very large, but he still did not retreat without authorization.

If this is changed to other troops, I am afraid that it will collapse in a few hours, and the collapse is fine, but what if it surrenders before the battle?

After thinking about it for a long time, Feng Ziqi took a deep breath: "I'm transferring a division to reinforce you, Zhongyan Mountain can't be lost, once you lose this Chongke City, you can't defend it." ”

Feng Zishu didn't continue to say anything after hearing this, he also understood the importance of Zhongyan Mountain.

What the two brothers expect now is that their own casualties are large, but the opponent's ammunition consumption and casualties are not small!

At the end of the morning, it is conservatively estimated that two or three thousand enemy troops have been killed or wounded, and as for the artillery shells consumed by the enemy, it is impossible to count, anyway, Feng Ziqi and they don't think that the South China Navy can always maintain such a high-intensity artillery bombardment.

The artillery can hold up, the artillery can hold up, they don't have so many shells!

And if the soldiers are killed or wounded, their own side is not small, and the other side is not small, it depends on who can't hold it first.

However, their expectations were disappointed in the early evening!

Because in the afternoon of the same day, the intensity of the shelling of the South China Navy did not weaken, but increased!

Because on the same day, several more batches of ammunition arrived at the front line via the railway line!

These shells were unloaded directly by a large number of people on the railway line, moved to the wagons and pulled directly to the artillery positions.

In such a fierce artillery bombardment, Rao is a hard bone like the Third Division in Zishengzhou, but it finally couldn't hold on.

In the evening of the same day, the casualties of the Third Division of the Zisheng Army had exceeded 8,000, and the full strength of the Third Division was only more than 16,000 people, and more than half of the direct casualties were inflicted.

That's a huge casualty ratio.

And although it is a defensive operation, it still has not collapsed, which is already a first-class strong army in contemporary times.

However, with such a force, there is only one third division under Feng Ziqi!

And in the entire Zhongyanshan defense line, there is not only one third division, but also the sixth division of the Zisheng Army that was originally deployed here, and the eighth division that was reinforced at noon.

Fortunately, the sixth division was assigned to the defensive line, which was not the main offensive defense line of the Southern Navy, and the casualties were actually not large, and it was estimated that only two or three thousand people were killed or wounded after the fierce fighting.

But the 8th Division, which was newly reinforced, was different.

This division was a unit that was withdrawn from the defense line on the outskirts of the city yesterday, and it had already suffered one or two thousand casualties, and its morale was rather depleted.

After the division was reinforced to the Zhongyanshan defensive line, it was directly assigned to the flank of the third division to relieve the defensive pressure of the third division.

However, this place is the main direction of attack of the Southern Navy!

The artillery bombardment was the most intense, and the infantry assault was the most!

This is also the most casualty!

In the face of this kind of shelling and impact, if the 3rd Division can still grit its teeth and carry it to the death, then the 8th Division will not be able to.

After an afternoon of fierce fighting, by late afternoon, the 8th Division had completely collapsed......

After seeing the collapse of the Eighth Division on the flank, Feng Zishu, the commander of the Third Division, who fought hard for two days and one night with the Third Division, was speechless for a long time!

He knew very well that the Eighth Division had collapsed, his flank had been lost, and then his Third Division would be attacked by the flank, and no matter how much he resisted, he would not be able to stop this huge tactical disadvantage.

There are only two options left for his third division, either to retreat on its own initiative, or to be annihilated after being recalcitrant and resisting!

The fact was indeed the same as he had guessed, although at the last moment, he urgently dispatched reinforcements to try to stop the collapse of the Eighth Division, but the South Navy on the opposite side saw the opportunity and attacked faster.

In the end, the 8th Division completely collapsed, and the attacking forces of the South Navy captured the positions of the 8th Division, resulting in the 3rd Division being completely exposed to the fire of the South Navy.

Next, although the 3rd Division tried to continue to resist stubbornly, its tactical disadvantage could no longer be compensated, and it was finally forced to retreat!

At the last moment, Feng Ziqi still gave the order to retreat!

When Zhongyanshan had a chance to defend, Feng Ziqi could let the third division defend desperately.

But now, the sudden collapse of the Eighth Division has led to the collapse of the entire Zhongyanshan battle situation, and it no longer makes sense to continue to let the Third Division hold on to the death, but will also bury the last few thousand troops of the Third Division.

The Third Division withdrew, and even in order to retreat, Feng Zishu also played a trick, and he let the Sixth Division continue to resist stubbornly.

As a result, the remnants of the 3rd Division were successfully withdrawn, but the 6th Division was completely annihilated!

In this regard, Feng Ziqi is very pleased!

Although the Third Division has only more than 7,000 remnants left, the combat effectiveness and actual role of these remnants still surpass that of the Sixth Division, or even more than two divisions.

It was the right choice to use the 6th Division in exchange for a smooth retreat of the remnants of the 3rd Division!

It's just that the other generals of the Zisheng Army won't think so, so they don't know.

With the retreat of the remnants of the Third Division, the Battle of Zhongyanshan can be regarded as coming to an end!

In the evening, after cleanly solving the enemy's broken Sixth Division, the Southern Navy fully captured Zhongyan Mountain.

That night, the Southern Navy did not stop because of the fierce fighting during the day, and the Zhongyan Mountain was illuminated with many torches, even in the city, Feng Ziqi could see a large number of artillery members of the Southern Navy, pushing the guns one by one to the mountain.

If Zhongyan Mountain is lost, it will be even more difficult to defend Chongke City in the future, and even pessimistically, it is impossible to defend it.

Now the only way is to continue to rely on the stubborn resistance of the urban areas and wait for the arrival of the state intervention armies.

As for retreating, this was never an option that Feng Ziqi considered.