Such people and such ideas will appear on a large scale in the enemy army every time the South China Navy defeats the enemy army.

Next, there was a large-scale surrender before the battle.

On October 4, more than 60,000 people in the Zisheng army on the periphery had surrendered or surrendered, and nearly 10,000 people were killed or wounded.

In this battlefield with a width of several tens of kilometers, the target of the South Navy's encirclement is actually only an organized and large-scale force of the enemy.

After all, although the strength of the South China Navy has an advantage, it is not much, and it is not easy to barely form an encirclement, and it is impossible to stop the scattered enemy forces in the encirclement one by one.

For these scattered routs, the Southern Navy was too lazy to deal with them, and only sent a small number of cavalry to pursue them, and the main target was still placed on Southern Purple City.

After several days of artillery preparations, and at the same time after crushing the enemy's peripheral forces, the Southern Navy had completed preparations for a general attack on Nanzicheng.

On the morning of October 5, the well-prepared Southern Navy launched a full-scale general attack on Southern Purple City!

And when they launched a general attack, they found that the opponent's resistance was not as strong as they imagined, and the other side did not even look like a fortress with 50,000 troops.

And after the front line troops entered the South Purple City and captured the enemy's garrison defense line, they found out why the opponent's defensive strength was very average, and the enemy behaved very strangely, and they were not very defensive in some key areas, which made the commanders of the Southern Navy on the front line vigilant, could it be that there was an ambush?

The first two or three hours of the battle were quite strange, the Zisheng army inside the city didn't seem to defend much, and the southern navy outside the city didn't dare to attack.

The scene was embarrassing for a while!

It was not until the Southern Navy gradually tried to advance that it was finally found that many of the enemy's defense lines had collapsed, and after many buried enemy corpses were found in these collapsed defense lines, they even found a large number of enemy corpses without obvious external injuries in some trenches and anti-artillery fortifications.

After a preliminary judgment, the military doctor who accompanied the army determined that almost all of them were 'shocked to death' by the heavy artillery shelling!

At this time, the commanders of the Southern Navy came to their senses.

It's not that the enemy doesn't want to resist, but that he has lost the ability to resist!

As a result, the advance of the troops returned to the normal rhythm, and sure enough, after the rhythm of the advance was restored, the speed of the advance could be described as amazing, and it didn't take a few hours for them to completely control the fortress of Southern Purple City!

It's just that when they entered the Southern Purple City, what they saw was no longer a city, but a ruin......

When they were outside, they couldn't see it yet, they could only see that some of the buildings on the periphery had been destroyed, but when they went deeper into it, they found that almost the entire city had been destroyed!

The warehouse area next to the railway station was designated as a core munitions warehouse for the enemy's storage of weapons, ammunition, and food, and was under the heavy care of the artillery units of the South China Navy in the past few days.

And when the siege troops arrived here, they could barely find a finished section of the wall!

The artillery of the Southern Navy used a large number of 150-millimeter heavy artillery to carry out intensive shelling of this place for more than a day, so that this small complex was completely blown into ruins.

After the troops continued to advance, they captured the enemy's headquarters indicated by the previous intelligence, but they failed to capture or kill Hou Zheming and other high-ranking generals, and they did not even find a few high-ranking generals.

After a brief inquiry, it was discovered that Hou Zheming's headquarters had already been relocated, and it was directly relocated to a basement.

Soon, the troops found and conquered Hou Zheming's headquarters.

After conquering this headquarters, they found a large number of high-ranking generals of the enemy army!

But they still failed to capture Hou Zheming alive.

At the last moment when the Southern Navy attacked, Hou Zheming ended his life with the smoothbore revolver he was wearing!

Hou Zheming resisted to commit suicide at the last moment, and he also successfully fulfilled his promise to the state commander Feng Ziqi: hold on for five days!

In the past five days, the situation has been extremely bad and even desperate!

Especially in Nanzi City, it seems that it has not been attacked by the enemy's infantry before, but the intensive artillery bombardment, especially the heavy artillery shelling, has actually caused more than half of the defenders in the city to be killed and wounded!

In particular, most of the soldiers who had been deployed in the direction of the trenches outside the city walls died of artillery shelling for unknown reasons.

Hou Zheming saw all this!

During this period, many people were also shaken and wanted to surrender, but they were all suppressed by Hou Zheming.

During this period, the Southern Navy has been busy mobilizing mobile forces to encircle and suppress the enemy forces on the periphery, and has not launched a large-scale infantry attack on South Purple City, but only maintained artillery bombardment, otherwise, the fall of South Purple City would have been two days earlier.

In the Battle of Southern Purple City, Hou Zheming felt Yuan Yonghan's despair!

The heavy artillery of the Southern Navy is like the end of the world, making it impossible for them to resist!

At the beginning, Yuan Yonghan chose to retreat decisively, trying to deal with it with mobile small-scale operations in the later stage.

His choice not only led to the Hetai defense line being broken through by the Southern Navy in one day, and the 100,000 troops were surrounded and annihilated, but also caused the entire Dongding Prefecture to be swept away by the Southern Navy in just 18 days.

Hou Zheming learned the lesson of Yuan Yonghan, he did not retreat, but chose to die, because he needed to innovate for the Zisheng army in the rear and buy time for the production of more rear-loading cannons!

But in the end, Hou Zheming already seriously doubted his original choice.

In the face of the powerful firepower of the South China Navy, there is no point at all in carrying it to the death, and even in terms of delaying time, it is better to disperse and attack the South China Navy.

Now, if it weren't for the fact that the Southern Navy itself was too cautious, after a full-scale attack for five days, the Zisheng Army on the left and right sides was cleared, and the cavalry troops and the second division and other troops were outflanked before launching a general attack on South Zicheng.

South Purple City is estimated to be lost on the second or third day!

By the time it was yesterday, in fact, South Purple City was no different from being undefended.

As for today, as soon as the Southern Navy rushed up, those surviving Zisheng troops did not resist much at all, and soon surrendered cleanly.

In the general offensive of Nanzicheng, the South Navy is expected to invest more than 80,000 troops to carry out a strong attack, and it is expected to take three days to capture the city and completely wipe out the enemy army within five days.

The field hospital in Dafeng Town is ready to accommodate tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, and even the body bags have been prepared at least 5,000.

But the reality was that their general offensive lasted only about six hours, during which no large-scale battles broke out at all, only a few small and medium-sized battles.

He suffered less than 500 casualties, about 100 of whom were killed on the spot, and 13 of them were killed by an unexploded bomb.

Because of these unfortunate people, after seeing this 150-millimeter cannonball, a soldier who was suspicious of his life stepped forward to check it, and then this unexploded shell came very unceremoniously and exploded on the spot.

None of the fourteen members of this infantry squad were killed or injured in the previous battle, but thirteen of them were killed on the spot in this accident, and only one soldier who remained behind to guard survived.

Of course, the South China Navy's own losses were very small during the attack, and there were not many enemies killed or wounded in the course of the battle.

A large number of enemy soldiers in the city were killed and wounded by shelling in the past few days.

The previous fierce artillery bombardment had completely destroyed the resistance of the defenders in the city, which is why today's general attack was so smooth.

The successful capture of Nanzicheng also gave many generals of the Southern Navy greater confidence!

I heard before that Zisheng Prefecture is a unified state, and the Zisheng Army is also a strong army, but the battle of Southern Purple City is nothing more than that!

Of course, outsiders may disagree and shout something like this: You are just relying on two cannons, and without these rear-loading heavy guns, you are not even a fart.

And the reaction of the Southern Admiral to this was: Bomb his mother!