Don't blame Xu Teng for underestimating the South Navy, especially the artillery power of the South Navy.

This is because Xu Teng has never seen the artillery units of the Southern Navy really powerful.

Although the previous two attacks allowed Xu Teng to see the flexible infantry tactics of the Southern Navy and the range advantage brought by the rear-loading artillery.

This also made Xu Teng begin to pay attention to it, try to change, and even made the decision to take the initiative to retreat, but this is not enough, far from enough.

It is already recognized that the rear loading artillery of the Southern Navy is powerful, but now more people know the ability of the rear loading artillery of the Southern Navy in the internal war in Luo'an and when it went south to Luohai County.

At that time, the number of rear-loading artillery of the South China Navy was scarce, and it was mainly used as a long-range suppression artillery in terms of tactical use, and the main object of the battle was the opponent's artillery, and it was a large number of smoothbore artillery that provided direct artillery support for the infantry.

However, now, relying on the advanced technological capabilities and huge production capacity of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, most of the divisional artillery regiments under the main force of the Nanzhou Navy have been replaced with breech-loading rifled guns, and hundreds of 75-mm rear-loading guns have been equipped.

What's more, it is also equipped with a large number of 100-mm cannons and a large number of 150-mm howitzers, the number of which is already dozens of pieces, and it is still increasing rapidly.

These large numbers of rear-loading artillery played a decisive advantage in the Battle of Chongguangcheng.

But now, the Battle of Chongguangcheng has not been long in the past, and outsiders know the ordinary situation of this battle, but it is also difficult to imagine what a terrible shelling the Guang'an army in the Chongguangcheng Battle at that time experienced.

Xu Teng knew that the rear-loading artillery of the Southern Navy was very powerful, but he didn't know how powerful it was.

So now, Xu Teng still has great confidence in blocking the attack of the Southern Navy in the future.

Xu Teng tried to retreat on his own initiative, and the southern navy on the opposite side was still a little less powerful at this time, although he also tried to pursue, but he was also afraid that after breaking away from the fortifications, he would fall into the encirclement of the enemy, or even fall into the ambush circle of the enemy's cavalry troops.

Therefore, the South China Naval Unit led by the Seventh Division only took the initiative to withdraw its troops after a simple pursuit.

How to fight in the future, they need to wait for more reinforcements to arrive, waiting for Lin Ziran to arrive.

Lin Ziran arrived at Nanyungang the next day, and by the time he arrived at the front line, Xu Teng had basically evacuated with his troops, leaving only more than 10,000 cavalry to cover behind.

Lin Ziran did not rush to order the troops to pursue, the first division and other troops he brought over urgently marched, and they arrived at Nanyungang by boat for many days, so they needed to slow down, and at the same time, they also needed to wait for a large number of artillery and other combat materials to get off the ship.

After the artillery and a large amount of war materials have disembarked and the troops have finished resting, it is not too late to counterattack.

But!

The counteroffensive is definitely going to be a counteroffensive!

Since Xu Teng has fought and directly annexed Anlong County, Lin Ziran can't sit idly by, he can't let Xu Teng slowly digest Anlong County, and at the same time leave Xu Teng time to reorganize the troops, build a defensive line, and even develop rear-loading artillery.

Therefore, three days after Lin Ziran arrived in Nanyungang, the Southern Navy began to prepare for the official launch of a counteroffensive.

In a large mansion in Nanyungang, Lin Ziran and many generals under his command sat together, and Lin Ziran was talking about the follow-up battle plan.

"Considering the firepower superiority of our army, and at the same time taking into account the logistical pressure, but also taking into account the enemy's deployment, we must strive to start a decisive battle with the enemy on the front line of Huaijiang County as much as possible, and strive to completely defeat the enemy's main force through a large-scale decisive battle. And the financial pressure on us will also be very high! ”

When Lin Ziran said this, he paused slightly, and then said: "Ladies and gentlemen, since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, we have already spent countless military expenses, and the funds of the Finance Office of the State Command Office are already very scarce, and they are currently being forcibly maintained by issuing banknotes, so the requirements of the official in this battle are to fight quickly, and if you can not delay, do not delay, defeat Xu Teng's department as soon as possible, and end the large-scale war." ”

Lin Ziran didn't continue to say anything else or anything like that, because everyone present was smart people, and they all knew it if they didn't say it.

If the war drags on for a long time, the finances of the South Korean Navy will inevitably collapse, and the issuance of paper money will not be able to save it, but the time will be more complete than the disastrous defeat of the army.

It doesn't matter if you lose the war, the financial collapse is even more terrible!

If you simply lose the war, you can organize troops to continue fighting, but the finances have collapsed, and you can't even afford to make a bullet or shell without money, so it's a fart!

"At present, the enemy army is mainly deployed in Huaijiang County, mainly along the banks of the Nanluo River, it can be seen that its goal is to contain our army along the Nanluo River all the way eastward, and finally kill Anlong County, according to intelligence, they have deployed a strong defense line in many locations, in addition to their soldiers, they also forcibly recruited a large number of people to build fortifications, from a traditional point of view, their fortifications are relatively perfect, and the strength is also very strong, just Jinghuai Port along the Nanluo River, they have deployed no less than 30,000 troops!"

"However, the enemy's approach of relying on the defensive line and guarding with heavy troops is also more conducive to our army's artillery superiority, especially our heavy artillery units!"

"Just like the previous Battle of Chongguangcheng, although the method of attacking the enemy's defense line will face the enemy's strong defense line and the main force, but in the same way, this can also better exert our army's heavy artillery firepower, and then completely defeat the enemy!"

"Since Xu Teng and the others chose to be turtle shells, then let's do it again and break his turtle shells!"

Lin Ziran showed strong self-confidence in the meeting!

His self-confidence comes from the strong ability of his artillery units to attack fortified positions, and if there is any army in the world that can quickly overcome these strong defensive lines, then only the artillery units of the Southern Navy.

Hundreds of medium and large-caliber rear-loading guns were moved up, and what turtle shells couldn't be cracked!

What's more, the defense line deployed by Xu Teng on the front line of Huaijiang County is not a fortress, it was just an ordinary defense line of the Anlong Army in the past, and now it is strengthened through emergency, but at best it is the level of field fortifications, and these field fortifications can not withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery.

Even though the other side dug a large number of trenches and anti-artillery holes, it was also unable to resist the attack of the South China Navy by relying on these alone.

In the previous defense line of Chongguangcheng, the Guang'an Army also dug a large number of trenches, but it was not an egg, and the first division broke through and attacked in a roundabout way, and the opponent's defense line was finished......

Unless Xu Teng gets out the defense systems such as barbed wire, heavy machine guns and cement fortresses, don't expect to be able to really block the attack of the Southern Navy!

But now even Lin Ziran hasn't come up with these things, and Xu Teng is even more gone.

When drawing up a detailed battle plan, the staff officers of the General Staff Office headed by Wu Guanlin also turned out and improved the tactics used to conquer Chongguangcheng, and finally put forward a counteroffensive plan.

After the battle plan was determined, Lin Ziran officially ordered the troops to launch a counteroffensive operation!

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