Many generals in the South China Navy know this, so even if they are faced with multi-front operations in a short period of time, many troops are running around and fighting very hard, but they are also gritting their teeth to support them.

Even the internal affairs officials of the state government know that now that they have reached a critical juncture, they will survive it, and the future will be a smooth road, and they will not be able to survive everything, so when the front line is fighting, in fact, the internal affairs officials in the rear are also trying their best to raise military funds to maintain the operation of the front-line troops.

There is no way, now the South Korean Navy uses a large number of advanced weapons, and the ammunition consumed is extremely expensive.

On 12 May, Lin Ziran formally approved the operational plan for the counterattack on the Eastern Front, and issued an operational mobilization order to all units scheduled to participate in the war that night.

In the early morning of the next day, the three cavalry divisions temporarily transferred formed a cavalry corps to carry out a super-large strategic detour from the northern flank!

At the same time, the frontal forces launched a large-scale counteroffensive!

In fact, the whole counterattack routine is not much different from the counterattack operation on the northern front, which is to contain the frontal forces, and some infantry is lightly armed and rapidly advancing, making small-scale breakthroughs, outflanking in a roundabout, and forcing the collapse of the enemy's frontal defense line.

At the same time, a large number of cavalry was sent to carry out a large-scale strategic detour to cut off the enemy's reinforcements and logistics.

Strictly speaking, the whole tactic is very simple, and even when Ningyuzhou was advancing eastward, they themselves did this, constantly taking advantage of the advantages of the army, and carried out strategic detours to try to outflank the Sixth Division.

The Sixth Division was forced to retreat continuously, and waited until the reinforcements of the garrison brigade arrived, which was the initial stabilization of the battle line, and when the Second Army arrived, the entire front entered the confrontation stage.

However, within two days of the confrontation, Lin Ziran ordered a full-scale counteroffensive.

When a large number of southern navies launched a full-scale attack under the cover of dense artillery, the Ningyu Prefecture army on the opposite side was also in the predicament of the Second Army Corps of Quyang Prefecture.

They couldn't fight at all against the firepower, and their smoothbore artillery was suppressed and even destroyed by the rifled rear-loading artillery of the South China Navy at the beginning.

When your own artillery is unable to support the infantry, then your own infantry can only be unilaterally bombarded by the Southern Navy.

And this almost directly declares the rout of the infantry.

Not to mention now, even in the wars of fifty years ago or even more ago, artillery was an extremely important strategic force, and when the artillery units of one side had the upper hand, the opposing side could not resist by relying solely on infantry.

In the early era of smoothbore guns, the artillery used by the artillerymen was still the early smoothbore guns, and the shells were mainly solid shells and scattered shells, and the infantry could also turn the column into a horizontal team, increasing the distance between soldiers to reduce the damage caused by the artillery, and at the same time, the opponent could also directly use the cavalry to quickly assault the enemy's artillery position to change the tide of battle.

But now, the power of the artillery is more powerful, not to mention the huge power of the collision fuze cylindrical shells used by the South China Navy, even the power of the spherical grenades used by the smoothbore guns before is not small.

As a result, the artillery bombardment was more lethal to the infantry.

In addition, what is more critical is that the effective range of rifled artillery is extremely large, and it will not be deployed in front at all during combat, often behind the infantry battle line, and it is thousands of meters away at every turn.

This also led to the fact that the enemy army did not have the corresponding rear-loading rifled artillery, and did not even have the means of countermeasures.

The result is a one-sided situation.

This situation has occurred in almost all enemy forces since the large-scale application of breech-loading rifled artillery in the South Navy.

The Ningyu Prefecture Army is no exception.

Having been bombarded by a large number of artillery, especially a large number of one and fifty mm heavy artillery of heavy artillery regiments, their infantry lines were simply unable to resist.

Collapse becomes natural.

On 14 May, the attacking forces of the South China Navy had broken through the enemy's northern flank defense line, and the South China Navy, with the Second Division of the Second Army as the core, supplemented by the Fifth Division, quickly tore through the defense line on the northern flank, and then quickly advanced to the southwest.

Nearly 30,000 troops were like a huge right hook, hitting Ning Yuzhou's soft belly hard.

In this case, Ning Yuzhou has no other choice but to retreat passively, otherwise, he can only stay in the encirclement and wait for death.

However, it is always difficult to retreat, especially when the enemy is heavily pressed and the rear road will be cut off at any time, and it is very difficult to ensure an organized and orderly retreat.

In addition, the purpose of the Southern Navy is not to force them to retreat, the main purpose is to annihilate the 100,000 Ningyu Prefecture and the 20,000 Qingyuan army.

Therefore, when the 2nd and 5th Divisions launched a roundabout attack, the 4th and 6th Divisions also launched a full-scale frontal attack.

The intensity of the frontal battlefield is even greater than that of the roundabout attack on the northern flank.

This was originally very difficult to resist, the entire defense line was crumbling, and at this time it was no less difficult to organize a retreat than to ascend to the sky.

However, no matter how difficult it was, the Ning Yuzhou army still retreated in the face of shells and bullets from the Southern Navy.

Fortunately, there was no Luo River to the south, so they could not retreat directly to the west, but they could still retreat to the southwest.

Taking advantage of the fact that the right hook of the Southern Navy was not yet in place, they decisively gave up the 20,000 Qingyuan Army, and let them resist stubbornly on the premise that the 20,000 Qingyuan Army did not know the real unfolding, so as to delay the breakthrough speed of the Southern Navy.

Rao is 20,000 Qingyuan troops knew that something was wrong a few hours later, their morale fell, and they collapsed directly under the blow of the Southern Navy.

But at the end of the day, it also bought at least three hours for the main force of the Ning Yuzhou army.

With these three times, the main force of Ningyu Prefecture was able to pick out the encirclement one step ahead.

Of course, in order to escape from the breakout, they also paid a lot of price, in addition to the 20,000 Qingyuan army, the Ning Yuzhou army itself also lost no less than 30,000.

Before the right hook of the Second Army of the Southern Navy completed the encirclement, only 60,000 or 70,000 people had time to escape.

In the first counterattack operation, the South China Navy destroyed the enemy who captured at least 50,000 people.

Originally, according to the operational plan of the General Staff, the counterattack operation should be the same as the counterattack operation on the northern front, which completely encircled and annihilated the enemy forces at one time.

However, although the first roundabout outflanking operation of the Second Army was smooth, the enemy's determination to escape was also not small, and in the end it was a little bit worse.

Anyway, they still have a backhand!

A cavalry corps of three cavalry divisions!