Although the first phase of the battle plan did not achieve the predetermined goals, the South China Navy would not give up easily.

After discussing with many senior operational staff officers of the General Staff and the senior generals under his command, Lin Ziran ordered the troops to launch a pursuit operation on the same day, and at the same time sent a herald to urgently inform the cavalry corps that was making a strategic detour, and it was necessary to stop the enemy deserters and delay the enemy's escape speed, so that his own pursuers could catch up.

After giving many orders, Lin Ziran looked at the western wilderness and muttered: Since you are here, then don't think about going back!

Lin Ziran dispatched many main forces to fight a large-scale counterattack on the Western Front, not only to resist the enemy's attack, but also to simply defeat them, in order to completely annihilate the 100,000 Ning Yuzhou army, completely cut off their idea of advancing eastward, and by the way, let Ning Yuzhou fall into a self-protection crisis.

This will allow you to gain enough time for your troops to gain valuable breathing time while preparing for the next round of expansion.

He didn't want the next time he was going north to enter Quyang Prefecture, or when he was going east to Dongdingzhou, those bastards in Ning Yu Prefecture would kill him from behind.

Now, it is necessary to completely abolish the main force of the army in Ningyu Prefecture.

Even if Ningyu Prefecture can continue to urgently expand the army in the future, it will take time.

And what you lack most is time!

The troops pursued, and Lin Ziran did not follow the army to the west to pursue, but returned to Luohai City with many personnel.

He is not only the commander of the Southern Navy, but also the governor of Nanhai Prefecture, and the things to deal with are not only limited to military affairs, but also many government affairs.

In the past, he went north to command the counterattack operation on the northern front, and recently he went to the outskirts of the city to command the troops to launch a counterattack operation on the western front.

After returning to Luohai City, Lin Ziran fought at night, and after being busy for three days in a row, he finished dealing with many backlogs of more important government affairs, although there were still a large number of ordinary government affairs, but they were slowly dealt with later, and there was no need to rush for a while.

In the past three days, the Western Front also continued to send war reports.

The escape speed of the Ning Yuzhou army was even faster than the Southern Navy expected.

When the Ningyu Prefecture army fled, they directly abandoned a large number of baggage artillery and fled lightly, and the Southern Navy, which was pursuing in the rear, still pursued with artillery at first, but later changed the strategy of pursuit.

Divisional cavalry units and some infantry units pursued lightly, carrying only rifles and other light weapons, and heavy weapons only carrying rapid-fire mortars, while the divisional artillery regiments followed behind, but only the 75-mm guns in the divisional artillery regiments.

As for the several heavy artillery regiments, they could not talk about a pursuit at all, and the 150-mm howitzers and 100-mm cannons were too heavy and very troublesome to maneuver.

And there are no large-scale rivers to transport in this area, let alone railways.

The difficulty of the front-line troops in pursuit, and the difficulty of rapid maneuvering with heavy weapons, also gave Lin Ziran the idea of building a railway.

Although Nanhai Prefecture has developed river transportation, in some areas, railways still play an irreplaceable role.

What's more, the reason why Nanhai Prefecture did not build a railway before was purely because of the chaos between the feudal towns and towns, and there was no unified state government.

On the other hand, in other states, many states that have not fallen into civil strife and have large feudal towns have built railways, and in the future, Nanhai Prefecture can also build railways in some areas depending on the situation.

For example, in the western region, it is still very necessary to build a railway from Luohai City to the west to Qingyuan County.

Of course, Lin Ziran only has the idea of building a railway now, but he didn't say that he is ready to build a railway now.

Now all the forces in Nanhai Prefecture need to serve the war in order to face multiple threats, and the construction of the railway has to be slowed down until the situation calms down.

The infantry could not catch up, so the South China Navy placed its hope of intercepting the enemy on the cavalry corps.

Three days after Lin Ziran returned to Luohai City, that is, on May 18, a battle report came from the front, saying that the cavalry corps had made contact with some of the enemy's peripheral troops.

The next step of the cavalry unit will be to carry out frequent, intensive raids on the enemy's fleeing troops in order to delay the enemy's pace.

When necessary, cavalry units will also choose specific locations to forcibly intercept enemy troops.

In short, now that the cavalry unit has bitten the enemy, it is not so easy for the enemy to escape again.

On 20 May, the front line once again reported that the cavalry corps and some of the enemy's cavalry units engaged in fierce engagement, during which the cavalry corps dismounted and fought on foot, giving full play to the superiority of the rifle fire of the breech-loading rifled guns, the rapid-fire mortars carried by the troops, and the 75-mm light howitzers for the special use of some light cavalry.

Massively kill and wound enemy cavalry.

After the defeat of the enemy cavalry, without the cover of the cavalry units, the speed at which their infantry units continued to flee was completely slowed down.

More than 10,000 men of the divisional cavalry units and light infantry units of the pursuing troops in the rear had already bitten the tail of the enemy troops.

Subsequently, it is very likely that large-scale battles will break out between the two sides again.

It's just that this kind of large-scale battle is just the stubborn resistance of Ning Yuzhou's side, they were full of troops before, and when the total strength exceeded 120,000, they couldn't stop the attack of the Southern Navy.

Now there are only 50,000 or 60,000 remnants of the defeated army, and there are no heavy weapons, not even much rations.

In the future, the Southern Navy didn't even have to fight, it directly surrounded them, and they could all starve to death in a few days!

On 21 May, Lin Ziran received a battle report from the front, the enemy was unwilling to be besieged, and tried to forcibly break through, and the three cavalry divisions of the cavalry corps, three cavalry regiments under the division, and two infantry brigades formed a solid defensive line, intercepted the enemy's breakthrough troops, and successfully blocked the enemy's breakthrough.

On 24 May, Lin Ziran had already received the good news of the total annihilation of the enemy's deserters.

After the defeat of about 50,000 enemy troops, although they wanted to continue to resist stubbornly, at this time some infantry and artillery units of the South Korean Navy also caught up.

On 23 May, the South China Navy launched its first encirclement and annihilation battle against the enemy with more than 60,000 troops, and the enemy surrendered after several hours of stubborn resistance.

As a result, it was announced that the 100,000 Ningyu Zhou army and the 20,000 Qingyuan army that had entered Luohai County were all wiped out!

After receiving the good news, Lin Ziran was in a good mood!

The battle on the Western Front has been completely victorious so far, and the follow-up only needs to continue to enter Qingyuan County for the finishing operations, and after there is no threat from the northern and western fronts, the threat from the eastern front will not exist, and the northwest front can also be stabilized.

Without these four external threats, the Yugoslav Navy was able to truly gain a firm foothold in Nanhai Prefecture and gain extremely valuable respite and preparation time for the next stage of operations.

At this time, an old friend came to the door, who?

A few years ago, he was a figure of the younger generation in Luo'an County, and the former Luo Guang garrison envoy was also the nephew of Cheng Lingfeng, the county guard of Luo'an County: Cheng Hongbin.

What is he doing here?

Lin Ziran was a little puzzled.

And after he explained his intentions, Lin Ziran was contemplative!

This Cheng Hongbin was entrusted by someone to find Lin Ziran to talk to the matchmaker.

Well, this is not the point, the point is that Cheng Hongbin is not a simple matchmaker, she is the granddaughter of the former commander of the Ninth Army of the Daheng Empire and the former Duke of Nanhai Prefecture.

It's just that from this woman's identity, Lin Ziran smelled a strong political atmosphere!