On the third day, the shelling of the Southern Navy was as always, and after two consecutive days of high-intensity shelling, most of the buildings in the fortress of Chongguang Castle had been turned into ruins, and several forts had completely turned into ruins, and the remaining defenders could only hide in the trenches and ruins to resist.

At this time, the 1st Division launched a small attack from the east side to the west of the fortified city!

It does not say that tens of thousands of people will be sent out to launch a charge, but that it will mainly be a small-scale roundabout assault by companies or even platoon-level troops.

This is also the first division's most skilled combat method, not to charge head-on, but to make a detour from the flank, looking for the enemy's weak point of firepower, and then concentrating firepower for a surprise attack, after making a breakthrough at a weak point, quickly interspersed with the enemy's depth, forming a flank encirclement situation, forcing the enemy to take the initiative to retreat.

This tactic is simple to say, but it is not easy to do, because it will greatly test the command ability of junior officers.

At the same time, it is necessary to have a corresponding force formation to implement this tactic.

In the past, the troop establishment of the line was certainly unable to accomplish such small-scale roundabout assault tactics, because there was a lack of a corresponding command system.

The most basic tactical unit of the Yugoslav Navy is the infantry squad, and each infantry squad is also divided into three battle groups, which cover each other during the battle. And zooming in to the infantry platoon and even the infantry company and even the infantry battalion is almost the same routine, but the scale is larger.

Although there were more than 100 infantry companies in the line era, there was no such detailed division.

In the face of this seemingly small-scale infiltration attack of the 1st Division, the defenders of the city could resist more difficult than they did against a massive artillery bombardment.

When resisting shelling, as long as you hide in a solid bunker, then the next thing is to see if God gives face, when God gives face, the shells do not fall and you can live, God does not give face, and the shells fall on your side or nearby, then it is over.

Hiding in bunkers is often unsafe, after all, these bunkers are only ordinary civil fortifications, and there is a general lack of roof fortifications, even if they are temporarily reinforced, but it is difficult to resist the bombardment of 150 mm heavy artillery.

Even many of the soldiers of the Guang'an garrison who were hiding in the anti-artillery holes were not killed by direct hits of shells, but were shocked to death by shells.

Resisting the shelling of the South China Navy depends on whether God gives face.

But against this roundabout assault and infiltration attack of the 1st Division, they felt a kind of complete despair, because no matter how much they resisted, they could not resist!

Position after position was breached, and one line after another was lost.

This made many officers of the Guang'an garrison incomprehensible and even desperate!

They also used rear-loading rifled rifles, and the South China Navy on the opposite side also used rear-loading rifled rifles, but why was they so embarrassed?

Because while a rifle is important, sometimes it's not important.

What army was the first to massively apply breech-loading rifles?

The Nanhai New Army, which was formed by the remnants of the Nanzhou Bank, but although the Nanhai New Army had an epoch-making Nanhai rifle, it was not beaten to the death by the regular armies of the feudal towns, and now it has basically disappeared.

The Nanhai New Army on the side of Guang'an County also had a few thousand people at the beginning, and once expanded to tens of thousands, but it was not suppressed and beaten by the Guang'an Army, and finally annihilated.

You know, at that time, the Guang'an Army was still equipped with smoothbore guns!

Why, because the Guang'an Army has an artillery advantage in the face of the New Army in the South China Sea, and it also has an advantage in troops, it can adopt more and more flexible tactics to annihilate the opponent.

Now, the Guang'an Army has become the inferior side in firepower.

Without artillery support, they were already unable to raise their heads from the shelling, and the 1st Division used a large number of 80-mm light mortars and grenades when attacking.

To be honest, the attacking troops of the 1st Division actually did not kill or wound many enemy troops with rifles, and most of them were killed and wounded with light mortars, grenades and even divisional howitzers.

And the infantry's way of attacking was also very strange in the eyes of the Guang'an people, and they didn't even know where the enemy was after fighting for most of the day.

I don't know when the enemy has touched the edge, and then threw a bunch of grenades at his trench, and what is even more odious is that the enemy army has attacked, and his own people are just about to counterattack, and several shells will fly out of the opposite position and fall on their trenches, resulting in heavy casualties on their own side.

This battle can't be fought!

When the front-line troops have this kind of understanding, then the rout of the whole army will be logical.

In the morning of the same day, the 1st Division successively overcame several sections of the defensive line and approached the fortified city.

In the afternoon, the 5th Division also attacked from the front.

In the evening, the 1st Division had already entered the fortress city, and a large number of enemy troops fled in a hurry, and they simply did not have the courage to continue to resist relying on the ruins of the city.

The battle continued, and by about nine o'clock in the evening, the Fifth Division had also entered the city.

The enemy forces in the city began to flee to the north on a large scale, and the troops entering the city quickly captured all the important places in the city.

At this time, the cavalry units such as the 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, which had been watching the show for a long time, also began their actions.

Before, they did not move, purely so that the enemy army could see a way out and escape.

But now, the attacking troops have already entered the city, and the resistance in the city is no longer there, at this time, the cavalry troops will naturally send those fleeing enemy troops to kill them.

You can't let them really run away, and then rest and continue to resist the South Navy, no.

It's just that at that time it was already night, and the enemy's rout and escape were still formed at first, but later it was estimated that they themselves could not find friendly troops, and the whole scene was chaotic, although the cavalry units of the Southern Navy fought hard to intercept them, but they only intercepted a few thousand enemy troops.

By the time the next morning, Lin Ziran was already standing on the ruins of the Chongguang City Fortress!

After standing on the ruins and looking out to the north for a few minutes, Lin Ziran said: "This Guang'an can't stop our pace!" ”

While Lin Ziran was speaking, a large number of officers and men of the Second Division had already crossed the fortress of Chongguangcheng and continued northward, while in front of the Second Division were forward cavalry units composed of the First Cavalry Brigade and the Second Cavalry Brigade, which pursued the enemy's rout, and at the same time shouldered the task of seizing a number of important ports along the Luo River.

The follow-up battle plan to penetrate into the hinterland of Guang'an will go all the way north along the Luo River, with the second division and cavalry as the vanguard, and the follow-up fifth and first divisions will be the rear of the palace to protect the back road, and at the same time be vigilant against Hexi County, and the follow-up will continue to go north to reinforce the second division to conquer Guang'an City, the largest city in the hinterland of Guang'an.

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