These career officers begin attending military schools in their teens, where they are assigned to serve in the army after three years of study, while middle and senior officers are required to undergo an additional two-year advanced training course before they can be promoted to a rank of secretary.

As for the officers of the South China Navy on the other side, he knew that Lin Ziran had a brain disease, and he didn't need to let go of a group of professional officers in Nanhai Prefecture who had rich war experience and high tactical literacy, so he had to use those hairy young men who had just joined the army.

Most of these people didn't even have the same hair, and he could even observe from the binoculars that some of the young officers of the South China Navy were very unbearable when they led the charge, and some of them shouted and exaggerated their movements when they charged, and some even vomited on the spot after seeing the irregular corpses......

On the other hand, the group of officers on their own side is much calmer when leading the soldiers into battle, and even if the enemy rushes up, they can calmly command the battle.

There is no doubt that the quality of one's own group of officers is far superior to that of the other side.

In terms of equipment, although their own side is at a disadvantage in artillery, but aside from this, there is no obvious gap between the equipment of the two sides in the infantry, and even in the small artillery, the infantry units of their Zisheng Army also have them, and their infantry units also have small-caliber front-loading smoothbore guns as infantry guns.

The range and rate of fire are a little slower, but they still work, and the gap is there, but it is not insurmountable.

But why did the battle between the infantry of the two sides make their own side retreat one after another, and a division of tens of thousands of people could not hold out even for a morning before the whole army was defeated.

Hou Zheming knows the gap in all aspects, especially the disadvantages in equipment.

But what made him really desperate was the huge gap between the infantry on both sides, and this gap was not in equipment, in terms of individual soldiers, but in organization.

The other side is able to smoothly command troops and cooperate effectively on such a seemingly scattered battlefield.

This is the reason why the large-scale rout on the left and right sides, especially on the right side, in the past day of fighting, directly led to the complete annihilation of an entire division in just over a day.

The opponent's organization and command system, as well as even the tactical concept, are completely different from the existing troops, and can even be said to be ahead of the times!

That's what makes him feel hopeless!

He was not fighting with an army of his contemporaries at all!

How, then, was he able to lead his army to victory? Give Feng Ziqizhou a satisfactory answer?

With heavy thoughts, Feng Ziqi began to pick up a dipping pen and write under the rumbling cannon.

This is a report written to Feng Ziqi's state order, introducing the battle situation, enemy and enemy losses, etc., and those situations will be sent back in more detail.

The report he wrote was mainly about the situation in the South Navy!

More precisely, it is to introduce the operational mode of the South China Navy that he saw with his own eyes and the organizational model of the South China Navy in the intelligence he collected.

In the end, a conclusion was drawn: Our army must immediately carry out a comprehensive reform and reform from the lowest organizational system, so that it can have the possibility of confronting the South China Navy, otherwise it will not be able to resist the South China Navy at all.

Moreover, the renovation must be completed as soon as possible, preferably within a month, and the renovation of the main force left behind must be completed within a month, of which the 20,000 core troops stationed in Chongke City must complete the initial renovation within half a month.

Even if it is not perfect, it must be completed first, and then slowly improved later.

Why did the 20,000 core main forces in Chongke City complete the initial renovation within half a month?

Because Hou Zheming judged that with the current situation of the enemy and us, it would only take half a month for the Southern Navy to reach the hinterland of Zisheng Prefecture and Chongke City, the state capital 230 kilometers away.

And this is not to say that the southern front troops led by him can block the southern navy for half a month, but that the southern navy only takes half a month to kill Chongke City from here, including the time for the southern navy to march.

As for how long the Southern Front Corps led by Hou Zheming could resist?

Hou Zheming said in the letter that he was bound to live and die with Nanzicheng, and did his best to drag the Southern Navy for five days!

The 150,000 troops currently deployed by the Zisheng Army in the South Purple City and the surrounding tens of kilometers of defense line dragged the 200,000 troops of the Southern Navy north for five days.

This is the only promise Hou Zheming can give Feng Ziqi!

And that's it, Hou Zheming actually has no bottom in his heart!

Because he had just finished writing his letter, just after lunchtime, the Southern Navy outside had already launched another onslaught, and for a while, the entire defense line of Southern Purple City was crumbling!

On October 2, the Southern Navy took the initiative to launch an attack on the Zisheng Army, and the next day it had already annihilated tens of thousands of Zisheng troops on the right side of the Southern Purple City.

In the afternoon, the Southern Navy took advantage of the victory to pursue, with the second division as the core, and continued to advance in depth, and their attack direction was not South Purple City, but the rear position of South Purple City.

Although the Zisheng Army deployed 50,000 troops in South Purple City, there were actually 100,000 troops scattered on the left and right sides and in the rear.

Even though the active target of the Southern Navy is South Purple City, in fact, a series of military operations are carried out around South Purple City.

The battle of the South China Navy has always been like this: the enemy fortress or main force is dragged by ordinary troops in the front, and at the same time, the main forces are gathered to gather a little, tear through the enemy's flank defense line, penetrate deep into the rear of the enemy army, carry out a wide range of detours, divide and encircle the enemy army, and finally form a huge left or right hook.

Strategically encircle the enemy's army, cut off the enemy's logistical supply, reinforcement routes.

Then they will flank the front and rear to encircle and annihilate the enemy forces in the encirclement.

As for the enemy's attempts to resist stubbornly by relying on fortified cities and fortresses, this stubborn tactic may be limited to other armies, but it is not very effective for the Southern Navy.

Because the Southern Sea is equipped with a large number of heavy artillery!

More than a hundred hundred and fifty mm guns and more one hundred and twenty mm, seventy-five mm guns are enough to destroy any defense system of this era.

It's not just these artillery used by the army, this time in order to quickly tear apart the enemy's defense line and conquer Nanzicheng, the Southern Navy directly pulled out all the naval guns that were expected to be used by the navy.

Lin Ziran looked at the huge cannon directly on the train, and couldn't help but sigh that the people in the Ordnance Department really dared to think and do it.

They haven't even proposed what kind of train cannon they want to build, so they have no teacher and directly make such a large-caliber train cannon.

And it has already been pulled to the front.

"This kind of train gun, with a caliber of 200 millimeters, was originally developed by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau for the large-tonnage warships of the Navy, because of the needs of the recent campaign, we transferred two modified train guns."