On 10 September, eight days after the Southern Navy launched a fierce offensive against Yuan Yonghan's headquarters, Lin Haishu arrived at Huanzhou County in Dongding Prefecture with his troops.

Huanzhou County is located in the east of Dongdingzhou, and further east, it is not the territory before Yuan Yonghan, but the territory of Wang Bing, the commander of Dongdingzhou.

Dongdingzhou, its southwestern area is Yuan Yonghan's territory, and the eastern region, that is, the two prominent counties of the eastern peninsula of Dongdingzhou, this is the territory of Wang Bing, the state order, and the northern area of Dongdingzhou is Xia Yiming's territory.

Yuan Yonghan took the initiative to abandon the western defense line and rushed north with the main force, which also meant that he gave up a large area of territory at the same time.

Lin Haishu and they marched all the way east, except for the early days when they could meet the enemy army, in fact, they failed to meet the enemy army in the next few days.

In the past three days, not a single battle broke out, and they marched smoothly and quickly to Huanzhou County.

But when they arrived, the local officials chose to surrender with great interest, and did not resist at all.

Take control of Huanzhou County, this is not the point, the point is to continue to advance eastward!

This time, the Southern Navy's Eastern Crusade was not just about Yuan Yonghan, but about wanting to quickly take the entire Dongding Prefecture, in addition to Yuan Yonghan, Wang Bing and Xia Yiming were their enemies.

Therefore, after arriving at Huanzhou, Lin Haishu's unit did not stop advancing, but continued to advance.

Soon, they met Wang Bing's troops!

But the result is inevitable!

It was not even necessary for the infantry and heavy artillery in the rear to keep up, just the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Second Cavalry Corps were not something that Wang Bing's troops could resist.

The Second Cavalry Corps did not engage them head-on, but took advantage of the cavalry's mobility to constantly attack, outflank, and sometimes use the 75-mm cavalry howitzers carried by the army to launch large-scale artillery bombardments against the enemy.

In less than a day, the resistance of Wang Bing's department has been completely crushed, and Wang Bing's department has chosen the same as Yuan Yonghan's department at the beginning, except to surrender or flee.

In this battle, Lin Haishu did not get any outstanding performance opportunities, but just led his cavalry to participate in the battle step by step.

This made Lin Haishu a little unwilling!

These enemies were routed too quickly, so fast that they didn't give Lin Haishu a chance to perform.

Lin Haishu was very suspicious that after completely taking Dongdingzhou, he might not be able to make enough achievements.

If you want to further serve as a sergeant before the end of the Battle of Dongdingzhou, I am afraid there is no hope.

This made him a little envious of the friendly forces fighting on the Northern Front, even though the Second Cavalry Army had a large-scale battle on the Eastern Front, although the intensity of the battle was very low, and it did not give the Second Cavalry Army too many opportunities to perform.

In contrast, the performance opportunities of the 1st Cavalry Army, which went to fight on the northern front, especially for junior officers, were relatively large.

Yuan Yonghan fled all the way, and during this period, he also engaged in intensive small-scale mobile operations, trying to use intensive small-scale mobile operations to offset the artillery superiority of the South Korean Navy.

Under these circumstances, while keeping the main force continuing to march north to attack cities and conquer cities, the South China Navy also sent quite a number of troops to carry out mobile operations to deal with such small-scale mobile operations of the enemy.

The first to bear the brunt was naturally the First Cavalry Army, who made the cavalry move faster and more flexible, and they cooperated with the infantry units to carry out a large-scale clearing of scattered enemy forces.

In this case, the opportunity for the performance of the junior officers comes.

After all, those battles of hundreds of people and thousands of people can better reflect the achievements of grassroots officers, and Lin Haishu is still quite envious of this.

However, the actual situation is not as good as Lin Haishu imagined.

Although the main force of Yuan Yonghan's troops collapsed and fled all the way north, the phalanx he adopted for small-scale mobile operations still caused some trouble to the southern navy.

After Yuan Yonghan fled north into Xia Yiming's territory, Xia Yiming was not short-sighted enough to refuse Yuan Yonghan, but took the other party to accept the other party and fight together.

And he listened to Yuan Yonghan's suggestion, gave up large-scale frontal positional warfare, and instead responded by means of mobile warfare.

This caused the various departments of the South Navy to go north to suffer a certain amount of trouble.

Perhaps they were accustomed to the operation of large corps and the support of countless heavy artillery in the rear, but now the combat mode has become a small and medium-sized mobile operation, and after losing a large amount of artillery support, the officers of the South China Navy are suddenly a little unable to adapt to it.

In addition, the tactical training of the South Korean Navy was originally based on new-type light infantry tactics, and if a fight broke out, the officers could often win the battle under the command of the order.

However, this still exposed the shortcomings of the officers of the Southern Navy, who were not sufficiently experienced.

In the past, it was a large army fighting, and the grassroots officers didn't have to think about anything, they just led the troops to charge according to the strength of the troops.

At present, the troops are scattered, the scale of operations is often only about a few hundred people, and the battles are often sudden mobile operations, which poses a certain challenge to the tactical quality of the commanders of the battalion and company units.

Although the news of victory still came everywhere, it still made the top brass of the Southern Navy a little worried, and the casualty rate began to gradually increase in the next few days.

However, Lin Ziran is not too worried, although there are some problems in the fight now, and the casualty rate has increased, but on the whole, he still continues to win, and he can also train the troops, especially the grassroots officers to quickly increase their command experience, and prepare for facing a stronger enemy in the future.

Now Yuan Yonghan can't turn over, Wang Bing is finished, and the follow-up Xia Yiming can't afford to turn up too much wind and waves, and now the main enemy threat that Lin Ziran considers has become Zishengzhou in the north and Jingzhou in the east.

In Jingzhou, Lin Ziran has no plans to fight for the time being!

The Ji royal family was able to still control Jingzhou for decades, relying not only on their army, but also on the mutual jealousy of the surrounding major feudal towns.

The political significance of Jingzhou is too great, and it is not easy to deal with the Ji royal family, so those feudal towns want other feudal towns to fight Jingzhou first, and then raise the banner of righteousness to enter Jingzhou.

Before he had enough strength, Lin Ziran was still unwilling to ignite the powder keg of Jingzhou.

The next step of expansion is Zishengzhou.

And Zishengzhou is a unified continent, without internal containment, they have a large number of troops, are well-trained, and have a defense industry that is not much worse than that of Nanhai Prefecture.

It's a great enemy!

It is much more difficult to deal with such an enemy than to deal with Yuan Yonghan.

It is also a strong challenge to the South Korean Navy, especially when the South Korean Navy's strength is not large at present.

Therefore, it would be a good thing to be able to train the troops by taking advantage of the fighting on the side of Dongdingzhou.

Therefore, Lin Ziran still gave an encouraging attitude to some of the difficulties that the troops are currently facing, and did not say that he put too much pressure on the generals of the troops, especially the grassroots officers.

Without the pressure from above, the generals below just let go of their hands and began to try some bolder and more proactive tactics.

After the battle lasted for several days, the Yugoslav Navy even urgently equipped a batch of rapid-fire mortar guns to strengthen its troops, and also experimentally equipped a batch of newly developed light 75-mm infantry guns, which were directly assigned to units below the infantry regiment level.

These light guns can play a greater role in this mode of battle.

It also allowed the South Korean Navy to restore its artillery superiority to a certain extent.

Even if it is a small-scale operation, the firepower advantage of the Southern Navy can still beat the Dongdingzhou army!

The Southern Navy began to sweep through Dongdingzhou!