About 25 kilometers to the north of the frontal attack led by Lin Ziran himself, a large army under the banner of the Southern Navy was marching in the northeast direction, and there were still a large number of cavalry troops on their periphery, and there were quite a few reconnaissance cavalry on the periphery.

These troops are exactly what Xu Teng wants to know about the main force of the Southern Navy there.

They consisted of the 1st Division, the 4th Division, and three cavalry divisions, totaling more than 40,000 men.

According to the predetermined battle plan, Xu Zhongshu will lead this force to make a detour of about 30 kilometers, select the weak point of the enemy's defense line from the northeast direction to launch a rapid assault, carry out a large-scale strategic detour, directly kill the enemy's flank and rear position, and use the cavalry to quickly attack the enemy's command and logistics nodes in depth.

More importantly, in order to form a semi-encircled situation!

As long as a semi-encirclement situation is formed, Xu Teng will either choose to retreat on the whole line and jump out before the encirclement is formed.

Either regardless of the back road being cut off, continue to fight a strategic decisive battle with Lin Ziran here, or even defeat Lin Ziran's frontal troops through a frontal counteroffensive, or you can give up the frontal and transfer the main force to besiege Xu Zhongshu's roundabout troops, try to counter-encircle Xu Zhongshu's department, and strive for the strategic initiative.

But in fact, in addition to retreating, although the details of Xu Teng's other choices are different, they are all to fight a strategic decisive battle with Lin Ziran in Huaijiang County.

Retreat or fight a decisive battle!

And whether it is a retreat or a decisive battle, this is acceptable to Lin Ziran!

If the enemy retreats, then launch a continuous pursuit, he doesn't believe that Xu Teng's troops can always remain consistent in such a large-scale retreat, that is more than 100,000 troops.

If Xu Teng's Hetai army could really retreat smoothly in this situation, then his Hetai army would not have retreated in Hetai County for so many years, and would have fought all over Nanhai Prefecture a long time ago.

Although the offensive and defensive capabilities of an army are important in evaluating the combat effectiveness of a unit, what is more important is actually the ability to retreat, and the ability to retreat can better reflect a unit's organizational ability, adaptability, and even the overall quality of officers and men.

It is very simple for the troops to retreat, just give the order to retreat, but in the face of heavy enemy strikes or even pursuits, this retreat can easily turn into collapse.

Will the Hetai Army be able to retreat smoothly and avoid collapse?

Lin Ziran doesn't think so!

Maybe there are many troops in this world that can retreat smoothly under the attack of the Southern Navy, but it is definitely impossible to be the Hetai Army in front of them!

If the enemy army does not retreat, then they can only resist comprehensively, and this is exactly what Lin Ziran wants.

Lin Ziran is not afraid that Xu Teng will put on a posture to fight with himself, even if the other party shrinks into the inner defense line and defends it, because he has the most powerful artillery unit in the world under his hands, hundreds of artillery pieces bombarded it, and any defense line is scum.

Don't dare that the enemy chooses to retreat or defend to the death, or even counterattack, Lin Ziran has enough confidence to kill Xu Teng!

And the premise of all this is that the detour troops on the north side can make a smooth detour.

Xu Zhongshu also felt a great responsibility, but he was not nervous, because he had experienced this kind of thing many times.

As the commander of the 1st Division, the ace unit in the Southern Navy, his daily combat task was to launch a roundabout attack with the 1st Division, and basically in every large-scale battle, his 1st Division had to undertake the main attack task.

It's just that in the past, most of them were small-scale roundabout infiltration assaults in tough battles, and the roundabout distance was about a few kilometers at most, but it was the first time he did this kind of large-scale strategic detour of more than 30 kilometers in one go.

Although he was not nervous, he was much more cautious, and along the way he arranged a large number of cavalry troops to be on guard on the periphery, mainly to strangle possible enemy scouts and horses, and hide his whereabouts as much as possible.

It is impossible to be full for too long, after all, the distance of the battlefield is only dozens of kilometers, and there are too many troops on your side, and the goal is very obvious, even if you strangle the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry in the early stage, but so many reconnaissance cavalry can not go back to the enemy army will also notice that something is wrong, and then guess that there may be a problem in this area.

However, Xu Zhongshu's idea is to drag on for an hour if it can be delayed for an hour.

As long as the enemy's response is a few hours late, his subsequent roundabout assault will be much easier and easier.

He didn't want a roundabout assault to turn into a roundabout attack, although he was not afraid of the ability of the first and fourth divisions under his command to attack the fortifications, but it would always be delayed.

If the time drags on for too long, give the other person more time to react.

When the time comes, the ghost knows what Xu Teng will do.

Therefore, Xu Zhongshu did not want to give Xu Teng enough time to react, and if there was not enough reaction time, there would not be enough reaction, so that his side would be able to proceed according to the predetermined battle plan, instead of having too many accidents.

Xu Zhongshu hates accidents!

It's not that he himself lacks the ability to adapt to the situation, in fact, as a career officer, Xu Zhongshu's ability is beyond doubt.

But the problem is that most of the officers under him generally lack this ability.

Even if it is an old unit under Lin Ziran, such as the First Division, the quality of its officers is already first-class in the whole army, but in fact, the comprehensive tactical quality of these officers is still relatively lacking.

Almost all the officers of the First Division, except for Xu Zhongshu, the division commander, were all officers from the Suiying Academy and the Luo'an Military Academy, and they were all the best young officers.

They are around twenty years old, the oldest ones are no longer than thirty years old, and the youngest ones are even only sixteen years old.

The situation of the 10th batch of graduates of the Luoan Military Academy is all under the age of 20, and this situation is even more serious than before, because the Luoan Military Academy is now more and more inclined to recruit young people, especially young people who have just graduated from high school.

At present, the enrollment conditions of Luo'an Military Academy are young people with a secondary school degree or above, over 16 years old, and in good health.

This is because these young people are more enthusiastic and receptive than ordinary people, and they can make faster progress in the high-intensity military courses, and at the same time, they are more likely to accept the ideological education courses and the great cause of the reunification of Daheng.

The officers trained by the Luo'an Military Academy now are not 100 percent, but most of them still have great unity in their hearts, which is even more obvious when they are fighting, and the grassroots officers in other feudal towns just regard the army as a profession, and when they fight, they all command soldiers to fight, shouting 'give it to me'

The grassroots officers of the Southern Navy regarded the unification of the army as their ideal, and when they were fighting, they all personally led the soldiers to charge, shouting 'follow me'

In a way, this is the biggest difference between the Southern Navy and the other feudal forces, not just weapons and tactics!

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