When the second division completed the breakthrough, it also meant that the defense line of the defenders of Qingdecheng had been broken through.

Subsequently, the South Navy was able to continuously enter it through the gap in the right flank, and even seize the urban area.

At that time, what is the point of the Quyang Prefecture Army, which is still on the outskirts of the city, to defend?

I wonder if I'll be directly surrounded.

The loss of the right flank defense line in the Dongcheng District of Qingde City has directly led to the collapse of the entire defense line of the Quyang Prefecture Army has become inevitable, although the follow-up battle is still continuing, and even some nodes are still very fierce, but strategically speaking, in fact, the follow-up battle is no longer important.

The overall development of the battle situation was also true, after breaking through the right flank defense line on the first day, the southern navy had already entered the city on the same day.

The enemy forces of the follow-up frontal line began to gradually retreat on their own initiative and conduct defensive operations in the city.

However, because the right flank line was lost so quickly, that the defenders were not ready to retreat to the city on all fronts, and even because the battle between the front and left flank lines continued, it was not easy to retreat in a short time.

This kind of large-scale battle does not mean that you can retreat if you want to, the main forces of the second division have already extended from the right flank to the left, which is a direct way to outflank them.

By the next day, although some of the troops had retreated to the city, more of the defensive forces were still in the defensive line outside the city.

At this time, the main force of the 2nd Division was already about to complete the outflanking.

On the third day, the enemy's frontal defense line finally collapsed, except for a part of the city that fled into the city to continue to resist stubbornly, most of them had already given up resistance, and the surrendered Quyang Prefecture army was all over the mountains!

On the fourth day, even the resistance in the city gradually disappeared, and a large number of surviving enemy soldiers began to cross the river by various means.

However, at this time, the artillery fire of the South China Navy had already begun to cover the riverside position, so in the end, there were not many people who actually crossed the river and retreated to Xicheng District, and it is estimated that there were less than 10,000 people.

Of the remaining tens of thousands, nearly 40,000 surrendered, and the preliminary count of the dead and wounded was only a few thousand.

As for the rest of the people, no one knows, anyway, there are so many people in the city, and many people throw away their weapons, take off their military uniforms and hide in private houses, and it is difficult to distinguish them.

After all, the population of Dongcheng District is hundreds of thousands, and Lin Ziran is not interested in a city-wide search and catching the enemy deserters one by one, which is meaningless, and it can't even affect the subsequent control of the Southern Navy in Qingde City.

Because everyone knows that this is just a civil war, but there is no need for a large number of guerrillas to come out to shoot cold guns after the South Korean Navy enters the city.

As the saying goes, if you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will surrender, if you are willing, you can join the South China Navy with a backhand......

So as long as there is no organized confrontation, Lin Ziran will not pursue these deserters too much.

Even if there are some recalcitrant elements, you can deal with them slowly in the future.

Now, the important thing is to completely control the entire Dongcheng District, and then see if we can take down the Xicheng District as well.

Completely open up the interface between the railway and the Luohe River.

Then the army needed to go down the river and flank the enemy forces in the Luo River Gorge.

The day after conquering Dongcheng District, the South China Navy began to use artillery units to carry out artillery shelling across the river in Xicheng District, and not long after this shelling, the South China Navy crossed the river about five kilometers downstream.

The troops who crossed the river in the early stage were only one division, and with the support of their own artillery fire, they crossed the river with all kinds of boats that could be collected, even bamboo rafts, wooden rafts, and the like, and there was not even a single gunboat to cover the whole process of crossing the river.

However, the South China Navy was stunned to blockade the entire section of the river with extremely powerful army artillery firepower, and even sank several enemy gunboats that came to intercept the river crossing.

The crossing of the river has just been completed, and the follow-up troops have not yet crossed the river, but the news came that the enemy troops in Xicheng District have taken the initiative to abandon Xicheng District and run all the way to the northwest.

Just like Feng Ziqi at the beginning, they also chose to take the initiative to escape when they couldn't do anything.

After the enemy took the initiative to escape, it meant that the entire Xicheng District could be taken without blood, and as a result, the entire Qingde City fell into the control of the Southern Navy.

There is another advantage of controlling Qingde City, that is, a large number of locomotives and train cars in the city have been captured.

Due to the rapid advance of the 2nd Division, the enemy quickly captured the Qingdecheng East Railway Station on the outskirts of Beicheng before it could react, avoiding the enemy's large-scale destruction of locomotives and other equipment.

In this way, the transportation problems that have plagued the South Korean Navy for a long time will be alleviated!

Although they controlled the Eastern Railway, there were not many locomotives and wagons available.

Now a large number of locomotives and train wagons have been seized, so that the eastern railway of Shangquyang Prefecture can be truly used.

After taking Qingdeok City, the South Korean Navy was not in a hurry to carry out the next move, and after many days of continuous fighting, the troops were already exhausted and needed to rest.

Anyway, the Luo River Gorge will not run in the south, and as for the enemy to run, it is even better, so that there is no need to fight the Luo River Gorge.

The strategic purpose of the South China Navy is not to destroy as many enemies as there are and what places to capture, but to open up the Luohe route and the railway line of Quyang Prefecture, and to link the transportation lines of Nanhai Prefecture, Dongding Prefecture, Zisheng Prefecture, and Quyang Prefecture.

This is the reason why the Southern Navy went straight to Qingdeok City before!

After resting for many days, the South China Navy began its next move, and about 50,000 troops began to move south along the Luo River, preparing to cooperate with the First Army to conquer the Luo River Gorge and open up the Luo River navigation.

However, a few days before the southbound troops went south, news came that the Quyang Prefecture Army in the Luohe Gorge took the initiative to abandon the Luohe Gorge and ran all the way to the northwest.

It is reasonable for them to run, if they don't run, they will be attacked by the north and south, and they will be blocked in the Luohe Gorge, and there will be no direction to break through at that time......

It's no wonder if you don't run.

It's good that this saves the effort of the Southern Navy!

So, the troops that had been going south for a few days went north again.

Accompanying the northward movement were the troops of the First Army and a large number of inland river warships of the Nanhai State Fleet.

After the Luohe Gorge was opened, the inland warships of the Nanhai Prefecture Fleet took the lead in going north, heading straight along the river to Qingde City, and at the same time carried part of the vanguard of the First Army.

The successful northward movement of the inland warship means that the Luo River channel has been completely opened!

In the future, all kinds of war materials in Nanhai Prefecture will not need to detour to Dongdingzhou and Zishengzhou, and they can go north along the Luo River by cargo ships and directly enter the scope of Quyang Prefecture.

This is of great benefit to the supply and transportation of the Southern Navy!

And this benefit has appeared in a short period of time.

Not long after the opening of the Luo River Gorge, a fleet of river transport ships arrived at Qingdecheng under the escort of gunboats, bringing with them a large amount of ammunition urgently needed by the front-line troops, as well as a batch of new weapons!

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