In Guang'an City, Deng Liangan, the commander of the Third Division, was relieved to see the enemy troops outside the city gradually retreating.

Since the enemy army in Quyang Prefecture launched an attack, Deng Liangan's pressure has been very great.

At the beginning, although the enemy army had not yet attacked on a large scale, the frequent small-scale attacks also made the 3rd Division more uncomfortable, which was not that the defense line was broken through or the like, but that the ammunition was consumed too much.

After the enemy launched a general attack, although the 3rd Division resisted stubbornly and killed and wounded a large number of enemy troops, its ammunition was completely depleted.

When the Third Division deployed the northern defense line, although it had reserved some ammunition, the ammunition supply of the Southern Navy before was mainly to meet the needs of the eastern front, so after this ammunition was rapidly consumed, it could not be replenished for a while.

In the end, he was forced to withdraw from the Luo River Gorge and voluntarily abandoned the Luo River Gorge, the bridgehead of the northern defense line.

This time of retreat, Deng Liangan was under great pressure.

Although he had received Lin Ziran's order before, he was allowed to fight and retreat, in order to delay the enemy's southward march and wait for reinforcements to be the mainstay, instead of carrying him to the Luo River Gorge.

However, even so, the Third Division led by him became the first unit of the Southern Navy in the past year or so that failed to hold the defensive line and was forced to retreat.

Since the Southern Navy came out of Lianguan County that year, it has always been a succession of battles in the south and the north, and most of the time it has taken the initiative to attack others, and it has rarely encountered the situation of being attacked by others, let alone being beaten to the point of being forced to retreat.

And the third division set this precedent!

Although the friendly forces would not say anything, and they knew the difficulties of the Third Division, this still could not change the fact that the Third Division became the first main force in the South China Sea to be beaten to retreat.

After retreating to Guang'an City, Deng Liangan was holding his breath and wanted to change this situation, he had to let others, especially the state commander, know that he Deng Liangan was not a runaway general.

Therefore, after arriving in Guang'an City, he commanded his 3rd Division and part of the 3rd Garrison Division to deploy the defensive line, and when the reinforcements of the garrison brigade and some artillery units arrived, his confidence was even stronger.

Not only reinforcements arrived, but also ammunition for the 3rd Division, which was in dire need.

The arrival of these reinforcements and ammunition allowed Deng Liangan to play a beautiful defensive operation when he commanded the troops to defend the operation.

More than 50,000 enemy troops attacked from different directions at the same time, but they were all routed by their own troops, and even fought multiple local counterattacks, severely damaging some of the enemy's attacking forces.

By the time the enemy gave up the attack and retreated, they had already paid the price of at least thousands of casualties in front of the defense line of the Southern Navy!

The 3rd Division led the 3rd Division Garrison Brigade about 1 brigade, and the garrison brigade and the independent artillery unit of the 1st Regiment fought a beautiful defensive operation in Guang'an City, which can be regarded as initially stabilizing the current situation on the northern front.

Although the number of enemy strikers is large, they still do not dare to attack!

The next day, Xu Zhongshu led the first division to successfully reach Guang'an City.

At this time, the first line of Guang'an City had gathered about 35,000 main forces of the Southern Navy, and there were also about 5,000 second-line garrison troops, with a total strength of about 40,000.

The increase in troops is nothing, the most important thing is the successful arrival of a large number of ammunition transported by ships!

This time, the logistics department of the South China Navy organized the transportation of ammunition and other materials, and the quantity was huge; counting from the first arrival of the material transport ship, in just three days, the logistics department organized the transportation of more than 2,000 tons of various materials to Guang'an City, and quite a few of them were ammunition.

This allowed the 3rd Division to replenish sufficient ammunition for the first time after remaining short of ammunition for many days.

And there are more transports on the way.

At this moment, all the arsenals under the control of the Southern Navy, including the Qingshan Machinery Factory, the Luo'an Arsenal, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, are working overtime to produce all kinds of weapons.

The production of the main weapons was handed over to the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau and the Luoan Arsenal.

The Fuyuan Ordnance Factory is the main manufacturer of rifles, and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau produces artillery.

The Roan Arsenal produces rifles and artillery, but the output is not large.

These arsenals are working overtime to produce weapons and ammunition, and the weapons and ammunition produced, especially the ammunition that has just been produced, are transported directly to the docks, and then loaded onto the transport vessels of the logistics department and distributed to different regions.

Only in this way can the ammunition consumption of the South Korean Navy be maintained on multiple fronts.

It's just that such a large-scale production is cool for the military, but Lin Ziran looked at the bills submitted by the finance department, but he had a headache.

That's a lot of money!

Rao is that these arsenals are already under their own control, and the weapons and ammunition purchased by the military are directly purchased at cost price, but they can't stand these new weapons are already expensive, and the purchase quantity is huge!

In the last month alone, the army and navy have purchased artillery shells worth more than 10 million constant yuan!

Attention, it's just shells!

The shells used by the South China Navy now are all new cylindrical shells for breezed rifled guns, and the production cost of these things is relatively high.

At present, even the 75-millimeter grenade, which has the largest output and can greatly dilute the production cost, costs 20 constant yuan each.

As for large-caliber shells, then it is more expensive.

A 150 mm shell costs 180 yuan for this thing.

And these shells are not just procured and used, and they can also be transported to the front line, which is actually quite a lot of transportation costs.

In the previous Chongguangcheng Campaign, a single battle consumed more than 3 million Hengyuan worth of artillery shells......

The other campaigns consume fewer shells, but they are also very massive.

Shells cost money, bullets cost money, food costs money, all kinds of other supplies cost money, and then the transportation costs are not a lot.

Finally, there is the salary of personnel, which is also a large expenditure, even if there is no war for a month, it will cost millions of Hengyuan.

All in all, the cost of the Southern Navy is very terrifying!

Beginning with the Beishang Campaign at the beginning of the year, the South Korean Navy has spent more than 30 million Hengyuan in military expenditure, and plans to allocate another 20 million Hengyuan in additional war expenses.

And it's only been a long time, more than two months before and after, and more than 50 million have been spent.

Under this circumstance, I am afraid that in the next few months, I will have to prepare another forty or fifty million to be enough.

But the problem is that the Nanhai Prefecture Governor doesn't have so much money!

Now Lin Ziran finally knew why the Great Heng Empire would completely collapse financially because of a Heng Olympic War, which in turn led to the collapse of the entire empire.

Fighting a war costs too much......