Fengyang, Jingzhou, which was once debated by Lin Ziran and many courtiers, is still controlled by the army of Pingnan Prefecture at this moment.

The city is located at the confluence of the main stream and tributaries of the Jing River, facing not only the river on three sides, but also the mountains on the other.

From a geographical point of view, it is a typical place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and in ancient times, it helped the people of Daheng to resist many times of alien attacks.

However, such a geographical location, to a certain extent, also restricts the development of Fengyang itself, these three sides are rivers, it is difficult to expand the urban area, and it is difficult to connect the expansion of the urban area.

Although the rivers surrounded on three sides give Fengyang great peace, it also restricts its transportation development

Except for the south side, which is passable, the other three sides have to be navigated by boats.

As for the bridge, let alone hundreds of years ago, even the current Daheng does not have enough technical capacity to cross thousands of meters of river, and it does not affect the navigable bridge.

Therefore, Fengyang is located in the U-shaped zone where the main stream and tributaries of the Jing River meet, which brings benefits to it at the same time, but also brings certain negative effects.

For example, when the Jingzhou Front Army under Liang Chenglei, with the cooperation of the Jinghe Fleet, which had just been renamed the Navy, approached Fengyang, the defenders in the city could not even escape.

As soon as the Jinghe fleet came over, it directly relied on its strong strength to completely block the river section and use the river to surround Fengyang on three sides.

As for the rest of the south, tens of thousands of southern troops are killing them, and there is no difference between going south and throwing themselves into the net.

Therefore, the current Fengyang defenders can't even escape, and as for resistance, if they have the confidence to resist, they don't need to think about escaping.

About twenty kilometers south of Fengyang, a huge army in gray military uniforms was slowly advancing.

This army, which is wearing an ugly gray military uniform in the eyes of the world, is naturally the 11th Division of the former Daheng Unification Army, which belongs to the Fourth Army of the Jingzhou Front under the current Daheng Imperial Army.

The reason why the Imperial Army first wore gray uniforms was not actually for operational needs, but purely to save money

The expansion rate of the Daheng Imperial Army is very fast, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in recent years, due to the rapid expansion of the army, the supply of materials is also very difficult, even if it is a military uniform.

The first standard military uniform of the Daheng Imperial Army was the Luo'an County uniform, the infantry soldiers used dark blue shirts and gray straight-leg pants, the officers were mainly dark blue, and some armies would also use red pants and even white pants.

On the whole, the color of the military uniforms in the early days of the Imperial Army was still a very standard uniform color of the line era, which was mainly conspicuous and handsome

The follow-up expansion is to continue to use this standard military uniform, but the expansion of the army is too fast, the demand for military uniforms has increased significantly, and the logistics department in order to speed up production, and more importantly, in order to save money, began to use a large number of cheap dark color fabrics, that is, gray.

In order to save money and produce military uniforms faster, the Imperial Army gradually adopted gray as the color of military uniforms, but while fighting, the officers of the front-line troops found that although the gray military uniform was ugly, the effect on the battlefield was very good, especially for the front-line combat infantry, this gray military uniform was more suitable for concealment than the previous conspicuous dark blue military uniform.

With the feedback of the front-line troops, the Imperial Army later simply used gray as the main color of the combat uniform, and at the same time pondered the actual combat concealment effect of different colors, and explored the possibility of more low-visibility military uniforms, and successively found different colors such as light green, earthy yellow, and brownish gray, which had different concealment effects in different seasons and terrains, but it was still in preliminary research for the time being, and the equipment could not be popularized.

At present, the combat uniform of the Daheng Imperial Army is still mainly gray.

However, gray is too ugly, which is not in line with the aesthetic needs of Daheng people for military uniforms, so gray is only limited to combat uniforms, and daily clothing is a formal dress, which continues to use bright colors such as dark blue.

The 11th Division of the Imperial Army, wearing gray military uniforms, is now gradually approaching Fengyang City.

The actions of this entire division naturally could not be concealed from the peripheral reconnaissance of the Fengyang defenders, and soon the news of the arrival of the enemy army was transmitted back to the city.

What to do

This was the problem faced by the city's approximately 5,000 defenders

These 5,000 defenders were troops from Pingnan Prefecture, of which 2,000 originally belonged to the troops of the former Jingzhou Guards Legion, and only 3,000 belonged to reinforcements from Pingnan Prefecture.

It's just that after the Beijing division was captured, the Ji royal family was finished, and the command structure of the Guards Legion was also finished, the troops of the two thousand Guards Legion were already controlled by the Pingnan Prefecture.

5,000 troops to defend a city like Fengyang, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, is already quite sufficient according to convention, but now the times are different.

In these years, it is no longer possible to simply compete with the number of troops, and we have to compete again with the number of breech-loading rifled weapons on both sides.

These 5,000 defenders seem to have a lot of troops, but there are only four breech-loading rifled guns, and the rifles equipped with them are all breech-loading rifles converted from 18mm smoothbore guns.

The 11th Division of the Imperial Army that came to attack was carrying forty or fifty field guns, and the soldiers were all Roan III 13mm breech-loading rifles.

Not to mention, the 11th Division also had the fire support of the Mirror River Fleet

The gap between the two sides in terms of equipment is very large

It was so big that the five thousand defenders didn't even have the courage to resist, and they wanted to escape

However, the river was blocked, and they couldn't escape if they wanted to.

What to do at this time

When the 11th Division reached the outside of Fengyang City, captured the hills and hills on the outskirts of Nancheng, and moved its artillery to start a precise artillery bombardment of the city, the defenders, who had already suffered more than 100 casualties in a series of battles on the outskirts of the city, finally made their decision: surrender

The 11th Division had just arrived at Fengyang for just over a day, and it fought several small and medium-sized battles with the defenders in the suburbs, and the other side surrendered.

This does not indicate how strong the combat effectiveness of the 11th Division is

It can only be said that the general trend is the same

The Imperial Army, which had the advantage in troops, equipment, and even logistical supplies, did not encounter much resistance in the operation along the Mirror River all the way north.

The surrender of the defenders of Fengyang was just one of many enemy forces that gave up resistance.

Not only along the Jinghe River, but also in the northeastern part of Gyeongju, the military operation was very smooth, and the enemy did not bring much trouble to the Gyeongju Front at all.

However, this does not mean that the northern states have lost the courage to resist, the main thing is that they have begun to shrink their forces.

If they want to continue to enter their respective territories in the future, they still need to fight