The Southern Navy after being equipped with breech-loading rifled weapons is even stronger than the Southern Navy in the era of Duke Meng!

For Yang Jun and them, the Nanhai State they own is a good Nanhai State.

If you can't have it yourself, then a divided Nanhai state is also acceptable.

And whether it is to occupy Nanhai Prefecture by himself, or to join forces with other feudal towns to divide Nanhai Prefecture, he must kill the Southern Navy and kill Lin Ziran!

The Lin Ziran of a dead Lin Ziran is the Lin Ziran who is in their interests!

Just like Duke Meng back then!

More than 20 years ago, Duke Meng unified Nanhai Prefecture how strong it was, which is still remembered by many people.

At that time, the Duke of Meng commanded more than 200,000 southern navy, well-equipped, well-trained, the first expedition to Dongding Prefecture was to fight the defeat of Dongding Prefecture, at the same time, the troops under the command of Duke Meng also resisted Ningyu Prefecture in the west, Quyang Prefecture in the north and Zhongluo Prefecture.

Calmly deal with the pressure from all sides, concentrate the main force and kill Dongdingzhou, this strength is the real strength of Nanhai Prefecture!

If it weren't for the fact that when Duke Meng was inspecting the battlefield, he was hit by a stray bullet of the Dongdingzhou army and died, which directly led to the leaderlessness of the Southern Navy and the outbreak of a civil war between them, it is estimated that the southern states of Daheng would have completed the unification long ago, and even Daheng would have been unified.

From then on, all the feudal towns in the surrounding states were wary of the emergence of a second Duke Meng in Nanhai Prefecture, and even for this reason, they also supported the Nanzhou Bank to balance the feudal towns in Nanhai Prefecture.

Without the support of other states, how could Nanzhou Bank be so strong to suppress the feudal towns in Nanhai Prefecture, and successively killed the three Luohai County guards, and defeated Cheng Lingfeng, the garrison of Luo Guang.

If according to the law of the past, after Lin Ziran's rise, there will definitely be all kinds of suppression, but Nanzhou Bank has been finished, and the most important thing is that Lin Ziran's rise is too fast, so fast that others can't react at all, and he has basically controlled Nanhai Prefecture.

Last summer, Lin Ziran was just sitting under a county, but in the second half of last year, he took Luohai County, even so, although Lin Ziran, who controlled the two Luo regions at that time, was strong, but it was not without enemies, at that time, Guang'an, Hexi, Hetai three counties plus the other three counties, purely from the point of view of the force, it was more than Lin Ziran's troops.

But I didn't expect that since the beginning of this year, Lin Ziran set off the Northern Expedition campaign, and won Guang'an and Hexi counties very quickly, and then turned east to Anlong County to fight a decisive battle with Xu Teng, and in the Battle of Huaijiang, defeated Xu Teng's main force in one fell swoop.

It's been less than two months!

In less than two months, the situation in the entire Nanhai Prefecture has completely changed.

When Lin Ziran led the army into Anlong County, the feudal towns in the surrounding states were already staring at Lin Ziran's every move with wide eyes.

When Lin Ziran led the army to defeat Xu Teng in the Battle of Huaijiang, the feudal towns in the surrounding states were already preparing for war, and when Lin Ziran led the army into Anlong County, in fact, at that time, the troops of the feudal towns in the various states had already completed the assembly and prepared to attack.

In any case, Lin Ziran cannot be allowed to unify Nanhai Prefecture, this is the consensus of Yang Jun and Yuan Yonghan, and they don't even need to discuss it carefully, as soon as they say that they will fight Lin Ziran, they all agree to send troops.

Because they all know that if they don't send troops now, they may be the next to die!

In order to avoid the delay caused by the early conflict, these big feudal towns didn't talk much nonsense, and they began to fight their own after they were casually divided into their own regions.

According to their early agreement, the early stage was to fight Hexi County in Zhongluo Prefecture, and then go south to Qiuhua County.

Quyang Prefecture hit Guang'an County, and then went south to Luo'an County.

Dahetai County, Anlong County, Ningmei County, Dongding Prefecture.

Ningyu Prefecture set out from Qingyuan County to hit Luohai County.

Of course, this is just a simple agreement they reached in the early stage, and the biggest purpose is not to divide the territory, these verbal promises don't count at all, and the biggest significance of this agreement is to avoid the early stage of the conflict, regardless of how to divide the benefits in the future, fight first and then talk about it.

Otherwise, if they are pulling the strings, it won't take long for Lin Ziran to take Hetai County, and if Lin Ziran is given a month's rest time, they will face a more powerful Southern Navy.

So, let's not talk about it first, let's talk about it.

As for the division of interests in the future, it is natural to try to see whose fist is bigger.

If Yang Jun's Second Army is strong and directly captures the Guang'an Army and then takes Luo'an County, you expect him to stop and watch Ning Yuzhou take Luohai City, which is simply impossible.

The same principle applies to other people, Yuan Yonghan will satisfy the three eastern counties of Nanhai Prefecture, and will not go west to Luohai County? Joke.

And Ning Yuzhou is too, if Luohai County can be successfully won, the next step is not to ask, it must be to fight for other territories.

Everyone knows this, so they just made a verbal agreement in the early stage.

What will happen in the future, let's talk about it later, anyway, let's kill Lin Ziran and his Southern Navy first.

This is everyone's big trouble!

After Yang Jun led the army south, his confidence was very full, in order to seize the opportunity, he did not even wait for other states to make the first move, but first rushed to attack the Luohe Gorge, preparing to go south to Guang'an first, and then seize Chongguang City and finally enter Luo'an County, laying the foundation for the subsequent struggle for Luohai City.

It's just that he didn't expect that this first battle would be such a big casualty!

The combat effectiveness formed by the use of rear-loading guns in the Yugoslav Navy was still above his expectations.

Fortunately, he is now also equipped with a lot of rear-loading rifles converted from Fuyuan muskets, as well as a batch of medium- and large-caliber front-loading rifled guns, and as for smoothbore guns, there are even more.

As long as you play cautiously in the follow-up, there should be no big problem in continuing to go south.

It's just that in this case, the speed of going south will be much slower, and it will become very troublesome to seize Luohai County at that time.

Yang Jun is very worried about this!

Once he can't quickly go south to capture Luohai City, then whether Yuan Yonghan or Ning Yuzhou capture Luohai City in the future, I'm afraid the situation is still unclear.

Lin Ziran, who unified Nanhai Prefecture, is terrifying!

But if Yuan Yonghan is allowed to seize the three counties in the western part of Nanhai Prefecture, it is also worrying to take Luohai County.

The same is true for Ning Yuzhou.

In short, this Luo Haicheng must be under his own control to reassure him!

At this time, Yang Jun, who was still worried about not being able to move south quickly and causing Luohai City to be captured by others, did not know that a large number of reinforcements had braved the wind and rain to arrive in Guang'an City by steam ships, and the first batch of reinforcements were the garrison brigade and the fifth heavy artillery regiment.

It's not just reinforcements, there's also plenty of ammunition!

And the 1st Division is also on the way, which is expected to arrive the next day!

Therefore, when the vanguard of the Second Army of Quyang Prefecture more than 50,000 people arrived in Guang'an City, they wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Third Division of the Southern Navy, which had retreated to this place, had not gained a firm foothold to launch an attack.

They were hit with even more fire than in the defense line of the Luo River Gorge!

Feng Haibiao, the commander of the forward unit of the Second Army Corps in Quyang Prefecture, who commanded the attack, was stunned when he saw that his troops had just launched an attack and were knocked down in pieces.

What about the good rout, but the lack of ammunition for the good ones.

How is it even harder to fight than when you were in the Luohe Gorge!