As a strategic support point in the defense line of Chongke City, Zhongyan Mountain was even more subjected to intensive artillery bombardment by the Southern Navy.

A large number of 150-mm howitzers, 120-mm howitzers, 100-mm cannons, and even two 200-mm train guns began to bombard the Zhongyanshan defense line fiercely.

When the Southern Navy carried out large-scale shelling.

Feng Ziqi finally fully understood why Hou Zheming wrote such a letter to himself that showed despair from beginning to end, and also understood why Hou Zheming asked him to reorganize the troops as much as possible and equip him with more rifled guns.

The shelling of the South Navy is really too fierce!

Feng Ziqi Rongma has gone through countless big battles and small battles in his life, and Daheng has been a typical artillery army since the beginning of the smoothbore artillery era.

In addition, because of the terrain and tradition, the number of heavy artillery equipped by the troops of each feudal town is also very large.

Even if the armies of the feudal towns fought, the artillery bombardment was non-stop.

has been in this environment for decades, Feng Ziqi thinks that he is already a person who has seen a big scene, but now the shelling of the South China Navy still makes him dumbfounded!

An artillery bombardment of this scale is simply not something that can be stopped by manpower!

In particular, those 150-millimeter shells kept falling on the defensive line, and the huge explosion force did not even work for trenches and civil anti-artillery fortifications, let alone the shells fired by the two huge 200-millimeter train guns.

This thing has a low rate of fire, but it has a long range, and more importantly, it's powerful!

After this shell falls and explodes, even if it is far away, you can feel the shock wave set off by the explosion!

Its power is not at all comparable to the heavy artillery of the smoothbore gun era!

What's even more odious is that the opponent's long-range heavy artillery unit, relying on the advantage of range, stubbornly suppressed its own rear-loading artillery regiment arranged on Zhongyan Mountain.

So much so that it is difficult for this rear-loading artillery regiment, which he has great hopes for, to exert the power it should have.

It was only ten minutes after launching a large-scale artillery bombardment in the Southern Navy, and Feng Ziqi felt hopeless!

And at this time, the infantry units of the Southern Navy were not yet visible!

But just the shelling of the opponent's artillery unit was already unbearable for Feng Ziqi.

What to do?

Feng Ziqi asked a group of generals under his command, but none of them could give him an answer!

In the end, after holding back for a long time, a group of people decided that the best way to defend at present was to defend to the death, wait for the infantry of the South Navy to rush up, and then fight fiercely, so as to relieve the pressure on the current defense line by destroying a large number of enemy infantry.

As for hiding and hiding, is it okay?

At this point, in fact, Feng Ziqi himself is not sure!

Before the South China Navy officially launched a large-scale artillery bombardment, Feng Ziqi still had a lot of confidence, but now, to be honest, he has no confidence.

The bombardment of the South Korean Navy is too fierce, and if our side keeps defending so passively, the defense line will collapse sooner or later.

After all, this is a situation where you can't fight back just by being beaten, and in the heavy artillery bombardment of the enemy, your own casualties will definitely not be small.

But other than that, they really don't have much to do!

And the real situation is true, if the enemy can hide in the anti-artillery holes and the trenches can sit back and relax, then the Southern Navy will not appear outside Chongke City.

In the past two years, the Southern Navy has knocked out the fortresses, and there are many defense lines, especially the Chongguangcheng defense line and the Hetai defense line of that year, which are much stronger than the Chongke City defense line, which is a real fortress, and the top civil protection layer of some anti-artillery fortifications is several meters thick.

But it was still the same as being smashed by the Southern Navy with heavy artillery!

This Chongke City is not a fortress, it is a state city, and most of the current fortifications have been built in the last half a month, strictly speaking, in fact, there is no difference from ordinary field fortifications, and there are no permanent fortifications at all.

In particular, with a large number of ordinary anti-artillery fortifications, it is not a problem to resist 75-mm artillery shelling, but it is more difficult to prevent artillery shelling of more than 100 mm.

And even some core fortifications are difficult to withstand the bombardment of 150-mm heavy artillery.

Many examples of battles have shown that a face-to-face positional battle with the South China Navy, even if it has its own fortifications to rely on, the results are often not good.

Sure enough, half an hour after the bombardment of the South China Navy was launched, Feng Ziqi obtained the preliminary casualty statistics of the garrison troops, especially the Zhongyanshan garrison troops.

Preliminary estimates put at least 2,000 soldiers killed or wounded in enemy shelling, and more than half of them were concentrated in the Zhongyanshan defensive line.

This report shocked Feng Ziqi and made his heart ache, this artillery bombardment caused 2,000 casualties on his side, and more importantly, the main force on the defense line of Zhongyanshan, but the third division of the main force of his descendant, the infantry of these two sides has suffered so heavy casualties before they have made contact, how to fight next?

At this time, someone suggested to Feng Ziqi: "My lord, this is not a way to carry it to the death, we should take the initiative to attack, let the cavalry troops attack their artillery positions, no matter how bad it is, let the cavalry troops attack their logistics supply lines, so that their artillery units have no shells available!" ”

But as soon as he finished saying this, someone on the side retorted: "The scale of the enemy's cavalry in the South China Sea on the opposite side far exceeds that of our army, and the enemy situation we know alone is at least 50,000, so how can we break through the interception of the enemy's cavalry with the cavalry that we can't ride?" ”

"The cavalry can't attack, so take the initiative to abandon the Chongke City defense line, retreat, and then fight a mobile battle, now most of our troops are equipped with breech-loading rifles, and they will not be much worse than the enemy in infantry firepower!"

But some people still retorted: "Give up the fortifications, how can you resist the cavalry of the Southern Navy at that time?" ”

The three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou have already told the other feudal towns with bloody facts that although it is difficult to resist by relying on fortifications, it is even more difficult to fight if they abandon fortifications.

Because once you give up the fortifications to rely on, the cavalry units of the Southern Navy will directly paste your face!

You must know that the Southern Navy is not only strong in artillery, but also in their cavalry units, and Nanhai Prefecture is the origin of Daheng's top war horse, Nanzhou Horse.

Now there are fifteen large and small cavalry divisions in the Southern Navy, and there are more than 20 cavalry regiments under the division, and most of them are equipped with Nanzhou horses.

At present, the South China Navy is only a cavalry unit invested on the battlefield of Zishengzhou, with eight cavalry divisions and six cavalry regiments.

Compare cavalry with the Southern Navy, this is as stupid as the Southern Navy than artillery!

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