This morning, when Xu Teng knew that the northern flank was being attacked fiercely, he had already begun to make all kinds of preparations.

However, the preparations at that time were mainly for reinforcement of the northern flank, for which he was already preparing to send about 10,000 troops north.

But in the afternoon, Xu Teng learned that the northern wing troops were semi-surrounded, and at this time Xu Teng actually wanted to transfer troops north, tear through the encirclement of the southern navy, and reconnect with the defenders of the northern flank.

However, reinforcements are still on the way, and the defenders on the northern flank are completely finished.

Faced with this situation, Xu Teng did not hesitate at all, and directly ordered the troops to start preparing to retreat.

Because he knew that after the northern flank was finished, once the opponent's roundabout troops reached his rear, then the remaining 100,000 people under his command would also have to be surrounded.

However, the retreat was not so easy to retreat, and after a few hours of hard work, he was able to transfer about 30,000 men out of the front line, and of these 30,000 people, 20,000 were originally to reinforce the northern flank.

As for the other units, they are still fighting on the front line with the frontal units of the Yugoslav Navy.

If this is a rash retreat, the other party will pursue it, and the retreat will turn into a rout in minutes.

For this reason, Xu Teng was preparing and setting the time of retreat an hour later, that is, after dark.

After dark, relying on the cover of darkness, the troops were withdrawn from the front line through various deceptive actions, and then they ran away.

However, what Xu Teng didn't expect was that the Southern Navy on the opposite side was so urgent.

They didn't even wait for the roundabout troops to arrive, they couldn't wait to launch an attack.

Under the attack, can Xu Teng still withdraw the remaining 70,000 or so troops from the front line?

This is naturally possible, after all, if a retreat order goes down, the front-line troops can just run away.

But if you do this, it will basically be no different from a collapse, and the South China Navy on the opposite side will not watch their own retreat, they will launch a fierce offensive and will pursue.

Moreover, time is tight, and when retreating, it is impossible to take away heavy weapons such as artillery, and even ammunition, food, etc., so that even if the troops are withdrawn, they will not be able to maintain combat effectiveness in the future.

What if there is no retreat?

Even if he does not have rear-loading artillery, he Hetai Army is also equipped with Fuyuan rifles and smoothbore guns on a large scale, and there are dozens of front-loading rifled guns, relying on trenches and other fortifications to resist stubbornly, I dare not say that it will be too long, but it should be able to hold on for a few days.

After four or five days, Xu Teng is still confident in this.

But the problem is, there's a fart to keep it!

Tens of thousands of detour troops have already been killed behind their buttocks, and when they return to their positions to cut off their retreat, their 100,000 people will not be able to advance or retreat, and they will be completely encircled. 、

In this case, the withdrawal is not, and the defense is not!

This is what makes Xu Teng desperate!

Listening to the increasingly dense explosions in front of him, Xu Teng forcibly suppressed all kinds of thoughts, walked out of the command headquarters directly, and then took out the telescope to look ahead, this look suddenly made his face change greatly.

Through the binoculars, he saw a section of defense in front of him, with many huge clouds of smoke and dust rising in succession, and the huge explosion power directly blew up this section of defense line, or even silently.

This is a hundred and fifty mm heavy artillery of the Southern Navy!

Under this kind of heavy artillery, ordinary fortifications are like paper paste, even if they are not directly killed by shrapnel, even if the soldiers hide in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches, they will be shocked to death.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a group of soldiers of the Southern Navy charging in a scattered and disorderly formation, and there were not many people shooting back at the Hetai military defense line in front of these Southern Navy.

Most of the soldiers in the defensive line had already been killed and wounded by direct and heavy shelling.

Although the remaining soldiers resisted, the resistance did not last long, and the charge of the Southern Navy had just begun, and there were still two or three hundred meters away from their own defense line, and the remaining soldiers of their own side ran out of the trench one by one.

Where do they go?

Instead of launching a counter-charge, he ran to the rear.

Xu Teng shifted the telescope in his hand and looked at another section of the defense line, which was a defensive position built on the basis of the original fortifications, not to mention very strong, and there were many artillery pieces deployed.

Even though these guns are some smoothbore guns, or small and medium-caliber smoothbore guns, they are still full of lethality.

However, at this time, this position was also in a mess, not only the infantry defense line in front was bombarded by artillery, but the artillery position behind was also bombed into ruins, the artillery and gun carriages were separated, and the artillerymen suffered heavy casualties.

Enemy infantry is coming up, and as they charge, they appear to be carrying a small-caliber mortar cannon and firing shells at the remnants of their own defenses.

It is not strange that Xu Teng has mortars or something, but they seem to have a lot of small cannons, because the cannonballs are very dense, and in just a while, at least twenty or thirty cannonballs fell on a small section of the defense line.

But Xu Teng was not much surprised by this, because he soon saw that this section of defense line about 100 meters long was also finished......

The infantry of the Southern Navy, supported by artillery, charged in a very strange scattered formation, and finally occupied the defensive line.

At this time, Xu Teng's face was very ugly, he was not the first day he saw the Southern Navy, and even his troops were not the first day to fight with the Southern Navy, in the past many days, his troops even launched an active attack on the enemy twice, and the subsequent cavalry of his own side also had many battles with the cavalry of the Southern Navy, and at the same time, a number of small and medium-sized peripheral battles broke out between the two sides.

However, this has never been the case!

In the early two tentative attacks, although the attack failed, the scene was not so ugly, and Xu Teng felt that the South China Navy was still very good at defense.

The cavalry and skirmishes of the two sides in the middle, strictly speaking, actually fought back and forth, and sometimes the Hetai army could still have an advantage.

But why is it that when the South China Navy launches an attack, its own defense line is like a bubble, which bursts as soon as it is poked?

Don't have even the slightest bit of resistance?

Xu Tengwan couldn't understand it!

At this time, Xu Tengwan didn't know that compared with defensive operations, in fact, the Southern Navy was better at offensive operations, and in offensive operations, they were more good at positional warfare or offensive battles in which the two sides set up postures, relatively speaking, they were not very good at mobile operations in the field.

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