Inside and outside Chongke City, it is no longer the excitement of the previous few days, a few days ago, the Southern Navy launched an attack on Chongke City, especially when the Zhongyan Mountain was stormed, the sound of explosions could be thought of from morning to night, even at night.

After Rao took Zhongyan Mountain, and the main force of the Southern Navy began to transfer a large number of attacks and intervention troops, the excitement inside and outside Chongke City was also maintained for several days.

The artillery of the Southern Navy deployed on Zhongyan Mountain continued to shell valuable targets in the city, so the explosion sounded intensively at intervals, and at the same time, the Fifth Army of the Southern Navy contained the troops and tried to launch several small-scale attacks, but this attack was purely for show, putting pressure on the defenders in the city.

After three or four days, some conspicuous high-value targets had already been shelled, and at the same time, the defenders in the city were also clever and would not swagger to assemble in a certain area of the city.

This kind of shelling is sporadic and irregular, and when the artillery observer finds the target, then the artillery will be guided to fire a few shells.

In fact, the casualties caused by this seemingly scattered small-scale shelling of the defenders of the city were not small, because this kind of shelling could be regarded as a precise and purposeful shelling, rather than an aimless overarching shelling.

It didn't seem to be intense, and there weren't many shells out, but the results were relatively high.

Most of the time, the shells that come out can cause casualties to the enemy.

A single sporadic attack can cause several casualties among the defenders, and then the whole day must add up to hundreds or more.

In such a situation, in fact, the defenders in the city are very aggrieved!

The South China Navy no longer conducts large-scale infantry attacks, and even scattered infiltration attacks are not launched, but only use artillery to carry out scattered attacks.

The defenders in the city basically had no means of countermeasures, and could only be beaten passively.

This is a very big blow to morale.

However, even if he is aggrieved, it is better than being beaten in by the Southern Navy, so Feng Ziqi still stabilizes the troops as much as possible, and occasionally, he will send troops to launch small and medium-scale counterattacks to see if they can get unexpected gains, but most of the time this counterattack is useless.

Now Feng Ziqi hopes that the reinforcements from the northern states and the reinforcements from Quyang Prefecture can arrive as soon as possible.

But at this time, he didn't know that one of the reinforcements he was expecting, the 70,000 intervention troops in Quyang Prefecture, had been wiped out!

It is expected that some of the nearly 20,000 people who disappeared will be reorganized, but it is estimated that they will not have the courage to continue to enter Chongke City eastward, and they may not be able to turn back at this time, and they will run back to Quyang Prefecture directly.

As for the intervention forces of the northern states in the north, their first 50,000 men are also about to be put in danger.

The First Cavalry Army has always been paying attention to this group of enemy troops, and the reason why they did not engage in the early stage was purely to wait for the arrival of Zhang Hanqiu's troops.

And now, Zhang Hanqiu and his troops are already on their way.

According to the distance, the main force led by Zhang Hanqiu can arrive in four days at most and join the First Cavalry Army.

After Zhang Hanqiu's troops arrived, these 50,000 enemy troops would be able to defend a huge city like Feng Ziqi's remnants, unless they were all cavalry.

Otherwise, these 50,000 people are dead.

It's unfortunate that in a big city like Chongke City, there is just one in the entire Zisheng Prefecture.

As for the cavalry, although there are also cavalry in the northern intervention army, it is only the scale of 10,000 cavalry, and these 10,000 cavalry do not play a big role.

Didn't you see the Southern Navy, just going north to Zishengzhou sent more than 50,000 cavalry, these are all standard cavalry with Nanzhou war horses, can dismount and fight on foot, and can charge on horseback.

It's not the mounted infantry riding Shayang horses that Lin Ziran made out in the early years.

Even the previous Zisheng Army, the size of the cavalry they had before the war was thirty or forty thousand, but now, there are less than 10,000 left.

Daheng is a broken place, there are not many others, that is, there are many horses, and there is not much shortage of cavalry in the feudal towns!

However, there is generally no shortage of cavalry in the various feudal towns, and there is no second feudal town that can be like Lin Ziran, with more than 100,000 elite cavalry under his command, and more than 50,000 elite cavalry will be dispatched in a northward campaign.

However, it is not bad that this first batch of northern intervention troops can have 10,000 cavalry, after all, this is only their partial division, the forward troops, and most of them are still side troops.

These intervention armies in the northern states are all from many northern states, you send a brigade, I send a division to make up, and the troops sent out are generally not the main forces of the direct line, but are some side troops, second-line troops and other non-direct main forces.

The quality of its personnel, weapons and equipment, to be honest, is not good!

It is estimated that it is not as strong as the 70,000 intervening troops in Quyang Prefecture, let alone compared with the remnants of Feng Ziqi who are still cowering in Chongke City.

Don't look at the remnants of Feng Ziqi who can only shrink in Chongke City now, but from the fact that the Southern Navy has not yet taken Chongke City, you know that many of these remnants of the Zisheng Army are really hard.

Among them, the third division of the Zisheng Army, even if it is a general on the side of the Southern Navy, most of them will admit: This is a hard bone!

In the previous strong attack on Yanshan, although the number of casualties of the Southern Navy was not the largest in all previous battles, it was the highest in terms of casualties of the attacking troops.

Of course, there is a relationship between the height and fortifications of Zhongyan Mountain, but the main reason is that the third division of the Zisheng Army is relatively capable of fighting.

At present, there is only one third division that can carry the artillery bombardment of the South China Navy, the infantry takes turns to attack, and does not collapse after more than half of the casualties.

The other units above the Southern Navy are basically a round of collapse!

And can the personnel quality and equipment level of the intervention army in the northern states be comparable to that of the third division of the Zisheng Army?

Zhang Hanqiu doesn't think so!

For example, a force like the Third Division of the Zisheng Army, the entire Zisheng Prefecture is just such a one, and even if there are other states, there will definitely not be many, and there will only be one or two divisions that will survive.

And will the other feudal towns send out these core descendants of the main forces?

It's not impossible, it's incredibly unlikely!

Just like the South Navy, the South Navy is now huge, with more than 20 infantry divisions and more than 15 cavalry divisions.

However, what can be called the core and main forces are the first division and the second division.

These two divisions are of the same origin, both from the earliest Qingshan Patrol Battalion, and then split into two divisions, when Lin Ziran began to expand on a large scale.

The First Division was in the limelight, fighting in the south and in the north, and was the core main force in many large-scale battles, sweeping through Nanhai Prefecture and defeating the Second Army Corps in Quyang Prefecture, the First Division was stationed in the Luohe Gorge and served as its important task of blocking the Luohe Gorge and blocking hundreds of thousands of troops in Quyang Prefecture!

In the following westward expansion campaign, the Eastern Expedition campaign, and now the northbound Zishengzhou Campaign, the Second Division took over the banner of the First Division and became the core main force of this series of wars.

Whether it was a frontal breakthrough or a roundabout outflank, the figure of the 2nd Division can be seen in almost all important tasks.

At present, the First and Second Divisions of the South China Navy are the well-deserved core and main forces of the South China Navy, and they are the best choice in the South China Navy in terms of personnel quality, equipment level, and combat experience.

In order to seize Zishengzhou, the Southern Navy was willing to send out the core main forces such as the Second Division.

But will the northern states send their main forces south for the sake of Zisheng Prefecture's survival?

So far, they're not doing that!

And this has led to the fate of the first batch of intervention troops in the northern states, which is afraid that it will not be good.

Although wars are often full of accidents, such accidents are more detailed, tactical, and small-scale.

As for the overall strategic level, in fact, there are few surprises in war!

The Southern Navy fought all the way to the south and the north, unified Nanhai Prefecture, conquered Dongding Prefecture in the east, and went north to Zisheng Prefecture.

Nanhai State has a stronger war potential than these two states.

The Southern Navy has more troops, better equipment, more artillery, and better logistics!

So, the Southern Navy won!

This time there were no surprises either!

A few days after Zhang Hanqiu led the Second Army and the Second Cavalry Army to the north, the First Cavalry Army began to cooperate in the operation, and within a few days, the first batch of 50,000 intervention troops in this northern state was completely annihilated without even a little wave.

The Southern Navy annihilated the two intervention armies one after another, and the powerful combat effectiveness it displayed made Jiang Fanyu, the commander of the second batch of intervention armies in the northern states, jealous!

After learning that the first batch of intervention troops and the 50,000 forwards were annihilated, he didn't care about the safety of Chongke City and Feng Ziqi's life or death, and directly ordered the army to return north!

With these hundreds of thousands of patchwork troops under his hands, they still want to defeat the southern navy and go south, and then relieve the siege of Chongke City.

To solve the siege of a fart, it is better to return to the north honestly and choose a place to build a defensive line to defend!

At the same time, urgently send people to ask for help from the northern states, so that the states can continue to increase their troops to the south!

Otherwise, not only Feng Ziqi is finished, Zishengzhou is finished, but the northern states are also finished......

Jiang Fanyu retracted directly, and Zhang Hanqiu, who was leading the army on the northern front, was thinking about taking advantage of the defeat of the first batch of intervening armies in the north and the morale was high, and made persistent efforts to kill the second batch of enemy troops of 150,000 people!

The enemy took the initiative to retreat, but one leg was hundreds of kilometers, and when they retreated north, these interfering forces also dismantled the railroad all the way, which made it very difficult for the southern navy to pursue northward.

In the end, Zhang Hanqiu did not choose to continue the adventure, but left a certain number of troops to defend, and led the main force to return south.

After dragging on for more than half a month, it was time for the Battle of Chongke City to end.