Nanyun County in the east of Luohai County is one of the few counties in Luohai County with hilly and mountainous areas, but they are all relatively low hills, and the area is relatively small.

In fact, most of Nanyun County is still dominated by plain terrain and fertile land, and the county seat is located in Nanyun City, a riverside port along the Nanluo River.

Nanyungang, looking at many cities in the entire Nanhai Prefecture, can only be regarded as an inconspicuous port city along the inland river, but because this place is the core of the eastern defense line, and there is the Nanluo River connecting the Luo River, this small port city has always been the core city of the eastern defense line.

The previous Luo Hai Fleet and the current Nanhai Prefecture Fleet both deployed a large number of gunboats here to guard against enemy forces in the east.

The current Nanyun Port is still the headquarters of the 7th Division, and the 7th Division and the 8th Division are stationed in the east together, but the 7th Division is further ahead, and relies on part of the hilly areas in the eastern part of Nanyun County to build field fortifications.

At this time, the Nanyun Port did not have the calm of the past, there were a lot of troops on the streets, and there were several ships in the port, these steam cargo ships were escorted by warships, loaded with a large number of supplies, at this time the workers on the dock and the soldiers of the military were lifting a large number of artillery and ammunition on the ships off the ship.

This is the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment that was urgently reinforced from Luohai City.

In fact, the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment had just been formed, and it was not even equipped with enough artillery.

However, the civil strife in Anlong County made the Southern Navy very vigilant.

Among the many orders that Lin Ziran transmitted through the navy's steam fast ships was the order for the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment stationed in Luohai City to urgently reinforce the Eastern Front.

When the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment arrived at Nanyun Port, somewhere in Anlong County, which was only more than 40 kilometers away from Nanyun Port, a unit fighting the cavalry of Hetai County was also marching to the east.

More than 20 kilometers behind the cavalry of Hetai County, there was a large army that had always been large-scale, and the marching army spread for several kilometers.

In the middle of the team, Xu Teng and a group of senior generals from Hetai County rode forward, and they all seemed to be in a good mood.

They do have a reason to be in a good mood.

Since the civil strife in Anlong County eight days ago and the death of the county guard, the Hetai army, which had been preparing for a long time, immediately moved westward.

Along the way, they not only defeated the tens of thousands of Anlong troops who stubbornly resisted and resisted, but also accepted more than 10,000 Anlong troops.

In only eight days, the Hetai army under Xu Teng defeated all the recalcitrant Anlong troops with a decisive superiority in strength, captured most of Anlong County, and captured Anlong City.

After a brief rest or two days, Xu Teng once again led his troops westward.

Where to go?

Naturally, I went to Luohai County.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the main force of the Southern Navy led by Lin Ziran was still in Guang'an and Hexi counties, and first conquered the defense line of the Southern Navy and entered the Liangluo area.

He had already figured out the situation, and the Southern Navy stationed on the eastern defense line was only two divisions, and it only had about 30,000 troops to survive.

And this time he sent troops to Anlong County, the first wave of troops had 100,000 troops, and there were about 50,000 troops on the way, ready to reinforce the front line.

In the Hetai defense line of Hetai County, he only left more than 50,000 troops to face Dongdingzhou.

With a mere 50,000 troops, Yuan Yonghan, the envoy of Dongdingzhou and the western patrol in the east, was very unreliable.

So actually, he's also gambling.

Bet that you will gather 150,000 troops at one time, use Lin Ziran's troops to disperse, and quickly defeat Lin Ziran one by one, and then turn back to supplement the defense line of Hetai.

If it is said that the westward march has dragged on for a long time, then his patrol of Dongdingzhou in the east made Yuan Yonghan react to the emptiness of the Hetai defense line, even if the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou are still fighting, Yuan Yonghan is facing a lot of pressure in Dongdingzhou, and it is estimated that he will also transfer troops to attack the Hetai defense line.

Once Yuan Yonghan made up his mind to attack the Hetai defense line, with the 50,000 troops of the current Hetai defense line, he was afraid that he would not be able to defend it.

Xu Teng, the county guard of Hetai County, is gambling, just like Lin Ziran's Northern Expedition before, he is also gambling.

At that time, Lin Ziran was also betting that he would be able to take Guang'an and Hexi counties before Xu Teng sent troops westward, and then turned around and went east to fight with Xu Teng.

The enemies they face are never one or two, but the other feudal towns in the surrounding area.

If you want to expand your territory, it is easy to trigger a chain reaction, even if the army is strong, it is very likely to face a group attack and defeat at that time.

The previous successive county guards of Luohai County, Luo Guang's garrison envoy Cheng Lingfeng is a typical example!

Their strength was the strongest in Nanhai Prefecture at that time, but in the end they were not besieged and defeated.

However, Lin Ziran won the bet.

Lin Ziran relied on the huge power of the rear-loading rifled artillery to quickly conquer Chongguang City, which shocked all the front teeth of the feudal towns.

In any case, they never thought that Chongguang City would be conquered in just a few days, you must know that they estimated that Chongguang City could hold on for more than three months.

This also directly led to the slow reaction of the surrounding feudal towns, Xu Teng was like this, he had long planned to send troops to the west, but he didn't think about sending troops so quickly.

It is also a matter of time to mobilize troops and prepare weapons, ammunition, food and grass, and this time is not just a day or two.

By the time Xu Teng completed his combat preparations, Guang'an County was completely finished.

The Hexi County that waited a little bit couldn't stop Lin Ziran for long, and it was over in a few days.

Even if Xu Teng acted quickly, he immediately planned in advance after learning that Guang'an County was finished, instigated civil strife in Anlong County, and quickly dispatched troops to Anlong County.

But it's still a few days in between.

When Xu Teng led the army to conquer Anlong County, Lin Ziran was already in a boat, leading a fleet of hundreds of ships to go south along the river Luo, and was preparing to enter Nanyun County east along the tributaries of the Nanluo River.

It's just that just as Lin Ziran didn't know that Xu Teng had quickly taken most of Anlong County, Xu Teng didn't know that Lin Ziran was taking tens of thousands of main forces to reinforce Nanyun County by boat.

On the Luo River outside Luo'an City, there are one steam steamer after another down the river at this time, these ships are large and small, the big ones are thousands of tons, and the small ones are only a few tens of tons.

In order to organize the rapid river transportation of troops to the eastern defense line, the logistics department of the Southern Navy requisitioned almost all the steam ships that could be seen, whether they were cargo ships, passenger ships, or small boats, but all the ships that could be seen at that time were requisitioned, including many sailing ships.

In order to speed things up, they even adopted the method of hauling, that is, using steam boats to tow those small wooden boats forward, and made nondescript barges.

If this were not the case, it would not have been possible for the Yugoslav Navy to load tens of thousands of troops onto ships in just a few days and then go all the way south along the river.

The huge fleet of ships went south along the Luo River, and soon entered the territory of Luo Hai County, followed by the Nan Luo River.

Along the Nam Luo River, you can reach the core city of the eastern defense line, Nanyun Port.

When Lin Ziran and the others had just entered the Nanluo River, the soldiers of the 7th Division of the Southern Navy stationed on the eastern defense line five or six kilometers outside Nanyun City had already discovered a large number of enemy troops in front!

The Hetai Army is coming!

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