In the face of the second division's multi-point flowering and frequent small-scale roundabout outflanking attacks, they simply could not cope with it.

Even some of the middle and senior generals of the Zisheng Army on the opposite side tried to adjust the defense line and reverse the embarrassing situation of being beaten everywhere.

But their tactical intentions simply could not be implemented.

Because after the battle began, they found that there were enemies everywhere, in front, on the left and right, and even in the back.

The battle lines of the two sides have changed from front-line operations in previous wars to a strange situation of simultaneous operations on multiple fronts in depth.

This is fighting, and they can't even tell where there is an enemy and where there is a friendly army.

This battle was a complete mess, which made the middle and senior generals of the Zisheng Army completely unable to adapt to it.

After the night passed, many Zisheng troops in the right defense line found that they had been surrounded inexplicably, and even many middle and senior generals of the Zisheng Army had already fallen into the encirclement.

Mu Hongkang, the commander of the Second Division, who had also experienced chaos and was emaciated by the command, found that the breakthrough made by his Second Division was even greater than he expected.

They had already broken through the enemy's defenses, and they had surrounded many of them.

Faced with this situation, Mu Hongkang naturally would not easily give up the tactical superiority he had established, and as soon as dawn he ordered all units to encircle the surrounded enemy forces, and at the same time requested artillery support from the artillery units in the rear.

When he asked for support, he also specially instructed people to tell the artillery units behind him not to mess around, but to be accurate.

This hint is very necessary, now the battle lines of the two sides are staggered, belonging to the state of you and me, and I have you, if the artillery unit is directly facing the front line for a burst of shelling as before, and then the shelling should be extended, it is estimated that the officers and men of the South China Sea who will be killed will not be much less than the officers and men of the Zisheng Army who were killed.

This is also quite difficult for the artillery units!

Their artillery is deployed a few kilometers behind, and in the past, artillery bombardment could be fired casually without fear of accidentally injuring friendly troops.

Now that the fronts of the two sides are staggered, the requirements for the accuracy of shelling are very high.

Naturally, there is no problem with the accuracy of the artillery, and the rifled artillery not only hits far, but also accurately.

But the problem is that you need artillery guidance.

In those days, there were no telephones or walkie-talkies, so it was impossible to communicate in real time across several kilometers, so they could only rely on traditional means such as flags and horseback heralds.

This method is nothing for large-scale artillery bombardment with low accuracy requirements, but it is not easy to deal with the current kind of artillery bombardment where the enemy forces are scattered and the target is small.

In this regard, the artillery unit also simply pulled a large number of 75-mm artillery pieces down to the front line, and did not play any long-distance curved artillery bombardment, but directly visually carried out direct artillery shelling at the enemy's positions.

To be honest, the effect of this shelling is very average, but it can be regarded as an artillery bombardment.

Combined with the infantry of the 2nd Division, which carried rapid-fire mortar guns and 75mm ultra-light infantry guns, it was also able to inflict a large number of artillery casualties on the enemy.

While the Second Division carried out an annihilating blow to the enemy forces that were intertwined with its own dogs, Nanzicheng also sent part of its troops to try to tear through the encirclement of the Second Division and rescue the tens of thousands of friendly troops on the right side.

However, the artillery of the Southern Navy is also dry, and it is not very easy to deal with those enemy troops who are intertwined with their own infantry, but for the large group of enemy troops that ran out of South Purple City, it is to directly mobilize a large number of 100-mm cannons, 120-mm howitzers and 150-mm howitzers for intensive shelling.

After a heavy artillery bombardment, the enemy troops who had gone out of the city to reinforce them quickly retreated.

Although the city was also constantly shelled, but the fortifications resisted, and after coming out, it was located in an open area to face the bombardment of heavy artillery, purely looking for death.

They didn't want to die, so they withdrew.

When they withdrew, they gave up the tens of thousands of friendly troops on the right outside the city.

By noon, the Second Division, with the support of artillery units and reinforcements from a brigade, had basically cleared the encirclement of enemy troops, killing and wounding more than 2,000 enemy troops, and the remaining nearly 10,000 surrendered one after another in despair.

They can't even break through and escape!

Looking at this scene, Hou Zheming, the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Corps of the Zisheng Army in the Southern Purple City, had a dead face, and it had only been more than a day since the war began, and he just felt hopeless!

The troops were suppressed, the enemy's artillery fire was strong, and even if South Purple City was surrounded, he would not do this.

After all, he was very clear about the superiority of the Southern Navy's rear-loading artillery, and after being attacked by the enemy, it was normal for Nanzicheng to be surrounded.

But if it were only that, he would not be pessimistic, let alone hopeless, about the prospects of war.

It's a big deal to defend South Purple City!

As a border fortress city, South Purple City has quite good fortifications, and it also has rear-loading artillery, which is a little less, but it can also play a huge role at critical moments, not to mention that it is also equipped with rear-loading rifles, so it is a big deal to retreat from the city when the time comes.

Relying on the material reserves and the degree of solidity of South Purple City, it is too long to guarantee it, but there is no problem for ten days and half a month.

In these ten days and half a month, it is time for your own reinforcements to come up.

It is not certain who will win and who will lose.

However, the intensity of the attack shown by the infantry of the Yugoslav Navy during the day yesterday made him doubt his confidence.

The attack of the opposing infantry unit was completely different from what he expected, and even until now, he had not been able to understand how the South China Navy on the opposite side was able to smoothly command the various units under the condition that the dispersion was so wide and the battle line was so complex.

This morning, when he saw a division on the right flank being divided into small units and then surrounded, and the two sides were intertwined, he was very worried and wanted to send reinforcements to relieve the difficulty.

But it can't be solved.

And the besieged division, its units were quickly surrounded and annihilated.

Why is it that each other is intertwined, but the South China Navy can smoothly command the troops to launch extremely highly coordinated operations?

But you can't? Can they only be isolated and fight alone, unable to cooperate effectively at all, and finally annihilated?

Why?

Could it be that there is really such a big gap between his own troops and the Zisheng Army?

There is certainly no gap in the bravery and combat experience of the soldiers, and the main soldiers of the Southern Navy are all veterans, and the soldiers of their Zisheng Army are also mainly veterans.

The quality of the officers must be high on their own side, and the opposite side is just a group of recruits who have not grown all their hair and have served for a year or two.

And the officers in the Zisheng Army strictly follow the tradition of the Daheng Army for more than 200 years: all professional officers.

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