Xu Zhongshu is also a person with ideals and ambitions.

When he defected to Lin Ziran in the early years, he was actually a little reluctant, but he was a prisoner at that time, and was even thrown into a prisoner of war camp as a coolie.

At that time, in order to get rid of this situation, he took refuge with Lin Ziran, who was only an officer of the garrison camp in Qingshan Town.

But later, Lin Ziran's development got better and better, from the battalion officer of a militia regiment to the county guard of Lianguan County, and then to the county guard of Luo'an County, the patrol envoy of Liangluo, and now the state order of Nanhai Prefecture.

The number of troops under his command has ranged from a few hundred to thousands, tens of thousands, and now more than 100,000.

Lin Ziran is already the first person who really hopes to unify Nanhai Prefecture after becoming Duke Meng, and the Southern Navy under his command is also getting bigger and bigger.

In such a rapidly expanding Nanhai Prefecture military group, Xu Zhongshu's status is also rising, and the initial reluctance to be reluctant has long been gone, and he, like many middle and senior generals of the South China Navy, has already regarded the development and expansion of the South China Navy as his own career.

If the Southern Navy had not expanded, how could he have become the commander of more than 40,000 people today.

The more than 40,000 troops now fighting on the north flank, two infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions, are all under his command.

At this point, Xu Zhongshu's thinking has changed.

Now he wants to fight this battle well and lay the foundation for the subsequent position of army commander.

At present, the Yugoslav Navy has more than 100,000 troops, and a breakthrough of 200,000 is just around the corner.

The establishment of military-level troops is inevitable, otherwise it is impossible to command at all.

In fact, this is also the case now, and the number of troops that the South Korean Navy has put into operations on the Eastern Front has reached six infantry divisions, four cavalry divisions, three heavy artillery regiments, and other front-line units, with a total strength of more than 100,000.

In order to better command these troops, Lin Ziran personally led a part of the troops in frontal combat, including three infantry divisions, one cavalry division and three heavy artillery regiments.

Two infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions were used as the main force of the roundabout, commanded by Xu Zhongshu.

In addition, there was a division in Roan that attacked from the northwest.

In other words, the current Xu Zhongshu is actually in command of an army, but he does not have the name of a military commander, and only commands in the name of a temporary commander.

What Xu Zhongshu wants now is to sit down on this army commander in the future.

And this is not easy, although he Xu Zhongshu defected to Lin Ziran very early, his ability is good, and his combat exploits are good, but he also has many competitors in the huge Southern Navy.

The commanders of the eight infantry divisions, including Xu Zhongshu, are all likely to be candidates for commander.

Until the last moment, no one knows what will happen.

In order to ensure that we can get the position of commander in the future and keep up with the pace in the continuous expansion and development of the South China Navy, it is indispensable to have combat achievements.

And today, if he can kill these 50,000 Hetai troops, and then gather his previous military exploits, Xu Zhongshu thinks that he should be able to win the throne of a military commander.

With the expectation of the future position of army commander, Xu Zhongshu spent the next day observing the battlefield with his eyes wide open, mobilizing troops to besiege the enemy.

When the cavalry corps led by Song You returned to its position, the First Division under the personal command of Xu Zhongshu had completely smashed the enemy's 13th Division's defensive line, and then launched a flank attack on the enemy's frontal defensive line.

At the same time, the Fourth Division led by Liang Chenglei also launched a large-scale offensive and held back the enemy's frontal defense line. ，

At this time, the enemy army in front of him was actually facing signs of the collapse of the entire army.

Many generals of the Hetai Army had already sensed that something was wrong, and when the cavalry of the Southern Navy roared over and directly copied their back road, many people had already said that they were going to be finished.

At that time, many people just wanted the whole army to retreat, but how could it be so easy for the whole army to retreat, and if you wanted to retreat to the east, you don't have to think about it, more than 10,000 cavalry are waiting for you behind.

The only way to retreat is to the south.

But even if there is a way to escape, whether this can be escaped is another matter.

If the retreat is not well organized. A major collapse can occur on the spot, and at that time, without waiting for the cavalry of the Southern Navy to pursue, the 1st and 4th Divisions can directly defeat all the enemies in front of them.

So even if they wanted to retreat, their retreat was very unsmooth, nearly two hours had passed, and the adjustment of the troops had not even been completed, let alone directly organized a large-scale retreat.

By about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the troops of the 1st Division from the north to the south had successively broken the enemy's multiple flank defenses, directly threatening the enemy's main force.

At this time, the Hetai army only retreated a few thousand people.

At this time, when the cavalry troops led by Song You saw that the enemy was retreating to the south, rather than to the east, they directly sent two cavalry divisions to make a rapid maneuver, directly detoured to the south to block their southern retreat route, and dismounted on the spot to build a defensive line.

After the southern retreat channel was blocked, the Hetai army in the encirclement became even more desperate.

At this time, the remaining Hetai army of about 30,000 or so was already compressed into a narrow strip of less than three kilometers long and more than one kilometer wide.

Some of the troops tried to attack Song You's cavalry units, trying to open a way to retreat south, while others tried to flee east.

But some have already begun to raise the white flag and surrender.

Faced with the situation of being completely surrounded, unable to break through, and suffering heavy casualties, not to mention the ordinary soldiers in the Hetai Army, even those high-ranking generals have lost confidence one by one, and many people are thinking about taking advantage of the fact that they can still control a part of the troops, and use these troops as bargaining chips to surrender in exchange for better conditions.

In this case, the Hetai army in the encirclement did not last long at all.

By five o'clock in the evening, more than 20,000 Hetai troops in the encirclement had chosen to surrender directly before the battle, and only a few thousand were still resisting.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, at six o'clock in the evening, Xu Zhongshu ordered a final general attack on the Hetai army in the encirclement.

Thirty minutes later, when night fell, the Hetai army in the encirclement officially became history, and most of the remaining thousands of people chose to surrender, and the rest were either killed or wounded.

This battle, which lasted from morning to evening, was a fierce battle between the two sides for more than a day, and finally ended with the annihilation of the rest of the 50,000 people of the Hetai Army except for more than 6,000 people who successfully fled south, and the rest of the whole army was annihilated.

As soon as the battle ended, Xu Zhongshu personally wrote a complete battle report and sent a fast horse to Lin Ziran!

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