Speaking of the number of artillery, the number of Quyang Prefecture artillery on the opposite side is not small, but most of their guns are smoothbore guns, except for a few front-loading rifled guns, and even these smoothbore guns are basically all old smoothbore guns, and the effective firing range is not as far as the 120 mm new smoothbore guns launched by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau two or three years ago.

There were a lot of guns, but they didn't really make much use of the battle.

Most of their artillery positions, which had already been exposed, were immediately destroyed by the covered shelling of the long-range heavy artillery of the South China Navy.

Although the hidden artillery also opened fire to support after the battle broke out, it often failed to fire the shells, and was subjected to counter-artillery fire by the long-range heavy artillery of the South China Navy.

The artillery observers of the Southern Navy are all looking for the artillery of the Quyang Prefecture Army all over the world with binoculars, and once the enemy's artillery is fired, it will immediately guide the long-range artillery to counterattack according to the exposed sound and fire.

Even the artillery concealed by the enemy behind it can be calculated according to the trajectory, and then the general aspect can be deduced, and the covering artillery bombardment can be carried out.

Under the suppression of the artillery fire of the South China Navy, the artillery firepower of Quyang Prefecture, which was also huge, was destroyed without being able to play any practical role.

When they lost their artillery, they could not use their artillery to intercept the infantry of the Southern Navy, while their own infantry was constantly bombarded by the Southern Navy.

In this case, the collapse of the defense line on the west side of Quyang Prefecture has become inevitable.

In this battle, the duel between the infantry was not pure.

In fact, this was a battle led by the artillery of the Southern Navy.

The artillery of the Southern Navy destroyed the artillery units of Quyang Prefecture, destroyed the infantry defense line of Quyang Prefecture, destroyed the communication nodes of Quyang Prefecture and the exposed command headquarters.

By the time the infantry finally charged, the battle was actually coming to an end.

The huge gap in artillery firepower between the two sides allowed the South China Navy to fight an unexpected battle.

However, this kind of unexpectedness was only not expected by Quyang Prefecture, but within the Southern Navy, it had been expected for a long time, and it was a series of tactics that had been established and built with the core of giving full play to the advantages of artillery.

If it did not have such a strong artillery superiority, even if the South China Navy relied on the new light infantry tactics to achieve victory, the casualties would be extremely large, after all, the infantry would inevitably be shelled by the enemy during the attack, and the enemy infantry fire intercepted it, and casualties would inevitably occur.

But now, the casualties of the Yugoslav Navy are almost negligible.

By noon, the total casualties of the four divisions that launched the attack were less than 500.

In contrast, the Quyang Prefecture personnel killed and wounded by the South China Navy were very terrifying, and the enemy casualties in other directions are not known for the time being, but on the western front, where the breakthrough was made, the South China Navy simply counted the corpses left by the enemy and the light and serious wounded, and this number exceeded 5,000 people.

In addition, there were a large number of enemy troops who surrendered directly after being stunned.

In just about six hours of attack, the South China Navy tore through the enemy's western defense line, and this result greatly alarmed the Quyang Prefecture side.

They tried to re-establish the western line of defense with troops, but they found that they simply could not draw too many troops.

On the frontal front, although the scale of the attack of the First Army of the South China Navy was not too violent, it was also a serious attack, and a large number of enemy troops were contained in this direction.

In addition, more importantly, it was the long-range heavy artillery of the South China Navy that shelled the enemy's deep area from the very beginning, making it difficult for the enemy to mobilize troops for maneuvering.

As soon as this force is gathered, it will be observed by the artillery observers of the South Navy, which will lead to long-range artillery strikes.

And most importantly, even if they can draw troops to rebuild the western defensive line, it is unlikely to stop the attack on the western side of the Southern Navy.

The onslaught launched by the Second Army with two infantry divisions as the core was not so easy to stop.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, the rout on the west side continued, and by this time the senior generals of Quyang Prefecture had already realized that the enemy army on the west side was probably not a simple onslaught, but wanted to make a large-scale detour.

"They want to go straight to the edge of the Luo River, trying to cut off our retreat and supply lines!"

"They want to surround us!"

"We can't continue like this, we must draw enough troops to counterattack and block the enemy's eastward advance, otherwise, it won't be long before the enemy army can kill all the way to the Luo River by this time tomorrow, and then we will be surrounded by the enemy!"

"Draw troops, how to draw, have we successively transferred 30,000 troops to reinforce the Western Front, plus the original 30,000 troops, this is 60,000 troops, but this still can't stop the enemy's attack, do you want to transfer the troops of the middle line, I'm afraid that the entire front will collapse!"

The commander of the second corps of the crankshaft, the tour of Quyang Prefecture made Yang Jun frown at this time.

As a person who has been fighting on the battlefield for decades, how can he not see that the Southern Navy is going to outflank it.

The strength of the Southern Navy is not as large as its own, and it is only more than 100,000 people to survive, but the Second Army led by himself has a full 150,000 troops.

But even so, the enemy army dared to play a roundabout outflank!

Why do they dare to do this?

If it was before, he might not have known it, but now he knows that the South Korean Navy does not rely on rear-loading rifles, but rear-loading artillery, a large number of long-range high-power artillery.

It's not that he didn't know the power of the rear-loading guns, but he still didn't expect these rear-loading guns to play such a huge role.

He originally thought that even though he was inferior in artillery, he had dozens of front-loading rifled guns and hundreds of smoothbore guns, even if they could not fight the enemy's artillery. But there should be no problem in supporting infantry operations.

But unexpectedly, these artillery units were completely defeated not long after the battle began, and they were simply unable to support the infantry in battle.

The disadvantage in equipment directly led to the disadvantage in tactics, which in turn evolved into the current strategic passivity.

What to do?

What else can I do, retreat!

Is it possible to wait for the enemy to detour behind their buttocks, come back and forth, and finally fall into the encirclement.

This time the southward movement was a failure, but he couldn't leave his troops here, so he had to withdraw anyway, and then hold the Luo River Gorge to the death.

The current situation is already very dangerous, so Yang Jun did not hesitate, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Jun mobilized troops to carry the west side, so as to hold this night.

As for how to keep it tomorrow?

Hold on to a fart, and as soon as it gets dark he will lead the troops to retreat.

Whoever likes to fight in this Nanhai Prefecture will fight, anyway, Lao Tzu won't fight!