According to the estimate of the General Staff Office, it is unlikely that the northbound troops will encounter a large-scale Guang'an Army in the future.

After all, the Guang'an Army is also limited, and according to the estimates of the Intelligence Department, the total strength of the Guang'an Army before the war was about 60,000.

At least 45,000 men had been hoarded in the defense line of Chongguang City, most of which had been annihilated or captured, and about 15,000 had fled in the past few days.

As for the rear of Guang'an City and other areas, in fact, there are only more than 10,000 troops left under Du Zhikuan's hands.

It can be said that while the Southern Navy captured the defense line of Chongguangcheng, it actually defeated the main force of the Guang'an Army, and at the same time, the cavalry unit and the Second Division also pursued the more than 10,000 enemy troops who had fled from the enemy.

The pursuing force did not expect to be able to completely catch up and annihilate them, their strategic goal was only to break their formation, and it was okay to escape, but not to flee as a formation.

Once the fleeing enemy army is broken up, it is estimated that many soldiers will be directly deserters, and the Guang'an army wants to reorganize these defeated troops, and it is estimated that they will not even be able to find people in a few months.

In this way, the point is not how many people are annihilated, the point is to break up their establishment.

Therefore, the pursuit of the pursuing troops is often the pursuit of a large number of enemy troops, and those scattered enemy troops are generally too lazy to take care of it.

Anyway, the scattered enemy troops have lost their heavy weapons, and even many deserters have thrown away their rifles, and these scattered routs can no longer affect the situation.

If it is only aimed at the Guang'an army, then the follow-up Guang'an war will quickly move north with an autumn wind sweeping the leaves.

However, fighting Guang'an County is never just about fighting the Guang'an Army, there is also a Hexi County on the side.

Lin Ziran will not forget that when Luo'an's Third Division entered the hinterland of Guang'an, it was attacked by the cavalry of Hexi County.

Therefore, he specially instructed the troops not to be careless in pursuing the enemy army, especially to be wary of the cavalry of Hexi County.

The cavalry of Hexi County is also well-known in Nanhai Prefecture.

It is worth noting that Hexi County is not a cavalry that has been very strong since ancient times or some cavalry tradition, Hexi County has a large number of herdsmen in the grassland terrain and the like, the terrain of Hexi County is not very good or bad, and it is just an ordinary county in Nanhai Prefecture.

The cavalry of Hexi County is strong, purely because the current Hexi County Shouhu Shiming is a cavalry background.

In the early years, he relied on nearly 10,000 cavalry troops under his command to seize Hexi County and become the county guard of Hexi County.

Later, he did not relax the construction of cavalry, and in the regular army of Hexi County, the proportion of cavalry was quite large, and it can even be said that the infantry and artillery were only auxiliary arms of their cavalry.

Daheng's army already attached great importance to cavalry, and the Southern Navy under Lin Ziran now has five cavalry brigades and eight divisional cavalry regiments, with a total of more than 20,000 cavalry.

At the same time, it is also continuing to expand the size of the cavalry, preparing to form larger cavalry units, such as cavalry divisions

But as for Hexi County, their total strength is actually not much, a total of about 40,000 people.

But their cavalry directly numbered more than half, accounting for more than fifty percent.

20,000 Hexi iron horses, this is Hu Shiming's reliance on the county guard of Hexi County.

Not only is the number of cavalry large, but also the combat effectiveness of the Hexi Iron Cavalry is also obvious to all, and its results are quite good, in the early years, it defeated the Eighth Army under Cheng Lingfeng, that is, the attack of Luo Guang's army that year, otherwise Cheng Lingfeng would not just be Luo Guang's garrison, but would be Luo Guanghe's garrison.

In the later Guang'an Campaign, after the Third Division penetrated deep into the hinterland of Guang'an, it was attacked by the Hexi cavalry, and finally suffered a heavy defeat, which directly led to the failure of the Luo'an Army's Northern Expedition to Guang'an, which in turn caused a series of chaos within Luo'an County.

From this, it can be seen that the cavalry of Hexi County is not only numerous, but also has good combat effectiveness.

In this regard, Lin Ziran did not have any contempt, and directly instructed the combat troops to be vigilant, and at the same time sent reconnaissance cavalry to the west and north to conduct a large-scale reconnaissance, so as not to be ambushed by the enemy's cavalry by accident.

When Lin Ziran led the army from the fortress of Chongguangcheng to the north, Du Zhikuan, who had just fled back to Guang'an City with the remnants of the army, couldn't sit still, and sent a messenger to Hexi County for help.

can't be the county guard of Guang'an County, but Lao Tzu can still enjoy the glory and wealth, and if he is lucky, he may be able to continue to lead the troops!

In fact, there is no need for Du Zhikuan to say this, the people of Hexi County have already begun to come, but the number of troops who came at the beginning was not much, only about 10,000 people, but it belongs to the cavalry troops, even if it is the artillery and baggage troops that accompany the army, they all belong to the cavalry artillery and cavalry baggage units.

However, such a cavalry unit marched very slowly, and it took two days to cross the border between the two counties.

The people of Hexi County are also making their own little calculations, and now that the war on the side of Chongguang City has just broken out, what are you doing so early, anyway, Chongguang City will not be lost for a while.

And at the beginning, it was the time when the firepower of the South China Navy was the most ferocious, and there was no need for me to run up and be bombed at this time.

Take it easy, walk slowly, and wait for ten days and a half months on the side of Chongguang City, and it's not too late to go up again.

However, they obviously underestimated the huge combat effectiveness brought about by the combination of the new tactics and new weapons of the Southern Navy, and they also overestimated the determination of the Guang'an Army to hold on to Chongguangcheng.

How could they have imagined that on the first day of the battle, the defenders of the city would be directly dispersed due to the shelling of the camp, and nearly 10,000 people would flee on the spot.

They also did not expect that the eastern defense line could not be held for several hours, so that the artillery units of the Southern Navy could obtain the best artillery position, and then shell the entire Chongguang City.

There were many things they didn't expect, so there was a situation, Lin Ziran's side took Chongguangcheng, and killed towards the hinterland of Guang'an, and the 10,000 Hexi cavalry that came over had just crossed the border line between the two counties.

When the 10,000 Hexi cavalry knew that Chongguang City was lost, they panicked.

Some people say that they will directly withdraw to Hexi County, and some people say that they will go south to intercept the Southern Navy and attack their supply lines and so on.

Some people said that they would go north to Guang'an City to assist Du Zhikuan in defending Guang'an City.

At this time, they also received a letter from Du Zhikuan, and when they saw Du Zhikuan's letter, they were a little unhappy in Hexi.

He Du Zhikuan is now playing a scoundrel, saying that if the troops of Hexi County don't come again, Lao Tzu will directly surrender.

Whether Du Zhikuan is finished or surrendered, this means that the Southern Navy can take Guang'an County, and when the time comes, how can Hexi County in the west be left alone.

Impossible!

Now many people know that Lin Ziran's foreign conquest is to unify Nanhai Prefecture.

After Lin Ziran takes Guang'an County, the next target is most likely Hexi County.

In short, it is inevitable that they will have to fight with the Southern Navy in Hexi County in the future, and when the time comes, how can they resist the Southern Navy by relying on the Hexi County alone?

After comprehensive consideration, this Hexi cavalry with a scale of 10,000 people began to advance rapidly eastward, but did not go directly to Guang'an City or Chongguang City, but between the two cities.

They are ready to ambush the Southern Navy, which is heading north!

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