Retreating was more dangerous than staying in the city, and Feng Ziqi didn't have the slightest confidence to face the enemy's tens of thousands of cavalry and strong field artillery fire on the field.

It's pure death!

If you stay in the city, although it may be difficult to fight in the future, you will have a chance to block the enemy army, and it will not take too long, as short as five or six days, and as long as half a month, you will be able to wait for the intervention forces of the states.

At that time, I am afraid that the one who will feel embarrassed will be the South China Navy on the other side.

In the next few days, it will definitely be extremely difficult, Feng Ziqi is already ready to be a shrinking turtle, and he will not go out of the city to fight, and even his actions in the city will be cautious, for example, he can't concentrate large-scale troops in the city in a big way, so as not to be bombarded by concentrated artillery and the like.

However, it is also necessary to rely on the dense buildings in the city and the complex terrain for defensive operations, and it is not necessary to defend a certain building, but only to give effective damage to the enemy's attacking infantry.

It's all about stalling for time!

Feng Ziqi made up his mind, and also made perfect preparations, and even in order to better defend the city in the next few days, he urgently supplemented his core force, the Third Division.

Weapons and ammunition are all replenished first, and if direct personnel are replenished, there is nothing to be done about this.

The Third Division is special, whether it is an officer or a soldier, all of them are children of his hometown Jiangyang County, and it is more troublesome to replenish it after this loss.

If you directly supplement it with other soldiers, it is estimated that the combat effectiveness will not increase but decrease!

Sometimes, more people are not always better!

Therefore, for his henchmen, Feng Ziqi only replenished weapons, ammunition and other materials, and at the same time treated the lightly wounded of the Third Division as much as possible.

While Feng Ziqi was making various preparations in the city, the Southern Navy outside the city was also non-stop.

The artillerymen are transporting a large number of artillery pieces and shells to the artillery positions in Zhongyanshan, and at the same time building positions to avoid the enemy's counterattack.

As for the siege, this is really not in the current plan of the Southern Navy.

Now the whole South China Navy is preparing for the follow-up reinforcements.

The Second Cavalry Corps and some of the light infantry of the Second Army had already set out in the evening to take the lead and advance towards the west, preparing to find the Quyang Prefecture Intervention Army.

By the next day, the rest of the main forces of the Second Army would follow.

At the same time, artillery, baggage and baggage troops, as well as a large number of people who were temporarily conscripted, began to transport a large scale of artillery, ammunition, grain and grass, and other logistical baggage materials.

In fact, the number of baggage troops and civilians who maintained the logistics line in the rear exceeded the number of World War I combat troops on the front.

Without such a large logistical force, it would not have been possible to maintain the high-intensity fighting of the front-line troops.

The Southern Navy does its own thing outside the city, and Feng Ziqi in the city also does his own thing.

So much so that the evening was very peaceful.

However, the next morning was not very calm, because at that time, the artillery units of the South China Navy were already shelling the city from Zhongyan Mountain and several other directions, especially the shells from the direction of Zhongyan Mountain, which were far and accurate.

After a morning of shelling, some important buildings in the city were basically destroyed, and the Yugoslav Navy used a large number of long-range artillery, especially their 100-millimeter field guns, to carry out a comprehensive artillery bombardment of the entire city from multiple directions.

Fortunately, Feng Ziqi made preparations in advance, and transferred a large number of weapons, ammunition and food from major warehouses and stored them in a scattered manner, otherwise their reserves of ammunition and food would be finished in one morning.

In the afternoon, after the main obvious targets had been shelled, the scale of the bombardment by the South China Navy was noticeably smaller, but it was still shelling, and it was still hitting hard and accurately.

This is because the artillery observers of the South China Navy are holding high-powered telescopes on Zhongyan Mountain, constantly searching for various targets, and even in order to gain an altitude advantage, they have also built an observation platform several tens of meters high on Zhongyan Mountain, which already has a height advantage.

This advantage of high observation has brought great convenience to the artillery of the South China Navy, as long as the observers find that a large number of Zisheng troops have gathered at a certain place, they will directly guide the artillery to carry out artillery bombardment.

This brought great losses to the Zisheng army in the city, forcing them to act more conservatively and more covertly.

It's just that after a day passed, although the losses in the shelling were not small, Feng Ziqi did not wait for the envisaged large-scale infantry attack of the South China Navy.

He knew the habits of the South Navy on the other side, and their attacks were generally coherent and fast, as was the case when the South China Navy attacked the enemy several times in the past.

Concentrate superior firepower on one point, quickly open the gap, and then assault troops, generally cavalry units, interspersed at high speed and detour, and finally semi-encircle the enemy.

Although the Southern Navy has not fought a large-scale battle of urban warfare before, it is not enough to say that it will give up the whole daytime and only use artillery bombardment, after all, they still have an absolute artillery advantage and have already observed the field of vision.

Why?

Feng Ziqi was a little puzzled, but he couldn't figure it out in a short period of time, after all, now that he was shrinking in the city, he didn't even have a detailed way to understand the movements of becoming the Southern Navy, and without enough intelligence support, any guess was possible.

The Southern Navy, which made Feng Ziqi puzzled, had actually mobilized troops and left one after another since yesterday evening.

After this day passed, the number of infantry and cavalry of the Southern Navy units left outside the city, except for the still large scale of artillery, was not much, and only two infantry divisions and one cavalry division remained.

In addition, there were a large number of baggage troops.

At the same time, an infantry division that had just completed reorganization was urgently transferred from the rear.

Most of the main forces had already moved westward towards the Quyang Prefecture Intervention Army.

This time, Lin Ziran did not continue to lead it personally, but stayed outside Chongke City.

As the commander-in-chief of the whole army, he needs to control the overall situation and aggregate information from all quarters, and it is impossible for him to break away from railways and rivers, which are places where rapid maneuvering and communication can be carried out.

If he really wanted to follow the Second Army and other main forces to the west, it would be difficult for him to obtain information from other aspects in a timely manner.

This time, it was Zhang Hanqiu, the commander of the Second Army, who led the army west to help, Zhang Hanqiu was born in the early camp school, and he was also one of the most outstanding generals in the early days, otherwise he would not be able to become the commander of the first army.

For him, Lin Ziran is still relieved!