However, even if he is relieved of Zhang Hanqiu, the stakes are very high, and Lin Ziran will inevitably suffer from gains and losses, and always keep an eye on the front-line troops.

In this case, Chongke City's side fell into a strange calm for a while!

Although the artillery bombardment of the South China Navy continued every day, and the scale of the shelling was not large, the strike efficiency was very high, causing continuous damage to the defenders in the city, and the infantry also occasionally launched some small and medium-sized attacks to confuse the opponent, and by the way, let the enemy take the initiative to expose his position, and then let the artillery units carry out artillery bombardment.

However, this level of attack was still much weaker than the fierce offensive of the first two days of the campaign.

In this case, Feng Ziqi in the city was aware of it.

On the first day, he was still a little unable to judge accurately, he had actually guessed that the South China Navy wanted to encircle the point and send reinforcements, but the intelligence sources were limited, and all kinds of possibilities existed, although he had some guesses, but he couldn't be sure.

By the next day, Feng Ziqi quickly raised the possibility of this speculation.

Although the Southern Navy attacked on this day, the overall scale was much smaller, and last night, Feng Ziqi also sent a lot of scouts out to collect intelligence, and found that there were many enemy troops outside the city.

It is certainly not known how much is missing, but it is certain that it is missing.

On the third day, the Southern Navy continued to focus on artillery battles, and after the infantry only took the initiative to retreat after a few casual battles, Feng Ziqi made his judgment clear.

These southern navies are sending reinforcements at the encirclement point!

In the case that their own reinforcements are about to arrive, the Southern Navy outside the city has little choice, one is to storm Chongke City and take it before the arrival of its own reinforcements.

The second is to suspend the siege, use the strategic location of Zhongyan Mountain to deploy a defensive line, and wait until the arrival of their own reinforcements, the two sides will fight a large-scale decisive battle.

The third way is to bypass Chongke City and adopt the tactic of encircling and sending reinforcements, first knocking out your own reinforcements, and then turning back to attack Chongke City.

Among these three possibilities, the second possibility is not very large, and it is unlikely that the South China Navy will give up its early advantage of about half a month and stupidly wait for its reinforcements to arrive before fighting a decisive battle.

And the first possibility, is what Feng Ziqi is most worried about, if the Southern Navy really makes up its mind, relying on the advantage of firepower and troops, it will be able to take Chongke City, even if he can resist for ten days and eight days, but he will definitely not be able to hold on for more than half a month.

Relying on the superiority of the Southern Navy's troops, coupled with their cavalry superiority, the Southern Navy is fully capable of intercepting its own reinforcements for more than a few days, giving the main force enough time to attack Chongke City.

However, the South China Navy did not do this!

Then there is only the third possibility left.

The Southern Navy wants to encircle and send reinforcements!

After clarifying his judgment, Feng Ziqi began to think about how to deal with it!

If he doesn't do anything now, although there will be no danger in the next few days, but after the Southern Navy kills all his reinforcements, Chongke City will not be able to be saved.

So there are two options left for him, one is to fight back!

Through counterattack operations, they put pressure on the South China Navy in front of them and forced them to transfer back the troops that sent reinforcements, but is the counterattack operation easy to fight?

It's not easy to fight!

Although the Southern Navy has transferred a lot of troops to fight reinforcements, the number of troops left in Chengcheng is tens of thousands, and the most important thing is that Zhongyanshan is still in the hands of the Southern Navy, and there are a lot of heavy artillery on it.

If you can't fight back, you can't defend it, so what else can you do?

Fall back!

Yes, there was no way to retreat before, and that was because the main forces of the Southern Navy were there, especially their main cavalry.

If you want to retreat under the noses of tens of thousands of cavalry of the Southern Navy, it is more difficult than defending Chongke City.

But now, it seems that the South China Navy has transferred a large number of main cavalry forces to fight reinforcements, and although there are still a lot of artillery and infantry left, their mobility is limited.

If they retreat by themselves, they will not be able to catch up.

If you just retreat, it will be equivalent to giving up the strategic place of Chongke City, and the Southern Navy will be able to directly use Chongke City, a strategic transportation city, to quickly advance through the railway network, and at the same time, it will also lose the only weapon and ammunition supply arsenal of the First Machine Bureau.

The negative impact on the subsequent strategy is huge.

It's not nice to say, in the future, this shell will hit one less one.

As for counting on reinforcements from the northern states, at most it is to give a little, this still depends on the early stage when Feng Ziqi's troops can still be cannon fodder in the future, and the supply of weapons and ammunition is controlled by others, so he Feng Ziqi will be dispensable in the future.

And if you retreat now, the follow-up Southern Navy can still draw cavalry troops over, and then the trouble will be as big, and it will be impossible to find another place to defend the city.

After all, Chongke City is such a large city, with a large population and an important strategic position, Zisheng Prefecture is just that.

A variety of different options repeatedly risked in Feng Ziqi's mind, making him unable to make up his mind.

Each of these choices is not a good choice!

When Feng Ziqi was in a dilemma, Zhang Hanqiu had already received the battle report of the Second Cavalry Army.

The forward cavalry of the Second Cavalry Army has made contact with the forward of the Quyangzhou Intervention Army, and is expanding the search area to find the enemy's main force.

This great war is coming!

Moreover, this will be the field mobile combat that the Southern Navy is good at!

Zhang Hanqiu immediately gave an order to the Second Cavalry Corps in the vanguard: "Find the main force of the enemy as soon as possible, and then contain the enemy army!" ”

As long as the 2nd Cavalry Corps finds the enemy's main force in advance, then the next thing will be easy.

With the mobility of the Second Cavalry Army, the surprise attack ability is enough to contain the opponent.

In the face of more than 25,000 cavalry, the 60,000 or 70,000 intervening troops of Quyang Prefecture on the opposite side wanted to carry out another large-scale maneuver, it was impossible!

The main forces of the follow-up Second Army will be able to quickly catch up and then attack!

Strive to defeat this force directly in the field!

Zhang Hanqiu didn't even ask the troops to surround and annihilate the other party, he only needed to defeat it.

If this encirclement and annihilation are annihilated, maybe the other party will surrender on a large scale, and now Zhang Hanqiu has little time and extra troops to capture prisoners......

He needs to defeat the Quyang Prefecture Intervention Army as soon as possible, and then turn around and go north to join the First Cavalry Army!

Time counts every day!

Therefore, it is more suitable to crush the opponent than to encircle and annihilate the opponent!