After the failure of the first attack, Xu Teng suspended the offensive because he knew that if he did not make changes and continued to launch the attack, it was estimated that the frontline troops would collapse as quickly as the last time when they reached the fighting distance.
It doesn't matter how brave the soldiers are, the key point is that the frontline officers have difficulty commanding the soldiers who attack in skirmish lines.
If this problem is not solved, we might as well continue to fight in line formations as before.
To be honest, Xu Teng created a skirmishing line before, but he did not have a corresponding command system and tactics. As a result, the actual combat effectiveness of his troops now is not as good as the troops of Du Zhikuan, Shao Bing and others.
Although Du Zhikuan and Shao Bing are still using the tactics of the line era, they are still equipped with breech-loading rifles, and they still fight defensive operations relying on city walls, trenches and other fortifications. Their front-line officers can always maintain their
command of the troops.
Although it was unable to defeat the South Korean Navy's attack, it was not like a bubble that would burst with a single poke.
More often than not, they were heavily killed by the South Korean Navy's artillery. When the infantry engaged, their flanks were constantly broken by the opponent's frequent tactical detours, and they fell into a semi-surrounded state and were forced to retreat or surrender directly.
However, their troops were not like the Hetai Army. They were completely defeated at the beginning of the battle.
Previously, the Hetai Army's fighting style was seriously inconsistent, which led to the inability of the troops to deploy during actual combat, which in turn led to a large-scale rout.
Xu Teng now discovered these problems, so he made changes without hesitation!
The first thing is to instruct other troops not to engage in skirmishing and continue to use line tactics. Although the troops are too dense and easy to be bombed, the officers on the front line can at least control and direct the troops.
At the same time, some of the elite troops under his command were quickly reorganized, and battalions and platoons were initially established to strengthen the command of the troops by increasing the command system.
Even because of the urgent time, he didn't make too many changes, not even many changes in personnel, he just simply transferred the command authority.
Xu Teng believed that he could complete the reorganization of these elite troops in a few days, and then continue to launch the offensive while promoting this new command system to other troops.
However, Lin Ziran did not intend to give him this time.
On the second day alone, the first batch of reinforcements from the South China Sea, including a brigade and an artillery battalion of the First Division, arrived at Nanyun Port via relatively fast passenger ships and gunboats.
After disembarking at the port, these troops did not stop at all and directly reinforced the front line.
At this time, Xu Teng also learned the news that the Southern Navy had received reinforcements.
"A large number of reinforcements from the Southern Navy are coming?" Xu Teng took the report of the reconnaissance cavalry and murmured: "Looking at this, I'm afraid there will be more troops from the Southern Navy behind!"
"Could it be that they are in Guang'an and the troops from Hexi have returned? How come it is so fast?"
"How is it impossible? They just need to take a boat all the way south and then go east along the Nanluo River. It doesn't take much time at all!"
“How do we respond now?”
"Continue to attack Nanyun Port?"
Many of the generals under his command were busy discussing, while Xu Teng himself was frowning.
The development of this war was different from what he expected!
This difference does not mean the opponent's reinforcement speed. In fact, this reinforcement speed was within Xu Teng's expectations.
This is not to say that Nanyun Port has not been captured yet. Xu Teng knew before that it was possible to capture Nanyun Port, but it would not happen in a day or two.
Xu Teng had even considered before using Nanyungang as bait to fight a protracted war of attrition. By continuously annihilating the reinforcements of the South China Sea, Xu Teng would turn the opponent's reinforcements into a fueling tactic, while he always maintained
superiority in military strength.
At the same time, as long as Lin Ziran's main force is defeated in Nanyungang, the next thing will be much simpler. We can quickly take over the four counties of Luohai, Luo'an, Guang'an, and Hetai, plus Anlong and Hetai.
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The six counties of Nanhai Prefecture will be under his control. The subsequent Ningmei County and Qiuhua County will also be easy to deal with. At most, there will only be one Qingyuan County with a more complicated situation.
When the eight counties are in hand, he, Xu Teng, can declare himself to be the new prefecture order of Nanhai Prefecture, and he will basically unify the prefectural order of Nanhai Prefecture.
Therefore, Xu Teng was determined to annihilate Lin Ziran's main force through Nanyungang.
He had anticipated many situations, but he did not expect that his troops would be so vulnerable!
Yes!
Vulnerable!
In yesterday's offensive operation, his troops were really vulnerable no matter what aspect they looked at.
An attack may have killed and injured several thousand people, but it was completely defeated without even getting within three hundred meters of the enemy. This situation worried Xu Teng.
Numb, if he had known that there would be such big problems with the existing command system after adopting the skirmish line, he would not have sent troops so early. Instead, he would have huddled in Hetai County and continued to reorganize, and then improved the command system of the troops.
As long as he is given two or three months, he guarantees that he can rebuild the command system of the army.
But it's too late now!
He personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to fight over, and even entered Luohai County. At this time, even if he didn't want to fight, he had to fight head on.
After learning that the South Korean Navy had reinforcements, Xu Teng ordered another attack that day. This time the offensive troops no longer used skirmishers. That thing looked good, but it lacked the corresponding command system and even tactics.
It's not as easy to use as a line formation.
At the same time, they used columns when advancing, and the distance between the troops was also relatively large. At least the march of the offensive force in the front was dispersed and spread out to avoid the bombardment of the South Korean Navy.
But they still underestimated the power of the South Korean Navy's artillery!
The artillerymen of the South China Sea Navy's favorite place now is to bombard targets that are dense and slow-moving, especially the infantry square formations in dense formations. The wood is obvious and the troops are dense. This artillery attack does not even need to be aimed at.
, you can hit a large group of people with just a casual hit, and their cannonballs are cylindrical cannonballs with a heavy charge, so the power of the explosion is quite impressive.
It’s easy to aim, has a large killing range, and saves shells!
Therefore, when they first discovered that the targets were gathering and advancing, the artillerymen of the South China Sea Navy began to bombard them. They were not in a hurry, they just slowly bombed the crowds. However, as they continued to bombard the Hetai Army on the opposite side, they turned around and ran away.
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Xu Teng, who was watching the battle from the rear, saw that his troops collapsed again, and this time he was not even close to one thousand meters from the enemy's front line. He could no longer see any anger, only deep worry.
If we continue with this drive, this battle will be unwinnable.
If you use a skirmish line, your own troop command system will not be able to keep up. If you use a line formation, it will be a huge living target.
What should we do now?
What else could he do? Continue to postpone the attack. In order to prevent enemy sneak attacks, Xu Teng even began to order the frontline troops to build field fortifications.
At the same time, he had already urgently sent an order to the 50,000 Hetai troops in the rear not to come to Nanyun City and to build defenses directly in the rear.
At this time, Xu Teng was actually already preparing to retreat!