Although the young officers of the Southern Navy are in good spirits, this still cannot conceal the fact that they lack tactical literacy.
Even though they received half a year of military school education and gained experience through certain battles, they were still far behind the professional officers in other feudal towns who had been fighting for a lifetime.
In fact, most of the troops of these vassal towns have a very long history. The troops of each vassal town in Nanhai Prefecture basically evolved from the troops of Duke Meng. Subsequently, each vassal town also established regular military academies to cultivate their own professional officers.
Training officers is much more professional than Lin Ziran.
They are all selected at different levels, and then go through more than three years of military school education, then internship, and then assigned to serve. In terms of ordinary military qualities, they are not comparable to those of Lin Ziran's instant officers.
Because the young officers of the Southern Navy are young, have slightly poor overall tactical literacy, and lack experience, they are relatively rigid in fighting wars. Most of them follow the script and lack the ability to respond to emergencies.
Take offensive tactics for example. In fact, many people only know a few tricks, either artillery blasts or roundabout attacks!
As for you asking them to carry out a surprise attack, an ambush and other messy tactics, they really don't know how to do it, they don't have that ability!
But even though their tactical literacy was a bit poor, they all acted like lunatics. During the battle, they always waved their sabers and led the soldiers forward, shouting that they were fighting for the unification of the South China Sea and the unification of Daheng.
These people are willing to die for the sake of the unification of Daheng!
Xu Zhongshu had previously served as the deputy director of the academic affairs department of Suiying Academy. Naturally, he knew what kind of officers were trained by the former Suiying Academy and the current Luo'an Military Academy.
Therefore, when Xu Zhongshu led them to fight, he never used messy or overly complicated tactics, including artillery explosions or detours.
However, in the past, it was a small-scale mobile operation without many unexpected situations.
But now there is a large-scale strategic detour, and there are many accidents.
For example, if Xu Zhongshu wants to conceal the whereabouts of his troops, it is best to move back to position and break through the enemy's weak defense line in the north before the enemy can react.
But Xu Teng was not stupid. When he learned that many of the scouts sent to the north had not returned, he just snorted: "I found you!"
Although so far, there is still no reconnaissance report on the exact location of the missing part of the Nanyun Navy, but Xu Teng is not stupid. Just relying on many messages, he is more than 90% sure that he was in Nanyun Port before.
The main force of the Southern Navy that disappeared and did not go to the front line was in the northeast.
Regardless of whether the enemy wants to take a detour or does something else, just send people to strengthen the interception.
For this reason, Xu Teng directly sent more than 30,000 reinforcements to the northern defense line in one go, increasing the strength of the northern defense line from about 20,000 to about 50,000.
Not only that, Xu Teng also prepared a strategic reserve of more than 30,000 people. Once the northern line becomes unstable, reinforcements can be sent immediately. Moreover, the distance is not far and can be reached in one day.
There are 50,000 troops stationed on the northern front, and more than 30,000 troops can be reinforced at any time. In Xu Teng's view, the north bank is stable.
Next, we must pay attention to the frontal battlefield.
In the past two days, Xu Teng had learned through reconnaissance that the Southern Navy had deployed at least 50,000 troops on the frontal front, and more importantly, the opponent carried a large number of heavy artillery.
Xu Teng had also experienced the power of these heavy artillery before. Although his own side was the offensive force at the time, it was relatively scattered. There were only two common-sense attacks before and after. The opponent's heavy artillery unit was actually effective.
But the power is still extraordinary.
Once the opponent's heavy artillery troops successfully reach the front line, you can know with your toes that it will definitely pose a major threat to your own defense line.
To this end, he had already ordered the cavalry troops to move forward to attack the enemy's artillery transport troops.
However, Lin Ziran was very cautious. He marched slowly along the Nanluo River. Even if the road was not good or there was no road, he would just go all the way.
This also allowed the subsequent marching troops, especially the artillery troops, to receive support from the naval gun troops.
The cavalry under Xu Teng tried to break through the blockade of the enemy's cavalry and attack the enemy's artillery. However, before they even got close, they were blown up by the enemy's guided naval artillery force and were knocked off their feet.
In the end, they simply gave up using cavalry troops to attack.
The advantage of the cavalry is its mobility, especially its high mobility over short distances. As for its firepower, it is actually very average. They are powerless against the heavily guarded artillery transport troops of the South Korean Navy.
Not to mention that the Southern Navy's cavalry troops were much larger than those of the Hetai Army.
Even though Xu Zhongshu has taken away three cavalry divisions, Lin Ziran still has one cavalry division plus three divisional cavalry regiments on hand. There is no problem at all in shouldering the peripheral defense. With luck, he can still catch him.
Blow up the enemy's cavalry once.
It's not a cavalry charge, nor is it an ambush with infantry dismounting and using breech-loading rifles, but an artillery explosion.
Who made the cavalry unit of the Southern Navy also attached to the artillery unit?
The artillery units attached to the cavalry units are actually 75mm howitzers used by the infantry units. Although the range is a bit closer and not as effective as the more than 5,000 meters of field artillery of the same caliber, there are also 4,000 meters.
What's the effective range?
The most important thing is that this thing is much lighter, with a total combat weight of only more than 500 kilograms. This weight is completely at the level of light artillery for the troops in Daheng.
In the past, vassal troops such as Luo An Army and Luo Haijun even dared to equip the cavalry units with smoothbore cannons several hundred kilograms larger to serve as cavalry cannons. Anyway, the horses were sufficient and the terrain was flat.
Even the Southern Navy has this idea. The newly formed cavalry division is actually equipped with 75mm field guns.
It's just that although the current production capacity of 75mm field artillery is not small, so many troops are waiting to use it, and the production capacity will be insufficient for a while. The technology of 75mm howitzer is simpler. Except for the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, Luo An
The arsenal can also provide considerable production capacity, so there is excess production capacity to equip the cavalry units.
The cavalry unit of the South China Navy ambushed the cavalry of the Hetai Army several times with the fast-moving 75mm howitzers they carried with the army.
The cavalrymen of the Hetai Army who were beaten had no temper at all.
Because after the cavalry of the Southern Navy discovered the main cavalry of the Hetai Army from a distance, they did not come up to play cavalry hedging with them. They did not even engage in rifle fire exchanges. Instead, they directly pulled out the cavalry cannon carried by the army and fired it across the
Fired for several kilometers.
By the time the cavalry of the Hetai Army reacted and mounted their horses to fight, they had already retreated directly dragging their artillery pieces. Sometimes they would also set up an ambush and use intensive rifle fire to kill and injure the enemy in large numbers.
After this back and forth fight, the cavalry commanders of the Hetai Army expressed their intention not to play any more.
Without the harassment of enemy cavalry, the main force led by Lin Ziran personally arrived at the Huaijiang front line one after another. There was no need for any unnecessary probing, as the enemy troops were on the opposite line of defense.
Directly set up artillery, especially a large number of heavy artillery, and then start bombarding.
When Lin Ziran personally led the main force to launch an attack on the enemy's frontal defense line, Xu Zhongshu also took a roundabout way and prepared to attack the enemy's defense line.
However, I didn't expect that as soon as I got back to my position, I found that the enemy troops on the opposite side were not more than 20,000 as expected, but more than 50,000.
What to do?
What else can I do, fight!
Twenty thousand is a dozen, fifty thousand is a dozen!