Chapter 442 Who loves to fight in this Nanhai state?
Speaking of the number of artillery pieces, Quyang Prefecture opposite has a lot of artillery pieces, but except for a few of their artillery pieces that are front-loaded rifled cannons, most of them are smoothbore cannons. Even these smoothbore cannons are basically all old smoothbore cannons.
, the effective range is not as far as the new 120mm smoothbore gun launched by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau two or three years ago.
There were a lot of these artillery pieces, but they actually didn't play much role in this battle.
Most of their exposed artillery positions were immediately destroyed by covering artillery fire from the South Korean Navy's long-range heavy artillery.
Although those hidden artillery fired to support after the battle broke out, they often failed to fire the shells and would be counterattacked by the South Korean Navy's long-range heavy artillery.
The artillery observers of the South China Sea Navy used telescopes to search for the artillery of the Quyang Prefecture Army all over the world. Once the enemy's artillery was fired, they would immediately guide the long-range artillery to counterattack based on the exposed sound and light.
Even if the enemy's artillery is concealed behind, it can still calculate based on the ballistic trajectory, then calculate the approximate direction, and conduct a covering artillery strike.
Under the suppression of the artillery firepower of the Southern Navy, Quyang Prefecture's equally large artillery firepower was destroyed without being able to play any practical role.
After losing their artillery, they could not use artillery to intercept the South Korean Navy's infantry attacks, but their own infantry were constantly under bombardment by the South Korean Navy.
Under this circumstance, the collapse of Quyang Prefecture's western defense line became inevitable.
In this battle, the duel between infantrymen was not pure.
In fact, this was a battle in which the artillerymen of the Southern Navy took the lead.
The artillery of the South Navy destroyed Quyang Prefecture's artillery unit, destroyed Quyang Prefecture's infantry defense line, destroyed Quyang Prefecture's transportation nodes and exposed headquarters.
When the infantry finally charged, the battle was actually coming to an end.
The huge gap in artillery firepower between the two sides caused the South Korean Navy to fight an unexpected battle.
However, this kind of unexpectedness was just not expected by Quyang Prefecture, but within the Southern Navy, it had been expected for a long time, and it was a series of tactics that had been established with the core of taking advantage of artillery.
Without such a powerful artillery advantage, even if the Southern Navy relies on new light infantry tactics to win, the casualties will be huge. After all, the infantry will inevitably be bombarded by the enemy during the attack, and the enemy's infantry firepower will be greatly reduced.
Interception, casualties are inevitable.
But now, the Southern Navy's casualties are so low that they are almost negligible.
As of noon, the total number of casualties among the four divisions that launched the attack was less than 500.
As a comparison, the number of casualties killed by the Southern Navy in Quyang Prefecture was very frightening. The enemy casualties in other directions are not yet known. However, on the western front where they achieved a breakthrough, the Southern Navy simply counted the corpses left by the enemy as well as the lightly and seriously wounded.
, this number exceeds five thousand people.
In addition, a large number of enemy troops surrendered directly after being stunned.
In just about six hours of attack, the Southern Navy tore through the enemy's western defense line. This result greatly alarmed Quyang Prefecture.
They tried to mobilize troops to re-establish the western defense line, but they found that they could not mobilize too many troops at all.
On the frontal front, although the scale of the attack by the First Army of the South Navy was not too fierce, it was still a serious attack and contained a large number of enemy forces in this direction.
In addition, and more importantly, the long-range heavy artillery of the South Korean Navy bombarded the enemy's deep areas from the beginning, making it difficult for the enemy to mobilize its troops for maneuver.
Once this force is gathered, it will be observed by the artillery observers of the South Korean Navy, which will guide the long-range artillery bombardment.
And the most important thing is that even if they can mobilize troops to rebuild the western defense line, they are unlikely to stop the Southern Navy's attack on the western side.
The fierce attack launched by the Second Army with two infantry divisions as the core could not be blocked so easily.
By four o'clock in the afternoon, the defeat on the west side continued. By this time, the senior generals in Quyang Prefecture had realized that the enemy forces on the west side might not simply attack fiercely, but wanted to make a large-scale detour.
"They want to go straight to the Luo River and try to cut off our retreat and supply lines!"
"They want to surround us!"
"We can't continue like this. We must mobilize enough troops to fight back and stop the enemy's eastward advance. Otherwise, it won't be long before, at most, by this time tomorrow, the enemy will be able to fight all the way to Luohe. By then we will
But we were surrounded by enemy troops!”
"Deploying troops, how? We have already deployed 30,000 troops to reinforce the Western Front. Adding the original 30,000 troops, this is a 60,000-strong army. However, this still cannot stop the enemy's attack. Do we need to deploy troops on the central line?
Troops, I’m afraid the entire front will collapse with this deployment!”
Yang Jun, commander of the Second Crankshaft Corps and patrol envoy of Quyang Prefecture, frowned at this time.
As someone who has been on the battlefield for decades, how could he not see that the South Korean Navy was trying to outflank them?
The Southern Navy's troops are not as large as mine, with only a hundred thousand troops to support them to death, but the Second Army led by me has a full strength of 150,000 troops.
But even so, the enemy dared to outflank and outflank him!
Why do they dare to do this?
If it was before, he might not know it yet, but now he knows that the Southern Navy relies not on breech-loading rifles, but on breech-loading artillery, a large number of long-range and powerful artillery.
It's not that he didn't know the power of breech-loaded artillery, but he still didn't expect that these breech-loaded artillery could play such a huge role.
He originally thought that even though he was at a disadvantage in artillery, he still had dozens of front-loading rifled cannons and hundreds of smoothbore cannons. Even if they were unable to fight against the enemy's artillery, there should be no problem in supporting infantry operations.
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But I didn't expect that these artillery units would be completely defeated not long after the battle began, and they were unable to support the infantry battle at all.
The equipment disadvantage directly led to the tactical disadvantage, and then evolved into the current strategic passivity.
what to do?
What else can we do, retreat!
Is it possible that we still have to wait for the enemy troops to bypass our rear, attack us from both front and back, and finally fall into an encirclement?
This time the southward movement was considered a failure, but he could not leave his troops here. He had to withdraw at least and then defend the Luo River Gorge.
The current situation was already very dangerous, so Yang Jun did not hesitate. Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Jun mobilized his troops to hold the west side to death, hoping to hold on to the night.
As for how to keep watch tomorrow?
Just wait until it gets dark and he will lead his troops to retreat.
Whoever wants to fight in Nanhai Prefecture can be beaten, but I won’t fight anyway!