Faced with the second division's frequent small-scale roundabout attacks and outflanking attacks, they were simply unable to deal with it.
Even some of the middle and senior generals of the Purple Victory Army on the opposite side tried to adjust their defense lines and reverse the embarrassing situation of being beaten everywhere.
But their tactical intentions were simply impossible to implement.
Because after the battle started, they found that there were enemies everywhere, in front of them, on both sides, and even behind them.
The battle fronts of both sides have changed from a front-line battle in previous wars to a strange situation of deep and multi-front battles at the same time.
They were fighting so hard that they couldn't even tell which was the enemy and which was the friendly force.
This battle was a complete mess, and the middle and senior generals of the Purple Victory Army were completely unable to adapt.
After one night passed, many Purple Victory Army members on the right defense line found that they had been surrounded inexplicably. Even many of the middle and senior generals of the Purple Victory Army had their headquarters trapped in the encirclement.
The commander of the Second Division, Mu Hongkang, who also experienced chaos and was mentally exhausted from commanding, found that the breakthrough achieved by his Second Division was greater than he had expected.
They had actually broken through the enemy's defense line and surrounded many of them.
Faced with this situation, Mu Hongkang naturally would not give up the established tactical advantage easily. At dawn, he ordered all the troops to encircle the surrounded enemy troops, and at the same time requested artillery troops from the rear to provide artillery support.
When requesting support, he specifically ordered someone to tell the artillery units behind him not to mess around and to shoot more accurately.
This reminder is very necessary. The battle lines of both sides are now intertwined. It is a state where you are surrounded by me, and I am surrounded by you. If the artillery troops directly bombard the front line as before, and then extend the bombardment, they will probably be killed.
The number of soldiers of the Southern Navy was not much less than the soldiers of the Purple Victory Army who were killed in the bombing.
This also makes the artillery unit quite difficult!
Their artillery is deployed a few kilometers back. In the past, there was no need to worry about accidentally damaging friendly troops during shelling, and they could attack at will.
Now that the fronts of both sides are intertwined, the requirements for artillery accuracy are very high.
There is naturally no problem with the accuracy of artillery. Rifled artillery not only fires far, but also fires accurately.
But the problem is that we need bombardment guidance.
These days, there are no telephones or walkie-talkies, so it is impossible to communicate in real time across several kilometers. We can only rely on traditional means such as flag language and horse-riding messengers for communication.
This method is fine for large-scale artillery bombardments with low accuracy requirements, but it is difficult to handle artillery bombardments with small targets where the enemy troops are scattered now.
In response to this, the artillery troops simply pulled a large number of 75mm artillery to the front line. Instead of engaging in long-distance artillery bombardment, they directly targeted the enemy's positions with direct-aimed artillery bombardment.
To be honest, the effect of this bombardment is very average, but at least it can be regarded as an artillery bombardment.
Coupled with the fact that the infantry of the Second Division carry rapid-fire mortars and 75mm ultra-light infantry cannons on their own, they can also cause a large number of artillery casualties to the enemy.
While the Second Division was carrying out annihilating strikes against the enemy forces that were intertwined with its own, Nanzi City also sent some troops to try to tear apart the Second Division's encirclement and rescue tens of thousands of friendly troops on the right.
However, the artillery of the Southern Navy is hard-working. It is not easy to bombard those enemy troops that are intertwined with our own infantry. But for the large group of enemy troops running out from Nanzi City, it is necessary to directly mobilize a large number of hundreds of enemy troops.
mm cannons, 120 mm howitzers and 150 mm howitzers carried out intensive bombardment.
After a fierce shelling, the enemy troops who came out of the city for reinforcements quickly retreated.
Although the city was constantly being bombarded, the fortifications were able to resist it. When we came out and faced the heavy artillery bombardment in the open area, we were just looking for death.
They didn't want to die, so they withdrew.
They withdrew, which meant giving up the tens of thousands of friendly troops on the right side outside the city.
By noon, with the support of the artillery unit and a brigade of reinforcements, the Second Division basically cleared the enemy troops in the encirclement, killing and wounding more than 2,000 enemy troops, and the remaining nearly 10,000 people surrendered one after another in despair.
They can't even break out and escape!
Looking at this scene, Hou Zheming, the commander of the Southern Expedition Corps of the Purple Victory Army in Nanzi City, looked ashen. The war had only started for more than a day, and he just felt desperate!
He would not do this when his troops were suppressed, the enemy's artillery fire was powerful, and even when Nanzi City was surrounded.
After all, he was very aware of the advantages of the Nanjing Navy's breech-mounted artillery, and it was normal for Nanzi City to be surrounded after being attacked by the enemy.
But if that were all, he would not be pessimistic about the prospect of war, let alone despair.
The worst case scenario is to defend the Southern Purple City!
As a border fortress city, Nanzi City's defenses are quite good, and our side also has breech-loading artillery, which is a little less, but it can also play a huge role at critical moments, not to mention that our side is also equipped with breech-loading rifles, big deal
It's time to retreat to the city.
Depending on the material reserves and solidity of Nanzi City, there is no guarantee that it will last too long, but ten days and a half will not be a problem.
In these ten days and a half, our reinforcements should arrive.
It's still unclear who will win and who will lose.
However, the offensive intensity displayed by the infantry of the Nannan Navy during the day yesterday made him doubt his confidence.
The attack of the opponent's infantry troops was completely different from what he had expected. Even until now, he had not been able to understand how the opposing South Korean Navy was able to successfully command the troops with such a wide spread and such a complicated battle line.
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When he saw this morning that a division on the right wing was divided into small units and then surrounded, with the two sides intertwined, he became very worried and wanted to send reinforcements to relieve the situation.
But the problem cannot be solved.
As for a besieged division, its troops were quickly surrounded and annihilated.
Why is it that while they are intertwined with each other, the South Korean Navy is able to smoothly command its troops to launch highly coordinated operations?
But our own side can't? They can only be isolated and fight alone, unable to cooperate effectively at all, and finally be annihilated?
Why?
Is there really such a big gap between my own troops and the Zi Sheng Army?
There is definitely no gap in the bravery and combat experience of the soldiers. The majority of soldiers in the Southern Navy are veterans, while the soldiers in their Purple Victory Army are also mainly veterans.
The quality of the officers on our side is definitely higher, while those on the opposite side are just a bunch of raw recruits who have served for one or two years.
The officers in the Zisheng Army strictly follow the Daheng Army's tradition of more than two hundred years: they are all professional officers.