Chapter 495 The South Navy is never accidental in wars
Inside and outside Chongke City, it is no longer as lively as it was a few days ago. A few days ago, the South Korean Navy launched an attack on Chongke City, especially when it launched a fierce attack on Zhongyan Mountain. The sound of explosions could be heard from morning till night, even at night.
Won't stop.
Even after Zhongyan Mountain was captured and the main force of the Southern Navy began to mobilize a large number of troops to attack the intervention forces, there was a lively atmosphere inside and outside Chongke City for several days.
The artillerymen of the Southern Navy deployed on Zhongyan Mountain continued to bombard valuable targets in the city, so the explosions were heard intensively at intervals. At the same time, the fifth army containment force of the Southern Navy also tried to launch
There were several small-scale attacks, but these attacks were purely for show, to put pressure on the defenders in the city.
Three or four days later, some conspicuous high-value targets had been bombarded. At the same time, the defenders in the city had learned to be smart and would not arrogantly gather in a certain area of the city. From that time on, the artillerymen of the Southern Navy
He began to lower his profile and no longer focused on large-scale bombardments of dense enemy troops, but also began to bombard some small-scale enemy hiding spots.
This kind of shelling is sporadic and irregular. When the artillery observers find the target, they will guide the artillery to fire a few rounds.
In fact, this seemingly scattered small-scale bombardment caused considerable casualties to the defenders in the city, because this kind of bombardment can be regarded as precise and purposeful bombardment, rather than aimless covering bombardment.
It doesn't seem intense, and not many shells are fired, but the results are relatively high.
Most of the time, the shells fired can cause casualties to the enemy.
A sporadic attack could cause casualties to a few defenders, and the total number of casualties throughout the whole day would have been hundreds or more.
Under such a situation, the defenders in the city were actually very aggrieved!
The South Korean Navy no longer conducts large-scale infantry attacks, and does not even launch sporadic penetration attacks. It only uses artillery to carry out sporadic attacks.
The defenders in the city basically had no means of counterattack and could only be beaten passively.
This has a huge impact on morale.
However, even if he was aggrieved, it was still better than being invaded by the South Korean Navy, so Feng Ziqi still tried his best to stabilize the troops. Occasionally, he would send troops to launch small and medium-sized counterattacks to see if he could get unexpected gains, but most of the time this
All counterattacks are useless.
What Feng Ziqi hopes now is that the reinforcements from the northern states and the reinforcements from Quyang Prefecture will arrive as soon as possible.
But at this time, he didn't know that one of the reinforcements he was expecting, the 70,000 intervention troops from Quyang Prefecture, had been completely wiped out!
Maybe some of the nearly 20,000 people who disappeared will be reorganized, but they probably don't have the courage to continue eastward to Chongke City. Maybe by this time they have gone straight back to Quyang Prefecture without looking back.
As for the intervention forces in the northern states in the north, their first batch of 50,000 people will also be in danger.
The First Cavalry Army has been paying attention to this group of enemy troops. The reason why it did not engage in battle in the early stage was purely to wait for the arrival of Zhang Hanqiu's troops.
And now, Zhang Hanqiu and his troops are on their way.
According to the distance, the main force led by Zhang Hanqiu can arrive in four days at most and join the First Cavalry Army.
After Zhang Hanqiu's troops arrive, unless all of the 50,000 enemy troops are cavalry and can fend for themselves, or like the remnants of Feng Ziqi's troops, they can defend a huge city.
Otherwise, these 50,000 people would be dead.
Unfortunately, there is only one big city like Chongke City in the entire Zisheng Prefecture.
As for cavalry, although there are cavalry in the Northern Intervention Army, they are only ten thousand cavalry. These ten thousand cavalry cannot play a big role.
Didn't you see that the Nanjing Navy dispatched more than 50,000 cavalry just to the north of Zishengzhou? These are all standard cavalry equipped with Nanzhou war horses, able to dismount and fight on foot, and mount to charge.
These are not the mounted infantry riding Shayang horses that Lin Ziran created in his early years.
Even the previous Purple Victory Army had thirty to forty thousand cavalry before the war, but now, there are less than ten thousand left.
There is not much else in this poor place like Daheng, except for the abundance of horses. There is no shortage of cavalry in all the vassal towns!
However, each vassal town generally has no shortage of cavalry, and there is no other vassal town that can be like Lin Ziran, who has more than 100,000 elite cavalry under his command, and dispatches more than 50,000 elite cavalry in a single campaign to the north.
However, it is not bad that this first batch of northern intervention troops has ten thousand cavalry. After all, this is just their partial division and forward force, and most of them are collateral troops.
These northern state intervention forces were all made up of multiple northern states. You send a brigade and I send a division. Moreover, the troops dispatched are generally not the main force of the direct line, but are some collateral troops, second-line troops and other non-line main forces.
The quality of its personnel, weapons and equipment, to be honest, are not that good!
It is estimated that it is not as strong as Quyangzhou's 70,000 intervention troops, let alone the remnants of Feng Ziqi's army still huddled in Chongke City.
Although the remnants of Feng Ziqi can only huddle in Chongke City now, we know from the fact that the Southern Navy has not captured Chongke City yet that many of these remnants of the Purple Victory Army are really hard-core.
Among them, the Third Division of the Purple Victory Army, even the generals of the Southern Navy, would admit: This is a tough nut!
In the previous storming of Yanshan, although the number of casualties suffered by the Southern Navy was not the highest in previous battles, it was the highest in terms of the casualties of the attacking troops.
Of course, the height of Zhongyan Mountain and the fortifications had something to do with it, but the main reason was that the Third Division of the Purple Sheng Army was better at fighting.
Currently, there is only the third division that can withstand the artillery bombardment of the South China Sea and the infantry attacks in turn, and still not collapse after more than half of the casualties.
The other troops above the Southern Navy were basically defeated in one round!
Can the personnel quality and equipment level of the intervention forces in the northern states be comparable to those of the Third Division of the Purple Victory Army?
Zhang Hanqiu doesn’t think so!
There is only one unit like the Third Division of the Zisheng Army in the entire Zisheng Prefecture. Even if there are other units in other prefectures, there will definitely not be many of them. Only one or two divisions can survive.
And will other vassal towns send out these core direct line main forces?
Not to say impossible, but extremely unlikely!
Just like the Southern Navy, the Southern Navy is now huge, with more than 20 infantry divisions and more than 15 cavalry divisions.
But the only two units that can be called the core main force are the First Division and the Second Division.
These two divisions have the same origin, they both came from the earliest Qingshan Patrol Camp, and then split into two divisions, when Lin Ziran began to expand on a large scale.
The First Division stole the show and fought in the south and north. It was the core force in many large-scale battles. After sweeping across Nanhai Prefecture and defeating the Second Army of Quyang Prefecture, the First Division garrisoned the Luohe Gorge and served as the blockade of the Luohe River.
The canyon is responsible for blocking the hundreds of thousands of troops from Quyang Prefecture!
In the subsequent westward campaign, eastward campaign, and now the northern campaign to Zishengzhou, the Second Division took over the banner of the First Division and became the core force in this series of battles.
Whether it is a frontal breakthrough or a roundabout outflank, the Second Division can be seen in almost all important tasks.
The current First Division and Second Division of the South Navy are the core and main force of the South Navy. Whether it is the quality of personnel, equipment level, or combat experience, they are the best choice in the South Navy.
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In order to seize Zisheng Prefecture, the South Korean Navy was willing to send out all its core main forces such as the Second Division.
But will the northern states send their main forces southward for the survival of Zisheng State?
From the current point of view, they have not done so!
And this will lead to the fate of the first batch of intervention troops in the northern states, which may not be good.
Although war is often full of surprises, such surprises are more about details, tactics, and small-scale ones.
As for the overall strategic level, there are actually very few surprises in war!
The South Navy marched all the way to the north and south, unified Nanhai Prefecture, conquered Dongding Prefecture in the east, and marched north to Zisheng Prefecture. Although some unexpected things happened during this process, nothing happened at the overall strategic level.
Surprises all the way.
Nanhai State has stronger war potential than these two states.
The South Korean Navy has more troops, better equipment, more artillery, and better logistics!
So, the South Korean Navy won!
There were no surprises this time either!
A few days after Zhang Hanqiu led the Second Army and the Second Cavalry Army to the north, the First Cavalry Army began to cooperate in the battle. Within a few days, the first batch of intervention troops in the northern states of 50,000 people did not even show up.
were completely annihilated.
The Southern Navy successively annihilated two groups of intervention forces, and its powerful combat effectiveness made Jiang Fanyu, the commander-in-chief of the second batch of intervention forces in the northern states, extremely jealous!
After learning that the first batch of intervention troops and 50,000 forwards had been wiped out, he directly ordered the army to return north regardless of the safety of Chongke City or Feng Ziqi's life and death!
With the hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous troops under his command, he still wanted to defeat the Southern Navy and move southward, and then siege Chongke City.
To solve the problem, we should just go back north and choose a place to build a defensive line!
At the same time, people were urgently sent to ask for help from the northern states, so that the states could continue to increase their troops and move southward!
Otherwise, not only Feng Ziqi is finished, Zi Shengzhou is finished, but several northern states are also finished...
Jiang Fanyu withdrew directly and asked Zhang Hanqiu, who was leading the troops on the northern front, to take advantage of the defeat of the first batch of northern intervention troops and high morale to continue his efforts and kill the second batch of 150,000 enemy troops.
disappointment!
The enemy troops retreated on their own initiative, but covered hundreds of kilometers in one leg. Moreover, when retreating northward, these interventionist troops demolished the railway along the way, which made it very difficult for the South Korean Navy to pursue northward pursuit.
In the end, Zhang Hanqiu did not choose to continue taking risks, but left a certain amount of troops to defend and then led the main force back south.
After dragging on for more than half a month, it is time to end the battle of Chongke City.