Lin Ziran received the news of the discovery of the main force of the Hexi cavalry in the afternoon, and at this time he was staying with the First Division and the Fifth Division, as well as a large number of artillery and baggage troops, and was about 30 kilometers away from the forward troops such as the First Division in front.

After receiving the news, he immediately summoned Wu Guanlin, Xu Zhongshu and other senior generals to discuss countermeasures.

After a brief introduction to the situation, Wu Guanlin said: "Our staff office has already taken Hexi County's participation in the war into account before, and has also made a variety of plans for this possible situation, including the enemy's assistance in defending Guang'an City, attacking Chongguang City in the south to block our army's rear road, and also including the enemy's attack on our northbound troops!" ”

"Actually, we have considered that the enemy army is likely to ambush our army's northward troops on the road, and the failure of the third division to the north that year was ambushed by the enemy cavalry on the road, for which we also made special preparations!"

"The two cavalry brigades attached to the forward unit are to expand the search area, ensure that the enemy's main force is detected in advance, and at the same time ensure a certain amount of mobile troops!"

Xu Zhongshu asked at this time, "So what about our current plan?" ”

Wu Guanlin smiled at this time: "The plan we made before the staff office is very simple, since they want to ambush our forward troops, then let them ambush it!" ”

Xu Zhongshu was puzzled.

Wu Guanlin continued: "The enemy troops are all cavalry troops, and their mobility ability in a short distance is very strong, so it is too difficult to fight mobile warfare with them, but if the front-line troops deliberately expose their flaws and attract them to take the initiative to ambush, then we can use the firepower of our rear-loading rifled guns to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops!" ”

At this time, Wu Guanlin showed a face full of confidence: "The cavalry on the horse is the cavalry, once they start to attack the position of the second division below, then they are no different from ordinary infantry!" ”

"At the same time, mobilize a large number of cavalry units and attack the enemy's flank at the right time!"

Xu Zhongshu said: "What if the enemy army does not take the initiative to attack the defense line of the second division? ”

Wu Guanlin shrugged his shoulders at this time: "That's nothing, don't forget that we still have three cavalry brigades!" ”

"If we only have infantry, they are all cavalry, whether they fight or not, the initiative is in their hands, of course, even so, in fact, they cannot cause us any practical danger, because our subsequent supplies are supplied by ships through the Luo River, and those cavalry cannot cut off our supply line, as long as the supply line continues, our second division and other troops will not be able to be truly threatened, and they can even continue to attack Guang'an City in the north."

"The fiasco of the Third Division was that they broke away from the Luo River, and we didn't!"

"Of course, since they are here, the initiative to fight or not to fight is not entirely in their hands."

"Cavalry against cavalry is the best solution, and our cavalry is also uniformly equipped with rear-loading rifles and rear-loading cavalry guns, and our cavalry has an absolute advantage in firepower!"

"The enemy's strength is about 10,000 cavalry, and we also have three cavalry brigades and three divisional cavalry regiments, so we will not fall behind in cavalry strength!"

"The strength of the troops is roughly the same, and our firepower has an absolute advantage, and our staff office still has great confidence in this battle!"

These words made Lin Ziran, Xu Zhongshu and others nod slightly!

At present, the South Korean Navy is most proud of only two points, one is the firepower superiority formed by the new type of rear-loading guns, and the other point is the new type of tactics.

The new tactics combined with rear-loading guns are far more powerful than ordinary people imagine.

And there are a lot of troops, and now in the towns of Nanhai Prefecture, Xu Teng's madman has more troops than Lin Ziran's troops, and the other counties only have tens of thousands of troops.

The troops under Lin Ziran's command have exceeded 150,000, and the number of cavalry is also quite large.

At present, there are as many as five independent cavalry brigades that have been formed, and two independent cavalry brigades are being organized.

In addition, there were eight cavalry regiments under the division.

Combined, the total number of cavalry units reached nearly 30,000 cavalry.

The number of cavalry is even more than that of Xu Tengdu, and the only one that is more than the number of cavalry of the Southern Navy is only Hexi County.

There is no way, Hexi County started with cavalry, and the entire Hexi Army is a cavalry-centered force.

Compared with the cavalry of Hexi County, there is no county in Nanhai Prefecture that can compare.

After a brief discussion, Lin Ziran formally ordered the second division and other troops in the forward to proceed according to the predetermined battle plan, while he himself continued to take the first division and the fifth division and other troops north.

In the evening of the same day, Lin Ziran once again received a report that the First Cavalry Brigade had made contact with the enemy's cavalry forward, and there was a skirmish between the two sides, but the First Cavalry Brigade did not fall in love with the battle, but chose to retreat directly.

The next morning, Lin Ziran once again received a report that a large number of enemy cavalry units appeared in front of the temporary position of the Second Division, but the enemy saw that the Second Division was relatively well prepared, so he did not choose to attack, but adopted the method of roaming around the periphery of the cavalry to find weak points, and did not even dare to get too close.

But they still underestimated the power of the rear-loading guns of the South Navy.

The second division had poor mobility and could not do anything against the enemy cavalry on the periphery, but the two cavalry brigades were equally mobile.

In the early hours of the morning, the two cavalry brigades used more than 20 75-mm light howitzers, and after an urgent and rapid maneuver, they approached the enemy camp about four kilometers away, and then carried out long-range artillery bombardment of the enemy's temporary camp.

At that time, a large number of enemy soldiers were sleeping in tents!

Although the enemy's reaction was also very fast, and a large number of cavalry were soon sent towards the artillery position, but when they arrived, the cavalry artillery battalion of the Southern Navy was evacuated, leaving them with only shell shells!

And this long-range artillery attack killed and wounded at least hundreds of enemy soldiers and led to large-scale riots in the enemy camp.

At noon on the same day, the reinforcements of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade also successfully arrived, and after the three cavalry brigades were united, the total number of cavalry units in mobile operations on the periphery had reached 7,000 cavalry, and there were also three divisional cavalry regiments that could be put into battle at any time.

Although the other side has 10,000 cavalry, at this moment, the number of cavalry in the Southern Navy is actually not much less than that of the other party.

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