How the three major feudal towns of Dongdingzhou collapsed quickly at the beginning was not because of the strong artillery strength of the Southern Navy, in fact, except for the battle of the Hetai defensive line, the heavy artillery units of the Southern Navy basically had no chance to perform.

It was not because the infantry of the Southern Navy was strong that they directly beat the infantry of the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou.

Although the infantry tactics of the infantry of the Southern Navy are indeed very restrained by the infantry units of other feudal towns, if they rely on the infantry to advance the battle, even if they can fight again, it is estimated that the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou are still resisting.

The reason why the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou collapsed so quickly was purely because the cavalry units of the Southern Navy continued to carry out rapid assaults and outflank.

Often, when they were still on the front line to resist the attack of the infantry of the Southern Navy, when they woke up, the cavalry of the Southern Navy had already gone around behind them, and the result was that they were encircled.

Even if it looks like the weakest infantry unit of the Southern Navy, it is not easy to fight!

In particular, in mobile operations in the field, the combat effectiveness of the small and medium-sized units of the South China Navy far exceeds the combat effectiveness of the troops under the command of the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou.

This is not a matter of individual bravery, or even equipment, but the establishment and organizational system of the South China Navy are more suitable for this kind of small- and medium-sized scattered operations.

As soon as you finish fighting in a line, you will disperse and fight small- and medium-scale field maneuvers with the South China Navy, which is completely using your own disadvantages to fight the enemy's advantage.

If it is said that in a series of internal battles in Nanhai Prefecture, it is better not to fight a positional battle with the Southern Navy, and the Battle of Dongdingzhou is to tell other feudal towns that it is okay not to fight a scattered field battle with the Southern Navy.

So how to resist, and even defeat, the Southern Navy?

It's actually quite simple!

As long as you are stronger than the Southern Navy in one of these aspects, such as artillery, as long as Feng Ziqi can also get hundreds of breech-loading rifled heavy guns to deploy on the defense line of Chongke City, ensure that Lin Ziran turns around and leaves.

Or there is a cavalry advantage, as long as you have a hundred thousand cavalry, it is estimated that the Southern Navy will not be able to reach Chongke City, and you will have to be tossed to death when you are on the road.

Or, if your light infantry is stronger, you can play a battle between dozens or hundreds of small-scale infantry, which can also pose a certain threat to the Southern Navy, of course, this threat is limited, but it is better than no threat.

However, it is not very difficult, at present, among the other feudal towns in the Great Heng Empire, there is basically no feudal town that surpasses the Southern Navy in these three major areas.

The strongest feudal town in terms of cavalry, that is, the Jingzhou Ji royal family, their cavalry troops are not bad, but even so, their total number of cavalry is still not as large as that of the Southern Navy!

Zishengzhou doesn't have a lot of cavalry, although there are tens of thousands of cavalry before and after, but more than half of them have been wiped out on the southern front, and the rest is no longer a climate, and now Feng Ziqi has only 10,000 cavalry under his hands, and he doesn't even dare to take the initiative to fight, so he can only shrink into the defensive line.

Tens of thousands of cavalry of the Southern Navy are eyeing you outside!

In terms of Zisheng Army, in fact, the rear-loading artillery is quite good, although it is not much, but it is still good, but it is still not as good as the Southern Navy.

In terms of infantry, their third division also urgently followed the example of the Yugoslav Navy to carry out organizational and tactical innovations, because the time was short, and the reformed troops did not formally confront the infantry of the Yugoslav Navy, and the actual combat effectiveness is difficult to say, but even if it can be fought, it is only a third division.

Thinking about it, Feng Ziqi is becoming more and more pessimistic.

Artillery, cavalry, infantry are no match for opponents!

This battle can't be fought!

Now his only thought was to continue to hold on, waiting for reinforcements from the northern states.

As long as the time drags on, reinforcements from the northern states will arrive, and at the same time, their own troops and those of the northern states will be equipped with more and more breech-loading guns.

When he sent envoys to lobby the states before, Feng Ziqi directly sent out all the relevant technical information of rear-loading guns, not only in exchange for the support of other states, but also to allow other states to quickly produce rear-loading guns and cannons, and then arm reinforcements.

If these reinforcements are not equipped with rear-loading guns, they can only send heads to the Southern Navy when they come to Zishengzhou, and there is no meaning.

This would definitely not be done in normal times, but when his life and death were at stake, he could still take care of other things, and the valuable technical information of the rear-loading guns was sent out.

After obtaining these technical information, the other feudal towns have already asked their arsenals to produce rear-loading guns based on the technical information.

Lin Ziran doesn't know about this situation!

However, Lin Ziran already knew that the northern feudal towns had already begun to imitate the rear-loading guns, otherwise he would not have hurriedly attacked Zishengzhou.

The technical information of Feng Ziqi's rear-loading guns must have had an impact, and the impact on the Southern Navy is relatively large, but this kind of thing is also unavoidable, and whoever makes the two sides the enemy.

When the artillery units of the Southern Navy carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the defense line of Chongke City, the infantry units of the Southern Navy also began to advance, and the speed was not fast, and it did not say that it launched a full-line charge, but more on a small scale, attacking around the tactical nodes set up by the enemy outside the city.

In fact, the South China Navy's own attack of small and medium-sized, and even seemingly scattered, was not smooth, because after all, the quality of officers and combat experience were limited.

But that's just their own feelings!

In the eyes of Zishengjun on the other side, the attack of the infantry unit of the Southern Navy is elusive, and when you fight, most of the time you don't even know where the soldiers of the infantry unit of the Southern Navy are and what the main direction of attack is.

This is completely different from the familiar line battle, where the enemy rushes up in a whole platoon, and then the two sides compete for firepower.

The infantry of the Southern Navy are very far apart from each other, and after entering a range of several hundred meters, they are all lying on the ground, using the terrain to leap forward, and most of the time, you can't even see a human figure.

But the bullets kept falling on the ground!

At the same time, the South Navy on the opposite side also used a variety of small cannons, constantly firing shells at their trenches!

Without paying attention, the infantry of the Southern Navy made a detour back to their flanks.

At this time, the defending forces of the Zisheng Army were not only facing frontal rifle fire and artillery bombardment, but also their flanks were completely exposed to the opponent's fire, and there was no way to hold them.

With the gradual advancement of the infantry units of the Southern Navy, through a small-scale, scattered roundabout, it quickly encroached on the tactical nodes deployed by the Zisheng Army outside the city!

In this regard, Feng Ziqi could not do anything except sigh and then take the initiative to shrink the defensive line!