Feng Ziqi in Chongke City has been gloomy all day long.

Since he learned in the morning that 50,000 reinforcements from the northern states had been annihilated, and the remaining 100,000 or so brains had withdrawn north, Feng Ziqi knew that he was going to be finished!

In the face of the follow-up attack of the Southern Navy, Chongke City was theoretically able to continue to resist stubbornly for a period of time.

But does such stubbornness still make sense?

Chongke City's previous stubborn resistance was to hold on and wait for reinforcements from the states to lift the siege.

But now that the reinforcements have been wiped out, more than 100,000 people dare not go south.

In this case, does Chongke City's resistance still make sense?

Even if you want to continue to support it, I'm afraid there is no chance.

Before, the Southern Navy did not carry out a large-scale siege of Chongke City, that was because there were a total of more than 200,000 state intervention troops outside, and now half of the state intervention troops have been killed, and the remaining half are also hiding and dare not go south.

Next, the Southern Navy will be able to free up its hands and concentrate on attacking Chongke City.

And in the face of the all-out attack of the Southern Navy, can Chongke City be able to hold it?

Although Feng Ziqi didn't want to admit it in his heart, he also thought that the possibility of holding on was extremely small, very small!

More than half a month ago, when the Southern Navy launched its first attack on Chongke City, it was through the battles outside the city and the Battle of Zhongyan Mountain that the Zisheng Army knew what the fear of heavy artillery fire was.

In those two days of battle, the defenders of the Zisheng Army suffered more than 10,000 casualties!

Subsequently, the Southern Navy suspended the large-scale offensive on Chongke City, and instead focused on artillery battles.

However, even if a large-scale infantry attack was not launched, the artillery bombardment alone caused a lot of casualties to the defenders of the city.

Sometimes thousands of people are killed and wounded a day, and when there are few, hundreds of people are killed or wounded.

There are eighty or ninety thousand defenders in the city, and the hundreds or thousands of people in this day seem to be not a lot every day, but the cumulative number is a very terrifying number.

So far, after the Battle of Zhongyanshan alone, more than 10,000 casualties have been caused by artillery shelling and skirmishes.

Now the defenders in the city are only about 80,000 people.

It seems that there are a lot of people and there are plenty of food and ammunition reserves, but morale is extremely low.

Especially today, because of the heavy losses of the reinforcements from the northern states, the remaining 150,000 troops did not even have the courage to fight with the southern navy, and after retreating directly to the north, the morale in the city was even lower.

Feng Ziqi wanted to block the news at first in order to ensure morale, but this kind of news could not be completely blocked, only a few senior generals knew about it at first, but soon the news spread to middle and lower-level officers, and now, it is estimated that many ordinary soldiers have heard about it.

The level of morale falling to this level is even more detrimental to the subsequent defense of the city.

What to do?

This problem has plagued Feng Ziqi all day, but until now he still hasn't been able to come up with a proper solution.

Of course, this stubborn defense can last for a few more days, but now the stubborn defense has become meaningless, and it makes little difference between three or five days, ten days and eight days, and in the end it is impossible to hold on.

As for the breakthrough, he thought, taking advantage of the fact that more than half of the main forces of the South Navy are still dozens of kilometers away in the north, and a complete encirclement has not yet been formed on the side of Chongke City, and directly abandon Chongke City, theoretically there is still a chance.

But what about even after a successful retreat?

Where else can they go?

Retreat to the west? Eastern? Or maybe it's a detour to the north?

Theoretically, these options are fine, but what about after you go?

How will he resist the continuous attack of the South China Navy in the future?

Relying on a big city like Chongke City, you can't hold it, but you can defend it if you go to other places? This is unlikely.

However, it is a reasonable choice to retreat all the way north, leave Zisheng Prefecture directly, and join the intervention forces of the northern states.

However, after losing his own territory and Chongke City, he Feng Ziqi will not even be able to pay the army's salaries in the future, let alone any weapons and ammunition.

When the time comes, like a lost dog, living a life under the fence?

Many possibilities have been considered by Feng Ziqi, but every choice has something inappropriate.

This is also the reason why he has been unable to make up his mind.

But that changed that night!

That night, Feng Ziqi got the news that there was a force of about 2,000 people in the city and went out of the city directly.

Why go?

Tou Cheng went!

In desperation, these people, led by some half-hearted officers, only surrendered.

This is the first time in more than half a month that the defenders in the city have taken such a large-scale initiative to surrender.

In the past, although there were many Zisheng troops who surrendered, most of them were made after being surrounded and annihilated in the battle outside the city, the battle of Zhongyan Mountain, or even when there was no hope of breaking through.

However, at present, the South China Navy has not launched a large-scale siege of the city, but more than 2,000 people have directly chosen to take the initiative to surrender, which shows how low the morale of the troops is now.

Whether it is a high-ranking general, a middle- or lower-level officer, or even an ordinary soldier, they have begun to despair about the future.

At this time, Feng Ziqi knew that he couldn't drag it out any longer, and if he continued to drag it out, without the Southern Navy to fight, the defenders in the city would probably collapse first.

This Chongke City, he doesn't want it!

Soon he summoned his generals to announce the decision to withdraw his troops, and the generals asked him where he would go after retreating, whether he would go to the north to join the intervention forces in the northern states.

Feng Ziqi shook his head: "Although the north seems to be safe, but we can't go, once we go, we will be tantamount to completely giving up Zishengzhou, and directly become a lost dog, when the time comes, they will use many excuses such as logistics supply to directly dismantle us is a high probability!" ”

"Let's go to Youshang County in the northwest direction, although Youshang County is a little remote and has an ordinary economy, but the terrain there is complicated, and it is a rare hilly terrain area in the south of our Daheng, where we can adopt a more flexible defensive strategy, and we can also offset the artillery advantage of the Southern Navy!"

"Of course, after going, everyone will definitely have a hard time, but everyone must know that Lin Ziran seems to be killing all sides now, but in fact, he has reached the end of the crossbow!"

"Lin Ziran has been waging wars for the past few years, and within a few months of the war in Nanhai Prefecture, they have been fighting against other states in a row, the previous expedition to Dongding Prefecture, and now they are going north to our Zisheng Prefecture, these wars have consumed countless resources for them!"

"No matter how strong the foundation of Nanhai Prefecture is, it can't support Lin Ziran's continuous external expansion!"

"Moreover, Quyang Prefecture, the Seven Northern Prefectures, Ningyu Prefecture, Zhongluo Prefecture and other states will definitely not sit idly by and watch Lin Ziran continue to expand, and they will not even give Lin Ziran time to stabilize Dongding Prefecture and Zisheng Prefecture and digest these two states, they will definitely launch a large-scale counterattack in a short period of time."

"When the time comes, even if Lin Ziran wants to stop and take a breath, it is impossible to stop, he must always fight."

"When the time comes, it will become weaker and weaker, and finally collapse completely!"

"And what we have to do now is to survive this recent difficult period, and at the same time rebuild strength, renovate the troops, improve tactics, and when the troops of other states counterattack the Southern Navy on a large scale, it will be the time for us to recapture Chongke City!"

Feng Ziqi kept cheering up his subordinates, telling them that the difficulties were only temporary, and that future victories must belong to us......