Yang Jun went south and led 150,000 people, and the Luohe Gorge suffered thousands of casualties in the first battle, and later in the battle of Guang'an City, several thousand more casualties, but Yang Jun later mobilized and supplemented many people, and maintained the overall scale of 150,000 people.

In the counterattack operation, nearly 5,000 people were killed or seriously wounded in the Yang army, about 20,000 ordinary wounded, about 100,000 surrendered or anyway, and more than 20,000 people were missing.

Most of these missing people collapsed, and they fled directly and didn't know where they went, and they might be able to continue to gather some in the future, but that's for later.

Now, what is in front of Xu Zhongshu is to assist the headquarters and reorganize the existing 100,000 soldiers of the Second Army Corps of Quyang Prefecture.

According to the old rules, officers and soldiers were treated differently, and middle and senior officers were treated differently from junior officers, and finally a number of middle and low-ranking young officers were selected and sent to the Luo'an Military Academy for accelerated study, and after the completion of the study, they were assigned to their posts.

In terms of soldiers, some soldiers were selected to supplement the units of the First and Second Armies on a merit-based basis, so that the existing parts were full.

Qualified personnel will then be selected for the formation of the 12th Division, the 13th Division, the 8th Heavy Artillery Regiment, and the 8th Cavalry Division.

The second-class personnel were selected and assigned to the 7th Garrison Division.

As for the remaining personnel, they were all assigned to the engineering corps and had the name of an active unit, but they were engaged in engineering construction, mainly building roads and bridges, and restoring the infrastructure of cities damaged by the war.

When these troops were reorganized, the Second Army and other troops had already begun to quickly withdraw from Guang'an and went south by boat.

As for Lin Ziran himself, he took the garrison brigade to return south on a warship one step ahead.

After Lin Ziran successfully arrived at Luohai City, as the garrison brigade of his personal guard troops, he immediately began to assist the Sixth Division in building a defensive line in the western suburbs of Luohai City.

At this time, some of the forward troops of Ning Yuzhou's army were already less than thirty kilometers away from Luohai City.

If the Sixth Division retreats further, it will really retreat to Luohai City.

The garrison brigade moved south to reinforce first, greatly relieving the pressure on the Sixth Division, and took the initiative to launch a medium-sized counterattack, killing and wounding more than 2,000 people in the forward troops of Ningyu Prefecture, forcing the enemy to stop the rapid advance.

So that the battle line eased.

Two days later, the first group of the Second Army arrived at Luohai City, and every day that followed, ships transported the troops of the Second Army south.

In just five days, the three main infantry divisions, two heavy artillery regiments, and one cavalry division under the Second Army all arrived at Luohai City.

At this time, the security of the Western Front can already be guaranteed.

But Lin Ziran wanted more than that, he wanted more, such as the same as the counterattack on the northern front, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy army in Ningyu Prefecture, completely cutting off their idea of advancing eastward, and even recovering Qingyuan County and changing the embarrassing situation that there was no danger to defend on the western front.

For this reason, Lin Ziran began to use the 10th Division, the 11th Division, the 7th Cavalry Division, and the 7th Heavy Artillery Regiment, which had just been reorganized.

For this reason, he transferred the 10th Division to Hetai to join the combat sequence of the Third Army, and at the same time transferred the two cavalry divisions that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Third Army, that is, the Second Cavalry Division and the Third Cavalry Division, back to join the Fourth Army's combat sequence.

The 11th Division was transferred to the north of Anlong and the east of Luo'an, and was directly under the jurisdiction of the General Staff Department to prevent changes in Ningmei County, and at the same time, the 1st Brigade of the 4th Division stationed in the local area was transferred back, and it joined the headquarters of the 4th Division originally stationed in the Anlong area, and finally put it into the battlefield on the Western Front.

In this way, Lin Ziran was able to concentrate the main forces of five infantry divisions, four cavalry divisions, and three heavy artillery regiments on the Western Front. This does not include the garrison brigade.

The above-mentioned units include the 2nd, 5th, 9th, 4th and 6th Heavy Artillery Regiments, and the 1st Cavalry Division under the jurisdiction of the Second Army.

The 4th Division, the 6th Division, the 7th Heavy Artillery Regiment, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 7th Cavalry Divisions of the Fourth Army.

The total strength of these troops exceeded 100,000 men, which was comparable to the strength of the previous counterattack on the Northern Front.

Having mobilized more than 100,000 troops, it is naturally impossible for them to simply defend, if they are just defending, they don't need so many troops at all, if there are 40,000 or 50,000 troops, relying on the firepower advantage of the Southern Navy, it is enough to block the attack of about 100,000 Ningyu Prefecture troops and 20,000 Qingyuan County troops in front of them.

Having mobilized so many troops, it was naturally for the sake of a counteroffensive.

Lin Ziran wanted to let these Ning Yu Zhou troops who dared to enter Luohai City not return, and hit Ning Yu Prefecture hard, so that they could not stop the large-scale eastward advance of troops in the follow-up.

Ningyu Prefecture is in the surrounding states, although the area is not small, but the population and industrial scale are relatively weak states, according to the collected intelligence, although Ningyu Prefecture maintains unity, but the state's military strength is only more than 200,000.

At the same time, Ningyu Prefecture is also bordered by Zhongluo Prefecture to the north and Qinyangzhou to the northwest, and they also need to set aside some troops to defend in the above areas.

This can send 100,000 troops to attack Nanhai Prefecture, which is almost their limit.

As long as they defeat their 100,000 troops, let alone want to attack Nanhai Prefecture in the next Ning Yu Prefecture, it will be difficult to even protect themselves.

Even if Lin Ziran didn't take the opportunity to continue to attack Ningyu Prefecture, the feudal towns of Zhongluo Prefecture and Qinyang Prefecture in the north would probably not give up this opportunity.

The many feudal towns of Daheng do not mean that there is only one enemy, many of them are facing multiple enemies, and this fight is often a blow to the whole body.

The situation of Nanhai Prefecture itself is a typical example, and the surrounding states are all enemies, and the only thing that can be regarded as no direct threat from other places is the coastal side.

However, this is also based on the premise that the strength of the Nanhai Prefecture fleet itself is not weak, and other feudal towns cannot directly attack Nanhai Prefecture from the sea.

If the strength of the Nanhai Prefecture fleet is weak, other coastal feudal towns, such as Ningyu Prefecture, will not mind forcibly landing in Luohai County directly under the cover of the navy.

Facing many enemies, this is the norm in many feudal towns in Daheng.

This also means that as long as Lin Ziran kills the 100,000 troops in Ning Yuzhou, Ning Yuzhou will be busy protecting himself in the future, and it is impossible to send troops to Nanhai Prefecture for revenge or anything like that.

In this way, Lin Ziran was able to free up his hands to carry out operations on the eastern front and stabilize the eastern defense line.

As long as the Eastern Front is stabilized, the Yugoslav Navy, which has been maneuvering on a large scale many times and has been fighting for several months, will be able to gain extremely valuable time to rest and replenish.

At the same time, it will alleviate the current financial pressure, which is extremely stressful.

When the time comes, the South China Navy will be able to usher in an extremely precious respite.

And once the Southern Navy takes a breather, then it will be the time for the Southern Navy to expand externally!