On 1 October, Lin Ziran led a group of generals to inspect various units and cheer up the troops that were entering the front line.

The various units of the Yugoslav Navy have already begun to take actual action, and all units have already moved to the predetermined positions in accordance with the battle plan.

As the core and main force of the roundabout outflanking, the two cavalry corps have already taken the lead in carrying out a large-scale strategic detour.

During this period, their outer cavalry units will inevitably engage with the reconnaissance cavalry and small forces of the Zishengzhou side.

Although the scale of this battle was small, it still made the Zishengzhou army on the opposite side sense a bad atmosphere, they knew that the southern naval forces on the opposite side were gathered, and they also expected that war might break out between the two sides in the near future.

Because they have already decided to take the initiative to attack, now wait for the contact with other feudal towns, and then they will complete the war preparations on the side of Zishengzhou, according to their Zishengzhou's war readiness plan, they will be able to complete the full mobilization and send troops south in half a month at most.

At that time, at least 200,000 troops will swoop down, coupled with the coordinated attack of the royal army of Jingzhou, it is very possible to encircle and annihilate the southern navy in Dongdingzhou, and no matter how bad it is, it can be a draw.

However, the enemy of the Southern Navy is not the only one in Zishengzhou, the two major armies in Quyang Prefecture have already united, preparing to mobilize at least 200,000 coalition troops to the south, and there are also a number of small and medium-sized feudal towns in Zhongluo Prefecture to unite and gather at least 50,000 troops to go south.

At that time, Nanhai Prefecture will face a major threat.

And Nanhai Prefecture is the hometown of the Southern Navy, and after the hometown is in danger, they will inevitably transfer troops back to defense, and then this Dongding Prefecture will be able to take advantage of the situation.

In this environment, the generals of the Zisheng Army in the north were mentally prepared for the upcoming war.

But again, this kind of preparation is based on the premise that their own side will take the initiative to attack, and they have not thought much about the fact that the South China Sea will take the initiative to attack.

Now that the South Korean Navy is facing enemies on all sides, and the enemies in every direction are not weak, they dare to take the initiative to fight them Zishengzhou in this situation, and they will not die.

However, the current situation is that they feel that something is not good, the South Navy has begun to appear frequently four or five days ago, and they are constantly purging the scouts they have sent out, which makes it difficult for them to obtain detailed information about the South China Navy.

This situation is also understandable, if the Southern Navy wants to prevent them from going south to fight, it naturally can't let Zishengzhou's scouts move around, so the confrontation between the scouts and cavalry of the two sides is normal.

But today, the reconnaissance cavalry of the Southern Navy turned out to be large-scale and intensive, which not only intercepted their Zishengzhou reconnaissance cavalry southward reconnaissance intelligence, but took the initiative to go north and began to conduct intensive reconnaissance of their situation.

"This is not normal, their scout activities are too frequent, and the scale of the dispatch is too large, this is no longer just to intercept our scout cavalry troops!"

They guessed correctly, the cavalry units of the Southern Navy had already been dispatched on a large scale, and the purpose was not to intercept the reconnaissance cavalry of Zishengzhou at all, nor even to simply reconnoiter intelligence, these cavalry units were forward troops, and their task was as always: to carry out a large-scale strategic detour and cooperate with the infantry and artillery units to outflank them.

In fact, so far, the cavalry of the Southern Navy found by Zishengzhou is only a very small part, and they are all small-scale cavalry units that have scattered out of the periphery and covered the battlefield, the purpose is to intercept the Zishengzhou reconnaissance cavalry and delay Zishengzhou to find that their two core cavalry corps have begun to detour north on a large scale.

The reason why it is said that it is only a delay is because this kind of thing cannot be concealed at all, after all, this place is flat, and no matter how strong the peripheral interception force of the cavalry unit of the South China Navy is, it is impossible to stop all the enemy reconnaissance cavalry.

In fact, at noon on October 1, there were already a number of Zishengzhou's reconnaissance cavalry squads breaking through the blockade, and then they saw the main force of the Southern Navy's cavalry all over the mountains and fields ahead.

However, it was too late.

While the cavalry units of the Southern Navy were making a strategic detour, the infantry and artillery units on the front had also completed their preparations and officially launched a large-scale offensive.

At thirteen o'clock at noon on October 1, Lin Ziran said to Wu Guanlin: "Since you are ready, then let's attack!" ”

After the order for a frontal attack was issued, hundreds of steel breech-loading rifled guns of the Southern Navy carried out a large-scale, intensive artillery bombardment of the garrison area of the Zisheng Army in the north.

The scale of its artillery bombardment was even stronger than the original battle of the Hetai defensive line!

Amid the rumbling shelling, more than 100,000 front-line infantry of the Southern Navy launched an all-out attack within a range of more than 20 kilometers.

The core area of the battlefield, that is, the battle around Southern Purple City, was extremely fierce from the beginning.

Because this is the terminus of the southeast section of the internal railway network of Zishengzhou, and unfortunately, about five kilometers away is the terminus of the northwest route of the internal railway network of Dongdingzhou.

As for why the railways on both sides are only five kilometers apart, but they are not connected, this is normal, and the railway network of the states in Daheng is basically not connected, and even different standards are adopted.

Because no one wants the enemy to come along the railroad they have built.

Even in order to eliminate this possibility, the railways in the states are basically not connected, even if they are close to commercial considerations, but most of them will have a buffer zone between five kilometers and ten kilometers.

At this point, the weak feudal towns paid special attention, relatively speaking, the large feudal towns wanted to connect the railway, and they wanted to use the convenience of the railway to kill all the way.

But small feudal towns were often reluctant or even unwilling to connect the railroads.

For example, in Daheng today, in fact, several large states, such as Zisheng Prefecture and Jingzhou, the standard they use is a rail standard of 1.3 meters, but the railway standard of Dongdingzhou is 1.45 meters, and its standard is the same as that of Nanhai Prefecture.

Because Dongdingzhou was the weakest, they didn't want the enemy troops on both sides to be able to kill them along the railway, and they didn't even build the railway to the border between the northwest or northeast.

However, they will build the railway to the Hetai defense line, and build the railway to the same standard as Nanhai Prefecture......

Why, because Nanhai Prefecture has been weaker in the past two decades, Yuan Yonghan of Dongding Prefecture is in a strong position.

Coincidentally, after the unification of Nanhai Prefecture by the South China Navy, the proposed railway standard is also 1.45 meters, why?

Because the Southern Navy is now in a strong position, after determining the same railway standards as Dongdingzhou, the subsequent entry into Dongdingzhou can directly use the railway system of Dongdingzhou.

Don't mention other states, just talk about Zishengzhou, their railway system is different from that of Dongdingzhou, plus Dongdingzhou has not built a railway to the northwest border at all, so the previous southern navy's northward march can only take a train to reach a place five kilometers away from the front line, and the rest of the journey has to rely on foot.

But now, the South China Navy has used a large number of engineering divisions to carry out emergency military railway laying, and built a transfer station here in order to allow two train systems of different standards to transfer supplies.

Even if this kind of transfer efficiency is relatively low, it is better than not using the railway.

To enter Zisheng Prefecture, considering that their own material consumption is large, and at the same time they need to maintain a rapid march posture, and there are no rivers in this area for river transportation, so the Southern Navy needs the railway network in Zisheng Prefecture to act as the main artery of logistics and transportation.

In this way, it has become necessary to seize the railway station of South Purple City!

As for the Zisheng Army, South Purple City is the bridgehead for them to go south, and it has also hoarded a large number of materials and troops, and its strength is also quite strong.

Therefore, after this fight, the battle was quite fierce.