After the failure of the first attack, Xu Teng postponed the offensive, because he knew that if he did not make changes and continue to launch the offensive, it was estimated that the front-line troops would still collapse as quickly as the last time after reaching the combat distance.

It doesn't matter if this is the bravery of the soldiers, the key is that it is difficult for the front-line officers to command the soldiers who attack in a skirmish.

If this problem is not solved, it is better to continue to fight in line formation, as in the past.

To be honest, Xu Teng came up with a skirmish line before, but there was no corresponding command system and tactics, resulting in the actual combat effectiveness of the troops under his command now not as good as the troops of Du Zhikuan, Shao Bing and others before.

Although Du Zhikuan and Shao Bing were still using the tactics of the line era, they were also equipped with rear-loading rifles, and they still relied on the city walls, trenches and other fortifications to fight defensive operations, and their front-line officers were always able to maintain command of the troops.

In the face of the attack of the South Navy, although it could not be defeated, it did not say that it was the same as the bubble, and it would burst as soon as it was poked.

More often, they were killed and wounded by the artillery of the Southern Navy, and when the infantry was engaged, the flanks were constantly broken by the frequent tactical detours of the opponent, and then they fell into a semi-encircled state and were forced to retreat or surrender directly.

However, their troops were not like the Hetai army, which was crushed at the beginning of the battle.

In the past, the fighting style of the Hetai Army was a serious four-in-one, which also led to the inability of the troops to perform in actual combat, which in turn led to a large-scale rout.

Xu Teng has now discovered these problems, so he did not hesitate to make changes!

First of all, it is necessary to order other troops not to engage in any straggler lines, and continue to use line tactics, although the troops are too dense and easy to be bombed, but the officers on the front line can control and command the troops.

At the same time, it is also necessary to let some of the elite troops under his command quickly reorganize, initially set up two levels, battalion and platoon, and strengthen the command of the troops by increasing the command system.

Even because of the urgency of time, he didn't change much, not even much personnel changes, just simply put the command under the command.

Xu Teng believed that he would be able to complete the reorganization of these elite troops in a few days, and then continue the offensive while promoting this new type of command system to other troops.

However, Lin Ziran didn't plan to give him this time.

On the second day alone, the first batch of reinforcements from the South China Navy, including a brigade of the First Division and an artillery battalion, arrived at Nanyungang first by means of relatively fast passenger ships and gunboats.

After disembarking in the port, these troops did not stop at all and directly reinforced the front line.

At this time, Xu Teng also knew the news that the Southern Navy had received reinforcements.

"A large number of reinforcements from the Southern Navy have come up?" Xu Teng took the report of the reconnaissance cavalry and muttered in his mouth: "Look at it like this, I'm afraid there are more Southern Navy forces behind!" ”

"Could it be that they are in Guang'an, and the troops in Hexi have returned, why is it so fast?"

"How is it impossible, they just need to take a boat all the way south, and then go east along the Nanluo River, it won't take much time at all!"

"How do we deal with it now?"

"Do you want to continue the attack on Nanyun Port?"

Many subordinate generals were discussing with each other, while Xu Teng himself was frowning.

The development of this battle was different from what he expected!

This difference does not mean that the other party's reinforcement speed is actually within Xu Teng's expectations.

It's not that he hasn't taken Nanyun Port yet, Xu Teng knew before that it was okay to take Nanyungang if he wanted to, but it wasn't a matter of a day or two.

Even, Xu Teng had considered using Nanyungang as a bait to fight a protracted war of attrition, and by constantly annihilating the reinforcements of the Southern Navy, the other party's reinforcements would become a refueling tactic, while he always maintained an advantage in troops.

At the same time, as long as Lin Ziran's main force is defeated in Nanyungang, then the next thing will be much simpler, and it is completely possible to quickly take over the four counties of Luohai, Luo'an, Guang'an, and Hetai, plus Anlong and Hetai.

The six counties of Nanhai Prefecture can fall into their control, and the follow-up Ningmei County and Qiuhua County are also very easy to deal with, at most there is only one Qingyuan County with a more complicated situation left.

When the eight counties are in hand, he Xu Teng can declare himself the new state order of Nanhai Prefecture, and it is also the state order that basically unifies Nanhai Prefecture.

Therefore, Xu Teng had the intention to annihilate Lin Ziran's main force through Nanyungang.

He had expected many situations, but he had not expected his troops to be so vulnerable!

Yes!

Vulnerable!

In yesterday's offensive operation, his troops, no matter how they looked at it, were really vulnerable.

It doesn't matter if there are thousands of casualties in an attack, but the enemy was completely defeated without even getting close to the distance of 300 meters, which made Xu Teng worried.

He knew that after the skirmish line was adopted, there would be such a big problem in the existing command system, he would not have sent troops so early, but would first retreat to Hetai County to continue the reorganization and improve the command system of the troops, and as long as he was given two or three months, he promised to rebuild the command system of the troops.

However, it is too late!

He personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to kill, and even entered Luohai County, even if he didn't want to fight, he had to fight head-on.

After learning that there were reinforcements in the Southern Navy, Xu Teng ordered another attack on the same day, this time the troops in charge of the attack no longer use any skirmish lines, that thing looks very good, but it lacks the corresponding command system and even tactics, and it is not as good as the line formation.

At the same time, they used columns when they advanced, and at the same time, the distance between the troops was relatively large, and at least the march of the offensive force in front was scattered and relatively open, so as to avoid the shelling of the southern navy.

But they still underestimated the power of the artillery of the Southern Navy!

The artillerymen of the Southern Navy, now the favorite place is to shell this kind of dense and slow-moving targets, especially in the dense formation of infantry phalanx, the wood is relatively obvious, and the troops are dense, this artillery bombardment does not even need to be aim, just hit a large group of people, and their shells are still cylindrical shells with a large charge, and the power of this explosion is quite good.

It's easy to aim, has a large killing range, and saves shells!

Therefore, as soon as they found out that the target began to assemble and advance, the artillery of the South China Navy began to shell, and they were not in a hurry, but they slowly bombed the crowd, but as they blew up, the Hetai army on the opposite side turned around and ran.

Xu Teng, who was watching the battle from the rear, saw that his troops had collapsed again, and this time he hadn't even been able to get close to the enemy's front line for a thousand meters, he couldn't see any anger, only deep worry.

If you continue to do this, you won't be able to fight this battle.

If you use a skirmish line, your own troop command system can't keep up, and if you use a line to form a formation, it's a huge live target.

Now what?

What else can be done, continue to postpone the offensive, and even in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking up, Xu Teng also began to order the front-line troops to build field fortifications.

At the same time, he had already urgently ordered the 50,000 Hetai troops in the rear not to come to Nanyun City and directly build fortifications in the rear.

At this time, in fact, Xu Teng had already begun to prepare to retreat!

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