Feng Ziqi took the initiative to shrink the defensive line, which was helpless in desperation, which was equivalent to giving up many tactical nodes outside the city to the Southern Navy, and even Zhongyanshan was also in a semi-encirclement.

But why does he still have so much!

That's because you can't hold it even if you stick to it!

After a day of fierce fighting between the two sides, the casualties of the Zisheng Army reached a staggering more than five thousand!

And these more than 5,000 people are all casualties of front-line combat units!

You must know that not all of the 100,000 troops in the defense line of Chongke City are front-line combatants, and some are auxiliary forces such as logistics.

Even the front-line combatants are not always deployed on the defensive line outside the city, many are still in the urban defensive line, and some are in the rear as a strategic reserve.

If you only count the front-line defense troops outside the city, it is estimated that there are about 50,000 people.

But in the first day, these 50,000 people suffered 5,000 casualties, and the casualty rate of the front-line troops exceeded 10 percent.

Such huge casualties directly forced Feng Ziqi to take the initiative to abandon all the suburban defense lines except for Zhongyan Mountain and retreat directly to the city.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the strategic location of Zhongyan Mountain was really important, once it was abandoned and captured by the Southern Navy, it would directly lead to the artillery units of the Southern Navy, which could comprehensively and accurately cover every position in the city, Feng Ziqi even wanted to give up Zhongyan Mountain.

Now that Feng Ziqi's thinking has changed, we can't fight in the field, and we can't fight positional warfare, so we will retreat to the urban area and rely on many buildings and complex terrain in the urban area to carry out defensive operations to alleviate the threat brought by the powerful artillery fire of the Southern Navy.

I have to say that his strategy is still relatively successful!

In the evening of the same day, the first time the Southern Navy launched an attack on the urban area of Chongke City, it was not too smooth.

In the face of complex urban areas, the Southern Navy suffered a lot of trouble, and the number of casualties increased sharply compared to when fighting outside the city.

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, and also because after nightfall, it is easier to suffer casualties in the complex terrain of the urban area, so the South China Navy chose to take the initiative to retreat.

However, although the infantry attack on the city was stopped, the overall attack did not stop that night.

The shelling continues!

At the same time, on the Zhongyanshan defensive line, the South China Navy took advantage of the darkness of night to launch infiltration operations and gradually encroach on the opponent's peripheral positions.

At about 9 o'clock in the evening, Lin Ziran once again convened a high-level operational meeting, including the headquarters and the senior generals of various units on the front line, to discuss the gains and losses of today's offensive during the day, to find out what was good to play, and to continue to carry forward it in the follow-up, to find out the shortcomings, and to avoid them in the future.

After discussing the gains and losses during the day, we began to discuss the next attack.

In this regard, as the main force of the attack, the second army, its commander Zhang Hanqiu advocated focusing on the attack on the Zhongyan Mountain area: "Compared with the complex terrain of the urban area, although the terrain of Zhongyan Mountain is higher, and there are local defense lines, the difficulty of the attack is still not as great as that of the urban area, because here we can still give full play to our vital heavy artillery firepower, relying on the absolute advantage of heavy artillery firepower, we can completely take Zhongyan Mountain with fewer casualties!" ”

"As long as we take Zhongyan Mountain, we will be able to set up a large number of artillery here, and then the entire Chongke City will be within the range of our own artillery bombardment."

"Even when necessary, use the high accuracy and long range of our rifled artillery to carry out accurate shelling of enemy special targets and buildings to avoid the waste of shells!"

Wu Guanlin also agreed with Zhang Hanqiu's opinion: "Zhongyanshan can give our artillery observers better observation conditions and guide the artillery to shell accurately!" ”

"Since the beginning of the day, in fact, our shelling of the urban area has not stopped, but on the whole, the effect of the shelling is not too good, the urban area of Chongke City is too large, although our artillery is large, but it is difficult to achieve comprehensive artillery coverage!"

"It's not like the Southern Purple City we conquered before that only needs to be fully covered by artillery fire, and we can destroy the entire city."

"Therefore, accurate shelling is very necessary!"

"As long as accurate artillery bombardment can be carried out, then it can effectively support the infantry units of our army to enter the city in the follow-up and avoid mass casualties of the infantry units!"

Listening to the discussion of his subordinates, Lin Ziran also pondered.

This attack on Chongke City can be said to be different from the difficulties encountered by the Southern Navy every time in the past.

If the enemy army is a frontal defense line, such as the Luohe Gorge, the Chongguangcheng defense line, the Hetai defense line, and the like, the South China Navy can completely use heavy artillery to gnaw hard.

If the enemy fights mobile warfare, the South China Navy still has a large number of cavalry units that can teach them how to behave.

However, now that the enemy has taken the initiative to abandon the defense line on the outskirts of the city, and even does not care about the head of the city or something, but has taken the initiative to retreat to the city, this is different.

The Chongke City Defense Line is not a traditional defense line built on the mountains, such as the Hetai Defense Line, which is completely built on complex terrain, but this Chongke City Defense Line, the peripheral field defense line is not large, but itself relies on the huge urban area for defense, and the defenders use the dense buildings in the city as cover for defensive operations, to be honest, this combat method makes the Southern Navy more uncomfortable.

The fact that they hid from just shooting cold shots was enough to make the South China Navy very uncomfortable.

At the same time, the urban area of Chongke City is extremely huge, and the overall area is not at all smaller than that of Luohai City, and the huge urban area means that its artillery fire cannot be fully covered......

If we really want to carry out comprehensive coverage of artillery fire, with the current ammunition production capacity of the South Navy, I am afraid that we will have to hoard ammunition for several years in advance, and even if we do, we can't really do this, the cost is too great!

How can I say that what the South China Navy is encountering now is an incomplete street battle!

How to fight street fighting, this is a difficult problem, the simplest and most effective way is to go down with a nuclear bomb, it is really not possible to use cloud burst bombs, incendiary bombs and the like.

But the problem is, none of these forests are there!

As for the use of traditional artillery bombardment, this is basically useless, unless the ammunition projection capability of the South China Navy can be comparable to that of the World War II powers, throwing millions or tens of millions of shells of various types on a city, but the South China Navy is not so strong.

After all, the current artillery bombardment of the Southern Navy is very strong compared to other feudal towns, but if it is compared with the great powers on the earth during World War I and World War II, it is a big gap.

In the face of the current predicament, the best way is actually to besiege the city, besiege it for three or five months, and it is estimated that they themselves will have to starve to death.

However, the current South China Navy does not have three or five months!

The intervention forces of other states in the north are already on the way, and the southern navy must solve the remaining forces of Zisheng Prefecture in advance, and then meet the northern intervention army, and at the same time, it is also necessary to transfer troops to the west of Quyang Prefecture.

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