On 17 November, the day after the South China Navy officially launched its offensive against Quyang Prefecture, the cavalry forward unit composed of the First Cavalry Corps and the Second Cavalry Corps was already more than 20 kilometers into Quyang Prefecture.

But they met little resistance along the way.

Because of Quyang Prefecture, there is no large-scale defense line set up on the border between the two states.

The terrain of the two states is a plain, and it is not suitable for arranging a defensive line at all, so Quyang Prefecture simply took the initiative to give up the front-line defense.

According to some of the information collected in the early stage, the main defense line of the Quyang Prefecture side facing Zishengzhou was deployed nearly 30 kilometers away from the border line, of which the Grand City was the core fulcrum of the defense on the western front.

Because this is the terminus of the eastern railway line of the Quyang Prefecture defense line, there is an extraordinary traffic, and there is a small river on the west side.

So much so that the position of this city still belongs to the plain area, but the overall defense deployment is still relatively easy.

Of course, if the Southern Navy advances westward, it can also choose to bypass, but if you go around, it will be difficult to use the eastern railway in Quyang Prefecture.

There are no railways, no rivers, this will be a huge challenge for the logistics and transportation of the South Navy, so if it is not a last resort, the South Navy will not bypass this place.

And for the South Navy, there is no last resort.

The Southern Navy has conquered the fortress defense line, and there are many cities, except for some troubles on the side of Chongke City, it has never missed anywhere else.

Even in Chongke City, in fact, the Southern Navy was absolutely sure that it would directly attack and take it, but considering that the casualties would be relatively large, and at the same time, there were a large number of intervening troops in the north and west at that time, so they chose to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

If there were no large number of enemy intervention forces, the Southern Navy would have chosen to directly conquer Chongke City.

And there is a high probability that Feng Ziqi will not be able to hold it, which can be seen from the follow-up Feng Ziqi taking the initiative to give up Chongke City, and he himself has no confidence.

In this battle of Quyang Prefecture, the Southern Navy will launch an attack on Quyang Prefecture in the west of Zisheng Prefecture and the north of Nanhai Prefecture at the same time.

In this process, the First Army of the Northern Front of Nanhai Prefecture was responsible for the secondary attack, after all, what they needed to face was the Luohe Gorge, the Luohe Gorge heavily defended by the enemy, and it was not easy to break through.

The First Army only needed to maintain a deterrent to the Luo River Gorge and force the enemy to be unable to draw large numbers of troops from here.

Of the nearly 300,000 troops in Quyang Prefecture, at least 100,000 are on the first line of the Luohe Gorge, and it is impossible to have too many troops on other lines, even if they improve their defense on the eastern front, it is estimated that there are only 100,000 troops.

Picking up more than 100,000 enemy troops is not a problem for the main forces such as the Second Army of the South China Navy, which are advancing westward.

Not to mention the main infantry and artillery forces such as the Second Army, even the cavalry units of the First Cavalry Army and the Second Cavalry Army are enough for them to have a headache.

In this offensive, the South China Navy is still prepared to give full play to its superiority in cavalry and artillery.

With the cavalry corps as the lead, make a rapid advance and make a wide range of strategic detours to cut off the city from the flanks and the enemy forces in the rear.

Quyang Prefecture's convenient forward strategic support point on the eastern front is Grand City, and the first phase of the Southern Navy's goal is also placed on this city.

The two cavalry armies, one south and one north, directly bypassed the city of Grand on the third day, at this time, there was no tight encirclement, but if the enemy army was indifferent, or could not stop the movement of the two cavalry corps, then the two cavalry corps could then quickly conquer a number of small cities behind the city.

Finally, completely cut off the connection between Gran City and the rear, and outflank Gran City!

The defenders of Gran did not sit idly by, and they did send troops to try to intercept these two cavalry units.

But their cavalry numbers were not large enough, and they simply couldn't stop the cavalry corps of the Southern Navy, which totaled fifty or sixty thousand!

On the fourth day alone, the cavalry units of the Southern Navy had already successfully captured a number of small cities on the railway line, cutting off the connection between the city and the rear.

At this time, the main forces such as the Second Army led by Lin Ziran also successfully arrived outside Gran City.

At this time, the defenders of Quyang Prefecture in the city of about 50,000 were already trapped in the encirclement.

If they retreat, there will be cavalry behind them, and if they defend to the death, there are still so many battle examples in front of them before, and the possibility of blocking the strong attack of the Southern Navy is extremely small.

After leading the army to arrive at Grand City, Lin Ziran did not delay the time, and ordered the troops to attack on the same day.

Now the Southern Navy seems to be civilized on all sides and wins frequently, but the pressure is also extremely great, and Lin Ziran can be affected by the news of the enemy's increase and abnormal movements on the northern line of Zishengzhou and the northeast line of Dongdingzhou almost every day.

Even in the past few days, the northern states may have sensed the danger and frequently launched small-scale tentative attacks on the northern and northeastern fronts.

While these small offensives were largely useless, they were a testament to the continued tensions.

Lin Ziran knew very well that the northern states were unlikely to give themselves too much time to slowly clean up the remaining three southern states, Quyang Prefecture, Ningyu Prefecture, and Zhongluo Prefecture.

He had to pick up the pace and take down these three states as soon as possible.

In this way, they were able to integrate the forces of the six southern states and finally sweep the seven northern states.

If the time drags on too long, then with the union of the seven northern states, the advantage of rear-loading artillery gradually disappears, then the future variables are too great.

Therefore, the battle in Quyang Prefecture cannot be delayed for a day.

This Grand City must also be taken down as soon as possible, and it can't be delayed for too long!

In order to take the city as soon as possible, the Southern Navy launched an attack as soon as it arrived outside the city.

It was still the same old-fashioned large-scale artillery bombardment, with infantry infiltration and assault, and a full-scale assault on the various defensive nodes deployed by the enemy troops outside the city.

This set of offensive methods has been proven effective in many past battles, so this time the South China Navy continues to fight like this.

And there is no need to worry that the enemy army will not be able to hold it outside the city, so they will retreat to the city to fight street battles and the like.

After all, this Grand City is not Chongke City!

Chongke City has a population of hundreds of thousands, and the urban area is huge and the buildings are complex.

But this Grand City is not a state town, not even a county town, this city is actually just an ordinary county seat, but because it is in the westernmost part, it is suitable for military deployment, and it is a railway terminal, which makes this city important.

However, that still doesn't change the nature of this small city!

In general, this city is somewhat similar to the Southern Purple City in Zisheng Prefecture.

Its urban area is small, and there are not many ordinary residents, so it is fortified and even fortified, but such a small city is still impossible to resist the attack of the Southern Navy.

Because of the small area and the small number of buildings, the artillery of the South China Navy is fully capable of fully covering the shelling.

At the same time, it is easier for the infantry to advance, and if the urban area is small, the Southern Navy will have enough troops to advance steadily in a gradual manner.

On the whole, attacking such a small city is not much more difficult than attacking the defensive line they have deployed outside the city, and their defensive line outside the city has a large number of trenches, anti-artillery holes, hidden fire points, and so on.

However, on the first day of the attack, the originally confident Southern Navy ran into trouble!

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