The fierce gunfire sounded over Wendengli. Although the artillery preparations were over, the mortars that assisted on the high ground still shot a round of shells towards the south bank of the North Han River. At this time, our troops had not yet arrived and rushed across the river. It was when they were working.

In the aperture of the telescope, the originally scary fortifications were now scorched earth, with bunkers that were blown to pieces, machine gun positions, barbed wire and dissatisfied trenches, and occasionally some dead bodies and broken limbs.

Of course, I would like to portray this scene as the corpses of puppet troops everywhere. But the fact is that this is impossible, because no matter how stupid a person is, he will not easily drill out of the bunker when he is bombed by an enemy, unless he is bombed by a bomb. Therefore, I believe that there are many puppet troops living on the opposite river bank, if their fortifications are built strong enough.

The machine gunners and mortars of the 540th Regiment were not slow either. They got up from the lurking ground at the first time and quickly occupied a favorable position to organize firepower to suppress the possible firepower on the south bank. They will be the most powerful cover for the crossing forces.

The other soldiers were carrying rubber boats in groups of more than a dozen people, folding boats, and even borrowing bamboo rafts from somewhere, running towards the river like rafts.

The puppet army's outpost positions, the 237.5 and 334, did not even have the opportunity to block the volunteer soldiers, because as soon as the artillery fire stopped, a small team immediately ran up and blew up their tunnel entrance with explosives packs. When I attacked the 902.8 He also dealt with the tunnel entrances of the puppet army. I knew that the tunnel entrances of the puppet army did not have the function of covering each other, so it was not difficult to do this.

The soldiers carrying rubber boats, bamboo platoons and other tools for crossing the river ran to the river and threw them to the river in a tacit understanding. Several people pushed them like boats into the river, then jumped up one by one, then waved the wooden pulp and paddled towards the other side. Seeing their movements in one go, there was no pause or panic at all. I guess they had practiced countless times before the war.

At this time, a very spectacular scene appeared on the Beihan River. Hundreds of ships of various types were rowing towards the other side of the river one after another. Some of them swung their socks, some were holding oars, and some were holding submachine guns in their hands or holding machine guns on the bow. They were like teams of cavalry riding war horses pressing towards the opposite shore. At this time, only ten minutes before the moment of launching the attack, and even the puppet troops on the other side had not yet reacted from the artillery fire.

"Boom..."

When the vanguards of the Volunteer Army had already reached the center of the river, the puppet troops on the other side finally woke up and fired several shells at the volunteer soldiers crossing the river. With a few roars, several water columns rose and radially shot around the river. The rubber boats near the bounce point also fluttered violently with the waves. Several soldiers even fell into the river by shrapnel. But the soldiers seemed to have not seen it, and still waved the wooden pulp toward the other side.

It is not that the soldiers do not want to rescue the injured soldiers who fell into the water, but that the situation does not allow the soldiers to do so. This is also an order emphasized repeatedly before the attack. If the rubber boat stops for one or two soldiers who fell into the water, the consequences are conceivable. If a rubber boat stops, it is very likely to block the way of the rubber boat behind him. This will not only slow down the attack speed, but may even cause chaos in the entire offensive force and put all the soldiers in danger.

However, although there were casualties, I felt relieved when I saw these few cannons from the puppet army. There were only three water columns, which means that only three mortars were bombing, which meant that the puppet army had no need to urgently organize fire to fight back. Otherwise, the shells would have come in large pieces and followed machine gun bullets.

But now there is nothing. I think this should be because the puppet army did not expect that our army would have such a crossing equipment as Pizhou!

"Boom..." Several more shells exploded in the rubber boat, directly overturning a rubber boat. The soldiers on the rubber boat fell into the water one after another. But they did not give up, and they all swam to the other side, even though some of them were injured, even if the surging river water had washed them eastward and tilted...

Several flares slowly rose into the air, illuminating the river water stained with blood in the river, and illuminating the soldiers on the river like peach boats and soldiers on the boats. The sound of machine guns of the puppet army quickly rang out, and bullets rushed towards the soldiers like lines of fire.

The bullets stirred up splashes of water in the river, like water snakes hidden in the river, pounced on the soldiers like boats! Then there were screams, blood...

The enemy's firepower was not fierce, but the soldiers crossing the river were completely exposed to the enemy like targets. In addition, each rubber boat was crowded with more than a dozen soldiers, so the puppet army machine gun bullets could always bring the lives of several volunteer soldiers. In addition, the rubber boats were inflatable, and after a few rounds of bullets, they slowly softened and their speed became slower and slower, but after a while, they sank into the water weakly!

This caused the soldiers' attack to be frustrated. In the blink of an eye, four or five rubber boats were sunk into the water. Fortunately, the soldiers were all wearing floating clothes, which allowed them to swim easily to the other side even if they fell into the water.

Looking at this scene, I couldn't help but frown. It was not a solution to continue like this! It was like a boat that was too unpredictable under the enemy's bullets. Instead, it was still the wooden rafts, and the rafts were more practical. The soldiers could even set up machine guns on it to counterattack, although there was no accuracy because of the ups and downs of the river.

Just when I was in a dilemma, a burst of "chic chirping..." sound of air tearing.

It was the "Katyusha" rocket launcher, and I quickly realized this.

Sure enough, before I could prepare, rows of dazzling small mushroom clouds burst out on the south bank of the North Han River. After a glimmer of light, everything seemed to be silent. There was no sound of cannons and no gunshots...

"Good fight!"

"Have a good fight!"

...

The soldiers who saw this scene nearby shouted, but I am sure that these applauded soldiers must be supplementary soldiers who have newly joined the 538th Regiment. The soldiers of the former 538th Regiment knew that they should be vigilant and hidden at any time as soon as they entered the battlefield. The soldiers said, "Be careful for a hundred times and you won't lose anything, but if you are careless once, it will be enough to save your life!" But it is obvious that those supplementary soldiers do not know this, even if most of them are veterans with combat experience.

I glared at the applause of the applause, and they immediately spit out all the remaining cheers into their stomachs.

You can't blame them too much. Even I almost applauded the 540th Group just now.

Zhang Xincai is indeed a good guy! He had long thought that the puppet army might organize firepower to prevent our army from crossing the river after the artillery bombardment, so he fired a rocket launcher at a critical moment. This was the time when our army had not crossed the Beihan River, so there was no need to worry that the rocket launcher would accidentally hurt his people. Moreover, the rocket launcher would fire hundreds of rockets in one breath within a few seconds. The puppet army that organized firepower to prevent our army from crossing the river on the south bank and disappeared into the artillery fire without having time to escape.

So the subsequent battle became very relaxed, and the first group of crossing the river successfully boarded the south bank. The soldiers couldn't wait to jump out of the rubber boat, and then rushed towards the enemy's positions like small tigers, killing the puppet troops who were fainted by rockets in trenches and bunkers.

The battle of the 540th Regiment was not over yet. Their mission was to quickly capture and defend the vast cave and Xijianli after the forced crossing. These two places were in the upper and lower reaches of the Beihan River, and they were defended, which actually spread a gap in the defense line of the puppet army to ensure that other troops of our army could rush out from this gap to complete the interlude mission. At the same time, this was also a guarantee that our army's supplies could be transported to the interlude troops.

Therefore, after capturing the puppet army's south bank position, the soldiers of the 540th Regiment were divided into several groups to cross the river by rubber boats, and then divided into three parts, one part attacking the vast cave downstream, the other part attacking the upstream, and the last part consolidated the fortifications on the south bank to prevent the puppet army from launching a counterattack and covering the engineers to build a floating bridge.

By the way, it is very convenient to build the Su-style pontoon bridge. The engineers carried them first and threw them into the water, and then spread them out and connected them one by one like a boat. However, these engineers seemed to have never used these fresh things before, so it took them more than twenty minutes to put together two such pontoon bridges on the river surface.

But this cannot be blamed on them. At this time, China's national strength and technology are incomparable to those of the United States and the Soviet Union. I have seen such a floating bridge that can be spliced ​​directly on the water. The more advanced one is to lay wooden boards on rows of boats, and the more behind one is to build a bridge. The soldiers jumped into the river and carried wooden boards on their shoulders to let other soldiers pass through... Now it is very good to build a floating bridge that can allow large troops to pass in just over twenty minutes.

The soldiers of the 539th Regiment rushed over immediately after the pontoon bridge was built. They had a reason to be anxious. Their mission was to follow the 540th Regiment, and after they took down the vast holes, they would occupy the 551.6 highlands and control the Jinchengchuan Bridge along the highway. One thing is certain that the battle has started now, and the slower their movements mean that the more prepared the enemy. The more prepared the enemy, that is, the harder the target will be to fight.

But our 538th Regiment is not worried about this, because I believe that no matter what the two regiments in front of us, their attack speed will not be faster than our marching speed, unless the puppet troops are all paper-based!

So I followed the soldiers behind the 539th Regiment like a walk. More than 3,000 combat troops and more than 1,000 engineers carrying ammunition supplies. Four or 5,000 people lined up in neat formations like a dark cloud. Stepping over the ups and downs, stepping onto the south bank full of corpses and craters, and then walking on the road leading to the Jinchengchuan Bridge...

If it were normal times, I would never dare to take a team of four or five thousand people onto the road, which would undoubtedly become the best target for enemy aircraft bombing. But now it is raining heavily in the sky and US aircraft cannot take off, so we don’t need to worry about this.

This is undoubtedly the time I have led the most troops, more than 5,000! If this were to be a general in ancient times, I would have felt a sense of pride in my heart as I waved a spear, rode a war horse, and rushed towards the enemy with thousands of soldiers. In fact, I am doing this now, the difference is that I am just holding a rifle.

But soon this sense of pride disappeared, because the cold wind blowing on my face reminded me of the words "The wind is slight and the cold of Yishui. The hero will never return once he leaves." I wonder how many of the warriors I brought out now will eventually come back alive...

Although it means that we know that the moment of war is not so fast, the soldiers' pace is getting faster and faster. I can understand this. As the elite of the 180th Division, the 538th Regiment is at the forefront no matter what the battle is fought, but this time, it is placed behind, just watching others beat themselves and just following them. This makes the soldiers feel a little bit like they are enjoying their achievements or even behind, so they subconsciously hope to enter the battlefield faster.

After marching on the highway for more than half an hour, I felt the emptiness behind the puppet army, because until now, the 539th Regiment, who was walking in front of us, had not encountered decent resistance. This can be seen from the sparse gunfire in front and the fact that there were no few puppet army bodies along the way.

I was thinking, this was a big sigh that the puppet army was shocked by the overwhelming force arranged by the Volunteer Army on the front line of Jincheng! On the front, the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army was confronted by the four divisions of the puppet army, which was under the jurisdiction of the 67, 68, and 54th Army, with a total of ten divisions. Ten divisions were against four divisions of the puppet army. Such forces made the puppet army feel that our country was of course focusing on frontal attacks. So all its attention was focused on the frontal.

But what they didn't expect was that when we were stabbed by the flank they thought was insufficient, we would block their retreat while attacking the front by overwhelming troops.

It should be said that the superior's intention is very obvious, which is to annihilate the elite troops of the puppet army in one fell swoop, so that the puppet army would lose the pillar of "working alone" that forced the Lee Seung-Wan group to bow their heads, thus achieving the goal of ushering in peace faster.

But this peace comes at the cost of the lives of tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers!

Just as I was thinking, a dense sound of guns and cannons suddenly came from the front. I couldn't help but stop, and I raised my telescope and looked in the direction where the guns and cannons came, but because I was blocked by the mountain, I could not see anything. Only lightning-like light appeared and disappeared under the outline of the mountain.

"Captain!" Li Pinghe leaned over and said, "It should be the comrades of the 539th Regiment who have caught fire with the enemy!"

"Yeah!" I nodded, and only then did I get angry when the march was marching. It should have been almost near the Jinchengchuan Bridge. Hearing the sound of gunfire, it seemed that the 539th Regiment's attack was not going smoothly.

Sure enough, the vanguard in front came back and reported: "Report to the regiment commander! The 539th Regiment was blocked at the nameless highland ahead, two kilometers away from the Jinchengchuan Bridge. The enemy's resistance was very tenacious and it might not be possible to resolve the battle quickly!"

"What's going on?" I couldn't help but frown.

We had such a great resistance before we even arrived at the Jinchengchuan Bridge, and we could not quickly resolve the battle... We were still waiting for them to capture the 551.6 high ground and then quickly followed the highway to the enemy's depth! The 539th Regiment was blocked, so we were so quick!

"Captain, telegram!" At this time, a telegram soldier stood in front of me and said, "It was sent by the 539th Regiment!"

"Read!" It is inconvenient to read telegrams in the dark and rain, so I used a more direct method.

"The third puppet division on the south bank of the Northern Han River was not defeated by our army. The remaining soldiers retreated in a planned manner to build a new line of defense two kilometers away from Jincheng River. The resistance was very tenacious and could not capture the 551.6 highland as planned!"

"Um!" I couldn't help but take a breath when I heard this telegram.

The puppet army is really more and more capable of fighting now. In the past, after their troops were defeated by us, they turned around and looked like a gust of wind. No one knew where they ran. But now... the remnants that were broken by us can still be concentrated, and a new line of defense has been built in such a short time!

This is not very good!

Then I quickly thought that if the puppet army troops were like this now, and after they were dispersed, they gathered in the rear, even if we could defeat the attack and win the battle, the more enemies we fought, the more we would fight the back. I didn’t know when it would be until the planned 585.2 highland! I still wanted to block the deserters of the puppet army at that time?

"Map!" I called out, and Xu Yongwei and Zhang Mingxue who were following me immediately moved. One opened the paper umbrella, the other brought the shell box, uncovered a layer of rain cloth to reveal the dry wooden boards below, and then took out the map and spread it out on it.

"Li Yongen!" I squatted in front of the shell box, looked at the map under the aperture of the flashlight and asked: "Is there any other road leading to the 585.2 Highland!"

Li Yongen's military rank is the major deputy battalion commander and the guide assigned by the People's Army to the 538th Regiment. Every time he fights, the People's Army will always provide us with some soldiers familiar with the combat terrain as guides. Such guides have been popularized to the first level of the company, and each company will be assigned two or three.

"Yes, yes!" Li Yongen said with some embarrassment: "It's just... the mountain road is very steep, the road is slippery! Dangerous!"
Chapter completed!