"It's finally time for a war" Zhang Tiansheng slammed the ground heavily, then picked up the rifle and followed the crowd out.

As soon as he walked out of the air-raid shelter, Zhang Tiansheng felt that the air was instantly very fresh, which contrasted with the turbid air in the air-raid shelter before, which made people feel as if they had arrived in heaven.

Looking around, Zhang Tiansheng's eyes suddenly focused on the river.

I saw that the Han River, which was originally clear and blue, was now full of black smoke and miasma, and countless plane wrecks and corpses were tumbling up and down on the waves of the river, and the Japanese positions on the opposite bank seemed to have been ploughed and raked.

Under the sunshine, there were no less than dozens of small gunboats of the Han army, heading straight for Jiangxin Island.

On the west bank of the Han River, a large number of infantry units of the Han army have boarded the ships one after another, and large and small fishing boats follow the gunboats and head towards Jiangxin Island.

In the sky, there were constantly Han fighters whistling by, bombs falling from the sky, and the Japanese positions on the east bank were bombed one after another, and there was no effective firepower to fight back.

As a result, the Han transport ships on the river were not blocked by any particularly large firepower.

Looking at the previously quiet Han River, which was already full of artillery fire at the moment, Zhang Tiansheng could only sigh a little and set off with the team.

On the west side of Jiangxin Island, the No. 1 gunboat of the Han Army.

"Captain, the island is lush with vegetation, and no enemy positions have been found. A Navy soldier reported from standing at the door of the command room.

Listening to the soldiers' words, the gunboat captain lowered his binoculars, and from the bright side, this Jiangxin Island seemed to be uninhabited, but the captain believed that the Japanese army would never give up such a critical place.

The seemingly uninhabited island in the middle of the river does not know what kind of defensive firepower has been arranged by the Japanese army.

"Keep watching, and attack as soon as there is an enemy in sight. The captain ordered.

"Yes" received this order, the soldier turned around and was about to leave, only to hear a cannon sound on Jiangxin Island, a cannonball "boom" flew from the right side of the gunboat, and finally did not hit the gunboat, but fell into the river behind the gunboat with the parabola, and hit a large splash.

The captain turned his head to look and saw that the soldier had been paralyzed by fright, so he shook his head helplessly, picked up the walkie-talkie, and shouted: "Fight back!"

With the first sound of the enemy's artillery fire, countless shells came out of their chambers, and for a time the ears were filled with whistling and explosions.

After all, the naval soldiers of the Han army were new recruits and had never participated in actual combat, but their reaction was half a beat slower than that of the Japanese army, and the Han gunboats were in the light and the Japanese defensive positions were in the dark, and for a time, seven or eight gunboats were hit and caught fire.

However, after all, the equipment advantage was there, and the gunboats of the Han army only lost some manpower and did not suffer a devastating blow.

But after all, the other party is secretly in the dark, and Jiangxin Island is preemptive, and the firepower is fierce, so it is impossible to organize a large-scale counterattack for a while.

The sound of explosions and bullets was full of ears, and the bulletproof glass in front of the command room of the No. 1 gunboat had already been hit with holes, so the captain had to hide behind the desk, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Gunner, what are you still doing in a daze, fire at me!"

As soon as the words fell, the bulletproof glass of the command room was shattered, countless bullets flew up and down, sparks flew in the command room, and the captain had no choice but to escape from the command room to avoid being injured by ricochets.

Directly in front of the gunboat, the barrel of the main turret was already aimed at Jiangxin Island, and with the order of the gun commander, a cannon sounded, and a shell instantly came out of the disembowel, and it reached the landing point in an instant, blowing up a large crater of several meters around the landing point.

With the fire of the main turret, the other two 30-mm rapid-fire guns on the gunboat also fired one after another, a series of bullet chains were clearly visible to the naked eye, countless shells seemed to be about to pear Jiangxin Island, countless trees were knocked down, and flesh and blood flew between the trees.

The counterattack of the No. 1 gunboat was only a prelude, and other gunboats that were still capable of fighting also opened fire one after another, and Jiangxin Island was instantly engulfed in flames, and the original fierce fire gradually disappeared, and the battlefield situation became a slaughter.

The enemy's defensive fire was completely destroyed, and the order was conveyed, and the front commander decisively ordered: "Landing on the island!"

Zhang Tiansheng and his soldiers in the same row were crowded on a small transport ship, and the original scene of bullets and fires had become a suppression on their own side.

Rao is like this, the sudden attack of the enemy just now still caused many transport ships to suffer heavy losses. On the Han River, there are also many heroic souls of Han soldiers.

After getting the order to land on the island, the dense ships on the Han River flocked to Jiangxin Island, and the remnants of the Japanese army on the island tried to stop the Han army's landing on the island, but as long as it fired, it was wiped out by the powerful firepower of the Han army, after all, Jiangxin Island is not large, and there will not be too many Japanese troops that can accommodate it.

After a scrambling fire, the remaining Japanese troops could no longer organize any effective counterattacks, and the Han landing ships came ashore with almost no special firepower.

Jiangxin Island is not a large area, and the artillery fire that ploughed the ground just now has caused most of the casualties of the Japanese troops guarding the island, and the remaining remnants of the Japanese army are easy and pleasant to clean up.

After occupying Jiangxin Island, they began to quickly build pontoon bridges.

However, the Japanese army on the other side of the river was not vegetarian after all, even if there were Han planes in the sky, Han gunboat fire suppression on the river, and Han artillery units on the west bank were watching closely, and the Japanese artillery did not give up.

However, the Japanese artillery unit can be regarded as clever, firing a cannon at one muzzle and changing the muzzle, so as to minimize the equipment and personnel losses of the Han army's targeted strikes against them.

Under the Japanese army's strategy of changing places with one shot, the Han army's long-range firepower was also a bit of a headache, but under the Han army's covering bombardment regardless of the cost, the loss of Japanese personnel and equipment had reached a very terrifying level, and if the Japanese artillery unit continued to fight, the Japanese artillery unit would cease to exist.

As a last resort, the Japanese had to stop shelling the Han pontoon bridge, and after a whole day of shelling on both sides of the Han River, tranquility finally returned.

With the fire of the Japanese army, the construction of three or four pontoon bridges was no longer hindered, and soon the pontoon bridge from the west bank to Jiangxin Island was built, and the next step was to march to the east bank.

The east bank of the Han River is only 500 meters away from Jiangxin Island, in fact, this distance is within the range of rifle fire, but the Japanese position on the east bank did not carry out any targeted shooting, but a dead silence, if it were not for the craters and dead bodies everywhere, it would really be believed that there were no enemy troops on the east bank.