This kind of combat method of braving the enemy's counterattack fire and forcibly launching a dense charge is not what the Daheng Unified Army is good at.

The Daheng Unification Army is better at suppressing the enemy with superior firepower, and then the infantry adopts a scattered formation to infiltrate the terrain and make a detour.

However, when the river was just crossed, facing a large area of open beachhead, there was no terrain to use at all, and in order to protect the soldiers in the early stage, the Ordnance Department even temporarily made a batch of steel plate shields......

At this time, there is no other feasible way than to rush through this hundreds of meters of open area with your head covered!

And this kind of offensive tactic, it is reasonable for the troops to suffer heavy casualties.

However, what made him more relieved was that the heavy shelling had played its due role, and the enemy's beachhead counterattack fire was weaker than expected.

This shows that the heavy shelling in the early stage still had a great effect.

In addition, the staff officers proposed to directly set up heavy machine guns on some small boats, and the heavy machine guns were protected by shields, and after crossing the river, the small boats directly rushed to the beach, and then the machine gunners directly operated the heavy machine guns on the boats to carry out intensive strafing at the enemy's beachhead defense line several hundred meters away.

The aim was not to kill or wound as many enemy troops, but to suppress the enemy's beachhead counterattack fire and cover the infantry units to attack.

Now it seems that the suppression of the firepower of these heavy machine guns has achieved relatively good results, and Liang Chenglei personally saw several enemy counterattack defense lines with dense firepower, which were completely suppressed by his own heavy machine gun firepower and did not dare to raise his head to counterattack.

The role of this machine gun is no less than the fierce artillery fire in the rear!

Even because it is closer to the enemy and has more firepower, it can play a greater role.

This heavy machine gun, if used properly, is still relatively easy to use to cover the attacking troops.

With the heavy artillery support from the rear, under the cover of heavy machine gun fire, and under the 16th Brigade charging forward like crazy, the enemy's first line of beachhead defense finally could not hold on.

About fifteen minutes after the troops of the 16th Brigade reached the beachhead, the troops of the 16th Brigade captured the first line of enemy beachhead defense closest to the river.

When he saw the flag of the 16th Brigade raised on the enemy's first beachhead line, Liang Chenglei was also greatly relieved.

In the first stage, the forced crossing of the river was considered a success.

As long as the first line of defense of the enemy's beachhead is taken, then it will be possible to establish a relatively stable beachhead to cover the crossing of the river by more soldiers in the rear.

At the very least, the soldiers who crossed the river later did not have to worry about being fired by the enemy's intensive rifle fire as soon as they got off the boat.

As for the enemy's artillery bombardment, it was inevitable, and the artillery positions of the three-state coalition army were all hiding hundreds or even thousands of meters away, and the 16th Brigade itself was not capable of solving these problems, so it had to rely on long-range suppression artillery in the rear.

The long-range suppression artillery in the rear has not been idle, and it has continued to carry out fierce shelling of key targets such as exposed enemy artillery positions.

In particular, an exposed artillery fortress was subjected to the concentrated fire of three 200-millimeter train guns!

Because this artillery fortress, there are several rear-loading guns erected on it, which can directly aim at the entire beachhead, although these artillery pieces are not many, but they have caused a lot of threat to the troops crossing the river, and this fortress is very strong, ordinary artillery is helpless against them.

In order to cover the safety of the troops crossing the river, the artillery unit of the unified army directly used train guns, and three train guns aimed at this strong artillery fortress and carried out fierce shelling.

When the heavy shelling passed, the fortress was gone!

Because of the huge explosion, the entire gun position was directly destroyed.

After the 16th Brigade successfully crossed the river and occupied the beachhead, it did not stop, but continued to attack in depth.

At this time, the 16th Brigade was much more comfortable fighting, and it could frequently use the tactics of dispersion and infiltration and detour, instead of being the same as when it was on the river beach, and could only rush forward stupidly, without the slightest tactic to speak of.

In the face of this typical offensive and tactical attack of the 16th Brigade of the Daheng United Army, it was even more difficult for the defending units of the Tri-State Coalition Army to resist.

Three hours later, the 16th Brigade had advanced about 1,000 meters, successively captured the enemy's two lines of defense, and at the same time expanded the width of the beachhead to 2,000 meters.

The 15th Brigade of the 8th Division has also begun to quickly cross the river by rafts, small pontoon bridges.

So far, the first stage of the entire river-crossing operation plan has been completed.

The two brigades of the Eighth Division, with about 10,000 people, have all successfully crossed the river, although the people who crossed the river were all light infantry, and in addition to the rifles they carried, there were only more than 30 heavy machine guns and dozens of rapid-fire mortars.

In addition, six naval gunboats helped to transport the 150-mm light howitzers that had been loaded.

However, the 8th Division of this size was still enough to consolidate and further expand the beachhead, better cover the friendly troops in the rear, as well as heavy artillery, and cross the river with heavy baggage.

Gao Gaocai, the commander of the Eighth Division, jumped from a small boat with his chief of staff and dozens of people from the division headquarters, and directly stepped on the land of the river beach.

Soldiers were scattered like headless flies, and there were a large number of wailing wounded soldiers on the beach, and not far away were rows of corpses of the fallen that had been gathered up and covered with cloth.

The artillerymen of the first batch of divisional artillery regiments who crossed the river from pontoon bridges were laboriously pushing the 75-millimeter guns forward from the soft river beach.

However, according to the battle plan, Gao Gao knew that when the troops crossing the river in the early stage crossed the river, they should have carried enough thick planks, which were not for anything else, but to pave the road on the beach.

It was used to give artillery and four-wheeled heavy carriages to quickly pass through the soft sandy and silt beachheads.

But now, there are a few roads paved with thick planks, and most of the roads are sand and soft mud......

"Adjutant, where are the planks prepared in advance?" Gao Gao asked directly: "There is no thick plank paving, so many artillery and baggage, when will you be able to leave the beachhead?" ”

At this time, the adjutant beside him said: "My lord, some of the thick planks we carried across the river were lost when we crossed the river, and some of them were partially blown up by the enemy when we paved the road before, and some were taken away by the troops in front, and when the troops in front of us transferred 150 mm howitzers, they encountered some muddy sections......

"Originally, we tried to use ordinary planks to pave the road, but the ordinary planks were not thick enough to be used on the already soft river beach, and the artillery broke as soon as it was pressed up!"

"Now we are organizing people to dig and transport stones and soil nearby, lay the foundation and then lay wooden planks."