In order to increase the firepower of the troops crossing the river, the navy specially modified a number of river warships and equipped them with steam cranes that can only be configured by cargo ships, so as to be able to transport heavy weapons across the river in the early stage.

When the Daheng Unification Army launched a formal crossing of the river, the Jingzhou coalition army naturally would not sit idly by, and they also tried their best to intercept the river-crossing troops.

However, at this time, their artillery units were completely suppressed, and the front-line beachhead troops lacked strong fire support, which led to the intensive artillery bombardment of the Daheng unified army on one side, with heavy casualties.

Without the threat of long-range artillery fire from the enemy, a large number of 75-millimeter guns and 150-millimeter howitzers in the Daheng United Army had relatively close ranges, and only four or five thousand meters of artillery directly fired at the enemy positions on the beachhead.

In particular, the 150-mm howitzers put great pressure on the enemy's beachhead.

The 51-year 150mm short-barreled howitzer, this gun can be regarded as the second officially installed breech-loading rifled gun in the Daheng United Army, with a limited range of 4,000 meters from the early model, and then gradually increased to the current 5,000 meters.

Its firing range can be said to be very average, even a seventy-five-mm field gun is inferior, and the accuracy is honestly average.

But the weight is very light, the combat weight of the whole gun is only more than two tons, and the most important thing is that the power is huge.

The 150-millimeter caliber artillery shell has an extremely powerful explosion power, and it is the most powerful conventional artillery in the Daheng unified army at present.

Further up, only three two-hundred-millimeter train guns were able to surpass.

Even if it is a 150mm cannon, it only has a longer range, but the explosive power of the shell itself is actually about the same.

Its huge explosive power is enough for the Daheng United Army to ignore its shortcomings of short range, and even adopt various tactics when fighting, so as to cover the smooth front-loading and shelling of this high-powered artillery.

Except for a few special long-range heavy artillery regiments, most of the independent artillery regiments in the artillery units of the Daheng Unification Army have three artillery battalions, often a 100-mm cannon battalion or a 120-mm field gun, with two 150-mm short-barreled howitzer battalions.

The basic tactical concept is to use field artillery for long-range suppression, cover 150mm howitzers for artillery bombardment, strike at enemy positions, and then cover infantry attacks.

In the current battle of crossing the river, the artillery bombardment is similar, using 100-mm cannons and 120-mm cannons to suppress medium-distance enemy targets, and 150-mm cannons to suppress long-distance enemy targets.

Use 75mm guns and 150mm short-barreled howitzers to suppress enemy targets at close range.

This creates a range of fire covering between kilometers and 12,000 kilometers!

From the beachhead to the north bank of the Mi River, several kilometers away, all of them were within the range of conventional artillery fire of the Tang Army.

This is not the naval guns of the Navy's First Artillery Fleet, these gunboats directly ran to the Mihe River to shell, in order to maintain the accuracy of the shooting, they also risked stopping the ship and lowering the anchor, and all the long-barreled guns, the effective range is very long, of course, due to the instability of the firing platform, its shooting accuracy is not as high as the army's long-range artillery.

There are also three train guns, these three 250 mm ship guns converted from train guns, the power is huge, this time in the river crossing operation, specially used to deal with some strong fortresses on the other side of the river, especially the enemy directly built on the fortress batteries not far from the Mi River.

The power of the 200-millimeter shells is not to be said, and the civil fortifications built by the enemy army cannot resist this level of shelling, even if they cannot penetrate these fortresses, but the earthquake can also shock the people inside to death.

Such a large-scale artillery bombardment, not to mention the three-state coalition forces on the other side of the river were stunned and frightened, even Liang Chenglei, the commander of the Jingzhou Campaign of the Daheng Unification Army, was shocked in his heart.

More than 600 barreled guns, including hundreds of large-caliber guns, were intensively shelled, and the spectacle was so magnificent that it was impossible to imagine without seeing it with your own eyes.

Under the cover of large-scale artillery fire, the 16th Brigade braved sporadic enemy counter-artillery fire to cross the river.

The current at the Uwa Ferry was gentle and not wide, so the soldiers of the 16th Brigade soon rowed small boats and rafts to the other side of the river.

As soon as they arrived on the other side of the river, the soldiers waded into the water and rushed to the beachhead, and the enemy counterattack fire, which had been in ambush for a long time, began to return fire.

Many enemy artillery pieces, which had endured not firing before, immediately removed the camouflage such as tree branches and opened fire on the soldiers of the 16th Brigade on the beachhead.

At the same time, the surviving soldiers, who were hiding in the beachhead trenches and endured intensive shelling, also came out of the anti-artillery holes at the urging of the officers, climbed up the trench more than two meters deep through ladders, and began to shoot at the soldiers of the 16th Brigade on the beachhead with the Luoan III rifles in their hands.

With the enemy's firepower counterattack, the first batch of hundreds of soldiers of the 16th Brigade rushed to the beachhead, and there were many dead and wounded in an instant, and the beachhead was almost covered with the dead and wounded of the Daheng United Army, so that when the latecomers charged, they needed to be a little careful, otherwise, they would either step on the corpses of their comrades, or step on the wounded but still alive comrades.

However, the officers who led the troops on the front line still brandished their sabers one by one and shouted various slogans to direct the soldiers to rush forward quickly.

"Quick, rush forward, don't stay on the beachhead and wait for death, rush over!"

A large number of grassroots officers, wielding sabers, commanded the soldiers to continue to assault forward, braving enemy artillery fire and rifle fire to intercept!

"Rush!"

"For the sake of Daheng unity!"

"Daheng boy will fight to the death!"

These young and enthusiastic junior officers led the soldiers to continue to rush forward, ignoring the flying bullets, stepping on the gap between the corpses of their comrades, and continuing to charge forward.

Some of the soldiers also held shields made of steel plates to resist the enemy's rifle fire, protect themselves and cover their comrades behind them.

When the soldiers of the 16th Brigade braved a large number of casualties and the soldiers continued to attack in the gap between the corpses of their comrades, Liang Chenglei on the south bank held a telescope and observed the battle on the other side of the river.

Although he had already expected that the first wave of attacks across the river would suffer relatively large casualties, it was still a little difficult for him to accept it in his eyes.

At present, the 16th Brigade's fighting method is not at all tactical, and several thousand men rowed across the river on rafts, carrying only rifles, heavy machine guns, rapid-fire mortars, and other light weapons, and rushed forward directly after reaching the beachhead on the other side of the river.

Because it was an open area, if you didn't rush over, you would be directly exposed to enemy beachhead interception fire.

Soldiers are constantly falling in the charge, and more are charging behind them!

In this battle, Liang Chenglei was very uncomfortable!