In fact, last night, the Navy's First Artillery Fleet was already secretly heading to the mouth of the Mihe River under the cover of the Navy's main fleet, along the coastline.

And arrived at dawn without incident, but the first to take the field was not the little guys of the First Artillery Fleet, but the main ocean-going fleet of the Navy.

This time, the United Army Navy almost poured out the main force, except for a few old ironclad ships and cruisers that stayed in Nanfeng Harbor, guarded the Shayangwan Strait, and guarded the interior and sea of Shayang Bay, the United Army Navy almost brought the remaining capital ships over, a full sixteen capital ships, including the Pingbo armored ship and the Luohai dome armored cruiser.

The main fleet directly hit the mouth of the Mihe River, and a Jingzhou warship on patrol saw such a huge fleet and ran directly to the sea area to the north.

Without the obstruction of enemy warships, the main fleet completely blocked the waters near the mouth of the Mihe River.

At this time, the First Artillery Fleet, which was carefully following behind, entered the Mi River and began to move up the middle river of the Mi River.

After entering the Mihe River, the officers and men of the United Army on these small and medium-tonnage inland gunboats breathed a sigh of relief.

On the sea, they are all small and need the protection of the main fleet, not to mention, and more importantly, they are all inland river warships with shallow drafts, and their ability to resist wind and waves is really worrying.

Although last night's wind and waves were not big, they were still there, and they were not calm, and in order to arrive at Mihe in time, it was impossible to stop or avoid the wind and waves, so that several river warships on the way were almost sunk by the wind and waves.

After entering the Mihe, they were completely relieved.

After entering the Mihe River, the First Artillery Fleet and several river warships that were originally stationed here converged, and then continued upstream, and the river warships stationed here by the Jingzhou Allied Forces naturally did not watch them enter.

Seven or eight river warships on the Jingzhou side tried to intercept them under the cover of coastal batteries.

But under the powerful fire of the 1st Artillery Flotilla, their interception made no sense!

After sinking two enemy ships, the remaining enemy ships fled cleanly upstream.

The First Artillery Fleet did not pursue, but continued to continue northward in a step-by-step manner, and finally arrived at the Black Feather Ferry!

This is the most downstream of the Mihe defense line, and it is also the best crossing port for crossing the river, and it was here that the Daheng people and the Wuyu people fought the battle of crossing the river.

And the key point of the planned crossing of the river of the Daheng United Army is to choose here!

It is true that the enemy forces on the opposite side are also the largest, but the unified army still chose this place as the main attack point, because the unified army also has the largest number of troops in this direction.

Because the south side of the Wuyu Ferry is the terminus of the northeast line of the Dongdingzhou railway network, it is very convenient to mobilize heavy artillery troops and ammunition, and three 200-mm train guns can be here.

At the same time, it was able to get the fire support of the First Artillery Fleet at the first time, and even if necessary, some ships of the main fleet could venture into this place and shell the enemy troops at the Wujiang crossing.

Although the enemy army is strong, the strength and firepower of the Daheng unified army here are stronger!

On the contrary, if it is replaced by a few other ferries, it seems that the enemy army is weak, but for the unified army, it is actually a lot of trouble, at least in the absence of a railway, the three train guns are not expected to be able to go over to support, and some 150mm cannon troops, which are all more than a dozen tons of big things, do not expect to be able to quickly maneuver in place.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Liang Chenglei and many staff officers under his command chose to take the Wuyu Ferry as the main attack point, and in order to successfully cross the river, he even waited until the arrival of the First Artillery Fleet before ordering the artillery units to carry out artillery bombardment at 9 o'clock in the morning, instead of starting the shelling at dawn.

This is to buy time and force the Karawa ferry before the enemy reacts as much as possible!

At 9 o'clock in the morning, after seeing the arrival of the First Artillery Fleet one after another, the artillery regiments of the divisions of the Third Army and the Fourth Army, the two artillery regiments under the army, all the Second Artillery Brigade, the 10th Siege Heavy Artillery Regiment, the 19th Siege Heavy Artillery Regiment, three 200-mm train guns, and a total of more than 400 barreled artillery pieces shelled the coalition forces on the other side of the river.

At 9:15 a.m., the gunboats of the First Artillery Fleet, which had arrived at the scheduled battlefield, also began to shell the coalition forces on the other side of the river, which was again more than 100 pieces of artillery, and dozens of them were heavy artillery.

In order to cover the crossing of the river by the infantry troops, the Daheng Unification Army organized a total of more than 600 body-barreled artillery pieces of the army and navy to carry out intensive artillery bombardment of the Jingzhou coalition forces.

The shells continued to fall on the north shore positions as if they didn't want money!

This large-scale artillery scene made the soldiers of the Jingzhou Coalition Army on the north bank of the Mi River stunned!

However, the Jingzhou coalition army did not sit still, and after the unified army launched a large-scale artillery bombardment, the Jingzhou side also mobilized breeched artillery units to counterattack.

A young doctor in Jingzhou had just commanded a rear-loading artillery battalion under his command to launch a counterattack, and it had not been long before he had just counterattacked, when he suddenly saw dozens of black dots flying in the sky, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound.

It's over!

These are his last thoughts!

The 75-mm breech-loading rifled artillery battalion of the Jingzhou Allied Army had just launched a counterattack for only five minutes, and it was because of its exposed position that it was subjected to a long-range attack by the 150-mm cannon of the unified army on the other side of the river!

This time, it can be said that the counterattack exceeded their expectations.

Today's breech-loading rifled guns are not a secret, but not only the Daheng unified army is equipped with a large number of breech-loading rifled guns, but the current Jingzhou coalition army is also equipped with a large number of breech-loading rifled guns.

Relying on the huge scale and strong technical ability of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, they began to imitate the breech-loading rifled guns last year and began production this year, and in April, the production capacity of the various types of breech-loading rifled guns of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau exceeded 150 units.

And they did not only produce 75-mm breech-loading guns, they also produced larger-caliber and even longer-barreled guns, successively producing and installing 100-mm field guns, 120-mm field guns, and 150-mm howitzers.

Among them, the 100-mm field guns and 120-mm field guns can reach an effective range of 7,500 meters, and on the whole, the performance is comparable to that of the 100-mm field guns and 120-mm field guns equipped in the Daheng Unified Army.

After all, the technical strength of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau and the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is about the same, and when it is actually put into mass production, it is normal for the performance of the artillery that can be produced to be about the same.