On the way out of the city, Xu Wen asked the system: "Can you help me probe, where is the Japanese artillery position?" ”

Xu Wen was very surprised, this time his night raid did not trigger the random just-needed task, it seems that most of it is because the big task of defending Wuxi has been triggered.

The system did not answer immediately as usual, but was silent for a while before answering: "After the detection of this system, it was found that the artillery position of the 6th Division was 1.5 kilometers southwest of the forward position of the Japanese army, close to the Yangliu River. ”

As mentioned before, the terrain of Wuxi is suitable for the devils to attack mainly in the south and east of the city, there is a canal in the northwest of the city, and Taihu Lake in the west.

In the middle of the city to Taihu Lake, there are several rivers of different sizes, Yangliu River is the largest of them, it is connected to the Grand Canal in the north and Taihu Lake in the south.

The reason why the Japanese army could not attack from the west of the city was because of the existence of this river, which caused the terrain to be narrow in the west of the city, which was not conducive to the deployment of troops.

And the devils deployed their artillery positions in the southwest of Wuxi, close to the Yangliu River, also considering the existence of this river, which could provide cover for their artillery positions.

Because Gu Shoufu and his staff adjutants, as well as the commander of the artillery wing, all agreed that the defenders of the city were not capable of crossing the river, in this case, the river became a natural barrier.

Just imagine, the rear of the Devil's Artillery Wing is the field hospital and the baggage wing, and to the east is the division headquarters, the 36th brigade headquarters and other main forces.

In front of the attack, there are forward positions responsible for the attack, and in this case, the artillery wing is undoubtedly the safest.

If it is changed to other **, there may really be no way to attack the artillery wing of the devil.

Because it is obviously impossible to sneak attack from the front through the layers of Japanese positions and guards.

If you cross the river, you can only swim across with a small group of elite infantry, in this case, there will definitely be no way to carry heavy weapons, even if the crossing is successful, with only a small group of infantry, it is very difficult to kill the devil's artillery position before the surrounding Japanese reinforcements arrive.

Moreover, even if this attacking force succeeded in ending the Japanese artillery position, then it would be difficult to escape the end of being surrounded by a large number of devils on the east bank of the Yangliu River and the whole army was annihilated.

So, no matter how you look at it, the artillery positions of the devils are very safe.

However, Gu Shoufu and they never dreamed that their opponent was a big man with a systematic body.

After Xu Wen learned about the whereabouts of the artillery position from the system, he immediately asked the system again: "How do you think I can sneak attack, the probability of success is higher?" ”

The system replied: "Judging from the terrain and the deployment of the Japanese army, it is most appropriate to cross the Yangliu River and launch an attack from the west bank of the Yangliu River to the east bank!" ”

Xu Wen nodded, thinking that the system was good, so he asked, "However, I don't have an engineer unit, so I can't build a pontoon bridge for tanks and armored vehicles to pass?" ”

The system said: "There are multi-functional engineering vehicles in the system exchange shop that can automatically build steel pontoons, and the price is not expensive, you can take a look." ”

Xu Wen immediately opened the exchange shop of the system, found the auxiliary equipment column in the tank and combat vehicle category, and sure enough, he saw a multi-functional engineering vehicle that could build a pontoon bridge.

I saw that the site of this kind of engineering truck was similar to that of a truck, but it was driven by tracks, so that its off-road performance would be better and more suitable for the bad road conditions in China at that time.

The body is reproduced with a steel frame structure that can be contracted by hydraulic devices, somewhat similar to the rescue telescopic ladder used in later generations, or the kind of boom used in cranes.

It's just that the steel frame structure on this kind of carrier is very large, according to the above information, each engineering vehicle can build a steel structure temporary bridge with a length of ten meters, and the average width of the Yangliu River is about ten meters, counting the river beach silt area is more than ten meters.

Some places must be narrower, that is, Xu Wen only needs to exchange for two of these engineering vehicles that can build bridges, and he can build bridges on the Yangliu River for their armored troops to pass back and forth.

In addition to building bridges, this engineering vehicle can also be used to help build fortifications, the most ruthless thing is that it can directly fall off its own bridge structure, acting as a steel bunker for the defending troops, if you exchange some cement or something, then the fortifications are not indestructible?

With the scale of the devil's firepower, even if the air force is dispatched to bomb, it may not be able to cause substantial damage to the fortifications made of reinforced concrete weighing dozens or hundreds of tons.

However, Xu Wen kept these thoughts back on him for the time being, and he looked at the price of the multi-purpose carrier, five thousand points per vehicle, and it happened that he still had 10,000 points left in his hand.

Gritting his teeth, Xu Wen directly exchanged for two! As long as the devil artillery position is killed, the 6th Division will lose the ability to conquer Wuxi in a short time, so it will be much easier to complete this task by itself, so this point is worth it!

After getting the intelligence and the equipment for crossing the river, Xu Wen took the tank and armored battalion and immediately turned west after leaving the city from the south gate.

When he arrived at the southwest corner of the city wall, Xu Wen felt that crossing the river from here was too close to the main battlefield of the south gate and was easy to be discovered by devils, so he took his troops around to the west of the city and marched north along the path not far from the city wall.

In order to stay hidden, Xu Wen and the others did not have driving lights all the way, and they all relied on the soldiers who drove to move forward in the dark.

The fighters were very careful to prevent the tanks from going into the river, so the speed of movement became particularly slow.

After more than half an hour, Xu Wen and the others finally found a suitable crossing point in the south-west of the city.

Xu Wen immediately took out the multi-purpose engineering vehicle and sent a few soldiers to operate it, and soon the two engineering vehicles drove to the east bank of the Yangliu River, found a relatively hard embankment, and began to erect a steel bridge.

First of all, the engineering vehicle first stretched out sixteen mechanical arms, went deep into the ground to fix the hard ground, and found support for itself, and then the telescopic bridge steel frame structure on the body began to slowly stretch to the other side of the river.

Because it was a big guy and very bulky, the process was relatively slow, and it took nearly fifteen minutes for the huge construction truck engine to roar constantly, and finally the bridge structure was placed on the opposite bank.

Then everything went much smoother, and a very heavy steel plate bridge stretched out from the rear of the engineering vehicle, connecting its own body to the ground.

The steel plate is four or five meters wide and is fully accessible to all tank and armored vehicles, including the Tiger.

As the steel plate stretches out on the car body, several steel plates automatically stretch out and are laid on the frame, forming a steel channel that leads directly to the steel bridge.

Seeing that everything was ready, Xu Wen immediately retracted into the Tiger tank, took the walkie-talkie and ordered: "The Tiger tank will go first, and the other units will follow in turn, pass the bridge in an orderly and fast manner, and assemble on the west bank, remember not to turn on the lights, so as not to be exposed!" ”