After watching the sporadic battle of the infiltration of the defensive lines of both sides in the afternoon, Merlin they continued to climb the hill the next day to observe the battle between the two sides, which was the case for several days.

On this day, it rained coldly, and just when the Merlinfish thought that there would be no battle today, or that they no longer wanted to see such sporadic small battles of attrition, a Qing envoy appeared in their camp and told them that today the Japanese were ready to try to break through on the frontal battlefield and occupy a bridgehead on the opposite bank.

Under the gloomy sky, the Japanese carried out an hour-long artillery preparation, and blew up the enemy's defensive positions five miles on the opposite bank, and the soldiers of the Russian expeditionary force on the opposite bank did not move on their positions, only a few people were blown away by the artillery, and in other places there were more destruction of enemy fortifications and some obstacles in the way of advance.

There was only one Nanyang indigenous force of about 10,000 people, starting from the entire position five miles wide on the front position, running towards the opposite side, and the enemy's cannon fodder also came immediately, and suddenly the limbs flew sideways, and there were countless deserters, but the Japanese in the back calmly killed the deserters who fled to within 100 meters of the position, driving them to continue to advance.

The natives of Nanyang panicked to find a place to hide between the two positions, more people were facing the enemy's shells, difficult to advance towards the riverbank, a small number of two or three thousand people arrived at the riverbank, and then began to build a pontoon bridge with local materials, or a rope, or a plank, the people who came behind continued to do the same thing under artillery fire, in the field of vision of Merlin Fish and Lu Bao, the number was rapidly decreasing, but the second wave, the third wave of indigenous soldiers and horses set off, carrying materials, and soon after two hours of attack, They connected the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank.

Then, the enemy's artillery fire stopped, and there was no artillery on that side that could fight for two hours in a row, and the shells could not be consumed so much even in the eyes of Merlin and Lu Bao, with the boldness of the Huaxia army, although the artillery fire on both sides was actually not as dense as the artillery preparation of the Huaxia army, which also provided conditions for the Japanese to force the crossing, if the artillery of the Huaxia army was prepared, in this case, it would be good if 30,000 Nanyang indigenous soldiers could have 1,000 people reach the riverbank.

Because both sides had been here for too short a time, and both sides had artillery, and the front of the confrontation was too long, neither side had time to advance the trenches to the banks of the river, so each attack had to brave the enemy's artillery fire to make people build bridges, and the troops behind both sides called up men to dig the trenches deep and dig the trenches to the river until they were close to the river.

After the bridge was built, 50,000 Goguryeo soldiers and 3,000 Japanese soldiers crossed the bridge, rushed towards the enemy's trenches and fortifications, ran through the passage opened by artillery fire, and got closer and closer to the enemy's position, but the enemy did not react, and when the enemy's position was a mile away, the enemy's artillery fire began again, but this time it was to bomb the side of the river, the enemy's side, and the attacking Goguryeo team.

"The Japanese are very cunning, they are not going to attack, they are pushing their positions to the banks of the river." Lu Bao held the binoculars and said.

Merlinyu turned the telescope to the Japanese side, on the side of the riverbank, and saw that the Japanese dispatched a dense crowd of people, depending on the situation, the people, and some Nanyang natives, and even some Japanese soldiers, as well as the supervised Qing cavalry, began to dig on the side of the riverbank, and one by one large pits were dug out, and then shallow trenches were dug out, and then quickly connected together.

The trenches stretched on both sides, into the hilly terrain, and connected to the trenches there, although shallow, it was believed that it would not take long to dig deep.

There were even people carrying earth, trying to raise and level this side of the riverbank, and widen the pontoon bridge, while the Russian artillery was violently bombarding the attacking 50,000 Goguryeo soldiers and horses, as well as the 3,000 Japanese supervising soldiers and horses, and the Japanese did not even provide firepower, leaving the soldiers and horses crossing the river to fend for themselves.

The Russians were deceived, their artillery took care of that side and couldn't take care of this side, the Japanese could just expand the defense of their side, it seems that the Japanese are fighting step by step, and at the same time they will not hesitate to sacrifice.

It had been half an hour since the Russians discovered the Japanese attempt, but in the face of nearly 50,000 attacks, they still took care of the main artillery fire and supported that side, while only sporadic artillery bombardment on this side, at the work site of tens of thousands of people, the panic and flight caused by this artillery fire were quickly suppressed by the Mongolian cavalry and Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese continued to do their excavation work at the risk of casualties.

Soon there were more pontoon bridges, not more than a dozen, but hundreds, nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses were building bridges, and more bridges.

During the period when the Russians bombarded this side several times, they blew up dozens of pontoon bridges, and blew up tens of thousands of corpses all over the field, but they still couldn't change the determination of the Japanese, many soldiers and horses gathered from the rear fortifications, and then crossed the river bank through the remaining pontoon bridges, and then joined the team of the impact, which stretched endlessly, and then more people began to cross the river, digging trenches and fortifications on the river bank, and at first just to guard the pontoon bridge, only ten meters away from the river bank, It's like building a barrage.

Later, tens of thousands of people, still ordinary people, advanced 100 meters, dug trenches at 100 meters, built fortifications, transferred materials, and even artillerymen pushed cannons over the widened pontoon bridge, hid behind the fortifications, and immediately plunged into the big battle, providing short, sporadic artillery support to the soldiers and horses who were constantly coming out from behind to join the attack.

Regardless of casualties and supply losses, the Japanese were killed and wounded by noon, and it was estimated that there were at least 100,000 people based on the experience of Merlin and Lü Bao in so many years of warfare, but there was still a steady stream of people driving up, giving people a sense of despair that could not be killed and killed.

There is a width of six miles across the river, the Japanese have advanced a mile deep by the afternoon, and fully occupied the bank of the river with a width of six miles, to both sides, the front built a trench, a camp, and an artillery position, piled up a lot of materials, more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers entered the fortifications to garrison, the rest as long as the soldiers and horses crossing the river, not the Japanese soldiers and horses all attacked, the front attack of the Nanyang indigenous 50,000 soldiers and horses are basically dead, not even 3,000 Japanese soldiers left, and then behind the Southeast Asian indigenous soldiers and horses.

By evening, the Japanese had already rushed into the area covered by Russian artillery fire, and the forward position of the Russian Expeditionary Force was 1.5 kilometers away, and in the endurance of sporadic and weak Russian artillery fire, about 100,000 Japanese and nearly 300,000 Nanyang people and the indigenous people of Southeast Asia were working to consolidate their positions.

At this time, the Japanese no longer had to send troops to attack, they had successfully gained a firm foothold on the other side, at the cost of the death of 50,000 Nanyang indigenous soldiers, 15,000 Japanese soldiers, 5,000 Southeast Asian soldiers, 100,000 dead civilians, and 210,000 wounded by Merlin Yu and Lü Bao from the envoys of the Great Qing Dynasty.

The Russians also estimated that there were several thousand casualties, because the native soldiers of Nanyang had captured the enemy's first line of trenches and destroyed countless fortifications of the enemy's first line of defense, but the Russians sent serfs and regular soldiers and horses to carry out many counter-charges, and finally recaptured them before the evening.

"This battle consumed almost one-third of the strength of the Japanese servant army in this area, the Nanyang natives, the Goryeo natives, and the rest of the Qing kingdom that the Great Qing Kingdom had thrown to them, as well as the other unwanted forces and kingdom populations and soldiers that we had thrown to them." Merlin sat down to take a sip of water, and by this time they had returned to their camp.

Lu Bao held a piece of paper, "Facing the Swedish and Polish side, the Japanese also launched the same bridgehead battle, they not only captured the first line of defense of the Swedes and Poles, but also killed a general of the enemy, and there were also a lot of deaths, now the Japanese consumed a lot of cannon fodder that they could use, and the next battle will see if they can withstand the fierce counterattack of the Russians and Swedes tonight and in the future." ”

(End of chapter)