"Yo Xi." Ushijima Sadao was full of joy and seemed to agree with Kofusawa's opinion.

"Look, they're starting to launch the boat."

A voice shouted, and everyone hurriedly looked ahead, only to see that logs were swooping into the water from the four slides, and the thrust of the ramp made each log have the momentum of thunder, falling into the water and splashing more than ten meters high.

The log in front had just fallen into the water, and the one behind had arrived, and the thrust of the water combined with the direct impact force made the log quickly advance towards the center of the river.

On the shore, there are cranes and trucks everywhere, all of which are machine-operated, making it all very fast.

It's just that these logs don't look like boats, although it can be seen that there are hollows carved out at both ends or in the center of the trees, but any one of them is a behemoth weighing several tons or more than ten tons, and it is impossible for human power to row them.

Ushijima Sadao seemed to understand something, his face suddenly changed drastically, and he exclaimed, "It's not good, they're going to fill the river with trees." ”

The people present were a little dumbfounded, obviously frightened by these words, and the little Fujisawa fox who came back to his senses said suspiciously: "Fill in the river? This one...... Unlikely, the river is flowing, and the trees will go down with the water, how long will it take, how many trees will it take to fill the river? ”

Ushijima Sadao's eyes narrowed slightly, a cold light flashed, and he said coldly: "It is impossible to row a 'boat' like this with manpower, they erected a scaffold, just to allow these logs to cross the river quickly, the impact of the waves will cancel out the force of the current, maybe it won't take one night, they can fill the entire river." ”

Xiao Fujisawa suddenly felt that his face was hot, just now he was abusing people is poor in donkey skills, and now it seems that he is lonely, if this plan can become a reality, the time for the national army to cross the river can be more than doubled, and it is safe and fast.

And it is suitable for large-scale attacks by large forces, the infantry is like walking on the ground on the water, and all kinds of tactical actions are not violated, so that the suppressive firepower of the locusts army is somewhat weak.

"They must not be allowed to succeed." Little Fujisawa exclaimed: "I think we should immediately retract the artillery wing and destroy their four slipways." ”

The island army knew that its artillery could not compete head-on with the national army, so the artillery wing was also dispersed to various regions, making full use of the terrain and geographical advantages to build, not only to play a suppressive role, but also not to be easily destroyed by the national army.

Putting the artillery wing in front of the national army to fight against the national army is undoubtedly looking for death, this kind of low-level mistake Ushijima Sadao will not make, but he did not refuse head-on, after a little thought, Ushijima Sadao said: "Order the 58th Wing in front to open fire and destroy their slipway." ”

The actual distance between the two armies will not exceed 400 meters, and small-caliber artillery can completely cover it, so it is not impossible to take this opportunity to test the defensive firepower of the Chinese army.

Considering that the national army might bomb indiscriminately, after the order was issued, Ushijima Sadao and his party went directly into the ground, and the entire jungle was full of their anti-artillery holes.

Two minutes later, there was a sudden burst of gunfire on the island's defense line, and a dense burst of ammunition smashed into the defense line of the national army on the opposite bank.

But in less than a minute, the terrifying screams behind the national defense line were everywhere, followed by a rapid stream of fire, and the entire north bank of the Cagayan River seemed to be covered with artillery fire, and for a time the landslide cracked and the ground shook.

At first glance, this posture is a heavy *•cannon, with a caliber of at least more than a hundred, and it is also an artillery group.

As far as the scattered small-caliber artillery of the island army was completely submerged in an instant, and there was no sound at all.

The only thing that was rampant was the machine-gun firing point, and the bullets were still swept in flakes like rain, flying towards the opposite bank.

Although machine guns cannot destroy fortifications, there are still a lot of construction vehicles and personnel on the opposite bank, and as long as they are killed and injured in large numbers, they can also play a delaying role.

However, the island army made a mistake in their wishful thinking, and almost at the moment when they launched their attack, one after another Sherman tanks came out of the rear, lined up in a line on the opposite bank, forming a steel protection, and machine guns and tank guns opened fire wildly.

The island nation was currently extremely short of supplies and could not withstand a long-term ineffective attack, so after five minutes, they voluntarily stopped firing.

However, the Nationalist army continued to bomb their front line indiscriminately for more than 10 minutes, as if they were telling the island army with retaliatory means not to provoke them easily, otherwise they would usher in endless bombing.

Half an hour later, Ushijima Sadao came out of the ground, and the place where they were standing just now was already full of craters, and the national army did not set a target at all, and the whole thing was an indiscriminate bombardment, and it was estimated that all areas within the range of artillery fire were repeatedly plowed several times.

Looking at the devastation, Ushijima Sadao's face was full of iron, but the water column on the opposite bank appeared in his field of vision again at this time, and the national army began to throw trees into the river again, so arrogant that he simply didn't pay attention to the locust army at all.

"Eight Tooth Road." Ushijima Sadao popped out a few words from between his teeth, and he was so angry that he trembled a little.

A young staff officer who had no eyes reported the battle damage to him at this time, just this round of bombardment, which caused nearly 1,000 casualties in the locust army, and countless fortifications were destroyed.

Ushijima Sadao who couldn't breathe out of the evil breath immediately slapped the unlucky Shaozo to the ground, and finally walked into the jungle with a black face and a word.

Chief of Staff Kofusawa sighed lightly, beckoned to a large officer beside him, and when Osa stepped forward, he said softly: "Captain Noma, this place will be handed over to you, at all costs must prevent the army from crossing the river, I will truthfully report everything here to the headquarters, I believe that General Yamashita and General Hori will definitely come up with a feasible plan as soon as possible." ”

"Hai, everything is up to General Koto, don't worry, as long as I have a breath of Noma Sanshin, I will never let one of the soldiers cross the river."

"So, please."

After Xiao Fujisawa finished speaking, he bowed at Noma Sanshinichi, then turned around and walked quickly to follow Ushijima Sadao.

On the highway, a command tank and several motorcycles drove out of the jungle, and Ushijima Sadao got on the command tank without saying a word, seeing that the situation was ready to return to the headquarters.

The situation in front of them is almost incomprehensible, and the specific response plan has to be carefully studied by the command, and time is already very tight for them.

The command vehicle was quickly driven, several motorcycles in front of it cleared the way, and a squadron of soldiers surrounded the command vehicle forward.

There were still a few troop carriers when they came, and it was estimated that they had suffered from the bombing, and no one would be in the mood to mention it.

The headquarters was set up in a large rear more than a dozen miles away, far from the bombing center.