It was precisely because of the heavy rain in the morning that the expeditionary force was greatly assisted, and the water level of the Nandu River rose rapidly, and the rolling yellow waves swept away to the west, which to a large extent increased the difficulty of the Japanese attack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The logistics channels of the six divisions of the Japanese army were blocked, and the panic mood of the top brass can be imagined, and the pressure on the 1st Guards Division was enormous, so it did not come to the void at all, and as soon as it came up, it was a fierce attack.

The Japanese army obviously came prepared, and with the help of artillery fire, all kinds of assault boats, rubber boats, bamboo rafts, and rafts were all carried into the Nandu River, densely packed like carp crossing the river, and rowed to the north bank with all their strength against the rapid flowing water.

The terrain on both sides of the Nandu River is relatively flat, except for the river in front of them, it can almost be said that there is no danger to defend, the defense line of the new 38th Division of the expeditionary force is built on the north bank of the Nandu River about 300 meters, and they do not dare to build the fortifications too close to the riverbed, once the Japanese army destroys the embankment, the river water will pour into the fortifications, and they can only retreat to the second.

Because of the remoteness of the defense line and the low-lying riverbed, the Japanese troops crossing the river did not have to suffer the threat of bullet rain, they could deal with the panting river with all their might, and the assault boat crossed the river, and immediately pulled up countless ropes on the river surface, and the rubber boats, bamboo rafts, and rafts behind could be dragged across the river with ropes, and they no longer had to drift erritate in the rapids, could not dock, and did not have to worry about the river overturning the boats.

The Japanese sappers also began to build pontoon bridges on these ropes, and hundreds of rubber boats, assault boats, and these bamboo rafts alone could not meet the needs of tens of thousands of troops crossing the river, and pontoon bridges were indispensable.

As the first troops crossed the river and quickly set up fire points on the north bank, a large number of sappers also poured onto the water to step up the construction of pontoon bridges.

In less than half an hour, the pontoon bridge was almost close to the center of the river, just when the Japanese thought that the troops could smoothly drive to the opposite bank, the defense line of the expeditionary force suddenly sounded without any warning, and then the dense shells poured down like raindrops to the south across the river, and in the rumbling explosion, the huge waves were as high as dozens of meters, and the density was comparable to a wall of water, and the Japanese troops in the river would be overturned by the huge waves and fall into the water even if they were not directly hit by the shells, and the gasping water could not drown them. It was enough to send them a few miles away from the battlefield.

The expeditionary force did not have heavy artillery fire, but the light support firepower was not bad, especially when two divisions were combined into one division, the close support firepower was stronger, and they had sufficient ammunition, and the shells were poured out without money.

On the line of the new 38th Division.

After two days of intense construction, a mile-long civil fortification line was formed. Both sides of the trench are reinforced with thick logs, and above the main body are several layers of logs and sandbags, although its solidity cannot prevent shells, but there is no problem in blocking the rain of bullets. The high and deep main trenches, the criss-crossing communication trenches, the trenches, the scattered foxholes, machine-gun bunkers, and anti-artillery holes all show that the commander's military qualities are extraordinary.

In the middle of the ring fortifications of the main battlefield, there is a bunker repeatedly reinforced by logs and steel plates, and the headquarters of the new 28th Division is erected here.

The division commander Sun Liren knew that he had a heavy responsibility, and the headquarters was directly erected on the position, and released to the officers and men of the division the bold words of "vowing to live and die with the position."

At this moment, Sun Liren was pouting his ass with a telescope, observing the movements of the Japanese army in front from a low lookout.

Rumbling gunfire. The torrent of bullets rained down and rained down, so that there was no smoke of gunfire, but the mud kicked up by the shells could be seen everywhere, and even less than 100 meters in front of the command headquarters, rows of bullets swept up the mud from time to time.

The distance between the headquarters and the enemy's position was only about a kilometer, which was beyond the effective range of the Japanese heavy machine guns.

"Brother Fumin (Sun Lirenzi), it's been almost five minutes, I wonder if the artillery fire has stopped?" Sun Li's posthumous deputy division commander Yu Xueqidao.

Putting down the binoculars, Sun Liren looked at the watch on his wrist and waved his hand decisively: "Stop the shelling and hide the cannon!" ”

Yu Xueqi hurriedly picked up the phone and gave an order.

Hundreds of curved guns bombarded a river no more than a few dozen meters wide, and the pontoon bridge that the Japanese army had worked so hard to build had to be blown up, and the purpose of the expeditionary force had been achieved. Any further delay will inevitably lead to retaliatory heavy artillery bombardment by the Japanese army, and these close support firepower is the magic weapon on which they rely for survival, and cannot be easily destroyed by the Japanese army. Therefore, Sun Liren accepted it when he saw it.

At the command of the position, the artillery sound on the position stopped abruptly, and only the small-caliber artillery fire of the Japanese army still rumbled on the position.

In the trench not far from the headquarters, there was an 80 mortar, the gun body was embedded in the main body of the trench, surrounded by thick logs on three sides, three or four artillerymen were trying to drag a steel plate up to tens of centimeters thick from the front line back, as the steel plate moved back, the entire mortar completely disappeared on the ground, and this scene was played out almost everywhere in the trench.

Hiding from the artillery, the soldiers then drilled into the nearest anti-artillery hole.

Less than a minute after the order was issued, a piercing scream suddenly sounded, and then one after another heavy artillery shells smashed on the position, and the sky-high flames carried mud and shrapnel to explode wantonly, forming huge explosion points one after another, and in the deafening explosion, the whole earth seemed to shake, and the Japanese army really began to bombard.

In the command headquarters, the dirt and dust above his head fell, Sun Liren jumped down from the lookout, dragged out a chair, sat down against the wall, took out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket, took out one and handed it to Yu Xueqi, lit one himself, and the two began to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog, looking very calm, as if the round of shelling in front of them had nothing to do with him.

Sun Liren's tactics are very simple, that is, not to let the Japanese army cross the river, the two armies face each other, as long as you little devil does not cross the river, I will accompany you machine guns, rifles to shoot, no matter how lively it is, the defense lines of the two sides are less than 500 meters apart, except for submachine guns, assault rifles, grenades, grenades can not be hit, everything else can be played, as long as you have bullet consumption.

But if you are ready to build a pontoon bridge, then I'm sorry, risk heavy artillery bombardment, Lao Tzu also has to kill your pontoon bridge, hundreds of artillery guns are fired at once, there is only one goal, that is, to aim at the Nandu River, you can pour thousands of cannons out in a minute, let your little devil have monstrous skills, don't fill the Nandu River with corpses, you will honestly stay on the other side.

In fact, nearly half of the 28th Division's strength was on the defensive line of the new 38th Division, standing side by side with the new 38th Division to defend against the enemy. Only more than half of them are in the western defense line, mainly guarding against the remnants of the 10th and 22nd divisions of the Japanese army, and the 29th and 93rd divisions are lined up all the way from west to north, and they are not a single individual, but an interdependent whole, so to speak, a little breakthrough may lead to the collapse of the entire defense line, so every unit must fight with the spirit of 12 points, this battle is a battle of life and death, they have no choice and retreat.

Compared with the Japanese army's attack in the south, the northwest two sides are much milder, after all, the Japanese troops on both sides will face the dilemma of lack of guns and ammunition, and cannot withstand wanton attrition, although the Japanese army began to airdrop yesterday, but this is the logistics supply of more than 200,000 troops of six divisions and regiments, even if thousands of planes are invested in airdrops every day, I am afraid it will be a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, the Japanese artillery fire was far less fierce than that in the south, and after the symbolic fire suppression, the soldiers moved forward, but the troops invested were not very many, and the purpose of containment was strong, and it could not be seen that the Japanese army still pinned their hopes on the 1st Guards Division.

The time of the day passed quickly, and when night fell, a large number of transport planes appeared over Lashio, all of them were painted with sharks and wolf heads on the fuselage, of course, they were from the Sino-Korean coalition air force, and the Japanese army dropped it in the sky during the day, and they used the night time to drop it.

The Japanese army has not yet seen through Jiang Haoran's airborne radar technology, and the night sky fighters of both the army and navy cannot compete with the Sino-Mimegian coalition forces, just like a blind man fighting with a clear-eyed man, no matter how strong the blind man's strength is, he can't dodge the blind-eyed man's hidden arrows. Therefore, in the face of the airdrop of the expeditionary force, they can only look at the sky and sigh.

Temporary Headquarters of the Expeditionary Force in Lashio.

In the brightly lit headquarters, Jiang Haoran was browsing the battle reports sent back by various divisions, reading them very carefully and attentively, and the battle in front of him was related to the lives of hundreds of thousands of expeditionary troops and the future of the country, and he did not dare to relax at all.

"Boss, let's eat first, it's cold."

Mei Xiang pushed the lunch box on the table in front of Jiang Haoran, in addition to rice, there were also some green vegetables in the lunch box, and a few pieces of minced meat could be vaguely seen. Although Jiang Haoran was the commander-in-chief of the two group armies, he basically ate whatever the soldiers ate during the war, and did not engage in specialization, which also became a tradition in his army.

"yes, got it!" Jiang Haoran replied, but he didn't raise his head and continued to look at the battle report in his hand.

Mei Xiang shook her head with a wry smile, and walked to her desk helplessly, as if she was used to seeing this kind of scene, and knew that it was useless to say more.

At this time, the newly appointed chief of staff, Wu Chaowen, strode in and reported to Jiang Haoran that Su Canwen was ready to set off at any time.

Wu Chaowen was originally the chief of staff of the 93rd Division, known as "Little Zhuge ", so many troops and such a big battle, it was impossible to have a good chief of staff, so Jiang Haoran temporarily transferred him.

"Oh, what time is it? Yes?? It's past eight o'clock? Jiang Haoran replied absentmindedly, then looked at the watch on his wrist, and suddenly became startled, and said hurriedly: "Wu Chaowen, immediately order Su Canwen to act, and you must give Lao Tzu the artillery position of the 1st Guards Division." ”

"Yes, Chief!"

The air conditioner blows too much, I have a severe cold, I feel dizzy, I really don't write it in a state, I hope you will forgive me, it's a chapter today, but it's also three thousand words, not much less.