Although the Cagayan River is the longest river in the Philippines, its course is not very wide, and the widest part of the section in front of you is only more than 100 meters, and the narrow part is only 60 or 70 meters.

Because the rainforest has abundant rain, long periods of strong currents, and very little silt, the water is still clear even shortly after the rain.

A turquoise slowly meanders from the north and south, surrounded by green trees and red flowers on both sides, and the scenery is beautiful.

But the most brutal battle will be fought here, and it won't be long before it becomes a living purgatory.

The banks of the Cagayan River are not high, and in many places there are no embankments at all, only a gently rising slope.

The enemy on the opposite bank has set up barbed wire and triangular horses on the limited river beach. However, it had already been blown up in all directions, and it was clear that the officers and men of the Nationalist Army had plowed this area with artillery shells to clear mines and prepare for the landing.

Further up is the fortified group with strong walls, and there is no obvious gun muzzle, but it can be vaguely seen that the fortifications extend inward and have obvious depth.

It is not possible to dig out a complete group of field fortifications that is tens of kilometers long and criss-crossed in a dense jungle area, because the forest in front of us is dominated by tall trees, and the root system is naturally very developed, and the thick roots are the biggest obstacle to the earthwork work.

Obviously, the little devils were prepared, and the Cagayan River defense line was an important line of defense that they had carefully prepared.

Compared with the fortifications of the island army, the fortifications of the national army are relatively simple, almost a trench about two meters wide and about one meter deep, with no criss-crossing communication trenches, only countless passages dug out backwards, which is convenient for follow-up troop input and material supply.

Their former enemy command post was even simpler, just a simple shed erected in the middle of the trench, a few thick tree roots and a few improvised logs on the spot, covered with steel plates and thick soil, and then camouflaged.

The space inside is quite large, and it is not a problem to accommodate twenty or thirty people at the same time, there is an observation port in front of it, a large wooden table is placed in the center, and a small area is vacated in the back for the telecommunications soldiers, and there is a soldier holding a steel helmet on each side of the road crossing to pour muddy water outside.

The water system in the jungle is already abundant, and the water system here has been dug lower than the river level, and all kinds of infiltration water sources will gush in, and if it is not poured out in time, it will soon become a Ze country.

It is possible to arrange for soldiers to water in the command post, but it is impossible to have this kind of treatment in the trenches, so it can be seen that the battlefield environment is also very bad for the soldiers.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Nationalist army began an artillery attack on all fronts.

Dense shells smashed heavily on enemy positions, and the entire other bank of the Cagayan River was covered with artillery fire.

The enemy was not willing to be lonely, and began to return fire, and the shells whizzed over, blowing up the front line of the national army into mud and smoke into the sky.

The effect of the artillery battle in the jungle is actually just like that, the trees block the firing angles, and the anti-artillery fortifications of the enemy and us will also be carried out on these dead ends, although the scene is grand, but the casualties are not too large.

And the national army wants not casualties, but this kind of momentum, and at the same time, it also does everything possible to suppress the enemy for the attacking troops.

Five minutes into the artillery attack, the opposite shore was already filled with gunsmoke, and in order to enhance the smoke, the national army also fired a lot of them*.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Cao Guoliang suddenly waved his right hand and howled hoarsely: "Attack!" ”

At the sound of an order, the officers and men of the 2nd Marine Division, who had already entered the Yongdao, carried their powered assault boats and braved the enemy's bombardment, climbed over the trenches and rushed towards the Cagayan River.

There was also a large group of soldiers carrying kayaks in the rear, ready to charge.

The power assault boat is fast, the distance of tens of meters, it can rush to the opposite bank in a few minutes, and the biggest casualty time in the battle of crossing the river is on the river, if the time of crossing the river can be shortened, it will undoubtedly win the greatest opportunity for the next victory.

In an instant, the river beach was crowded with people, and the sound of motors began to sound.

The army that suddenly appeared on the river beach naturally couldn't escape the eyes of the little devils, even if the opposite bank was now thick with smoke and clouds, but the enemy would definitely have countless hidden observation holes to keep an eye on the situation on the water surface at all times.

Therefore, the second the soldiers appeared on the river beach, the enemy's light and heavy machine guns also began to roar.

Dense bullet nets were overwhelming, and the officers and men of the 2nd Marine Division were cut to pieces.

However, this did not deter the officers and men of the 2nd Marine Division, who braved the enemy's bullets and bullets, and they crawled on their waists in the hull of the ship, and one after another assault boats rushed towards the opposite shore like arrows from the string.

There is steel armor up to 50 or 60 centimeters thick in front of the assault boat, and the armor on both sides is also more than 10 centimeters, as long as the soldiers get on the boat and are not hit by the enemy's shells, safety is generally guaranteed, because conventional light and heavy machine guns cannot penetrate 50 or 60 centimeters of steel plates.

In particular, when the assault boat is moving forward at full speed, the front will be raised high, and the bullets will not hit the soldiers in the boat at all.

And once there is an assault boat in front of it moving at full speed, the high bow of the ship can also block a lot of barrage for the landing soldiers behind.

In less than a minute, at least twenty or thirty assault boats entered the state of charge, forming a steel shield in front, and the enemy's dense machine-gun bullets clanged on the steel plates.

The enemy's reaction was also very fast, and almost the second minute, the cannonballs began to rain down on the water.

In the huge waves that rushed to the sky, one after another assault boats were overturned, hit and torn apart.

Fragments of the ship's hull, the corpses of soldiers and wounded soldiers who had fallen into the water began to float in the river.

But the charge did not stop because of this, even if there were your own people struggling in the water floating in front of you, the assault boat behind would not hesitate to run over them, this is the cruel war, seeing your brother in distress, not only can you not save him, but also run over them.

It is precisely because the officers and men are not afraid of death and move forward with indomitable courage that even though the casualties of dozens of assault boats reached more than 30 percent of the entire attacking force, hundreds of assault boats still managed to rush to the opposite bank, and the first step seemed to have been successful.

The load of each assault boat is 10 people, and hundreds of boats means that a team of thousands of people has successfully landed.

The soldiers jumped out of the assault boat and skillfully advanced forward with tactical maneuvers in the craters created by the cannons and shells.

The enemy's fire was even more intense, and it was simply impenetrable to strafe down, and the soldiers could be beaten to pieces if they showed their bodies slightly.

As mentioned earlier, there is no obvious mention of the Cagayan River in most places, and it is almost an upward slope, and under such conditions, the enemy is condescending to strafe with all his might, and the officers and men of the 2nd Marine Division cannot rise to the top at all.

At this time, their biggest reliance is the suppression of fire from the rear, even if it can buy them a few seconds, they can rush forward.