Such an embarrassing situation caught Cao Guoliang and Wang Teng by surprise, and at the same time, he couldn't watch his soldiers being wiped out by the enemy.

"Tell the helicopter team to come over immediately." Cao Guoliang roared hoarsely.

In the jungle, due to the limitations of roads and terrain, it is very difficult for large artillery to enter and erect, and the light and flexible small-caliber artillery is too thin.

Although the helicopter has the reputation of "jungle killer", it is not suitable for the battle in front of it, because the island army is now also equipped with German-style jabone-barrel rocket launchers, and the jungle is too dense, it is easy for the enemy to find and lock on to the helicopter, but it is very difficult for the helicopter to find them, especially in the open river, the helicopter will simply become a live target for the enemy.

Therefore, Cao Guoliang originally did not plan to dispatch them.

Now he is also forced to be anxious, and he has no choice but to make this decision.

A few minutes later, the roar of machinery was heard in the sky, and twenty or thirty helicopter gunships divided into two columns, all the way to the landing site upstream, all the way to the landing field in front of them.

The purpose of the helicopter is clear, that is, to provide fire support to the landing force and to buy them time and opportunity to retreat.

Fifteen helicopters were divided into two echelons, the first echelon of eight, lined up to fly over the Kagayan River, and began to fire about a few dozen meters away from the enemy's front line.

The enemy's line of defense was suddenly filled with flames and smoke.

They don't think about whether they can injure the enemy, at least for this time the enemy can't operate the machine gun to fire bullets outward.

The strong firepower made the enemy on the defensive line and in the bunker dare not come forward, which gave the soldiers on the landing ground time and opportunity to retreat.

The prepared soldiers took this opportunity to jump into the river immediately, turned the assault boat around, climbed into the assault boat, started the motor and quickly evacuated to the opposite bank.

The enemy was really on guard against the helicopters, and countless shells from the jungle flew towards them from the perspective of various countries, and five helicopters were blown up in the air on the spot, and the rest quickly turned the nose of the plane to find the hiding place of the enemy's gunners, and the machine guns and machine guns fired fiercely.

The helicopters of the second echelon immediately took over the suppression task and continued to rain ammunition on the jungle lines and bunkers.

In this way, the assault boat attack troops finally gained a few minutes of precious time, and all the dozens of assault boats successfully reached the opposite shore without being attacked by the enemy.

The well-trained landing men were safely evacuated from the river beach, and even the assault boats were carried into the jungle.

Soon, good news also came from the upstream landing site, and the trapped soldiers were also safely released.

Although both rescues were successful, the price paid was also very high, and a total of 12 helicopter gunships were killed and destroyed by the enemy during the rescue.

The little devils were indeed very cunning, and all the gunners hid in the trees, and even when the landing force crossed the river, these gunners did not show any exposure, and only waited for the helicopters to come out before they attacked.

Half an hour later, Subic Bay, the General Headquarters of the Far 1st Army.

Commander Liu Dakun was furious in his office: "Damn, Cao Guoliang and Duan Ruyi are two stupid pigs, and they actually suffered such a big loss in the hands of little devils, wait to see them, see if Lao Tzu kills them?" ”

Just now, a report on the battle situation came from the front, not to mention that the troops had not fought the Cagayan River, and they had also suffered serious losses in their troops, and Cao Guoliang's troops had suffered 5,000 casualties and 12 helicopters.

Duan Ruyi's department was even more outrageous, a division almost lost its establishment, with casualties approaching 8,000 and 20 helicopters lost.

This is a heavy casualty that has not been seen since the formation of the Yuanyi Group Army, and it is no wonder that Liu Dakun is angry.

"Commander, you can't blame them entirely for this failure." Chief of Staff Zhao Liangyu said.

"What, what do you mean to blame me?" Liu Dakun's face was full of anger and he glared at Zhao Liangyu.

Zhao Liangyu said with a straight face: "If you want to blame, you can only blame the enemy's commander for being too clever and cunning, and it is difficult for us to think of it." ”

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Liangyu picked up the war report that had just been sent on the table and raised it, saying, "I just carefully studied this war report and found two very serious problems. First, the island army made no mistake in predicting the location of our river crossing, and the accuracy rate was 100 percent. Second, the enemy's defense line is very particular, all kinds of troops, firepower distribution is simply impeccable, the frontal defense line is not many troops, the construction of firepower points can just suppress the troops crossing the river, even if we bomb indiscriminately, it may not be able to bring them too many casualties, their real killing trick is in the bunker, and the bunker is only used when the large army crosses the river on a large scale. In addition, the snipers and gunners were hidden in the trees, the snipers fired cold guns, and the gunners were specially used to deal with our helicopters, and they performed their duties, even if our firepower was fierce and the offensive was strong, they did not mess up at all, so this defeat was a tactical failure, strictly speaking, our responsibility is greater than theirs, because their battle plan was reported to us, and we did not control it strictly, or we underestimated the cunning of the enemy. ”

Liu Dakun was immediately stunned, and picked his head in frustration, as if he didn't know what to say.

Zhao Liangyu continued: "The counselor sent me the detailed information of the chief of staff of the Jiannan Group Army of the Island Army, Hori Rongsan, from the data, he was giving advice on the battle in front of him, but unfortunately I couldn't see through his conspiracy in time, so the main reason for the failure of this battle is me, and I will truthfully report to the headquarters." ”

"What are you talking about, I am the military commander, and the main reason for the defeat is, of course, me, and I will not ask you to shoulder this responsibility. Forget it, it's useless now, the key is how do we cross the Cagayan River in front of us? ”

Zhao Liangyu nodded and said: "Yes, now is not the time to hold accountable, we have to figure out how to get through this difficult situation in front of us." ”

"You don't usually have a lot of ghost ideas, think about it."

Liu Dakun sat on the chair as he spoke, lit a cigarette and began to swallow the clouds, scratching his head from time to time with a bitter face, acting very impatient and helpless.

Zhao Liangyu stood with his hands folded in front of his chest, staring at the huge map on the wall and pondering, as if he was really trying to figure out a way.

"By the way, Knives, aren't they in the Devil's Valley? Can you find something out of them? Liu Dakun suddenly slapped his thigh and said.