Yes, the Ming army began to cross the river, as long as they are not blind, they can see that the Ming army is indeed forcibly crossing the Liao River on the positions that have been flying after the war. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Hundreds of small boats of all kinds, under the cover of machine guns and artillery fire, continuously sent the Ming troops to the opposite shore. These Ming soldiers were knocked down by bullets one after another, and once again passed over the corpses under their feet as if they would never be broken, and continued to move forward.

The boat that was the first to rush onto the river beach was a boat to cross the river, and there were 40 soldiers in a boat, but only 2 survived. The ship was riddled with bullets on the shore, which shows how fierce and tenacious the counterattack was due to the dense firepower of the Jin army.

However, these Jin troops were soon horrified to find that the Ming troops on the opposite side were obviously much larger than they expected. Soon more boats appeared on the river, and the Ming troops in small boats continued to expand their bridgehead positions on the east bank regardless of losses. As of 7 o'clock in the morning of the 30th, when the Ming army launched an artillery bombardment for a whole day, the new 1st Army of the Ming Empire had already gained a firm foothold on the opposite bank.

Even the Ming army itself couldn't believe it, because there were too many equipment and materials to build pontoon bridges prepared in advance, and finally the Ming army began to build two pontoon bridges after dawn in one breath - five pontoon bridges in the entire landing field started construction at the same time, and even the smoke released could not cover one, directly exposed to the vision of the Jin army.

Soon, the Jin army concentrated artillery fire on the exposed pontoon bridge, and the shells fell one after another near the pontoon bridge, stirring up a column of water dozens of meters high. At the same time as these shells exploded, the other pontoon bridges of the Ming army were also desperately stretching across the river, because the sky had already lit up, and the speed of construction had increased to a degree that could not be matched at night.

As time went by and the sun gradually rose, the original faint fog on the river began to dissipate, and the effect of the smoke that the Ming army had desperately created began to attenuate. Soon the second pontoon bridge also showed its body, and this pontoon bridge was still the main pontoon bridge that was first built.

Now this pontoon bridge is only twenty or thirty meters away from the other side of the river, and its sudden appearance in front of the Jin army immediately caused an unprecedented panic among the Jin army troops guarding the defensive line. The Jin army immediately threw in its reserves on the position, desperately counterattacking in an attempt to recapture the river beach position directly opposite the pontoon bridge.

For a time, both sides were piled up with the corpses of soldiers on the river beach positions, just like the Liuhe defense line, and these corpses were piled up in rows of defensive positions for the living to continue to fight on them. Blood pooled along the ditch squeezed out of the corpse, staining the nearby river red and muddying the already muddy ground on the riverbank.

"Long live the Ming Empire!" Another whole boatload of Ming soldiers jumped out of their boats in the knee-high water, and they rushed to the position not far away, holding rifles with bayonets already loaded, shouting and wading through the already glowing red river. The machine guns hit the water at their feet, setting off rows of small jets of water, and the soldiers had no time to care, just mechanically moving their steps forward.

If you fall, you will be flooded by the river, and if you stop, you will be pierced by bullets, and these veterans who have experienced the cruelty of battle know that only by constantly moving forward and moving can there be a glimmer of hope for survival. All they can do is pray and hold on to a glimmer of hope to survive!

"Boom!" The huge bridge codenamed No. 2 pontoon, which had been exposed to the enemy's field of vision, was finally hit by a shell when the rebels of the Jin State concentrated their artillery attack. The explosion flew a boat with an engine and completely destroyed two adjacent buoyancy boxes.

The surrounding sappers were killed and wounded in an instant, and the corpses of countless soldiers were swept into the sky by the shock wave of the cannonballs, and then fell into the icy river. Who would have thought that the results of this artillery battle fought by the Jin people were so huge, so huge that in addition to destroying a pontoon bridge, they also eliminated at least 50 skilled sappers of the Ming army by the way.

The battle entered the white-hot stage within half an hour, the Ming army desperately expanded its bridgehead position, and the Jin army frantically counterattacked to try to drive the Ming army into the water. The number of casualties on both sides began to skyrocket, and the losses of the Ming army had almost tripled that of the Jin rebels.

At this time, far away behind the Ming army's riverbank position, on a large-scale artillery position, several 200 mm towed guns that had been resting for three hours were ready to fire again. The cannons have been wiped clean and loaded with ammunition, waiting for the order to open fire, giving their targets a taste of true despair.

As the command was issued, the muzzles of these cannons began to be slightly adjusted, and the Ming army had a local overwhelming advantage in artillery, even in terms of overall numbers, it was not lost to the enemy. This is because the artillery units of the Ming army are scattered all over the country, and the number that can be assembled in Liaodong is not too much.

Soon, after an order to open fire, these large-caliber guns made an earth-shattering sound. The huge firing force shook the artillery position with dust, and the gas formed after the combustion of the gunpowder sprayed from the muzzle of the gun also had a smell that covered the sky and the sun.

After a period of waiting, huge shells fell on the positions of the defenders of the Jin Kingdom, and the black smoke raised was also unimaginably majestic. The explosion tore at everything around it, from sandbags to human bodies, from reinforced concrete to iron plates and barbed wire......

After a round of artillery bombardment that made the earth tremble, the offensive of the Ming army was even more fierce than before. More soldiers poured onto the riverbank, and in the fading smoke, three pontoon bridges were approaching the opposite bank, and they seemed to be about to be built.

If it had been placed a year ago, the outcome of this kind of battle across the river had not yet been decided, and the real test had just begun. Even if the pontoon bridge is built, if you want to break through the position on the other side of the river, you will have to fight countless battles. Often, the attacking side will end in defeat after several days or even more than ten days of continuous fighting, due to the slow replenishment and easy destruction of the pontoon bridge.

However, the Jin army stationed on the Liaohe defense line still did not dare to slack off, because they had learned from the previous battle of Liuhe that the current Ming army's breakthrough speed after crossing the river was much faster than before! (To be continued.) )