On the Ming army's position on the west bank of the Liuhe River, the soldiers of the new army were carefully checking the ammunition they were carrying and the weapons in their hands according to the pre-war procedures. They were to use their flesh and blood to open the breach to the other side of the river, and then the tank troops would cross the river with them, covering the soldiers behind to expand the breach and tear through the main defensive positions of the Liuhe defense line behind.

"Offensive begins!" On the other side of the phone, a New Army officer gave a loud battle order, and the second after he shouted the start, the 150 mm heavy guns on the New Army positions began to fire powerful shells at the enemy troops on the other side of the river.

"Fire! Keep firing! Suppress the rebels' long-range fire! Bombard the enemy's defensive positions! On the artillery position, the officers commanded their subordinates and cheered up the busy soldiers. These artillerymen carried ammunition and fired one shell after another at the fastest speed and in accordance with the rhythm of their usual training, to the distant opposite position.

Wang Jue was not in his own headquarters, but with his staff and other officers, he observed his troops crossing the Liuhe River from a position close to the crossing point. After hearing the sound of artillery, the infantry began to jump out of the trenches, and rushed to the river beach in front of them with squads as combat units, carrying boats for crossing the river, shouting slogans.

In the midst of the hail of bullets, most of the soldiers gathered around the soldiers carrying the boats, and after rushing into the Liuhe River, they ran forward a few meters away, and then threw their boats into the river. On the opposite rebel position, tracer bullets flew and hit the river, splashing one column after another, and many of the soldiers of the new army were shot and fell into the river, and the blood stained the shallows in color.

The river rose and fell beneath his feet, with a slightly reddish foam, and swayed back and forth the arm that had not yet stiffened on the lifeless corpse. The gunfire in the distance was getting more and more intense, and the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles had already fixed the pontoon bridges to the river, and some of the boats had stretched forward, fastened with ropes and chains, and the sappers on them had already secured the planks.

"Attack! Offensive! Watch out for the opponent's machine gun fire points! Watch out for enemy positions in the distance! Bend down, bend down! Standing on the riverbank, one of the officers of the Forces nouvelles had no intention of dodging in the hail of bullets, waving his arms and directing his soldiers to minimize their casualties as much as possible.

The boats in the river began to row forward frantically, most of them powered by oars, and the soldiers rowed the oars in their hands with great force, causing the boats to rush to the other side of the river as fast as they could.

The Weiyuan heavy machine guns on the bows of these boats began to roar, and the dense fire swept across the river towards the enemy positions on the opposite side. The tracer bullets crossed the beautiful web of fire, devouring all the lives exposed to the net of fire in between.

"Translate 3 meters to the left! The distance is increased by 7 meters! Fire when you're done! "I saw a small mound on the other side of the river in the distance, a rebel heavy machine gun position was firing wildly towards the center of the river, and on a 75 mm small-caliber field gun position of the new army here, an officer saw that his shell had landed on a position that was a little off the target, and quickly changed the coordinates of the shot.

The second shell was quickly fired, and the heavy artillery landed directly on the rebel's heavy machine gun position, and the huge explosion set off a cloud of black dirt. The heavy machine-gun position that had been suppressing the Forces nouvelles suddenly fell silent, and a group of ships that had been suppressed so much that they could not raise their heads began to row forward again.

The defensive position on the Liuhe River was not the Liaohe defense line that the rebels had been operating, in fact, it was only planned to be built on the third day after the defeat of Jinzhou City. However, at that time, it was only a small fight, and it was not until the rebels abandoned Montenegro that they began to pay attention to the Liuhe defense line.

There were almost no permanent fortifications made of reinforced concrete on this defensive line, and most of them were ordinary trenches and bunkers that had just been dug. Therefore, even if the suppressive power and destruction ability of the artillery fire of the new army are not too strong, the fire points of the rebels are also suppressed by these direct artillery fire.

"Let the tanks go up! Cover the soldiers crossing the river with direct fire along the riverbank! Wang Jue put down the binoculars and instructed the commander beside him: "Tell Zhang Jianjun that I will only give him 3 hours to attack, and if he can't take Liuhe, I will change someone else to continue to command the new 1st Army." ”

Zhang Jianjun did not hear Wang Jue's urging to him, and when he saw the second group of sappers starting to build a pontoon bridge in the center of the river, he ordered the tank troops to drive to the river to cover the troops crossing the river to suppress the enemy's direct fire.

So after an order, the 1st Panzer Division, which was on standby behind the woods not far away, finally waited for its first opportunity to participate in the battle. The tank crews of the 1st Division began to start their tanks, waiting for the behemoths to spew black smoke out of the exhaust pipes.

Then the roar of machinery was accompanied by the grinding of metal, and one by one, Tank 1 poured out of their hiding place, aiming its black hole at the rebels on the other side of the river, who had not yet figured out what the new weapons of the Ming army on the other side were.

Inside their tanks, the Forces nouvelles aimed their noses at the rebel positions in the distance. Then the 20 mm cannon on the turret of their tank sprayed tongues of fire, and rows of large-caliber shells hit the rebel positions, pierced the sandbags, destroyed the fire point, and suppressed the originally dense rebel fire in an instant.

When the bullets flying in the distance began to decrease on a large scale, the speed at which the new army erected the pontoon bridge increased. The sappers quickly laid the planks in their hands on the pontoons and fixed them with the parts they had prepared, and then the soldiers behind them covered the boards with iron plates to strengthen the pontoons so that the tanks behind them could pass.

The New Army soldiers, who rowed to the opposite side, also began to rush to the other side of the river despite casualties, and they attacked the rebel defensive positions with their heads up, trying to expand the beachhead defenses on the other side of the bridge.

Obviously, at this time, the rebels also realized that if they could not repel these Ming troops, the Liuhe defense line would be really dangerous. If those invulnerable steel monsters on the other side of the river were allowed to rush to the other side of the river, then their entire defense line would only collapse.

So these rebel soldiers also began to fire frantically, trying to drive the Ming soldiers who had already landed on the river bank back into the river. The dense bullets knocked down one Ming soldier after another, and the artillery and tanks supporting the Ming army on the other side were also destroying one exposed fire point after another.