The distance of more than 100 meters can be completed in 2 or 3 minutes by walking with feet. Even for a fishing boat propped up on a penny, 3 or 5 minutes is enough. If it were a normal time, 3 or 5 minutes would be just a blink of an eye, but for the soldiers who were still on the river, the current 3 or 5 minutes seemed as long as 3 or 5 years...

In the first minute, just the first minute, nearly 10 of the more than 300 fishing boats crossing the river were sunk, and almost every one of these 10 fishing boats carried a squad of troops, and the slightly larger passenger boat had a platoon of nearly 50 soldiers, in other words, in just one minute, the troops crossing the river had more than 100 casualties.

This was caused by the sinking of artillery fire......... There are also their own people's causes...

When the ship was sunk by a shell, many soldiers did not die directly, but after they fell into the water, the boats behind them could not stop, so when these people surfaced, it was the bow of the ship that they could not stop...

took off all the equipment on his body, and finally escaped to ascend to heaven, but the first thing he saw after coming out of the water was ......... This feeling is unimaginable, but fortunately, there are only one or two soldiers who have fallen into the water, and more people swim towards the opposite shore alone after taking off their equipment.

But on the other side, these people were greeted with guns and ammunition that had been prepared for a long time...

The Beiyang Army was not equipped with light machine guns, firstly, because the power of light machine guns was still too small compared to heavy machine guns, and at this time there was only one kind of light machine gun that could be more mature, Madsen, as for the more famous Lewis machine gun, his inventor is currently leaving the United States with his own works to prepare to go to Belgium by ship to start his own gun company. Of course, the most important reason why the Beiyang Army did not choose light machine guns was because the price of Madsen light machine guns was too expensive. You must know that the price of two Madsen light machine guns can already buy one Maxim machine gun. And one Maxim machine gun is far more powerful than two Madsen...

However, although the Beiyang Army is not equipped with light machine guns, it has a large number of heavy machine guns, that is, Makqin machine guns, according to the establishment of 6 in a regiment and 48 in a division, the Beiyang Army has deployed a total of 288 Makqin machine guns on the positions on the riverbank...

Originally, Yan Guang wanted his 2,000 machine guns to cut the wheat, but he didn't expect that now the wheat was cut by others...

The soldiers who are still on the boat are okay, although the Makqin machine gun can easily penetrate the wooden fishing boat, but they still have a place to hide after all, and in order to improve the survivability, the front of the fishing boat is also equipped with some wooden and iron plates, which plays a certain protective role, but those soldiers swimming in the water are...

Struggled to throw away the equipment on his body, and finally swam out of the water, but in an instant, Qian Bojun's body was pierced by 4 or 5 bullets, and these 11.43 caliber bullets caused fatal wounds on Qian Bojun's body, and at the same time made him sink to the bottom of the river again...

"No, I don't want to die yet..."

Qian Bojun struggled to raise his right hand to swim himself out of the water, but in the end he failed. Looking at the river that was getting farther and farther away from him, he thought of the birch tree in his former hometown before he left. "When this battle is over, I will go back to my hometown to get married...", recalling the sweet smiling face of his lover, Qian Bojun's face was only unwilling...

No one knew that the Dongjing River had just sunk a young man who had promised his lover to go back alive, because at the same time that Qian Bojun sank to the bottom of the river, more than a dozen young people sank to the bottom of the river like him, and in the next time, more people will sink into this river that is still unknown at this time, but it will not be long before this river will go down in history with the battle that took place here...

In just one minute, 10 ships were sunk and more than 200 people were lost, and thinking that more than 200 people were lost on the first day of the battle of Padang, the corners of Yang Shan's mouth were bitten out by him...

Seeing Yang Shan like this, Zhu Qinglan patted him on the shoulder very understandingly. Now the two infantry regiments of the second division are going up, the second division is Yang Shan's troops, and the losses on the river are naturally Yang Shan's people, and it is natural for Yang Shan to feel uncomfortable when he sees that his troops have lost more than 200 people without even touching the enemy's edge.

Although Yang Shan was very unwilling in the headquarters, the battle on the river continued.

After the Beiyang Army's shelling entered the second minute, more than 10 fishing boats were sunk by shells, and at the same time, as the distance gradually approached, the damage caused by more than 200 Makqin machine guns attached to the Beiyang Army also increased.

And as the first few fishing boats approached, the Beiyang Army machine gunners on the shore also began to aim their machine guns at the fishing boats.

Although the gunners on the fishing boat desperately returned fire with 37mm infantry guns, they were still shot into plugs in an instant, and even the fishing boats felt like they were about to be broken, especially in the holes that were pierced by 11.43mm bullets, and even pillars of blood could be seen gushing out.

With the gradual increase in the casualties of the National Social Army on the river, there are also spots of red on the surface of the Dongjing River, and these blood-colored red spots are also expanding with the increase in casualties...

Seeing that the casualties on the river were gradually increasing, and the boat carrying the soldiers was still a considerable distance from the opposite bank, even though the soldiers of the two regiments above were not from the Second Army, Zhu Qinglan still became anxious.

"Can't the artillerymen think of a way? Even if you can't bomb the Beiyang artillery, it's good to shoot out their machine guns..."

Although the artillery of Beiyang also caused a lot of casualties, the casualties caused by Makqin at the moment will not be much smaller, not to mention that the infantry will also face the suppression of Makqin after landing on the shore.

However, hearing Zhu Qinglan say this, the staff officer on the side said with a wry smile.

"Commander, the artillery brothers in the back have worked hard."

Indeed, in the artillery positions behind them, the shelling of the National Socialist Army never stopped, and the frequency of fire was maintained at a very fast rate. In fact, if it weren't for the more than 300 guns in the back that fired nearly 5,000 shells in these two or three minutes, knocking out more than 10 Makqin of the Beiyang Army, I am afraid that the casualties of the river-crossing troops would have been greater.

And don't look at the many casualties of the river-crossing troops, the Beiyang Army is definitely not much less than the river-crossing troops in terms of casualties under artillery bombardment, and the Beiyang Army, which is next to the artillery, is probably the most clear...

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In the forward headquarters on the Beiyang Army position, Li Chunzheng and Zhang Shaozeng stood side by side.

Now the Beiyang Army has a total of 6 divisions and more than 70,000 people in Qianjiang, but Wang Zhanyuan, the commander of the second division, is too old, so Feng Guozhang asked Wang Zhanyuan to sit in the county seat with him. Meng Enyuan, the commander of the 23rd Division, led his troops to be responsible for flank security, and Yang Shande's division of the 4th Division and Jin Yunpeng's division of the 5th Division served as reserve forces, staying in the rear where the artillery could not be bombarded, so at present, only Li Chun's 6th Division and Zhang Shaozeng's 20th Division were being artillirated on the forward position...

Li Chun let out a long sigh when he saw another fishing boat being smashed to pieces under his own fire. In the past, we Beiyang took the initiative to attack the other side, even if the opponent's troops were much more than ours, but now we have more troops than the other side, but we have to shrink behind the river and guard..."

During the Xinhai Revolution, the Beiyang Army led by Feng Guozhang recaptured Hanyang and Hankou from the revolutionary army in only one month, bringing the invincible revolutionary army back to the negotiating table. After the Second Revolution, Li Chunbu defeated the Jiangxi army and took Hukou in only 2 days, and chased Li Liejun, who had two divisions and one brigade, to flee with his life...

Now, instead of attacking, they are hiding behind the Dongjing River......... You must know that the National Social Army on the other side is more than 20,000 less than them...

Hearing Li Chun's words that were both sighs and complaints, Zhang Shaozeng took out the marching kettle he carried with him and took a sip.

"The battle of Qianjiang is very important, so you can understand Lord Feng's caution..."

Smelling the faint smell of wine on Zhang Shaozeng's body, Li Chun knew that Zhang Shaozeng must have disobeyed Feng Guozhang's order to put the wine into the kettle, but Li Chun, a colleague for many years, didn't say anything, after all, it wasn't a big deal.

"It's just a sigh..."

"Don't be emotional." Seeming to be addicted to drinking, Zhang Shaozeng took out the kettle he had just put away, unscrewed the lid and took another sip. "Actually, I think Lord Feng's caution is correct...", said Zhang Shaozeng with a serious face. I really didn't expect that the artillery of the National Social Army was even more powerful than I imagined. ”

Hearing what Zhang Shao had said, Li Chun also nodded.

Not long ago, a 210 caliber grenade fell on the position of the Beiyang Army, erasing the bunker along with more than 50 soldiers in the bunker.

"The 210 caliber heavy gun is larger than the caliber of the two main guns of the Haiqi ship..."

"yes..."

Saying that, the two looked at each other and smiled, smiling bitterly...

Although the Beiyang Army has brought hundreds of casualties to the Nationalist Army so far, under the bombardment of 210 and 150 heavy artillery, the casualties of the Beiyang Army will not be much less than that of the Nationalist Army. In the end, they still underestimate the power of the 210 heavy artillery, but it's no wonder, after all, in Asia, even Ben will not be equipped with such a caliber of heavy artillery in the field army, and the 2-meter-deep trench is already the limit, not to mention whether the soldiers inside will be buried alive after being bombarded, and the 3-meter-deep trench is also unusable for soldiers who are only 1.67 meters tall...

Just as the two of them looked at each other and smiled bitterly, the first fishing boat finally landed on the river bank after going through many difficulties and dangers.

"Good!"

Seeing the soldiers above jumping from both sides of the fishing boat, Yang Shan couldn't help but exclaim.

Ten seconds later, the second fishing boat also landed on the riverbank, followed by the third and fourth, and more than 200 other fishing boats that remained...

But...

"There are only more than 200 fishing boats left?" Glancing at Yang Shan, who was still there excited, Zhu Qinglan frowned in his heart. "If there are only more than 200 fishing boats left, the next batch of river-crossing troops will only be able to send one and a half regiments over..."

Fortunately, the two cavalry regiments under the division have already begun to "collect" ships in the surrounding area, so Zhu Qinglan is not very worried about this.

It was at this time that the troops crossing the river on the opposite bank had already begun to build a "beachhead" position...

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As for why the Qianjiang River is hit, because the Dongjing River can't be bypassed, T-T

If it is transported by water, it will also be intercepted by the Beiyang Navy, although there is no Haiqi ship, but after all, the Beiyang Navy still has a full row of 2,950 tons of cruisers such as Hairong, Haichou, and Haichen

As for why you want to fight Yuan Shikai now, because you can't compete for Yuan Shikai for the protagonist of the people's hearts, if you want to wait for Yuan Shikai to be the emperor, it will be almost 1916 at that time, not to mention the threat of the protagonist, whether Yuan Shikai will be the emperor is also a question

So just wait until Sun and Huang leave China, so that if you defeat Yuan Shikai, there will be no one in China who has a higher prestige than the protagonist!

After all, the barrel of the gun is king~~~

(To be continued)