At 3:20 a.m., the Japanese positions on the north bank of the Anzi River were captured by the Fourth Division, and their own casualties were few, most of the Japanese troops were annihilated, a few were captured, and the situation of the Fifth Division, which was responsible for the attack at Piziwo, was similar, and only less than two or three hundred Japanese troops fled to the direction of Jinzhou in these two defense lines, and not even a single Japanese army on the defensive line on the north bank of the Anzi River escaped, and even Yujiro Nakamura, the president of the Manchurian Railway, was caught by the officers and men of the Fourth Division on the bank of the Anzi River.

After receiving the news that the troops had advanced to the north bank of the Anzi River, Chen Yu, commander of the Fourth Division, Liu Liwen, chief of staff, and others immediately came to the river in off-road jeeps.

The soldiers are under the organization of the officers are gathering the boats on the river to prepare for crossing the river, there is also a defensive line deployed by the Japanese army on the other side of the river, although the Japanese army is not strong, but it is not possible to cross the river safely, it is necessary to launch a river crossing operation, and it is best to cross the river before dawn successfully, otherwise the target is too big after dawn, and the crossing operation will definitely cause too many casualties on their side.

Wu Xuebing, the commander of the 024th regiment, walked over and saluted Chen Yu and Liu Liwen with a face full of gunpowder smoke and said: "Division, counselor, the brothers are collecting the ships left by the Japanese, I just sent a number, about sixty or seventy, this is the retreat prepared by the Japanese for themselves, but I didn't expect that it was useless, but it cheapened us!" ”

Chen Yu took out his pocket watch and looked at it and said: "It's half past three o'clock, let the soldiers hurry up and get ready to gather the boats, and at four o'clock we must launch the crossing battle on time." Commander Wu, your troops are resting on the spot, Chief of Staff, give orders to the 026 regiment and ask them to speed up the march. At four o'clock sharp, the attack must be launched, and before dawn our troops must land on the other side of the Saddle River. In addition, urge the artillery regiment and the mountain artillery battalions to rush to the preset position and fire on the opposite bank! ”

"Understood. Division! After Liu Liwen agreed, he turned around and nodded to the staff officer on standby beside him, and the staff officer immediately left to convey the order.

Chen Yu said again: "By the way, Wu Xuebing, didn't you send someone to say that you caught Yujiro Nakamura, the president of the Manchurian Railway?" Where is he? ”

When Wu Xuebing heard this, he said to the regimental staff office next to him: "Send someone to escort that old devil over!" ”

Soon, Yujiro Nakamura was pushed and shoved by several soldiers, "Report, Yujiro Nakamura brought it!" ”

Chen Yu looked at Yujiro Nakamura a lot, but saw this guy snort and twisted his head to the side. Without looking at him, Chen Yu suddenly became interested and asked, "Is it Yujiro Nakamura?" President of the Manchurian Railway? Why, you were captured by me, is there anything else you are not convinced? ”

The 63-year-old Yujiro Nakamura looked elsewhere and snorted: "As an imperial soldier, it is for glory to die in battle, and it is impossible to make me surrender.

"Yo he" Wu Xuebing, the head of the regiment, glared angrily. "You old devil is quite backbone, how old are you this year? How old is our teacher? You old guy was defeated in the hands of our master, you still have a face, don't you? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu beat you all over the ground looking for teeth? After that, he rolled up his sleeves and was about to beat Yujiro Nakamura.

Yujiro Nakamura may really want to die, Wu Xuebing is going to do it. Instead, he stretched his neck as if he was about to die, and Chen Yu stopped Wu Xuebing, "Okay." Wu Xuebing, you should be busy with your going first! ”

"Yes, Master!"

Chen Yu looked at Yujiro Nakamura and said, "Nakamura." You are my defeated man, and it will be easy for me to kill you. But I don't want to kill you right now. You Japanese have occupied our country's Manchuria Railway for so many years, and have also set up railway annex areas, acting as a prestige in the dependent areas, arbitrarily oppressing and slaughtering our people, you executioners have their hands stained with the blood of our people, and they have committed many crimes, in addition, you have also used the railways to make huge profits, these are all blood and sweat squeezed from our people, you Nakamura Yujiro also did all kinds of evil during his tenure as president of Manchuria, I want to hand you over, let our people against you invaders, The executioner will give the most severe trial, come, bring me down and lock me up, and offer me good food and drink, this old fellow can't die now, can't just be so cheap for him! ”

"Yes, Master!"

After pressing down Nakamura, Chen Yu asked, "Lao Liu, how many Japanese are there on the defense line on the other side?" ”

Liu Liwen said: "According to intelligence, there are less than 1,000 people on the opposite side, about the size of a brigade, but after all, these Japanese troops are only Manchurian garrison battalions, and their firepower is worse than that of the Japanese permanent division and the newly formed division, but the division seat, although it is now at night, the casualties of the river crossing operation are very high, and the Japanese have placed their artillery in Pulandian, and the Japanese artillery will definitely cause great casualties to our troops crossing the river at that time, so why should we be in a hurry?" The Fifth Division has already broken through the Japanese defense line in Piziwo, as long as the Fifth Division divides its troops to attack on the side tomorrow morning, the Japanese in Pulandian will collapse, why do you have to fight with Ma Yuchen for this breath? Everyone is their own person, who comes first and who comes last? If you forcibly cross the river at night, if you cause huge casualties and do not attack the other side, it will be difficult for the military seat to explain! ”

Chen Yu shook his head when he heard this: "Lao Liu, you also underestimate me Chen Yu too much, am I the kind of person who likes to compete with others?" Do you think that after sacrificing so many brothers, I will not feel sad in my heart? Since this battle has started, we can't give the Japanese time to react, the Japanese in Jinzhou and Lushunkou may never have imagined that their defense line here will be so vulnerable, and when we seize Pulandian tomorrow morning, and then continue to advance rapidly to Jinzhou, the Japanese will be chaotic, I just want to make the Japanese unable to calmly deploy defenses, and take Jinzhou at the lowest cost and the fastest speed! ”

Liu Liwen thought for a while and said, "Okay, since you think so, then I support you!" ”

At this time in Mukden, Chen Jizu was already planning to arrange troop carriers to escort the Navy and coastal defense fleet, preparing to transport the Sixth Division of the Second Army to Dalian Bay for landing. He has already made contact with Sa Zhenbing and has received Sa Zhenbing's support, and the coastal defense fleet of Weihaiwei will take up this escort mission, the troop transport ship will be requisitioned from the port of Tianjin, and it will soon arrive at Yingkou, and the officers and men of the Sixth Division and the weapons and equipment will be boarded at Yingkou.

The Saddle River is not wide, and it is too risky to cross the river during the day, because the line of sight is clear during the day, and the Japanese troops on the opposite bank can clearly see the sound of the attacking troops, and the boats on the river are closer to the Japanese positions.

At four o'clock in the morning, the 024th Regiment stayed on the north bank to provide fire support, the 026th Regiment waited for the order to cross the river in the rear, and hundreds of large and small caliber guns of the division's field artillery regiment and the mountain artillery battalions of each regiment began to carry out a fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions on the other side of the river from four o'clock, if it was the same before, such fierce artillery fire caused extremely heavy casualties to the Japanese positions on the opposite bank, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers suffered nearly two-thirds of the casualties in this hour's shelling, and the Japanese soldiers who were completely unwounded were less than 400 people, At this time, the mortars of the various companies and platoons had not yet fired, and their figures were the firing points for the targeted removal of the Japanese troops.

At five o'clock in the morning, Chen Yu gave the order to cross the river, the 026 regiment immediately boarded the boat and rowed to the opposite bank, the Japanese observation post soon found that there was movement of the Chinese army on the opposite side, after all, the strength of a regiment was boarding, and the movement was not small, the Japanese observation post immediately reported to the superiors, and the commander of the Japanese army stationed on the north bank was Kunizawa Shinbei, and after he got the news, he immediately shelled the artillery positions that were ordered to be deployed in the city of Pulandian to the boats crossing the river.

This situation has long been expected, and Chen Yu has ordered in advance that the distance between the ships crossing the river should be far enough, and the sparse distance between the ships makes the safety of the river crossing combat troops much higher.

Fortunately, the number of artillery pieces of the Manchurian army was small, and if the Japanese had so many artillery pieces of the Chinese army, I am afraid that they would cause great casualties to the boats crossing the river.

Seeing the shells constantly exploding on the surface of the river, the water column rising into the sky, some ships being overturned by the air wave of the explosion, and some unlucky ships being directly hit by the shells, Chen Yu frowned and asked: "Chief of Staff, can our artillery regiment hit the opponent's artillery position?" ”

Liu Liwen shook his head when he heard this: "Shizuo, I think you are too anxious, if it is daytime, it is no problem, the artillery can raise a hot air balloon to observe the position of the opponent's artillery position, but at night, how to observe the specific position of the opponent?" Isn't it blind and blind to fire cannons? Moreover, if we want to shell the Japanese artillery positions, our artillery positions will have to move forward, and if we don't do it well, we will expose the location of our artillery positions to the Japanese, and then we will not destroy the Japanese artillery positions, but they will destroy our artillery positions, and it will be miserable! ”

"Hey, maybe I'm really in a hurry!" Chen Yu sighed.

In fact, there was no need for him to give an order, and the soldiers who crossed the river used all their strength to row the boat, trying to rush to the other side of the river as fast as possible.

Seeing that on the other side of the river, Japanese troops began to strafe the boats crossing the river with heavy machine guns, Chen Yu immediately said: "Order all companies and platoons of mortars to clear the Japanese fire points at fixed points!" ”

"Yes, Master!"

There is no doubt that the side with strong firepower must have an absolute advantage in the battle, just like now, the Japanese army's previously hidden firepower points were exposed in this situation, and they were quickly cleared by the artillery fire of the Fourth Division, and the fierce artillery fire suppressed the Japanese troops on the riverbank positions almost unable to raise their heads, and could only hide in the anti-artillery holes, many of which could not defend against the shelling of large-caliber artillery and collapsed, and all the Japanese soldiers hiding in the anti-artillery holes were buried alive.

After paying some casualties, the 026 regiment's river-crossing combat unit finally succeeded in reaching the other side of the river, and the soldiers with light machine guns rushed forward first, using machine guns to open the way as they rushed, and the soldiers behind followed closely behind, and some soldiers threw grenades into the Japanese trenches.

After Chen Yu observed the situation from the telescope, he finally smiled, "It's successful!" (To be continued......)