"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the Chinese have attacked. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Osa Kawahara requests support. The chief of staff of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, Kumagoro Hashimoto, reported.

"Order the field artillery wing to open fire and kill as many of the people as possible who are preparing to cross the river." Lieutenant General Motozo Yanagida ordered. The implication is that he is willing to provide artillery support to the 213th Infantry Wing. However, if you send reinforcements, forget it.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Division Commander." Kumagoro Hashimoto nodded.

Two minutes later, the artillery of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, which had already been prepared, began a fierce shelling. 12 105-mm howitzers, 42 75-mm field guns, and 18 Type 92 infantry guns were desperately pouring shells into the Mekong.

"Whew! Shout! ”

The piercing whistling sound sounded above the heads of the officers and men of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. The officers and men who were crossing the river all looked at the sky in horror. They all knew that it was the sound of enemy shells about to fall on their heads.

Even the bravest people will be terrified and frightened when faced with such a situation.

"God, don't hit our ships with your own shells!" Some soldiers even prayed secretly.

After all, when crossing the river, it is also the time when these soldiers are most vulnerable. At this time, they did not even have the strength to fight back, and could only watch the enemy's shells fall.

Of course, the soldiers sped up their oars, hoping to rush to the sandbar as quickly as possible. In this way, it will be relatively safer. At the same time, there will be no chance of fighting back.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

One after another, the shells fell on the surface of the river, blowing up columns of water that rushed to the sky.

Occasionally, a shell hit the small boats of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army, and the wooden boats were blown apart. There were constantly soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army who fell into the water.

"Damn! The artillery of the day * himself finally struck. It turns out that they have been waiting to make a move on our infantry, it is simply too despicable. Order the artillery to open fire at once and suppress the artillery fire of the day * himself! Major General Yan Tianning ordered with a dark face.

The 155-mm heavy howitzers and 105-mm light howitzers, which had been prepared for a long time, had already begun to calculate the position of the Japanese artillery positions. After determining the coordinates of the other side, the Japanese artillery can be suppressed immediately. After all, the artillery of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army was much more powerful than the artillery of the Japanese army. Otherwise, the Japanese artillery would not have used this sneaky way.

At the same time, the air force of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army, which had just arrived on the battlefield, went directly into battle. One bomber after another bombers and fighters pounced on the Japanese artillery positions.

"Yaga! Planes, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns of the people of China opened fire! The 33rd Wing of the Japanese Field Artillery Long Fumatsu Dazuo ordered.

The anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the Japanese army, which had been prepared for a long time, began to fire at the air. Caught off guard, a B-25 bomber was hit by a shuttle of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, quickly stopped descending altitude, and began to climb.

And the P-51B dive bomber, which began to attack the Japanese air defense positions, provided protection for the bombing of the bombers.

"Da Da Da!" The aviation machine gun frantically scanned the Japanese anti-aircraft shells and tore the Japanese air defense soldiers to pieces.

After clearing these air defenses, a large number of bombers began to drop bombs.

Bombs fell from the sky and exploded on Japanese artillery positions.

In the midst of the violent explosions, the cannons were constantly overturned and destroyed. At the same time, more Japanese artillery was killed and torn to pieces in the bombardment.

When the planes of the anti-Japanese salvation army air force withdrew from the battlefield, the Japanese artillery positions had become a mess. There were broken corpses or destroyed cannons everywhere.

"Yaga!" The commander of the 33rd Wing of the Japanese Field Artillery, Long Fumatsu Osa, wanted to cry without tears.

It was at this time that the artillery suppression of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army began again. 155-mm heavy howitzers and 105-mm light howitzers, according to the calculated coordinates, began to cover the Japanese artillery positions.

This caused the Japanese artillery positions to suffer a heavy blow again.

It can be said that the 33rd Wing of the Japanese Field Artillery did not play a big role. The shelling had just begun, and was suppressed by bombing and artillery fire from the air force of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army. It only destroyed a few small boats of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.

Lieutenant General Yanagida Motozo, commander of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, was even more speechless when he learned of this result. He knew that this battle was more difficult than he imagined.

Although, the 213th Infantry Wing deployed by the Japanese army on the sandbar desperately wanted to block the landing of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army. However, their resistance was completely futile.

A distance of a few hundred meters is a few minutes for these small boats at the earliest.

After the first boat rushed to the sandbank, it immediately began to engage the Japanese army. Although the soldiers were pinned down on the river beach, as more and more small boats washed up on the river beach, more and more soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army landed. The offensive and defensive momentum of the two sides has also undergone a fundamental reversal.

"Da Da Da! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The officers and men of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army used light and heavy machine guns, mortars and grenadiers to attack the Japanese troops on the sandbar.

The 213th Wing of the Japanese Army, which suffered heavy losses, originally did not have many remaining troops. Although they fought very tenaciously, they were still unable to hold out in the face of the attack of the superior forces and superior firepower of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.

In just one hour, the 19th Infantry Regiment and the 34th Infantry Regiment of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army successfully captured the sandbar. Its own casualties were less than two hundred. The 213th Wing of the Japanese Army on the sandbank, from the wing commander Kawahara to the right Bing Dazuo, more than 3,800 people, all of them were shattered.

After the 7th Infantry Division and the 12th Infantry Division of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army occupied the sandbar in the center of the Mekong River, they were only two or three hundred meters away from the east bank of the Mekong River. Relatively speaking, the next offensive will be easier.

The offensive of the 2nd Army of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army was relatively smooth on this day. Not only was the Phnom Penh offensive successful, but also the offensive in Kampong Cham and Hung Woo directions. All units of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army took the sandbar in the Mekong River at a relatively small cost.

The engineers of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army began to build pontoon bridges in order to send more troops and equipment to the sandbar and create favorable conditions for the next breakthrough of the Japanese army's Mekong defense line.

And such a rapid breakthrough of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army also made the Japanese army very nervous. At this rate of advancement, they simply wouldn't be able to hold out for the remaining four days.