Early the next morning, the 90th Division set out and marched to the Xiangjiang River, which was not far away. Soon after departure, the troops were divided into three directions: the 271st Brigade and the heavy artillery regiment and mixed armored regiment under its command moved in the direction of the railway bridge, the 272nd Brigade and the artillery and armored units under its command moved in the direction of Dong'an Town, and only the division headquarters and the divisional guard regiment and the baggage troops moved due north.

Tang Yikuan had already selected the location of the temporary division headquarters on the map, which was close to Jingjiapu Town in Lingling County. The Japanese army in Lingling County has been abandoned, leaving only a small number of troops and a puppet army in the city. However, Lingling County is the temporary headquarters station selected by Wang Haitao, and the task of capture was not handed over to the 90th Division, but was completed by the 210th Division, and now the 210th Division is approaching Lingling County, and it is easy to take Lingling County with the strength of the 210th Division, so there is no need for Tang Yikuan to worry about it.

The 272nd Brigade had the shortest distance, and it took only two hours for the whole brigade to approach the town of Dong'an, where the 545th Regiment would go to Jiangwan alone and force its way across Jiangwan. The two 82 howitzer and artillery battalions stayed in Dong'an Town with the brigade headquarters, and the artillery began to choose a site and build a position. The distance from Dong'an Town to the highway bridge is three kilometers in a straight line, and the artillery positions are built here, which is enough to hit the Japanese positions in Jiangbei.

There were no Japanese troops in Dong'an Town, and after the temporary brigade headquarters was established, Zhang Lingfu ordered the guard battalion to erect a high platform in the north of the town, so that it was convenient to observe the battle situation on the high platform and command the battle in time. The 546th and 547th Regiments advanced directly to the south of the highway bridge. The Japanese troops north of the bridge had already discovered the arrival of the Chinese army, and the Japanese commander in charge of the defense, Takaaki Yoshinakasa, also ordered all the troops to prepare for battle.

This highway bridge is one of the main bridges to cross the Xiangjiang River, and the Japanese army did not want to blow up this bridge easily, and the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Chilu Li, also wanted to use the Xiangjiang defense line to block the attack of the Chinese army, so as to carry out a full-scale counteroffensive against these Chinese troops in the future. Therefore, the order given to Gao Mingji Nakasa was not to blow up the bridge until the last moment. This order also made it possible for the 272nd Brigade to seize the road bridge.

The 546th Regiment first rushed to the south of the highway bridge, where there was originally an infantry squadron of the Japanese army stationed, in front of the 546th Regiment, an infantry squadron could not hold it at all, the 546th Regiment sent two battalions of troops, and sent out a few light tanks, and a charge seized the Japanese position south of the bridge, and only more than 100 people of this garrison infantry squadron escaped along the bridge and crossed the river.

After the 546th Regiment and the 547th Regiment arrived, they did not rush to attack, first concentrated the heavy mortars of the two regiments and built artillery positions, and then selected heavy machine gun positions south of the bridge, and dozens of heavy machine guns were set up in good positions, and these heavy machine guns would provide fire cover for the troops when they attacked. The main reason why the troops were in no hurry to attack was that the reconnaissance battalion had not yet been able to lurk under the bridge and destroy the explosives and ammunition planted by the Japanese army.

Soon after the troops arrived at the south of the bridge, the high platform in Dong'an Town was also erected, and Zhang Lingfu climbed the high platform and used high-powered telescopes to observe the Japanese position north of the bridge, and at the same time there were several observers of the artillery regiment who climbed the high platform. The view from the high platform is very good, and you can have an unobstructed view of the Japanese positions and the bridge deck north of the bridge. Zhang Lingfu looked at it for a while and breathed a sigh of relief.

In Zhang Lingfu's eyes, the Japanese position north of the bridge was built like that, the bunker was not small, and the firepower distribution was reasonable, but these would be scattered under the bombardment of heavy artillery. If it weren't for the fact that there were explosives and ammunition planted by the Japanese army under the bridge, Zhang Lingfu believed that he would be able to break through the Japanese position and take the bridge with just a few charges, and all he had to do now was to wait for the good news from the reconnaissance battalion.

In order to attract the attention of the Japanese army and create an opportunity for the reconnaissance battalion, Zhang Lingfu ordered the artillery regiment to first carry out artillery bombardment of the Japanese army north of Qiaobei, and at the same time ordered the 546th Regiment to carry out a feint attack on the Japanese army. Forty-eight 82-caliber howitzers and shells on the artillery position were ordered to open fire, and the coordinates of the positions of the Japanese fortifications measured by the observers were sent to the heavy artillery regiment, and the heavy artillery was aimed at the positions of these coordinates and opened fire.

The shells flew over the river and landed on the Japanese positions north of the bridge, but the shells fell behind the Japanese positions, which was also for fear of accidentally hitting the bridge deck and causing damage to the bridge deck. The smoke and dust from the explosion of the shells soon enveloped the entire Japanese position, which also created an opportunity for the reconnaissance battalion to act. The Japanese army also set up sandbag fortifications and barbed wire on the bridge deck, and the feint attack of the 546th Regiment also attracted the attention of the Japanese troops on the bridge deck.

The feint was the second battalion of the 546th regiment, and with the strength of the second battalion, it would not be difficult to take down these Japanese troops on the bridge deck, but the regiment commander Xiao Changxin was also worried that after the Japanese army was afraid, the Japanese army would jump over the wall and blow up the bridge. If you can't take the complete bridge in this way, you won't be able to complete the task, not to mention that the officers and soldiers of the second battalion who are attacking on the bridge deck will also suffer heavy casualties, and Xiao Changxin can't afford this black pot.

Wu Conglong, the commander of the second battalion, understood the idea of the regiment seat very well, and commanded the troops to open full firepower, and the grenades and bullets were also thrown to the bridge one by one, but the soldiers were always at the south end of the bridge and did not go to the bridge. The Japanese troops on the bridge were so suppressed by the dense fire that they couldn't even lift their heads, let alone find the abnormality of the second battalion. Just as the 2nd Battalion was making a feint, several teams sent out by the reconnaissance battalion had quietly dived under the bridge.

The fighters of the reconnaissance group climbed the pier after setting up a human ladder under the bridge, and after a careful search, they found the Japanese army buried on the pier*. Then things were simple, after cutting off *, the warriors were not too relieved, and in order to be sure, they simply took these * up. After eliminating all hidden dangers, the reconnaissance team immediately reported to the superiors, and Zhang Lingfu received a report from the reconnaissance battalion on the tower, and shouted excitedly: "Great!"

Removing the hidden danger on the bridge, Zhang Lingfu ordered the troops to attack with all their strength and take the highway bridge in one go. When Xiao Changxin received Zhang Lingfu's order, his spirits were greatly boosted, and he ordered the light tank, which had long been eager to try, to enter the battle. At the same time, hundreds of mortars and dozens of heavy machine guns opened fire on the position south of the bridge, directly covering the Japanese position north of the bridge.

Four light tanks were side by side, attacking the Japanese with vehicle-mounted artillery and vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, and slowly drove onto the bridgehead, and behind the tanks were the officers and men of the second battalion who had just feinted. As soon as the 546th Regiment attacked with all its might, the Japanese army was immediately unable to parry, not to mention anything else, just these tanks that rushed to the bridgehead made them have nothing to do.

In front of the tanks, neither the heavy machine guns nor the grenadiers could be of any use, and the mountain artillery brigade behind had already lost all in the artillery battle, and the Japanese troops on the bridge could not resist at first and retreated to the north of the bridge. The captain in charge of the command, Gao Ming Yoshinakasa, saw that the Chinese army had rushed to the center of the bridge, and the form was very unfavorable, so he gritted his teeth and gave the order to blow up the sedan chair. But no matter how much the sappers who received the order made a mess*, the * buried under the bridge did not react at all.

The red-eyed Gao Mingji Zhongsa ordered these sappers to check what was wrong under the rain of bullets, but before these sappers could reach the bottom of the bridge, they were shot in the head by the reconnaissance team in ambush with snipers and firing guns. In desperation, Takaaki Yoshinakasa could only have the soldiers strapped to the *bag and* to deal with the few tanks that had rushed to the middle of the bridge.

The second battalion has also trained many times and used it many times in actual combat, and the infantry protecting the tank will let these dead soldiers of the Japanese army rush to the side of the tank, dozens of sharpshooters are waiting for these dead soldiers, plus the charging and frontal guns in the hands of the soldiers who follow the protection behind the tank, these dead soldiers have just rushed out of the trench and received various blows, and no one can successfully approach the tank.

With the roar of the engine, the four tanks took the lead in rushing across the bridge and into the Japanese position, and the officers and men of the second battalion followed closely behind and rushed to the Japanese position, and a hand-to-hand battle began on the Japanese position. The hand-to-hand battle was brutal, and although the Japanese troops on the position suffered many casualties after multiple blows, they were still much larger than the second battalion.

The four tanks didn't care so much, they just rushed forward, but as soon as they rushed to the middle of the Japanese position, eight Japanese Type 95 light tanks rushed head-on. This is the Japanese tank squadron, in the shelling just now, this tank squadron was in a better position to hide, not only did the observers not find them, but the artillery fire did not hurt them, and now they saw the Chinese army tank vehicles rushing in, so they immediately met them.

The Japanese Type 95 light tank has a dead weight of only 6.5 tons, and in addition to a 37 mm caliber gun, there is only one vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun, and its performance is similar to that of the heavy armored vehicles of the armored brigade in all aspects. These eight light tanks are no better than toys in front of the light tanks of the armored brigade. As soon as he saw the Japanese chariot appear, He Daxi, the commander of the first company of the No. 1 car who rushed to the front, excitedly shouted on the on-board radio: "Pay attention, the little Japanese chariot is rushing over! Let's have a good time with them, and let the little Japanese see what the real chariot is." All change*, ready to fire!"

As soon as He Daxi's words fell, the replies of several other commanders on the radio rang out: "Car No. 2 understands, car No. 3 understands, car No. 4 understands!" He Xi said to Yang Ming, a gunner in the car: "Old Yang has seen you, you must hit the first shot!" Yang Ming replied while aiming: "You still can't believe my technical company commander?" As he spoke, Yang Ming finished aiming, and then flew towards the target.

The distance between the two sides is only a few tens of meters, and basically both sides will not lose such a close distance, but the * from the Japanese tank cannot penetrate the armor of the front of our tank at all, while the * shot by our tank penetrates the armor of the Japanese tank and explodes in the Japanese tank car. With only one face, four to zero, our tanks have an absolute advantage.

Seeing the appearance of the Japanese tanks, the other two battalions of the 546th Regiment, which had been preparing to reinforce the second battalion, also rushed to the Japanese position, along with two other light tanks and eight heavy armored vehicles. The 2nd Battalion was fighting with the Japanese in their positions, and although there were dozens of casualties, the Japanese fell even more. At this critical moment, two other battalions and armored units rushed across the bridge, and victory was in the pocket of our army!