The battle started unplanned, but Gao Jianwu was not worried at all.

In accordance with the order of attack specified in advance, the main artillery regiment began to continuously bombard the enemy's positions. The defensive fire points built in advance by the little devils were defenseless under the attack of large-caliber howitzers.

A sneak attack turned into a strong attack, and the final result was not much different. While the artillery was washing the ground, Ding Wei's first attack group also began to force the crossing.

With the assault company seizing the bridgehead and using the temporary pontoon bridge built by rubber boats, the first attack group was quickly sent over, followed by the third attack group that served as the reserve main attack behind Ding Wei.

Chu Yunfei was a little embarrassed to watch the fighting on the other side of the river, but he was a little useless, except for the artillery battalion providing them with artillery support, Chu Yunfei could only watch dryly.

A good main mission flew away like this.

And followed Ding Wei to pick up the cheap third attack group, Xu Shida grinned very brightly as if he had picked up a treasure, they came up to fight the main attack, so that the battle seemed to be back on the track of the plan, some people hit the main attack, and some people went to outflank, but in fact, it was quite different from the beginning.

Ding Wei's first attack group still went to outflank the rear road, Chu Yunfei's second attack group watched the fire from the other side, and the reserve Xu Shida's third attack group took over the combat mission of Chu Yunfei's second attack group.

And Zhang Dabiao, who was Chu Yunfei's substitute, was even more depressed, he followed Chu Yunfei behind him and watched Xu Shida go up, and now he didn't even have a chance to pick up the leaks. He had no choice but to put the artillery battalion on top as planned, and it was better to provide long-range artillery support to the 3rd Attack Group on the other side of the bank and respond to their request for artillery fire.

This result made Colonel Smith, who was observing from the side, a little confused, Gao's tactics seemed to have failed, but the result did not seem to have failed.

This kind of operation was unheard of by Colonel Smith.

Of course, Gao Jianwu won't explain to him what it means to stop and convince people!

Moreover, now he is very busy, and he has moved the command post forward to the edge of the Chindun River, so that he can directly observe the main position of the 15th Division, a little devil who was ravaged by artillery fire, and see if he can check and fill in the gaps to revise the attack target for the main artillery.

A flare hit the position of the little devil on the opposite bank, and it was as bright as day, and Gao Jianwu quickly re-marked the firepower according to the position of the little devil in the hurry of counterattacking, and formed new attack coordinate points in his mind.

Then the new shelling order was transmitted to the main artillery position, and as the artillery quickly revised the new shelling target, Smith, who followed Gao Jianwu, soon found from the telescope that one after another heavy howitzers began to smash into the fire points of the little devil's coastal defense position, and amazingly, those 155mm howitzers were aimed at those large bunkers built with reinforced concrete!

In a short period of time, the target can be identified for calibration, and reasonable artillery fire can be commanded to strike at a fixed point, this on-the-spot command ability completely broke through Colonel Smith's imagination.

Suddenly, he seemed to understand the question he had just bewildered.

Gao's tactics are failures, but Gao's ability is unbreakable, frankly speaking, even if Gao Jianwu commands the troops from here to force the crossing, he can still crush the little devil.

It's just that smuggling from the upstream, if it succeeds, it will be more convenient, even if it fails, the enemy it faces is as easy to crush as it is now, the conspiracy does not succeed, and the situation can be forcibly reversed with strong force, who do you talk to?

Colonel Smith is a typical supporter of firepower, and to be honest, there are not many generals who pay attention to strategy in the beautiful country, they prefer to use their strength to crush them directly!

So if you meet an opponent you can't crush, you're a bit of a Muggle.

But Gao Jianwu is different.

No matter what kind of opponent it is, if you can save a lot of effort, you will naturally save it.

There's no need to waste.

......

"Gao Pinjun, can our reserves be dispatched now?" Lieutenant General Masafumi Yamauchi listened to the constant bad news coming from the front and anxiously walked around the headquarters.

Gao Jianwu's beating has made General Yamauchi lose his inner balance.

He already knew that there was a gap between his strength and Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force cluster, but he definitely didn't expect that the gap would be so big, it was only more than half an hour after the battle began, and the artillery wing directly under his division was almost finished, and almost one-third of the forward positions were lost!

The most important of these was the enemy's deadly heavy artillery attack, and Lieutenant General Yamauchi Masafumi was unable to use his position to counterattack.

What he can pose a serious threat to Gao Jianwu's artillery now is an artillery wing from the 22nd Division, one of which is a brigade of 6 105mm howitzers!

The 91-type 105-mm howitzer has a range of up to 10.8 kilometers, which is only more than 300 meters less than the M2A1 105-mm howitzer in Gao Jianwu's hand.

They basically locked down the general area, so Lieutenant General Yamauchi Masafumi wanted to hear the opinion of the chief of staff.

"It may not be the time yet," Gao Pin's chief of staff shook his head, "Artillery duel, who is stronger and who takes advantage, our artillery's ability to measure range at night is far less than that during the day, once we fire, it is equivalent to exposing our only hole card." ”

"In my opinion, it is better to aim at the enemy's forward and suddenly use the artillery wing to deliver a covering blow when approaching our position, and wipe out their forward charging team in one fell swoop."

The reason why Chief of Staff Gao Pin is not optimistic about the artillery duel against his own side is because he has discovered that the opponent's heavy artillery strike position is frighteningly accurate!

This shows that the other side has a ridiculously strong artillery command, and has done a good job of reconnaissance and tactical strike calculations in advance, so that it can fire artillery according to the target without stopping, and bombard the position of the 15th Division to pieces!

If the artillery wing goes to a duel with such artillery, the chief of staff of Gao Pin believes that the winning side is most likely not his side!

The forward team that fights the enemy's charge is different, the terrain here is more familiar to them, and it is easier to hit the designated area, and it is difficult for the enemy to lock on to the target immediately after a few rounds of attacks are quickly triggered, so that this artillery wing is relatively intact and joins the defense!

Now that the 15 division of an artillery wing has been lost, it cannot afford such serious losses, which is equivalent to a reduction in combat effectiveness by more than a third at once!

"Then I'm afraid we won't be able to hold our position." Lieutenant General Yamauchi sighed. "If we don't knock out the enemy's artillery, we will always be in a state of passive beating, what should we do in this situation?"

"Sannei-kun, in fact, our best choice now is to retreat!" Chief of Staff Gao Pin said with a wry smile.

"In fact, even if we put in this last artillery wing and garrison group, it will only increase the losses of the other side a little, but the fate of our position will hardly change."

"Frankly speaking, the enemy has an absolute advantage, their artillery fire is far beyond our control, and if we hold our positions, all our men will die on the positions."

Chief of Staff Gao Pin has been beaten out of the psychological shadow by Gao Jianwu, and at this moment, he actually persuaded Lieutenant General Yamauchi Masafumi to retreat.

However, his opinion is the most correct now.

It's a pity that Lieutenant General Yamauchi will not accept this kind of defeat and retreat, especially without a clear order from his superiors, he can only hold his position.

The chief of staff of Gao Pin also knows this, even if it is better to die on the battlefield.

In fact, there are many people who understand the truth of saving land and losing people, but there are too few people who can do it.

......

"Watch out for the little devil's counterattack." After Gao Jianwu completed a new round of target designation, he felt that something was abnormal, the artillery wing reinforced by the little devil in his intelligence system did not seem to have appeared, and the previous shelling of the little devil artillery position was not over with one blow, and the middle process was still quite exquisite, just like queuing up to shoot, you shoot and I will bombard each other!

It's just that the artillery of the expeditionary force cluster hits the little devil position every time, and the little devil artillery who blindly fights back with experience, often the shells only fall a few hundred meters away from the artillery position of the expeditionary force cluster!

This is also the experience of the little devil artillery, so that the approximate location of the enemy's artillery can be inferred from the angle and direction of the artillery attack, otherwise it would be good to find the right direction in the dark night.

Gao Jianwu was faintly a little uneasy, this kind of opponent hidden in the shadows is the most difficult to guard against, he thought about it, picked up the walkie-talkie and opened the public channel: "Attention all departments, there is something wrong with the enemy's artillery fire we encountered, and the 105mm howitzers reinforced by the little devils have not yet appeared on the battlefield, which is a bit abnormal."

The 1st and 3rd Attack Groups sent reconnaissance teams to search within 5 kilometers of the enemy's position and find out the artillery hidden by the little devils.

The main artillery positions began to move to the second candidate position.

The second attack group began to build pontoon bridges, preparing to cross the river after annihilating the hidden artillery of the little devils! ”

As Gao Jianwu gave the order, all units immediately launched actions, and dozens of reconnaissance teams began to search on the opposite shore with walkie-talkies, forming a dragnet search range according to each person's reconnaissance area, and one by one scouts quickly disappeared into the night.

And Chu Yunfei, who had long been impatient, heard the order to erect a pontoon bridge, and rushed directly to the river to direct the fire cover, even if the enemy did not have the strength to attack now, but Chu Yunfei had already mobilized the mortar companies of the 1st and 2nd battalions to deploy artillery positions by the river, and once the enemy was found to attack the firepower point of the pontoon bridge, there would be artillery to return fire immediately!

The sappers began to drag the rubber boat to the Qindun River, although the river is vast, but the terrain is gentle, the water flow is not urgent, the first stage is going very smoothly, the two pontoon bridges are soon connected with Jiangxinzhou, the leaves are generally narrow Jiangxinzhou will divide the Qindun River into two halves, close to Chu Yunfei's second attack group This side accounts for one-third, to Jiangxinzhou, there are still seven or eight hundred meters left on the opposite bank, after laying the pile, a rubber boat carrying a long rope began to row to the opposite bank!