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Chapter 1,467 Battle across the river

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    The tactics used this time are actually very similar to the detour flanking tactics often used by the Japanese army.

    The front is a feint attack, the main purpose is to attract firepower.

    The real offensive troops crossed the river from both wings and attacked the Japanese troops stationed here from three directions.

    "The current is not very turbulent now. We can gather the boats and cross the river. If the current becomes turbulent, it will be even more troublesome." Xia Yang said.

    "In a while, it will be the rainy season. We must complete the crossing of the river before the heavy rain arrives, otherwise the overall combat plan will be postponed." Hao Shiwen said.

    Xia Yang nodded and said: "Order, the infantry regiment, immediately go to the mountain to cut down trees and make the recommended assault boat.

    At the same time, we ordered the engineering troops to cross the river successfully or the firepower on the opposite side was suppressed by our army.  They immediately built a bridge to allow tanks and armored vehicles to cross the river.  "

    "Yes!" Hao Shiwen replied loudly.

    Their preparations for combat began quickly.

    Thousands of people from several infantry regiments marched directly into the surrounding mountains and forests and began to cut down the trees there.

    They simply tied these trees together with wires to make a raft.

    The river they want to cross is only a few dozen meters wide.  No need for a good boat, this simple raft can meet the requirements.

    However, according to Xia Yang¡¯s requirements, steel plates must be installed on the front and sides of these rafts.

    The Japanese army deployed a large amount of light and heavy machine gun firepower in their positions on the opposite bank.  If the soldiers were allowed to charge while sitting on the bare raft, they would be a living target for the Japanese machine gunners.

    With just one shot, a whole boatload of soldiers could be buried at the bottom of the river.

    At the same time, he ordered his soldiers to enter the water from both sides when they reached the river ford, instead of lowering the front steel plate and entering the water from the front.

    This is the experience summed up with blood by the Allied forces during the subsequent landing in Normandy.

    When they were training to land on the beach before, they always opened the front hatch of the landing craft and allowed the soldiers to enter the shallow water from the front.

    ¡°As a result, the German heavy machine guns on the beach were aimed at your cabin door.

    As long as the hatch directly in front of you is opened, their heavy machine guns will shoot at the soldiers inside.  There is almost no difference between this and being shot in a row.

    So from then on, soldiers who fought on the beach were required to roll into shallow water from both sides, so as to avoid being killed by enemy machine gun fire to the greatest extent.

    In addition, Xia Yang also explored the terrain next to the river bank and ordered the soldiers to dig positions on the opposite bank.

    When crossing the river, they can deploy a large amount of heavy machine gun firepower, as well as flat-fire artillery, etc. in these places to suppress the Japanese river bank positions with firepower.

    In addition to these, a large number of smoke bombs were also transported by them.

    When they cross the river, these smoke bombs will become the best cover to hide their whereabouts.

    As for the howitzer regiment, they also began to move forward to cooperate with their attack.

    The role of howitzers was not only to bombard the Japanese defensive positions along the river.  Another important point is to counter the enemy's artillery.

    The artillery equipped by the Japanese army, even the heavy artillery, has a range of more than ten kilometers.  But Xia Yang's howitzer regiment has a range of up to thirty kilometers.

    This is a very scary number, because almost all artillery positions of the Japanese army will be within the fire coverage of the howitzer regiment.

    In addition, they can use various tools to capture ballistics, and then input the data of these ballistics into the computer for calculation.

    You can then deduce the coordinates of the Japanese artillery positions.

    Through a series of calculation formulas, we can accurately calculate the shooting parameters required by our own artillery.

    Through these, they can easily hit the artillery shells on the Japanese artillery positions.

    The preparations before the battle took a full day.

    By the early morning of the next day, several infantry regiments and engineering regiments worked overtime to build more than a hundred bulletproof rafts.

    These rafts can each transport twenty soldiers, and two thousand soldiers can be transported to the other side in one wave.

    The soldiers in the other two directions crossed the river from the two wings of the Japanese army, and surrounded the Japanese army on three sides.?.

    Itagaki Seishiro knew that this battle across the Hutuo River would be their first collision with the enemy's main force.

    The defensive position here can actually be abandoned.  This was also Itagaki Seishiro's strategy.

    He wanted to let the enemy's tank troops penetrate deep alone.  Then his tank troops detoured from both wings and attacked the enemy's rear.

    This method of combat can compensate to the greatest extent for the disadvantages of their tanks compared to the tanks equipped by Xia Yang and others in terms of armor protection and firepower.

    At the same time, after a day and night of rapid marching, the Japanese troops who detoured back to Pingxingguan had also arrived at the combat position.

    Their purpose is simple, to attack the transport troops at Pingxingguan at a suitable moment.  At the same time, the important pass of Pingxingguan was occupied, the highway of Pingxingguan was controlled, and the enemy's transportation line was cut off.

    If all this can go according to the expected plan, then the enemy forces fighting in this area will be in a very embarrassing situation after the war resources are exhausted.

    Of course, this is all under ideal conditions.

    Because Itagaki Seishiro knew very well that as long as Xia Yang was aware of his combat deployment, his counterattack would definitely be thunderous.

    What he needs to do is to resist the counterattack of Xia Yang and his troops together with the tens of thousands of Japanese troops under his command.

    Heihe, a tributary of the Hutuo River, the Japanese regiment stationed on the bank at this time is the Natsume Regiment of the Japanese Ninth Brigade.

    This Natsume regiment has more than 2,000 troops and is relatively well-equipped, including a lot of 37mm flat-fire cannons.

    At the same time, the defensive positions they built along the river are also very strong and made of reinforced concrete.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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