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Chapter 1876 The Japanese Army Crosses the River

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    At this time, Taro Sakai was standing not far from the Yellow River.

    He held a telescope and looked at the bank of the Yellow River in the distance. He knew that the enemy's troops were already waiting on the other side of the river, waiting for them to cross the river before launching a fierce attack.

    But now the Japanese army is powerful.  On the other side, the Third Division and the Airborne Division combined have only 40,000 to 50,000 troops.

    On the other hand, on the Japanese side, the number of troops participating in crossing the river was already twice theirs.

    This gave Taro Sakai more confidence to complete this river-crossing operation, especially the Japanese troops in the Kaifeng area, who also prepared a plan for the river-crossing operation.

    When they successfully cross the river, they can join the Japanese troops in the Zhengzhou area to launch a fierce attack on the 3rd Division and Airborne Division troops along the Yellow River.

    Like Taro Sakai, on the other side of the Yellow River, Wei Xing, as the commander of the 3rd Division, was also observing the situation of the Japanese troops on the other side.

    He looked across the Yellow River. In fact, through the telescope, he could see nothing and no trace of the Japanese army.

    But Wei Xing knew that behind those dense jungles, there must be a large number of Japanese troops, waiting for the opportunity to conduct cross-river operations.

    He told the soldiers around him: "The Japanese army is very likely to cross the river tonight or during the day tomorrow. Tell the brothers, you must cheer up and don't let these little devils come over."

    It was almost impossible for the Japanese army to cross the river secretly.

    The Japanese army had tried before to force small groups of troops to cross the river, but they all ended in failure.

    Because the Third Division¡¯s reconnaissance methods are rich and diverse, it is almost impossible for the Japanese army to cross the Yellow River quietly. Even at night, they can use infrared reconnaissance instruments to lock the Japanese army on the river.

    In addition, the armored forces in the Hebi area can support the coast of the Yellow River within one day.  This is also what the Japanese army is worried about.

    It is precisely because of this that the Japanese army's crossing the river has been repeatedly delayed.

    It was not until now that he learned that the armored troops had been dispatched to the Linzhou area that Taro Sakai became determined to cross the river.

    Otherwise, these infantry units under his command will face the impact of the enemy's large-scale armored forces.

    ¡°Ask these soldiers to resist those strange steel behemoths, they will definitely die on the beach of the Yellow River, and there is no way to withstand the enemy¡¯s fierce counterattack.

    Now these armored units have been dispatched.  They then decided to forcefully cross the river directly.

    At ten o¡¯clock in the morning that day, the Japanese scout troops in the southern area of ??Linzhou discovered traces of the armored division.

    Such a news was quickly conveyed to Lily Ogawa.

    Lily Ogawa knew that the enemy's armored forces had been mobilized by her chess piece.

    They will need to spend more time if they want to support the areas along the Yellow River.

    Lily Ogawa knew that the time was ripe for them to launch a fierce attack.

    So he immediately sent a telegram to Taro Sakai, telling him that he could cross the river immediately.

    The enemy¡¯s armored forces have arrived in the Linzhou area.

    After receiving this order, Taro Sakai immediately issued an order to start crossing the river.

    Almost three minutes after the order was issued, the Japanese artillery force also launched a fierce bombardment of the defensive positions of the Third Division on the other side of the Yellow River.

    These Japanese artillery units had already aimed their guns at the Third Division's river defense positions, and were only waiting for orders from the Japanese commander.

    After the Japanese commander issued the order, they launched a fierce bombardment of the Third Division's Jiang defense position without hesitation.

    After the bombardment lasted for half an hour, the Japanese troops arrived at the bank of the Yellow River under the cover of artillery fire.

    And following them came various bamboo rafts and other boats used to cross the river.

    They installed bullet-proof panels on bamboo rafts, and some ships were wrapped with iron sheets to block machine gun bullets from the opposite side.

    Densely packed Japanese troops were like swarms of locusts, swarming towards the banks of the Yellow River. The speed of the Yellow River at this time was not very fast.

    It is very suitable for them to carry out cross-river operations.

    But at the same time that these Japanese troops appeared on the bank of the Yellow River, the artillery positions of the Fourth Army on the opposite bank also began to bombard the Japanese troops.

    They concentrated their artillery fire onAny area south of the Yellow River and on the river where Japanese troops gathered were the areas they focused on bombing.

    Under the fierce artillery fire, many Japanese troops waiting to board the ship on the beach were bombarded by the artillery fire of the Fourth Army.

    Many Japanese soldiers were blown away directly.  Others were hit by a shell as soon as they boarded the ferry, and the entire Japanese army on the boat was sent to see the Lord of Hell.

    Those Japanese soldiers showed no fear at all. Despite the fierce artillery fire from the Fourth Army, they began to use oars and slide rafts to forcibly cross the river.

    On the raft, the soldiers in the front row held up several bullet-proof boards to block flying bullets and shell shrapnel flying everywhere.

    At this time, on the position of the Third Division, the soldiers had long expected that the Japanese army was about to start crossing the river.

    They dug into the trenches dug in advance, and the Japanese artillery fire did not cause much damage to them.

    After the Japanese artillery fire ended, they emerged from the trenches one after another and entered their respective fighting positions.

    A series of light and heavy machine guns and rifles, even submachine guns and automatic rifles, all pointed their muzzles at the bank of the Yellow River.

    Their machine gun defense positions have already been set up at shooting angles.

    As long as the Japanese army rushes onto the river beach, they can use their light and heavy machine guns to launch fierce fire at the Japanese army.

    By then, the dense firepower network will be a nightmare that the Japanese army will never forget.

    Any Japanese troops who attempt to land on the shore will become dead souls under these firepower nets.

    Those Japanese soldiers, withstanding the bombardment of artillery fire, finally arrived at the center of the Yellow River.

    But at this moment, in the defensive position of the third division on the river bank, the light and heavy machine guns and rifles roared at the same time.

    The extremely dense jet of bullets was like a man-eating tiger, opening its bloody mouth and tearing these Japanese soldiers off the bamboo raft.

    Some large-caliber bullets even directly penetrated the Japanese army's ballistic shields.

    Those large-caliber bullets can even tear apart the armor plates of Japanese armored vehicles, not to mention the steel plates held by the Japanese soldiers.

    Not only that, at this time, various mortars and flat-fire artillery deployed on the position also began to launch fierce bombardments against the Japanese troops on the Yellow River.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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