It was already around 5:30 pm when Dingbeiwei arrived at the Jiafu River. It was still drizzling in the sky. The sky was already very dark, but it did not mean that it was just evening. It should be about 40 minutes before the night fell completely.

With him, there were more than two infantry troops from the 6th Division's artillery gang, and there was another infantry gang accompanying him because the land was muddy and muddy. But it is not that the main infantry force of the 6th Division who had arrived at this time had lost the support of artillery fire. Not only the 47th Infantry Regiment also had 4 mountain cannons. The 13th Infantry Regiment and the 23rd Infantry Regiment had 4 mountain cannons each. The 12 mountain cannons were almost the full strength of a kingdom division-level unit. In addition, the 2 70mm infantry cannons each owned by the 8 infantry gangs and the 4 37mm rapid-fire cannons of each of the three corps units. The 6th Division cannons can organize more than 40 small-caliber artillery at this moment alone.

Moreover, two gunboats were launched on the surface of the Jiafu River, two gunboats belonging to the 11th Team of the Third Fleet of the Black Hawk Empire Navy. Don’t think that gunboats are slag boats. The reason why the Black Hawk Empire Navy still has more than a dozen gunboats when it has large ships such as aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers, destroyers, mines and other large ships is because of the combat needs in the inland rivers within the kingdom.

The Black Hawk Empire Navy's inland gunboat was built with low freeboards in consideration of the shallow draft in the upper reaches of the Nanjiang River. In order to facilitate the use of warning, the hull structure is large and the endurance is long. The ship speed must exceed the requirement of being able to cross the dangerous shoals of the Nanjiang River. Because it must be above 16 knots, the South River has shallow drafts, so the gunboat must be shallow.

But it is absolutely impossible to say that gunboats are small boats. For example, the two gunboats that run from the intersection of the Jiafu River and the Nanjiang River are the best inland gunboats equipped by the Black Hawk Empire Navy.

The basic design of the gunboat follows the predecessors of the Dark Yuan Empire who served in the service, but has a larger engine with a size and greater power. The total length of the hull is 54.86 meters, a width of 8.23 ​​meters, a normal displacement of 250 tons, and a draft of 0.79 meters. The power system pushes two reciprocating engines for three-axis drives for two ship-type coal-fired boilers, with an output power of 1,400 horsepower and a maximum speed of 15 knots. The weapon system is configured as 80 mm, 28 caliber cannons and 6 6.6 mm machine guns, with a crew of more than 60 people, and the commander on the ship is also the rank of major.

Such a gunboat can completely strike artillery fire at the center of the river to the positions within 3,000 meters of the two sides of the river. During the entire Patriotic War, this gunboat has always been the main force of ships controlled by the Black Hawk Army's large inland rivers such as the Kingdom of Nanjiang. Even in the play, after the Black Hawk Army was forced to surrender, these gunboats abandoned by the Black Hawk Army were used by the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the People's Republic of China and were finally used by the Principality, and served until more than ten years after the founding of the Principality.

It can be said that if the angry butcher of the Black Hawk Army now ordered his all-out effort to cross the river, and with their current strength and transportation capacity, he would be fully capable of sending an infantry corps to the other side of the river.

But Ding Beiwei did not. He personally came to the reeds by the river and watched the opposite side of the river with a telescope for a long time, but he ordered the entire army to repair and wait for the arrival of the artillery corps.

It was not because Ding Beiwei did not plan to cross the river to fight at night when he saw it was getting late, but that only more than 40 artillery pieces were not enough to vent the surging anger in his heart.

It was not until around 7 o'clock in the evening that the 6th Field Artillery Regiment of the 6th Division arrived, and Ding Beiwei issued a military order to prepare for crossing the river to fight.

The 48th Regiment had already observed the arrival of the 6th Division, but it was still not enough about the intensity of the shelling he was about to be subjected to. Including Colonel Xie Yunsheng, he did not expect how angry the lieutenant general of the Black Hawk Empire Army opposite him was.

Even the 13th Infantry Regiment, which was preparing to land on the Jiangtan, had not yet begun to assemble and board the ship. The 36 field artillery and 12 105 howitzers of the 6th Field Artillery Regiment of the 6th Division began to roar. Following were 16 mountain artillery directly under the wings of the four infantry regiments and all other large and small artillery fires. Even two gunboats located upstream and downstream respectively participated, and the main guns of the two 80mm ships also fired at the positions by the river.

The people of the 48th Regiment located in the artillery fire did not know how many artillery were bombarding them. Almost everyone could only hold their heads and try to reduce their entire body and curl up in the trenches. The entire trench that was 2 kilometers long was trembling under the raging Black Hawks artillery fire.

The illusion gives people the illusion that people are not hiding in a solid earth, but are on a boat under the storm of the vast ocean, and the earth is shaking under the fierce artillery fire of the Black Hawk Army.

According to statistics from the staff of the Sixth Division after this battle, the entire Sixth Division used more than 80 large and large artillery artillery pieces in the first round of artillery fire to shoot more than 2,000 rounds of shells of various caliber. If it is average, a shell will fall for every 200 square meters on the kingdom position that is about 2,000 meters wide and about 200 meters wide.

And you should know that the killing radius of a 105 howitzer exceeds fifteen meters, which means that a 105 howitzer is enough to kill all creatures within a range of 600 square meters of bullet points. Although mountain cannons and infantry cannons are less powerful, one cannon cannon is enough to kill creatures within 100 square meters.

It is definitely a hell level difficulty to survive in such artillery fire. This is the 48th Regiment built a trench with sufficient depth in advance. If it was in the wild, if it was smashed like this, the entire regiment would be blown away.

But even with trenches, the casualties on the front line were still heavy. The Black Hawk Army began to land on a boat towards the beach. It should be the best time to block the attack, and there were very few that could shoot bullets into the river. The terrible air waves caused by the explosion of artillery shells swept across everything on the position, and the hurricane-like air waves would be used as camouflaged shrubs and cotton poles. A few machine gun teams who dared to lie on the battlefield to shoot at the center of the river were all injured in the artillery fire. The light machine gun and the shooter were blown away by the explosion air waves. The machine gun was thrown high by the air waves and smashed hard to the ground into parts. Even if the more fragile human body was not lifted, its internal organs were damaged, and there were almost no survivors.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The company commanders of each infantry company have to crawl forward in the trenches, and strictly ordered that their subordinates should not enter the battle position and shoot without military orders. The violations should be dealt with by military law. Their main task now is not to block the Black Hawk Army from entering the river bank tidal flats, but to survive first. If they are not alive, how can they fight with the Black Hawk Army who has got off the ship?

The young soldier who thought he had experienced a battlefield and was qualified to be a veteran was almost unlucky and blocked by his squad leader in the innermost part of the individual gunfire hole with his body. It is said that the Black Hawk Empire's artillery fire was so fierce that only when it reached his head would the young soldier know how terrible it was.

Compared with other positions, the infantry battalion where he was located was bombarded and retaliated by the Black Hawk Imperial Army as the key target of attack. At least 6 of the 12 howitzers were aimed at this position.

Not to mention other artillery, just talking about the six 105 howitzers were enough to razed the infantry camp's position to the ground. After almost all the camouflage was stripped off by artillery fire, the tragedy finally came. Unfortunately, one of the howitzers unfortunately fell into the trench of one of the infantry platoons. A whole infantry platoon was thrown into the air like a toy doll in the bursting air wave. If it weren't for the trench being built enough, the young soldier who was 100 meters away from the infantry platoon would not know whether he could be alive, even if he was hiding in the individual gun hole on the side of the trench.

Because, even if it is an anti-aircraft hole, if it is a grenade like this, it will be ruthlessly shattered. The company commander has already lying on his trenches and dug several anti-aircraft holes that have been shattered. Almost no one who has been stolen was alive. They were either suffocated to death or were terrible shocks of the shells that have broken their hearts and lungs.

"You immortal Black Hawk Empire man, the turtle son, always don't shoot artillery." The young soldier with a pale face curled up in the anti-cannon hole with tears and waiting for the Black Hawk Army artillery fire to stop.

He was afraid of death, but he was even more afraid that he would not even shoot bullets and die like those brothers. Relatively speaking, he would rather die in the battle throne of shooting at the Black Hawk Empires, otherwise there would be no way to set up the dragon gate formation where King Yama would set up.

The artillery fire of the Black Hawk Army gradually became sparse. When it was still bombing outside, the veteran squad leader who had been blocking the young soldier with his body suddenly kicked the young soldier who was still muttering in his heart, and roared: "The Black Hawk Empire is coming up, go out with me."

Although I don't understand how the veteran knew, the young soldier was increasingly impressed by his squad leader who likes to smoke big cigarettes. He subconsciously dragged his gun and crawled out of the anti-cannon hole.

Although the artillery fire of the Black Hawk Army continued, it was already extending backwards, and few shells fell on the position. The young soldier was brave enough to look up, but was stopped by the veteran squad leader. The veteran took off his helmet first, pressed his face tightly against the trench, quietly leaning his head out regardless of the mud and water on his face. In just one second, he suddenly sat back on the trench.

"Son of the Turtle, the Black Hawk Empire is coming up! So many!" The mud on the veteran squad leader's face could not hide his pale face.

"Do you want to notify the platoon commander?" The young soldier's heart suddenly tightened.

"The brothers are all out." The veteran squad leader shook his head, and his face showed a trace of misery. "He is a fairy, and he may not be able to fight hard this time. Shanzi, remember, this time, you can't shoot randomly with your head buried. If you want to aim, you will not kill the turtle son, and we will run away without any space."

The young soldier had no chance to ask the veteran why he explained this. With Yang Songlin's heart-wrenching roar not far away, "Brothers, the Black Hawk Empire people are coming up, and all those who are alive will beat me hard!"

Gunshots suddenly rang out of the trenches.

With the end of the Black Hawk Army's artillery suppression, the Black Hawk Army, which had already climbed the beach, began to launch an attack, and the anti-landing and blocking war that truly belonged to the 48th Regiment of the 43rd Army of the Qiu Tong Army officially began.
Chapter completed!