"Your Excellency, the Chinese people have attacked. Colonel Kawahara requests support." Colonel Hashimoto Kura Goro, chief of staff of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, reported.

"Order the field artillery corps to open fire and kill as many Chinese people as possible who are preparing to cross the river." Lieutenant General Yanagida Motomi ordered. The implication was that he was willing to provide artillery support to the 213th infantry corps. However, if you send reinforcements, then forget it.

"Hi, Master of the Division." Colonel Kuro Goro Hashimoto nodded.

Two minutes later, the artillery soldiers of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, who had already been prepared, began to bombard fiercely. 12 1o5mm howitzers, 42 75mm field guns, and 18 Type 92 infantry guns all desperately poured shells into the Mekong Hanoi.

"Swish!Swish!"

The harsh whistling sounded over the heads of the officers and soldiers who were rescued by the Japanese. All the officers and soldiers who were crossing the river looked at the sky in horror. They all knew that this was the sound of the enemy's shells falling on their heads.

Even the bravest person will be frightened when facing such a situation.

"God, don't hit our ships with Japanese shells!" Some soldiers even prayed secretly.

After all, when crossing the river, it was also the time when these soldiers were the most vulnerable. At this time, they didn't even have the power to fight back, and could only watch the enemy's shells fall.

Of course, the soldiers all accelerated the paddles and hoped to rush to the sandbank as soon as possible. In this way, it would be relatively safer. At the same time, there would be no power to fight back.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The shells fell on the river and exploded with water columns soaring into the sky.

Occasionally, shells hit the small boats that were fighting against Japan and rescued, and the wooden boats were blown up to pieces. Soldiers who were fighting against Japan and rescued fell into the water.

"Damn it! The Japanese artillery finally took action. It turned out that they had been waiting to attack our infantry, which was simply too despicable. Order the artillery to open fire immediately and suppress the Japanese artillery fire!" Major General Yan Tianning ordered with a dark face.

The 155mm heavy howitzer and 1o5mm light howitzer that had been prepared had already begun to calculate the location of the Japanese artillery positions. After only after determining the coordinates of the opponent, they could immediately suppress the Japanese artillery. After all, the artillery rescued by the anti-Japanese war was much stronger than the Japanese artillery. Otherwise, the Japanese artillery would not have adopted this sneaky method.

At the same time, the anti-Japanese rescue air force that had just arrived on the battlefield went directly to the battle. One after another, bombers and fighter jets rushed towards the Japanese artillery positions.

"Baga! The Chinese people's planes, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons opened fire!" Colonel Long Fusong, the 33rd Regiment of Japanese Field Artillery, ordered.

The Japanese anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns that had been prepared long ago began to fire in the air. Without any defense, a 25 bomber was hit by a shuttle of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, and quickly stopped falling down the altitude and began to climb.

The p51 dive bomber began to attack the Japanese air defense positions to provide protection for bombing.

"Dadada!" The aviation machine guns frantically scanned the Japanese air defense shells, tearing the Japanese air defense forces to pieces.

After clearing these air defense forces, a large number of bombers began to drop bombs.

Bombs fell from the sky and exploded on the Japanese artillery positions.

During the violent explosion, artillery was constantly overturned and destroyed. At the same time, more Japanese artillery soldiers were killed and torn into pieces during the bombing.

When the anti-Japanese aviation rescue team's planes evacuated the battlefield, the Japanese artillery positions had become in a mess. Broken corpses or destroyed cannons were everywhere.

"Baga!" Colonel Long Fusong, the captain of the 33rd Japanese Field Artillery Regiment, was in tears.

At this time, the artillery suppression of the anti-Japanese rescue began again. One 155mm heavy howitzer and 1o5mm light howitzer began to cover the Japanese artillery positions based on the calculated coordinates.

This once again caused heavy blows to the Japanese artillery positions.

It can be said that the 33rd Japanese field artillery Regiment did not play much role. The artillery was just beginning to be bombarded and artillery fire from the anti-Japanese aviation team. It only destroyed a few small boats that were rescued by the anti-Japanese rescue.

After learning about the result of this, Lieutenant General Yanagida Moto-3 was even more silent. He knew that this battle was even more difficult than he thought.

Although the 213th infantry rebels deployed on the sandbank desperately wanted to block the fight against Japan and rescued the land. However, their blocking was completely futile.

A distance of several hundred meters only takes a few minutes at the fastest time for these small boats.

After the first small boat rushed onto the sandbank, it immediately began to fight with the Japanese army. Although the soldiers were suppressed on the river beach, as more and more small boats rushed onto the river beach, more and more soldiers were waiting for the anti-Japanese rescue. The offensive and defensive momentum of both sides also had a fundamental reversal.

"Da da da da da! Boom! Boom!"

The officers and soldiers who were rescuing Japan used light and heavy machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers to attack the Japanese army on the sandbank.

The 213th Japanese Army Regiment, which suffered heavy losses, originally had few troops left. Although they fought tenaciously, they still could not hold on in the face of the superior forces and firepower of fighting against Japan.

In just one hour, the 19th Infantry Regiment and the 34th Infantry Regiment successfully captured Shazhou. Their own casualties were less than 200. The 213th Japanese Regiment on the Shazhou was more than 3,800 people from the regiment commander Kawahara Right Bing, all of which were broken.

After the 7th Infantry Division and the 12th Infantry Division occupied the sandbank in the center of the Mekong River, it was only two or three hundred meters away from the east bank of the Mekong River. Relatively speaking, the next attack will be easier.

The attack of the 2nd Army of the Anti-Japanese Rescue was relatively smooth on this day. Not only did the attack on Phnom Penh succeed, but the attacks in the direction of Kampong Zhan and Hongyu were also successful. The troops of the Anti-Japanese Rescue took down the sandbanks in the Mekong River at a relatively small price.

The engineers who fought against Japan and rescued began to build pontoon bridges to send more troops and equipment to the sandbanks, creating favorable conditions for the next step to break through the Japanese army's Mekong defense line.

Such a rapid breakthrough in the fight against Japan and rescue made the Japanese army very nervous. According to this progress, they could not hold on for the remaining four days.
Chapter completed!