Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

Although the Cagayan River is the longest river in the Philippines, its channel is not very wide. The widest part in front of you is only more than 70 meters, and the narrowest part is only [-] meters.

Because the tropical rainforest has plenty of rain, it is washed by strong currents for a long time, and there is very little silt, so even shortly after the rain, the river water is still very clear.

A green line slowly winds from south to north, surrounded by green trees and red flowers on both sides, and the scenery is beautiful.

But the sad thing is that one of the cruelest battles will start here, and it won't be long before this place will become a purgatory on earth.

The embankment of the Cagayan River is not high, and in many places there is no embankment at all, only a gently rising slope.

The enemy on the opposite bank set up barbed wire fences and triangular refusal horses on the limited river beach.However, it has already been blown up and down. Obviously, the soldiers of the national army have plowed this area with shells to clear mines and prepare for the landing.

Further up is the heavily fortified fortification group. There are no obvious gun ports, but the fortifications can be vaguely seen extending inward, with obvious depth.

Digging out a complete field fortification group tens of kilometers long and criss-crossing in a dense jungle area will not be completed in a short time, because the forest in front of you is mostly tall trees with well-developed root systems. Tree roots are the biggest obstacle to earthworks.

Obviously, the little devils had already prepared, and the Cagayan River line of defense was an important line of defense they carefully prepared.

Compared with the fortifications of the island army, the fortifications of the national army are relatively simple. It is almost a trench with a width of about 1.5 meters and a depth of about [-] meters. There are no criss-crossing traffic trenches, only countless passages dug back to facilitate the subsequent input of troops and supplies. supply.

And their former enemy command post was even simpler. It was just a simple shed built in the middle of the trench, using a few thick tree roots on the spot and a few temporary logs, and covering it with steel plates and thick soil. Then camouflage.

The space inside is quite large, and it is not a problem to accommodate two or thirty people at the same time. There is an observation port directly in front, a large wooden table is placed in the center, and a small area is vacated at the back for the telegraph soldiers. Each soldier held a helmet and poured muddy water outside.

The water system in the jungle is already rich, and in addition, it has been dug lower than the river surface, and all kinds of infiltrating water sources will rush in. If it is not poured out in time, it will soon become a flood country.

In the command post, it is possible to arrange for soldiers to be watered, but this kind of treatment is impossible in the trenches. It can be seen that the battlefield environment is also very harsh for the soldiers.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the national army began to attack across the board.

The dense artillery shells slammed towards the enemy's position, and the entire opposite bank of the Cagayan River was covered by artillery fire.

The enemy was unwilling to be lonely, and began to fight back. The shells flew over, and the front of the national army was also blown up.

The artillery battle in the jungle actually has the same effect. The trees block the shooting angle, and the artillery fortifications of the enemy and the enemy will also be launched in these blind spots. Although the scene is grand, the casualties will not be too great.

What the national army wants is not casualties, but this kind of momentum. At the same time, it also does everything possible for the attacking troops to suppress the enemy.

The artillery attack lasted for 5 minutes, and the opposite bank was already filled with gunpowder smoke. In order to increase the smoke, the national army also fired a lot of guns.

Seeing that the time was right, Cao Guoliang suddenly swung his right hand and howled hoarsely: "Attack!"

With an order, the soldiers of the Second Marine Division, who had already entered the tunnel, carried the powered assault boat and braved the enemy's bombing, jumped over the trench and rushed towards the Cagayan River.

There is a large group of soldiers carrying kayaks in the rear, ready to charge at any time.

The power assault boat is fast, with a distance of tens of meters, it can rush to the opposite bank in a few minutes. The biggest casualty time in the battle of crossing the river is when crossing the river. If the time for crossing the river can be shortened, it will undoubtedly win the greatest victory for the next victory. Chance.

In an instant, the river beach was crowded with people, and the sound of motors began to sound.

The army that suddenly appeared on the river bank naturally couldn't escape the little devil's eyes. Even though the opposite bank was already thick with smoke and clouds, the enemy must have countless hidden observation ports to keep an eye on the situation on the water surface.

Therefore, the second the soldiers appeared on the river beach, the enemy's light and heavy machine guns also began to roar.

Dense bullet nets came all over the sky, and the soldiers of the Second Marine Division were cut off.

But this did not deter the brave soldiers of the Second Marine Division. Braving the enemy's bullets, they crouched in the hull of the ship, and the assault boats rushed towards the opposite bank like arrows leaving the string.

The front of the assault boat has steel armor as thick as [-] to [-] centimeters, and the armor on both sides is also more than ten centimeters. As long as the soldiers get on the boat and are not hit by enemy shells, their safety is generally guaranteed. Because conventional light and heavy machine guns cannot penetrate steel plates of fifty or sixty centimeters.

Especially when the assault boat is moving forward at full speed, the front will be raised high, and the bullets will not be able to hit the soldiers in the boat.

And once there is an assault boat moving forward at full speed, the high bow can also block a lot of barrage for the landing soldiers behind.

In less than a minute, at least 1 or [-] assault boats entered the charging state, forming a steel protection in front, and the enemy's dense machine gun bullets jingled on the steel plate.

The enemy's reaction was also very fast. Almost in the second minute, shells began to rain down on the water.

In the huge waves soaring into the sky, assault boats were overturned, hit and torn apart.

Fragments of the ship's hull, the bodies of soldiers, and wounded soldiers who fell into the water began to float in the river.

But the charge did not stop because of this, even if the people floating in front were our own people struggling in the water, the assault boats behind would run over them without hesitation. Life is hanging by a thread, not only can you not save him, but you have to run over them.

It is precisely because the soldiers are brave and brave, even after dozens of assault boats were damaged and casualties reached more than [-]% of the entire attacking force, hundreds of assault boats successfully rushed to the other side. The first move seems to have been successful.

The load of each assault boat is ten people, hundreds of boats means that a team of thousands of people has successfully landed.

The soldiers jumped off the assault boat, and skillfully used tactical movements to move forward quickly in the craters smashed by the artillery shells.

The enemy's firepower became more fierce, and they shot down almost airtightly. The soldiers who exposed their bodies even a little bit might be riddled with holes.

As mentioned earlier, most of the Cagayan River has no obvious river elevation, and is almost an upward slope. Under such conditions, the enemy is condescending and shooting with all their strength, and the soldiers of the Second Marine Division cannot stand up at all.

At this time, their greatest reliance was the suppression of firepower from the rear. Even if it could buy them a few seconds, they could charge forward.