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"Young Marshal, the average width of the river is only 80 meters. The 1st Battalion's infantry fighting vehicles have already passed half of the way without losing a single vehicle. In less than a minute, the st Battalion will be able to successfully land! The nd and rd Battalions have also entered the river, and the battle is going very smoothly!"

Xu Le nodded slightly. This was completely within his expectations.

The artillery group bombarded for a whole day. 800 tons of bombs are not easy to deal with. If the infantry fighting vehicles still cannot cross the river smoothly under such favorable circumstances, the commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment should be shot.

"Report! Chief of Staff Fang called and reported that the enemy has unidentified artillery fire and the Gongguo Bridge has been blown up in half. Division Commander Wei has found a suitable location for a forced crossing of the river, and the entire 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division has switched to the surface to cross the river!"

"I understand!" This was all within everyone's expectations. Although the control of the bridge was in their hands, the Japanese did not blow up the bridge just in case.

Now that so many armored vehicles are crossing the river, any Japanese with a normal mind will definitely blow up the bridge.

"Send someone to find out where the Japanese artillery fire is coming from. Although Gongguo Bridge is not very strong, it cannot be easily destroyed by small-caliber shells. At least 120 caliber shells are needed. If necessary, allocate Apache helicopters to them!"

Xu Da continued, "After our artillery bombardment, there should be no more enemy artillery within 10 kilometers of the west bank. At most, there are only sporadic artillery fire, which poses no threat to the bridge at all! The enemy must have hidden large-caliber cannons in the rear with a long range, so they can hit us!"

Xu Le thought for a moment, picked up the telescope and looked at the infantry fighting vehicles that were about to land, and said: "Let each artillery regiment move forward and bombard the enemy within a range of 15 kilometers. I don't believe that the enemy's artillery can reach a range of more than 15 kilometers!"

Three kilometers north of Gongguo Bridge, there is an area with towering mountains on both sides, steep terrain and deep water.

A local villager told Wei Li that he had accidentally gotten lost while hunting and mistakenly entered this place.

Although there is no road to go here, there is a relatively flat area, which is more than 10 meters wide at its widest point and nearly 8 meters at its narrowest point.

However, the land here is moist, covered with moss, and lined with tall trees, so no one sets foot here.

After hearing this, Wei Li immediately went to check it out in person.

As expected, there were lush trees and weeds here, almost covering the ground.

He couldn't name these trees. They were as tall and thin as poles, and the thickest part was only as thick as a calf.

Wei Li walked through this narrow path and came to the riverside, where he saw a slope about 5 meters wide connected to the water flow. There was also a similar place not far away diagonally opposite, which was perfect for a landing point.

He acted decisively and ordered the 7th Armored Regiment under his command to send in tanks.

Time is running out and we can't slowly cut down trees to clear a path, so we'll use tanks to crash our way out!

As a result, several tanks drove at full speed and bravely moved forward, forcing their way out of this hidden path that was several hundred meters long. As a result, the engines of two tanks were damaged.

Immediately afterwards, the 8th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, which had failed to cross the bridge, detoured here and crossed the bridge without anyone noticing.

This is where the Japs are helpless. They are unfamiliar with the terrain and find it difficult to find out even if they survey it personally.

And with the help of the people, the Tang army was able to find many unknown paths!

On the Gongguo Bridge side, the Japanese seemed to be afraid that their secret artillery fire would be discovered, so they did not dare to attack fiercely and only fired a few shots occasionally.

In addition, the 33rd Division on the coast had several rapid-fire guns and mortars, so the floating 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment was unable to advance and also lost several armored vehicles.

There was no choice but for the 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment to temporarily retreat to the east bank, but not too far. They pretended to regroup so that the Japanese would think they would cross the river from here again and buy time for the 8th Mechanized Infantry Regiment in the north.

"Go up, Young Marshal, the first battalion goes up!" Liu Quanhua shouted while holding a telescope, his beard twitching like a monkey just released from the zoo!

Xu Le frowned slightly, looked at him with a squint and said, "Hey, Commander Liu, can you shave your beard? People who don't know would think we are bandits!"

"Young Marshal, what are you talking about? It's better to look like a bandit. That's scary. If I stand here, the Japanese will be scared to death!"

"Okay, okay! The first battalion has landed, why are you still staying here with me? Why don't you go and command your 176th Division?" Looking at Liu Quanhua running away like a gorilla, Xu Le held his forehead in embarrassment.

Everything was caused by that guy Lu Biao! He didn't bring anything, so how could he bring about such a trend?

"Xu Da, send a telegram to the communications department in Kunming and ask them to send an order to the headquarters, asking Lu Biao to shave his beard! If I see his big stubble again when I go back, I will beat him up!"

"Okay!" Although Xu Da didn't know why the young marshal suddenly did this, he still ordered people to do it immediately.

That beard does look scary, like a terrorist!

"Send a message to the 60th Army. After the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment has landed, they will go up. Have them use rafts to quickly cross the river and rebuild the firepower network on the other side to prevent the enemy from reinforcing!"

7 点 20 分，176 师的机步 1 团全部登陆杉阳段的澜沧江西岸，与鬼子防御的宫坡阵地展开激战，60 军的 1 个机枪团也开始渡江。

The Japanese 112th Division that came to reinforce had only reached halfway because the river bank defense was lost, so they could only defend together with the 18th Division in Gongpo.

However, the south bank of the Lancang River had been controlled by Xu's army, and the Japanese had no way to attack them, so the self-propelled artillery regiment of the 176th Division also advanced to the shore, with firepower covering 5 kilometers behind the Gongpo position and less than 30 kilometers from Baoshan County.

However, due to terrain restrictions and the continuous hills in the middle, the self-propelled artillery had to raise the firing angle and make the trajectory curved, which shortened the range a lot and made it impossible to cause damage to the Japanese near Baoshan.

Moreover, it was now completely dark, and the Air Force was unable to conduct precision bombing, so the Gongpo front was temporarily in a state of intense intensity.

"Commander, we can't take care of Gongpo in a short time, and we can't send troops to Gongguo to help!"

After Lin Jingyan of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment finished his report, Liu Quanhua, who had crossed the river, began to think.

It would be a good idea to cross the river while it's dark, but the visibility will be poor after crossing the river, and it will be difficult to shoot the Japanese accurately.

Moreover, tanks and 152 self-propelled artillery cannot cross the river, and now they can only rely on the infantry fighting vehicles of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment and the machine gun regiment of the 60th Army to defend their positions.

"Pass the order, the troops will switch from offense to defense! The self-propelled artillery battalions of the 1st Armored Regiment, the 2nd Armored Regiment, and the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment will all cross the river. Ignore the artillery regiment for now and wait on the other side until daybreak! We don't need to worry about Gongguo. With Chief of Staff Fang and Advisor Wei here, I won't believe they can't cross the river!"