The Mechanized Infantry Regiment was getting closer and closer to these Japanese strongholds. The commander of the Mechanized Infantry Regiment also saw the situation ahead. Commander Qin picked up the microphone and ordered loudly: "Be careful with the Third Company of the First Battalion, send a platoon to check it out, and the rest of the personnel continued to advance and enter Wuning County."

The Third Company of the First Battalion was at the front of the team, closest to the Japanese strongholds. After receiving orders, a row of 7 tanks left the large army and headed to a Japanese stronghold not far away.

There are only a dozen puppet troops in this stronghold. These puppet troops were a little confused when they saw the huge convoy of the mechanized infantry regiment. They had never seen the puppet troops of the mechanized army and were a little naturally afraid of the huge mechanized infantry regiment.

Seeing several chariots coming towards him, the dozen or so puppet soldiers were immediately frightened and immediately shivered. They held the white flag and shouted in horror from a distance: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, let's surrender."

Several soldiers got off the off-road vehicle and drove the puppet troops to an open space in front of the stronghold. A soldier carrying an AK-47 assault rifle began to interrogate the puppet troops.

"Be honest and answer my questions carefully. Where have the Japanese here gone?"

"Brother, the Japanese have already run away and retreated to Qinhuangdao. Now there are only one infantry team of Japanese soldiers left in Wuning County."

A puppet army squad leader still seemed a little frightened when he answered.

Seeing that these puppet troops did not look like they were lying, everyone immediately reported the situation, and immediately the Commander Qin of the Mechanized Infantry Regiment knew about the situation in Wuning County.

Seeing that Wuning County was basically an empty city, the Japanese had basically withdrawn. Commander Qin ordered the troops to enter the city and annihilate the Japanese team.

This infantry team had just reported the situation to the Japanese army in Qinhuangdao, but before they could escape, they were surrounded by soldiers. All the Japanese were beaten to death by the soldiers, and the two or three hundred puppet soldiers in the city were all captured.

After restoring Wuning County, Commander Qin immediately reported the situation to the commander of the 5th Column.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, more than half of the 5th Column passed by Wuning County and continued to march eastward to Qinhuangdao. The vanguard had two mechanical infantry regiments, two tank regiments, two infantry regiments, and one cavalry regiment had reached the eastern urban area of ​​Qinhuangdao.

When the Japanese saw the large troops of the 5th Column arrive, they knew that one of their mere corps could not compete with such a huge unit as the 5th Column, the Japanese gave up the city area east of the Tang River. All the Japanese built fortifications along the river, trying to block the enemy from the east bank of the Tang River.

Now, the troops of the Fifth Column are confronting the Japanese. Many tanks, armored vehicles and off-road vehicles have reached the east bank of the Tang River. Everyone is ready to attack.

All the bridges on the Tang River were blown up by the Japanese, resulting in the failure of all the tanks, armored vehicles and off-road vehicles of the Fifth Column to cross the river for the time being.

Xie Zhendong, commander of the 5th Column, also came to the east bank of the Tang River, and observed the situation of the Japanese from a distance from the river. After watching for a while, Xie Zhendong frowned and thought to himself, this river just blocked our way. All the vehicles could not pass by. If they forced to cross the river, there would be a lot of casualties.

What should I do? Xie Zhendong put down his telescope and thought about it carefully.

Then he said to the several guards next to him: "Map, open the map of Qinhuangdao immediately."

Several guards immediately opened the map, and several senior executives of the 5th Column looked around the map carefully. After looking at the map, everyone felt a little surprised.

The marked on the map is relatively clear. The lower reaches of the Tang River and the estuary are wider, and the upstream becomes narrower and narrower. If it is as marked on the map, you can cross the river from a narrow place upstream.

Although it takes dozens of kilometers to go around, in this way, you can go around the back of the Japanese and attack him on both sides. Thinking of this, everyone's heart was relieved.

To be on the safe side, everyone found a few local people and asked about the situation carefully. They thought this plan was safe and feasible. So they immediately mobilized two tank regiments and a mechanized infantry regiment to go upstream, and the rest of the troops were preparing to attack here to attract the attention of the Japanese.

On the west bank of the Tang River, the Japanese's position.

The Japanese dug temporary trenches along the river, and rows of sandbags were piled up on the river bank, a thrust of Type 92 heavy machine guns, a skewed machine gun, and a 38-type rifle, all aimed at the east bank of the Tang River.

The Japanese Infantry Regiment's more than 20 mortars and 6 Type 92 infantry cannons were also ready on the west bank of the Tanghe River. There were many Japanese next to each gun.

The east bank of the Tang River, the position of the 5th Column.

A mechanized infantry regiment, with hundreds of chariots lined up along the river, and the 30mm cannon on the car was aimed at the other side of the river.

The two infantry regiments involved in the attack, thousands of soldiers, also collected hundreds of small wooden boats in a short period of time, and were preparing to cross the river.

Many machine guns of the two infantry regiments have also been set up. These are squad machine guns produced by Datong Arsenal. Each infantry squad is equipped with a 200 rounds of ammunition chains, with an effective range of 800 meters, a theoretical rate of fire 600 rounds per minute, and an actual rate of fire is more than 150 rounds per minute, using 7.92 mm Mauser rifle bullets.

Now, at least hundreds of such machine guns have been set up on the east bank of the Tang River, mainly to suppress the firepower of the Japanese on the other side and provide cover for the comrades crossing the river.

Two infantry regiments, dozens of 60mm mortars, were concentrated and used. On a long open space on the east bank of the Tang River, dozens of mortars were lined up in an orderly row, nearly two hundred meters long. The three gunners next to each mortar were ready.

Although the 5th Column has a lot of heavy artillery, there are many houses on the other side of the Tang River less than two or three hundred meters across the river. If a large-caliber heavy artillery is fired on these houses, it will cause a lot of losses to the people.

Considering that the people cannot be hurt by accident, the heavy artillery of the 5th Column this time was useless, and the small-caliber 60mm mortars were basically used.

Of course, since the mortar caliber is relatively small and the range does not have a great advantage, the mortar position is behind the entire attack force, and the Japanese mortars and Type 92 infantry cannons cannot hit this large-scale mortar position.

The commander of the 5th Column stood on the east bank of the Tang River, looking carefully at the Japanese's position. Seeing that there were a lot of mortars and several 92 infantry guns deployed behind the Japanese team, commander Xie Zhendong also frowned.

Xie Zhendong looked at his watch. It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, but the two armies had been confronting each other for so long, and the Japanese were not in a hurry to launch an attack first. The Japanese seemed to be delaying the time. Are the Japanese waiting for reinforcements?

I don’t know if the two tank regiments and a mechanized infantry regiment have crossed the river from the upper reaches of the Tang River. These three regiments have been setting off for more than an hour.

Xie Zhendong was about to ask, but at this time, a correspondent soldier walked over quickly and reported loudly: "Commander, our two tank regiments and mechanized infantry regiments have all crossed the Tang River from Gaozhuang Village upstream. The troops did not encounter Japanese devils during the crossing of the river."

"Okay!" Xie Zhendong looked happy and looked at his pocket watch. It was less than ten minutes before 4:00 in the afternoon and he could start attacking.

"Order! At four o'clock, each unit launched an attack."

Xie Zhendong's voice was loud and full of energy. It seems that Xie Zhendong was full of confidence in this battle.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the attack of the 5th Column began.

With a "bang", the signal flare shone into the sky. Almost all the soldiers who were preparing to attack saw this signal flare. Everyone knows that the general attack is about to begin.

“Bang, bang, bang…”

On the huge 60mm mortar position, a dense sound of fire was heard. One after another, the Japanese positions on the other side of the river were fired, and a sharp whistling sound sounded in the sky.

In advance, the soldiers had carefully proofreaded each mortar. This round of shells was shot very accurately, and basically exploded on the Japanese positions, killing many Japanese.

"Ten bursts!"

Immediately, dozens of 60mm mortars began to shoot violently, pouring shells into the Japanese positions on the other side.

While the mortars were firing, on the east bank of the Tang River, many machine guns began to shoot on the two infantry regiments that participated in the attack, causing soil to fly on the Japanese devils on the other side, and many Japanese devils were shot and killed.

But as soon as the soldiers attacked, the Japanese also began to fight back. Through Tanghe, which was nearly two hundred meters wide, the two armies immediately shot at each other.

The Japanese mortars and Type 92 infantry artillery also began to fire shells at the positions of the 5th Column. Blasts of explosions sounded on the soldiers' positions, and immediately, the soldiers began to suffer casualties.

"Catch off the Japanese artillery positions for me!"

The commander of the 5th Column's voice was loud and short, with a little bit of anger in his voice.

Several armored vehicles and off-road vehicles in front saw that the Japanese artillery positions were just within the range of their 30mm machine cannons. Seeing that the Japanese artillery soldiers were still so arrogant, without waiting for the command of their commander, these 30mm machine cannons aimed at the Japanese artillery positions and opened fire.

The Japanese seriously underestimated the range of the 30mm cannon equipped by the 36th Group Army. Although the Japanese artillery positions were nearly kilometer away from these armored vehicles and off-road vehicles, the distance of one thousand meters was still within the range of the 30mm cannon.

The soldiers could easily aim at the Japanese mortars and Type 92 infantry cannons through the optical scope on the 30mm machine cannon, and even the Japanese cannons could see clearly.

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