What Song Xiaoniu arranged this time was: a speedboat with a squad of soldiers, all numbered. The speedboat rushed onto the shoal. The landing soldiers got off the boat and attacked forward, while the speedboat retreated and returned to the large landing ship, carrying the second

A batch of landing troops.

This kind of speedboat equipped with a motor is extremely fast. The first wave of attacking boats carried a thousand elite assault brigade and two assault battalions of the Fellai Regiment.

Each speedboat carries a Matson light machine gun and a small-caliber grenade launcher. The platoon's speedboat also carries two large-caliber mortars and a Maxim heavy machine gun.

Each combat company carries a total of eight large-caliber mortars, grenade launchers, 16 light machine guns, and four heavy machine guns.

With this kind of firepower configuration, even the most elite troops of the Beiyang Department were defeated, which was unprecedented.

Fellay, the deputy brigade commander and commander of the elite regiment, served as the frontline commander of the first batch of landing operations. He boarded a speedboat and came behind the camp.

The speed of the Confederate army's landing speedboat was completely beyond Lu Jiawen's expectations. In just a blink of an eye, the fleet rushed forward dozens of meters.

"Fire!" he shouted loudly.

The 105mm howitzer, which had been calibrated long ago, opened fire first.

There were rumbling sounds one after another, and countless grenades drew arcs, launching long-distance attacks on the sea from the hidden artillery positions of the shore forts.

The effect of the first wave of shooting was unsatisfactory. The landing speedboat was too fast and scattered. The howitzers were also aimed at that sea area and conducted blind fire in a blockade manner.

Except for the two speedboats that were slightly lagging behind and were overturned by the huge waves caused by the nearby shells, the rest continued to move forward unharmed.

Some of the subsequent waves of grenades directly hit the speedboat. A cannonball landed on the ship's board. The powerful impact caused by the explosion of the cannonball directly blew the ship into pieces. Several soldiers were knocked down and blood spattered everywhere. Most of the soldiers

Fall into the sea, grab the scattered ship planks, and wait for the rescue ship to come up from behind.

There were also shells that penetrated the rear side of the ship, and the exploding wood chips were flying everywhere like sharp arrows. Several soldiers controlling the ship fell down without saying a word, some fell on the rear deck, and some fell directly into the river.

A wave came and disappeared immediately.

The landing soldiers fell into the water, grabbed the planks of the remaining ship and floated in the water, waiting for the backup speedboat.

The entire fleet of landing speedboats approached the beach like an overwhelming force, and the speedboat in front was only more than a hundred meters away from the shoal.

"Shock bombardment, quick!" Lu Jiawen yelled.

The 75mm caliber coastal defense artillery was now able to exert its power, and they began to fire.

This caliber of artillery belongs to the rapid-fire artillery series. It is twice as fast as the 105 howitzer. There are more of them, and the effect is much stronger than the long-range ones.

"Boom...boom..."

"..."

The hit rate of close-range artillery fire was high, and the losses caused by the landing troops were mostly high.

Seeing blood splattering on the ship in front, screams repeated, and soldiers being blown up from time to time. Song Xiaoniu in the telescope was heartbroken and trembling as if his own flesh was being cut. He turned to Ding Changdong for help.

This Ding Changdong understood that the landing troops needed the support of the fleet anytime and anywhere during the process of beaching.

After the landing force set off, he asked the fleet to move toward the coast to shorten the firing range. At this time, he ordered the secondary guns on both sides of the ship to target the exposed coastal defense artillery positions and bombard them.

Each cruiser has eight secondary guns on both sides, all of which are 105mm caliber artillery. All of a sudden, forty cannons were bombarded at once. The scene was very spectacular, and the bombardment effect was also very significant.

It didn't take long for those coastal defense guns to be silenced and fell to the ground.

With strong support from naval guns, the speedboats rushed onto the shoal one after another.

"Quickly disembark, land and move forward."

"Machine gun, grenade launcher, covering fire, charge forward!"

"..."

The beach was crowded with people, and commanders at all levels shouted and shouted throughout the sky.

In addition to the rumble of artillery shells, the sound of machine rifles also suddenly increased.

On the beach several kilometers wide, waves of soldiers jumped from the boats.

He got down, holding the weapon in his hand, and then ran forward with long strides.

Behind them, their comrades set up heavy machine guns and mortars, followed by field artillery, and followed closely along the wooden plank passage.

The intensive artillery fire on the ship suppressed the defenders' coastal defense artillery positions in depth, and the 65mm rapid-fire cannons on both sides of the ship also began to fire.

The defenders' firepower points were successively destroyed by naval guns. At this time, there was no threat to the beach landing. Fellai's landing force concentrated on dealing with the defenders in the deeper areas of the coastline.

In just two hours, a thousand commandos led by Fellay landed first, advanced several hundred meters, completely occupied the beachhead, and advanced in depth.

Song Xiaoniu is directing the follow-up troops to land, and land battle artillery and ammunition are being sent ashore.

After seeing the situation, the garrison commander Lu Jiawen could only rely on infantry to fight, and ordered his elite to countercharge the landing troops.

"Brothers, rush out and drive the enemy into the sea to feed the fish!"

"Those who go into battle and kill the enemy will be rewarded. Those who escape before the battle and those who are too timid will be killed first!"

"..."

Orders and shouts followed one after another.

These Northern troops are all the elite of Lu Jiawen, and the officers are all his confidants. If they don't work hard now, how long will they wait?

"Come on!"

The howling Northern troops, led by their officers, jumped out of the trenches and launched a countercharge against the Southern troops.

Facing the enemy's dark figures surging out, and the bullets being shot out, Fele grinned and sneered, "The infantry retreated, mortars, grenades, and light and heavy machine guns were arrayed."

These weapons were quickly moved up, and an arc-shaped fire array was laid out that was a hundred meters deep and about a kilometer wide. The light and heavy machine guns protruded in the center and front, and the grenade launchers and mortars were in the back and on the two wings, shaped like a crescent.

It is the famous Crescent Fire Formation.

"Da da da..."

"Boom boom boom..."

"..."

In the face of powerful firepower, the Northern Army was shot and fell one after another.

With only the countercharge of flesh and blood, the Northern Army performed a scene of massacre on the beach.

However, Lu Jiawen still refused to give up and sent out a supervising team to guard the formation. The Northern Army was still pouring towards the beach like a tide.

"Gun array!"

As the follow-up troops continued to surge forward, Feilai deployed gun formations on both sides of the Crescent Fire Formation.

The sound of banging was endless, and bullets like locusts were shot out like lightning. Under such a double attack, the Northern Army suffered heavy casualties and could only retreat backwards.

Song Xiaoniu also followed him to the coast. His troops had crossed the beach and were advancing deep into Haizhou, preparing to capture Haizhou City.

Fifteen hundred elite Northern troops rushed forward, followed by more than 2,000 new troops. This was the largest force Lu Jiawen could invest on this beach.

From the formation and fighting will of the soldiers who landed on the beach, Lu Jiawen already knew that the other party's generals, like himself, wanted to advance the elite troops in order to establish the battle situation in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!