There was no preset position on the beach on the other side of the river. The first problem faced by the first wave of beach-rushing troops after they reached the shore was how to build an effective defensive position to cope with the arrival of the subsequent Zhou Qiao troops.
It is certainly unrealistic to directly pick up a shovel and a pickaxe to dig on the spot.
Malashenko, who had not fought fixed-position battles for a while, thought of a way - to use artillery to blow up.
Regardless of whether or not the civil engineering work has begun, Lan Zonghuan Huanqiang Xiaojiu also knows the reason why.
Can he break the ground by digging with a shovel and a pickaxe, or can he break the ground by blasting? Moreover, the latter is very efficient and the construction area is large enough, so why not?
It's just that the floating earth that was blasted out by the cannon is intact and has no shape, but that's not a difficult task. Just send people to pick up shovels and pickaxes to do some intensive construction.
In any case, it is better than a bunch of people just trying to repair the earth. Is there any way to speed up the construction progress?
However, the area plowed by heavy artillery and rocket barrages and filled with craters became the construction site for the first wave of Alsim and his men who crossed the river to build their positions.
As soon as he rushed into the bomb crater area, he immediately began to plan the layout. Alsim, who had not forgotten how to fight positional warfare, immediately ordered the soldiers on the east side of the leg to dig and build communication trenches.
The first thing I want to do is to connect the large craters together and build a systematic defensive position first, and then talk about further refinement.
Alsim, who was purely a supervisor, also stretched his arms to do it. Seeing that there were no Japanese approaching, he quickly seized the moment. Throwing the gun behind him, he immediately rushed to the construction area brandishing the engineer shovel and turned into human flesh on the spot.
Bulldozers started civil construction on the spot.
Alsim and his party, who crossed the river in the first wave, worked enthusiastically. The second wave and the third wave of infantry who followed to cross the river joined them and began to help build defensive positions.
More and more troops successfully crossed the river, from half a company at the beginning to a company, from a company to a battalion, and quickly reached a scale of nearly a thousand people at a speed visible to the naked eye.
There are enough people, but the question is whether they are all light infantry.
The heaviest firepower on its head is mortars and 100mm super-caliber RPG rocket-propelled grenades.
For the Leader's Army who was used to winning battles with firepower, that level of firepower was not even a scratch, so the top priority was to transport those steel behemoths of the Leader's Army across the river.
The light-armed infantry forcefully crossed the Wusuli River and went to the other side of the river to build defensive positions for one purpose.
Prevent the Lunar Army from counterattacking on any beaches with cocoa and damaging the construction work of the pontoon bridge troops, and ensure that the pontoon bridge is safely erected no matter what.
Just ask for the heavy equipment of the leader army, even if it is not BMP43 infantry fighting vehicles and mechanized infantry, the medium tank troops can successfully cross the river.
Considering the Kwantung Army's ruthless equipment and equipment, it would be sheer fantasy to drive the leading army to the east beach and destroy the pontoon bridge.
Therefore, the key to the problem lies in the few hours during which the light infantry built defensive positions and covered the pontoon bridge troops in constructing the pontoon bridge.
After Malashenko, together with the political commissar comrades, and the leaders of the pontoon bridge unit at the school, discussed together, a pontoon bridge construction plan that could maximize construction efficiency has been finalized.
To ensure the construction efficiency of the 80-ton heavy pontoon bridge, the first thing to do is to quickly build two 20-ton light pontoon bridges.
Don't get me wrong, those two pontoons are not for heavy equipment. The 20-ton equipment cannot even pass a BMP43 infantry fighting vehicle, let alone a tank.
Are the two fast and light pontoon bridges specially prepared for the construction of the pontoon bridge force? Once the two pontoon bridges are quickly built, the pontoon bridge force trucks carrying the heavy pontoon bridge prefabricated structural components and construction materials can immediately cross Wusu
Lijiang River went to Jiangcuo Bank to start construction.
Therefore, the actual construction plan does not require one-way construction, but simultaneous construction in both directions on both sides of the Ussuri River.
If all goes well with the plan, the 80-ton heavy-duty pontoon bridge will be completed on the Ussuri River.
Not only doubling the construction efficiency, considering that two additional light and fast pontoons will have to be built, doubling the efficiency is indeed feasible.
But it is no exaggeration to say that it can improve the construction efficiency of the main project of the heavy pontoon bridge by more than 70%.
After all, one-way construction and two-way staggered construction are two completely different concepts, so efficiency cannot be discussed in the same way.
Therefore, looking at the situation on the north bank of the East Ussuri River, the construction of three floating bridges, one large and two small, has begun at the same time.
The 80-ton heavy-duty pontoon bridge can be constructed as fast as possible. We will do our best to construct it in one direction and move forward. At the same time, the two 20-ton light pontoon bridges are progressing almost in parallel because the difficulty of construction has been greatly reduced.
Stretching rapidly towards the wrong bank of the Ussuri River.
There was no risk that the artillery fire of the Bunqinyue Army could attack at any time. I rushed to the riverside at dawn when the sky was already bright. I bathed in the morning light and stared at the construction site of the pontoon bridge that was being pushed forward rapidly on the river.
Malashenko, who had his telescope turned, was about to say something to his entourage, when unexpectedly, the roar of engines suddenly came from the distant horizon behind him.
Turning my head in the direction of the sound, I saw that a formation of fighters, attack planes, and twin-engine tactical bombers had appeared on the horizon, and they were swooping towards the south bank of the Yangtze River with a momentum that could be said to cover the clouds and the moon.
The shining red star on the wing is shining brightly in the morning light, which is dazzling and exciting.
"It's all up to them! We must let those Japanese devils use the aerial bombs, aerial fire, and machine guns to eat as much as they can!"
The phrase “Japanese Japanese” was not the first one that came out from Malashenko.
Since all the comrades and commanders of the army had called him that, people around him naturally spread the word freely.
By now, the commander of the army and the soldiers from the east all know that the nickname of the Moon Army is "Yueben Japanese".
Even Lavrinenko, who stood next to Malashenko and looked up at the sky, watching the fleet of planes that covered the sky and cheering, still used the Russian version of "Japanese Japs".
"The mission of the aviation force on this trip is not very heavy. Firstly, it aims to suppress the garrison areas and troop gathering points of the Lunar Army to prevent them from gathering troops to counterattack; secondly, it seeks to attack the various frontline airports of the Lunar Army and seize air superiority in the area.
The airport runway is there; the third day is to bomb the various artillery positions of the Moon Army to neutralize the threat caused by the Red Army ground troops gathering to march and cross the river."
"It's true that there are many planes, but the task is too heavy if they can't handle them! Let their artillery prepare for counter-artillery fire. If they encounter enemy artillery fire, they must not rely on the aviation force for the first counter-artillery battle. The reaction speed is simply too late."
"It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on others. Let those little cannons of the Tsukimoto Japanese know what it means to be an artilleryman, and teach those Japanese bow-legged men a lesson!"
After hearing the order from Comrade Commander of the Army, the accompanying combat staff immediately took the order and went to convey the order.
Although the feasibility is very low, even Malashenko himself does not think so. The Japanese artillery has such incredible maneuverability and long range. It is very possible to withstand the Red Army artillery and air attacks and drag the small artillery to a close enough distance.
, fired artillery to bombard one's own pontoon bridge construction site.
But I don’t think so, I don’t think so. The probability is low. The probability is low.
As usual, Malashenko would not place his hopes of victory and the life and death of his soldiers on the fact that the Japanese were too stretched to carry out artillery attacks.
Victory can be grasped in one's own legs. No matter whether the past moon is wrong for the Nazis or whether the bright moon is wrong for the Japanese, this is Malashenko's unchanging creed from beginning to end.
Even if it was a group of armed bandits who came by mistake, Malashenko would, as usual, make all necessary preparations and go all out.
Because those who capsize in the sewer will definitely regret why they were not well prepared and underestimated the enemy. The reason is that simple.
Under Malashenko's personal supervision, the construction of two light pontoons extending from the north bank to the south bank of the river is progressing rapidly.
With the well-prepared pontoon bridge prefabricated parts and the light weight, the two pontoon bridges finally successfully reached the river bank and were opened to traffic two hours after the artillery preparations began.
At the same time, the construction progress of the 80-ton heavy-duty pontoon bridge has also made progress visible to the naked eye. It has quickly arrived near the middle section of the river. The overall construction progress has been completed at least 35% and is in line with the expected speed.
"Quick! The pontoon bridge troops immediately brought the construction materials across the river, went to the other side of the river to start construction, and drove out the heavy pontoon bridge as quickly as possible!"
There were no accompanying combat troops, but heavy trucks loaded with construction materials and prefabricated pontoon bridges. One after another they drove on the pontoon bridge and quickly headed towards the other side of the river.
"Pfft-ha-hu-"
"Everyone, take a breath and stop working on your legs for a moment! Rest for ten minutes, drink some water and smoke a cigarette. If we keep doing this, we'll be exhausted before the Tsukimoto Japanese come."
He shoved the engineer shovel in his leg into the soil, and asked the soldiers to stop working on his leg and take a breather.
From the moment the first wave led the team across the river and arrived at the crater area until now, they have been digging soil for two hours without stopping.
Even a Slavic superman like Alsim could not withstand such consumption and had to take a breather.
Fighting is tiring, and marching in a hurry is even more tiring, but what is more tiring than the first two is earthwork with bare legs, or digging trenches and building positions without mechanical assistance.
Is that even the most grueling of all physical jobs found on the battlefield?
If you don’t kiss your legs and dance with a shovel and a pickaxe, you will never realize how torturous and exhausting the seemingly mechanical and repetitive work is.
Walking on the mound of soil he dug with his own legs, Alsim had a cigarette in his mouth and a kettle in his legs. He even took off his coat. Not only had he removed his plate armor, but he was now shirtless.
His chest, covered with all kinds of war scars and covered with lumps and flesh, was rising and falling violently, making him appear even stronger and abnormally strong under the sweat-soaked dehydration.
Seeing this scene before him, Sulovechenko, who did not take off his clothes like Alsim, was shirtless. With a cigarette in his mouth, he put the engineer shovel on his buttocks and walked away on the ground, swallowing the clouds in one gulp.
The fog then smiled.
"She has a decent figure, brother, have you seen my German big sister?"
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To be honest, I didn't expect that kid to speak in a pornographic manner at that moment. Alsim, who glared at Sulovechenko sideways, didn't answer. He raised his leg holding a cigarette and pointed to another construction site on the riverside.
"It is estimated that in less than two hours, their side will be finished in less than two hours. By then, our side will almost be able to stop. Just ask the tanks to come and there will be no defense. That's right.
The Tsukimoto devil is welcoming his last month."
"Yeah, that makes sense, but the premise is that we can live in peace for those two hours."
Looking at the Red Army fighter planes flying back and forth overhead, returning and bombing, the thoughtful Sulovechenko took a puff of his cigarette and spoke again.
"I hope that the scouts sent out will not come back at this juncture. I hope that if they come back at that time, something bad will definitely happen. There will definitely be Japanese Japanese soldiers coming to cause trouble for us."
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He finished his words without waiting for Alsim to reply.
Sulovechenko, who was a little puzzled, looked up and found Alsim staring into the distance without saying a word.
Looking up along Alsim's line of sight, Sulovechenko, who was quite surprised, immediately saw that the scouts sent out earlier were riding a two-wheeled scooter carried over by a rubber boat.
He ran back wildly, and Alsim's words that were comparable to curses sounded almost at the same time.
"He should have taken off his socks and stuffed them into my mouth! Does my foul mouth really mean what I say?"