Danton.

It is less than 100 meters above sea level at the height of the hat helmet mountain, which is five kilometers away from Jinjiang Mountain, but it is stationed with the strength of a brigade of the 68th Infantry Wing of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army.

This is the southern road from the mouth of the Yalu River to Dandong must pass through, and it is also the key defensive position of the Japanese army, not only arranged a brigade of more than 1,000 troops to deploy around the hat helmet mountain, but also the 1st Brigade of the field heavy artillery under the 3rd Division with three artillery wings also placed a brigade of 12 75mm field guns here.

The separate cavalry brigade, which rushed to the foot of the hat helmet hill and was blocked by a small river, had to dismount and launch an attack on the Japanese positions on the hat helmet mountain.

The cavalry brigade consisted of three regiments, each with less than a thousand cavalry, and after dismounting, these skilled cavalrymen had to take up their cavalry and submachine guns as infantry.

In order to break the nail of Dandong in the north, Ma Hongzhen, the commander of the cavalry brigade, directly ordered two regiments of nearly 2,000 cavalry to dismount and launch an infantry attack.

The one responsible for the frontal attack was really Wang Qinian's First Cavalry Regiment, a former bandit from the three eastern provinces, carrying a Thomson submachine gun, leading a regiment of more than 700 soldiers to rush to the front.

The hurried artillery in the rear began to unfold positions.

The artillery unit of the cavalry brigade that used the Japanese Type 92 infantry guns as mounted artillery had only more than 30 infantry guns with a range of more than 2,000 meters, while the Japanese brigade on the opposite hat hill had 12 75-mm field guns.

So Ma Hongzhen ordered the artillery position to be placed in a pit 1.8 kilometers away from the Hat Helmet Mountain, and used the slag mountain accumulated around the pit as a cover, giving full play to the curved range of the Type 92 infantry guns, and fighting evenly with the Japanese artillery on the Hat Helmet Mountain!

The arrival of the cavalry brigade also panicked the Japanese troops on this mountain, and they never expected that a unit would come from the mouth of the Yalu River in the south, and it was a cavalry unit that quickly broke through to the bottom of the mountain.

When Wang Qinian led a group to pounce on the river, the little devils in the positions arranged on the mountain and on the other side of the river opened fire one after another.

Bang! Bang!

Da Da Da - Da -

The crisp sound of the 38 rifle and the golden hook accompanied the Type 92 light machine gun and heavy machine gun resounded on the riverside.

The soldiers of the cavalry brigade lay down on the river, took advantage of the terrain on the riverbank, took out the Mosin Nagant version of the cavalry gun with the number of bullets, and fired at the Japanese army!

Poof!

The muffled sound of gunfire rang out, and the machine gun squad of the cavalry brigade also set up MG34 general-purpose machine guns on the river bank and opened fire on the Japanese defense line on the other side of the river.

Under the command of the officer, the machine gun squad began to move stones and building materials from residential areas, set up bunkers, and installed tripods on the MG34 machine guns to turn into heavy machine gun mode, firing at the Japanese positions on the Cap Helmet Mountain!

A bridge under the Hat Helmet Mountain became the focus of contention between the two sides, and it was necessary to take it if they wanted to cross the nearly twenty-meter-wide river.

Wang Qinian, who was commanding the troops to seize the bridge, suddenly saw the two 'people's husbands' trotting up behind him, and scolded: "Why did you two rabbit cubs run up?"

The people who came were Jiang Sheng and A Man, who were temporarily incorporated into the reserve company.

Jiang Sheng touched the gun in his hand and smiled: "Looking at the battle ahead, my heart is itching." "

"You two hurry back, don't make trouble!" Wang Qinian couldn't help but scold.

The bullets were constantly rattling, and from time to time the mortars and grenadiers of the Japanese army fell around the riverbank, and he really didn't have the energy to care about these two boys.

"The five ditches in this section are seventeen or eighteen meters wide, and if you want to take the bridgehead, the casualties will definitely be very large. Ah Man looked at the flickering fires and explosion smoke on the front line from time to time, and couldn't help but say.

"Then what can you do?" Wang Qinian glanced back at him.

The bridge had to be taken, but the bridge was under the Cap Helmet Mountain, and all the soldiers who rushed up under the Japanese army under the high ridge would be suppressed by the grenadiers and heavy machine guns on the mountain even if they had cover, and his regiment had already lost more than fifty soldiers, and still did not take the bridge!

"Go south to the estuary!" said Aman.

"Hekou?" Wang Qinian was slightly stunned.

Ah Man explained: "Although the Wudaogou River is nearly 20 meters wide, in the last 700 meters or so of the Yalu River, it is all tidal mud at this time, as long as a bridge is built with wooden planks, horses can run over!"

When he heard the last 'horses can run over', Wang Qinian's eyes lit up!

But after thinking about it, he said with a little entanglement: "But where are we going to find so many planks?"

"There are a lot of fishermen who live on the Yalu River around here, and the riverbed is exhausted in winter, so it is the time to build ships and replenish the boats, and they must have planks in their homes!

" Although Ah Man is only eighteen years old, he has walked a lot of cities around Changbai Mountain in the past few years, and every time he goes to a city, he will carefully observe the local environment and people, so as to avoid it as quickly as possible when the enemy is chasing and killing.

"Okay! Just follow the method you said!" Wang Qinian's eyes rolled, and he felt that this method might really be feasible, so he hurriedly asked the correspondent to contact the brigade headquarters and report the situation to the higher authorities.

Soon the brigade headquarters sent instructions, the third regiment replaced Wang Qinian's regiment to make a frontal feint, and Wang Qinian led people to find planks, and once the bridge was successfully built, he immediately led a regiment to rush into the Japanese position.

Wang Qinian, who received the order, handed over the position to the 3rd Regiment, and himself withdrew to the rear with a regiment, and while ordering people to explore the mouth of the lower reaches of Wudaogou, he began to look for planks from house to house in the mine and the surrounding villages.

As Aman said, this season, the riverbed dried up, and many wooden boats parked in the river collapsed on the riverbed because of the drop in the water line, and the scouts also reported that the estuary was full of tidal flats and exposed riverbeds, but the Japanese army only deployed twenty or thirty troops in this place downstream!

The delighted Wang Qinian directly paid for the Japanese property looted by the cavalry brigade all the way, purchased a large number of wooden planks, and even directly dismantled some large wooden boats.

He brought a large amount of timber and horses to the estuary.

After observing for a while, Wang Qinian decided to attack from here, and a battalion of more than 200 soldiers rushed into the tidal flat riverbed with wooden planks, and the planks were still on the tidal flats, forming a small wooden plank bridge, constantly advancing towards the north bank!

The only dozen or so MG34 machine guns in the regiment kept firing at the Japanese troops on the opposite bank, suppressing this position, which was only defended by more than 30 Japanese troops.

The gunfire downstream made the Japanese commander on Hat Helmet Mountain uneasy, and immediately sent people to check it out.

But in just 15 minutes, after sacrificing several soldiers, the 30-meter-long wooden bridge was finally built, and at the moment of completion, the soldiers who built the bridge rushed to the north bank one after another, using cavalry guns, submachine guns, and shotguns to form a defensive line at the bridgehead of the wooden bridge to prevent the Japanese from approaching.

"Cavalry regiment! Rush with me!!" Wang Qinian stepped on his horse, drew his saber, and roared!

"Rush!" the remaining 500 or so cavalry roared across the bridge.

Then launch a cavalry charge from the rear positions of the Japanese army!

The cavalry that suddenly poured out from the rear shocked the Japanese soldiers on the north bank, and the defense line on the river bank was killed by Wang Qinian's cavalry troops from the rear in a panic, and the cavalry brigade soldiers on the south bank immediately took the opportunity to seize the bridge, and more than 2,000 soldiers successfully crossed the river!

The defense line of Hat Helmet Mountain was dismantled in an instant!

PS: I was discharged from the hospital today, and the update will be resumed immediately.

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