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While the CCP, the Northeast Army, and the Japanese were preparing for a huge main battle for the control of the Northeast, Luo Yaoguo was not idle. He was busy sending the National Revolutionary Army No. 20, No. 20 The officers of the division went to Harbin to take office, and they flew over the Jinzhou battlefield in a J38 transport plane!It seems that the risk is quite high. After all, the Japanese have deployed army aviation in Shenyang and Lushun.However, the development of military aircraft in this era is a bit nonsensical... This large civilian transport aircraft equipped with four 600-horsepower BMW129 engines can actually fly faster than most biplane fighters!In addition, there is no early warning radar to detect this plane, so flying through the Japanese-controlled area is actually very safe.

"Brother Fuwen, next is Jinzhou, right? Who will win the battle starting tomorrow?" The one who asked this question was Chen Cheng, the supreme commander of the Northeast Kuomintang Army in the plan and the chief of staff of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and of course Chiang Kai-shek's confidant.Luo Yaoguo didn't have any objection to Lao Jiang's plans to extend his claws to the northeast, and he was very enthusiastic to help Zhang Luo...

Luo Yaoguo glanced at the somewhat excited Chen Cheng, and smiled: "It's hard to say, but to us, it doesn't matter who wins, what matters is how long this battle can last?"

"Brother Fuwen means..." Chen Cheng frowned.

Looking at the green land outside the porthole of the plane, Luo Yaoguo smiled deeply: "Brother Cixiu is going to Harbin, which is a place full of hills, not as simple as in our National Revolutionary Army. Wang Zhongyi, the Northeast Army, the Communist Party, the Japanese, the Soviets , None of them are reassuring. And the strength of our Kuomintang there is now the weakest! Your 25th and 26th divisions are still on paper!" As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at the sitting Chen Mingren and Du Yuming behind raised their voices: "Ziliang (Chen Mingren), Guangting, how much time do you need to bring the team out?"

Chen Mingren smiled lightly. To be honest, the future of going to the Northeast is really unpredictable.The so-called No. 20 Sixth Division is just more than 1000 thorns picked out from various units of the Kuomintang Army. I don’t know where the rest are?If Wang Zhongyi and the Northeast Army do not cooperate, I am afraid that they may not be able to pull the team together. Even if the team is gathered, I don't know when it will be until the real combat effectiveness is formed?While Chen Mingren was secretly thinking, Du Yuming said with a smile: "With Mr. Ci and the assistant commander leading us, the 25th and 26th divisions can be pulled up in at most three months! The Northeast will be our world sooner or later! "

Chapter 0514 Battle of Jinzhou ([-])

AD 55, October [-]st, at [-]:[-] in the morning.

There was dead silence in the command room of Dongdaying, Jinzhou. Everyone held their breath, raised their heads, stared at the chime clock hanging on the wall with bloodshot eyes, and watched the second hand move one frame at a time.In another 5 minutes, more than 400 cannons deployed on the artillery positions on the west bank of the Daling River, including 96 150mm and 152mm heavy cannons, will smash the counterattack shells on the heads of the invaders!

After the 10-minute artillery preparation, the Eighth Route Army deployed at the northern end of the front line will be the first to forcibly cross the Daling River and launch a fierce attack on the Japanese positions on the east bank of the Daling River!An hour after the Eighth Route Army launched its attack, the Fifth Route Army deployed at the southern end of the front line would also cross the river under the cover of artillery and storm the southern flank of the Japanese front line.After the fierce battle on the north and south fronts has become intense, the 1st Route Army, [-]th Route Army and [-]st Armored Cavalry Brigade deployed in the center of the front will launch a real main attack under the cover of heavy artillery and aircraft!Nearly [-] Tigers of the Northeast Army, led by [-] Renault FT-[-] tanks, and under the cover of the Northeast Army's heavy artillery and aircraft, will launch the most decisive attack on the center of the Japanese front with the determination to die!In order to cut off the Japanese army in half!Then surround or defeat!

"Commander Zhang is here!" With a loud roll call.There were hurried footsteps outside the door, and Zhang Xueliang strode into the war room.Although all the commands and plans were written by Guo Songling, the final decision still needs to be made by him, the supreme commander of the Northeast Army.

When everyone in the command room saw Zhang Xueliang coming in, they all stood at attention and saluted.Guo Songling, Rong Zhen, Zhu De, Cui Kefu, the Soviet military adviser, and several staff officers were all waiting for the time to launch the attack.

Zhang Xueliang glanced at everyone sullenly, and did not speak for a long time, and everyone looked at him intently and breathlessly.The night was still dark, and there were occasional sounds of strong winds blowing outside, and the atmosphere was chilling.Zhang Xueliang finally spoke: "My lords! People all over the country are watching us! The old man's spirit in heaven is also watching us! The compatriots in the occupied Liaoji provinces are also watching us! Our Northeast Army was bullied by the Japanese so much Over the years, until now, the South has risen to become one of the world's five major military powers, and they are still bullying us! It is unbearable, and today is the time for our 30 Northeast Army soldiers to fight back! I hope you will work hard, don't Live up to the fathers and folks in the three northeastern provinces who have raised us for 20 years!"

After saying these generous words, Zhang Xueliang stood in the war room with the corners of his mouth sullen and tears in his eyes, looking at the solemn officers in the room, he raised his head to the sky: "Father commander... the time has come to avenge you, The future fate of the Northeast Army depends on today's fight!"

The Northeast Army has pulled out all its troops and exhausted its last financial resources.The power accumulated by the two generations of father and son for 20 years will be exerted to the extreme today!If this war cannot be won, then the Northeast Army will be devastated and it will be difficult to recover!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The chiming clock hanging on the wall made three crisp sounds.On October [-]st, at three in the morning, it's time to fight back!finally reached!

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On the west side of the Daling River, at the foot of the Xiaozijing Mountain, the Northeast Army and the Communist Army's heavy artillery group positions.The artillery group consisting of 36 150th-type 36mm heavy field howitzers, 38 150mm howitzers of the Meiji 24th year, and 152 340mm Soviet-made howitzers shook violently at the same time. The sound of cannons, the smoke filled the air.Almost at the same time, more than 75 [-]mm mountain guns belonging to eleven artillery regiments deployed in various places behind the Dalinghe front line also began to bombard their respective targets according to the plan.

Looking out from the artillery observation post on the top of Xiaozijing Mountain, to the west of the Daling River, in the dark night sky, a burst of orange-red light suddenly flashed.The sky in the west suddenly lit up like a fire coming from heaven, and then there was a sound like thunder, and finally even the ground trembled violently!Amidst the shrill screams, hundreds of thousands of large and small shells exploded almost simultaneously in all parts of the Japanese defense zone.Strands of orange fireballs that erupted in the night were shining brightly and connected at various points on the east bank of the Daling River.The shells were too dense to count, especially the powerful 150mm first-class shells, which slapped the northern end of the Japanese defense line improperly, blowing up the carefully constructed fortifications of the Japanese army to pieces!The explosion of the shells finally merged into a burst of "rumbling" noises, echoing on the battlefield!All other voices were muffled.

The Japanese soldiers hid in the trenches and the anti-gun bunkers, unconsciously opening their mouths and covering their ears, enduring the huge shock and the roar of the shell explosion that pierced into the hearts of the people.Everyone trembled violently with the shock of the explosion, as if their hearts were welcoming their own doomsday judgment.Gunpowder smoke filled their airways and lungs, making it hard to breathe.Although they are infantry who have undergone the most rigorous training, most of them have never experienced real shelling!Even the officers who participated in the Battle of Jinan in 28 years did not expect that the Northeast Army and the Communist Party of China would have such powerful artillery!In fact, many of the cannons that were firing fiercely at the Japanese army were products of the Japanese military industry, and even many artillerymen were trained by Japanese instructors!

However, the teachers of the Artillery of the Northeast Army were not slow to react, and they started to counterattack almost immediately. Nearly two hundred 75mm mountain artillery and 105mm and 150mm heavy artillery from the Eighth and Ninth Divisions began to spit out flames. Flowers exploded on the Chinese army positions west of the Daling River.The Japanese army, the Northeast Army, and the Communist Army have been confronting each other on both sides of the Daling River for nearly ten days. Both sides are frantically digging trenches and fortifications to build starting positions.Similarly, the respective artillery observers have already determined the coordinates. At this time, they just need to launch the shells at the fastest speed according to the prior plan!At this time, Daling River has become a world of shrapnel flying.A series of orange-red and dark-red flames leaped across the wide river at an extremely fast speed, and the reflection of the river seemed to be thousands of flowing blood!

Lieutenant General Miyoshiichi, the commander of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army, stood in a shelter on the high ground on the east bank of the Daling River, watching the artillery battle outside with an artillery team through the observation port of the inner horoscope.Although the artillery fire of the Chinese army was fierce, Miyoshi was not worried that his troops would suffer heavy losses.Because just last night, the Kwantung Army Command had sent him a warning!Informed that the Chinese army will launch an attack today!The Japanese Empire's 20 years of painstaking efforts in Manchuria were not in vain.At this moment, in the forward position that was being heavily bombarded, there were only a small number of infantry left behind, and the main force had already moved to the relatively safe second and third lines of defense to avoid the shelling.What he is observing now is only the focus of the opponent's shelling, so as to judge their attack focus.In order to make the most reasonable use of the few reserves in his hands.Now his biggest headache is the weak force, and the line of defense to defend is too long.The Eighth Division, which has 7000 people, is responsible for defending a 25-kilometer-long line of defense, and the Chinese army on the opposite side of the line has as many as 15 people!

The artillery fire of the heavy artillery was almost concentrated on the trench defense zone on the front line of Sunjiayu, Pigeon Cave, and Xiaowang's shack. The 15-cm heavy artillery blasted terrible gaps in the position.With the help of the rising fireballs, he could see that the Luzhai at the front of the position was lifted up layer by layer, and the shells were like a large rolling curtain, gradually pushing the barrage of death forward.Wherever they passed, all the firepower of civil engineering and machine guns were like paper, and they were wiped out of the world at once... If the Japanese infantry was still deployed here in large numbers at this time, it is estimated that it has already been destroyed by now. What a loss!In other places, there are dense small flashes, which seem to be the intensive firing of some 75mm mountain guns and mortars at most.Obviously, the focus of the bombardment was the three kilometers of defense from Sunjiayu to Xiaowang's shack!He let out a sigh of relief, turned around and shouted loudly in the ear of his staff officer, "Notify the artillery, concentrate firepower, and block the Daling River from Sunjiayu to Xiaowang's shack!"

Also enduring the sound of shell explosions and violent vibrations were the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, the elite main force of the Communist Party of China, especially the No.20 Second Division commanded by Comrade Wang Erzhuo.They shouldered the task of forcibly crossing the Daling River, building bridgeheads, erecting pontoon bridges, clearing deer villages, capturing the first trench of the Japanese army, and opening the way for subsequent offensive troops.They had never imagined a bombardment of this scale before.The soldiers were all leaning against the trench wall, holding their rifles, nervously watching the expression of the commander leading the team.From time to time, artillery shells from the Japanese army flew over, and when they landed in the trenches, it was full of flames and blood, and then there were heart-piercing screams. The ambulance soldiers are now the busiest personnel in the entire position, and they are constantly in the trenches. Shuttle between, bloody and bloody wounded were carried off the position on stretchers and sent to the field hospital behind.

The barrage of artillery shells gradually extended forward. Within three to ten minutes, more than 10 rounds of 4000mm and 150mm heavy artillery shells were dropped, as well as tens of thousands of rounds of 152mm shells and mortar shells.This kind of shelling density is already the limit of the strength of the CCP and the Northeast Army.The sound of charge horns sounded one after another in the trench. The officers all straightened up, drew their pistols, and waited for the final order to charge.

Three red flares rose into the sky from behind, and then fell slowly.Countless young officers armed with communist ideals jumped out of the trenches at this moment, raising their arms and shouting: "Comrades, for the sake of the new China, follow me!" Then they saw waves of yellow people pouring out of the trenches , rushing to the east bank of the Daling River.The infantry attack has begun!

This attack used all twelve infantry battalions of the 22nd Division, six of which were used for diversionary attacks, and the six infantry battalions of the No.40 Third Brigade were the main attack force. Hundreds of heavy machine guns were carried to the east bank of the Daling River On the river beach, each plane was frantically strafing to the opposite bank to suppress the firepower of the Japanese army.Hundreds of wooden rafts had long been placed on the shore. Under the command of the officers, the soldiers boarded the wooden rafts one after another, and then used their engineering shovels, wooden sticks, rifles, and even arms to paddle hard.The reaction of the Japanese army was very fast, as soon as the artillery shells were fired, they roared in, blasting water jets into the sky one after another on the surface of the Daling River, and from time to time, wooden rafts full of officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were directly hit!Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Eighth Route Army crossing the river, all the firepower points on the opposite Japanese defensive position also began to shoot wildly!More than a dozen heavy machine guns formed a cross-fire force, coupled with sporadic but accurate [-]-type rifle fire, knocking down the crowd crowded on the wooden raft row by row!And more people shouted like crazy and paddled desperately, but this small river with a width of more than [-] meters seemed to be an insurmountable moat!The shooting area here is wide, which is convenient for the Japanese army to display their firepower. The first wave of impact has turned this place into a slaughterhouse!

From the telescope in the hands of Wang Erzhuo, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and commander of the No.20 Second Division of the Central Army, the front is already full of blood.The highland where he was located was only a few hundred meters away from the west bank of the Daling River, and only 2000 meters away from the front position of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Daling River.But at this moment, he would rather not see anything!Because the elite he brought out with one hand suffered heavy casualties under the double strangulation of the almost impenetrable artillery fire and machine gun fire of the Japanese army!The entire Daling River was almost dyed red, and the bodies of heroes were floating on the water!

Fortunately, after suffering heavy casualties, they finally crossed the Daling River that had been dyed red.But the shells of the Japanese army continued to explode in their queue.It seems that the artillery fire from everywhere is concentrated!The shells came densely and quickly, and with every roar, fragments of the human body flew into the air!The infantry quickly dispersed, lying on the ground and digging fortifications desperately.There is no way out for them to wait, so they can only stick to it here!They want to build a bridgehead here to buy time for the engineers to erect the pontoon bridge and the follow-up troops to cross the river!And no matter how heavy the casualties are!

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In the war room of Jinzhou Dongdaying Camp, there was a noisy sound of telephone ringing, as well as the shouts of staff running in and out, reporting the situation loudly, but most of them were not good news!Zhang Xueliang sat in the middle of the war room, his brows were tightly frowned, and he turned his eyes to the teacher Guo Songling standing in front of the map table from time to time.

The sky gradually brightened, and Zhu De walked into the war room with a dark face: "The 22nd Division has successfully crossed the Daling River, but suffered heavy casualties! When the 43rd Brigade was crossing the river, it was intensively killed by Japanese artillery fire. On the other side of the Daling River The machine guns on the Japanese positions were also very dense, and the previous bombardment seemed to have little effect. As a result, more than half of the 43rd Brigade suffered casualties... Only less than three battalions succeeded in crossing the river. Some foxholes were dug there, but it was still very dangerous. If The Japanese army launches a powerful counterattack, and it is estimated that it will collapse! Now the follow-up troops are hurrying to cross the river, and the engineers are also rushing to repair the pontoon..."

In today's attack, although the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party of China is not the main attack, it is the lead!Moreover, it was the first time that the CCP's army attacked an enemy's position defended by modern intensive firepower. No one in the whole army expected to suffer such a heavy loss!In the first round of attacks alone, more than 3000 people were killed or injured under the intensive firepower of the Japanese army!And no real breakthrough has been achieved.The resistance of the Japanese army remained tenacious.It just grabbed a long and narrow beachhead on the west bank of the Daling River, where more than 1000 people stood guard, waiting for follow-up troops to join.

After Zhang Xueliang listened to Zhu De's heartbroken report with a somber face, his face turned green and pale. He didn't know whether he was frightened or anxious.At this moment, the Sixth Route Army to which his Northeast Army belongs is also launching a similar forced crossing operation at the southern end of the Japanese position!I don't know if the loss will be more serious?Originally thought that this time there was an overwhelming advantage in firepower and troops, and the victory could be easily won.Unexpectedly, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was so powerful!With at most 5 people in two divisions, they blocked the offensive of their own 30 troops!He pondered and said: "Commander Zhu, this time your army has really worked hard. Now...can the army continue to fight?"

Zhu De nodded and said: "I can still persist. Comrade Peng Dehuai just called. He said that after the follow-up troops cross the river, they can launch another attack. Try to attract more reinforcements from the enemy to the north flank and win more for the friendly army to break through the center. possible."

Guo Songling turned around, looked at Zhu De excitedly, suddenly stood at attention, and gave Zhu De a military salute respectfully: "Brother Yujie! Thanks to your Eighth Route Army for taking the lead this time, if this battle To be able to win, the first achievement is definitely your Eighth Route Army!"

Zhu De smiled wryly: "Brother Maochen is overjoyed, our Communist Party is now leading the central government, and it is our bounden duty to defend the country from foreign invasion!"

Guo Songling nodded, and just about to say something, Rong Zhen, the deputy chief of staff of the Northeast Army, rushed in from outside excitedly: "Commander-in-Chief! Good news, the Sixth Route Army also successfully crossed the Daling River on the southern flank! Now that the Japanese army's northern and southern fronts are all in a hurry, the center must be empty!"

Everyone in the room felt as if a stone had fallen to the ground, and it seemed that they had seen a glimmer of hope of victory in this bitter battle.

"Okay!" Zhang Xueliang slammed the table and stood up, his pale face flushed red: "Teacher! Can our Central Group be dispatched? Let the little devils have a taste of the power of our tanks and planes!" "

Guo Songling also nodded heavily, with an extremely heavy face, as if making a very difficult decision: "Send orders to Wan Fulin, Liang Zhongjia, and Wang Yizhe, and order the First Route Army, Fifth Route Army, and Armored Cavalry Brigade to dispatch! Send orders to Air Force, let them dispatch to bomb the middle position of the Japanese Dalinghe defense line immediately!"

Chapter 0515 Battle of Jinzhou ([-])

Starting from the morning of October [-]st, the coalition forces of the CCP and the Northeast Army on the front line of the Daling River in Jinzhou began to show their greatest power!After Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling issued the decisive battle order, all the senior officers pressed down in the headquarters of the front-line troops to supervise the battle, and the brigade commanders and regimental commanders even went to the front line to command the battle!

At 180 o'clock in the morning, the heavy artillery group deployed at the foot of the Little Bauhinia Mountain and the 75 1mm mountain artillery pieces assigned to the five independent artillery regiments of the Central Group burst out at the same time, and the fierce and hot shells burned the Japanese army on the other side of the Daling River. position.At the same time, the Air Force of the Northeast Army also took action. Fifty F-[-]A destroyers each carried a [-]-kilogram bomb and flew over the Daling River in a neat formation.Their target was the Japanese artillery positions, and the Northeast Army has now launched a mechanized war with air-to-ground artillery coordination!It's just that the effect is not known?

On the high ground in the northwest behind the Japanese defense line, the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army Takashi Hishigari and the commander of the Second Division Tomon Jiro both held up binoculars and stared at the scene in front of them.I saw with my own eyes that the powerful Chinese artillery group repeatedly plowed the defense line built by the Japanese army, and watched the orange-red flames explode one after another on the position, rejecting horses, civil engineering, weapons, and human limbs in the deer village. The severed arms were thrown into the sky.I also saw with my own eyes dozens of small biplane aircraft belonging to the Chinese army circling recklessly over the battlefield, dropping bombs on the Japanese artillery positions... Fortunately, these pilots of the Northeast Army seemed not to be able to dive bombing, so the Japanese The artillery group was not suppressed.

Takashi Ryogai put down the binoculars, and cursed in a low voice: "Bage! Those idiots in the aviation army should all have their seppuku!"

Domen Erlang also put down his binoculars, and said with a wry smile: "The distance from Shenyang to here is much farther, the imperial pilots should still be on the way, right? Fortunately, the air force of the Northeast Army is not as good as that of the Kuomintang Army..." He said unconsciously Turning his head, looking at the southern sky, he sighed softly: "Puyi's governors of the three eastern provinces seem not to be recognized by the two governments in the north and south of China. Will the empire fall into a quagmire if this continues?"

Ling Jielong smiled coldly: "The Beijing government will admit it!" He pointed to the other side of the Daling River: "The elite main force of the Beijing government is concentrated there, as long as the imperial army can destroy it in this battle of Jinzhou! They The basis for maintaining the rule has been lost. At that time, apart from acknowledging the status quo of the three eastern provinces in exchange for the support of the empire, what other way out? As for Wuhan... Hehe, they are obviously also planning their own calculations. These Chinese people Always put internal fighting above national war!" After speaking, he raised his binoculars and began to observe the battle situation on the front line.

The Northeast Army, which was in charge of the breakthrough in the center, had now begun a chaotic and forced crossing under the heavy Japanese fire net, but the troops invested were twice as large as those of the northern and southern flanks.All 24 infantry battalions of a whole division started to cross the river at the same time on the nearly [-]-kilometer-wide front, regardless of the main attack.The mission of their division is to cross the river and open up a starting position for the [-]st Armored Cavalry Brigade. Even if they fight to the last man, they must complete it without compromise!

Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling also climbed to the top of Little Bauhinia Mountain at this time. In a well-built shelter, they used high-powered binoculars to observe the hellish scene on the Daling River in the distance.I watched helplessly as my soldiers boarded hastily made wooden rafts and rushed into the Japanese fire net without hesitation. The dead were one by one, and it was impossible to estimate. The entire Daling River was covered with dead body!But there were more people panting and paddling with various tools. The small wooden rafts moved slowly to the opposite bank, and finally reached the bank.

Although the Japanese army on the opposite bank was firing desperately, they still couldn't suppress so many people in the river channel that was less than [-] meters wide.Seeing that there are more and more people crossing, they are densely covered on the opposite river beach.

"Finally broke through!" Guo Songling put down the binoculars and let out a long breath, but there were light tears on his face.

Zhang Xueliang's face was pale, and his lips trembled slightly: "The Japanese army's defense is stronger than we imagined. The shelling seems to have not achieved the desired effect, and the air force...has not suppressed their artillery. It seems that in terms of multi-army coordination, we are better than the Kuomintang. The army is far behind... This battle is still fighting for life! It is the old foundation of our Northeast Army... Teacher, this battle has suffered heavy casualties..."

Guo Songling raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his cheeks, and smiled lightly: "It's worth it." He put down the binoculars in his hand, walked a few steps in the shelter with his hands behind his back, and sighed softly: "Han Qing, if our Northeast Army loses its homeland, it will be worth it." From now on, we will be homeless dogs! How long can we last with the savings in our hands? When these savings are used up... Who will support the 30-[-] troops? The Communist Party in Beijing or the Kuomintang in Wuhan? Will they be so kind? They have been compiled and reorganized, and they will be stigmatized as a national sinner, so why not fight here!"

He looked around and made sure there were no outsiders in the shelter, so he lowered his voice and said: "If this battle is over, we will go to Wuhan to join the Kuomintang. With this vigorous Jinzhou battle, a national hero Hats are always indispensable. And there is still the savings left by the old man. At that time, we will do some work... If we win this battle or we can draw a tie, I guess the Japanese should fight us Negotiation. In the worst case, let’s make some concessions, such as giving the Japanese a little bit of preferential treatment on the agreed tariffs, and the Northeast is still ours! At most, we can only give the Kuomintang a piece of the pie in Heilongjiang.”

Zhang Xueliang nodded slightly, as if he approved of the teacher's analysis. In this time and space, his territory in the customs is very small, and he can't afford to support 20 troops.If you retreat without fighting, it won't take long before your savings are exhausted and the team will be scattered.At that time, I am afraid that the Communist Party will be held accountable for losing the Northeast!Therefore, this battle has to be fought...

"Teacher, look at the current situation, can we win?"

Guo Songling nodded noncommittally, raised his binoculars, and began to observe the battle situation on the front line.At this moment, the troops who forced the past seemed to have gained a firm foothold and began to attack the forward positions of the Japanese army under the cover of cannons and machine guns.Behind them, more troops began to cross the river, and engineers were also erecting pontoon bridges... Everything seemed to be going well, but Guo Songling always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what went wrong?

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