The Japanese soldiers were horrified when they saw the predatory artillery chariots rushing towards them, but they quickly regained their composure, and they had already prepared explosives packs, each of which was filled with ten kilograms of picric acid explosives.

The Japanese army's explosives bags were much more abundant than those of the Qing army, and the Qing country's industrial base was extremely weak, and it was simply unable to produce too many explosives, and Japan's industrial strength was much stronger than that of the Qing army.

Since Japan occupied Korea in 1895, and then turned Korea into a base for the invasion of the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, in order to achieve this purpose, a number of military factories were specially built in Korea, including the production of explosives, so the Japanese army did not lack explosives at all.

After summing up the previous combat experience, the Japanese army found that it was the stupidest and most stupid way to use a suicidal charge and die together with the invading artillery and combat vehicles.

The Japanese army quickly thought that there were many ways to throw explosive packets to the artillery chariots, and it was not necessary for soldiers to rush up, so the Japanese army found a way to get an explosive bag dropper.

This kind of thing is very similar to the "barrel cannon" that Lin Fei once used, that is, a thick and large barrel, in which the propellant is placed, and then the explosive package is put in, and the explosive package can be pushed out by igniting the propellant.

The Japanese soldiers called this explosive bag thrower "water dragon cannon", in fact, this kind of thing has nothing to do with water, the Japanese soldiers felt that the name of the plundering artillery chariot had fire, and water overcame fire, so they came up with the name of "water dragon cannon".

The Japanese army suffered all the losses of the plundering artillery and chariots in the previous battles, so the water dragon cannon was deployed to the squad level, and each Japanese combat squad had a water dragon cannon and ten explosive packs, for fear that the invading artillery chariots would not be blown up.

The Huaxia Army was completely unaware of the fact that the Japanese army was equipped with water dragon artillery, and they were still charging at the Japanese positions on the other side of the Daling River.

Because the Japanese soldiers shot to stop the planks when the Huaxia Army was laying the planks just now, the planks were only laid in the middle of the Daling River, and there were no planks on the side of the Daling River near the Japanese defense line.

The plundering artillery chariot is too late to continue laying planks, and can only use its huge body to break through the ice, and the plundering artillery chariot is not doing this bravely, because the division commander Lei Guang visited the villagers before the war, and the villagers said that in this season, the river near the side of the Japanese defense line is very shallow, almost not waistless, that is, only more than one meter deep.

The height of the Plunder Artillery Chariot is 1.5 meters (excluding the turret), the engine exhaust port is on the body, and the difference between the ground is less than 1.5 meters, as long as the water does not pass the exhaust port, the Artillery Chariot will be fine, so the Predator Artillery Chariot can travel in water at this depth.

The tracks of the marauding artillery chariots crushed the ice and fell heavily into the river, causing a huge splash of water with ice in the middle of the splash.

The river was just over a meter deep, as the villagers said, and the ice was just on the front body of the Plundering Artillery Chariot, and the fragile ice could not stop the steel body of the Plundering Artillery Chariot.

The Japanese army's Daling River defense line is much simpler than the Lushun fortress, although the defense of the Lushun fortress is complete, but it takes a long time to build that kind of fortress, and the Japanese army does not have the ability to prepare to build one in the Daling River defense line, so the Japanese army's defense line is mainly to prevent tank trenches, and water dragon guns and infantry are deployed behind the trenches.

The Japanese commander saw the plundering artillery chariots rushing towards him like a steel fortress, raised his command knife high, and shouted: "Prepare to fire!" ”

The Japanese soldiers pushed more than 200 water dragon cannons out of the trench and prepared to fire, although the water dragon cannons were extremely powerful, but the firing range was only less than 200 meters, and at this time, the invaded artillery chariots were still more than 500 meters away from the trenches, and the water dragon cannons could not hit at all.

In fact, the firing range is the hard wound of the improvised weapon such as the water dragon cannon, and if the firing range of this improvised weapon can reach several thousand meters, then the countries of the world in Lin Fei's era will not need to develop anti-tank guns.

The commanders of the 180 invading artillery chariots all poked their upper bodies out of the vehicles to observe the situation of the Japanese troops, and when they saw a large number of cylindrical things suddenly appearing on the Japanese trenches, they immediately raised their vigilance.

The 180 plundered artillery chariots were organized into three regiments, each regiment had three companies under its jurisdiction, and each company was equipped with 20 plundered artillery chariots, and these 20 predatory artillery chariots were divided into four combat groups.

When the combat group is fighting, it will follow the team leader's car, the team leader's car will open fire, they will follow the artillery, the team leader's car will move, they will move with it, and some of the team leaders will observe the abnormality of the Japanese position and use tracer bullets to strafe the Japanese position.

The tracer bullet was the signal, and the other predatory artillery vehicles in the group immediately opened fire, and some of the predatory artillery chariots stopped and fired at the Japanese positions, and one group did so, and the others followed suit.

The water dragon cannons were all outside the trench at this time, and they were hit by bullets and shells, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers fell into the trenches, and the water dragon cannons were detonated by bullets and shells.

The Japanese army regretted it and hurriedly withdrew the water dragon cannon into the trench, but after the blow just now, half of the water dragon cannon has been destroyed, because the design and manufacture of the water dragon cannon are very simple (just a large cylinder), so as long as the bullet hits, the water dragon cannon will be completely invalid.

The artillery chariots of the invasion stopped when they were about 200 meters away from the Japanese trenches, and began to pour fire into the trenches, killing and injuring the Japanese soldiers, and the infantry behind also followed, using grenadiers and other weapons to attack the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties for a while, these infantry are the infantry in the establishment of the first armored division, the first armored division has a total of five regiments, three artillery fighting vehicle regiments, one logistics regiment, and one is the infantry regiment, they are more familiar with the infantry coordination tactics.

Some Japanese soldiers desperately pushed the water dragon cannon out of the trench, rushed the plundering artillery chariot and fired explosive packs, the battle line was very long, there were many water dragon cannons, the Huaxia army could not destroy every water dragon cannon before the cannon fired, so five invading artillery chariots were hit by the explosive bags fired by the water dragon cannons, and there was damage.

The battle lasted for an hour, the Japanese soldiers could not hold it and began to retreat towards Mukden, and instead of rushing through the trench to the east, the 1st Panzer Division turned to the south and attacked the Japanese in other directions.

Under these circumstances, the Japanese army abandoned the Daling River defense line, and the newly formed five northeast divisions successfully broke through the Daling River defense line and launched a pursuit and annihilation of the Japanese army.

On 25 February, the Battle of Daling River was completely over, and this battle annihilated more than 20,000 Japanese troops and more than 50,000 South Korean troops.

On the Huaxia Army's side, a total of 30 invading artillery and chariots were destroyed or wounded, and more than 5,000 soldiers were killed, most of whom were soldiers of the Northeast Division.

After the Battle of Dalinghe, the Huaxia Army retreated to Jinzhou to replenish ammunition and personnel, which took about eighteen days.

However, the Huaxia army hoped to compress the time to replenish ammunition and personnel to five days, and if it took eighteen days, the weather in the Shengjing area would be warmer.

It stands to reason that the Huaxia Army is not good at fighting in cold areas, and the warmer weather is beneficial to the Huaxia Army, but in the battle of attacking Mukden, the Huaxia Army does not want the weather to get warmer, but hopes that the weather will be colder.

Previous battles have proved that it is difficult for artificial excavation and construction fortifications to block the invading artillery chariots, and the only way to block the invading artillery chariots is to use the great rivers and mountains in nature, and the Japanese army certainly understands this truth, so the Japanese army hopes to use the Liao River for defense.

The Liao River is a big river lying in the west of Fengtian, there are few people in the Northeast in this era, the Liao River has not been affected much, the width of the river can reach two or three hundred meters, it is a natural barrier to guard Fengtian.

If the weather is cold and the Liao River freezes, the predatory artillery chariots can easily cross the river from the ice, once the Liao River is civilized and becomes a large river again, the predatory artillery chariots will not be able to move an inch, according to the experience of the villagers, the Liao River will begin to melt around mid-March, once the melting begins, the predatory artillery chariots will not be able to pass through the ice.

Therefore, the Huaxia Army issued a general mobilization order, to complete the supply of ammunition within five days, in order to speed up the speed, all the units that are short of personnel will not be replenished, and the spare capacity will be allocated to ammunition transportation.

The Huaxia Army also mobilized the people on a large scale to help transport ammunition, and the people were very supportive of the Huaxia Army, taking the initiative to help, and even did not want to be paid; with the efforts of all sides, the Huaxia Army finally completed the supply of ammunition before March 4 and headed for the Liaohe River.

In the process of driving to the Liao River, what the Huaxia Army was most afraid of was that the Japanese army would block the road layer by layer, delaying the advance speed of the Huaxia Army, so that the Huaxia Army would not be able to cross the ice before the Liao River began to melt.

The march of the Huaxia army along the way was very smooth, the Japanese army did not intercept it halfway at all, and the hearts of every soldier were very excited, Mukden was the core of Japanese rule in the northeast, and it was of great political significance to conquer Mukden.

On March 6, the Huaxia army came to the bank of the Liao River, and the Liao River in front of them was still frozen.