Sitting on a brand-new armored car that he had just received from the logistics department, Mo Dongshan felt that he was in a very good state, the socks attached to the steel helmet on his head had been removed, and now he was sitting on the long wooden benches on both sides of the carriage of the Iron Bull armored personnel carrier with the steel helmet. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was indeed a long bench with no backrest, just a few square strips of wood painted and screwed to the welded triangle iron on the floor of the armored car. Everything in this car can be described as shabby, but such an armored car still makes Mo Dongshan very happy.

After all, having such an armored vehicle to travel at such a time would simply make the battlefield immediately become a paradise. Mo Dongshan found his subordinates in the rear, although the losses were huge, but they still maintained their combat effectiveness, with new armored vehicles, there was also a platoon-level radio, plus 10 new recruits, Mo Dongshan's infantry platoon followed his own troops, and marched in the direction of Weiyuan.

Along the road that had been blown up to pieces, the infantry of the Ming army did not attack slowly, because there was cover from the Lei Gong 1 dive bomber in the sky, and there was also the extended fire of heavy artillery units on the ground, and the Ming army did not encounter any decent resistance at all.

After a day of hard fighting on the Yalu River defense line, the Ming army finally crossed the heavily fortified defense line and came to the rear of the Japanese army.

I just passed by a Japanese army field hospital, which was full of Japanese soldiers who committed suicide and were abandoned and died on the ground. The unwounded Japanese troops had already fled, some of them retreated along the road towards Weiyuan, and some fled in the direction of the 5th Division.

The logistics personnel of these poor 17th Divisions did not have much combat effectiveness at all, and after the collapse of the front line, those who remained in place were quickly wiped out or captured by the Ming Empire. However, even so, the top brass of the Ming army still felt that the Japanese army's will to fight was much higher than that of the rebels in Liaodong - until now, they still have only a handful of captured Japanese soldiers.

On the one hand, it was because the Ming army had a revenge mentality and rarely captured Japanese prisoners on the battlefield, and on the other hand, the Japanese army did have few soldiers who surrendered. In the battle sequence of the Japanese Empire, the 17th Division can be regarded as a real first-class horse-pulling division, and its combat effectiveness is undoubtedly strong.

To be able to achieve such a huge victory in the front, on the one hand, the troops invested by the Ming army are also strong main elites, and on the other hand, they did use more advanced weapons to catch the opponent by surprise. The Japanese army is now defeated, and there are no decent garrisons in many places behind, so the Ming army did not encounter entanglement and resistance, and took out the rapid assault tactics they are good at, and advanced to the depth of the Japanese army.

The design of the Iron Bull armored car is very simple, and the overall half-track design is adopted, but in order to facilitate processing and production, the carriage is designed with right-angled steel plates, and to put it bluntly, there is no bulletproof shape in the back, it is a low and large box. The cost reduction brought by this design also increased the space in the car, making it easy to carry the daily necessities of the infantry.

At the bottom of the seats is a storage space simply separated by barbed wire, where the infantry members riding in this armored vehicle can store their daily necessities, such as bags and bedding. Because of its open design, it also has a rainproof canvas that is tied to the back of the armored vehicle and can be unfolded if necessary.

In order to reduce costs, the Iron Ox armored car even had only three iron bars to support the canvas - the number of such bars was as high as five on the original model equipped with troops.

Mo Dongshan sat in the seat of this armored car, next to the weapons station operated by the crew members, where there was an 8 mm Weiyuan 2 machine gun with a shield, which could provide support fire for the entire infantry squad. Of course, there were also two spare barrels of gasoline in the car, as well as several boxes of reserve ammunition for the entire infantry platoon.

The advent of armored vehicles gave an entire infantry platoon unsurpassed mobility, as well as the ability to carry loads. With this half-track armored car, the soldiers could throw their bits and pieces in the car, so that they could travel more lightly and reach farther places.

On the top of the road, a horse galloped over in the opposite direction, stopped at the side of the armored car where Mo Dongshan was, and the soldiers of the Ming Empire on the horse took the reins, making the war horse snort, and then shouted loudly to Mo Dongshan and others: "Weiyuan ahead!" A small group of Japanese troops was found! ”

After he said these two sentences, he rode his horse and continued to gallop towards the farther troops, at this time the vehicles of the Ming Empire were still insufficient, in addition to the main armored tank troops deployed with real mechanized reconnaissance troops, many infantry units of reconnaissance units are still using traditional cavalry.

Mo Dongshan heard the news sent by the scout, looked at the sun that had set in the west overhead, squinted his eyes and retracted his gaze, and then looked in the direction where Weiyuan Town was located: "Speed up!" Enter Weiyuan before dark, be on guard, and open fire immediately if you encounter Japanese soldiers! ”

After his order was given, this Iron Bull half-track armored car started again, because of the design of the ceiling hollow, so there is no need to worry about the roaring noise of the engine in this armored convertible, as long as the throat shouts loudly enough, you can let the other party hear your own voice.

"Watch out on both sides of the road! Cover the advance of armored vehicles! Heavy ...... Alert left, Han Ping! You bring a few people to strengthen the right side! Mo Dongshan ordered the arrangement, and did not sit back in his place, he leaned against the side armor plate of the armored car, exposing his head and chest, his eyes pressed in the shadow of the steel helmet, staring at the direction of Weiyuan shown on the map.

Along the way, they did not bump into a large number of Japanese soldiers, but some fleeing Japanese logistics personnel were caught up by their rapid advance speed, so that Mo Dongshan's soldiers killed a lot. About 30 Japanese soldiers were killed, and several more of the enemy fled, in the direction of Weiyuan.

So Mo Dongshan stood on the armored car and finally stopped his progress for the first time outside Weiyuan City. Because he had to stop, the No. 1 improved tank, which was even higher than him, also stopped on the side of the road at this time, waiting for the follow-up troops to arrive at the designated attack position.

Before the sky darkened, the vanguard of the Ming army had already arrived at the periphery of Weiyuan, and what they were waiting for at this moment was nothing more than a combat order to enter Weiyuan. (To be continued.) )