As one of the more knowledgeable generals of the Japanese army, Ozawa Kazuhiro learned the trick of drawing big cakes, but he learned it from Cao Cao's trick of beckoning Mei to quench his thirst. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info when he reported that reinforcements were about to arrive, he was actually ready to bury the entire 17th Division and fight to the death with the Ming army.

His first-line positions have all been lost, and most of the second core line of defense is now planted with the Ming army's flag, and now only a part of the soldiers are left in these positions to fight the Ming army relying on the solid reinforced concrete fortifications and the batteries fixed in the permanent fortifications.

In fact, the third line of defense can be regarded as non-existent at all, and if the temporarily deployed defense line can stop the Ming army's attack to this extent, then he Ozawa Kazuhiro can claim to be the Japanese god of war. Therefore, the only hope that the 17th Division can rely on to hold on is actually the second line of defense, which has now lost most of it.

This line of defense is set on the commanding heights of the defensive core of the 17th Division, and although it is not too steep, it can be regarded as having a certain degree of geographical advantage. The Japanese army laid out a ring of fortifications here, the purpose of which was to serve as a defensive support point at such a time.

It is clear that this line of defense now plays a role in withstanding the Ming offensive, but unfortunately the Japanese army now has no extra forces to invest in the counterattack. There are many permanent machine gun bunkers on the high ground, accompanied by many 50 mm caliber anti-tank guns specially designed to deal with Ming tanks, and it is precisely because of this weapon, called the Type 91 anti-tank gun, that the Ming army's armored forces have suffered unprecedented losses.

To Ozawa's despair, these newly equipped anti-tank guns had now been destroyed quite a bit by the Ming army. The delay in the arrival of his reinforcements also made him wonder how long the remaining troops in his hands would be able to hold out.

It has to be said that the Japanese army is a very endurant force, and their will to fight is tenacious, beyond the expectations of the generals of the Ming army on the opposite side. Already on the verge of collapse, these Japanese forces withstood the numerically superior Ming attack and fought until reinforcements arrived.

"Your Excellency, General! Your Excellency, General! Reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived! Ozawa Kazuhiro was waiting to hear the news of the collapse of his front-line troops, who knew that his adjutant ran in with a happy face, bringing him a very exciting news.

"Reinforcements? Are you saying reinforcements have arrived? Ozawa Kazuhiro heard the word reinforcement and happily grabbed his adjutant's arm. At this time, the word reinforcement may be the most beautiful sentence in the world for him: "Is it General Miyamoto's troops arriving?" How many people came? When does the counterattack start? ”

He asked a lot of questions in one breath, but when he asked the last sentence, even he knew that he was thinking a little too much. His adjutant's reply really pulled him back to reality again: "Your Excellency, General, it is a reinforcement sent by the 5th Division, and the number is not large. ”

"It's the people of the 5th Division...... Yes, they should also see the current situation clearly at this time......" Ozawa Kazuhiro heard the adjutant's words, nodded and regained his composure, he had received valuable reinforcements, and it seemed that he could delay for a while longer with the new force.

Because the 17th Division held the flank of the 5th Division, the main infantry division of the Japanese army, the 5th Division finally took the overall situation into account at the last moment and sent a squadron of soldiers to support the 17th Division. Although there are only more than 200 soldiers in a squadron, in this case, reinforcements come and there is no reinforcement at all, which is definitely not a concept for Japanese dramas that stick to their positions.

As for why the 5th Division only transferred its troops to reinforce its flank friendly forces at this time, it depends on how heavy the task of the 5th Division is: in the main defensive direction of this army, it is the most elite 1st Group Army in Liaodong of the Ming Empire, and the commander is Major General Zhang Jianjun.

After all, the military order was for the 5th Division to hold the defense line of the Yalu River along the river, and this was the most important combat mission of the division. As for the reinforcement of friendly forces, it is a favor, not an obligation. If it weren't for the fact that the 17th Division was about to be completely defeated, the 5th Division would not have risked the loss of its own reserves to take care of the 17th Division's affairs.

The reason is very simple: the 17th Division lost the defensive line, which was the business of the 17th Division; The 17th Division was able to hold the line with the help of the 5th Division, and it was still the credit of the 17th Division...... However, if the 5th Division loses its line of defense because of the reinforcement of the 17th Division, it will be the responsibility of the 5th Division.

Your superiors don't care why you're reinforcing your allies, they'll just ask you why you didn't obey orders and hold your ground! It was also the 5th Division that found that the artillery fire on the flanks was getting closer and closer, so it gritted its teeth and pulled out more than 200 people to the position of the 17th Division to take a look.

"240 soldiers? Good! Good! Hearing that he was waiting for reinforcements from a squadron, Ozawa Kazuhiro hurriedly issued the combat task of assigning these reinforcements to strengthen the various defensive positions: "Let the infantry of this squadron be dispersed according to the formation of the squad, one squad strengthens the No. 33 trench, and the other two squads go to the commanding heights to assist the remaining forces on the position and hold the main bunker of No. 35!" ”

The Japanese army has a squad of about 60 people, some more, some less, and the main division like the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, the infantry is a little more than normal. So a whole infantry squadron of more than two hundred soldiers, also equipped with grenadiers and other supporting weapons.

If such a squadron is pressed on one area, it can even give the Japanese army the ability to counterattack. However, because the 17th Division was on the verge of collapse, Ozawa Kazuhiro could only break up these troops and fill them in bits and pieces on each position.

Among them, position No. 33 is a main trench that the Japanese army is about to lose, and it can be regarded as the most critical position at this moment; The other bunker No. 35 was the most important defensive position of the Japanese army. It seems that there are more than 240 people, but they are divided into two in an instant.

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"Ammunition! Refill ammo! "In the trenches near the front line, the Ming soldiers leaning against the walls of the trenches were checking and sorting out their weapons. Soldiers carrying ammunition boxes hunched past them, then opened them and began to distribute the ammunition inside.

The Ming Empire was more resourceful than Japan, so there was no need to worry about the submachine gun wasting ammunition. Compared with the Japanese army's stubbornness not to equip submachine guns and other weapons, the Ming Empire was equipped with Type 32 submachine guns, so the ammunition consumption was also a lot more. Replenishment of ammunition is a major undertaking for any force, especially for those that are on a heavy offensive, and ammunition is a guarantee that their offensive will continue.

You must know that in real time and space, the reason why the US military during the Korean War was able to fight the classic defensive counterattack operations in the fourth and fifth times and beat the Chinese People's Volunteers from Seoul back to the vicinity of the 38th parallel is because the logistics supply of the volunteers is insufficient, and the scale of supply is understood by the US military.

It is precisely because of this that replenishing ammunition for the troops on the front line is the most basic and important means to maintain the combat effectiveness of the front-line soldiers in this high-intensity combat effectiveness. In order to cope with this complicated situation, the Ming Empire prepared a new fashionable equipment for mechanized infantry - armored vehicles.

Compared with the previous model of providing ammunition supply for the front line on the shoulder, the use of ammunition supply armored vehicles to deliver ammunition to front-line combat troops is safer and more efficient, which is more in line with the advantages of mechanized infantry.

The Ming Empire developed a special armored transporter for this purpose: the Iron Ox. The half-track design of this armored vehicle is not heavy, but it is effective against artillery fragments and stray bullets. The model that transports personnel adopts an open-top design, and the ammunition transports a fully enclosed transport compartment design, which is also the most direct appearance difference between the two types of armored transport vehicles.

Of course, another important difference is that the front part of the armored Iron Bull transporting personnel is equipped with an 8 mm Weiyuan 2 machine gun with a steel plate shield, while the Iron Bull transporting ammunition does not have such a self-defense machine gun because the top is sealed.

Under the cover of two Iron Ox armored personnel carriers, two Iron Bull ammunition transport armored vehicles came to a position relative to the front line, stopped in front of an abandoned Japanese pillbox, used the terrain to cover their figures, and then began to distribute ammunition here.

So in the trenches where the battle was raging, the Ming soldiers got the ammunition they had been waiting for for a long time: the machine gun shooters had new ammunition boxes, and the infantry couldn't wait to open the grenade boxes and divide all the grenades inside.

The submachine gunners stuffed the loaded magazines into the ammunition pouches hanging from their chests, which were almost empty, and the riflemen received the loose rifle cartridges and began to press them into the empty magazines. The command to charge came again, and the tank also bypassed some hidden terrain and re-entered the front of the Ming army, and the battle began again, and fierce gunfire rang out again.

But this time it didn't seem to have anything to do with Mo Dongshan, he carried his submachine gun, with a tired face and blood stains on his clothes, and walked on the dirty road back to the beachhead. His troops were ordered to rest, and their battle across the river had ended not long ago. (To be continued.) )