The first batch of Lei Gong 1 dive bombers of the Ming Empire to fly to the mountains of northern Korea did not find a target to attack, and the planes circled in the suspicious area for several minutes before they had to run out of fuel and return home. This is www.biquge.info main reason why the Japanese shelling came to an abrupt halt and then began without warning.

After the Ming Empire's planes left, the Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the cave bunkers launched their cannons and began to shell the defensive positions occupied by the Ming army according to the parameters.

The Japanese are good at digging holes, and when long-range suppressive firepower is at a disadvantage, the Japanese often like to use tunnel bunkers to offset the opponent's advantage. The rolling mountain areas of northern Korea did give the Japanese a good room to play, allowing them to calmly hide more than 200 main 150mm howitzers.

Most of these guns had caves as shelters, existed independently and stored a lot of ammunition, and they relied on pre-mapped coordinate parameters for shelling, and with little need to adjust and correct the trajectory, they were able to accurately hit the positions that originally belonged to the Japanese army.

Moreover, when these artillery pieces encounter air raids, they can be covered with camouflage nets, or quickly retreat into bunkers, which makes the Ming army very headache. The Lei Gong 1 bomber, which demonstrated its powerful attack power in the first round of attacks, greatly reduced its bombing effect when it aimed at the Japanese concealed artillery positions in the mountainous areas.

Fortunately for the front-line commanders of the Ming Empire, these Japanese artillery did not seem to have a good calibration observation fulcrum, and the shelling was completely bombarded according to the coordinates, which could only interfere with the Ming army, and could not accurately suppress the Ming army's river-crossing troops. If this were not the case, the vanguard of the Ming army, which might be on the beachhead, would have been even more miserable today.

To tell the truth, if the Japanese army had invested tank troops and elite infantry desperately counterattacked at this time, perhaps the current situation of the battle for the Yalu River defense line would have been completely different. The Japanese had every chance to push the Ming army back across the river, making this costly offensive a complete failure.

It is a pity that the second-line counterattack troops, which the Japanese front-line commanders have been looking forward to, are still delayed on the way because they are afraid that the Ming planes will stop from time to time to repair the road. The Ming army's delayed operations against the elite of the Japanese army on the second line were very successful, thanks to the geographical environment of the northern region of Korea, which was mountainous and had few roads.

It should be said that the mountainous nature of the northern part of Korea brought the Japanese army advantages such as concealed troops, and also provided convenient conditions for the Ming army to paralyze the enemy's transportation lines. Miyamoto and his opponents Zhang Jianjun and Yang Zizhen could only wait patiently, waiting for the decisive winner to enter the battle.

If Miyamoto could have put his second-line reserves into battle more quickly, then the Japanese army would have won the battle; At the same time, if the Ming Empire can take the lead in allowing its main forces to cross the river, expand its own ferry, and gain a firm foothold under the harassment of Japanese artillery, then the Ming Empire will be sure to win.

"The losses are too great! The 2nd Infantry Corps has already lost 17 tanks and 3 vehicles...... If this stalemate continues, the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division will be crippled here. "Yang Zizhen's staff officer, whose name is Liu Zhijian, has just received a loss report from a part of the 2nd Infantry Army, and he is taken aback by the losses of the Ming army.

Only until now, when the bridgehead position on the opposite bank has not been completely stabilized, the Ming army has paid a heavy price of 2,000 killed and about 700 wounded. What is even more worrying is that the loss of more than a dozen tanks did not allow the troops of the Ming Empire to effectively expand their occupied areas, and the battle is still in a state of stalemate.

"The Japanese army deployed a lot of 50 mm caliber flat-firing guns on the positions, these cannons are specially designed to fight our tanks, which can easily destroy the No. 1 improved tank at a distance of 500 meters, and the low profile is very easy to hide." Liu Zhijian looked at the report sent from the front line and said to Yang Zizhen word by word.

The emergence of the tank unit of the Ming army promoted the development of weapons and equipment throughout the Ming Empire and the world. While countries are rushing to develop new tanks, they are also equipping their infantry with new anti-tank weapons. The Japanese were one of the most active countries in this regard, after all, their national strength did not allow them to equip too many tanks to compete with the numerical superiority of the Ming army's armored forces.

Therefore, the Japanese army pinned its hopes on many scattered small aspects, such as the defensive line deployed by the terrain, as well as advanced aircraft and infantry anti-tank capabilities. Among them, the Japanese Army has placed great hopes on the project of providing infantry with a certain degree of anti-tank capability.

The Japanese whimsically invented an anti-tank weapon called a grenadier canister, firing 50 mm grenades to enhance infantry suppressive firepower, and at the same time developing anti-tank mines and other weapons as a supplement. One of the most important of these weapons was the 50 mm anti-tank gun, which was developed jointly with Ceylon.

This low-profile anti-tank gun can be described as very powerful, penetrating and undetectable, and can be deployed inside permanent fortifications or used as a mobile weapon - because it was specially developed, it was almost born to restrain the No. 1 tank of the Ming Empire.

The Japanese army purchased 500 anti-tank guns of this type, and 150 guns of this type were densely deployed on the defense line of the Yalu River alone. This terrible weapon did cause considerable trouble for the Ming tanks, and after losing 17 tanks, the Ming army was still pinned down by the Japanese near the river.

"I don't care how big the losses are, let the commander of the 2nd Army figure it out for himself! If he can't double the area of the position he occupies in two hours, I'll find someone to take his command! Yang Zizhen didn't want to fight with the Japanese army in this kind of place, but he was ready to attack first and detour to Xichuan, how could he be willing to waste precious time in this kind of place.

"The more tenacious the Japanese army is, the more it proves that they have invested a lot of troops on Zhang Jianjun's side...... If I take the lead in opening the gap here, then we can force more Japanese troops to retreat into Xuanchuan and Dingzhou and other places......" Yang Zizhen looked at the map and said unwillingly: "If an encirclement is formed, Korea will be in my hands." ”

"But the General! If we continue to attack, the second-line troops of the Japanese army are likely to pounce on us and inflict greater losses on our troops. Liu Zhijian frowned and said persuasively: "If we can't make progress within 15 hours, we should consider taking the initiative to abandon the beachhead." ”

In other words, if more Japanese positions could not be seized before nightfall today, and the harassment of Japanese artillery and counterattacks could be freed, then the Ming army should have given up the attack and withdrawn from the battle early the next morning at the latest. After all, if the main force of the Japanese army had arrived, the battle would not have been what it is today.

"Regardless of the losses! Let the infantry of the 12th Army begin to cross the river! Even if you use people, you will also pile down the positions of the Japanese for me! After Yang Zizhen made up his mind, he gritted his teeth and ordered Liu Zhijian: "I will let the Japanese return the losses we suffered here today!" ”

"Let the 19th Bomber Group's Long Knife 21 Squad and Long Knife 22 Squad continue to obstruct the assembly and advance of the Japanese second-line troops. Let the 20th Bomber Group's Long Knife 17 Squad and Long Knife 19 Squad focus on patrolling the nearby mountains and find the Japanese artillery positions as much as possible! There was no way, Yang Zizhen had to use this method to reduce the impact of Japanese artillery on the battle for the bridgehead position as much as possible.

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On the front line, Mo Dongshan's soldiers had already lost 5 people, and he did not receive an order to retreat, but only saw the follow-up troops by his side, and then led them, who had almost lost their formation, to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese position.

Tanks became less indestructible, and Japanese artillery often destroyed Ming tanks, so the Ming soldiers who attacked behind the tanks had to be more careful, and the efficiency of the attack became very low.

"Check the ammunition! Check the ammo! Everyone is ready to attack! Confirm your weapons, keep up with the tanks, and move on! A signal soldier whispered a warning as he hunched over each soldier. He was instructed to inform his troops to launch another attack, and this time the Ming army, like the Japanese troops opposite, had become numb to the increasing losses.

Mo Dongshan unloaded the magazine on his submachine gun, carefully checked the ammunition inside, and then reinserted the magazine back into the submachine gun and pulled the bolt. He had an armed belt made of leather on his chest, on which hung a row of ammunition bags full of magazines.

He fastened the steel helmet under his feet to the top of his head, and then squinted his eyes against the cover to look at his comrades who were checking their weapons in the distance. These were his soldiers, but unfortunately they were only half of what they were before the start of the war, and before he had time to feel anything, he saw the armored troops cross the trenches and rush to the Japanese defensive positions.

"Attack!" Mo Dongshan let out a loud roar, wiped his face blackened by black smoke with his hand, and then jumped out of the trench behind a tank. Every trench had to be fought over and over again, and these Japanese people from the four islands of Japan were tenacious and fierce, and they were definitely worthy of respect.

The battlefield was once again lively with ammunition flying everywhere, tracer bullets that changed angles against the armor of the tank, and the brief calm of the shelling was broken by a new round of killing. The battle kicked off again, and Mo Dongshan and thousands of Ming soldiers once again rushed to the opponent's position. (To be continued.) )