Fan Ming's armored car was moving slowly on the cold road, and in front of his armored car, the No. 2 tank of the Ming Empire was connected one after another. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the battle for Jiechuan, his armored battalion became the unit of the Ming Empire with the heaviest losses, so this time in the battle of Shunchuan, his troops did not take on any tasks.

Fan Ming's troops have been very comfortable in the past two days, with hundreds of tanks and tens of thousands of soldiers behind them, covering ammunition and other supplies.

This is the best reward for soldiers who fight bravely, and it is also the reward that soldiers on the front line most desire - they do not have to go to the front line to fight, and rest in the relative safety of the rear.

One after another, the carriages were moving along the road, and because of the speed, Fan Ming's armored car did not overtake these rushing carriages.

The team would not stop until it reached the camp in front, and Fan Ming's troops would have to rest there for three days before participating in the ensuing battle.

Because of the Battle of Jiechuan, the Japanese armored forces have basically been defeated, so the armored forces of the Ming Empire have also been given a lot of time to rest.

Fan Ming's armored battalion has been resting near Jiechuan for 3 days, and this time it was because of covering this unit that he rushed to the front line and continued to take his vacation.

Although a large number of cars and tanks have been deployed, the degree of mechanization of the Ming Empire is not as high as imagined.

A large number of war horses and carriages were flooded with them, responsible for transporting many infantry and second-line troops of supplies and ammunition. These big cars are more than cars and tanks, and they can be said to be the bloodline of the front-line army of the Ming Empire.

"Rest! Rest! In the convoy of carriages, an officer on a war horse shouted loudly in the cold north wind.

Then these horses, which were also spewing hot air from their nostrils, were no longer whipped by the leather whip and stopped on the road to rest. Fan Ming's tank unit also stopped a minute later, leaned on the side of the road and watched the endless convoy at either end, and began to prepare lunch.

They were already lucky, because on both sides of the road, the infantry under the command of the 1st Army was walking on the ridges on both sides of the road in the cold wind.

Because the snow had stopped, the ground here had been frozen hard, and the infantry staggered forward with their weapons on their backs.

Dressed in heavy overcoats and rough clothing, they marched forward with difficulty, and most of the time left for the infantry in this war was an endless rush compared to the invincible armored troops......

Yes, hurry, carry your weapons on your back, and keep moving forward. Before they could reach the real front line, the front line was already being pushed by the armored forces and the air force and moved farther away.

These soldiers can only keep moving forward until they encounter an enemy who has been left behind by armored forces, or an enemy who has been surrounded and fragmented, and then they will fight a few easy battles of annihilation.

However, if you ask them if they are willing to return to the previous state of war, they will certainly not, and they would rather be so bored and hurry, carrying heavy loads like livestock.

After all, the infantry battled before, and it was a dead man! And not one or two died like that, but ten thousand, twenty thousand people died like that.

Tens of thousands of people die every day, and compared with such a boring rush, it is obvious that the boring rush is more popular with the soldiers.

Even if it seems hard and uninteresting, it's much better than sending them to death. Therefore, many soldiers looked at Fan Ming's unit with envy, and passed by these cold steel monsters with a look of respect.

The cold weather made the steel armor on the tank cold, but the temperature inside the tank was much higher than outside.

Most of the tank crews wore only sweaters to cope with the cold weather in front of them, which was much more relaxed than the bulky infantry who wore as fat bears.

On the contrary, the officers of the battalion headquarters, because they had to ride in the "open-top" Iron Ox armored car, put on heavy overcoats and looked like bears like the infantrymen.

"Battalion commander, have something to eat?" Next to the Iron Bull armored car, the men who had already lit a bonfire had already heated the cans, and a soldier held the steaming open cans above his head and handed them to Fan Ming on the armored car.

Fan Ming took the can, stirred it twice with a spoon, and began to eat. The hot potatoes flowed into the stomach, and immediately brought life to the cold body.

"Wow! Enjoyable! He groaned, then gobbled up another bite, squinting at the logistics troops in the distance who were also gathered to eat.

Now, the time to eat may be the most depressed time for the infantry students on both sides, because their food is not a little worse than that of the logistics troops and armored troops.

Armored units have a fixed ration of canned food and vegetables, and in most cases are even given priority in supplies. And the infantry did not have this treatment, they did not have much to enjoy.

Most of the supplies for the large infantry were dry rations and pickles, which were easy to transport and inexpensive. Although it was mandatory to eat fresh vegetables twice a week, this rule was useless in a state of war.

Most troops lose supplies or miss supplies because they are in a hurry or for some other reason - sometimes they can only eat once a week, or the only vegetable meal they have will find an excuse to replace it with canned food.

Therefore, when the armored troops and the logistics troops were feasting, the infantry who were rushing could only pinch dry food and dried pickles and swallow saliva......

As the saying goes, people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away...... If these big-headed soldiers on the front line saw the food of the navy and the air force, they might all become jealous characters.

Because the Navy and Air Force enjoyed a higher diet, both branches of the armed forces were entitled to fresh food unless there was an attack mission - and meat was eaten twice a week, which was expressly ......

"I heard that the Japanese army in Anzhou is still resisting?" Fan Ming swallowed the essence of the can, felt the warmth of his body, and while eating the remaining soup and water, he asked the officer of the logistics unit not far from the car.

The officer was also gobbling up, and when he heard Fan Ming, who had been familiar with him along the way, ask him, he said with a smile: "Well, when we set off, there was still a fight over there." ”

"I heard that the fight was quite miserable, and the dead in Japan were stacked high in the alleys and alleys!" The officer took another bite and described the battle situation in Anzhou in this way. (To be continued.) )