Zhang Jianjun stood in the wind and snow, and the bad weather made him have to stop his progress. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And he could only watch the Japanese troops on the opposite side strengthen their defensive positions, which made him very irritable.

However, after the Navy sent supplies to a full 17 supply ships, the current situation of his 1st Army was radically improved.

First of all, the food supply of the troops was replenished, which allowed him to take advantage of the heavy snow to appease the soldiers who had been fighting for almost a week.

At the same time, the roads that had become muddy due to rain and snow, those vehicles that kept transporting various supplies were also relieved.

The transportation pressure that had originally accumulated on these carriages, ox carts, and even bicycles was suddenly transferred to the Ming Empire's many transport fleets.

The success of the first transportation seemed to break the spell, and suddenly let the navy of the Ming Empire let go of its hands and feet. Although the main fleet did not dare to go to sea for cruises, the number of cruisers and transport ships escorting the escort suddenly increased.

That night, the 22 transport ships of the Ming Empire successfully delivered the supplies to the floating dock with only three destroyers escorting them.

This completely alleviated the shortage of supplies for the Ming army, and even some transport ships were loaded with thousands of large-caliber howitzer shells.

The 1st Army received a large amount of supplies, which meant that the supplies on the road could be concentrated more northward and transferred to the hands of the 2nd Army.

In this way, between entering and exiting, it was not only the 1st Army that got the benefits, but the front-line troops of the entire Ming Empire, and the situation of supplies and materials was improved.

So, on the second day, the Japanese rushed to the front line with another I-1 submarine, joined the Japanese submarine No. 108, and launched an attack on the Ming escort fleet.

As a result, this attack did not achieve the expected effect, because the distance was too long and the preparation was very hasty, so the 6 torpedoes fired by the Japanese only sank a peripheral freighter loaded with grain, and did not cause more damage.

And for the bearing capacity of the Ming Empire, the loss of a transport ship is almost negligible. In contrast, the total number of ships that arrived at the temporary loading and unloading dock of the Ming Empire on the same day exceeded 48, and the number of things transported was unimaginable.

The transport ships of the Ming Empire were concentrated to do surprise transportation on the route from the Shandong Peninsula to the Korean Peninsula, and the capacity was very amazing.

The next day, after the real combat power of the Japanese submarine force was revealed, before the Japanese realized how terrible this route was, the Ming Empire turned the entire sea area into a noisy street.

Hundreds of transport ships transported goods back and forth, and countless supplies were delivered to the front-line soldiers on the same day, not only replenishing the deficit of various materials on the front, but also slightly reserving some surpluses.

This means that during the time the heavy snow lasts, the Ming troops on the front line will have a better life than the Japanese defenders, and they will have more ammunition reserves.

If it weren't for the constraints of the temporary wharf, if the troops of the Ming Empire had occupied Nanpu at this moment, the goods that might have arrived would have been so much that the commanders of the Japanese Empire would have despaired.

After watching the Ming Empire transport supplies for two whole days, the Japanese Navy finally realized the seriousness of the matter, and they sent all the submarines they could send out, hoping to achieve more amazing results on the transportation routes of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, on the fourth day, the cold weather improved, the intermittent light snow had gradually stopped, and the transport fleet of the Ming Dynasty finally suffered a small loss.

On December 17, the Ming fleet was attacked by Japanese submarines and sank three transport ships and one destroyer, but these ships were sunk on the way back, and the damage was not huge.

However, because the Japanese submarines sailed en masse, resulting in the absence of the next day's safari operation, on December 18, the transport ships of the Ming Empire did not lose and continued to transport medicines and supplementary weapons and equipment to the front line.

40 newly produced No. 2 tanks were sent to the Korean Peninsula, as well as 70 engines for armored forces, as well as related transmission parts.

From December 11th to December 17th, the overcast sky finally began to clear, and the good weather that the Japanese Empire had prayed for finally came to an end.

This also marked the resumption of the Ming Empire's offensive. However, on the 17th, the two sides still did not carry out any large-scale attacks on each other, and most of the time they were scouting and testing each other.

The Japanese hoped that they could find the main direction of the Ming army's attack, while the 1st Army under the command of Zhang Jianjun hoped to test the weakness of the Japanese army's defense.

The continuous silence on the frontal battlefield did not affect the entanglement between the 2nd Army of the Ming Empire and the 5th Army of the Japanese on the flank.

After the devastation of heavy snow, the Japanese 5th Army collapsed, except for a small number of troops who were unwilling to fail and burrowed back into the ravine to fight guerrilla attacks with the Ming Dynasty army, a large number of Japanese troops froze to death in the field.

More soldiers chose to surrender as a more rational act, surrendering their weapons and becoming prisoners of war for the Ming army.

About 50,000 Japanese soldiers surrendered, and more than 20,000 froze to death in the field, and such combat attrition tortured the entire commander of the Japanese 5th Army.

After these commanders gave the order to surrender, most chose to commit suicide, and a few left with their troops to continue guerrilla warfare.

Of course, it turned out later that these Japanese stragglers who chose to fight guerrillas did cause a lot of trouble to the logistics supply of the 2nd Group of the Ming Empire, which made Yang Zizhen suffer for a long time.

The losses inflicted by these guerrillas on the Ming army even exceeded the combined losses of the 17th Division, the 8th Division, and the 5th Division, which were completely annihilated by the entire army -- an absolutely unexpected battle situation.

On the other hand, most of the soldiers of the Japanese 5th Army who surrendered had not eaten for several days, and most of their weapons had no ammunition, so they had little combat capability at all.

On the one hand, it was because they pooled their ammunition and distributed it to the troops who wanted to continue fighting, and on the other hand, it also fully illustrated how embarrassed these troops were to flee at that time.

In the end, the Ming Imperial Army, which had been steadily resupplied, eliminated the Japanese 5th Army on December 17...... However, the actual elimination of this force will have to wait until the end of next year.

But this is at least a good start, a good start to everyone's satisfaction. (To be continued.) )