The Japanese were equally frightened by what they saw, where had they ever seen an air force of this size? Although the air force of that year was able to dispatch hundreds of planes to fly over the enemy's heads in one go, how can those planes compare with these all-metal mass killers now?

Two years ago, the Air Force at that time was missing a very important thing compared to now, and that thing was called "dominance." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Yes, dominance, the feeling of being high above everything on the ground from the clouds, the feeling of a real eagle skimming over its territory.

Human beings long to fly into the sky, eager to enjoy the freedom of flying like birds, but when people are really on the white clouds, they find that they have overlooked one of the most important things - the same fly, how can sparrows speak the same day as goshawks?

Therefore, after seeing the scene of the Lei Gong 1 dive bomber tumbling down from the clouds with a whistling sound and smashing heavy bombs on their heads, the Japanese soldiers were afraid of the Ming Empire planes that would make a scream of tearing air currents when they dived.

Fear is sometimes just fear, for example, people will be afraid of a tiger, which is an instinctive fear of the powerful and the dangerous. But if a person sees hundreds of tigers passing by him, his fear is sublimated and becomes something called "despair".

"Oh my God! Where is this the power that man can resist. A few minutes ago, Ozawa Kazuhiro had been fantasizing that he would be able to resist the attack of the Ming troops, but when he was pulled out of the bunker by the staff officer and saw the Ming planes flying densely over the position overhead, he muttered something in a low voice.

At this moment, the Japanese soldiers who sighed like him can be described as countless. Because of the large number of planes passing overhead, the remaining Japanese artillery did not even dare to open fire, and the artillery bombardment that harassed the Ming army's river-crossing troops reluctantly stopped.

Japan's domestic industrial capacity simply cannot compete with the Ming Empire, even if the whole people tighten their belts and save money, the established industrial system is still too far behind in terms of actual production capacity. Therefore, Japan's military industry has always been able to develop lamely, and this is the helplessness that a small country must admit when facing a big country.

Because of this, Japanese military production can only concentrate the productive forces in some important links, forming a pseudo-suppression of the Ming Empire. For example, the Japanese army has always used the strengthening of the navy to close the power gap with the Ming Empire, and when the battle of Liaodong ended, the arms race spread to the land, and the Japanese army had to turn to the development of a strengthened and cheaper air force.

The Air Force uses less steel and other raw materials, relies more on emerging science and technology, and meets the basic requirements of the Japanese army for less investment and quick results, so the Shenlong 1 fighter has become the secret weapon of the Japanese army. It is precisely because of the lack of resources of the Japanese army that it can only bet on the Shenlong 1 fighter, so Japan can move more steel and manufacture more Type 91 anti-tank guns.

Although the Shenlong 1 fighter did not perform well in air combat, the Type 91 anti-tank gun really caused a lot of trouble to the Ming Empire and was unanimously recognized by the officers and soldiers of the Japanese front. The Japanese defense line of the Yalu River has not collapsed under the crushing of the armored forces of the Ming Empire, and it can be said that the Type 91 anti-tank gun has contributed a lot.

There are advantages and disadvantages to things, because the Japanese army concentrated resources on the production of Shenlong fighters and Type 91 anti-tank guns, so these two weapons can barely fight with the Ming Empire in terms of quantity, and it is precisely because the resources are inclined to these weapons, so if one of these weapons goes wrong, it will break out with a fatal weakness.

For example, now, the Shenlong 1 fighter did not show a qualitative advantage in the air battle with the Ming Empire's Broken Air 2 fighter, and could not compete in quantity, so the Japanese army lost its air supremacy within a day after the battle began. It was precisely because of the loss of air supremacy that the Japanese suddenly discovered that they seemed to lack a qualified anti-aircraft weapon to limit the air force of the Ming Empire.

The Type 91 infantry anti-tank gun with a 50 mm caliber used the design of an anti-aircraft gun because of the pursuit of a high muzzle velocity of the projectile, and also used the manufacturing process of the barrel of the anti-aircraft gun -- Ceylon, which has a relatively strong industrial system, opened a new production line, while poor Japan could only occupy its own anti-aircraft gun production line.

As a result, in the past year, a year of great development of the world's air force, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery units have hardly added any decent new equipment, and they are simply unable to adapt to fighting the new Ming Imperial Air Force. This is also the most direct reason why, when the planes of the Ming Empire bombed the Japanese troops, the Japanese ground anti-aircraft fire pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Compared with the anti-aircraft artillery units of the Ming Empire, the current equipment of the Japanese counterparts can only be described in two words: the Ming army was equipped with rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns of 20 mm and 30 mm caliber, medium anti-aircraft guns of 50 mm and 75 mm caliber, and heavy anti-aircraft guns of 100 mm caliber were also deployed near fixed key areas.

On the outskirts of the Ming Empire's Jingshi, the wealthy Ming Empire also deployed the world's only 150 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns for Gongwei Gyeonggi, and 110 guns were arranged. These super anti-aircraft weapons are installed in the reinforced concrete concealed fortifications on the outskirts of the Beijing Division, and most of them can even be retracted into underground fortifications for standby.

Today's Japanese troops are still only equipped with a small number of 75 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns, and the largest number of 20 mm rapid-fire guns are all Type 75 produced in the early years...... According to Japan's unique chronology, the production of these Type 75 20 mm anti-aircraft guns was finalized in 1815, 17 years ago.

It has to be mentioned that these poor Japanese anti-aircraft artillery units were very heroic in the face of the first bombardment of the Ming army, they opened fire fiercely at the sky, only to find themselves quickly killed by the Ming dive bombers. Within 5 hours, the Japanese lost almost 100 anti-aircraft guns of various types, and the rest did not dare to fire back at all.

"Order the troops to hold their ground! Don't take a step back! Ozawa Kazuhiro was relieved to see the planes flying farther and farther, and he gave the order to continue to hold the defensive position, and then returned to his command bunker without saying a word. At this time, the artillery of the Ming Empire roared again, and dozens of shells once again patronized the Japanese position, leaving a cloud of rising black smoke on it.

"Get on the bayonet! Get ready for battle! More and more Japanese positions, such shouts began to sound, after all, the Ming army's attack became more and more fierce under the cover of tanks, and with the distance of the breakthrough, more and more Japanese defense lines became the front-line theater facing the Ming army.

If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army had some skills in civil engineering, perhaps the Japanese army would have lost more positions and lost more completely. Because the Japanese army dug a lot of tunnels on the main position, and the soldiers could support many defensive line fulcrums along the tunnels, the artillery fire of the Ming army did not hinder the movement of the main Japanese army.

Although the surface position of the Japanese Yalu River defense line is now in disarray, the Japanese army still stubbornly delays the Ming Empire's expansion of its beachhead by virtue of the solid annular defense fulcrum and those solid concrete defense lines. Every trench and every trench they fought with the Ming Empire repeatedly, making the Ming army pay a heavy price for every step forward.

To the surprise of the Ming soldiers, although the weapons and equipment of these Japanese troops and the rebels in Liaodong were not much different, their combat effectiveness was completely different. Although bolt rifles were also used, and infantry artillery was also the mainstay, the Ming army on the Liaohe defense line descended in one day, but the Yalu River defense line was stalemate until the afternoon, and there was still no winner or loser.

Some of the elite veterans of the Japanese army trained very hard, shot accurately and calmly, and these soldiers would rather die in battle than surrender, creating countless troubles for the Ming soldiers. Unlike the Liaodong rebels, the Japanese army was also very flexible in tactics, and performed well in counterattacking and holding on to existing defensive positions, as evidenced by the sharp rise in casualties of the Ming army.

However, the battle has reached this time, and the Japanese soldiers are a little unable to hold on. Although they caused countless troubles to the Ming army, after all, it was just trouble -- the Ming army continued to invest new combat units, and the Japanese 17th Division finally could not withstand the pressure and began to show a tendency to collapse.

Although the 17th Division of the Japanese Army had more than 22,000 troops, which was considered one of the main divisions of the Japanese army, after a whole day of hard fighting, the loss of troops had exceeded 3,000 men.

On the other hand, the 2nd Infantry Corps of the Ming Empire put into battle, at this moment, most of the offensive and defensive tasks have been transferred to the 12th Infantry Corps, although the losses are huge, but most of them have been out of the front-line combat area, and they can be well rested and replenished.

If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army had hoarded more arms than the normal reserves of the divisions on the front line, the current Japanese 17th Division would have run out of ammunition and lost its combat capability, but even if there was ammunition now, division commander Kazuhiro Ozawa was still convinced that his division would not be able to withstand the attack of the Ming army.

Walking to the telephone, grabbing the receiver and pressing it to his ear, he once again wanted to call General Miyamoto Yuhito: "Your Excellency, Commander...... Our 17th Division was being attacked by several times the enemy, and a few minutes ago, all the first-line defensive positions had been lost, and I requested your Excellency the commander to rush for reinforcements. (To be continued.) )