The improved version of the No. 1 tank is already considered an old equipment that needs to be eliminated in the armored forces of the Ming Empire. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe Ming Empire was armed with about 1,100 of these obsolete tanks, most of which were distributed to mechanized infantry divisions for use as equipment to cover infantry.

The improved tank No. 1 that crossed the river belonged to the mechanized infantry division of the 2nd Infantry Corps of the 2nd Army, which was armed with about 40 tanks and was a tank battalion in its armored regiment. Another battalion of the regiment is equipped with 40 new armored vehicles, which can carry eight soldiers in an open structure.

An armored regiment like this must have at least one in the basic requirements of the mechanized division of the Ming Empire. However, due to the equipment, some armored regiments are equipped with improved tank No. 1, some are equipped with more advanced assault guns No. 1, and some units are equipped with older ordinary tank No. 1.

Because the Ming Empire has expanded its army too fast in the past year, or mainly because the equipment has been updated too quickly, so there are several generations of products in service at the same time.

As a result, there was a situation in which a variety of weapons were mixed and was very unfavorable to logistical supply -- the logistics troops of the Ming Empire also discovered this kind of problem, so in the following army reconstruction, the front-line combat units were required to achieve as much unity as possible in the establishment of troops at the army level.

While tracer bullets were still flying everywhere on the riverbank, the No. 1 improved tank quickly drove to the position where it was needed with its own tracks, and the Japanese soldiers attacked the Ming tank with small arms, but only left a shallow crater on its body.

As time passed, the situation became very clear, and the second and third tanks of the Ming Empire crossed the Yalu River one after another, and soon these tanks had calmly established a solid bridgehead. It was not that the Japanese did not try to counterattack the forces of the Ming Empire, but after losing hundreds of soldiers, they abandoned this unrealistic attempt.

The 20 mm caliber machine gun combined with the light and heavy machine guns of the Ming army formed an impermeable firepower network, so that any attempt by the Japanese army could only be lost. The Ming army unhurriedly expanded its beachhead, covering the sappers behind it to build more pontoon bridges, so that their main forces could cross the river as soon as possible.

You must know that the 2nd Army still has two armored divisions waiting to participate on the other side of the Yalu River, and if these elite units equipped with No. 2 tanks cross the Yalu River, the Ming commanders on the front line can say that this battle of crossing the river will be a sure victory.

"What? You repeat? The bombers of the Ming army attacked the positions of our troops? Are they crossing the river? In position 177? Miyamoto held the phone and heard the report of the front-line commander. Fortunately, because the Japanese army did not integrate the communication system very well, many telephone lines were directly connected to the front line, although some of the telephone lines were destroyed by the Ming army's Lei Gong 1 dive bombers, but some of them could still talk.

Miyamoto got the news of the Ming army's crossing of the river as soon as possible, and he also issued a combat order for a counterattack. It is a pity that although there are a lot of troops deployed by the Japanese army on the front line, there are not many elites, and under the repeated assaults of the Ming army, they can only resist passively now, and they have long lost the mind to counterattack and regain their positions.

On the other hand, the Japanese Type 91 tank unit and more elite infantry are still on the second-line road, and they simply cannot rush to the area where the battle broke out and give more support to friendly forces.

"It seems that we can't launch a pre-attack according to the plan, let the second-line artillery unit carry out the 'Broken Jade Plan'!" Miyamoto Yuren saw that his defense plan had fallen into passivity because of the superior air force of the Ming army, so he could only take out a part of the counterattack force first and put it into the battlefield in batches.

He must comfort the Japanese troops on the front-line defensive positions as soon as possible, if the Ming army is allowed to continue to be so unscrupulously arrogant, it is estimated that it will not be long before the entire Japanese defense line will be shaken. It really came to that point, and the defense line of the Yalu River, which Miyamoto had painstakingly managed, collapsed before it could exert one-third of its due power.

This is obviously not a situation that Miyamoto Yuren wants to see, so even if he can't achieve the maximum results expected by investing artillery now, he has to give the Ming army a feast of artillery fire that he has carefully prepared.

About 10 kilometers away from the front line, the Japanese heavy artillery units equipped with a large number of 150 mm howitzers began to move.

Although the Japanese army was not able to completely turn the mountainous areas of northern Korea into bunkers, they also made maximum use of them, and countless single caves became camouflage and hidden fortifications with small engineering volume but obvious effect. It was simply impossible for the Ming army to bombard these mountainous areas with artillery fire, and in terms of shooting accuracy, this was a complete waste of ammunition.

However, the Japanese army was not, they had been well surveyed, had a complete map of the first-line defensive positions, could easily set the bombardment coordinates in advance, and could dump shells onto the positions occupied by the Ming army with almost no aiming.

Soon, more artillery deployed by the Japanese army on the second line began to bombard the original Japanese defensive positions. Miyamoto Yuhito was not a well-known master of Japanese defense, he did not pile up artillery on the 1st line and fight the artillery of the Ming Empire, but reserved artillery farther away and aimed at his own positions.

"Boom!" Ten Japanese 150 mm howitzers aimed at defensive position 177 began the attack, and the Japanese soldiers enthusiastically transported the shells one by one to the side of the cannons, and then the loaders stuffed the shells into the chambers of the cannons, and someone else advanced and fired the charge.

With the order, these well-trained elite artillerymen fired one shell after another at the banks of the Yalu River at the fastest speed they could, their positions were relatively safe, and the ammunition was quite sufficient because of the advance allocation of reserves.

"Uh......h Rumble! "The Ming army was hurrying to cross the river, and Mo Dongshan finally rested in a trench for a few minutes, he found his men, and his troops recovered from three people to the level of more than ten people. Everyone was smoking because of the rotation, and they were glad that they had survived the cruel battlefield.

Before they could pull out the cigarette between their fingers, a cannonball landed abruptly not far from them. The huge explosion kicked up a cloud of black dirt, leaving everyone hiding in the trenches in an instant with a shattered face.

"Phew! Bah! Take cover! Mo Dongshan spit out the dust that poured into his mouth, and loudly reminded his subordinates to hide their bodies quickly, and before he could extinguish the cigarette at hand, the second shell fell in the distance. There were already a lot of soldiers from the Ming Empire gathered on the battlefield, and a cannonball fell in the crowd, taking dozens of lives in an instant.

"Shelling! Damn it! Didn't you knock out all the Japanese artillery just now? What's going on? Mo Dongshan leaned on the edge of the trench, listened to the sound of shells falling on the position and exploding, and scolded. He saw with his own eyes that in the distance, an infantry company that had just crossed the river was blown down by a single shell, and almost a dozen soldiers were knocked down.

He didn't know exactly how many had died, because after a shell fell, there was no one standing there - after all, there were not many warriors who had not fallen down after being shelled, at least there was no such fool in that infantry company.

However, Mo Dongshan still heard the sound of shouting for medical guards, as well as the screams of soldiers wounded by shrapnel. The density of the Japanese artillery bombardment was not as terrible as that of the Ming army, after all, there were not many Japanese artillery for the positions in this vicinity, only a dozen of them.

Although only a dozen shells fell, the Ming soldiers on the beachhead still felt the deep malice of the Japanese army. The 150 mm howitzer was quite powerful, and the losses brought by a round of shelling to the Ming army were also extraordinary, of course, before the Ming army counted its losses, the second round of shelling came to this defensive position that the Ming army had just occupied.

"I'm X! They have coordinates! The Japanese have long been ready to shell their positions! Mo Dongshan knocked off the dirt on his steel helmet and shouted to the soldiers in front of him: "Everyone continue to hide!" You still have you! Follow the signal corps to the company headquarters! Tell the company commander that the Japanese army had mapped the coordinates of their positions and that they were shelling us with parameters! ”

On the other side of the river, this round of Japanese shelling also aroused the vigilance of the surveyors in the artillery observation post. An artillery officer removed his eyes from the artillery mirror and shouted to his subordinates: "This is a 150 mm howitzer!" Presumably a Japanese Type 82 howitzer! At least ten! ”

"Can our 200mm guns hit?" Writing a few parameters on the paper in front of him, the surveyor compared the map in front of him, and asked his commander with his hand on the phone: "If it doesn't work, we will report to the army headquarters and ask for a big guy with a caliber of more than 300 mm." ”

"We want detailed coordinate parameters, if we extend the shooting, won't we all hit the ravine?" The officer frowned and said this, and then stretched out his hand and pointed to the telephone: "Call the artillery headquarters and ask Staff Officer Jiang to contact the Air Force, we need aerial reconnaissance and provide the exact shelling parameters!" Hurry up, the people on the ground over there don't want to wait too long! (To be continued.) )