In fact, the defeat of the Japanese 20th Division in the Manpo area was actually just a normal and ordinary defeat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Ming army collided with the Japanese commander, Ichiro Ozawa, who was steady, in the frontal battle to break through the defense line of the Yalu River, and had to use great sacrifices to shake the elite 17th Division of the Japanese army, and also fought hard with the fierce 8th Division in the night battle in Weiyuan, so it can be shown that the Japanese army must be robots who are not afraid of death?

No, the Japanese troops were also in an uneven state, and this 20th Division, because of the lack of combat materials delivered in advance, could not really give full play to its combat effectiveness. When this division dispatched the main force to attack the Ming army, it was caught off guard by the counterattack of the Ming army, and then because there was not enough material preparation, it could not respond to the counterattack of the Ming army in time, and finally lost the vital Manpu.

Of course, the main culprit for this reason still has to start from the front-line counterattack strategy drawn up by the Japanese high-brass. In the counterattack strategy drawn up by General Miyamoto Arihito, the main forces of the second-line counterattack of the two armies of the 2nd Division and the 8th Division were concentrated, which was already a completely sufficient offensive force.

As a result, Miyamoto did not reserve enough reserves for a few front-line defense divisions in advance to counterattack - a flaw that manifested itself in the 17th Division, when Kazuhiro Ozawa did not have enough reserves to save his own line of defense that was on the verge of collapse.

In the same way, when this defect was reflected in the 20th Division, it was because they did not have the obligation to counterattack in the battle plan, so when the Japanese army was short of materials, they lost part of the division's munitions.

Then, when Miyamoto decided to let the 20th Division participate in the counterattack against the Ming army on the flank, the entire 20th Division could not come up with enough troops and enough materials to prepare for the attack on the Ming army.

This is the reason for the defeat of the Japanese 20th Division in the Manpu area, which is complicated to say but in fact the reason is very simple: the Japanese army's battle plan was destroyed by the Ming army, and when it was barely recovered, the pressure on each link increased sharply, which directly led to the collapse of the weakest link.

"Are you sure the Japanese have stopped attacking? That's great! Putting down the phone in his hand, Liu Zhijian, chief of staff of the 2nd Group Army, turned his head, looked at Yang Zizhen, the commander in front of him, who had put his mind at ease, and said with a smile: "Report to the commander!" News came from the command of the 2nd Infantry Corps that the Japanese troops attacking Weiyuan had stopped their attack...... It seems that the Japanese commanders also realized that after the loss of Manpu, Weiyuan was no longer significant. ”

Finally! Still did not lose the face of the commander...... In his heart, Yang Zizhen, who was already the commander of the 2nd Group Army, wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hand, but what he was thinking about in his heart was another man called the commander.

He looked at his chief of staff, cracked his mouth and laughed: "Let the main forces of the 2nd Panzer Army cross the river quickly...... Then they will disperse and recuperate, assemble again after 4 o'clock tomorrow morning, and after waiting for dawn, they will immediately begin to attack in the predetermined direction......"

With the No. 2 tank in his hand, which had proven to be powerful, Yang Zizhen was very confident that his troops would start attacking early tomorrow morning. You must know that what he is holding in his hand may be the prototype of the most terrifying three-dimensional attack system of this era. If this can't beat the Japanese Army, which is still in the trench warfare system, then it will be really too ugly.

As long as the Lei Gong 1 dive bomber can take off on time and continue to carry out the paralyzing effect of destroying important nodes of the Japanese army, then the ground forces of the Ming army, under the cover of the No. 2 tank, can directly break through the Japanese defense line and occupy Xichuan and other areas, it can really be said to be a breeze.

Thinking of this, Yang Zizhen ordered the entire army of the 2nd Armored Army to cross the river, and then asked the 52nd Infantry Corps in his hand to follow, and even issued a combat order to transfer the general headquarters of the group army to the other side of the Yalu River before breakfast tomorrow morning.

"After all, we can be considered the most useless idlers now...... Let the radio equipment cross the river first and prepare for ...... However, it is necessary to ensure that arms and other materials are transported to combat units in a timely manner. Looking at Lunanli and Manpu, who had been marked with the number of the Ming Army, Yang Zizhen felt that he should go and have a good night's sleep in the second half of the night.

The moment he walked out of the house, he remembered a 20-year-old young man, who fell asleep in the headquarters when a battle related to the fortune of the country to forcibly cross the Liao River began.

Compared with Wang Jue, he Yang Zizhen still has no way to be foolproof before the war, and he can even go to sleep with that confidence. On the other hand, he doesn't seem to have Wang Jue's calmness, at least he can't find a place to sleep before taking Manpu.

"What an enviable man." He walked out of his headquarters, looking at the starry sky that was obscured by gunsmoke, and a wry smile appeared on his face: he himself may have to live in the shadow left by this man for the rest of his life, even if the other party is far away, it is like a mountain, stored in his heart.

But just for a moment, he really laughed again, because he was very glad that such a man who made him fearful was not in the enemy's camp, but above the court of the Ming Empire. He looked at the deep sky in the distance, and said a heroic sentence in his heart: Who said that after the apocalypse, there are no virtuous talents?

He thought of himself again, and still had that vague smile on his face: he was also a virtuous person! At least in this magnificent era, he will leave a name of his own. At that time, he would proudly say that his name was Yang Zizhen, and he was the invincible Yang Zizhen!

Just an hour after Yang Zizhen returned to his lounge and slept in his clothes, in a hidden bunker in the defensive section downstream of the Yalu River defense line of the Ming Empire, a man who had just grown a beard opened his eyes, sat up from the simple bed, and then stretched and yawned.

The somewhat muscular man had slept under the sound of the artillery since the evening, and had not opened his eyes until two o'clock in the morning, when he put on his military uniform, pushed open the door of the bunker, and squinted at the sky as the guards saluted.

"It's a little early, it's better to be our commander." Zhang Jianjun, who was full of stubble, said so. This man has now changed his frizzy shortcomings, and his personality has become less talkative, but judging from the fact that he is still firmly sitting in his position as commander of the 1st Army, we know that he has made great progress in the past year or so.

He has always been proud of his position, even if he is as sophisticated as Yang Zizhen, even if he is as sophisticated as Sima Mingwei, and even if he is as shrewd as Wang Yan, he cannot take away the position of commander of the 1st Group Army from his hands, which is Zhang Jianjun's most proud achievement.

In this man's heart, guarding this first army group for the commander he admires the most is the most important thing in his life, even if he is given a squire of the military department and a book of real power, he is not willing to exchange.

"Water!" He instructed the orderly to fetch himself a basin of cold face water, and then soaked his face in the basin for a long time before he raised his head again, hastily wiped his face with the towel handed by the person next to him, and walked to his command bunker.

Passing soldiers stood and saluted, and the wide trench bunkers were reinforced with tree trunks, which looked quite rough on the battlefield. His adjutant and guards followed, and a group of people walked into the headquarters of the 1st Army.

"How's it going?" Walking to the table, grabbing the water cup placed on it, and after taking two sips of boiling water, Zhang Jianjun felt a cold air emanating from his stomach, which really woke up his body. So the commander asked his chief of staff, concisely and without a beginning or an end.

The chief of staff had cooperated with the commander, who had been a little impulsive, but now deliberately suppressed few words, and knew what his question was referring to, so he pointed to the stack of documents spread out on the map, and replied, "Ready." ”

Zhang Jianjun nodded with satisfaction, for him, this answer was enough, at least he used these four words to answer Wang Jue's question back then, so he was very cordial to these four words: "The 2nd Group Army has been making trouble all night, and it is estimated that there will be a result, right?" ”

"The news just came that Weiyuan, Gubaoli, Lunanli and Manpu have all been occupied by the 2nd Army." The chief of staff told Zhang Jianjun, who had just gotten up, the latest battle situation to Zhang Jianjun, who was stunned for a moment, then nodded, touched his beard and did not speak.

What he wanted was simple: to shake the flanks of the Japanese defense front and to destroy the enemy's determination to hold their positions before he began his own attack - since the 2nd Army had done it, there was no need to talk about anything more. He doesn't have the habit of taking advantage of his mouth, all he has to do is win.

"Have commanders at all levels check their supplies and ammunition, and the armored units confirm the fuel ...... You can go and see it for yourself on the side of the Zhouqiao troops. He glanced at the chief of staff and repeated an order to organize and prepare supplies. The more modern the army, the more dependent it is on logistical supplies, and the material and munitions that are confirmed to be replenished before the war are more important than anything else. (To be continued.) )