When Fan Ming gave the order to retreat, he didn't expect that the situation would evolve into the current state. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

His 1st Company was retreating, while 2nd Company was firing to cover his allies, and 3rd Company was in full swing and had continued to form a frontal defensive position with 2nd Company.

One after another, the tanks opened fire, destroying one Japanese Type 91 tank after another.

However, unexpectedly, the retreat of Japanese tanks did not come, but more Japanese tanks and infantry joined the attack sequence.

It takes a lot of courage to poke your head out of the compartment of the armored car and do so in the midst of a hail of bullets.

Fan Ming happened to have this kind of courage, he poked his head out, and then glanced at the more ferocious attacking Japanese army.

"It's really a shame, did they misunderstand something?" He retracted his head, stared at one of his men at the back of the carriage, and asked.

The subordinate was contacting the tanks of the 1st Company to keep them in line as long as possible: "Battalion commander, I think they are trying to break through us. ”

Of course, the Japanese army was trying to break through the defense line of the Ming Empire's army, and they were not only trying to break through this defense line, but even thinking of a counterattack.

"Of course they want to break through us, and they even think they can make us surrender and capture some of our tanks back!" Fan Ming leaned on the side steel plate of the armored car and said to his subordinates with a smile.

As he spoke, a bullet from nowhere hit the edge of the steel plate above his head, splashing a spark.

The crisp sound of this "ding" made Fan Ming involuntarily shrink his neck.

"Boom!" Before Fan Ming could complain, in the distance, on the position of the 1st Company, another No. 2 tank was destroyed by Japanese shells.

The huge explosion flew the parts on the tank, turning the screws and fragments on it into anti-personnel fragments, until it flew near the armored vehicle where Fan Ming was located, and then fell to the ground.

"The commander of the 1st company called the battalion headquarters! Battalion commander! Battalion commander! Car No. 4 was wrecked! We lost the second tank! On the radio, the commander of the 1st Company shouted frantically.

This is the battlefield, a battlefield where someone can be killed at any moment. Even if the tanks of the Ming army were more advanced than those of the Japanese army, they would still be destroyed and lost here.

In fact, at the time of the Battle of the Yalu River, the No. 2 tank had already been destroyed, and at that time, the Japanese army fired at a very close range with Type 91 anti-tank guns, destroying three No. 2 tanks of the Ming army.

At the same time, the Japanese army also blew up 4 Ming Army No. 2 tanks with explosives packs. This is the entire number of tank No. 2 destroyed by enemy troops.

But then, in the course of the 100-kilometer advance, the tanks that temporarily lost their combat capability due to mechanical failures were much larger than that.

The second tank was destroyed by the Japanese army, which made Fan Ming very distressed, his company now has a total of only 38 tanks that can fight, and now it has lost two more, which is really unpleasant.

But this was only the beginning of bad luck, and then the third tank of the Ming army was destroyed, this time it was a tank of the 2 company that was destroyed.

The destruction of two tanks in a row by the enemy was a very big blow to the morale of the Ming army, and the entire defense line became crumbling.

The Japanese army also became very excited because of the successive results, and they began to try to take advantage of the large number of people to outflank the Ming army from both flanks.

Soon, their efforts paid off, and the two flanks of the Ming army came under increasing pressure, and finally Fan Ming had no choice but to let his 1st Company continue to move his line back slightly.

Seeing the dawn of victory, the Japanese continued to press forward, seemingly forgetting that they had lost more than 40 tanks.

Most of these Type 91 tanks were destroyed as barricades during the Ming army's battle and retreat.

The battlefield was littered with smoke-filled tank wreckage, and both sides had already lost more than 50 tanks in the first tank battle.

And most of these lost tanks were Japanese troops. Although the Ming army destroyed the fourth No. 2 tank at this time, the Japanese army obviously lost more.

"There is no choice left, now we can only continue to fight, and whoever retreats at this time will taste defeat." Major General Ono Sata pressed the command knife and looked at the smoke in the distance with a telescope.

Right there, he already knew that he had lost almost 50 vehicles, but he still had to fight this long battle.

Because of the retreat at this time, he could not explain it to General Takanomiya Mitsui.

Looking at the increasing loss data, he also knew that even if he won at this time, there was no way to take the opportunity to recapture Jiechuan.

Now he only wants to be able to defeat the tank troops of the Ming Empire in front of him, and if he is lucky, it is best to capture one.

This way he had a way to explain how he had suffered such a crushing defeat and what had caused him to lose so many tanks.

"Put in the reserves! Go on the offensive! The Ming army in front of us did not even have a single regiment, and it was impossible to stop our attack! Advance! He yelled at his staff officer, who had asked to retreat.

His staff officer nodded and turned to give the order for the whole army to press.

At the same time as this combat order was issued, the artillery support of the Ming army also arrived, and more than 10 heavy guns of 150 mm caliber fired a salvo at the Japanese attack formation.

The falling shells caused the Japanese to lose many soldiers, but they did not make these crazy Japanese elite soldiers give up their intention to continue the attack.

But when another armored battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Armored Division of the Praetorian Guards arrived on the battlefield, the Japanese realized that what stood in front of them was not an armored battalion reinforced with an infantry company, but a real Ming armored division.

When more No. 2 tanks drove onto the battlefield, the equipment superiority of the Ming army's armored forces was truly revealed, and more than 35 tanks were reinforced to the position of Fan Ming's armored battalion.

At this time, the cheers of the infantry were almost higher than the sound of artillery explosions. The armored torrent formed by almost 70 No. 2 tanks made the Japanese Type 91 tank unit desperate.

So after leaving behind the wreckage of a full 20 Type 91 tanks, the Japanese tank units finally could not withstand the losses and began to retreat.

But when they just began to retreat, they found that they seemed to ignore another situation: they couldn't leave!

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