According to this strange dating method, the year when Japan developed and tested a new type of tank last year was exactly 2491 in the year of the Jimmu period, so this Japanese tank was named the Type 91 tank. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info This tank is almost a copy of the No. 1 tank of the Ming Empire, but the Japanese stubbornly installed a machine gun behind the turret as rear firepower...... I don't know where I got my habits and experience, but the Japanese seem to have their own insistence and understanding of the use of space behind the turret of the tank.

On the other hand, based on the deep-rooted theory of artillery caliber suppression in the Japanese Navy, the Japanese Army is also pursuing the suppression of the "quality" of weapons in new weapons. While copying the No. 1 tank and arbitrarily enlarging the turret and installing the rear-firing machine gun, the Japanese installed a 30 mm cannon on the Type 91 tank!

Because of this almost stubborn modification, the Japanese Type 91 tank had an increased power of a single shell compared to the Ming Empire's No. 1 tank modification, but the rate of fire was significantly reduced. Similarly, there is an extra machine gun behind the turret of the tank to defend it, but due to the immaturity of radio technology, most of the Type 91 vehicles are not equipped with expensive radio equipment.

Because of the modification of the No. 1 tank by the Japanese, as well as the uniqueness of the name of the tank and the combat vehicle, the Japanese considered their own tank...... Or rather, the tank has inexplicable confidence. They believe that in terms of single-vehicle combat performance, their tank is completely superior to the No. 1 tank of the Ming Empire, which was developed earlier.

Whether this is true or not remains to be proven, but if it is true, the Type 91 may indeed be more powerful than the Ming Empire's No. 1 tank - unfortunately, most of the Ming Empire's troops are now equipped with the more advanced No. 1 tank modifications...... So this comparison doesn't make much sense.

Throw away the tank...... Or put aside the things on the chariot for the time being, Miyamoto Youren has already received the news that the Yalu River defense line on which the Japanese defenders rely for survival is now being attacked by the troops of the Ming Empire, and the Ming Empire troops attacking this defense line have an absolute overwhelming advantage in the number of artillery on the opposite bank.

After counting the Japanese Amaterasu artillery captured on the battlefield in Liaodong and the large number of 150 mm and 200 mm heavy guns of the Jin rebels, the artillery units deployed by the Ming Empire in the Liaodong region nearly doubled overnight. And Japan lost a large number of heavy artillery because of the retreat from Liaodong, and it did not recover this year.

This also caused an embarrassing fact: the Ming Empire's originally slightly superior artillery units are now strengthened, and the number of artillery of the Japanese Army is still slightly shrinking compared with before - if you count the artillery of the rebels of the Jin Kingdom in Liaodong, which has been destroyed, this degree of shrinkage cannot be described by the word "a little".

Comparing the number of artillery pieces on the southeast peninsula, it is easy to see how huge the gap in firepower between the two sides on the Korean peninsula is. The ratio of large-caliber artillery between the Ming Empire and Ceylon was 7,000 to 6,000, while the ratio of heavy artillery between the Ming Empire and Japan on the Korean Peninsula was 2,700 to 904.

The main reason for such a huge disparity is that there is a serious shortage of raw materials in Japan in the past year, because under the threat of the Ming Empire, the whole world is expanding its armaments, how can there be excess steel to support Japan? Therefore, after Japan invested in the navy and aviation, the army was strengthened and replenished very rarely.

Another reason for this was the relatively large number of small-caliber artillery pieces in the Japanese troops. The Japanese Army is equipped with 75 mm guns and 50 mm guns, the main purpose of which is to make up for the lack of heavy artillery production capacity.

In this case, the Japanese themselves have played a trick on their own numbers, and if they produce a few heavy artillery, it will obviously not be enough to support the expansion of armaments. Therefore, while expanding 20 divisions to deal with the possible attack of the Ming Empire, Japan produced a large number of light equipment, including 100 mm mortars and 75 mm light field guns.

In this way, on the basis of the expansion of 20 divisions, the Japanese army still equipped the expanded troops with artillery - although most of these guns were small-calibre, some were always better than nothing. These weapons were mainly used to strengthen the courage of the second-line divisions, and also to make up a number when the artillery was insufficient.

There is another reason that is not important, which caused the relatively small caliber of Japanese artillery: in addition to a few arsenals built in Korea, the production of Japanese munitions to reach the front line requires the participation of sea transportation. It's obviously easier to transport a small light gun than to disassemble and transport a heavy gun, isn't it?

At this time, more than 2,000 heavy artillery pieces of the Ming Empire were frantically pouring ammunition into the Japanese position, after all, the Ming Empire captured millions of shells in Liaodong, and these shells and the cannons captured at the same time were one-time consumables for the Ming Empire, and it was the most normal thing to use wear and tear in the war.

So from the morning of this day, when the battle in the sky had not yet been decided, the artillery of the Ming Empire taught the defenders on the defense line of the Yalu River in Japan a lesson, and the content of this lesson was: how the Ming army used artillery to suppress and destroy the enemy's defense line.

In order to make use of all the artillery, General Yang Zizhen, the new commander of the 2nd Group Army, actually transferred two infantry divisions and scattered them to serve as porters for the artillery brothers...... And the loaders who originally carried the cannonballs are now going to control the captured Jinguo cannons.

Many artillery positions had no front-line correction observation posts, and could only share an observation post with the artillery positions next door, and ammunition corrections were carried out almost with their eyes closed. Although the accuracy of this is frighteningly low, because the captured ammunition is not wasted, no one is sorry at all.

Of course, the Ming army was profligate, and the Japanese defenders on the other side were defeated. Their artillery had completely lost the ability to fight back ten minutes earlier, and now the rumbling of artillery was almost entirely the sound of exploding shells from their own positions. One after another, columns of black smoke rose into the air near the trenches, and all the Japanese could do was curl up and hide in the trenches to pray.

What made them desperate was that this kind of prayer would have to be carried out for a long time, listening to the deafening sound of artillery so densely that there was no end to the shelling of the Ming army. The shells that fell this time did not stop, and the rain of shells that fell in the next round began to surge again.

"Mom! I want to go home! Holding his steel helmet in both hands, a young Japanese soldier cried in the trenches. Before his voice could be heard far, it was blown away by the wave of air set off by the exploding shells. The kicked dirt slapped against the steel helmet above his head, and soon the falling dust buried half of his legs.

The Japanese soldier was flanked by a Japanese veteran who was also hiding in the trenches, and he was also holding his steel helmet at this time, painfully enduring the disturbing noise caused by the explosion. Hearing the cries of the recruits beside him, he just frowned deeper and scolded loudly: "Shut up! ”

His rebuke apparently didn't work as well as it should, because before his voice was drowned out by the rumbling cannons, one of the soldiers on the other side roared even more hysterically: "I don't want to stay here!" I don't want to stay here! Yes! Yes! ”

For recruits who have not experienced the baptism of the battlefield, the intensive and endless shelling is enough to make them collapse. They simply could not judge how much their troops had lost and how many had died, because they could only take refuge and wait for the shelling to dissipate.

But they would imagine that they would think of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood from the incessant sound of explosions. This kind of psychological suggestion can cause them a huge psychological stress, and once this pressure expands to a level beyond their control, they will scare themselves crazy.

This is the impact of the modern war machine on the individual "man", and the serious psychological damage. After this kind of devastation and baptism, when you face blood and endless killing, and finally transform into a real veteran, can you expect such a person to be normal?

I don't know how far away, a shell finally landed in the trench, and a huge wave of air blew along the trench, kicking up a cloud of dust. All the soldiers had to squint their eyes to adjust to the sudden and brief haze.

They hadn't seen their enemies yet, and the soldiers of the Ming Empire on the other side hadn't started attacking yet, but this hellish situation had been going on for quite some time, a long enough time to make people collapse!

"Someone got shot!" "Oh my god! He's dead! He's dead! Someone died! "I'm X! Arm! Yes! Bloody arm! In the distance, there were even more terrifying shouts from the trenches, and the officers immediately reprimanded, but these voices were soon overshadowed by the explosion of a new round of falling shells, and they could no longer be heard.

"The enemy is attacking! Get ready for battle! I don't know how much time has passed, or if the Japanese soldiers, who have become slightly accustomed to life in hell, are just beginning to get used to the loud sound of the shells exploding, when a hysterical alarm interrupts their continued attempts to hide in the trenches.

Inside the reinforced concrete fortifications, the machine gun shooters in charge of the vigilance pulled the bolts of their machine guns, and then aimed the muzzles of the black holes at the wide Yalu River. In the middle of the river, one after another small boats, loaded with soldiers of the Ming Empire, were approaching the river where the Japanese army was stationed at the fastest speed! (To be continued.) )