The tanks of Fan Ming's armored battalion rushed forward on the road, and on both sides of the rumbling road, you could see all kinds of heavy weapons and equipment that had been discarded and burned by the Japanese army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOne of the most common ones that can be seen is the towed howitzer of various types.

These cannons came from various countries, some were imported from the United States and the United Kingdom, and some were produced in Japan. Of course, there are also more of them in Ceylon's X150 heavy field guns. Most of these cannons were 150 mm caliber, and if they fought the Ming army head-on, one can imagine what kind of trouble they would cause to the Ming army.

But now these cannons are all thrown on the side of the road in the dark, some of them have been dismantled, the scopes and the rocker dials to correct the shooting parameters have been removed, and the barrels have also been thrown into the explosives and deliberately destroyed. Of course, the armored units passing by the Ming army at this time did not look down on these backward towed artillery, and most of them were equipped with more advanced No. 1 or No. 2 self-propelled guns.

As tank No. 2 passed the wreckage, the reconnaissance unit that had arrived first on the side of the road was erecting a makeshift traffic sign indicating how many kilometers to go to the next village, around which several scout commanders were smoking.

Some cultures are inseparable from the soldiers, and sometimes they are even more important than life, such as the vodka in the hands of Russian soldiers, or the cigarettes in the eyes of some soldiers - the head can be broken, the blood can be shed, but the tobacco and alcohol cannot be separated, this is a tradition.

The soldiers would consume their cigarettes at every opportunity, and if they had good wine, they would be immediately drained. Therefore, the most popular recruits in the barracks are the ones who do not smoke, who have a share of the cigarettes, but are willing to share them with their comrades...... What a nice man.

"Hey! Sir! There is a blocking position set up by the Japanese troops behind the palace in front, so be careful when passing by. Looking at Fan Ming, who was leaning on the armored car, a sergeant with a cigarette in his mouth reminded vaguely.

The speed of the Ming army's pursuit was much faster than walking on two legs, and the speed at which they advanced was terrifying, even exceeding twenty kilometers per hour. The Ming troops, who had just crossed the defense line of the Yalu River, occupied more than 10 front-line villages, annihilating the remnants of the Japanese Imperial Palace.

It was all a rush, not a pursuit. By the time the 21st Army, the 21st Army, the outlying Ming Army, occupied Uiju from 1,000 Japanese soldiers, the forward troops of the 1st Army of the Ming Empire had already crossed a village called Ming Shangli.

"Approximate time when the Japanese army passed through here, how many people there were, and what kind of weapons they carried." Fan Ming stood with two local North Korean civilians who had been caught and brought to him in Mingshang-ri, and asked a few questions that he was very interested in.

After all, his armored battalion was already very close to the retreating troops of the Japanese army, and he had to advance carefully at this time to avoid being discovered and annihilated by the Japanese counterattack. You must know that he commanded only an armored battalion, and in the face of the tens of thousands of Japanese main forces, it is still necessary to be cautious.

"Chief, sir...... Xiaomin also doesn't know how many Japanese people pass by...... There are simply too many people to count all over the mountains, not to mention tens of thousands, right? The terrified locals stammered when they saw the ironclad monsters of the Ming Empire parked near the bomb craters on the side of the road.

These days, he saw all kinds of artillery reinforced by the Japanese army to the front line every day, and he thought that he had seen the most terrible army in the world, but those Japanese weapons and equipment were dwarfed in front of these Ming soldiers wearing new military uniforms and driving armored vehicles and tanks.

The Korean commoners had no country of their own since 200 years ago, and they first became a province of the Ming Empire, called Joseon Province - the word Joseon follows Zhu Yuanzhang's old example, and has not undergone much change. However, with Ceylon's rebellion against Japan's independence, the Korean Peninsula was cut off by the Liaodong rebels, and in the same year he established himself as king.

Although the Ming Empire never recognized the Korean kingdom as a regime, it did not prevent it from becoming a self-reliant monarch - just three years after the kingdom was founded, it was "ceded" to Japan by the Liaodong rebels in exchange for the support of Ceylon and Japan and Britain.

As a result, Japan was occupied by the Japanese army and became part of the Japanese Empire, which continues to this day. When the civilians on the Korean Peninsula once again saw the armored forces of the Ming Empire crossing the Yalu River and marching southward, the panic and anxiety in their hearts were not much better than that of Japanese immigrants.

For these locals, they may have forgotten the magnificent scene of the musketeers of the Ming Empire wearing plate armor and carrying muskets two hundred years ago, and they may have forgotten the Ming dragoons who carried sabers to attack the city, but now they have come south again, and the current soldiers of the Ming Empire have once again helped them appreciate the fear of two hundred years ago.

"These locals have no basic training in reconnaissance, and the questions they answer are of little value...... We can only judge for ourselves whether the Japanese are rapidly retreating south, or whether they are preparing to fight us halfway. Fan Ming waved his hand and motioned for the guards at the battalion headquarters to take away the two locals who had been brought over, and he turned his head sideways and said to an armored regimental headquarters officer in charge of liaison beside him.

The officer had just arrived in a four-person off-road vehicle to Mingshangli, where Fan Ming was located, and another battalion of the armored regiment had also advanced to an almost parallel position at this time, and the regiment commander ordered a 20-minute rest, which was the matter of Fan Ming catching the locals to confirm the location of the Japanese army.

In fact, when it comes to rest, these are the envy of the infantry, and the armored soldiers who can sit in tanks or armored vehicles when they are advancing are not really idle. Divided into two groups, they were moving dirt and gravel on both sides of the road to fill the huge craters left by the Leigong 1 dive bomber on the ground.

The attack to prevent the smooth retreat of the Japanese army also caused trouble for the pursuing troops of the Ming army at this time, almost every intersection on the highway, it is possible to leave traces of two or three bombs, and on the edge of the crater in the distance, there is also a scrapped Japanese carriage, and the corpse of the war horse was originally in the middle of the road, but now it has been dragged aside by the Ming army.

"It's a desperate pursuit." Fan Ming squinted his eyes and looked at the horizon in the distance, maybe the enemy he was looking for was there now, as long as his troops were given the order to advance, they could catch up with them at noon and start a real battle. (To be continued.) )