The most direct reason for the increase in the number of tanks purchased is that Wang Jue changed the basic establishment of the newly established armored division of the Ming Empire, and the fourth batch of tanks on the front line has just arrived, and Wang Jue has strengthened his armored division to the scale of 130 tanks under Xinmin City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The 4th batch of tanks totaled 85 tanks, and after replenishing the few tanks lost by the 1st Panzer Division in the battle, another 50 tanks were left for the 1st Panzer Division in one go, 20 on the Praetorian Guard, and the rest were given to the 2nd Panzer Division.

And after the battle of Xinmin County kicked off, it was almost the same as the exercises of the new army of the Ming Empire on weekdays. The tanks covered the infantry to rush left and right on the defensive line around Xinmin County, and the resistance of the rebels could not prevent the tank troops from charging and killing on the line of defense that was seriously lacking in heavy firepower.

Although the rebels' 13 mm anti-aircraft machine guns took advantage of the terrain to destroy more than 10 Ming tanks, they paid the price that the entire defense line almost collapsed. The battle lasted from morning to noon, and the rebels gave up resistance and gave way to the county seat of Xinmin.

After all, the rebels who remained in Xinmin County were not the elite of a desperate battle, and the enemy they were facing now could not raise their determination to fight to the end. Due to the slow movement of the Japanese reinforcements, they had not yet crossed the Liao River, and the Xinmin defenders decisively raised the white flag after knowing that they could not continue to hold on.

However, this rebel army was more righteous than Ye Hehao, and after the surrender, they sent a telegram informing the Japanese army that there were other rebels, and the fact that Xinmin had been lost. The Battle of Liuhe came to an end after Zhangwu County and Xinmin County were recaptured by the Ming army, and the rebels abandoned almost all the cities west of the Liaohe River and began to desperately strengthen their Liaohe defense line.

Wang Jue's new army also paid too much price when crossing the Liuhe River and attacking Xinmin, and had no intention of continuing to attack the stronger Liaohe defense line. So the two sides once again confronted each other across the river, and the new army was facing the Japanese troops under the command of Mitsui Takanomiya.

"The Ming Empire can't turn over...... This is the premise of Japan's long-term peace and stability! After all, the two sides are not on the same level, let the Ming Empire return to the state it was back then, how can my Great Japanese Empire deal with itself? Mitsui Konomiya put down the binoculars in his hand, looked at the lush trees and vegetation on the other side of the river, and sighed and said to Jiro Yamaguchi behind him.

"Listening to those incompetent Jin people, the Ming army was armed with hundreds of trucks, accompanied by a large number of cavalry, running dozens of miles a day, advancing faster than the rout." He worriedly analyzed his thoughts, and talked to this colleague or friend about the gap between the two sides: "In my army of the Japanese Empire, the most elite division still uses mules and horses as the main means of transportation, how can this be compared?" ”

Japan is a small country whose national strength is not as good as that of the Ming Empire, and it has always been able to invest its limited military expenditure in naval construction. In terms of the army, they are still at the level of the old army of the Ming Empire, and they don't even have much cavalry, only pure infantry and artillery with insufficient mobility ability.

Compared with the Japanese Combined Fleet, which is more powerful than the North Sea Division of the Ming Empire, the Japanese Army is now much worse than the Army of the Ming Empire, at least they cannot compare their meager military spending with the land power countries. The only thing Mitsui Takanomiya can rely on now is that he firmly believes that the infantry in his hands will surpass the army of the Ming Empire in terms of training, morale and faith.

"Almost all the troops on the Liaohe line were expanding the first line of trenches as an obstacle to prevent the other side's tanks from crossing over. We are also building such facilities on our side, and we are also ordering 20 mm and 30 mm guns from Ceylon. Jiro Yamaguchi diverted the topic with some helplessness on his face, compared to the army's inability to get enough funds to arm itself, Japan's current financial situation is already very bad because it has not received the dividends of the war.

Originally, Japan launched this war in order to take the coveted Liaodong Peninsula and the Lushun Military Port, which were great benefits, and by the way, the Beihai Division of the Ming Empire could be compressed back to the Jiaodong Peninsula, and lay a maritime advantage in the north in one fell swoop - but unfortunately all this seems to have failed now, the Liaodong Peninsula is still in the hands of the Ming army, and now the Ming army has returned to the Fengtian line, and the Jin State and Japan have not reaped any benefits.

Now, compared to the Ming Empire's year-round surplus treasury, which is almost exhausted, Japan's treasury is already in a serious deficit. Almost half of the money for the construction of warships in the navy was given by Britain and Ceylon Blanc, and the other half was a large number of French interest-free loans. The Navy is still like this, not to mention the army raised by the stepmother.

The whole country of Japan cut back on food and clothing for the new battleships, and His Majesty the Emperor only ate two meals a day, not for political show, but because he really had no money in his pocket, so he made this decision -- in comparison, the financial situation of the Ming Empire can be described as heaven.

also knew that he was raised by his stepmother, and no matter how much Mitsui Takanomiya complained, he knew that he had no way to change Japan's basic national policy of first sea and then land. So after he sighed again, he ordered: "Send planes, and then go to reconnoiter the movements of the Ming Empire army opposite!" Don't run away when you see the other party's plane coming, isn't the pilots trained by the Great Japanese Empire as good as the pilots of the Ming Kingdom? ”

In fact, it is not that the Japanese pilots are inferior to the Ming pilots, but that the number of planes of the Ming army is really much more than that of the Japanese. At least the two sides are not at the same level at all in terms of the time of development of the Air Force. The Ming Empire introduced the air force from Britain more than ten years earlier than Japan, and the number of planes was 5 times more than that of Japan, and even if it could not be reached in some parts of Liaodong, it maintained at least double the advantage, and the Japanese pilots were of course very jealous.

That is, because the current aircraft ground support capability is very limited, it has not caused more depressing consequences, and in addition to throwing money at the navy over the years, the Japanese have studied the most about how to resist the numerical superiority of the Ming army's air force.

"This kind of war, which is related to the fortunes of the country, has been fought like this, is it that the heavens are going to destroy our great Japanese empire?" Jiro Yamaguchi raised his head and looked up at the sky above him, muttering these words, but his heart was full of worry. Now in this situation, we can only look at the world situation, whether the Ming Empire can accept it when it is good......

"I will use the highest-level spy personnel to find a way to put pressure on Zhao Hongshou, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Kingdom will end ......the war as soon as possible," Thinking of this, Jiro Yamaguchi gritted his teeth and said hatefully.