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The Flying Fortresses posed a great threat to the Japanese. Because the shocking effect of each time hundreds of warplanes bombing a city together not only destroys a large number of important targets, but also deals a heavy blow to the morale of the army and the confidence of ordinary people.

For this reason, the Japanese, on the one hand, increased the production speed of the new Zero War, and on the other hand, they turned to the United States for help, hoping that the Americans could provide them with support. Whether it's anti-aircraft artillery or new aircraft.

At the same time, the top brass of the Japanese army also understood that the southern part of Korea could not be lost in any case. Because that would have led to the Ming strategic bomber force gaining a forward airfield closer to Japan. The Japanese base camp even demanded that the Japanese Navy withdraw its main forces and immediately begin planning an attack on Jeju Island.

The attack on Jeju Island was refuted by the navy, and they do not have the ability to do so now. The Japanese army's hand had stretched long enough that it was now beginning to take care of it. Moreover, when the two armies fought a bloody battle on the Korean Peninsula, Vice Admiral Tong Haifeng took the 11th Task Force from the Lion City to fight fiercely with the Japanese Navy's southbound fleet! At this time, the Japanese Navy had no time to worry about the affairs of Jeju Island.

Major General Wang Dexiang did not use the method of direct breakthrough, but chose the tactics of steady and steady, after all, he occupied an absolute advantage.

First of all, 24 105-mm guns and 12 155-mm self-propelled howitzers of the division's mechanized artillery regiment, in cooperation with the army aviation bomber unit, launched a heavy artillery bombardment of the temporary positions of the 5th Division. The intensity and density of its firepower made the Japanese officers and men of the 5th Division feel as if they were being left alone. The heavy artillery brigade bombarded the same.

The quality of the artillery equipped by the Ming artillery was much higher than that of the Japanese artillery. Although the quality of the artillery of the two sides is about the same, the difference in the rate of fire and firing range of the artillery is large. This is due to the huge gap in scientific and technological and industrial strength between the two countries. What's more, the Ming artillery also has the support of air power. If nothing else, the constant fire correction of the artillery by the school firing planes was enough to make the Japanese artillery shed tears.

Most of the heavy artillery of the 5th Division had been destroyed in the air raids, and the remaining artillery was inferior to the Ming artillery in terms of range and power. What's more, if you are targeted by the planes in the sky, you will definitely die. Therefore, most of the Japanese artillery was hidden, carrying the artillery bombardment, preparing to wait until the Ming army attacked before firing.

This wide and flat terrain limited the Japanese army's ability to conceal itself. How can a position dug up by relying on an engineer shovel withstand an all-round three-dimensional attack? Under heavy artillery bombardment, the 5th Division suffered heavy losses.

The chariot wing, which was used as a sharp weapon by Seishiro Itagaki was particularly unlucky, with numerous dive bombers picking on Japanese tanks to drop bombs. Moreover, the Japanese tanks were weakly armored, and they could be easily destroyed even if the bombs were far away. This hasn't seen the armored troops of the Ming Dynasty, and the chariots and armored vehicles in Itagaki Seishiro's hands are almost half gone.

Heartbroken, Seishiro Itagaki gritted his teeth and watched his troops suffer heavy losses under the bombardment of those wanton Ming planes, and his heart burned with rage, and he wanted to immediately order an attack. It's just that the only remaining reason makes him understand that it is just for nothing to rush out of this situation now.

The intensive shelling, which lasted almost an hour, soon came to an end. With the order of Major General Wang Dexiang, hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles let out a deafening roaring sound and rushed towards the Japanese position in a shocking torrent of steel.

The violent roar and the trembling of the floating earth and stones on the ground informed the Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches that the armored troops of the Ming Dynasty were coming.

Because of the time, the Japanese troops of the 5th Division did not have time to build minefields at all, and even the trenches were temporarily dug. Such fortifications are difficult to stand up to hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles.

"Reload!" A Japanese squad leader shouted angrily at his subordinates and arranged for the soldiers to quickly reload. The squad leader commanded a Type 94 37mm anti-tank gun, hidden in a half-buried trench. In front of his position, the outposts of the first line and the infantry positions had already broken through. A large swarm of tanks making a tooth-aching sound of steel grinding was pouring towards his position.

"Boom!" After a dull thud, a 37-mm armor-piercing projectile burst out of its chamber and in a very short time pierced through the air and hit the front armor of a No. 4 tank more than 100 meters away.

"Bastard!" The squad leader, who was crouching next to the cannon shield and holding the binoculars, slammed his fist into the trench beside him. He clearly saw that the highly-anticipated armor-piercing projectile splashed a dazzling spark on the front armor of the tank, and then was sent out in the distance.

How easy was it for the artillery and shells produced by the Japanese to penetrate the heavy front armor of the No. 4 tank? And even more so a small anti-tank gun of 37 mm caliber? If you switch to the 57mm anti-tank gun, the largest caliber equipped by the Japanese army, it may still be able to play a role at this distance.

"Come again!" The squad leader turned to look at his men and shouted orders for them to continue reloading. However, he saw several of his subordinates looking ahead with frightened faces. The team leader, whose heart suddenly shrank, hurriedly turned around and looked over. The tank that had been hit by his cannon had stopped at the moment, and the huge turret turned slightly and pointed at the gun position where he was!

Although it cannot be compared with the new Leopard and Tiger, the No. 4 tank is still a first-class vehicle at the beginning of the war. The strong offensive and defensive forces and good mobility made the No. 4 tank almost invincible in the face of the backward Japanese army. Even the 5th Division, which claimed to be the strongest in the Japanese army, could not stop the advance of the armored forces.

"On the left, machine gun fire!" The commander gave the order, and after the turret turned slightly, the coaxial machine gun began to fire fiercely. A long chain of bullets strapped a man with a bag of explosives and a moon wrapped around his head. The Japanese troops in Jingbu were knocked to the ground.

The 37-mm and 47-mm anti-tank guns of the Japanese army simply could not penetrate the frontal armor of tank No. 4. And the number of 57-mm anti-tank guns capable of acting at close range was very small. As for the other 7.7mm anti-tank machine guns, Type 11 37mm light anti-tank guns, Type 98 20mm anti-tank rapid-fire guns, 20mm anti-tank guns, 40mm anti-tank guns and so on, they are also of little use.

In this case, the Japanese had no choice but to send death squad members with explosives packs or magnetic anti-tank mines to destroy the Ming tanks. And to use infantry against tanks, or to have well-protected tanks, it will definitely not end well.

Not only assault tanks, but also the large number of armored vehicles that followed behind the tank cluster were filled with elite mechanized infantry. Under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, these elite soldiers with submachine guns quickly cleared the Japanese trenches one after another.

Almost all of the Japanese machine guns and artillery had been destroyed by tanks and armored vehicles. And when the mechanized infantry rushed into the position with automatic semi-automatic weapons, the Japanese troops holding the 38 canopies could not resist the attack of automatic fire no matter what.

The Ming soldiers pulled the trigger, and the bullets were fired out in shuttles. The Japanese could only pull down the bolt with one shot, and in the narrow environment of the trenches, the gap between the two sides was clear at a glance.

Very often, the Japanese soldiers had only one chance to shoot. Often the Ming soldiers holding Bobosha were able to bring down a string of Japanese soldiers with a shuttle. In this contrast of firepower, the Japanese army's battle losses climbed at an alarming rate.

Sticking to the front-line positions was the 42nd Wing of troops from Yamaguchi Prefecture. They were quickly crippled under the powerful fire of the Ming army, and the adjutants of the wing under the wing commander Masaaki Fukuda were basically all killed. Even less than an hour after the start of the battle, the 42nd Wing's Flag Squadron burned its own Wing flag.

The strong combat effectiveness of the 7th Armored Division deeply shocked Seishiro Itagaki. When the 7th Panzer Division's armored torrent broke through the first-line position and fought into the depth of defense, Itagaki Seishiro had to send his last armored force to counterattack, intending to block the advance of the 7th Panzer Division. At the same time, Seishiro Itagaki did not care about exposing the target, and ordered all artillery units to carry out artillery bombardment on the assault units of the 7th Panzer Division.

Not long after the Japanese artillery opened fire, the Ming Army Bomber Unit in the sky quickly bombed it. At the same time, the school firing aircraft reported the coordinates and directions for the artillery of the Ming army to guide the fire.

The combined attack on the sky and ground soon silenced the remaining Japanese artillery fire, and the Japanese armored forces also quickly turned into piles of burning scrap metal in front of the Ming tank cluster.

The best tank of the Japanese army at this time was nothing more than the 97 Medium Battle. This kind of light tank, which weighed no more than ten tons in battle, could not stand against the Ming No. 4 tank, whether it was a 57 mm short-barreled gun or an armor with a maximum thickness of only 25 mm.

Attack, the 57-mm short-barreled gun could not penetrate the front armor of the fourth even at a distance of five hundred meters. Defense, even from a kilometer away, the 75-mm gun of the fourth armament was enough to penetrate the front armor of the 97 battle. Moreover, the Seventh Armored Division completely destroyed the Japanese army's light tank cluster in terms of numbers. Under such unequal combat conditions, Seishiro Itagaki sent his own chariot wing to death.

"Stop, line up in battle formation!" After breaking through the Japanese front-line position, the commander of the armored regiment of the 7th Panzer Division found a large number of Japanese armored troops pouring out of the opposite side in the periscope, and immediately ordered the somewhat scattered tank groups to quickly regroup and prepare for tank battles.

The No. 4 tanks of the 7th Panzer Division began to communicate with each other through the radio, forming a relatively neat battle formation. The muzzles of the black holes in the doors were all pointed at the rapidly approaching Japanese armored vehicles on the opposite side.

The commanders of the Ming tanks stared closely at the scale on their periscopes, calculating the distance between the two sides. When the distance between the two sides was pulled to 500 meters, the commander of the armored regiment pressed his throat intercom and shouted "Fire!" (To be continued.) )