"We can't go on like this!" Seishiro Itagaki leaned forward, his hands in white gloves resting on the table, and his eyes burned as he looked at the group of senior Japanese officers sitting at the long table. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info spoke in a calm voice, "There is no point in continuing to attack. The Huaxia people are ready, and the investment of such a wing as now is completely in vain! There was no air cover, no strong artillery support. How is it possible to capture a position where the defenders are stronger than their own? Do you think that the Ming army is the Korean army? ”

"What else can I do then?!" Tani Shoufu, whose eyes were red, suddenly stood up as soon as he slapped the table, and glared at Seishiro Itagaki with an extremely ugly face, "What about the orders of the base camp?" Do you not receive it? If we don't take Seoul, won't our previous losses be wasted? ”

Gu Shoufu is in a very bad mood right now. His 6th Division was almost crippled, and in addition to the logistical support units assembled near Suwon, four wings were put into battle in three days, but when they were withdrawn, they added up to only one wing. He can only be regarded as a brigade commander now, and if he fights for two more days, it is estimated that he will not even be able to be a wing commander.

"My thoughts are." Seishiro Itagaki raised his chin, and with a touch of self-sacrificing momentum between his eyebrows, "Regroup your troops and gather your scattered forces into a fist." Take the 5th Division as the vanguard and attack with all your might! Instead of going to death in waves like now. At the same time, the telegraph to the base camp asked for strong air support, and it was best to let them take the independence. The heavy artillery brigade was also sent over! ”

"Snort~~~" Gu Shoufu looked at Seishiro Itagaki with disdain, "Do you think you are the land minister?" What do you say the base camp will listen to? Also alone. Standing heavy artillery brigades? ”

"Your Excellency." Seishiro Itagaki didn't pay attention to Toshio Tani, turned around and respectfully saluted Matsui Ishone, who closed his eyes and recuperated, "I have already discussed it with the head of the base camp combat section, Ishihara Waner. He also believes that it is impractical to continue the storming of Seoul now, and we all believe that we should turn to rest and replenish for the time being, and wait until we have gathered our forces before attacking. ”

At this time, there were two of the most famous generals in the Japanese army, and the backbone of the new generation of the army valued by the bigwigs. One is Ishihara Waner, and the other is Seishiro Itagaki. Ishihara no Chi, the name of Itagaki no Guts, was very famous among the Japanese army. The two of them made a suggestion together, and even Matsui Ishine had to think about it seriously. What's more, the scheming Matsui Ishine has already retreated, but there is no legitimate excuse to disobey the orders of the base camp. Now that Seishiro Itagaki has handed over the steps, then he will push the boat with the water.

"In that case." Matsui Ishine opened his eyes and looked around, seeing that many generals nodded in agreement, and then said, "Then let's go back for the time being." The units regrouped near Suwon and awaited reinforcements and supplies. After that, the attack on Seoul was launched. ”

The current high-ranking old men and high-ranking members of the Japanese army are still in the period of trench warfare in terms of strategy, and they do not understand the drastic changes brought about by the new tactics and armored forces. Speed and mobility are the most important aspects of warfare in the new era.

"Bang dang!" There was a bang, and the door to the conference room was slammed open. Many of the generals present at the meeting all turned their heads to look over. A young young man walked in with a telegram and trembling lips.

"Yaga!" Kenji Dohihara, who was the chief of staff, stood up as soon as he slapped the table, stretched out his hand and pointed at the young Shaoza and scolded, "Takahashi! Don't you know that a high-level meeting is going on?! ”

"Your Excellency!" Takahashi, who was pale and pale, walked to Kenji Dohihara with a telegram and handed the telegram in his hand to Kenji Dohihara, "Lieutenant General Kazuichiro Sonobe urgently telegraphed!" The Ming army stationed in Seoul launched a large-scale counterattack, and the vanguard was the 7th Panzer Division from Incheon! ”

"Nani?!"

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The tactical thinking of the Japanese was still stuck in the era of trench tactics. Because there was no money and no resources, and the only resources had to be supplied to the navy first, the Japanese army was very outdated in terms of upgrading new weapons and new tactics. Especially expensive armored forces.

For the Japanese army, a tank armored car that costs tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of yen is really a luxury that cannot be popularized on a large scale, not to mention that they are all oil tigers with great appetites!

Not only can the Japanese army not compete with the navy for military spending, but also for the navy for valuable fuel! From technology to production capacity to logistics support and strategy and tactics, the Japanese army is backward in all aspects.

In order to keep up with the trend of the times, the Japanese Army gritted its teeth and spent military funds to develop and produce its own armored units. However, due to its weak strength, most of the armored forces were dispersed among the divisions and used as infantry support firepower. The only force that can barely be counted as an armored unit is the 5th Division. However, the Fifth Division was only more armored and more like a mechanized unit.

After the continuous push of discerning officers, especially after Zhang Cheng showed his might on the Caspian battlefield through an armored assault. The irritated Japanese army was also preparing to build up its own regular armored forces.

This is the case with the bureaucracy, which is the most efficient group in the world. When faced with a brutal existential situation, they will burst out with unparalleled abilities.

Conservative forces were rampant, and the Japanese army, which was even more stubborn than the Ming Army, quickly transformed after the outbreak of war. The First Mecha Army, which has been in preparation for a long time, has already begun to build, and once it is established, its strength on paper is very strong.

Of course, because of the previous lack of attention and lack of resources, the Japanese army's resistance to armored forces was very weak. When the steel torrent of the 7th Panzer Division surged from the vicinity of Incheon, the Japanese army, which had mustered the last spirit and courage to attack Seoul, collapsed in an instant. They have long reached their limit, and pure spiritual support has lost its meaning. The Ming counterattack swept away the Japanese army like a raging wave.

The 7th Panzer Division was rushed to the front without completing the replacement of new tanks. They only received a battalion of Tiger Heavy Tans, and the main force was still the old Type 4 G. However, this was enough for the Japanese.

On July 27, the sky cleared and there were no clouds.

The Daming Army Airlines, which had been silent for several days because of the continuous rainy weather, began to make large-scale sorties. Hundreds of warplanes obscured almost the entire sky!

The Japanese also guessed that the Ming Army Air Force would make a large-scale attack after the sky cleared, and they also mobilized their air power accordingly to prepare to fight against the superior air force of the Ming Dynasty. However, the scale of the Ming Army Air sortie far exceeded the imagination of the Japanese.

Hundreds of Fighting Falcon protected a large number of dive bombers, ground attack planes, and horizontal bombers to carry out large-scale air raids on the Japanese troops from the south bank of the Han River to Suwon. The air cover provided by the Japanese Army Air Force was largely ineffective under the siege of the Fighting Falcons, and the losses were enormous.

In view of the crispy characteristics of the Zero Battle, the Ming pilots who flew the Fighting Falcon specially attacked the engine and cockpit of the Zero Battle, which directly led to large-scale battle losses of the Japanese pilots. The Ming aircraft is equipped with a large amount of armor, which is very strong, and even if the plane is shot down, it is possible to save the pilot. And the pilots who have been shot down will basically become better when they go to the sky again.

The entire airspace around Seoul was completely covered by countless planes. Numerous warplanes staggered back and forth in the sky, crisscrossing and crisscrossing the sky. The dense trajectory streaked countless dense traces in the sky. From time to time, a plane with white smoke would fall headlong from mid-air. The rate of attrition of the fighters was fast enough to make the eyelids of the air commanders on both sides jump.

The inferiority of the Japanese in terms of aircraft, especially the pilots, was soon revealed, and the loss of those elites they had carefully cultivated before the war would never be replenished in a short time. Only one morning passed, and Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the First Air Force under the Japan-Korea Dispatch Army, immediately burst into tears.

Originally, the Japanese Army Aviation was under pressure because of the large-scale strategic bombing launched by the Ming Dynasty on the Japanese mainland, and aviation support was needed everywhere. As a result, the air power that could be dispatched to the Korean battlefield at this time was limited. Under the powerful blows of the Fifth Air Army, the Japanese army finally began to taste the taste of backwardness and being beaten.

A large number of ground attack planes and dive bombers tilted bombs and bullet rains on the heads of the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese army, lacking anti-aircraft fire, suffered heavy losses, and this was not the most terrible. The terrible was the hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles that were killed near Incheon.

The screeching chariots destroyed all the Japanese troops within their range with endless power and deathly greetings. Shelling, rain of bullets. The Ming firepower was too strong, and the Japanese army, which had only a small number of anti-tank weapons, had to organize waves of death squads to launch a decisive charge against the Ming armored forces, but under the protection of the dense bullet rain and mechanized infantry, the crazy Japanese army could hardly achieve any results.

The speed of the armored forces is incomparable to that of the infantry. The rapid assault of the armored cluster soon broke through the Japanese resistance and killed all the way in the direction of Suwon. Once the Ming Dynasty captured Suwon, the tens of thousands of Japanese troops on the outskirts of Seoul would be dumplings.

In desperation, Lieutenant General Sonobe Kazuichiro, who was in charge of commanding the troops on the outskirts of Seoul, hurriedly assembled a group of cavalry units and launched a counterattack against the 7th Panzer Division.

The cavalry units of the Japanese army were not all cavalry units in the pure sense of the word. A regular division of the Japanese army had about 8,000 horses, but most of them were engaged in transporting supplies. Cavalry units with a massive charge waving sabers were almost non-existent.

The cavalry wings of regular divisions and regiments are basically vehicle-based, armed with a large number of light and heavy machine guns and anti-tank guns. There was a squadron of tanks and a squadron of pure cavalry, with 3 95 light combat vehicles and 11 97 medium combat vehicles, as well as part of armored vehicles and trucks. The cavalry squadron had about 300 or so pure cavalry.

A few hastily cobbled together cavalry wings could not withstand the formidable 7th Panzer Division in any case.

After Major General Wang Dexiang found that a group of Japanese tanks had appeared on the opposite side, he was immediately excited and inexplicably rushed over with his own tanks. (To be continued.) )