The ensuing battle was a one-sided chase - this was the first encounter between the Tang-Hungarian armored forces in this world war, and the Hungarians, who were full of confidence, only then realized that their "Tolty" tanks, which were very mobile and seemed to have strong defensive capabilities, were not worth mentioning in the face of the furious Tang tanks.

A Hungarian tankman who survived the battlefield recalled watching his M3L40 75-mm tank gun hit the 90-mm thick hull and turret of the Tang tank, and as a result, it was simply unable to penetrate the opponent's defenses. The Tang tank, which had been hit by more than a dozen shells, was unharmed, and rushed straight towards the Hungarian tank group like an angry bull, which really made people suddenly despair and collapse.

The battle was actually over, more than 40 Hungarian tanks had already been destroyed, and all the Hungarians did was demobilize the seven Tang tanks - the Hungarian tankers found that they could only temporarily stop the charge by attacking the tracks of the Tang tanks.

The fledgling Hungarian 1st Panzer Division suffered a devastating disaster in the first battle, and in the face of the blows of the 11th Panzer Division of the Tang State, the Hungarians completely collapsed, lost any ability to fight back, and fled all the way in the direction of Kherson. The Tang people followed closely behind them and kept chasing them, and the 18th Panzer Division also flanked them.

The Allied High Command in Europe was extremely shocked by the losses of the Tang-Hungarian armored forces in this battle, and in the two days of fighting, the Hungarian 1st Panzer Division had lost two-thirds of its tanks and armored vehicles, 280 tanks were destroyed or abandoned by the Tang Army, and more than 5,000 people were killed or wounded and captured.

Prince William and Valentin rushed to Kherson from the city of Dnieper to personally go to the front line to inspect and assess the coalition forces that were fighting. Prince William had lost confidence in the combat capabilities of the Hungarians, believing that the Hungarian army was even inferior to the Lombard army on the battlefield.

It was only at this moment that Marshal Valentin deeply realized that the Hungarian Army was not prepared to participate in this war, and what kind of results the Hungarian Army would face in the face of the attack of the Tang armored forces. So on the night of the second day after arriving at the front, he issued a "painful decision" to his coalition commanders: the offensive on the coast of the Sea of Azov was temporarily suspended.

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But his decision was a bitter blow to Prince Eugen.

After receiving the order to retreat, Prince Eugen jumped on his feet in the headquarters in Pikrov and bitterly scolded the Hungarians as "Italians among the allies", and ordered the main forces of Group B to immediately stop crossing the river and retreat in the direction of Zaporia with all their might.

He now has long since lost the idea of attacking the Tang army on both sides, and just begs himself not to be made into a "pie" by the Tang people.

Fortunately, General Su Youting had insufficient troops at hand, and his eyes were fixed on the 1st Armored Division of the Hungarian Army and the 1st Infantry Division and the 34th Division of the East Francian Army, and he had no time to spare his forces to intercept the retreat of East Francian Group B.

After the Hungarian 2nd Army and the 19th East Francian Army retreated on all fronts, General Liszt had no choice but to order the 1st East Frankish Army to retreat as well. He hoped to withdraw from a certain distance and then reorganize the counterattack, but Su Youting's army did not give him a chance to adjust. The armored forces of the 5th Army of the Tang State were like three sharp long knives inserted into the retreating troops of the European coalition forces, and the Tang tanks were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, rampage on the positions hastily constructed by the European coalition forces, and the gap in equipment performance frightened the Hungarians and made the East Franks feel helpless.

The retreating European coalition forces quickly retreated in the Dnieper Plain, and General Liszt was no longer able to organize effective resistance, so he simply ordered all troops to abandon Melitopol and retreat in the direction of the Crimean Peninsula with all their might. The 1st East Franconian Army was in a state of extreme panic and was essentially in a state of collapse, with everyone climbing all the transport they could find, throwing away all their heavy equipment and desperately fleeing south.

They were afraid of falling into the hands of the Tang infantry units that were constantly interspersed to the south, and their defeat was like a mountain.

Fortunately, the Hungarian Army Air Force and the British Air Force deployed a large number of aircraft in South Africa, and under the desperate interception of the bomber troops, the losses of the Tang armored forces were not small, and they also delayed the pursuit of the Tang army to a large extent.

Marines on the Black Sea coast of the North Caucasus are tending to launch a counteroffensive on the Crimean Peninsula in order to relieve the besieged Black Sea City naval base.

Escorted by the Black Sea Fleet of the Navy, the marines began to board from Novorostok.

At 1:10 a.m. on June 29, the landing fleet approached the waters near Sudak in the southern part of the Crimean Peninsula. It was a small fishing port and was not defended by much East Franconian army. At the scheduled landing on the beach, the assault battalions of the 9th Marine Division rushed up and did not meet any resistance at all.

Subsequently, the 18th Marine Brigade, which was the first to land, easily captured Sudak and several nearby towns, and the British deployed only 2 battalions of infantry in this area, which was simply unable to resist the attack of the Tang Marines. On the night of the same day, the 9th Marine Division successfully landed, and a large number of equipment and supplies were transported ashore. Soon, heavy artillery, mountain artillery, tanks, armoured vehicles, and other heavy equipment were also transported to land on the small docks of Richards Bay Harbor, and the landing was a surprising success with little resistance.

Immediately after the successful landing of the marines, the engineering units began to build field airfields using bulldozers and rollers.

Sudak is only 230 kilometers from Black Sea City, the largest port and naval base in Crimea, where the Tang navy has landed in a big way, which is indeed a bolt from the blue for Prince William and Prince Eugen, who are organizing a large army retreat in Kherson.

If the retreat route to the port of Black Sea City is cut off, it will undoubtedly be a huge blow to the intention of the coalition forces to occupy the coast of the Sea of Azov and the plan to establish a Black Sea defense line in one fell swoop.

Prince William and Prince Eugen immediately convened the highest military meeting of the Southern Cluster, and after a detailed analysis of the actions of the Don army, he decisively ordered the East Frankish army attacking the Crimea to abandon the plan to occupy the Black Sea Harbor City and attack Sudak with all its might, not allowing the Tang people to gain a foothold there.

If the Don Army had built an airfield in Sudak and put it into service, the future operations of the Allies in the lower Dnieper would have been seriously affected. Therefore, it was necessary to quickly organize forces to recapture this small port.

The focus of the campaign shifted from the southwestern border of Donets to the Crimean Peninsula.

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