More than 30 huge tanks ran over the gaps in the trenches and even above the infantry trenches, flattening the barbed wire and wooden barriers arranged in front of the positions directly under the tracks. A No. 4 Shepherd Dog tank drove very close to Ivan, followed by two Marines and T05 Seals in blue and white livery.

The 24-ton SEAL was a lap smaller than the 32-ton Shepherd, but it was more maneuverable, and it was clear that they should have been struck later than the No. 4 tank, but they caught up. As the tanks passed by Ivan and them, they saw some human organs and minced flesh stuck to their tracks, which made Bart scream.

It's clear that these vehicles are running over the corpses of their own people, oh God, these damned tank crews!

The counterattack of the Don army began, more tanks rushed out from behind, and rushed straight towards the position of the East Frankish army across the river, the Tang infantry in front of the tank also had to pay attention to dodging their own tanks behind them, if anyone was unfortunately injured and could not move, only God knows if those tracks would press over him.

The officers began to gather their men and, following behind the billowing smoke kicked up by the tanks and armored vehicles in front, launched an attack on the positions of the East Franks.

Hundreds of Tang tanks collided with East Francian tanks, and Bart and Liu Lin tried to follow behind an armored car, but Ivan stopped them. The seemingly safe back of these armored vehicles is the thing that attracts the enemy's firepower the most, and some anti-tank shells may not be able to penetrate the tank's armor, but the infantry following them is the most unlucky.

Although Ivan had never participated in battles before, he had heard many veterans talk about their combat experience, so he still gained a lot. To attack after the tanks, it is better to stay away from these things.

The performance of the tanks of the East Francians is not worse than that of the Tang tanks, but there is a gap between them and the Tang State in terms of numbers, and this gap will become bigger and bigger, and the East Frankish tanks destroyed on the battlefield are actually about the same as the Tang tanks. Not far in front of them, a "seal" was destroyed, and a tank soldier with a broken leg was wailing on the ground.

A few more shells flew over, blowing the "seal" into a ball of fire, and the smoke cleared, and the body of the tankman who was wailing just now had been divided into several pieces, and it had become charred black, and he could no longer feel the pain.

The East Frankish offensive was crushed and began to retreat towards the rolling hills behind them, with hundreds of Tang tanks and armored vehicles galloping across the yellowed African savannah, pursuing the retreating enemy......

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The fighting on the Eastern European front began in June and became fierce.

On May 12, 307 Republican, the East Frankish army again switched to a full-scale offensive, carrying out assaults from the northern, central and southern directions in three clusters, the northern cluster attacking the Baltic port from the direction of Lake Chud, the central cluster bypassing Kharkov from the southwest and turning to the north of Donets, and the southern cluster focusing on the Donets and the Sea of Azov, and the other part of the auxiliary offensive continued to advance towards the Crimean Peninsula.

Despite the enemy's all-out attack on the Crimean Peninsula, the southern part of the peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, including the Black Sea City (Sevastopol) naval base, remained in the hands of the Tang Empire, which pinned down a large number of enemy forces on the flanks.

The Franks, Romans, and cannibals have long been under the guise of the Persian Gulf, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe controlled by the Tang Empire. These places are "white people's world", but there is no fairness and justice in this world, and whoever has the biggest fist has the final say. In a sense, both a strong country and a robber mean the same thing.

As early as May, General Sun Henian wanted to launch a counteroffensive on the Donets front, but the Supreme Command, in view of the current shortage of troops, ordered the Don Theater to suspend military operations on the Donets front line and the troops to switch to defensive operations.

At present, the total strength of the army, navy and air force of the East Frankish Empire has exceeded 4.6 million, which has almost reached the limit of conscription, and their main military forces are concentrated in Eastern Europe, with almost 2.8 million troops gathered. The Tang Empire, on the other hand, also concentrated 2.6 million troops on this front, and in this area, the forces of both sides were the most intensive.

In addition to the presence of a large number of "volunteers" in the "South American Federation" and the "United States of America", the West Frankish Army is mainly deployed in Northwest Africa, Dashi and Byzantium.

The oil in the Middle East is also very important to the Tang Empire, and the Middle East Corps under the hands of General Shi Guofan has always maintained a strength of more than 35 divisions. On the Transcaucasian front, the Empire's Transcaucasian Corps actually deployed only 15 divisions along the long border between the Greater Caucasus Mountains and Mosul and the Byzantine Empire.

After the Battle of Iceland, the Imperial Navy was planning to launch the British landings.

If you want to occupy the British Isles, to which West Francia belongs, it is almost unthinkable without 100 infantry divisions, so although the Tang side has been shouting about landing in England, in fact, it is limited to the current strength and does not have this ability in a short period of time. The Supreme Command chose the focus of the counteroffensive in Northwest Africa, and the strength of the Tang Empire that could be put into the African battlefield was only about 35 divisions, and the strength was also somewhat insufficient.

The strategy of the Supreme High Command was to temporarily suspend large-scale military operations and wait for the readjustment of the country to complete before launching a major offensive campaign.

To say that it is an adjustment is actually to extend its claws to allies and neighboring countries.

The Samanid kingdom and the seven Indian states were able to recruit some volunteers, and the allies were forced to agree to send troops into the war under the coaxing of Prime Minister Li Jintang.

These allies may not be qualified to fight on the front line, but they are still capable of being a logistical baggage force.

The Tang Empire's main ally was the Abysian Empire in Northeast Africa, an East African empire of nearly 20 million men with nearly one million troops, who held back a large number of Dashi and West Francian forces on the Sudan and Egyptian fronts. In return, the Tang Empire promised to annex all of Cyrenaica and Sudan to the Abysian Empire after the war.

The war resources of the Tang Empire will also be allocated to them.

It will take time to adjust and deploy, but the sudden large-scale offensive of the East Franks in the Eastern European theater has disrupted the plans of the High Command. There was no choice but to transfer some of the troops originally intended to be deployed to the Americas and Africa from the Middle East and the country, and urgently transport them to the Eastern European theater to ensure victory in the entire campaign.

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