In the early hours of December 21, the Ming Empire was the first to break the calm of sit-down warfare on the southeastern peninsula, and in a slightly flat area along the coast, the Ming army launched an attack on Ceylon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On that day, when the sky was just dark, the tanks of the Ming Empire started this simple and rough battle under the cover of artillery.

Wang Jue waited for so many days, but he still didn't wait for the flaws of the Ceylon army, so he could only sell his flaws to see Ceylon's reaction to the changes.

The Ming armored forces, which had strengthened the Janissary Panzer Division, launched a fierce attack on the enemy's positions, and Ceylon really lived up to expectations and withstood the Ming army's offensive on the first day.

On the battlefield, the Ming lost about 30 tanks of the No. 1 and No. 1 Modifications, smoke billowed everywhere, and craters made the central part of the war between the two sides almost like the surface of the moon.

Moreover, the troops participating in the battle were reinforced with heavy firepower at the level of the group army, and hundreds of artillery pieces began to bombard before the battle broke out, turning the entire theater of operations into purgatory.

The trees here, the leaves were broken by shrapnel, the branches were broken, and finally turned into bare trunks. The trunk then snapped off to become a stump on the ground.

It didn't take long for the stump to be knocked out, leaving only the exposed roots in the crater, proving that there was once a large tree here.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the battle reached a fever pitch. The Ming army threw in 100 tanks in one go to cover their own infantry attack.

At this time, reinforcements from Ceylon also arrived, and 70 Mammoth 1 tanks from Ceylon joined the battle, and the Ceylon defenders immediately launched a counterattack.

Ceylon's Mammoth 1 may sound like a high-end and powerful heavy tank, but it is not a heavy armored vehicle.

This tank is about the same as the No. 1 tank of the Ming Empire, which is actually more than a dozen tons of dead weight, and carries a 20 mm caliber machine gun, which is exactly the same as the No. 1 tank of the Ming Empire.

After taking into account the actual situation of its own battlefield, Ceylon felt that heavy tanks were not easy to use in the southeast peninsula region, and the troops on the front preferred to use weapons and equipment like tank No. 1.

Both Britain and Germany had purchased castrated versions of Tank 1, so Ceylon of course had also obtained Tank 1 for experiments. After a comprehensive evaluation, Ceylon decided that the most suitable route for him was still the light tank route of the No. 1 tank.

Therefore, the Ceylon tank adopted a design very similar to the No. 1 tank of the Ming Empire, but the turret was changed to a smaller size according to its own needs.

Because Ceylon did not have outstanding radio technology, they did not popularize radio for their own tanks. Because of this, they embarked on a completely different path from the Ming Empire's No. 1 tank modification.

The Ming Empire's No. 1 tank was improved by enlarging its own turret and stuffing it with an extra person and high-power radio equipment to enhance its cooperative combat capabilities.

Ceylon's No. 1 tank was to reduce the turret and strengthen the steel plate protection of the turret, but to abandon space and radio equipment......

However, compared with the Japanese who cleverly changed the caliber of the main gun, the Ceylonese followed the practice of 20 mm caliber machine guns, but they were obviously much smarter.

The magazine feed was maintained, which kept the mammoth tank's main gun rate of fire at a very high level, giving this light tank a high firepower output.

It doesn't give up too much else because it wants to be outstanding in one performance metric. So its performance is just as balanced as that of Tank 1.

The collision of two tanks with similar performance on the battlefield was obviously more tragic than the first tank battle in human history on the Korean Peninsula.

Because it was really tragic, as soon as the tank units of the two sides met each other, the battle entered a white-hot stage, and the two sides fired at each other with 20 mm guns.

The high rate of fire of this weapon allows both sides to have a higher hit rate and breakdown probability when attacking each other.

The tanks on both sides have their own advantages, and the tanks of the Ming Empire have the advantage in the ability to coordinate and liaise; On the other hand, Ceylon's Mammoth 1 tank won in turret protection.

So when the time came to noon that day, the tanks of Ceylon and the tanks of the Ming Empire handed over their answer sheets respectively.

Exactly 35 Mammoth 1 tanks were destroyed in Ceylon, while 43 were destroyed in the Ming Empire - the main reason for this was that the Ming Empire was the attacking side, and they had to withstand the anti-tank weapons of the opposing positions at the same time.

In the afternoon, Wang Jue did not hesitate to invest in his reserves, and more than 20,000 soldiers of the Ming Army launched another fierce attack on the high ground garrisoned in Ceylon under the cover of tanks.

The ensuing battle continued to stalemate, with a full 3,000 men killed in the vicinity, and finally the Ming Empire took the high ground held by the Ceylonese defenders at any cost.

On the first day of the battle, before the afternoon had completely passed, both sides had already lost a large number of troops, and neither of them took advantage of anyone, and they were all competing for losses.

As the attacking side, the Ming Empire suffered more losses, but they exchanged these losses for a position of the Ceylon defenders, so it is not easy to evaluate whether it is worth it or not.

And the Ceylon side is also not broken, this is just a defensive position on their periphery, and it is nothing at all.

As for the future battle, both sides can only wait patiently, waiting for the moment when the other side leaks flaws. And this kind of flaw must be piled up with considerable losses, until one side makes a mistake.

"It's really hard to fight...... Shen Baihe, this opponent is indeed worth my full effort. Wang Jue looked at the rolling Ceylon fortresses marked on the map, sighed and said.

Beside him, Wang Yan also had a solemn expression. In less than a day, his carefully trained armored units had to stop the offensive because of losses, which was definitely depressing news.

And across the other end of the trench fortress, Shen Baihe also looked at the map in front of him with a solemn expression, his carefully arranged defense line, only one morning, was beaten by the Ming army to the ground, the scene was really ugly.

"It's really hard to fight...... Wang Jue, I know you still have tricks that you haven't used, I'm waiting for you here! Almost at the same time, he, like Wang Jue, issued such a feeling.

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