Tank, known as the king of land warfare.

It is a powerful weapon system that combines armor protection, fire projection, and cross-country maneuverability. A devastating strike force against defensive positions consisting of trenches, barbed wire, machine-gun fire points.

After the end of the second global war, England, which was suppressed by the Ming Empire in all directions, began to develop various new weapons in an all-round way in order to get rid of the unfavorable situation, trying to seek the possibility of turning around through the power of science and technology.

In this context, with the deepening of the second industrial revolution, science and technology in all aspects have advanced by leaps and bounds. A new type of weapon that organically combines firepower, mobility, and protection was born in the hands of Triton, a native of London's West End.

When it was first born, this weapon weighed less than twenty tons. The thickness of the armor was only a few millimeters, that is, it could only withstand the bullets of heavy machine guns. The armament was also armed only with two machine guns. The speed is only a few kilometers per hour, and the ability to cross trenches and obstacles is very average. However, the birth of this weapon means that an artifact capable of completely breaking the stalemate of trench warfare has appeared!

When this weapon was developed, the English people were ecstatic. In order to keep it secret from the Ming people, they named this new weapon after the naval term "tank".

After many years of secret development, the English had already made a large number of breakthroughs in tank technology, and the latest tanks had long been completely different from the original. Although the Ming Empire received rumors that the English secretly developed a new weapon, it did not know the birth of this epoch-making weapon because it did not attach great importance to it itself, and the English kept it secret.

No matter how good a weapon is, it is meaningless if it has not been tested in real combat. Even if it is an atomic bomb, it will take two to use it in actual combat. After much deliberation, the English decided to send a batch of tanks in their possession to the Sardinians to actually participate in the battle, to test the power of the weapon.

Of course, England would not admit such a thing. These tanks were all painted with the insignia of the Sardinian army and turned into weapons produced by them. As for the English drivers, of course, they were just volunteers.

When the town of Bra was lost, news reached the command of the Sardinians that the southern defenses of the city of Turin had completely collapsed. The inner tangle of the Sardinian commander, the highly regarded Milo. Ponso. Advance. Descendant of the Count of Cavour, Giuseppe. After several hesitations, Count Cavour, under the constant urging of the king and his subordinates, finally gave the order to attack according to the original plan!

You know, no one knows how powerful the tank will be before it really goes to war!

The Sardinians didn't even know there was such a thing until the English sent tanks over. Moreover, the military power of the Ming Empire for hundreds of years is too strong to suppress all countries, even if the main force on the opposite side is a group of mercenaries, it is still the mercenaries of the Ming Empire!

Under normal circumstances, in the case of similar forces, attacking a heavily defended trench without decisive heavy artillery support is completely dying! This is the fundamental reason why Count Cavour has been hesitant. The Sardinian has such a little power, and once he is buried in the trenches, then he is the irreplaceable sinner of the whole country!

It's just that the collapse of the southern front forced Count Cavour onto a path without a choice. There is no formed resistance force in the south, and the Ming army in the south can reach the city of Turin in a day or two at most. What to do then? Having no choice, Count Cavour scratched his hair, and finally roared bloodshot to give the order for an all-out attack.

If you don't want to die in silence, then explode in silence!

The sky is getting brighter, and the sun is slowly rising in the distance, and the warm sunlight is beginning to dispel the cold of the night. The clouds in the sky, the blue sky and white clouds, a refreshing scene. But that's not the case on earth.

A large-scale battle is raging on the banks of the Po River outside the town of Kivaso. At this moment, both the offensive and defensive sides are holding their positions, and the artillery of both sides is firing fiercely. The scorching cannonballs like flying meteors cut countless dazzling flight traces in mid-air, smashing the ground and splashing up the skyrocketing earth!

The Po River is not wide, and there is still a lot of muddy land on both sides. Dense shells continued to explode violently around the riverbank, and waves of mud were thrown into the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder gradually began to envelop the position.

The Sardinians launched a general assault on the core position that Liu Yue had placed in the town of Kivaso.

The Sardinians, who had no way out, took out all their strength, and even a battalion secretly supported by the French, who had been hidden as the country's important weapon, pulled out eighteen of the latest Schneider M1928 155mm howitzers!

The lion still needs to use all his strength to fight the rabbit, not to mention that they have a dragon to fight!

The Sardinians have made up their final resolutions. Artillery of various calibers rained bullets from various artillery positions in the early hours of the morning on the defenders' positions outside the town of Kivaso. The density of the fire completely stunned the defenders. No one could have imagined that the Sardinians would have such great power!

The power of an entire country that has been thrifty for decades has completely exploded in the early hours of this morning. More than 300 artillery pieces of caliber of more than 75 mm stunned the Ming troops stationed outside the town of Kivaso with frantic shelling. Liu Yue didn't expect his opponent to be so strong at all, but he still had great confidence in holding his position. Because the artillery of the Sardinians had not yet completely broken his line.

Then, the monster was released.

The sky was bright, and after more than an hour of heavy shelling, the intensity of the Sardinian shelling gradually decreased. Then there was a loud rumbling sound from their starting position.

The sentries in the front line of the Ming army were horrified to find that in a small forest in the distance ahead, the trees and dead grass had been knocked down. Immediately, a group of huge monsters like steel bunkers rushed out of the woods and pressed towards the Ming army's position.

The soldiers of the Ming army had never seen such terrifying steel monsters before, and they were so frightened that they shot at them desperately. The dense bullets hit the steel plate with dazzling sparks, and the 'clanging' sound meant that the bullets had no effect.

The invulnerable steel behemoth kept firing guns, rumbling forward as it returned fire. The soldiers of the Ming army in the trench looked at the invulnerability, and the large number of steel beasts that were getting closer and closer were frightened and ran away. Shouting, throwing away his weapons and fleeing along the traffic trenches. These huge steel monsters easily entered the depth of the Ming army's position, bringing great threat to the Ming army.

This huge movable steel fortress is the tank that England secretly delivered to the Sardinians for combat testing!

The official name in the English army was actually the Land Cruiser, and the standard model was the Mark 5. Armed with a 57-mm howitzer as well as four machine guns. The thickness of the front armor exceeded thirty millimeters. Despite its total weight of more than 20 tons, it is still capable of traveling at speeds of more than 20 kilometers per hour.

A total of seventy-one Mark 5s entered the war this time. All were transported to the front in Sardinia via France under extremely secret circumstances. Because they have no experience, no one knows what kind of strength they will be able to use.

Five tanks remained in the rear as a reserve due to mechanical problems, and the other sixty-six tanks successfully entered the starting point of the battle, and made a surprise attack through the grove into the core position of the Ming army outside the town of Kivaso. Although the attacking tanks were very slow, they were also overturned by mines and Ming artillery. However, the spectacular and majestic scene of the assault of the dozens of tanks still left a very deep impression on people.

The unusually strong trench position was thrown into disarray under the assault of the armored forces, and the Sardinian army, which was followed up, easily broke through the core position. The morale of the Sardinians and the volunteers of the various countries was greatly boosted. They followed with high morale, and they assaulted and assaulted behind the defeated Ming army! Defeated one Ming army after another and slaughtered them to the banks of the Po River. At this time, the core defensive position set up by Liu Yue outside the town of Kivaso completely collapsed.

"It can't be! That's impossible!! Liu Yue suddenly ripped off the military discipline buckle on his military uniform, grabbed his hair hard, and roared angrily!

After the collapse of the core position, the Ming army that rushed to block it was all defeated in front of the tanks. It was the dry winter season, and the Sardinians and English tanks were able to cross the Po River and enter the town of Kivaso. Inside the town was the logistics base of the Ming army, and then back was their artillery position.

Liu Yue couldn't believe his eyes at all. A group of steel monsters actually drove him into a corner. At this moment, the vanguard of the Sardinians had entered the town of Kivaso, and he had no strength at his disposal to fight back.

Although there are tens of thousands of troops, in fact, in addition to logistics, transportation, artillery, etc., other combat units also have their own defense lines and stations. And they are basically infantry, and it is simply impossible to rush to the designated place in a short time. It's not that you have as many troops as you can put anywhere at any given time, and it's not a game.

The Sardinians advanced so fast that Liu Yue didn't have time to readjust his deployment. The positions were constantly broken through and broken through, and the troops were constantly divided and surrounded. The whole situation was in chaos.

Some things that were originally covered up by the Ming army broke out at this time. The main force of the battle is mercenaries who are extremely poorly trained, have low morale, and work for the silver dollar. At this time, it is simply delusional to expect them to fight a tough battle, to carry the ferocious assault of the Sardinians.

As for the regular army, it was originally drawn from various concessions. Everyone is not subordinate to each other on weekdays, and it is more like a joke to rush together to fight. It's okay to say when you win all the way, but now when you are facing a huge crisis, the hidden drawbacks are instantly exposed.

When Liu Yue angrily ordered a certain unit to go to the front-line battlefield, either the phone could not be reached, or no one obeyed the order. As for letting the troops on the front line fight to the death, before this kind of order was issued, the troops there had already retreated on their own.

The battle is decided!