However, what kept everyone at a loss was ......

The Fifth Army of the Ming Army is missing.

This huge mechanized corps disappeared from sight the night after leaving Pujie, and neither the pursuing Tianzhu 41st Infantry Division nor the 7th Armored Division attacking from Amudaba received any more news about this army. Although they must be in the eastern part of the Kutch Heights, the problem is that the total area of this area is more than 10,000 square kilometers, including the two swamps in the north and south, which have been turned into salinized barren land due to the arrival of the dry season.

Who knows where they are?

In fact, their location is very simple, on the salt plains in the eastern part of the Little Kutch Marsh.

In a river that has long dried up, under the cold starlight, it seems to be back to the rainy season, several kilometers of the river, glowing as if flowing, but the composition of this wave of light is not flowing water, but endless steel, is a tank, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, off-road trucks, thousands of various vehicles, together form a river of steel.

Beside these steel beasts, the more than 20,000 soldiers of the Ming Army who spent two days with them and ran more than 200 kilometers were still in a tense and busy situation.

They are busy repairing and maintaining their vehicles.

Especially those of the latest Leopard tanks.

Armored cluster advancement, is not as simple as speed multiplied by time, although the Leopard tank solves the biggest problem of the Ming army's armored forces, that is, the problem that tanks and infantry fighting vehicles cannot be perfectly matched, after all, the speed of infantry fighting vehicles is much faster than Xie Mantou, and the off-road travel is also too much.

But no matter how good a tank is, it can't be driven for a long time. Especially in the case of off-roading. Even if there is no real battle. Just the march is normally within 100 kilometers per day, of course, if there is a flatbed truck to take the road, it is another matter.

Therefore, it must be overhauled every once in a while, and if necessary, the parts must be replaced, and if necessary, the ......

"Commander, three more are estimated to be unrepairable before dawn."

An officer reported to Yang Yan.

"The old rule, remove the night vision device, close the car body and dig a pit to bury it."

Yang Yan said.

This is already the second batch of tanks that he buried. According to this situation, after reaching their raid target, the Second Army would have to lose close to seven percent of its tanks, but this is already very good, if it is replaced by Xie Mantou......

Xie Mantou can't complete such a task at all.

Because their goal is to be in Amoudaba, the sixth largest city in Tianzhu, but lose the fifth place in Kolkata, the commercial center, the transportation hub, and most importantly. This is the gateway to the Katiawa Peninsula, as long as the city is captured. Basically, it is equivalent to sealing the gates of this tens of thousands of square kilometers of peninsula, and then the huge convoy of transport ships that have already been assembled in Karachi can continue to land in the western ports of Borbender, Duwakar, and Welavour.

Jinnah has prepared two whole army groups!

And the core of the whole plan is whether they can seize the ...... quickly

"Amudaba!"

At noon the next day, General Timaiya was directly stunned by the bad news, and just after missing for a night, the Ming Fifth Army suddenly slaughtered out of the Little Kachi Swamp and then went straight to Amoudaba, who at this time had almost no troops.

"Quick, order the 7th Panzer Division to go back immediately!"

His Excellency the Chief of the General Staff shouted in a cold sweat.

Well, the 7th Panzer Division of the Tianzhu Army, which was 100 kilometers north of Amudaba, preparing to attack the Fifth Army at the exit of the Kutch Heights, hurriedly retreated, and hurriedly loaded onto the train to urgently return to its military headquarters, while at the same time, at the Baroda railway station a hundred kilometers away, the army train that had just entered the station, full of the 57th Infantry Division, also restarted and rumbled north along the railway.

But it was too late.

Amudaba.

The commander of the 14th Army of Tianzhu, who stayed in the city, very heroically put together all his subordinates, all the personnel who could be pieced together, what staff officers, engineers, and even the cooks who cooked were all arranged into the battle sequence, and finally put together an army of several thousand people. But before the defensive line could be arranged, the infantry fighting vehicles of the Fifth Army of the Ming Army drove directly into the city, and in a hurry, the Tianzhu Army had to abandon the west bank of the Sabarmati River and retreat to the east bank of the city.

But it's a pity that this patchwork army collapsed directly almost as soon as it actually exchanged fire.

"Shit, damn it, what the hell is this, did they drive the battleship to land?"

His Excellency said with his lips trembling with grief and indignation.

Not far from him, a terrifying giant ball of fire was spreading ferociously, and the impact of the explosion was like the giant hand of the gods, unscrupulously wiping out everything within a radius of tens of meters around him, and above him, the dull whistling sound was still falling, and the result of each whistle was a huge circular belt of ruins, between which the Tianzhu soldiers were screaming in horror and scattering in all directions.

Just as His Excellency the commander shouted angrily, the sound of a cannonball falling sounded very different from the others, and he subconsciously raised his head, and then his life was frozen at this moment.

"This is good, I suggest that the Führer have more equipment in the future."

Yang Yan looked at the rising columns of smoke not far away with great satisfaction, beside him were twelve self-propelled guns, but it was not the M40 that was almost standard in the Ming army, and the M40 with Xie Mantou as the chassis was too slow to follow the assault of the Leopard tank, so Yang Yuan gave them a better one.

Tulip, Soviet-made 2S4 self-propelled mortar, 240 mm, shells weighing 130 kg, rocket range extender is more than 200 kg, maximum range 18 km, the most effective demolition machine for urban operations.

Obviously, this kind of violent thing is not at all the fragile heart of the Tianzhu people can bear, the twelve tulip mortars only fired two rounds of shells, the 14th Army of the Tianzhu Army collapsed, after His Excellency the commander was blown up by the shells, thousands of defenders composed of non-combatants, directly hula all at once scattered, in less than half an hour, the fifth largest city in Tianzhu announced that it had changed hands.

Of course, the real battle of the Fifth Army was just beginning.

But it was not they who were the first to go into battle, but the Canberra bombers that took off from Karachi.

"Commander, the bombers of the Pakistan Air Force have begun to bomb the Tianzhu Army heading north from Vadodara, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to reach it in the short term."

A staff officer said to Yang Yan.

At this time, the headquarters of the Fifth Army had moved to the military headquarters of the 14th Army of Tianzhu, the city was in good order, there were no attacks on the Ming army, this was not a Tianzhu city, on the contrary, there were quite a lot of Muslims, and there were also peace-loving Jains, in short, they were used to being ruled by foreigners, and they did not show too strong a reaction to the change of master.

Of course, it is also possible that you are frightened by the terrifying power of tulips.

"Very well, it's time to test our tanks."

Yang Yan said lightly.

Well, the battle that Yang was most looking forward to kicked off in this way, and more than 200 T34/85s of the Tianzhu Seventh Armored Division all got off the train at a small station more than ten kilometers away from Amudaba, and then slaughtered violently towards this city that originally belonged to them.

The soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade of the Ming Army, who were also resting outside the Amudaba, also hurriedly threw down the cigarettes in their hands and quickly climbed onto the Leopard tanks one by one, followed by the 800-horsepower diesel engine starting, the steel tracks turning, and turning north to start the first actual combat of the Leopard tank.

Ten minutes later.

"Enemy spotted, T34 tank!"

Chen Kai was the first to spot the enemy troops in the distance who were approaching in a charging formation, and on the slightly yellowed arid wilderness, T34s that looked like toys were slowly approaching.

"Each car is ready, fire at a distance of one kilometer!"

Immediately after that, the voice of the brigade commander came over the radio.

All the moving Leopard tanks raised their muzzles, and the gun commanders in each vehicle began to measure the range through the optical rangefinder, and then aimed at the target through the scope, and the loader quickly loaded the tail stabilized shelling tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet into the gun chamber, Chen Kai, who was also lying on the commander's periscope, immediately roared after aiming at a T34 tank that entered the firing range: "Fire!" ”

With a loud bang, in front of the Leopard tank that was moving, the 105-millimeter muzzle immediately sprayed flames, and the shell butt automatically cracked and separated at the moment when the gun was ejected, and only a 20-millimeter tungsten alloy bullet core with a tail like a dart fired at the target at several times the speed of sound, and flew out more than 1,000 meters in the blink of an eye. Then, like nails piercing through the plank, the T34's turret frontal armor was easily penetrated, and the force of the impact even knocked the entire turret flying, and then the hull began to emit flames upwards.

At the same time as Chen Kai's tank fired, other moving Leopard tanks also let out a roar one after another, and more than 140 armor-piercing shells flew out with a roar, easily creating a TS34 kill like a target, and in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred T34s were destroyed in this way, or the turret was knocked away or the front of the hull was penetrated in the ammunition explosion, turning into a blazing torch.

At the same time, the remaining T34s stopped one after another, and the turrets began to rotate, and at the moment when the second round of fire from the Leopard tank was fired, dozens of T34 eight- and five-millimeter tank guns also sprayed flames.

Chen Kai felt his car shake violently, but then returned to normal, and the second shell he had just fired missed due to an accident.

"Fire!"

Just in the periscope, when the distant target fired for the second time, with Chen Kai's roar, the tank fired the third armor-piercing projectile, almost at the same time as the feeling of impact, the middle of the front of the T34 hull on the opposite side, suddenly there was a fiery red bullet hole, and then the flames burst out from inside.

And Chen Kai's tank is still undamaged. (To be continued.) )