Franco knew very well that if he did not eliminate the royal family as soon as possible and take the entire Cerro kingdom into his hands, the Axis powers might abandon him if they decided that the cost of supporting him was too high, and he would die without a place to bury. Especially after the arrival of the volunteers of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, this possibility increased day by day, so Franco attacked the Sardinia mercenaries in large numbers, not only to suppress the arrogance of the Allies, but also to show his value to the Axis powers.

Franco was very concerned about the movements of the Sardinian mercenaries, and in order to be able to deal a heavy blow to them, he mobilized all the main forces except for the 77th Army. This time he was desperate, and after the main force was withdrawn, all other battlefields were replaced by new troops and put on the defensive.

After the Sardinian mercenaries launched an attack on Lelida, Franco quickly threw the main force, which had been on standby for a long time, in this direction.

The Sardinia mercenaries came in a hurry, and the air force units had not yet reached the kingdom of Cerro. Franco's side also lacked the necessary air cover because the Nantes Volunteer Air Force fully supported the Nantes Volunteer Army's attack on the Grand Duchy of Rees. Thus, in the city of Lelida, a purely ground war was waged without the participation of the air force.

In order to stop this mercenary army, the rebel New First Army stationed here had already dug a complex trench system and arranged a large number of firepower points, intending to hold back the Sardinia mercenaries here and buy time for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

The rebel New First Army is a force of recruits through and through, and they are all racists selected by Franco. These men hated Carlos I's policies and embraced Franco as a racist, so they fought valiantly in the defense.

The Sardinia mercenaries bullied the rebels into not having a tank, and they were the first to show off their armored forces. The Sardinian people's understanding of the chariot is somewhat different from that of other countries, and they believe that the chariot should be equipped with equipment that can quickly maneuver, can quickly advance on the battlefield, and can also be used for reconnaissance missions in peacetime.

At the same time, the chariot should be a weapon that can be mass-produced, low-cost, and win in the war by quantity, so although the Grand Duchy of Sardinia is equipped with two types of light and heavy chariots, its so-called Passat P26 heavy chariot weighs only twenty-six tons, which is only slightly stronger than the Grizzly 1 chariot, and the light CV-33 chariot is even only three tons, with two members, which can be described as a pee-like little guy.

At the head of the line at this time were the Passat P26 tanks, which were only 60 millimeters thick in front armor, but they were more than enough to deal with the soldiers of the new army who only had anti-aircraft guns in their hands. The soldiers of the new army showed extraordinary courage in the face of the formidable Sardinian mercenaries, many of whom rushed up with grenade bundles in their hands, blocking the advance of the Sardinians with their own flesh and blood.

The Passat chariot rumbled, and the 330-horsepower Fiat engine propelled the chariot forward at a speed of 35 kilometers per hour, and soon rushed to the position of the New First Army.

When the chariot broke through the barbed wire and jumped onto the first line of trenches, many of the soldiers of the new army who were hiding in the trenches began a new attack, and many waited until the chariot rushed to the trench, and then tied a grenade under the chariot and detonated, blowing through the very weak bottom armor of the chariot.

After launching a round of attacks, the loss of tanks reached more than 60 vehicles, and the commander of the Sardinia army had to withdraw his troops.

He quickly corrected his mistake, and the heavy artillery fire of the Sardinia army soon came, and more than two hundred 155-mm howitzers roared at the same time, pouring a large number of shells on the rebel positions, blowing up the poorly trained rebel soldiers with heavy losses, and many of them were torn to pieces by the huge force of the explosion before they could get into the anti-artillery holes.

Immediately afterwards, the Sardinian Army started with a small number of Passat tanks, supplemented by a large number of CV-33 vehicles, covering the infantry to launch a second attack. This time the attack went much more smoothly, because the front trenches were blown to pieces, and the rebel soldiers could only barely resist in the semi-collapsed trenches and shell craters, which made the losses of the Sadinian army tank units much smaller, but soon the new 1st Army sent reserves, and a main regiment specially reinforced with war defense guns was sent to the front line.

The rebels used a battle defense gun that was a product of the Boston Empire, with a barrel of 210 centimeters and a 20 mm oversized caliber, and due to the use of an extra-long charge of 124 millimeters, its bullets resembled small cannonballs, although its oversized magazine could only load seven rounds at a time.

In order to reduce the damage of recoil to the shooter, the gun was equipped with a heavy bipod and a series of complex buffer springs installed in the stock, which minimized the recoil of the rifle. Although the Bostonians thought that their war defense guns had been taken to the extreme, this was after all a product of the last war, or rather something that the Chinese Empire had come up with to fool people.

Due to the congenital inadequacy of the anti-aircraft gun, even if it was developed to such a power, it could only penetrate 35 mm of armor at a distance of 300 meters, and such penetrating power was not of much use to the frontal armor of combat vehicles, which is now generally thick. It can only aim at weak links such as side armor, fuel tanks, and tracks, temporarily paralyzing its combat capability, and its practicality is very limited, but it is such a weapon that actually shows great power in front of the CV-33 tank.

When a rebel gunner fired a bullet into the frontal armor of a CV-33 vehicle with almost desperate eyes, a miracle happened, and the armor-piercing bullet with a hard steel core easily penetrated the front armor of the vehicle and entered the cab.

The bullet after penetrating the armor plate was broken into several sections in the cab due to the change in stress, and was fired in all directions. The two occupants in the cab did not have time to react, and one of them was killed by the shrapnel instantly, while the other did not live for a few more seconds. With tremendous kinetic energy, the fragments bounced off the inner wall of the vehicle, and the ricocheting bullets eventually shattered the head of another vehicle crew, ending his terrified expression.

A CV-33 came to an abrupt halt with barely visible damage and suddenly stopped on the battlefield, and even the two eight-millimeter machine guns on its turret stopped roaring, apparently destroyed.