Chapter 576: The Age of Madness
These vehicle-mounted recoilless guns have a range comparable to the 105mm howitzers used by the army, and the short-barreled 37 guns used by the Italians to support the infantry on their small chariots are like small toys in front of them, and the shaped charge armor-piercing shells fired directly from a kilometer away explode accurately on each chariot. With the explosion of the antimony charge in the warhead, the molten copper powder cover immediately formed a metal jet focused towards the center, penetrating the armor of the Italian chariots like a soldering iron inserted into the ice, and then carrying the molten metal that was molten by them instantly swept through the chariots.
In the blink of an eye, more than fifty Italian tanks burst into flames, and the detonation of ammunition threw turrets directly into the sky.
The Italians on the rest of the chariots are stupid, this is too brutal, but we are also chariots, and the armor steel plate is a guarantee of the courage of many people, and it is actually the same as paper paste in front of these thick pipes. The frightened stunned people hurriedly manipulated their 37 tank guns to rotate slowly, and began to aim at the off-road vehicles in the distance, but unfortunately their aiming speed was outrageously slow compared to the recoilless guns mounted on the body gun carriage, and before the Italians could fire the first shot, the second round of shells on the opposite side came, this time it was much more complete, and all the tanks were scrapped in an instant.
The more heroic Italian infantry behind them were still ready to save the collapsing battle with these tanks, and in the blink of an eye, they were left alone, their compatriots were in the rout or surrender in General Baltini's position, and the compatriots behind them who were supposed to attack with them were also fleeing, and only less than a regiment of Italian soldiers advanced or retreated there, and when the recoilless guns were replaced with anti-personnel grenades to shoot the third round of shells into their midst, These last warriors simply dispersed.
"This Tamar is like chasing ducks, this is the so-called Great Power? I don't think it's as good as the Japanese back then! Mi Zhenbiao sat on his off-road military vehicle, looked at the Italians who were scattered like ducks with binoculars, and said with some emotion.
"Commander, Division Commander Liu asks whether to chase or not?" The Signal Soldier asked from behind.
"What to chase. We are here to help the Austrians defend the city, how can we defend the city after the Italians are beaten away? Mi Zhenbiao said.
The signal soldier was at a loss for a moment, and it was difficult for him to understand the theory of his Excellency the commander, of course, his duty was to use the radio to convey the order rather than understand the rationality of the order, and then with the order from the radio station, the Chinese soldiers who were chasing the defeated Italians stopped and began to turn around and escort the surrendered Italians back to Budapest.
In this glorious victory, the Third Army of the First Army of the Chinese aid army to Europe defeated the Italian Sixth Army with less than 500 casualties, annihilated 20,000 enemies, captured 10,000 enemies, and completely annihilated the only Italian tank brigade belonging to this army. When the 10,000 Italian captives were taken back to Budapest. The whole city was stunned, and the Hungarians, who had been shaken by the approach of the Italians, immediately strengthened their courage to continue fighting, and the Hungarian prime minister, who had refused to recruit Hungarian soldiers for Archduke Ferdinand, renewed his call for the Hungarian people to fight the invaders to the end.
The three subsequent armies of the Italian Second Army, which were marching towards Budapest, did not hesitate to retreat to Székeszberea, and these guys were only carried away by the previous overwhelming situation, and at the first moment of setback, they immediately revealed their true form, and began to ask their allies for reinforcements, but also planes, chariots, and artillery. In short, if you want something that you can want, the nose of the British, who is mainly responsible for helping them, is almost crooked, and the two group armies of nearly 500,000 troops have to be reinforced against less than 150,000 people, which is also extremely shameless.
Fortunately, with the emergence of those mysterious North American submarines. The Allied navies in the Atlantic acted with great care, so the sea routes from North America to Britain were never cut off, although merchant ships were often sunk, and even two troop transports were captured a few days ago. More than 5,000 North American soldiers were taken prisoner before they could go to war, but on the whole, North American industry and raw materials still replenished a certain amount of fresh blood for the Entente.
While urging the Italians to continue the offensive, the British had to squeeze out some of their valuable supplies from other fronts and send them to the Hungarian front. At the same time, the attack on Berlin was intensified, and all the North American troops reinforced from the Americas were put into the German battlefield, so that the total number of troops used in the Battle of Berlin reached 700,000, while the total strength of the German army led by Crown Prince Wilhelm himself was less than 200,000, and half of them were patchwork militias.
The battle of the US-British coalition in Berlin can be said to be mired in the sea of the people's war, any little kid picking up garbage on the side of the road may throw a deadly grenade at them, all the windows that have not been cleaned may shoot bullets, even a girl who smiles at them takes out a pistol from her corset the next moment, it is not surprising that the US-British coalition forces in Berlin are not only making slow progress, but also the number of casualties is increasing day by day, in the words lamented by the British newspapers, this is a crazy battle, there is no civilian or military separate battleAll Germans, men, women and children, were enemies.
This battle has gone crazy, naturally there can be no rules and restrictions, as for the gentleman's demeanor, it will become a joke, especially here are most of the North American soldiers who come with a heart of revenge, the tyranny of human nature in the killing and resistance has been released as the war becomes more and more intense, massacres, forcible gangs, robberies and other bao behaviors have become more and more commonplace, and the hatred between the two peoples has grown wildly under the watering of the war. And it spread rapidly beyond Berlin, and the German soldiers on the French battlefield, who were enraged by the actions of the American and British forces in Berlin, even began to storm the prisoner of war camp and massacre the British soldiers they had captured, and in retaliation, the British also raised their butcher's knives against the German prisoners of war.
At this time, the Entente received another terrible piece of information, that the main force of the Chinese aid army, which had now increased to a total strength of 300,000 in Bulgaria, had begun to move towards Ottoman territory except for the two armies that continued to maintain the offensive against Serbia with the two Ottoman armies in Bulgaria. They were certainly not preparing to attack north from Kosovo, where the mountains were high enough to make any attacker desperate, most likely to board a ship in an Albanian port and then land north on the port of Pula, which was still under the control of the Austro-Hungarian navy, and attack north to cut off the logistical supply lines of the Allied armies in the Balkans and Hungary.
If this is the case, it will be a disaster for the Entente, because this supply line is guarded by the Italians, and the fighting power of the Italians does not need to rush over together, as long as one army lands in Pula, then it is impossible for the Italians to hold their line, and this supply line is the only supply line of the Entente in Hungary and the Balkans, if the Italians cannot hold it, it means that nearly two million American, British and Italian troops there will starve to death.
The solution is simple, go all out to break through the blockade of the Strait of Otranto, and solve the six Austro-Hungarian combined-forces battleships and two Greek fast battleships that are currently entrenched in this narrow sea lane.
"Look, how good this is, we're just putting on a show, and they'll have to go and play with the Austro-Hungarian fleet again." Emperor Yang said proudly, this is still the last time Li Yuncong put forward two plans to reinforce Budapest, he was reminded that the British Navy still has twelve capital ships, and the French also have two, although these fourteen capital ships are no longer a concern, but in the end they still have to be solved, in this case, let them consume it themselves, right?
"What if they don't succeed? Do we want to fake it? Li Yuncong reminded him that the strength of the Austro-Hungarian and Greek combined fleets is not weak, especially the six combined forces, although it is definitely not possible to fight a real naval battle with others on the vast sea in the Otranto Strait, but if it is used as a floating battery in this strait only a few tens of kilometers wide, it can be described as indestructible, not to mention that there are two Greek fast battleships, and the Austro-Hungarian Navy has forty spear torpedoes specially made for them.
"What is the main threat to our large-scale landing operations in Europe? It's not these capital ships, just their twelve capital ships, we just go over a few battleships and push them, our main trouble is those large number of cruisers, destroyers and even torpedo boats, this is what we need to solve the most. Moreover, since the last time the Germans bombed the British landing ships, Britain and France have also begun to install a large number of anti-aircraft weapons on their warships, and even if we have air superiority in the fighting, it is dangerous for them to rush up hundreds of super battleships at once.
So before that, we must consume their light warships to the maximum, the Austro-Hungarian and Greek fleets are a good cannon fodder, the British know the difficulty of attacking the Otranto Strait, and they have not attacked before, this time they must be reluctant to use the capital ships and the Austro-Hi fleet to fight for attrition, and use the capital ships to contain the firepower of the Austro-Hi fleet, and a large number of destroyers and torpedo boats play suicidal charge. This has been tested when dealing with the Argentines at the beginning, and this time it will definitely not be left without such a cheap method, even the fast battleships will not be able to avoid these wolf packs, not to mention the combined force class that may capsize if the turn is sharp. Emperor Yang said sinisterly. (To be continued......)