So when the assault artillery unit began to replenish ammunition, the tank troops that had just withdrawn began to continue to attack with the infantry fighting vehicles and support units behind, but it may be that the tank troops did not look at the yellow calendar when they went out, and today is not suitable for the tank to attack, I thought that after the assault artillery cleaned up those annoying bunkers, there should be no big problem in front, but not long after passing through the defensive line, the tank troops gathered their formation and prepared to continue to break through, and the infantry who followed up was clearing the remnants of the trench system. Before the follow-up troops could consolidate the breakthrough, the wasp self-propelled anti-tank guns that suddenly emerged from the open ground startled the Huaxia armored forces!

"Boom!" WITH THE SOUND OF FIRE ONE AFTER ANOTHER, THE FIRST SALVO OF THE WASP SELF-PROPELLED ANTI-TANK GUN BEGAN, AND DOZENS OF 88MM SHELLS FLEW TOWARDS THE SCATTERED FORMATION OF THE HUAXIA TANK GROUP AT A VERY HIGH SPEED, AND THE ONCE FAMOUS GERMAN 88MM TANK GUN CONTINUED TO MAINTAIN ITS STRENGTH IN THIS PLANE! Its high power and high rate of fire made it one of the best medium-caliber anti-tank guns of its time. (AT THIS TIME, THERE WERE NO 17-POUNDER GUNS AND M3 90MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS.) This made the Type 29 medium tank, which had been on the battlefield for several years, a little overwhelmed, and for the first time, the officers and men of the Huaxia Tank Unit found that under the attack of this artillery, the armor protection of their tanks did not seem to be enough. If the Type 29 tanks that were destroyed just now were pierced at close range or from the side by hidden gun emplacements, this time the opponent challenged the armor of the 29-line tanks head-on from a medium distance!

A moving Type 29 tank burst into flames from the lower part of its hull, and the violent explosion blew the entire armor plate outward, and then billowing smoke poured out of the breach. The slender barrel was also pulled down, and the sudden blow caused the Huaxia troops to lose nearly 10 tanks in a short period of time! And that's just the beginning. As the top armored commander in the Austro-Hungarian Army, Rear Admiral Leola not only has an unbelievable arrangement and tactics, but also has a good use of various weapons in his hands. JUST WHEN THE WASP SELF-PROPELLED TANK DESTROYER ATTACKED THE HUAXIA ARMORED FORCES FROM THE FRONT, THE NO. 3 TANK DESTROYER LOCATED ON BOTH FLANKS ATTACKED THE VULNERABLE FLANK OF THE TYPE 29 TANK WITH 75MM GUNS.

Perhaps the direction of the attack of the Huaxia troops was not opposite to the direction of the Austrians' counterattack, so some of the No. 3 tank destroyers that appeared on the side were still facing the Chinese tank front, although some tanks were shot on the side, but the Austro-Hungarian armored units located on the flanks did not have an advantage in the counter-fire, and the Huaxia troops were in the initial panic. BEGAN TO COUNTERATTACK, ALTHOUGH THE NO. 3 TANK DESTROYER HAD THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW APPEARANCE, BUT THE OPPONENT HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF NUMBERS AND ARMOR PERFORMANCE, THE FORMER'S DEFENSE COULD NOT RESIST THE CHINESE 75MM TANK GUN, AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT COULD ONLY BE PENETRATED FROM THE OPPONENT'S SIDE. HOWEVER, THE FUTURE OF THE BATTLE IN THE MIDDLE LANE IS STILL UNCERTAIN, THE FIREPOWER OF THE WASP TANK DESTROYER IS TOO STRONG, AND THE FRONTAL PROTECTION ALSO MAKES THE 75MM TANK GUN A LITTLE DIFFICULT. In the exchange of fires again and again, the two sides made bloody exchanges, and all the officers and men participating in the battle did their best to increase the rate of fire. The roar of artillery resounded throughout the battlefield. For the first time, the resilience of Austria-Hungary amazed its opponents.

However, the Huaxia troops will not give up because of such a setback, Tian Yong synthesized the previous information, and then carefully studied it, and found that the ambush line of the other party was actually very lonely. Although they hid a group of armored vehicles to catch Huaxia by surprise, they lacked sufficient infantry and anti-aircraft support, in other words, if they could not repel the Huaxia troops. Then the situation of this force will be very difficult, they do not have a continuous line of defense to ensure that the opponent cannot penetrate. And this is the opportunity for Huaxia. The strength of the Chinese armored forces lies not only in tanks and assault guns, but also in a large number of wheeled combat vehicles equipped with small and medium-caliber guns. Just when the frontal front is at a stalemate. A large number of wheeled reconnaissance vehicles armed with British 6-pounder guns drove out from both wings and became the first weight to affect the situation of the battle!

PART OF THE HUAXIA WHEELED COMBAT VEHICLES GAVE UP THE ORIGINAL USE OF THE 30MM MACHINE GUN, AND USED THE RELATIVELY POWERFUL 57MM GUN, NOT THAT HUAXIA THOUGHT THIS WEAPON WAS GOOD, BUT BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL 30MM MACHINE GUN WAS TOO POPULAR, THE INVENTORY WAS NOT ENOUGH, AND THE BRITISH RELIED ON HUAXIA IN LAND WARFARE, IN THE LIST OF REMAINING MATERIALS THAT THE BRITISH COULD PROVIDE, HUAXIA FOUND THAT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BRITISH 6-POUNDER GUN WAS NOT BAD, SO IT WAS GIVEN TO THE MECHANIZED INFANTRY DIVISION THAT ORIGINALLY BELONGED TO THE SECOND-CLASS MAIN FORCE, AND THE RESULT WAS UNEXPECTED. Such a misguided move made Austria-Hungary feel like a man! Because they found that the guns on the wheeled combat vehicles that ran fast thieves could easily penetrate the side armor of the No. 3 tank destroyer at medium distance!

And the enemy that tank destroyers fear the most is this kind of thief who runs fast, has a faster rate of artillery fire and has a turret! The attack of 4 wheeled reconnaissance vehicle companies immediately put the Austro-Hungarian troops in a predicament, and the machine guns in the hands of the infantry could not pose an effective threat to the wheeled combat vehicles at all, except for some anti-tank guns who were lucky enough to paralyze a few wheeled combat vehicles, most of the wheeled combat vehicles were like ancient light cavalry flying from both sides, and the 6-pounder guns on the light tanks were like sharp and narrow sabers to the flanks of the Austro-Hungarian troops!

The high rate of fire of the 6-pounder gun combined with the expensive high-speed armor-piercing shells exerted a power that the slender gun on the surface could not show! Shells like raindrops swept from the opponent's flank, the side of the No. 3 tank destroyer burst out from time to time sparks, the Austrian tank in the face of the agile reconnaissance vehicle like a stupid bull by the bullfighter's bayonet sword constantly attacked, in the front and side of the double attack immediately fell into decline, although from time to time the Chinese reconnaissance vehicle was destroyed, but it could not stop the attack of these light cavalry, more No. 3 tank destroyer was paralyzed or completely destroyed, As a result, this decline quickly spread to the middle! A direct threat to the security of the entire front.

To say that Liao La was not prepared for this is really wronged him, at this critical moment he sent his reserves drawn from the 2nd line to try to stabilize the two flanks, but unfortunately, this force just launched an attack from the starting position and was blocked by long-range artillery in the rear of Huaxia. The long-range strike force of the 155mm howitzer and some Type 29 assault guns successfully disrupted the opponent's attack formation, and huge columns of smoke rose behind the ambush troops. The earth continued to tremble, facing the relieved Huaxia armored forces. and outflanked light combat vehicles, the Austro-Hungarian Vespa tank destroyer has finally declined!

"Put three reserve tank companies into battle. We must repel the enemy in front of us! Otherwise, all our effective armor forces will be lost in this battle! "Liola invented the phrase effective armor force, which simply means tanks and other combat vehicles that can be put on the table. The term is also used in conjunction with the specific national conditions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because of the large number of backward equipment in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, these vehicles are of limited significance in Liao La's opinion except for making up numbers and wasting fuel, even if this is still the case with this concentrated Austro-Hungarian army's elite troops, Liao La is very lucky this time, and he hit the right direction of the main attack of Huaxia, although the other attack is about to hit the edge of the city, but Liao La still believes in it. As long as he can block the attacks along the way, then there is still room for maneuver. Because he thought that even if it was a Huaxia armored division that was attacking, then this division had already invested almost all the combat vehicles that could be dispatched, and the other side did not have the strength to organize an attack of this scale, so in line with the idea of desperate betting, Liao La invested the last force! The artillery bombardment of Huaxia could block the infantry, but it could not stop the attack of the tanks, and the armored units of the mixed tanks of three companies No. 3 and No. 4 were concentrated from the second line, and then rushed to the war zone in the face of the artillery fire!

"Finally playing your hole cards?" When the reconnaissance plane's intelligence was delivered to Tian Yong, he immediately ran to the side of the large map and immediately asked the staff officer to mark the location of the opponent's armored reinforcements and the possible attack route. Because of the factors of battlefield smoke and anti-aircraft fire. The information given by the reconnaissance plane was not very accurate, and the intelligence said that the other side had more than 60 tanks, but in fact the Austro-Hungarian reinforcements were only 42, but by mistake. Tian Yong's judgment is indeed consistent with the actual situation of the other party, and the enemy on the opposite side has no more strength!

"An elite Austro-Hungarian mechanized infantry division generally has about 150 tanks and assault guns, and the size we encountered on the other side was about a battalion. The number of tanks and self-propelled guns is about 50 units. And the opponent we proved to have about 80 vehicles of various types, plus reinforcements. This has already exceeded the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian mechanized infantry divisions, which can only come from Turkey. Either way, they don't have any more power! Tian Yong threw the pencil and decisively ordered the front-line armored troops to start retreating, and after replenishing the ammunition, the Type 29 assault guns and a small number of "long-horned rhinoceros" located in the rear were ready to attack!

Huaxia is not unable to break through the opponent's defenses, when the light tank launches a flank outflank and the assault guns behind are ready to be completed, it can already launch a counterattack. BUT THE REASON TIAN YONG DIDN'T MOVE WAS THAT HE WANTED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, ALTHOUGH THE OPPONENT'S FIREPOWER WAS VERY FIERCE, BUT IN ADDITION TO THE 88MM GUN, WHICH COULD COMPLETELY DESTROY THE TYPE 29 TANK, MANY OF THE TANKS HIT BY THE NO. 3 TANK DESTROYER WERE ONLY INJURED, PLUS THE OPPONENT'S TWO WINGS WERE ALREADY THREATENED, SO THE BATTLE SITUATION WAS WITHIN A CONTROLLABLE RANGE. And when the Austrians played the last trump card, it was Tian Yong's turn to close the net!

The ambush troops, which had received reinforcements, finally broke the deadlock, and the reinforced tanks quickly stabilized the situation on both flanks, and the wheeled combat vehicles equipped with 6-pounder guns were definitely no match for tanks, no matter how powerful they were! Riola's troops, worthy of being the most elite in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, had driven the light chariots on both flanks, and the Austrians launched a decisive counterattack, and the attack group of tanks and tank destroyers and infantry swept across like a long knife, and the attack and defense were out of position. But it's a pity that Liao La's hand hit the iron plate directly! Under the siege of various assault guns and tank destroyers in China, it was smashed to pieces!

The terrible roar of the Type 29 assault gun and tank destroyer once again resounded on the battlefield, and the salvo of the 122MM plus howitzer and the 90MM anti-tank gun can be described as devastating! The Austro-Hungarian armored units rushing to the front and the shells flying at high speed were fully loaded, and the tanks in the first row were suddenly crushed under the salvo of superior opponents! In less than two minutes, more than a dozen tanks and tank destroyers were turned into flaming flares, and the massive explosion threw various parts and debris into the air and rained down like drops. Even a tank was hit directly by a 122M shell fired from the side! The tragic scene challenged everyone's nerves. The explosion of the opponent's instantaneous firepower almost collapsed the Austrians, who had just seen a little hope of victory!

The Austrians tried their best to storm the opponent's defensive line, but as many as two battalions of tanks and other combat vehicles blocked the opponent's attack, and the addition of large-caliber howitzers and rocket artillery made the whole battlefield even more one-sided. Bring up clouds of blood mist. In this case, not to mention the battle, many Austro-Hungarian soldiers shrank as much as possible and hid next to the steel plate, enduring the sound of shrapnel hitting the steel plate, trying to suppress the fear in their hearts.

Eventually, under repeated blows from direct and long-range fire, Liao La's hopes were finally dashed, and he lost almost all of his mobile armor and a considerable number of artillery pieces in this battle. Tian Yong's two attacking troops were like wedges nailed into his defensive line, and the infantry who came later took advantage of the situation to consolidate their positions and develop in depth, coupled with the blow of air power, Liao La's long-range artillery and large-caliber mortars were also heavily damaged, Liao La has lost about 7 percent of the heavy equipment, and it becomes meaningless to insist on field battles, and his last means of resistance may only rely on the Manlixia rifles, machine guns and small-caliber mortars in the hands of the soldiers to conduct street battles, and the outcome of this battle must be doomed, Failure is only a matter of time.

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