A thousand tanks sounds like a lot, but it seems to be a little too little to be scattered in the decisive battle that will determine the southern direction of the Daohuang Kingdom.

With the continuous increase of troops on both sides, the front line has now almost become a big battle of tens of thousands, and this is only a frontal battlefield, plus the battle on both flanks, the number of participants has almost reached more than 100,000, and the temperature here has risen because of the battle.

More reserves of the Korean army are waiting for orders to be dispatched on the second line, and now the battlefield has reached the saturation of numbers, and there are people falling all the time but no one can come to clean up the corpses, so that the corpses of dead soldiers can be used as cover.

The original plain terrain has become a complex battlefield due to various wrecks and corpses.

The reserves are constantly filling this flesh and blood grinding plate, and it can be said that even on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition, such bloody battles are rare.

With the loss of the Northern Expeditionary cavalry's horses, the Northern Expeditionary cavalry, which had lost its mobility, could no longer entangle the enemy as before, and the enemy's armored forces could finally begin to maneuver, instead of being a mobile steel turret.

Because the mobility of the enemy's armored forces can be fully withdrawn, they can quickly appear everywhere on the battlefield, and their mobility is far inferior to that of the enemy's Korean army, which can only rely on fortifications to fight.

The enemy is slowly pulling itself out of the quagmire created by the Korean army, and if they succeed, the Korean army will face a real armored assault.

This was something that Yang Guangdao tried so hard to stop, because he knew very well that the defense line under his command would not be able to withstand such an attack, unless all the soldiers now immediately turned into soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

This is unrealistic, so he needs to do whatever it takes to make it impossible for the enemy to use his armored spearhead to attack the defensive line.

The first line of trenches had been so badly wounded that there were hardly any traces of fortifications visible, while the second line of defense was now under heavy enemy shelling.

After more than ten minutes, the first line of trenches had to be abandoned, and the frontal battlefield came to the second line of defense.

The supplies from the rear arrived, and the second anti-tank giant fire salvo began, destroying more than a dozen tanks again, causing the enemy's attack to come to a temporary halt, and Yang Guangdao immediately asked the Taoist troops who rushed to support to harass the enemy.

However, even Yang Guangdao tried all kinds of means, but he still could not prevent the enemy from gathering more than 200 tanks in the vanguard half an hour later, and launched a fierce attack on the defense line of the Guochao army with unstoppable momentum.

In just an instant, the second and third lines of defense were breached, and before the Korean army could react, the enemy's tank forces began to rapidly widen the gap.

The defensive line was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and as a last resort, Yang Guangdao could only order the troops to launch an active attack on the enemy, and the Northern Expeditionary cavalry on both sides was also ordered to carry out a decisive assault on the enemy's tank troops.

Retreating will only wipe out the entire army, so now the Korean army can only fight to the death. But how can this kind of thing make those southern soldiers who have no gods and no masters believe in it? They will only think that running away will save their lives.

The chaotic battlefield had made Yang Guangdao lose control of the situation, and in desperation, he could only gather the elite troops first, and then continue to gather the scattered soldiers.

After an hour, the defense line was almost crippled by the enemy, and although Yang Guangdao tried his best to destroy the enemy's nearly 700 tanks, he finally had to retreat with the remnants of his troops to the last pillar of the defense line, Suzhou City.

Although there are still many cities in the rear of Suzhou City, due to various reasons in history, some are either city defenses are decorations, and some are completely unfortified, and they usually rely on the guards and dart boards formed by wealthy merchants to maintain.

Therefore, the capture of Suzhou City is almost equivalent to taking the entire south.

The rebels had planned to take advantage of the victory and pursue the city of Suzhou after defeating Yang Guangdao's troops, but this hope was dashed by the last decisive assault of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and they had to temporarily retreat and repair.

A brief truce began.

As soon as Yang Guangdao entered the city gate cave, he sat on the ground, leaned against the wall and began to rest, and the military medical officer began to help him clean up the blood stains on his body, and the broken Dao armor was taken down and sent to the craftsman to repair it.

Today's battle was so hard that the Northern Expeditionary Army was almost completely wiped out, and the regiments he had trained were almost dead and wounded, and now there were almost no soldiers left on his hands.

Although there were still 50,000 soldiers in Suzhou City, he was not sure that he would be able to rely on these southern soldiers to resist the rebels' attack tomorrow.

Forget it, you can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and serve the empire. Yang Guangdao thought so, and then began to urgently mobilize the army defending the city.

The militia and laborers were all requisitioned to fortify the walls and build fortifications, and the Taoist priests, exhausted from a day's fighting, still had to overdraft themselves to inscribe Taoist talismans for the fortifications.

The entire city was being fortified, any sturdy structure was made into a support point in the city's planar defense, and the people and some officials had been evacuated to other cities in the rear in an orderly manner.

All the surviving soldiers on the defensive line and the Northern Expeditionary Army were promoted to lieutenants, leading the defending troops to prepare for street battles with the enemy.

Early the next morning, the enemy began to attack the city of Suzhou at sunrise.

The first was the shelling, which lasted for two full hours, with various types of artillery and tanks, and it was roughly estimated that at least a thousand guns launched an artillery bombardment on the city defense of Suzhou City, and the deafening roar made the whole city tremble.

The artillery bombardment was accompanied by an attack by the enemy's air force, but Yang Guangdao had already taken precautions against this, and some modified machine guns specially designed to deal with fighter dives began to launch a counterattack against the enemy's air force.

Although there were still a lot of bombs and cannons on the positions in the city, at least the enemy's air force did not dare to attack with impunity.

Two hours later, the front wall of Suzhou City was in ruins, large and small craters were densely scattered on the ruins of the city wall, and the city was also full of gunsmoke.

As the shelling ended, the enemy's tank units began to charge, and the defenders immediately counterattacked with anti-tank weapons, and both sides were carrying out their tasks at any cost.

In order to defend against the enemy's tank forces, Yang also had craftsmen develop various anti-tank weapons, such as cluster grenades, magnetic bombs, etc., as well as various artillery guns for anti-tank weaponization.

With the difficult terrain of Suzhou City, the defenders successfully held back the enemy's tank forces, forcing Yamamoto 66 to have his infantry enter the city and engage in street battles with the Korean army.

The enemy's armored forces were still advancing, rampage through the streets with their thick armor and artillery, but their sheer size naturally prevented them from moving quickly, and they were quickly blown up or paralyzed by several squads of the defenders.

In view of the loss of such losses, Yamamoto 66 immediately withdrew the tank troops from the first line of siege and switched to supporting the rear of the rebel infantry.

Once the infantry in front of you has spotted the point of fire of the Korean army, let your own tank units deal with them.

On the side of the country, the artillery that was specially modified to deal with tanks was naturally not polite, and when they saw tanks preparing to storm the barricades, they concentrated fire to destroy them.

The huge casualties in the early days forced Yamamoto 66 to change his battle plan.

He made the troops stop the attack, hold on to the battle that had been taken, and then let the artillery in the rear begin to move forward.

In order to slow down the time for the enemy to complete the deployment, the Northern Expeditionary Army once again shouldered a heavy responsibility, and they launched an attack on the enemy's artillery units.

Several attacks disrupted the enemy's advance, and some supplies were burned, causing the rebels to slow down.

In order to solve the problem of the attack, Yamamoto 66 sent part of the troops used to attack to escort the advance of the artillery unit.

With great difficulty, the artillery units arrived at their positions within an hour, and the rebels immediately began to prepare for an artillery bombardment.

Yang Guangdao immediately asked his artillery to use the position given by the scouts to shell before the enemy was best prepared.

The day passed quickly, and the rebels captured one-fifth of the city. At night, the two sides were still fighting, and from time to time flares were fired into the sky, turning the night into day.

This battle lasted three days and three nights, during which four cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army rushed to support, but the enemy also received tanks from the Southern Loya Empire.

In addition, within the rebels, tank crew training has become normalized, so basically as soon as there is a tank, there will be a crew to drive it.

After three days and three nights, the rebels had taken half of the city of Suzhou, and the whole city was now in ruins, and it was impossible to see what it looked like.

Although they took half of the city, this did not mean that they completely controlled this half of the city, and at all times the guerrilla groups formed by the Korean army attacked them from the ruins.

Yang Guangdao has not closed his eyes since the day the defense of Suzhou City began, and he has relied on pills to support him.

There are only 30,000 of the 50,000 southern soldiers in his hands left, but these 30,000 can be regarded as veterans who have experienced the test of iron and blood.

The four cavalry units sent by the Northern Expeditionary Army to support him had been assigned by him to attack the enemy's supply lines and artillery positions.

Now it has entered the process of adding fuel in street fighting, which means that the two sides do not need tactics now, they just need to keep throwing troops into it to see who shows the flaws first.

Yang Guangdao entered the field hospital built underground, which is now full of wounded, and the number of medical officers is simply not enough, and many of the lightly wounded can only be treated on their own. But it's at least safe here.

After visiting the wounded first, he asked for a clean bed and began to rest. The Taoist doctor who accompanied the team began to treat Yang Guangdao after he fell asleep.

After all, they rely on pills to maintain their energy, and once the nerves are loosened, it may naturally cause some bad consequences, and now these doctors need to try their best to minimize the impact of such consequences.

The vibration of the ground fills the field hospital with dust, which of course everyone is used to, and even the small movement of the front-line trenches is worth sleeping peacefully.

Even with Yang Guangdao, the people who came to the field hospital found a seat and began to rest.

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