In the face of the flesh-and-blood array of the 3,000 elephant army, the tank battalion did not have the slightest fear.

Let's play.

The size of the steam tank is much larger than that of the elephant!

And it's made of steel.

Even if the steel skin is deflated and the operating space is temporarily lost, as long as the driver and the artillery and machine gun operators are not affected, the tank can still exert its combat power.

Crush the past!

So the tank battalions have been breaking through.

And the confidence is multiplied.

Thirty guns, several rounds of salvo fire, the elephant army has lost two or three hundred, and what really boosted the confidence of the tank battalion was that after pressing the close range, with the firing of the machine guns equipped on the tank, the results of the range damage caused to the target army were too surprising!

The elephant army fell piece by piece.

There is no way to fight back.

At present, the machine guns developed by the two academies, with the improvement of the precision of the gunpowder process and the shell making process, the power is really not small, and it is a bloody hole when it hits a person.

But the shooting accuracy is really not high.

But the elephant army has a large target, and the speed is also slow.

For machine guns, the elephant army is a group of moving targets, and they don't even need to be able to aim, and if they shoot in that direction, no matter how bad the shooting level is, they can get something.

As the elephant army fell one by one, the elephant army could not get close.

But the tanks kept rushing.

So the distance between the two sides has been shrinking.

The machine gunners on the tank quickly dealt with the dozens of scattered elephant soldiers who rushed to the front - only the elephants were needed, and they didn't have to worry about the Nanzhang soldiers on the elephants' backs.

However, it was also the first time that the tank battalion had actually operated a tank on the battlefield.

So the cooperation between each other is not perfect.

Still, three elephant soldiers approached the tank battalion.

Three elephants, under the operation of the elephant soldiers on their backs, slammed into the tank fiercely.

Is it the end......

Obvious.

The tank was knocked to a halt, but the elephant was directly knocked over by the tank, after which the tanker's machine gunner gave it a shuttle, and then the tank went around the elephant's carcass and crushed the southern soldier who had rolled down from the elephant north and fled in a hurry into a pulp, and continued to advance.

Unstoppable!

The lethality of artillery against soldiers is indeed not low, but it is not as good as machine guns.

In particular, the 30 tanks formed a cluster formation to rush forward, and the 30 machine guns formed a firepower network, so that the elephant soldiers in Nanzhang had no room to live at all, and on the battlefield, it was difficult to appear that all of them were going to die.

When the battle loss exceeds 30%, the formation will collapse.

Now it's even worse!

Because the Southern Palm Elephant Soldiers found that when they approached Daming's chariot, even if they collided, it was just to stop Daming's chariot, and the previous three elephants were an example.

Is this going to continue to rush?

That's looking for death.

And under the fire of the firearms on the Daming chariot, his robe fell down piece by piece - I don't know what kind of firearm is bubbling on the Daming chariot, and the power is terrifying.

Keep charging again?

That's death.

What to do?

Of course, it's important to run for your life!

However, the elephants were so heavy and close that they could not turn around on the spot, and could only pour away on both sides like a flood meeting a reef, so soon, the elephants began to flee for their lives on the left and right flanks of the tank battalion cluster.

However, in the back of the tank battalion, a thousand musketeers!

These firebolts shoot elephants, and their lethality is very low.

But you can shoot the southern palm soldier on the back of the elephant.

But fortunately, the elephant ran with all its might, although the speed was not very fast, but after all, it was moving, and the effective hits of the Ming Dynasty's firecrackers were very few, but fortunately, it was a dense fire of a thousand people, which also caused hundreds of kills.

And the elephants that had lost the control of the southern guards also ran wildly.

For a time, the elephant soldiers were defeated!

The formation of the elephant army has collapsed, and the tank battalion does not care about the elephant army, anyway, it can no longer pose a threat, let the subsequent 1,000 firecrackers go to solve the elephant soldiers one by one, and what the tank battalion has to do is to tear apart the defense line of Nanzhang.

Keep on the rush!

Artillery salvos, machine guns roared.

The soldiers on the front defense line of Nanzhang have not seen the specific appearance of the Ming tank clearly, and the formation of the front defense line has been sparse, and in the collapsed defense line, the remnants of the defeated soldiers are still dreaming of climbing on the chariot to kill the enemy during melee combat.

It's already pretty good.

I have to admit that the guard general Ba Song has the skill to govern the army.

Under such circumstances, the soldiers of Nanzhang are still holding on, and they have not collapsed and jumped.

Of course, this is also the fearlessness of the ignorant.

They also thought that there was a possibility of a counterattack.

But Zhang Mao had already worked out tactics with the tank battalion before he set off, and firearms tactics, how could he give the enemy a chance to fight at close range - if you really want to intersect in short arms, the southern commander relies on the tactics of the sea of people, and there is really a chance to climb into the tank and get into it, and wipe out the tank battalion.

Therefore, until the enemy army has completely lost its combat effectiveness, the tank battalion will not fall into the encirclement of enemy forces.

When it was still three hundred steps from the defensive line, the tank battalion stopped.

In accordance with the established tactics, a salvo of fire was carried out.

It's time to show off your true prowess!

Three hundred paces, within the range of Nanzhang's artillery, but outside the range of Nanzhang's catapult - so don't worry about catapults, but at this time Nanzhang's artillery is still backward solid shells.

On the contrary, the threat to tanks is greater.

Therefore, the formation of the tank battalion is relatively open, Rao is so, there are still three tanks hit by the artillery of the south palm, and the tank was smashed out of a big hole, no way, in order to reduce its own weight, in addition to the chassis, the upper part of the tank is covered with iron sheets, which cannot resist the strong kinetic energy of the solid bullet.

Three tanks lost their combat effectiveness.

But the tank battalion had already prepared for the response, and the remaining twenty-seven tanks were facing the artillery position in Nanzhang, which was a burst of powerful output - in the words of Wang Yue of the Jinge Group Army, the advantage of firearms was coverage.

When Zhang Mao was summoned by His Majesty Emperor Guang'an alone, he received His Majesty's instructions: if you encounter an enemy artillery position, then do not save ammunition, directly cover it with firepower, and knock out the biggest threat point to the tank.

Zhang Mao also learned an inexplicable term: Van Vliet's ammunition volume.

Who Van Vliet was, Zhang Mao didn't care.

He only knew that if the artillery positions in Nanzhang were not destroyed, more tanks would lose their combat effectiveness today, but fortunately, after several rounds of salvos, the enemy's artillery positions would not move again.

Hundreds of flowering shells fell on the Nanzhang artillery position, and only ghosts could survive!

After knocking out the Nanzhang artillery position, the next step was the show time for the tanks.

The machine guns continued to fire wildly at the enemy's frontal line, while the artillery turned its barrels and bombarded the hills on both sides indiscriminately - according to Mu Cong's information, Nanzhang would place crossbowmen on the hills on the frontal line.

However, at this moment, at a distance of three hundred paces, the crossbowmen could not pose a threat to the tank battalion at all.

Of course, even if it's ten steps away, it's the same ending.

The frontal line of defense was wildly strafed by machine guns.

The guards of Nanzhang had no power to fight back at all, and the battle damage increased wildly, and the crossbowmen on the hills on both sides were quickly beaten into a sieve in the volley of artillery rounds.

The situation is clear.

The defense line of Nanzhang was crushed into slag by the tank battalion of the Ming Dynasty!