So when the assault artillery unit began to replenish ammunition, the tank troops that had just withdrawn began to continue to attack with the infantry fighting vehicles and support units behind, but it may be that the tank troops did not look at the yellow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!

The lower part of the hull of a moving Type 29 tank burst out with a ball of flames, and the violent explosion blew the entire armor plate outward, and then billowing smoke poured out from the breach, and the slender gun 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 this is just the beginning, Major General Liao La, as the top armored commander in the Austro-Hungarian Army, in addition to the incredible layout and tactics, another feature is that he can use all kinds of weapons in his hands very well, just when the Vespa self-propelled tank destroyer attacked the Chinese armored forces from the front, the No. 3 tank destroyer located on both wings used 75MM guns to attack the vulnerable side of the Type 29 tank, the Austrian ambush position was shaped like a moon and a half, and the two ends of the crescent moon were relatively forward, The Vespa tank destroyer in the center is positioned slightly further back.

Perhaps the direction of attack of the Chinese 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 forces located on both flanks did not have an advantage in the shooting, and the Chinese troops began to counterattack after the initial panic, although the No. 3 tank destroyer had the characteristics of low appearance, but the opponent had a numerical advantage and armor performance advantage, THE FORMER'S DEFENSE COULD NOT RESIST THE HUAXIA 75MM TANK GUNS, AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT COULD ONLY BE PENETRATED BY ATTACKING 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, and 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 studied it carefully, and found that the other party's ambush line was actually very lonely, although they hid a group of armored vehicles to catch Huaxia off guard, but they lacked enough infantry and anti-aircraft artillery support, in other words, if they could not repel the Huaxia troops, then the situation of this army would be very difficult, they did not have a continuous line of defense to ensure that the other side could not penetrate. And this is the opportunity for China, the strength of the Chinese armored forces is not only tanks and assault guns, but also a large number of wheeled combat vehicles equipped with small and medium-caliber artillery are also very powerful. Just when the frontal front was at a stalemate, a large number of wheeled reconnaissance vehicles armed with British 6-pounder guns drove out from both wings 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 could easily penetrate the side armor of the No. 3 tank destroyer at medium range!

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-velocity armor-piercing shells exerted a power that is simply not what the slender gun on the surface can express! 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, it was really wronged him, at this critical moment he sent his own reserves drawn from the 2nd line to try to stabilize the two wings, but unfortunately, this force just launched an attack from the starting position was blocked by the long-range artillery in the rear of the Huaxia, 155MM howitzers and some of the 29 type assault guns cameo long-range strike force successfully disrupted the opponent's attack formation, a huge pillar 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 there is a large number of backward equipment in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, these vehicles are of limited significance in addition to making up the numbers and wasting fuel in Liao La's view, even if this is still the case with the elite troops of the Austro-Hungarian Army, 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 firmly believes that as long as he can block this attack then everything still has 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 firepower, the intelligence given by the reconnaissance plane is not very accurate, the intelligence said that the other side has more than 60 tanks, but in fact the Austro-Hungarian reinforcements are only 42, but by mistake, Tian Yong's judgment and the actual situation of the other side are indeed consistent, 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 road was about a battalion, and the number of tanks and self-propelled guns was about 50. And the opponent we proved to have about 80 tanks of various types, plus reinforcements, which has already exceeded the strength of the Austro-Hungarian mechanized infantry divisions, which can only come from Turkey, and in any case, they have no more strength! 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 forces that had received reinforcements finally broke the deadlock, and the reinforced tanks quickly stabilized the situation on both flanks, and the wheeled vehicles armed with 6-pounder guns were definitely no match for tanks, no matter how powerful they were! Riola's forces were arguably the most elite in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and after driving the light chariots on both flanks, 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 situation 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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