For Qin, this day may be a good day. King Yingduo of Qin won the support of the Tang Empire and announced that he was promoted to the empire and called himself the Qin Empire.
The Three Emperors Alliance was officially established. The new name of this alliance made King Qin very excited. Of course, this was before he learned that the Tang army had won a great victory at sea.
When King Yingduo of Qin learned that the Tang Navy had completely wiped out the main fleet of the Mirage Kingdom and sunk one of its battleships in one fell swoop, he felt that his throne was no longer so fragrant.
From his point of view, he actually hopes that Tang will suffer a defeat when it attacks Mirage. By then, Tang will no longer focus on the Western Continent, and Qin will have better development opportunities.
It is a pity that the Tang State is still the same Tang State, the undefeated Tang State! Tang Mo's navy achieved an unprecedented brilliant victory, and saw that the landing force also gained a firm foothold.
The long-distance projection capabilities displayed by the Tang Empire, as well as the combat effectiveness of its troops, made Emperor Qin Yingduo even more afraid.
But despite being afraid, Yingduo still wanted to congratulate Tang on his victory, just like Tang Mo also congratulated him on his victory on the Shushan defense line.
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After the Datang Empire sold the Panther tank, the technology of tilted armor was no secret. When people discovered the advantages of tilted armor, those tanks using vertical armor seemed to be unable to keep up with the trend of the times.
The vast majority of tanks in the Mirage Kingdom cannot keep up with the trend of the times: most of them use vertical armor, and the thickness is not very good.
In order to make up for the shortcomings, Mirage's heavy tanks installed an additional layer of armor outside the main armor. Due to workmanship problems, there is a finger-wide gap between this layer of armor and the main armor.
This unintentional move instead resolved the design of the armor-piercing warhead of the RPG rocket launcher, making it impossible for the RPG rocket launcher to directly penetrate the front armor of Mirage heavy tanks.
After the concept of sloped armor spread, everyone understood that the thickness of this sloped armor was terrifyingly large when converted to thickness. Therefore, when they saw the Type 9 main battle tank, the tank crews of Mirage were in despair.
"Fire!" Inside the small tank body, the Mirage tank commander shouted desperately. Unfortunately, no matter how hard the tank's main gun tried, it still couldn't penetrate the front armor of the Tang Army tank that was so close.
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The shells bounced away immediately after hitting them. In the eyes of the Mirage tank crew, Tang's Type 9 tanks were simply invulnerable.
Another artillery shell blasted out, and another artillery shell hit the front of the 9 tank's turret. As expected, this artillery shell was bounced off again: it hit the smooth front armor of the tank, and then refracted out.
, disappeared without a trace.
Soon, the Tang State's tank gun pointed over, and the slender barrel spurted out a ball of flame. In an instant, the Mirage State tank exploded and caught fire, leaving only a charred wreckage.
"The tanks that just attacked us have been killed. Are there any targets?" Seeing that the Mirage infantry in front had abandoned their positions and began to retreat, the gunner asked disdainfully.
The commander looked for the target through the gaps around him. With limited vision, he did not see any enemy tanks near them: "I didn't see it!"
After saying that, he opened his hatch cover and stuck his head out to look around: despite the risk, he was still used to using this method to find targets.
Otherwise, if they just rely on the observation window around the tank commander's hatch to find the target, they may be penetrated five times by the enemy on the side, and they may not be able to find the enemy's position.
"It seems that there are no enemy tanks nearby." Looking at the burning black wreckage around his tank, the commander retracted into the vehicle with some hesitation.
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, Liu Guozhu is not here. We still have a good chance of catching up with his record." The gunner comforted his commander.
"It's hard to win with force." The commander felt that he was a bit weak to win against these shabby tanks of the Mirage to improve his record.
"The rags Liu Guozhu fought were not as good as the mirage tanks we fought!" The gunner curled his lips and dismissed Liu Guozhu, the tank ace's record.
In his opinion, Liu Guozhu's opponents back then didn't even have a radio station in their tank. That was just a matter of purely improving their performance without any technical content, okay?
But he also admitted that the battle in front of him was also a massacre. The tanks attacked by the Tang State only had about one company and one tank. The Mirage State tanks blocking here had about 40 tanks, almost a battalion.
As a result, not a single tank of the Tang State was destroyed, and the entire tank force of the Mirage State, which had a numerical advantage, was annihilated.
Under the attack of the powerful Tang Army tanks, these mirage tanks did not even have time to escape, so they were divided up as a result.
After a night's rest, the 9th Army of the Tang Dynasty resumed the glorious tradition of the Tang Dynasty: they began to advance crazily, and with the cooperation of aircraft, they desperately attacked forward. The rushing armored troops were like bulldozers, attacking
Everything in front of him was smashed into pieces.
It is no exaggeration at all. After dawn, the Tang State's offensive troops completely captured the Mirage Kingdom's numbered airport on the South Island. Combined with the No. 1 Airport previously captured, the Tang State already controlled two scrapped Mirage Kingdom field airports.
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In addition, the 9th Armored Division, which had been attacking north, began to cause trouble for the Mirage's 3rd Armored Division. The opponent had no intention of fighting and retreated to the central area of the island before stopping.
The 19th Infantry Division spread out along the Da Nan River, and other troops that came ashore began to prepare to cross the river and surround Da Nan Bay.
All kinds of engineering equipment equipped by the Tang Army's engineering troops have been successfully ashore. In order to allow the engineers to quickly repair the two airports lost by the Mirage Army, many troops and equipment of the 9th Army are still floating on the sea.
With road rollers, cement mixers, and various transport vehicles, the engineering troops are now busy in full swing. The Tang Army can repair the airport several times or even dozens of times faster than the Mirage!
With the support of construction machinery, the repair speed is quite fast. Tang State has special quick-drying cement for airport maintenance, which is not available in Mirage State.
In addition, the bridge-building troops also occupied a large amount of landing resources: Feng Kezhi was waiting for these engineering bridge-building troops to come ashore so that he could forcefully cross the Danan River.
The Mirage Kingdom did not know much about these troops, so Mirage Wuzhong always thought that if the Tang army wanted to cross the river, it would take at least ten days to prepare.
As everyone knows, Feng Kezhi planned to start building a bridge to cross the river that afternoon, or tomorrow morning at the latest, after the troops landed on the pontoon bridge.
The gap in technical level between the two sides caused the generals of the two sides to have different judgments on the battlefield situation, which also made the decision-making of the two sides completely different. It was obvious that the Mirage Kingdom's Mirage Wuzhong could no longer keep up with Feng Kezhi's rhythm.
At around ten o'clock that day, Tang's jet bombers once again visited the area controlled by Mirage and dropped a large number of bombs, creating a little trouble for the mobilization of Mirage's troops.
In the afternoon of the same day, these bombers were dispatched again and attacked the transportation lines and nodes of the Mirage Kingdom. However, because it was a strategic carpet bombing, the effect was still only average.
However, as Bernard's navy destroyed the main fleet of the Mirage, naval aviation began to conduct more ground support operations.
Hundreds of planes were hovering over the heads of the Tang army, which gave Feng Kezhi a great sense of security. The 9th Armored Division, which had been attacking north, suddenly turned around and rushed towards the Danan River. Under the attack of the Marine Corps' 63 amphibious tank
With help, a bridgehead was established and a bridge was erected.
The news that the Tang Army had crossed the river was only confirmed by the defenders of the Mirage Kingdom more than an hour later. They did not know that the Tang Army had an engineer unit specializing in building bridges, so when the Mirage Army reacted, they found that they could not defeat the enemy who had already crossed the river.
The Tang army in Nanhe.
Mirage Wuzhong fainted immediately after receiving the news: He had been working continuously for at least 36 hours. He said he passed out, but in fact he may have fallen asleep...
That night, Mirage Wuzhong woke up, but the situation reported by his subordinates almost made the commander of Mirage's 1st Corps pass out for the second time.
The armored troops of the Tang Army crossing the river cut off the railway on the South Island, which was equivalent to cutting off the 3rd Corps in the north from the 3rd Corps stationed in the Great South Bay.
If the 3rd Corps, which suffered heavy losses, wants to defend the Great South Bay, it will definitely need the assistance of the 3rd Corps. But the current situation is that if the 3rd Corps wants to go south to join the 3rd Corps, it must penetrate the 9th Armored Division of the Tang Army...
If the troops of the Mirage Kingdom had this ability, then they would have penetrated the defense lines of the Tang Kingdom's paratroopers in Leping and Dongshan before, right?
"What's going on with the Navy?" A somewhat weak Mirage, after asking about the 3rd Corps, asked about the Navy warships.
Everyone knew that he was not asking about the main fleet that had disappeared, but about those mirage destroyers and cruisers that had fled into the Great South Bay in a panic.
"This..." Several subordinates looked at me and I looked at you, all stammering.
"Say!" Mirage Wuzhong scolded impatiently.
"They fled in a hurry, hit the mines we secretly laid, and lost two destroyers... The remaining three destroyers and one cruiser were all pretty good. They were parked on the dock and could be used as a fort...
"The subordinates replied tremblingly.
Hearing that the mines he secretly laid in violation of the treaty sank his own warship, Mirage Wuzhong almost fainted again.
He weakly asked someone to prepare some food for him, and then returned to his command room with the support of his men.
Although he can't do much at this time, he must show his courage and perseverance. Because if he doesn't do this, his men may be directly defeated by constant defeats.
