Fengjiang is very close to the border, which is not good for the Great China Empire: the Tang Empire's artillery and bombers can cover this city.
But now, Fengjiang, who established his own company with the help of the Tang Empire, has gained some advantages: fighter jets taking off from the Tang Empire can actually provide cover for Fengjiang.
Although the Butcher fighter jets of the Tang Empire are very easy to identify, it is still very maneuverable for the Tang Empire to take off fighter jets to help when necessary.
Another advantage is that the air defense warning radar deployed on the side of the Tang Empire can actually provide early radar warning for Fengjiang City.
This is equivalent to saying that Fengjiang City's air defense has been strengthened unprecedentedly. To a certain extent, Fengjiang's air defense is even stricter than that of the imperial capital of the Dahua Empire.
Because they were not ready to attack and had no intention of escalating the situation, the Dahua Empire had no intention of taking the initiative to attack for so many days.
They were waiting patiently, waiting for their troops to be gathered, and then to end this farce directly with a crushing force.
Unfortunately, Zhao Yu didn't think so. He even prepared to attack Hezhe arrogantly, so he had been waiting for the frontline commanders to report back the news that the battle had started.
In order to seize the initiative and trigger this change in advance, the military advisors of the Tang Empire took the initiative to start the war after completing their own defenses.
Twelve old Dahua bombers deployed in Fengjiang were ordered to take off, wearing new identification paint, and bombed Hezhecheng Railway Station.
It's a pity that the performance of these aircraft was really poor. They were intercepted by Dahua 2 fighter jets that scrambled to take off in the direction of Hezhe. They were all shot down and no one was spared.
Even before they were shot down, they were not able to drop a bomb, so the entire mission ended in failure, and Toyojiang's former air force commander of the Dahua Empire was dismissed from his post.
The war had broken out, and of course Zhao Chen could no longer maintain restraint. He immediately ordered the artillery to open fire and bloodbathed the defensive positions outside Fengjiang.
The Fengjiang defenders, who were still eating and drinking happily in their bunkers, were suddenly stunned by more than 400 artillery pieces. For the first time, they discovered that their own country was also so powerful.
Artillery shells fell like raindrops. The defense line, which had been built in less than a day, was almost destroyed by the dense artillery shells.
The concrete bunker, which had not yet completely dried out, was hit by the artillery shell and flew into the air. As soon as the war broke out, it instantly entered its most brutal stage.
Seeing the first-line defense positions being bombed beyond recognition, the advisory group of the Tang Empire did not feel distressed at all - perhaps what they lacked most was cement and steel bars.
The Tang Empire did not provide arms to the Fengjiang defenders, but the amount of other materials was absolutely shocking - especially the reinforced concrete materials for building fortifications, which almost instantly filled all the warehouses in Fengjiang.
In the original plan, part of the Toyojiang garrison was to be transferred south, so the frontal defense line could only rely on solid fortifications to support it. This was an established strategy and had been arranged long ago.
Since it was arranged, investing a large amount of cement to build a defense line became a plan that must be implemented: these days, the Fengjiang defenders have been building various reinforced concrete defense lines, almost filling the west side of Fengjiang City with fortifications.
Thick cement was piled everywhere as if it was free, trenches were reinforced, bunkers were reinforced, and many underground defenses were also reinforced with cement.
The Toyojiang defenders even built a large number of bunkers for the tanks and reinforced the fronts of the bunkers with cement, so that their tanks could continue to fight without being exposed.
Interestingly, in order to deal with the Tang Empire's tank troops, Fengjiang's defenders were equipped with a large number of anti-tank guns. These anti-tank guns were modified from the original unqualified anti-aircraft guns, and most of them had a caliber of 76 mm.
This type of artillery may be too old to be used as an anti-aircraft gun, but it is still sufficient for use as an anti-tank gun.
They have good ballistic performance and sufficient armor-piercing capabilities. They can still face the Dahua 3 tanks equipped by the Dahua Empire with ease.
The Type 3 tanks equipped by the Dahua Army are improved on the basis of the Dahua Type 2 tanks. The front armor is added, and the firepower is also upgraded to a medium-caliber 90mm gun, which is much more powerful.
The biggest improvement of this tank is the installation of a radio inside the tank, allowing the tanks to communicate with each other.
Originally, the Type 3 tank was based on the No. 4 tank of the Tang Empire as the imaginary enemy. Unfortunately, it had not been manufactured yet. The war between the Great China Empire and the Datang Empire had ended.
The performance of the Leopard tanks of the Tang Empire that appeared during the war completely overwhelmed the Dahua Type 3 tanks that were still on the drawing board at that time, so the Dahua Empire immediately invested manpower and material resources to develop the Type 5 tanks.
The reason why it is called the Type 5 tank is to distinguish it from the Type 4 tank of the Tang Empire and avoid confusion in the name.
The Type 5 tank of the Dahua Empire is definitely a heavy tank. Like other countries' approach to fighting the Panther tank, the Dahua Empire also relies on stacking heavy armor to increase the resistance of its own tanks.
However, the disadvantage of this is that the Type 5 tank of the Dahua Empire is very slow and has limited maneuverability in the field. It is not actually an easy-to-use tank.
Therefore, over the years, the most equipped type in the Dahua Empire is still the Type 3 medium tank with balanced performance - even if it is worse than the Panther tank, it is still much easier to use than the Type 5.
In the trench, the Fengjiang soldier covering his ears could still hear the crackling sound of stones falling on his head. He could feel the stones hitting his helmet, and he could also feel the ground under his feet trembling.
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The Dahua Empire actually has a lot of artillery. In previous battles with the Tang Empire, the ammunition reserves were destroyed and the artillery positions were destroyed, so they could not display their original combat power at all.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now, with the air forces of both sides stretched, the artillery of the Great China Empire immediately became brave and began to sing cheerfully.
"Son of a bitch! Why didn't you work so hard when you supported us?" A veteran who had experienced the war between China and Tang Dynasty squatted in the trench and cursed loudly.
While he was cursing, a shell landed on the flat ground behind his position, kicking up a cloud of mud that covered the sky.
Countless pieces of gravel and gravel flew in the sky, then fell down, landing on the soldiers in the trenches and bouncing off the edges of the concrete trenches.
The crater on the ground was more than five meters in diameter, which was left by relatively small-caliber artillery shells. The Dahua Empire's bombardment was continuous, but the losses of the Fengjiang defenders stationed on the position were not huge.
On the one hand, they have solid defenses to rely on, and on the other hand, their main forces are on the second line and are not covered by artillery fire at all.
In fact, the artillery of the Toyojiang defenders also launched a counterattack immediately, but it was just a bit weak because of insufficient numbers.
Compared to the Chinese Army, which had 400 large-caliber artillery pieces, the Fengjiang Army only had 120 large-caliber artillery pieces, so it was more conservative in its counterattacks.
However, despite being relatively shy, the artillery of the Fengjiang Army still caused hardships to the soldiers of the Chinese Army: they did not have cement fortifications, so they were slightly inferior in terms of resistance to attack.
What made them even more depressed was that because of the reinforced concrete fortifications and bunkers, the artillery of the Fengjiang Army could not be suppressed for a while, and the Dahua Army could only endure the enemy's artillery fire and persevere.
In this way, the battle quickly turned into an artillery battle. One side relied on the numerical advantage of artillery to be unscrupulous, and the other side relied on solid defenses to continuously counterattack. For a while, there was a real back-and-forth fight.
Because he was worried that the reinforcements would be late, Zhao Chen did not order the infantry to attack, so the two sides continued the artillery battle, from intensive shelling on the first day to short bursts of random fire on the second day.
The artillery of both sides fired sporadically on a front that was more than 60 kilometers wide. Two shots were fired here and two shots were fired here. The intensity of the conflict was suddenly reduced by several orders of magnitude.
At first, everyone thought that Dahua would launch an attack soon, but then the artillery battle began to slow down, and it seemed that the attack would not proceed again.
The Fengjiang defenders who were stationed at the position that had been bombarded returned to a comfortable life, drinking tap water supplied directly to the position from the water pump, cooking delicious instant noodles transported directly from the Tang Empire, and feeding them.
Write a peace letter at home.
This was treatment they had never experienced before. They had never seen so much letter paper, and they had never met a superior who was willing to help write letters to their families.
The grassroots advisory group from the Tang Empire who came to the front line to support did not participate in the battle, but they would supervise the distribution of army supplies, chat with the soldiers in Fengjiang, help them write letters home, and help the soldiers send the chocolates and candies they saved together with their letters.
Send it home.
Of course, they would also play cards with the soldiers, sing together to show off their talents, and even distribute their cigarettes to these Fengjiang soldiers.
Occasionally, they would squat in the trenches together and look up at the not so fierce air battles in the sky: sometimes a reconnaissance plane from the Dahua Empire flew over and was chased by the Dahua 3 fighter jets of the Fengjiang defenders.
Then the same type of fighter jets from the Dahua Empire came back and the two sides fought together in the sky.
Often a plane would drag a long plume of black smoke into the distance, and sometimes an air battle would end without any results.
In short, with the sound of seemingly invisible artillery, the civil war in the Great China Empire broke out on all fronts. And except for the roaring and tsunami-like artillery battle on the first day, it seemed that... there was nothing as expected.
