The battlefield was in chaos, and no one cared about the few tank crews who got out of the tank and escaped. Everyone was catching each other and fighting, or relying on their own strength to bully each other.
Of course, if you have a submachine gun at this time, then you can bully several opponents by yourself...
The Qin State, which was more advanced in tactics, had more experienced soldiers, and was more ferocious in fighting, gained the upper hand in the melee. Soon a No. 4 tank broke through the defense line and wreaked havoc at the entrance of the village.
The tanks of the Tang Army were so impressive in the enemy's positions back then, and the tanks of the Qin Army are so arrogant now.
The Shu troops, who lacked actual combat experience, had to abandon the village and began to retreat. However, due to organizational problems, the retreat quickly turned into a rout.
Most of the artillery support that finally arrived fell on the open ground, but then the Shu Kingdom adjusted the shooting parameters and blew up the villages they lost into rubble.
During this period of time, the battle situation on the border of Shu was mostly like this. Only a few solidly fortified fortress areas withstood the Qin army's attack, and most of the remaining defense lines were penetrated by the Qin army.
As expected by the Tang State General Staff, the border defense line that Shu had high hopes for did not actually play much role. Hundreds of thousands of Shu troops were surrounded and retreated, and the situation was already very critical.
Liu Jing, the chairman of the Shu State, no longer bothered to visit the Tang State and could only stay at home to supervise the war. The Shu State troops were defeated again and again. However, because the Qin army's field maneuverability was not as good as the Tang army, it wanted to surround and annihilate the Shu army.
It's not an easy task either.
This is basically equivalent to saying: I have displayed the style of the Tang Dynasty, but I have not completely displayed the style of the Tang Dynasty...
In another sense, "Those who learn from me will live, and those who imitate me will die." The commanders of the Qin State discovered at this time that they seemed to be still a long way from the Tang Army three years ago.
In recent years, the senior military commanders of the Qin State have been trying their best to learn the military tactics of the Tang Empire's army, but it was not until today that they discovered that the Tang Dynasty's tactics were really not something ordinary people could learn.
About three years ago, as long as the Tang army broke through the defense line, it would have a large number of troops to follow, and then use the advantage of field maneuvers to surround the opponent, causing horrific damage to the opponent.
This is the power of the so-called annihilation war: as long as the opponent is surrounded, a large number of enemies can be killed at a relatively small cost, and the cost-effectiveness is naturally extremely high.
However, when this tactic was actually used, Qin's commanders discovered that although their tank troops could tear apart the defense line, they could not follow up as quickly as the Tang army.
They have too few armored vehicles, and their logistical supplies are too stretched. In the field, the time the troops have to stop and rest and wait for supplies is far longer than the time it takes to break through the enemy's defense line.
Now they know that the real kung fu lies in those areas that no one pays attention to on weekdays. It turns out that to realize the Tang Army's tactical theory, a sufficient number of tanks is only the entry level, and it is just a basic data that meets the standards.
One hundred tanks with advanced performance can tear open the enemy's defense line. But following these one hundred tanks to expand the results are 300 armored vehicles, 5,000 veterans with rich combat experience, and 200 assembled artillery pieces.
400 aircraft of various types and 3,000 trucks responsible for logistics supplies!
If we want to go further, it is a railway with an astonishing capacity, tens of thousands of tons of fuel, hundreds of thousands of ammunition, tens of thousands of tons of food and medicine...
Looking at the glorious Tang troops, they ran forward for more than 100 kilometers in one day, relying on the terrifying transportation force, the careful calculations of the General Staff Logistics Department, and the cooperation of countless transportation personnel.
What about the Qin army itself? On the second day after breaking through the Shu defense line, one-third of the tanks broke down or were paralyzed on the offensive road due to lack of maintenance parts.
The number of trucks was seriously insufficient and logistical supplies were slow. A large number of troops could only stop halfway to wait for subsequent ammunition and food before they could continue to move forward.
The most embarrassing thing is that due to the serious shortage of supplies, a spectacle appeared on the battlefield.
The traditional cavalry and the troops with a large number of horse-drawn carriages became the fastest offensive troops. The infantry advanced faster than the armored troops. The mechanized troops who were short of fuel turned out to be the slowest garbage.
The border sections of Shu that were not very good to begin with were deliberately destroyed, and now they have become a nightmare for the Qin army to advance.
In the torrent of Qin troops advancing along the limited roads, you can see soldiers everywhere helping to push carriages and pull artillery, just like trackers, a spectacular sight.
From time to time, these troops would disperse to avoid the Shu fighter jets whizzing past the sky. This situation was really something that the senior generals of Qin did not expect.
What they didn't expect even more was that the Shu State also organized more than 400 bombers to take off from the field airport on the front line to greet Qin's border cities.
This was also the first time in a hundred years that the hinterland cities of the Qin State were attacked by war. Countless Qin people were displaced and a large number of civilian houses were destroyed and damaged.
The Qin Air Force frequently took off planes to intercept these Shu bombers, but the interception effect was actually not very good. Without radar warning, the frontline military and civilians could only be organized to alert with their eyes, and then rely on telegraphs and telephones to relay news of enemy air raids. This was obviously too slow.
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What's more, the bombers of the Qin Air Force are also constantly dispatched to bomb the hinterland of Shu. In this case, the naked eye warning checkpoints on the ground cannot tell whether the bombers passing by in the sky are their own returning bombers or the enemy's invading bombers.
Therefore, there were countless false alarms, and anti-aircraft artillery positions accidentally injured friendly forces. In a short period of time, more aircraft were shot down by our own people than by the enemy.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There is no other way. If you say you find a random person and hold up a telescope to see if there is an airplane passing by in the sky, what can he understand?
Let the conditions be looser. Let the enemy's planes pass. If the rear is bombed, the leaders must be held accountable if they hold them accountable. Make the conditions tighter. Report the planes when they see them. The result is that one's own planes are often bombed.
Attacked by ground artillery fire, or harassed by own fighter jets.
In the end, no one knew what to do. Some people even naively thought that if the Tang Empire participated in the war now, it would definitely have similar problems.
It's a pity that they don't know that most of the aircraft in the Tang Empire have been equipped with a radio device for identification of friend or foe, which can distinguish friendly aircraft from enemy aircraft through radar and radio equipment.
In just the first month of the war, the Qin State advanced more than 130 kilometers into the Shu Kingdom, but the losses on both sides were greater than expected.
The Qin State finally assembled 300 fighter jets and 500 bombers to participate in the battle. As a result, in this month, more than 170 aircraft were shot down, and less than 400 of them could fly.
It was also very tragic on the Shu side. When the war started, 1,000 planes were deployed on the border, but now there are less than 700 that can fly.
Because Qin was the attacking party, it suffered more losses. The situation on Shu's side was slightly better, but overall it was the disadvantaged side: they lost their positions, many troops were defeated, and they suffered more losses on the ground.
Since the beginning of the war, Qin has lost more than 200 tanks and Shu has lost more than 250 tanks. The losses of armored vehicles on both sides are similar, each around 400.
However, in terms of military strength, the losses of the Shu Kingdom were much greater: the Qin Kingdom probably lost more than 15,000 troops, and the Shu Kingdom had already suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and at least 30,000 others were captured.
This loss also intuitively reflects the actual military gap between the two countries from the data.
The Tang Empire's general staff analyzed the situation before the war and came to a conclusion similar to the above data. However, the Qin army was more relaxed in actual performance, and the Shu Kingdom was not as tough as the Tang Empire estimated.
To put it bluntly, Loew and his staff overestimated the Qin army and overestimated the Shu army, so they came to the right conclusion but not the actual situation.
The actual situation is that the losses of the Shu army were greater than estimated, and the strategic victory of Qin was not as great as imagined... Only God knows who performed better.
Loew was very angry about this, and the general staff was almost completely disgraced by these two bastards, Qin and Shu.
He couldn't criticize these two countries, so in several subsequent meetings, the Imperial Chief of Staff and Marshal Loew were almost pissed off by everyone's jokes.
Even His Majesty the Emperor unscrupulously joined the army of teasing Loew and told a joke in the conference room that almost made Loew and the generals on the staff almost put their heads between their legs.
But all joking aside, the world situation has indeed become tense because Qin declared war on Shu. Shu's envoy hoped that the Tang Empire could mediate the war between the two sides, but Qin's envoy has been obstructing and delaying.
Diplomatic envoys from various countries are asking about Tang's attitude towards this war, and secretly asking if Tang has any action plans for further expansion.
In fact, everyone is waiting for a result, an answer as to whether the Western Continent is really going to be in chaos: If the Western Continent is in chaos, then the Eastern Continent will definitely be in chaos.
Everyone wants to gain their own benefits in troubled times, so everyone is watching the attitude of Tang State to see whether Tang State will break its promise and join this war.
Unfortunately, the answer they heard was not the answer they wanted: the Tang Empire was not in a hurry to get involved in the war in a short period of time. The Tang State was very calm, at least on the surface, very calm.
Tang Mo had no idea of expanding his army to prepare for war. He even mobilized some troops locally and deployed them outside Fengjiang. There was no other movement.
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