The battlefield was in chaos, and no one paid attention to the few tank crews who got out of the tanks and escaped. Everyone is catching each other and fighting each other, 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 blasted their lost villages into rubble.
During this period of time, most of the battles on the border of Shu were 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 Kingdom, no longer bothered to visit the Tang Kingdom and could only stay at home to supervise the war. The Shu army was defeated again and again, but because the Qin army's field maneuverability was not as good as the Tang army, it was not easy to encircle and annihilate the Shu army.
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 resemble me will die." The commanders of the Qin State discovered at this time that they seemed to be still far behind 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 and cause 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 price-performance ratio 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 logistics supplies are too stretched. In a field situation, the time for troops to stop and recuperate and wait for supplies is far greater than the time it takes to break through the enemy's defense line.
Now they know that the real skill lies in those areas that no one pays attention to on weekdays. It turns out that the sufficient number of tanks to realize the Tang Army's tactical theory is only the entry level, and it is just a basic data that meets the standards.
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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 and 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, as well as the meticulous calculations of the General Staff Logistics Department and the cooperation of countless transportation personnel.
What about Qin Jun himself? On the second day after breaking through Shu's 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 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 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 completely 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 made them even more unexpected was that the Shu Kingdom also organized more than 400 bombers to take off from the field airport on the front line to greet Qin's border cities.
This is also the first time in a hundred years that Qin's hinterland cities have been 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 aircraft to intercept these Shu bombers, but the interception effect was actually not very good. Without radar warning, frontline soldiers and civilians could only be alerted with their eyes, and then rely on telegraphs and telephones to relay news of enemy air strikes. This was obviously too slow.
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. For a time, more planes were shot down by our own people than by the enemy.
There is no 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's relax the conditions and let the enemy planes pass. If the rear is bombed, the leaders must be held accountable if they are held accountable. Tighten the conditions and report aircraft when you see them. As a result, your own aircraft are often attacked by ground fire or harassed by your 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, more than 170 aircraft were shot down in this month, and less than 400 were able to fly.
The situation in Shu was also very tragic. When the war started, 1,000 aircraft 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 a disadvantage: 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 tanks.
However, in terms of military strength, Shu suffered more losses: Qin probably lost more than 15,000 troops, and Shu 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 reached a conclusion similar to the above data. It's just that the Qin army was more arrogant in actual performance, and the Shu Kingdom was also not as tough as the Tang Empire expected.
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 Qin's strategic victory was not as great as imagined... Only God knows who performed better.
Loew was very angry about this, and the staff was almost completely disgraced by these two bastards, Qin and Shu.
He couldn't criticize these two countries, so in the following meetings, the Imperial Chief of Staff, Marshal Loew, was 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 made Loew and the generals on the staff almost put their heads between their legs.
But all jokes 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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