Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1386 Chapter 1387 The motionless army

 The fighting between the two sides lasted until late at night, and resumed early the next morning. However, compared with the fierce attack on the first day, the Qin army's attack seemed to be weak.

It is not the fault of Sun Guang for not working hard, but the Tang Air Force's H-6 bomber formation carried out a bombing on the Qin Army at night, paralyzing almost all the Qin Army's starting positions.

The artillery that was still showing off yesterday was suppressed by Tang's artillery, cleared by Tang Navy's carrier-based aircraft, and finally bombed at night. It can be said that there are almost not many left.

Therefore, the total number of artillery pieces supporting the Qin Army's attack on the second day plummeted from 51 to a pitiful 17 pieces - looking at the total number, you will know how much the Qin Army's losses were.

Without the support of artillery, the Qin State could occasionally shake the weapons of the Tang Army's position, and only tanks were left.

So, early the next morning, Sun Guang pressed his chips and used 5 tanks as the vanguard to launch a new round of fierce attack on the Tang army.

 The fierce battle between the two sides continued until noon. The Tang army ended the morning's battle after destroying 12 tanks of the Qin army.

During the fighting, the Tang army lost 57 people and the Qin army lost 192 people. It seems that the gap is not big, but combined with the Qin army's equipment losses, Sun Guang has almost lost all his coffins.

In fact, the 1st Division of the Dorne Expeditionary Force, which was pulled back from the front line by Sun Guang and prepared to act as a reserve force, had already lost a battalion of tanks, and the Qin Army itself had also lost a battalion of tanks.

This is equivalent to saying that one-third of the tank troops assembled by the Qin Army have been wiped out by the Tang Army, including the Tang Air Force. Even with the most optimistic view of these losses, Sun Guang knew that his offense was almost over.

 Because he did not have much left to maintain his offensive posture, almost all of his heavy weapons and equipment were killed after being exposed.

 Without the support of heavy weapons and equipment, his light infantry could not even reach the front line of the Tang army's position. Such a futile attack is no different from taking human life lightly.

The most despairing thing for Sun Guang himself was not his losses, but his results: after 36 hours of hard work, he did not occupy a single trench of the Tang Army, nor did he find any loopholes in the Tang Army.

Thousands of people were lost, dozens of tanks, and dozens of artillery were consumed, but the Tang army was not forced to take a step back, which made Sun Guang very angry.

Like many generals from the Qin State, or most generals from other countries, he only knew the Tang State's famous 1st Armored Division, or the declared 2nd and 3rd Army... He didn't know what this 7th Army was. Where did it come from and why is it so capable of fighting?

He knew the Tang marshals Redman and Tiger, as well as Bernard and Loew, and was also very familiar with the so-called imperial double-edged swords Strauss and Burton...

But the commander of the 7th Army in front of him was obviously a "minor character" whom he didn't recognize. Why was he so powerful?

Until this moment, he didn't even know who his opponent was. Even if he knew, he wouldn't be too familiar with an old officer from distant Bunas, a bearded man named Eric.

Estimating that he would run out of strength within two days, Sun Guang immediately contacted Zhang Xuan and told him that the attack in the direction of Qingluan Port might be stopped at any time.

Zhang Xuan also knew how much pressure it would put on Sun Guang to launch a counterattack alone, so he also understood Sun Guang's situation. After a brief communication, Zhang Xuan decided to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Tang army early on the third day. In fact, after more than a day of adjustments, he had put his most elite troops right under the nose of the Tang army. He had no choice but to fire the arrow, and he had no other choice.

But in the two days of reconnaissance feedback, he found that the Tang army was not mobilized as he planned, and began to devote its main force to the battle with Sun Guang.

The Tang Army just waited quietly in the trenches without large-scale mobilization, and even received some reinforcements.

On the third day when the Qin Army began to counterattack, Zhang Xuan's main force began to fall: the 5th and 15th Armored Divisions invested a large number of tanks and launched in front of the Tang Army.

Soon they were raided by the Tang Army's armed helicopters: these helicopters took off from the repaired field airport. Eric did not waste time in the past few days. He prepared several gifts for the Qin Army.

The sudden appearance of armed helicopters is one of them: engineers of the 7th Group Army repaired several field airports in two days and nights. Although air force aircraft cannot take off and land, Army Aviation helicopters can use these airports to take off and land.

This directly provided a large amount of "air support" to the Tang Army. Eric could even directly use helicopters to transport supplies and mobilize personnel and materials, which greatly improved the mobility of the Tang Army.

Zhang Xuan, who did not expect that the Tang Army would be able to deploy helicopters on the front line so quickly, suffered a sudden loss. His troops had just launched the attack, but they immediately entered the stage of heavy losses.

More than a hundred tanks were finally assembled, but only one-third remained before they arrived at the front line to join the battle.

Qin's powerful 5th Armored Division could only be paralyzed in the middle of the road waiting for reinforcements, while the 15th Armored Division launched an attack, but they were quickly repelled by the Tang army who was waiting for reinforcements.

 Zhang Xuan's painstakingly planned counterattack went unsatisfactory from the beginning. On the morning of the third day, Qin lost nearly 70 tanks and 50 artillery pieces were destroyed on the road.

 Such losses were not something Zhang Xuan could afford, and his offensive became weak, even to a certain extent not as fierce as the offensive of Sun Guang's troops.

With no way to retreat, Zhang Xuan once again had to mobilize troops from other aspects to make up for his losses, strengthen his offensive, and achieve some results.

 But no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer change anything. Because of the temporary mobilization of troops, it would take at least a day to reach the battlefield.

The two sides fought fiercely to the end on this day, but the Tang army's defense line did not change at all, and the few frontline trenches that were lost were quickly recaptured.

I have to say that this result is simply a miracle in the history of war: under the fierce attack of the enemy, the Tang army did not even take a step back!

Also because the Tang army did not take a step back, Qin's counterattack that day became a joke. The decisive battle that Zhang Xuan and Sun Guang had high hopes for did not have the slightest effect.

The news spread back to Qin, and Emperor Qin Yingduo was so angry that he became bedridden. The increasingly difficult war could only be managed by Prime Minister Ying Ke.

 (End of this chapter)