Chapter 1328: The Tang Army on flank 1245

Liu Guozhu thought they would have a passionate clash with the Qin Country’s Armored Corps. He believed he might set a new record for destroying enemy tanks while driving an improved 64 tank.

Unfortunately, he guessed wrong… or rather, he guessed the ending but got the process wrong. The opponent on the other side was indeed slaughtered, but the firing didn’t come from Liu Guozhu and his crew members.

As the ground troops of the Great Tang Empire began to cross the border into the former territory of the Dahua Kingdom, the Air Force of the Great Tang Empire had simultaneously taken over all air defense in the Dahua Kingdom.

Several P-40 fighter jets from the Great Qin Empire attempting to cross the border were directly shot down by the Tang Army’s jet fighters. Following that, air superiority over the border fell into Tang Army’s hands, and then it became the Tang Country Land Aviation’s showtime.

A dozen armed helicopters from the Land Aviation shuttled between various battlefields, leaving Liu Guozhu leaning against his tank hatch, idly watching the wrecks of the Qin Army’s armored corps lined up on the roadside.

From the start of the war until this night, the 1st Armored Division where Liu Guozhu belongs stopped advancing. The lucky ones fired a shot, while the unlucky ones like Liu Guozhu only saw groups of Qin Army prisoners squatting in the desolate fields, holding their heads, waiting for registration.

There were so many captured Qin Country soldiers that even capturing prisoners became a very time-consuming task.

A large number of Qin Country troops were congested on the road, affecting the time of Tang Army’s advance. They surrendered very quickly, but driving them off the road became a troublesome task.

This was just the beginning, as more Qin Country troops would come, and the combat power they could exert would not even be thirty percent of their original strength.

When they faced the tanks of the Great Tang Empire, their courage had long collapsed, and their determination had long been worn out, leaving only a bunch of startled birds, raising their hands waiting for their end.

The brave and fierce soldiers of the Qin Country were caught off guard without ammunition, without food, and not even knowing what they should be doing.

“Have we not contacted all the troops yet? Send people immediately! Order all divisions to retreat! In this kind of field battle against the Tang Army, our troops are likely to suffer losses.” After venting, Wang Luo, the commander of the northern line of the Qin Army, finally regained his composure.

After he issued the order, he looked at the officer who came to report the news again: “What bad news have you brought this time?”

The officer who had just rushed back from the 3rd Armored Army reported the latest losses: “Commander! It has been confirmed that the 3rd Armored Army was attacked by a type of jet aircraft they have never seen before, suffering heavy losses. They have no means to retreat on their own, all troops remain in place.”

In reality, the 3rd Armored Division suffered even worse losses than he knew or saw: the fastest advancing 1st Regiment of the 1st Armored Division was almost entirely eliminated by the A10 attack aircraft corps.

The main 2nd Armored Regiment didn’t even see the enemy’s shadow, but due to a lack of fuel, they could only become stranded on the road. They have been waiting for supplies for a day but have gotten nothing.

Without even a counterattack from the Tang Army, they were stuck on the road due to a lack of fuel, unable to move, awkward to the extreme.

“Zhang Cheng, this useless person!” Knowing Zhang Cheng’s death, Wang Luo became angry again. After cursing, he instructed the officer delivering the news: “Have the 3rd Armored Army retreat to…”

“Too late.” The officer said: “Their fuel supply units have been attacked, and they now lack fuel and cannot move as organized units…”

“Send the logistics fuel supply units…” Reflexively, Wang Luo shouted his order, then stood there awkwardly, somewhat at a loss.

Indeed, he couldn’t contact the logistics fuel supply units that were supposed to act as a reserve, didn’t know their exact location, and couldn’t mobilize these troops to where they were needed.

Where is the food and supplies, whether they were attacked, whether the reserve units left behind followed up, Wang Luo really didn’t know anything.

At the airport at the rear, aircraft transferred in, the radar used for guarding, and the anti-aircraft artillery troops following the troops… Have they all been put into battle? Why in his airspace could he only occasionally hear the roar of a plane engine?

Everything was so chaotic that even as a commander, he still didn’t know what was happening. However, he had to grasp the key issues amidst this chaos and solve them.

Thus, as if dancing blindly, Wang Luo gave an order that made everyone baffled: “Anti-aircraft troops, start setting up air defenses on the spot! Never mind anything else, stabilize the air defense first and foremost!”

Based on past experience, Wang Luo knew that the Air Force of the Great Tang Empire was undoubtedly the vanguard. As long as the Tang Army counterattacked, the Air Force would act first. In such situations, deploying the anti-aircraft troops to battle was a key choice.

As a result, the Qin Army, who wasted their time to escape within the huge encirclement, began to make odd moves again.

The anti-aircraft guns mounted on the back of trucks were unloaded, moved to the wasteland on the roadsides, set up, waiting to intercept Tang Army aircraft.

The heavy artillery of each troop was also ordered to hide, avoiding possible Tang Army air raids at any moment. The Qin Army was indeed well-trained, and no matter how much they doubted these orders, they loyally executed these somewhat eccentric “chaotic orders.”

The second order was issued subsequently, and the Qin Army troops began constructing defensive lines in place. In Seven Mile Village, the Qin Army troops began digging trenches a few hours after hearing this order when a message reached Wang Luo’s command post: a Tang Army unit had already appeared in his rear from the south.

Upon hearing this news, Wang Luo was shocked. He hadn’t heard of this situation before, and even then, he hadn’t been in contact with the Qin Army troops in that direction.

This news was relayed to him by the Southern Cluster of Ying An on his flank, as Ying An’s troops had encountered this Tang Army unit, waking the Qin Army up as if from a dream: a Dingzi of the Great Tang Empire had already been wedged between their Southern and Northern Clusters!

And Wang Luo, only realizing afterward, now understood that if there was likewise a Tang Army unit advancing at full speed to his north, his entire Northern Cluster could be caught in their pocket…