Chapter 563: Chapter 331, The Great Battle
Seriously speaking, being surrounded does not equate to victory.
When the news that their rear was cut off reached the kingdom army deep within enemy lines, they did not panic.
Although logistical supplies could not be delivered for the ti being, within this encirclent that stretched sixty kiloters wide and eighty kiloters deep, with over five hundred thousand people present, a prolonged cutoff in supply could easily lead to a total, uncontrollable collapse.
But they did not believe such a situation would occur.
There’s a cluster of twelve Knight Titans here, surrounding us from behind?
It’s not yet certain who’s surrounding whom!
They did not continue the forward offensive posture but instead diverted so forces to head rearward.
Six Knight Titans and over five hundred Sentry chas ford the combat core, ready to recapture the lost rear positions. If possible, it would be even better to conduct one or two effective encirclent and annihilation battles.
However, at this mont, their nightmare arrived.
The Alliance Army seed to know their plans completely, already prepared to defend staunchly.
And this ti, the Alliance had resolutely no intention of retreating.
In fact, they did not opt for trench warfare based on trenches, fortfications, and the like, to hold and wear down the kingdom army.
The tank units took the initiative to strike, Windfalcon Fighters in the skies daringly lowered their altitude, beginning to provide ground fire support. Especially when detecting so enemy artillery positions in the rear, they would launch a few missiles. If they did not completely destroy the target, they would risk being hit by rocket artillery or anti-aircraft gunfire to use laser cannons to wipe out any remaining enemy artillery.
On the main battlefield, the total force the Alliance committed to the decisive battle was ten Armored Brigades.
Their numbers were the 1st Extinguishing Wind Brigade, 13th Armored Brigade, and the 35th to the 38th and 59th to the 62nd Armored Brigades.
These ten brigades, totaling just over eighty thousand troops, assembled nearly nine hundred Lion Tanks and over two thousand various types of combat armored vehicles!
Without a doubt, Perbov went all out, regarding this battle as the most critical grand decisive battle on Heijian Star.
Both sides, totaling six hundred thousand n, unfolded a fierce battle along a sixty kiloter wide front, structured around brigades and regints!
For the kingdom army, the grand decisive battle ca a bit unexpectedly, exceeding their initial psychological expectations.
Originally, at the start of the full-scale offensive, they were prepared psychologically for a major battle. However, a series of triumphs like a rampaging victory over multiple days made them complacent. So fools thought the Alliance Army was just so-so, and others, not foolish, tended to believe that the Alliance was not ready for a decisive battle and chose to avoid the brunt.
But they really did not expect that the Alliance was not unprepared for the decisive battle, but decided to have the decisive battle when the encirclent was ford and the roles of offense and defense changed.
The situation now was also quite clear.
Either they completely crush the ten Armored Brigades gathered by the Alliance, positioned behind them and poking at their rears in one go,
Or, under the conditions of having lost all supply inside the encirclent, their entire army would be wiped out.
And at this critical mont, they flinched.
Mainly because initially, they only sent six Knight Titans to the rear to deal with the encirclent.p>
According to the intent of the kingdom army’s commanders, it wasn’t that they did not dare to fight decisively, but rather that the force they had gathered before the battle began was not yet sufficient.
First, they needed to pull back these six Titans and the main forces a bit, waiting for all twelve Knight Titans to gather before turning around to fight the decisive battle, which would increase their chances of success.
From certain perspectives, the kingdom army’s supre commander’s thought process wasn’t wrong. However, he made one critical mistake: he severely underestimated the resolve of the Alliance’s armored forces in this battle.
In such a decisive grand battle, courage and morale are extrely important.
Whoever shows a hint of cowardice might find even a slight setback leading to a comprehensive collapse.
And this was what happened on the frontal battlefield.
Upon receiving the ssage to retreat and regroup with the other six Titans, the six Knight Titans on the front line naturally chose not to continue their advance to et the enemy and started to fall back.
But then, the Alliance’s armored forces had already penetrated quite deeply into their ranks.
The ordinary infantry left behind to cover the retreat simply could not withstand such a massive offensive pressure. In the rear, under the volley of self-propelled artillery, their defenses were already on the verge of collapse; when the armored vehicles really began charging their lines, they ford virtually no effective resistance before disintegrating completely.
Subsequently, so of the kingdom’s core units ca under attack.
Dozens of Sentry chas were bitten into by the Alliance’s Strider Combat Vehicles. Under the barrage of several hundred automatic cannons, those Sentry chas and surrounding kingdom infantry had to turn around to fight.
They were caught off-guard, and with a significant number disparity, they were suppressed fiercely.
Moreover, if the battle dragged on even a bit longer, dense barrages of 155mm howitzer shells would often co over from the Alliance forces in the rear.
The artillery battalions under the Alliance’s Armored Brigades, along with artillery support platoons within each Composite Camp, had fully upgraded their towed artillery to self-propelled artillery. The process of moving and setting up to fire, and then moving again, had beco much faster than before, allowing them to smoothly support armored units, providing fire cover while they rapidly breached enemy positions.
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