It's better to conquer them than to command the steel torrent

Chapter 141 | Blinding!
Thanks to Louisa's reminder, Anlong closed his eyes in time.

Otherwise, if eyes that have adapted to dim lighting are suddenly blinded by the dazzling light of a flare, they will inevitably suffer temporary blindness.

Anlong carefully opened his eyes, squinted slightly, turned the crank, aligned the reticle of the scope with the target, and then pulled the trigger.

"Boom!"

The Škoda 47mm tank gun fires with a short, powerful, and crisp sound, and its power is considerable. Its capped armor-piercing rounds can penetrate approximately 59mm of vertical armor at a distance of 1000 meters.

The Type 32 medium armored vehicles exported by the Great Unified Federation to Hungary had all their original 65mm short-barreled guns removed and were replaced with 47mm long-barreled guns, which are more suitable for engaging armored targets.

The target tank was firing its cannon one second, and the next second, sparks flew from its body and it fell silent.

"Hit! Fire another shot!"

"it is good!"

The tank commander pulled back the breechblock, and the smoking shell casing ejected automatically. He immediately turned around, grabbed an armor-piercing shell, clenched his fist, and pushed the shell into the chamber.

"Boom!"

Seeing the tank transform into a torch in the night, Louisa cheered loudly, praising, "Fantastic! It's on fire! Anlong, well done!"

Corporal gunner Anlong laughed and boasted, "Louise, I told you before, no one can fire a gun better than me."

Before long, many large, burning fires appeared on the battlefield, all of them from destroyed Imperial Russian tanks.

Caught in a pincer attack from multiple directions, Davikov's assault group immediately found itself in crisis.

Realizing that the Hungarian army, which outnumbered them by at least twice as many, was attempting to encircle and annihilate them, Lieutenant Colonel Davikov could only hope that the large following force would arrive in time to relieve the siege.

Retreat was impossible; a hasty retreat under such dire circumstances would only result in being overwhelmed and devoured alive by the ferocious Hunnic army.

At that moment, on the top floor of the department store, the female sergeant next to Shang Ke shouted joyfully.

"Colonel! I've made contact with friendly forces!"

She closed her eyes and then opened them again, subconsciously looking around, before adding, "The police battalion is joining the battle from the south, but they are restricted by the residential area and can only deploy one company at a time."

Shang Ke picked up the binoculars and looked at them, then pondered, "It doesn't matter. They don't need to be too aggressive; just keep applying pressure."

Shortly after, he added an order: "The Royal Guard should also be cautious in their direction and are prohibited from launching counterattacks against enemy reinforcements, so as to thwart any possible enemy relief efforts with firepower."

Infantry-tank coordination is not that simple; it's even more troublesome at night when visibility is low, and it's easy to get separated from one another.

If something goes wrong and the counterattack fails, the losses will outweigh the gains.

In Shang's view, the Davikov assault team was already fish on the chopping block, and he was determined to devour them, so it was better to avoid trouble now.

As its name suggests, the 'Lister' police battalion is a temporary force composed of elite young men selected from the Royal Police of Budapest.

Because there were already some veterans among the Wang family's police force, this hastily assembled unit actually possessed quite good qualities after intensive training.

Looking down at this battlefield, to the west are the defenders of Heroes' Square, to the north is the 1st Battalion of the Gendarmerie Regiment, to the northeast are the Royal Guard, to the south is the Police Battalion, and in the middle is the Chomeri Avenue, which stretches all the way, and the surrounded Davikov assault group.

The encirclement and annihilation operation was in full swing.

At 19:15 p.m., the Hungarian field artillery group on the west bank of the Danube took it upon themselves to fire two 150mm illumination rounds at this location, intending to support the encirclement and annihilation operation.

The previous illumination rounds were all fired from 81mm mortars, so the effect of this sudden 150mm howitzer illumination round was predictable.

In an instant, the light of millions of candrades illuminated the surrounding area, making the area within a two-kilometer radius as bright as day!
It's no exaggeration to say that the entire battlefield, where bullets were flying, fell silent for more than ten seconds because of those two flares, as if God had pressed the pause button. "Holy shit! You fucking idiots!" Shang Ke blurted out a vulgar curse.

Even though he closed his eyes just before the light burst forth, he could still feel the dazzling white light piercing through his eyelids and stimulating his eyes.

Sergeant Major Reika, who was beside him, didn't react as quickly as he did and simply disappeared from sight.

"Oh? Colonel!" the little girl cried out in a panicked voice, "My eyes... I can't see... I can't see!"

"Calm down, calm down, this is temporary blindness." Shank shielded his forehead with his left hand to block the light, and shook Reika's shoulder with his right hand, reassuring her, "Reika, pull yourself together, I still need you to pass on instructions!"

For the next full half minute, Shang Ke cursed the artillery command post on the other side, asking if they were stupid.

Once his eyes had adjusted to the brightness, he carefully observed the battle situation and quickly weighed the pros and cons.

"Send a message to the liaison office, instructing the artillery command to execute the fire plan ahead of schedule and launch a rapid attack on the surrounded enemy. We're about to launch a full-scale assault!"

Reika relayed Shang's instructions to a transfer point a kilometer away as the crow flies.

The fierce fighting continues.

Ivanos's army fought with all its might to rescue the besieged Davikov assault group.

帝俄第432步兵团1营和2营在傍晚时遭到炮火覆盖而蒙受了上百人伤亡，之后也一直受到拦阻射击的干扰，直至19时20分才勉强组织起进攻。

The enemy that blocked their way was the royal guard.

Supported by armored squadrons, the temporary defensive line set up by the royal guard was like an impregnable fortress, partly because the firepower of the Imperial Russian relief forces was too weak.

Their support weapons consisted only of mortars and anti-tank rifles, which were insufficient to deter the royal guards.

The Russian-made 14.5mm anti-tank rifle is known for its strong penetrating power and can theoretically penetrate the Type 32 medium armored vehicle. However, the Hungarian armored forces cleverly piled a large number of sandbags on the tank hull.

Only a few tanks had their turrets pierced by armor-piercing tracer rounds, with hot metal fragments flying everywhere inside the vehicles. The Hungarian armored soldiers fought bravely despite their wounds, and some even continued fighting until they went into shock from excessive blood loss.

In the darkness of night, countless tracer bullets streaked back and forth.

The Russian relief forces launched two hasty attacks, both of which ended in failure, and hundreds of corpses were scattered along the Chormel Avenue.

After much anticipation, at 19:55 PM, the 122mm howitzer fire support requested from higher authorities finally arrived.

"Boom-boom-boom-"

Fires suddenly flashed across the royal guard's position, and moments later, the Imperial Russian soldiers launched their third attack with shouts and cries...

However, the efforts of the relief troops were in vain.

Shang Ke has already ordered the reserve forces to launch a full-scale attack, aiming to sweep away the enemy in front of him like autumn leaves.

In the open area east of Heroes' Square, the military police and police battalion launched a pincer attack with overwhelming force.

"Long live!"

"You will not see the sun rise tomorrow!"

"Kill all Ivan the Rus'!"

The positions of Davikov's assault group were already in ruins, and faced with the fierce offensive, they were like a clod of earth being washed away by a flood, quickly being submerged...

(End of this chapter)