The fighting between the two sides lasted until late at night, and continued 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 to blame that Sun Guang did not work hard, but that the Tang Air Force's H-6 bomber formation carried out a bombing on the Qin Army at night, almost paralyzing all the Qin Army's starting positions.
The artillery that was still showing off its power 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, leaving only tanks.
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 battle, the Tang army lost 57 people and the Qin army lost 192 people. It seems that the difference is not big, but combined with the equipment losses of the Qin army, 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 serve 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 in the most optimistic view of these losses, Sun Guang knew that his offensive was almost over.
Because he didn't 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 was indistinguishable from wasting human life.
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.
The loss of thousands of people, the consumption of dozens of tanks, and dozens of artillery pieces did not force the Tang army 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, he also knew Bernard and Loew, and he was also very familiar with the so-called double-edged swords of the empire, Strauss and Burton...
But the commander of the 7th Army in front of him was obviously a "little character" whom he didn't recognize. Why was he so powerful?
Until this time, 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.
After 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.
Fa, he had no other choice.
However, he found in the two days of reconnaissance feedback 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 was one of them: Engineers of the 7th Group Army repaired several field airports in two days and two nights. Although Air Force aircraft were unable to take off and land, Army Aviation helicopters could use these airports to take off and land.
This directly provided the Tang Army with a large amount of "air support", and Eric could even directly use helicopters to transport supplies and mobilize personnel and materials, which greatly improved the Tang Army's mobility.
Zhang Xuan, who did not expect that the Tang Army would be able to launch helicopter operations on the front line so quickly, suddenly suffered a heavy loss. His troops had just launched the attack, but they directly entered the stage of heavy losses.
Of the more than 100 tanks that were finally assembled, only one-third remained before they arrived at the front line to join the battle.
The Qin State'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 did not go smoothly 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 it would take at least a day to mobilize troops temporarily and reach the battlefield.
On this day, the two sides fought fiercely until the end. There was no change in the Tang army's defense line, and the few lost frontline trenches were quickly recaptured.
It has to be said that such a 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!
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.
When the news spread back to Qin, Emperor Qin Yingduo was so angry that he became bedridden. The increasingly difficult war had to be managed by Prime Minister Ying Ke.
