What the commanders of the Shen Army's 2nd Armored Division did not expect was that the Tang Country Paratroopers, who had been defending Leping all along... suddenly launched a counterattack.
Moreover, the opposition wasn't using their infantry to counterattack but unleashed an armored corps emerging from behind those Tang Army paratroopers.
Three Type 59 tanks quickly defeated the advancing Shen Army troops, and under the cover of approximately fifty Tang Army paratroopers, initiated the first counterstrike against Shen Army's 2nd Armored Division.
The Great Tang Empire's tanks rumbled past the fiery or already extinguished blackened wreckage of Shen Army tanks, aiming their long barrels at the retreating Shen Army armored corps.
The Shen Army commanders could scarcely believe that the Tang Army paratroopers, who moments ago seemed on the verge of collapse, suddenly had tanks in their arsenal.