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Chapter 1713 1714 Crushing Strength

There is a very interesting angle to understand World War II on Earth, which is to analyze the outcome of the war based on the steel production, automobile production and other production capacities of each country.

To put it in a profound way, this involves a war of overall national strength; to put it in a simple way, it is a war of attrition involving resources and production capacity, which gradually makes the war lose its so-called beauty.

This is why many people like Germany in World War II: it may be the last time that humans tried to use their wisdom and strategy to challenge powerful opponents. After this war, all countries began to tend to use paper data to calculate their own wins and losses.

The strong are strong, and the weak have no room for resistance. The development of technology has made human calculations and strategies useless. Chance is almost no longer seen. Only a group of mathematicians are left to constantly calculate a lot of boring numbers.

Therefore, even though the Allied forces produced many brilliant generals and famous commanders during World War II, it is hard to like them. There is no way, their basic tactics to defeat the opponents are too lacking in aesthetics. From weapon design to battlefield organization, there is only one idea: rely on logistics to crush the opponent.

They won after losing, and their opponents found that they could not defeat the increasing number of enemies... This is why people talk about Napoleon with great relish, but are not so familiar with generals like Kutuzov and Wellington.

Today, the Tang Empire's automobile production is almost ten times that of its rivals. The industrial capacity of the Western Continent has completely surpassed that of the Eastern Continent. Judging from the calculation of national strength, this war is no longer a suspense.

The Tang Empire could lose once, twice, or countless times, but the East Continent only needed to lose once to be overthrown. Sadly, due to the huge disparity in strength, it was difficult for the East Continent coalition to win a single victory on the battlefield.

Even after losing the large mines in the north of the Ice Empire and the oil fields and other facilities in the north, the total output value of the East Continent Coalition has dropped to less than one-third of that of the Tang Empire.

Please note that what is mentioned here is the "coalition forces". It is not possible to calculate the production capacity of the Nanla Empire, an empire that did not participate in the war, for the time being.

The Lions Empire has begun to deploy its troops into the Elf Empire, the Dorne Empire's expeditionary force is fighting a bloody battle in Ironforge, and the Susas Empire's troops are also blocking the Tang Empire's army from advancing southward within the Ice Empire.

But the Tang Empire's troops grew in number and became stronger and stronger: not only the 11th and 9th armies attacking Ironforge, but the rest of the armies were also constantly advancing their lines.

The 1st and 7th Armies advanced horizontally around Porto Alegre and the border region, gaining control of large areas. The 3rd Army and the newly arrived 10th Army also expanded their occupation zone around Saint-Lô.

The six armies were lined up in a row, with a total strength of more than 6 million. With a Tang army of this size, there was no longer any risk of being defeated.

On the other hand, the coalition forces included five armies from the 4th to the 8th of the Elf, three light infantry armies from the Susas Empire, two armies from the Dorne Empire, one army from the Lions Empire, and nine armies from the 2th to the 1th plus the 8rd of the Dwarf.

Although the coalition forces' strength is still very impressive judging from their numbers, in fact the combat effectiveness of these troops has indeed declined significantly.

The 3th and 11th armies of the Dwarves, who had been cooperating with the three armies of the Susas Empire, were almost crippled, and the armies gathered near Ironforge were also on the verge of collapse. The elves had already retreated to their homeland, and Dorne's troops had entered Ironforge one after another to refuel, but in fact they did not play any decisive role.

As the snow fell, the logistics of these troops became difficult, and it was impossible to expect them to fight back. So even though the coalition had 20 armies on paper, in fact, these more than 400 million people were almost all passively beaten.

The huge gap in military strength between the two sides can also be seen from the data on paper: the Tang army has deployed more than 2000 combat aircraft of various types on the East Continent, while the total number of the coalition air force is only about 2500.

Calculating the absolute difference in the quality of the two sides' aircraft, the air force of both sides was about 100 to 1, and the Tang army's air force was times that of the coalition forces.

Although the Tang army still has fewer troops than the coalition forces, its six army groups have a total of more than 6 tanks, most of which are advanced Type 2500 main battle tanks.

On the other hand, the number of tanks owned by the 20 coalition armies has dropped to less than 2000, most of which are old models at the World War II level.

Under such data comparison, the coalition's advantage in manpower is completely invisible. So on the battlefield, the coalition is being beaten and defeated everywhere.

In late November, the Tang Dynasty's 11rd Army fought a beautiful annihilation battle about 3 kilometers east of Saint-Lô, completely annihilating three infantry divisions of the Susas Empire, and the entire front began to collapse.

The 11th and 12th Dwarf Armies had to abandon their original positions and retreat towards Ironforge. They were already short of soldiers and generals, so it was completely unrealistic to expect them to stop the Tang army.

After this battle, Susas's three light infantry armies lost almost all of their reserve forces and had to retreat to a place closer to the mountainous area southwest of Ironforge for reorganization.

Strauss led the 3rd Army in hot pursuit and fixed the front line at the foot of the mountains southwest of Ironforge in one breath. After this battle, the Tang army had almost controlled two-thirds of the Ice Empire.

Previously, the two sides were fighting hard and almost every inch of land was fought for. However, this time, such a huge result was achieved by destroying only three divisions, which fully demonstrated the collapse of the coalition forces' combat effectiveness.

The collapse of the central front directly led to a gap in the entire defense line of the coalition forces. The elves had to transfer the 9th and 10th Army, which were originally planned to strengthen a certain direction, to the border to defend against the possible southward offensive of the Tang Army's 10th Army.

The direct impact of this was that the elves' defense in the direction of Hot Wind Port was weakened, and the planned counterattack was completely ruined.

Strauss's attack was a great success, but it also disappointed many senior coalition officials who had hoped that the Tang army would suspend its offensive with the arrival of winter.

Now a very terrifying news is placed before them: the Tang Empire is also constantly attacking in winter, so how should they stop this from happening again?