artillery arc

Chapter 324 "A tenth of the loss was actually because of him!" (Silver Update 3/10)

July 7th, Eagle's Nest, Prosen Empire Royal Meeting.

William Kelt was reporting to Reinhardt: "The census one year after the war started last month has ended. Our army has suffered irrecoverable losses of 98 soldiers, of which were captured in Kalanskaya. Lieutenant General Kossov surrounded and eliminated."

Reinhard cursed: "Damn it, one-tenth of the losses are actually because of him!"

William Kelt glanced at von Bryan: "Your Majesty, the losses caused by Rokosov are more than that. He killed and injured a large number of our soldiers in Orachi and Shostka. Rokosov is obviously still He is a novice, but the exchange ratio with our army is close to one to one. "

Von Bryan said: "The defenders of the coastal fortress that was just captured recently also used Rokossov's tactics, causing huge casualties to our army."

Reinhard looked at Duke Redwitz, the leader of Rabboville: "Isn't your Krat Bureau very powerful? Can't you contact the remnants of Ant's Saint Sect? Let them kill Rokossov!"

Duke Redwedge looked embarrassed: "We only have a cooperative relationship with the Saint Sect. Of course, I can ask them to try to kill Rokossov. After all, the Secular Sect now relies on him to greatly strengthen its control over the Ant military. Strength, the Chongsheng Sect definitely doesn’t want to see this happen.

"But...I can't guarantee that they will agree, let alone success."

Reinhardt: "But you need to take action, do you understand action?"

"You say it."

Reinhard said angrily: "Then let him continue to shed the blood of the people of Prosen? No, I can't meet your request to confront him in an upright manner. If Rabelais can't kill him, let the air force do it!"

"The 88mm artillery carrier has just received the production number of the No. tank. The trial production model has arrived at the front line and is fully capable of participating in Operation Blue."

General Moltke: "It will be organized into an independent heavy tank battalion to strengthen the Said Armored Division of the Asgard Knights."

Grand Duke Meyer was shocked: "Me? Your Majesty, our airport is now far away from the enemy's capital. It is very difficult to bomb the capital."

Reinhard crossed his arms and said, "Very good, Division Seder is doing a great job. They need to break through the Suhayaveli River with the utmost strength to prepare for the next phase of the attack. Keitel, continue Report."

"Since the beginning of the war, a total of one thousand tanks have been provided to the front line. The total number of front-line tanks in our army has been greatly reduced compared with last year."

William Keitel continued to recite the investigation report: "The number of assault guns our army has lost since the war began..."

"Another one-tenth!" Reinhard slammed the table hard, "This Rokossov is really annoying!"

Operation Blue, a battle plan drawn up by the Prosen Command to sweep through southern Ante and seize the Kuba Oilfield.

But no one is stupid enough to voice such concerns.

Reinhardt: "He will still come to the front line, blow him up when the time comes! Kelt, you continue to report."

Several army generals present frowned slightly when they heard this. After all, the Asgard Knights are not considered an army force, but the emperor's personal soldiers. The generals began to worry because good equipment was provided to the Asgard Knights. Will the army be able to obtain enough new equipment in the future?

"The quality of these tanks is much higher than that of No. 1 and No. 2. In addition, although we have added fewer tanks to the front line, we have armed new armored divisions, and we can rely on these armored divisions in subsequent operations. Moreover, we will soon have new tanks The tanks are going to the front lines.

William Kelt nodded: "Okay, one year after we started the war, the irrecoverable losses of tanks reached 2179. The good news is that No. and No. accounted for a large part of them. The bad news is. These losses have not been reached so far. No additions were made.

"Wait a minute," Reinhard interrupted, "how many of our lost tanks were destroyed by Rokossov's troops?"

Reinhard seemed very confident in the Panzer VI and asked: "Which troops will these heavy breakthrough tanks be strengthened for?"

William Keitel was embarrassed: "Well, there is no statistics on this data, but if we calculate the number of tanks lost by our army in the Kalanskaya encirclement, it should be about two hundred."

William Celtic: "Assassinating the enemy's famous general instead of defeating him on the battlefield will make people look down on us."

William Kelt: "Can I continue reporting?"

When he said this, William Kelt looked at General Moltke, the director of armored forces, who said: "It can't be calculated like this. The tanks we provide to the front line are all No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, and they have been improved based on front-line combat experience. The number three and four.

Afterwards, the Celtic Chief of Staff reported in detail the losses of other technical equipment of the army, and finally concluded: "Since the Battle of Ante, the armor strength and technical equipment lost by our army are far lower than those of the Carolingian Battle. Even if calculated The average daily losses were also much lower than those in the Carolingian Campaign.

"In the two most intense months of the Battle of Ante, our army lost only 15 tanks per day, while in the Carolingian Campaign, which lasted 42 days, the average daily loss was 26 tanks."

"That's right, that's right," Reinhard nodded repeatedly, "The number of Ant's armored forces is ten times that of the Carolingians, as many as 20,000! Ant is an inferior race, and such a large numerical advantage can only cause "We suffered such low losses." General Mao Qi interjected: "The quality of their soldiers is indeed very low, and they lack coordination. Only their bravery is admirable. However, bravery is only a special performance of a small number of troops. Most Ante. The army will collapse when its losses reach ten percent."

Reinhard had an expression of admiration on his face: "Gentlemen, although we paid 98 losses, we caused four or even five times this number of losses to the Ant people. We eliminated them in 100 days." Twenty thousand tanks. The time is coming to completely defeat the Ant Empire.

"Celtic!"

William Kelt made a gesture, so his adjutant and a combat staff came over with a map and unfolded it on the small blackboard that had been prepared.

William Kelter: “In the first phase of Operation Blue, we are preparing to commit the Fifth, Tenth, and Fifteenth Group Armies to advance eastward and clear out the Ant Army on both sides of the Suhayaveli River.

“At this stage, we call it the Battle of the Bend of the Suhayaveli River, because terrain problems should make it impossible to systematically annihilate the enemy.

“But in the second phase, with our flanks clear, we will launch a pincer offensive against Ant’s army on the plains south of Suhayaveli.

"They have just retreated from the coastal fortress. A large number of new troops have gathered in an area of ​​about 10 square kilometers near Bolsk. We will implement an encirclement operation like the Siege of Agsukov here and wipe out about people in one fell swoop. Ant's army!
"The third phase of the plan is to quickly advance to the southwest during the gap between the enemy's new forces being annihilated. The goal is to capture Kuba and even Abawahan further away, and obtain the Yonggu Air Force Base on the Inland Sea!"

After William Kelt finished speaking, Grand Duke Meyer said: "Once Abawahan is controlled, the air force will come out in full force and cut off the supply route on the inland sea - well, the end point of this route is Abawahan. , but even if the Anters move the end of the route north, the Air Force is sure to cut it off. "

Marshal von Bryan suddenly said: "You said the same thing about the United Kingdom the year before last. The air force can make the United Kingdom surrender or something."

Grand Duke Meyer frowned.

Reinhard interrupted the conversation between the two: "No matter what, once we occupy Abawahan, the Ant people will be severely damaged. Compared with the plan to attack Yebao, this plan has the biggest The highlight is that a large number of combat areas are in Ant's mature industrial zone, so our army's supplies will not be as embarrassing as last year.

"The first phase of the attack will be launched on July 7th! It will be carried out by Marshal Evard von Steiermark of Army Group South!"

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At 7:9 on July , the commander of the newly formed Suhayaveli Front Army Headquarters of the Ant Army, General Andrei, was awakened by the sound of artillery.

He immediately picked up the phone: "Call the headquarters. Headquarters? Where is it being bombarded?"

The chief of staff of the front army who answered the phone at the headquarters said: "This is the front line, and the enemy is preparing artillery fire."

General Andrey said: "Let us follow Rokossov's approach. The front artillery group immediately began to prepare for counterfire and bombard possible enemy assembly areas."

"Yes," the chief of staff replied, "Any further instructions, General Andrei Ivanovich."

General Andre: "No, I will go to the headquarters now and tell the divisions that there is a way to hold on firmly!"

"Yes."

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At five o'clock in the morning, the Prosen army set out to take position.

Colonel Busse, the commander of the first wave of attacks, looked at the barrage that fell in front of the assembly area - literally in front - and laughed: "The Antes learned something from General White Horse, but only a little. !”

Because the Prosen army is more organized and has good soldiers, it can place the starting point of the attack farther than normal, and still maintain a relatively complete formation during the attack.

At this time, Colonel Busey heard the sound of an engine coming from behind. He quickly turned around and saw several boxy tanks with very wide tracks approaching.

These tanks have intimidating thick and long barrels, and most Prossen soldiers recognize them as 88mm guns at a glance!
Many soldiers cheered: "New tanks!"

“It looks very good!”

But Colonel Busse frowned. He jumped off his command tank, came to the wide-tracked heavy tank, stopped the tank column, and said with his head held high: "I am Colonel Busse, the commander of the battle group. What's going on with you?" ? I heard that I was given a company, so why only four tanks? Do you only have four tanks in a company? "

The commander of the new tank smiled bitterly and said: "We didn't want to, but eight tanks broke down from the station to here. The reliability of this thing is worrying, but don't worry, the remaining four will also give a hard lesson." Ant people, look at it!”

(End of this chapter)