Chapter 962: 963 noobs pecking each other evolved version
Chapter 962 963 Rookies Pecking Each Other Evolutionary Version
The battlefield was in chaos, and no one paid attention to the few tank crews who got out of the tanks and escaped. Everyone is catching each other and fighting each other, or relying on their own strength to bully each other.
Of course, if you have a submachine gun at this time, then you can bully several opponents by yourself...
Qin, which was more advanced in tactics, more experienced soldiers, and more ferocious in fighting, gained the upper hand in the melee. Soon a No. 4 tank broke through the defense line and wreaked havoc at the entrance of the village.
The tanks of the Tang Army were so impressive in the enemy's positions back then, the tanks of the Qin Army are so arrogant now.
The Shu troops, who lacked actual combat experience, had to abandon the village and began to retreat backwards. However, due to organizational problems, the retreat quickly turned into a rout.
Most of the artillery support that finally arrived fell on the open ground, but then the Shu Kingdom adjusted the shooting parameters and blew up the villages they lost into rubble.
During this period, most of the battles on the border of Shu were like this. Only a few solidly fortified fortress areas withstood the Qin army's attack, and most of the remaining defense lines were penetrated by the Qin army.
As expected by the Tang State General Staff, the border defense line that Shu had high hopes for did not actually play much role. Hundreds of thousands of Shu troops were surrounded and retreated, and the situation was already very critical.
Liu Jing, the Speaker of the Shu Kingdom, could no longer afford to visit Tang State and could only stay at home to supervise the war. The Shu army was defeated again and again, but because the Qin army's field mobility was not as good as the Tang army, it was not easy to encircle and annihilate the Shu army.
This is basically equivalent to saying: I have brought out the style of the Tang Dynasty, but I have not completely brought out the style of the Tang Dynasty...
In another sense, "Those who learn from me will live, and those who resemble me will die." The commanders of the Qin State discovered at this time that they seemed to be still far behind the Tang Army three years ago.
In recent years, the senior military commanders of the Qin State have been trying their best to learn the military tactics of the Tang Empire's army, but it was not until today that they discovered that the Tang Dynasty's tactics were really not something ordinary people could learn.
About three years ago, as long as the Tang army broke through the defense line, it would have a large number of troops to follow, and then use the advantage of field maneuvers to surround the opponent and cause horrific damage to the opponent.
This is the power of the so-called annihilation war: as long as the opponent is surrounded, a large number of enemies can be killed at a relatively small cost, and the cost-effectiveness is naturally extremely high.
But when they actually used this tactic, Qin's commanders discovered that although their tank troops could tear open the defense line, they really couldn't follow up as quickly as the Tang army.
They have too few armored vehicles, and their logistics supplies are too stretched. In a field situation, the time for troops to stop and recuperate and wait for supplies is far greater than the time it takes to break through the enemy's defense line.
Now they know that the real skill lies in those areas that no one pays attention to on weekdays. It turns out that to realize the Tang Army's tactical theory, a sufficient number of tanks is only the entry level, and only the basic data meets the standard.
One hundred tanks with advanced performance can tear open the enemy's defense line. But following these one hundred tanks to expand the results are 300 armored vehicles, 5,000 veterans with rich combat experience, and 200 assembled artillery pieces. 400 aircraft of various types and 3,000 trucks responsible for logistics supplies!
If we want to go further, it is a railway with an astonishing capacity, tens of thousands of tons of fuel, hundreds of thousands of ammunition, tens of thousands of tons of food and medicine...
Looking at the glorious Tang army, they rushed forward more than 100 kilometers in one day, relying on the terrifying transportation force, as well as the careful calculations of the General Staff Logistics Department and the cooperation of countless transportation personnel.
What about the Qin army themselves? On the second day after breaking through Shu's defense line, one-third of the tanks broke down or were paralyzed on the offensive road due to lack of maintenance parts.
The number of trucks is seriously insufficient and logistical supplies are slow. A large number of troops can only stop halfway to wait for subsequent ammunition and food before they can continue to move forward.
The most embarrassing thing is that due to the serious shortage of supplies, a spectacle appeared on the battlefield.
The traditional cavalry and the troops with a large number of horse-drawn carriages became the fastest attacking troops. The infantry advanced faster than the armored troops. The mechanized troops who were short of fuel turned out to be the slowest garbage.
The border sections of Shu that were not very good to begin with have been deliberately destroyed, and now they have become a nightmare for the Qin army to advance.
In the torrent of Qin troops advancing along the limited roads, you can see soldiers everywhere helping to push carriages and pull artillery, just like trackers, a spectacular sight.
From time to time, these troops had to disperse to avoid the Shu fighter jets whizzing past the sky. This situation was really something that the senior generals of Qin did not expect.
What they didn't expect even more was that the Shu State also organized more than 400 bombers to take off from the field airport on the front line to greet Qin's border cities. This is also the first time in a hundred years that the hinterland cities of Qin have been attacked by war. Countless Qin people were displaced, and a large number of civilian houses were destroyed and damaged.
The Qin Air Force frequently took off aircraft to intercept these Shu bombers, but the interception effect was actually not very good. Without radar warning, frontline soldiers and civilians could only be alerted with their eyes, and then rely on telegraphs and telephones to relay news of enemy air strikes. This was obviously too slow.
What's more, the bombers of the Qin Air Force are also constantly dispatched to bomb the hinterland of Shu. In this case, the naked eye warning checkpoints on the ground cannot tell whether the bombers passing by in the sky are their own returning bombers or the enemy's invading bombers.
Therefore, there are countless false alarms, and anti-aircraft artillery positions accidentally injure friendly forces. For a time, more aircraft were shot down by our own people than by the enemy.
There is no other way. If you just find a random person and hold up a telescope to see if there is an airplane passing by in the sky, what can he understand?
Let the conditions be relaxed, let the enemy planes pass, and the rear is bombed. The leaders must be held accountable if they are held accountable. Tighten the conditions and report planes when they see them. The result is that one's own planes are often attacked by ground fire or harassed by one's own fighter jets.
In the end, no one knew what to do. Some people even naively thought that if the Tang Empire participated in the war now, it would definitely have similar problems.
It is a pity that they do not know that most of the aircraft in the Tang Empire have been equipped with a radio device for identification of friend or foe, which can distinguish friendly aircraft from enemy aircraft through radar and radio equipment.
In just the first month of the war, the Qin State advanced more than 130 kilometers into the Shu Kingdom, but the losses on both sides were greater than expected.
Qin finally assembled 300 fighter jets and 500 bombers to participate in the battle. As a result, more than 170 aircraft were shot down in this month, and less than 400 of them could fly.
The Shu Kingdom is also very tragic. When the war started, 1,000 aircraft were deployed on the border, but now there are less than 700 that can fly.
Because Qin was the attacking party, it suffered more losses. The situation on Shu's side was slightly better, but overall it was a disadvantage: they lost their positions, many troops were defeated, and they suffered more losses on the ground.
Since the war began, Qin has lost more than 200 tanks and Shu has lost more than 250 tanks. The losses of armored vehicles on both sides are similar, each around 400 tanks.
However, in terms of military strength, Shu suffered more losses: Qin probably lost more than 15,000 troops, and Shu suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and at least 30,000 others were captured.
This loss also intuitively reflects the actual military gap between the two countries from the data.
The Tang Empire's general staff analyzed the situation before the war and reached a conclusion similar to the above data. It's just that the Qin army was more arrogant in actual performance, and the Shu Kingdom was also not as tough as the Tang Empire expected.
To put it bluntly, Loew and his staff overestimated the Qin army and overestimated the Shu army, so they came to the right conclusion but not the actual situation.
The actual situation is that the losses of the Shu army were greater than estimated, and Qin's strategic victory was not as great as imagined... Only God knows who performed better.
Lew was very angry about this, and the staff's face was almost completely humiliated by these two bastards, Qin and Shu.
He could not criticize these two countries, so in the following meetings, the Imperial Chief of Staff, Marshal Loew, was almost **** off by everyone's jokes.
Even His Majesty the Emperor unscrupulously joined the army of teasing Loew and told a joke in the conference room that made Loew and the generals on the staff almost put their heads between their legs.
But all jokes aside, the world situation has indeed become tense because Qin declared war on Shu. Shu's envoy hopes that the Tang Empire can mediate the war between the two sides, but Qin's envoy has been obstructing and delaying.
Diplomatic envoys from various countries are asking about Tang's attitude towards this war, and secretly asking if Tang has any action plans for further expansion.
In fact, everyone is waiting for a result, an answer as to whether the Western Continent is really going to be in chaos: If the Western Continent is in chaos, then the Eastern Continent will definitely be in chaos.
Everyone wants to gain their own benefits in troubled times, so everyone is watching the attitude of Tang State to see whether Tang State will break its promise and join this war.
But unfortunately, the answer they heard was not the answer they wanted: the Tang Empire was not in a hurry to get involved in the war in a short period of time. The Tang State was very calm, at least on the surface, very calm.
Tang Mo had no idea of expanding his army to prepare for war. He even mobilized some troops locally and deployed them outside Fengjiang. There was no other movement.
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Long Ling has something going on at home these two days, so he will start updating in two days
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