Chapter 1713: The crushing strength of 1714

Chapter 1713: The crushing strength of 1714

 Chapter 1713 The crushing strength of 1714

An interesting way to understand World War II on earth is to analyze the outcome of the war from the perspective of each country's steel production, automobile production and other production capacities.

This kind of situation, which at a more advanced level involves a general war and a war of national power, and at a more simple level means fighting a war of attrition by fighting for resources and production capacity, has gradually made war lose its so-called beauty.

This is why many people like Germany during World War II: it may have been the last bold attempt by humans to use their own wisdom and strategy to challenge a powerful opponent. After this war, all countries began to tend to use paper data to calculate their own victory or defeat.

The strong are strong, and the weak have no room for resistance. The development of technology has made human calculations and strategies useless. Chances are almost invisible anymore. Only a group of mathematicians are left to calculate a large number of things. A bunch of boring numbers.

So even though the Allied forces produced many dazzling generals and famous commanders during World War II, it was difficult for people to like them. There is no way, their basic tactics to defeat their opponents are too devoid of aesthetics. From weapon design to battlefield organization, there is only one idea: rely on logistics to crush the opponent to death.

They won as they lost, and as their opponents fought they found that they could not defeat more and more enemies on the opposite side... This is why people talk about Napoleon, but are not so familiar with Kutuzov. Linton and other generals.

 Today, the automobile production of the Tang Empire is almost ten times that of its opponent. The industrial production capacity of the Western Continent has completely surpassed that of the Eastern Continent. Based on the calculation of national strength, there is no suspense about this war.

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

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

Note that this refers to "allied forces", and it is not yet possible to calculate the production capacity of the Nanla Empire, an empire that did not participate in the war.

The Lions Empire has begun to deploy its troops into the Elven Empire. The Dornish Empire's expeditionary force is fighting **** battles in Ironforge. The Sussus Empire's troops are also blocking the Tang Empire's southward march in the Ice Empire.

However, the troops of the Tang Empire are fighting more and more, and they are really getting stronger: not only the 11th and 9th armies attacking Ironforge, but the other armies are also constantly advancing their own fronts.

  The 1st and 7th Group Armies have advanced horizontally in Rewind Port and the border area, and have taken control of large areas. The 3rd Army and the newly arrived 10th Army also expanded the occupation area near Saint-Lo.

 Six armies are lined up in a row, with a total strength of more than 1.5 million. There is no so-called risk of being defeated for a Tang army of this size.

On the other hand, the coalition forces participating in the battle include five armies from the 4th to 8th elves, three light infantry armies from the Sussus Empire, two armies from the Dorne Empire, one army from the Lions Empire, and the 8th to 15th Dwarf armies. Including the 3rd Army, there are a total of 9 armies.

Although the coalition forces are still very impressive in terms of numbers, in fact the combat effectiveness of these troops has indeed declined significantly.

The 11th and 12th armies that the dwarves have been fighting in cooperation with the three armies of the Susus Empire have been almost disabled, and several armies gathered near Ironforge are also on the verge of collapse. The elves have already fought all the way and retreated to the mainland. Dorn's troops have entered Ironforge one after another to refuel, but in fact they have not played a decisive role.

With the arrival of snow, the logistics of these troops began to become difficult, and it was completely impossible to expect them to fight back. So despite the fact that the coalition has 20 armies on paper, in fact almost all of the more than 4 million people are being beaten passively.

From the paper data, we can also see the huge gap in the strength of the two sides: the Tang Army has deployed more than 2,000 combat aircraft of various types on the Eastern Continent, and the total number of the coalition's air force is only about 2,500.

Calculating the absolute difference in the quality of the aircraft between the two sides, the air power of the two sides is about 100 to 1. The air power of the Tang Army is a hundred times that of the coalition forces.

Although the Tang Army is still smaller than the Allied Forces in terms of strength, the six armies have a total of more than 2,500 tanks, the vast majority of which are advanced Type 96 main battle tanks.

Looking at the coalition forces, the number of tanks owned by the 20 group armies has dropped to less than 2,000, and the vast majority of them are old World War II-level models.

 Under such comparison of data, the advantage of the coalition forces in terms of military strength cannot be reflected at all. So on the battlefield, the coalition forces were being beaten and defeated everywhere.

In late November, the Third Army of the Tang Dynasty fought a beautiful battle of annihilation about 110 kilometers east of Saint-Lô, annihilating three infantry divisions of the Susas Empire, and the entire front began to collapse.

  The 11th Dwarf Army and the 12th Army had to abandon their original positions and collapsed towards Ironforge. Originally they were short of major generals, and it was completely unrealistic to expect them to block the Tang army.

Sussus' three light infantry armies lost almost all of their reserve forces after this battle, and had to retreat to a place closer to the mountains southwest of Ironforge for replenishment.

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

　　Previously, the two sides fought inextricably, almost fighting for every inch of territory, but this time only three divisions were eliminated and such huge results were achieved, which fully illustrates the collapse of the coalition's combat effectiveness.

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

The direct impact of this is that the elves' defense in the direction of Rewind Port has been weakened, and the planned counterattack has completely come to nothing.

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

Now a very terrifying news is before them: the Tang Empire is also constantly attacking in winter, so what methods should they use to prevent this from happening?