Chapter 735 1711 The More You Plan, the More You Win

Chapter 735 Chapter 17.11 The more you count, the more you win

The grain stored in the warehouses in Kadi City is only 14,000 tons, while in the original account books of the Kingdom of Osimer, it should be 54,000 tons.

However, due to bureaucratic reasons in the Kingdom of Osimer, the 200,000 barrels of fuel, a large amount of cotton cloth, and military supplies that should have been stored were less than a quarter.

What is particularly ridiculous is that "20,000 barrels of wine" and "1,000 tons of sugar" are stored here, which are expensive goods on the black market.

The 40,000 tons of grain that disappeared in Kadi City were not transferred southward to the static defense front of Osimer.

In fact, on the eve of the Iron Star interspersed operation, the grain that the Kingdom of Osimer should have allocated to various defense zones had not yet been shipped. It was sold to the Anglo-American intervention army at a high price by international merchants.

This important node for storing grain in the Kingdom of Osimer is like this, what about other storage nodes? And the lack of war materials is not just food.

To draw out 100,000 troops from the trenches and conduct strategic decisive battles, at least 5,000 tons of food and 100,000 tons of supplies are needed. Only then can a small-scale battle be fought.

After the static defense system of the Oshima Kingdom Legion and the railway in the rear industrial zone were cut off by Iron Star, they could not move for at least a month.

Iron Star now holds the city of Kadi. It has taken the strategic initiative.

The Oshima Central Group now has two choices, the first is to open up the static defense network, and the second is to join forces with the heavy troops in the north. No matter which one he chooses, the main force of Iron Star can avoid it and flexibly obtain strategic direction,

… War is about who takes the first step, and mobilizing the opponent's strategy always takes the lead…

On November 25, 3232, the Thunder and Flash Alliance, which was once in a honeymoon period, has now entered the quarreling stage of "couple menopause".

On the strategic map, Enma said to himself: "A good enemy will unite the alliance. The old, smoking, but self-proclaimed steamroller Sky Empire is such a good enemy for the surrounding countries."

Now Iron Star has a "first and last" strategy for the surrounding countries, which makes the interests of all parties inconsistent. It is not a good enemy.

Oshima, who was originally in a "watching" state, was "united" with Anglo and supported Anglo's interference, but now when Enma's troops are at the gates of the city, Oshima's prime minister has found several people in the Anglo embassy, ​​and it is obvious that they are "sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams".

Oshima can no longer synchronize with Anglo in military choices, and it is impossible to "fight together" with the remaining imperial army of the Sky Empire in the future. Everyone has a "crack" in their hearts.

The central military group of the Oshima Imperial Capital was marked by Enma.

Enma: As the largest "strategic mobility" force of Oshima, this group is easy to judge at this time. It must strive to open up the connection with the front-line defense forces instead of joining the Anglo in Yuzui Port in the north. First, allies are allies after all. Second, if they join forces with Anglo in the north, the defense of the Wind Whispering City will be reduced.

If the strategic goals of the enemy's various corps are not unified, the strategic gaps left in the middle will make the Thunder Flash Alliance riddled with holes.

... Even within a country, when there is a mountain interest mentality inside, it will collapse in an ant hole...

And as Enma judged, in the Wind Whispering City, after learning that the city of Kadi was penetrated, the kingdom's commander-in-chief Lei Ting was furious and immediately ordered General "Crusi" in the static defense line (corps stationed with reinforced concrete) on the front line that he must recapture and retake the city within six days.

On the battle map of the big men in the Wind Whispering Capital, Kadi City, an important railway hub, is the key to transporting materials.

If you look at the overall situation, you will see a very funny question: "Where are the materials needed for Oshima's current operations?"

Now that the war has suddenly broken out and various materials in the Kingdom of Oshima have skyrocketed, the big men at the top only remember that there are certain war reserve materials on the front line to support it. However, only one-third of the supplies on the books are actually available, and the rest are "the amount that can be seized in the future victory."

The King of Wind Language sent out the Central Group troops to prepare for military operations, all relying on the supplies in the warehouse of Kadi City. But this supply node was lost.

The rulers of Oshima hope that the Central Group will take back the supplies through the attack, but the generals of Oshima think that they must first give "enough supplies." Otherwise, attacking Kadi City is too risky. Once it fails, you can't retreat.

Fengyu, the capital, can't withdraw strategic supplies for the time being.

... In the politics of the late empire, common sense must give way to the correct route set by the big men. And Enma is still forcing...

Enma will not give the Kingdom of Oshima time to wait, but take advantage of its hesitation to make a "big breakthrough."

On November 30, the Iron Star attack force attacked to the east, and 50,000 troops successfully divided the permanent fortifications on the frontier of the Kingdom of Oshima, which the Sky Empire could not take down for hundreds of years.

The defense forces here became isolated fortresses after all the telephone lines between their fortresses were cut. Each fortress watched the Iron Star attack force detour to another fortress's blind spot to blast, but they could not get through the phone.

These Oshima defense forces saw other fortresses being breached from their own perspective, as if they saw their own future. One by one, the fortifications that had been tested by artillery fire were collapsed by dozens or even hundreds of tons of explosives, and then chlorine gas was poured into the underground tunnels.

Finally, on December 2, at the junction of Oshima and the original Iron Star, 25 so-called semi-permanent fortresses and 15,000 defenders surrendered.

After 4 a.m. on December 3, Tiexing's expeditionary corps successfully opened up the western territory of the Sky Empire. Of course, there is another problem now. That is, the opponent is the old army of the Sky Empire.

... Tiexing showed these old imperial officers what a famous general can do when there is no blind command from the big figures of the empire...

At this time, the one stationed in the northern trench confrontation line was Lilot, oh, this is Tiexing's old friend. It was the one who suppressed Swan City that year. After the current cabinet reorganization of the Sky Empire, this guy was sent to the front line as a remnant of the old dynasty.

When Enma defeated the entire defense system centered on Kaidi City. This guy stared at the opposite side every day.

To be honest, two years ago, he was still dissatisfied with the mud legs, and even if he was a little more ruthless back then, the chance of winning was very high, but after two years, Tiexing successively destroyed the main force of the imperial army and captured the Anglo intervention force. Now he has directly made a shocking penetration and captured extremely important strategic points. He had mixed feelings towards Enma.

"Buzz", the crystal map in front of him changed again.

Lilot looked up at the map, and the map changed again. The front line of Oshima had been completely taken down. This was ten days faster than he thought!

He thought that the attack of Iron Star would be blocked here for thirty days, but he didn't expect that it would take only three days to penetrate the entire defense line. He stared at the map for a long time.

At this time, the adjutant came in, and when he saw the general looking at the map, he stood at the door and looked down at the watch mode to remind the general that there was something important now.

Lilot: "What's the matter?" He didn't take his eyes off the map.

The adjutant said: "Iron Star hopes to have a dialogue with the general."

Lilot paused slightly, as if he had met his "first love", took a deep breath, and said: "Here you are."

... In Enma's eyes, the old army of the Sky Empire can also cooperate on certain tasks. …

Willy, who was responsible for negotiating with Lilot, was also an old enemy. Of course, it was precisely because the two sides had confronted each other on the battlefield of Swan City that they were very calm in the dialogue.

Willy, who had just received the news for only twenty minutes, was buzzing with shock from the huge results of the battle. This was one of the four bloody battle lines on the Wanlun Continent. The cruel battle line that accumulated the blood of tens of millions of people every hundred years was directly penetrated by Enma.

That year, when Lilotte had just graduated from the Imperial Military Academy and received the officer's gun issued by the royal family, the entire empire was still in a brutal tug-of-war with the Thunder Flash Alliance. He knew how helpless the empire was about this entire line of defense, and it drained the blood of the entire empire.

The Sky Empire Griffin Palace said twenty years ago: Those who can break through this line of defense will be named Dukes.

Now the results of the battle are the hard truth. Willy, a member of the city's revolutionary faction, now believes more and more that the revolution is right (his purpose for the revolution has always been to pursue strength. As for who makes the empire strong, he doesn't care).

Party member Willy sat in front of Lilotte.

Former rebels and current imperial generals. The two knew each other's purpose and bargaining chips before they sat down.

Willy received an order from the Iron Star Central to try to reach a non-aggression agreement with the Sky Empire Corps on the front line, so that the railway line can be inserted through the defense line to ensure the stability of our army's logistics line. The bargaining chip of Iron Star's negotiation is to provide supplies and some promises to the front-line imperial army.

Lilot also thought of the bargaining chip. If the conditions given by Iron Star are appropriate, let alone let the Iron Star logistics line enter, even cover the flank of the defense line.

Obviously, the accumulated contradictions on this defense line have become the nightmare of the Sky Empire Army.

Let them ignore the "political differences between the old imperial army and the party members" to a certain extent.

…Sky Empire proverb: The opponent of a strong man is more worthy of respect than the cowardly leader of his own side. …

During the negotiation process, Lilot had already released the first batch of transport materials and ordered his own troops to cover this batch of materials and reach the opposite Iron Star defense line troops.

After doing this, Lilot and Willy had in-depth negotiations.

Lilot asked for the front-line military power, and Iron Star tacitly agreed, but the establishment must be reduced in line with the national economic requirements. Furthermore, the development of the Youth League in the military must not be suppressed. Lilotte thought for a while, and agreed to the request after confirming it.

Lilotte: "What is your current combat purpose?"

Willy: "To be honest, the battlefield is changing rapidly now, and I don't know what results can be achieved in the end, but the reason for this operation is that the Anglos are still stubbornly interfering, and we must retaliate."

Lilotte paused: "Don't you think about the power gap? The Thunder Flash Alliance is much stronger than us, um, you are much stronger."

Willy sighed in his heart, "It is much stronger." But on the surface, Yan Zheng responded with what Wei Keng said: "Yes, but their strength and our tolerance are not inevitable. They come to fight us, and we resist, this is inevitable."

Lilotte was silent when he heard this. Yes, as an imperial army, he finally knew why the rebels have become more and more stubborn in the past two years, no matter how they were suppressed.

This group of capable people, the empire has never been worthy of playing games with them from beginning to end.

…When Enma broke through the entire defense line, the generals of the Kingdom of Oshima finally put aside their differences and began to plug this loophole…

On December 6, the First Heavy Arms Group of Oshima rushed to the border with fifteen heavy mechanical units (Land Cruiser level).

The commander is a veteran general of the Oshima Kingdom, with a history of conquest and a hero level of eight.

His combat skill is "mechanical disassembly", which means to extract all concepts from a huge mechanical system and melt it into a pool of metal gravel. These gravels are absorbed by other chariots and sent to the rear, where they can quickly manufacture new mechanical creations in the industrial furnace in their own city. (This kind of manufacturing is the direct automatic combination of metal gravel, just like the reshaping of T1000.)

This skill can be activated once every thirty days on average. It can be used up to five times a year. Therefore, his name is also called the Midas Touch.

In the past wars with the Empire, he was the nightmare of many Sky Empire generals, relying on the defense line to consume the Empire's important land cruiser units.

Then he also accumulated a huge wealth value in the war. The continuous wars allowed him to accumulate more land cruiser units, which in turn made his military power stronger and stronger.

He is the most hardline war faction in the Oshima Kingdom. Narrator: Politically, he is the leader of self-raised military expenses (business) in the army.

Even after the ceasefire in the Sky Empire, he was a hardliner who was determined to move his troops into the Sky Empire, but the Wind Whispering Capital would not allow this aggressive general to grow to a point where he could not be controlled. So in the past two years, he was demoted and transferred back to the capital.

With the current changes in the frontline situation, Oshima has asked this veteran to take action again.

…The pillar of the Oshima Kingdom has arrived. After Enma determined his opponent, he began to plan. …

Enma saw this general coming with the Land Cruiser troops through the "perspective drone", and his head was in a headache.

The troops he led were all very powerful, including the "Earth Bear" which was a 700-ton unit, but its attack power was weaker than that of the knight level, and its mobility was also weaker, but there was an electromagnetic tower in the center of the "Earth Bear" that could be retracted and opened. Once this "electromagnetic energy field" was opened, it would repair the "metal scars" of another Land Cruiser.

Enma thought about it and felt that he had to fight. If he let the four Earth Bears rush to the Kaidi City Fortress and left it alone, they would soon retake the railway hub.

The key to the battle was whether he dared to take a gamble.

Enma said to Beth: "You said, could we be completely annihilated by the enemy within forty days?"

Beth: "Well, I don't think so,"

Enma: "I don't want it to be, but I want it to be certain."

Enma looked at the commanders and said: "I have always saved a collective teleport! It allows our army to directly fold and attack, or we can retreat unscathed! Now there are two choices, either attack, or turn to the south now, establish a base in the south of Oshima, and fight a protracted war."

An Jiexin: "Attack, of course attack!"

Even a soldier knew that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break through the defense line that the Oshima Kingdom had been operating for hundreds of years. If they broke through the defense line and did nothing and retreated, it would definitely be the biggest "sorrow" for a sky soldier.

Beth's memoirs recorded his thoughts that day: If we lose today, we may sigh, but if we don't fight, all the generals present will regret it for the rest of their lives.

Enma looked at the two heroes present, nodded, and then said: "As a general, you have to think about victory, but as a leader, I have to be responsible for everyone, and consider defeat before victory."

Enma said to Beth: "If I can't take down the general called Midas Touch. If the attack is not favorable, I must think about the backhand."

Enma opened the map, drew a line, pointed at the map and said to Beth: "I need someone to take four Land Cruisers and approach here directly! Force the Oshima side and the Anglo coalition to return to defense," this will buy time for the next group teleportation arcane to start.

Enma did not say what the fate of the detached army approaching the Wind Whispering King's Capital would be, but Beth and Anjiexin both understood that after inserting into the enemy's core, it is very likely to be surrounded and annihilated.

…In the strategy, in order to reduce the risk of the overall strategy, it is necessary to take tactical risks locally…

Enma: Even if the detachment is completely wiped out, the main force of our army will still go straight to Yuzui Port (the northern port of Oshima) to cut off the "troop line" sent to the sky by the Anglo interventionists. Let Iron Star establish a country. (If you can't resist external pressure militarily, you can only compromise. Even if you establish a country, it will be crooked. The economy, diplomacy, and politics will not be independent.)

After Enma determined the combat action of "partial risk, reduce overall risk", he began to assign tasks, so that the participants clearly know the success or failure of each step, and they will face the next step. Then the cause and effect of the success or failure of this military campaign will no longer be controlled by a few people, but by everyone in the army. (The more connections there are, the harder it is for God to change fate)

Enma stared at Beth, while Angelin was waiting for a mission.

But Enma raised his hand to stop Angelin from asking for a fight, and told her: "I have other plans for you! If the (Sky) Empire Army goes back on its word, I will need you to break through the rear road."

Angelin paused, and her commander was really prepared for all the unexpected events on the battlefield.

Beth also took a deep breath, and after realizing that Enma was asking her to take a risk, she nodded and said: "If the attack fails, I will take on the task of covering the rear."

Enma nodded, and then unfolded another map, which showed the offensive plan. On this offensive map, the Iron Star side has a large number of "floating time points".

…There was no gambling in Wei Keng’s plan, but he calculated that the opponent had more shortcomings than himself, and used various methods to make the opponent’s shortcomings come out…

In the Kingdom of Oshima, the first heavy army, the huge steel chariot was roaring towards the eastern Kaidi City. Fifteen land cruisers were guarding a four-track heavy steam locomotive in the middle. These super-large mechanical bodies passed through the eastern plains and wilderness, making the birds in the countryside curiously circle.

Humanity has entered the steam era for four hundred years, and the animals in this world are also accustomed to humans driving such super-large land cruiser troops.

Of course, in these super-large land cruisers, the tiny soldiers are not in good condition. Most of the train cabins are loaded with ammunition and supplies, and the soldiers of the Wind Language King are wearing tattered clothes, holding guns, and carrying "quilt backpacks" together.

In the past few years, the shortage of supplies in Oshima has not improved after the war, so that local reserve soldiers use pottery jars as military water bottles. There is not enough synthetic rubber, and the soles can only be waterproof but not nail-proof. Veterans have to add straw mats under their shoes to resist wear. At this time, the "elite" central army of Oshima is not much better, and now the general uniforms are patched.

Of course, on the Land Cruiser, Oshima's non-commissioned officers are still first-class people, enjoying steak and fruit wine.

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