Chapter 324 "One Tenth of the Loss Was Actually Due to Him!" (Silver Extra 310)
Chapter 324 "One tenth of the losses were caused by him!" (Silver extra update 3/10)
July 4, Eagle's Nest, Proson Empire Royal Meeting.
William Celt is reporting to Reinhard: "The one-year census that started last month has ended. Our army has suffered 980,000 irreversible losses, of which 100,000 were surrounded and eliminated by Lieutenant General Rokossov in Kalanskaya."
Reinhard cursed: "Damn it, one tenth of the losses were caused by him!"
William Celt glanced at von Brian: "Your Majesty, Rokossov caused more losses than this. He killed and wounded a large number of our soldiers in Orachi and Shostka. Loktov is obviously still a novice, but the exchange ratio with our army is close to one to one."
Von Brian added: "I just got The defenders of the coastal fortress under the control of Rokossov also used Rokossov's tactics, causing huge casualties to our army. "
Reinhard looked at the head of Raberville, Duke Redweci: "Isn't your Krat Bureau very powerful? Can't it contact the remnants of the Saint-Cult in Ant? Let them kill Rokossov!"
Duke Redweci looked embarrassed: "We are only in a cooperative relationship with the Saint-Cult. Of course, I can ask them to try to kill Rokossov. After all, the secular faction now relies on him to greatly enhance its control over the Ante military. The Saint-Cult must not want to see this happen.
"But... I can't guarantee that they will agree, let alone success."
Reinhard: "But you need to take action, action, understand!"
"You say it."
Reinhard said angrily: "Then let him continue to bleed the people of Proson? No, I can't meet your request to confront him openly. If Raberville can't kill him, let the air force go! ”
“The 88mm artillery carrier has just received the production number of the Type 6 tank. The trial production model has arrived at the front line and can fully participate in Operation Blue.”
General Moltke: “It will be organized into an independent heavy tank battalion to reinforce the Seder 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, and it is very difficult to bomb the capital.”
Reinhard folded his hands across his chest: “Very good, Seder Division is great. They must break through the Sukhayaveli River with the most powerful force and prepare for the next stage of the offensive. Keitel, continue to report.”
“Since the start of the war, we have provided a total of one thousand tanks to the front line, and the total number of tanks on our front line has been greatly reduced compared to last year.”
William Keitel continued to recite the investigation report: “The number of assault guns lost by our army since the start of the war...”
“Another one-tenth!” Reinhard slammed the table hard, “This Rokossov is really annoying! "
Operation Blue, a battle plan formulated by the Proson Command to sweep across the southern part of Ant and seize the Kuba Oil Field.
But no one is stupid enough to voice such concerns.
Reinhardt: "He will still come to the front line, and then we will blow him up! Celtic, you continue to report."
Several army generals present frowned slightly when they heard this. After all, the Asgard Knights are not considered army troops, but the emperor's personal soldiers. Strengthening the Asgard Knights with good equipment made the generals begin to worry about whether the army troops can get 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 few tanks to supplement the front line, we have armed new armored divisions, and we can rely on these armored divisions in the future operations. Moreover, we will soon have new tanks to be deployed to the front line.
William Keltner nodded: "Okay, we have lost 2,179 tanks in the first year of the war. The good news is that the No. 1 and No. 2 tanks account for a considerable part of them. The bad news is that these losses have not been replenished so far.
"Wait a minute," Reinhard interrupted him, "How many of our lost tanks were destroyed by Rokossov's troops?"
Reinhardt seemed very confident in the No. 6 tank and asked: "Which troops will be strengthened to use these heavy breakthrough tanks?"
William Keitel was embarrassed: "Well, this data is not counted, but if the number of tanks lost by our army in the Kalanskaya encirclement is calculated, it should be around two hundred."
William Keltner: "Assassinating a famous enemy general instead of defeating him on the battlefield will make people look down on us."
William Keltner: "Can I continue my report? "
When saying this, William Celt looked at General Moltke, the director of armored forces, who said, "You can't calculate it this way. The tanks we provide to the front line are all Type 3 and Type 4, and they are Type 3 and Type 4 that have been improved based on front-line combat experience.
After that, Chief of Staff Celt reported in detail the losses of other technical equipment of the army, and finally concluded: "Since the Battle of Ant, the armored forces and technical equipment lost by our army are far lower than those in the Carolingian Battle. Even if the average daily loss is calculated, it is far lower than that in the Carolingian Battle.
"In the two most intense months of the Battle of Ant, our army lost only 15 tanks per day, while the Carolingian Battle lasted a total of 42 days, with an average daily loss of 26 tanks. "
"That's right," Reinhardt nodded repeatedly, "Ant's armored forces are ten times that of Carolingians, as many as 20,000! Ant is an inferior nation, and such a large numerical advantage has only caused us such a low loss. "
General Moltke interrupted, "The quality of their troops is indeed very low, and they lack coordination. Only their bravery is admirable. However, bravery is only a special performance of a few troops. Most of the Ante army will retreat when the loss reaches 10%."
Reinhardt had an admiring expression on his face: "Gentlemen, although we suffered a loss of 980,000, we caused four or even five times that number of losses to the Ante people. We destroyed 20,000 of their tanks in 100 days. The time to completely defeat the Ante Empire is coming.
"Celt!"
William Celt made a gesture, and his adjutant and a combat staff came with a map and unfolded it on the small blackboard that had been prepared long ago.
William Celt: "In the first phase of Operation Blue, we are going to invest the Fifth, Tenth, and Fifteenth Armies to advance eastward and clear the Ante troops on both sides of the Suhayaveli River.
"We call this stage the Battle of the Sukhayaveli River Bend, because the terrain should not be able to annihilate the enemy in an organized manner.
"But in the second stage, we will implement a pincer attack on the Ante army on the plain south of Sukhayaveli without worrying about the flanks.
"They have just retreated from the coastal fortress, and a large number of fresh troops have gathered in an area of about 100,000 square kilometers near Borsk. We will implement an encirclement operation like the Agsukov Great Encirclement here to wipe out about 600,000 Ante troops in one fell swoop!
"In the third stage of the plan, during the gap when the enemy's fresh troops are annihilated, we will quickly advance to the southwest, with the goal of capturing Kuba and even Abavakhan, which is farther away, and obtaining a permanent air force base on the coast of the Inland Sea!"
After William Celt finished speaking, Grand Duke Meyer said: "Once Abavakhan is controlled, the Air Force will come out in full force to cut off the supply route on the Inland Sea-well, the end point of this route is Abavakhan, but even if the Ante people move the end point of the route to the north, the Air Force is confident that it can be cut off. "
Marshal von Brian suddenly said: "You said the same thing about the United Kingdom two years ago, that the Air Force could make the United Kingdom surrender or something."
Grand Duke Meyer frowned.
Reinhard interrupted the conversation between the two: "No matter what, once we occupy Abavakhan, the people of Ant will be hit hard. Compared with the plan to attack Yeburg, this plan has a biggest highlight, that is, a large number of combat areas are in the mature industrial areas of Ant, and our army's supply will not be as embarrassing as last year.
"The first phase of the offensive will be launched on July 9! It will be carried out by Marshal Ewald von Steiermark of the Southern Army Group!"
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At 4:30 on July 9, the commander of the newly formed Suhayaveli Front Command of the Ant Army, General Andre, was awakened by the sound of artillery.
He immediately picked up the phone: "Connect to the headquarters. Headquarters? Where is being bombarded?"
The front chief of staff who answered the phone at the headquarters said: "It's the front line, the enemy is preparing artillery fire."
General Andrei said: "Let us follow Rokosov's approach, and the front artillery group will immediately start counter-fire preparations and bombard the enemy's possible assembly areas."
"Yes." The chief of staff replied, "Any other instructions, General Andrei Ivanovich."
General Andrei: "No, I will go to the headquarters now and tell the divisions that if they hold on firmly, there will be a way!"
"Yes."
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At five o'clock in the morning, the Proson Army set out for the position.
Colonel Busey, the commander of the first wave of the attack, looked at the barrage that fell in front of the assembly area - literally in front of it - and laughed: "The Ants learned a little from General White Horse, but only a little!"
Because the Proson Army was more organized and had better quality soldiers, it could place the starting point of the attack farther away than normal, and still maintain a relatively complete formation during the attack.
At this time, Colonel Busse heard the engine sound from behind, and hurriedly turned back, and saw several square tanks with very wide tracks coming.
These tanks have intimidating thick and long barrels, and most of the Plosson soldiers recognized them as 88mm guns at a glance!
Many soldiers cheered: "New tanks!"
"Looks very good!"
Colonel Busse frowned, he jumped off his command tank, came to the wide-tracked heavy tanks, stopped the tank column, and said with his head held high: "I am Colonel Busse, the commander of the battle group. What's wrong with you? I heard that the reinforcement was given to me as a company, why are there only four tanks? Do you only have four tanks in a company? This is a platoon!"
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 teach the Ant people a lesson, just wait and see!"