Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 195 Fighting Consumption Battle

After deciding that the British Empire will build another sixty super dreadnought battleships and sixty battlecruisers at the same time, Prime Minister August said to Emperor Penello: "Your Majesty, a research institute under the Ministry of the Navy has already A submarine detector has been developed, which can use the propagation characteristics of sound waves underwater to complete the positioning of underwater submarines through electro-acoustic conversion and processing."

Emperor Penello nodded and said: "Then let us install submarine detectors on the battleships of the British Royal Navy as soon as possible. From the battle with the Datang and Ziyue navies, it can be seen that Datang, Ziyue The warships of the two countries should have installed similar instruments, otherwise the submarines of the joint fleet of the five navies would not have suffered such heavy losses, by the way, how about the development of new submarines?"

Prime Minister August said: "Your Majesty, the Admiralty has designed a new type of submarine and has already built one. The overall performance is not bad. The surface displacement is 800 tons, the underwater displacement is 980 tons, and the maximum surface speed is 15 knots." , the surface endurance is 5 nautical miles, the maximum underwater speed is 80 knots, the underwater endurance is 140 nautical miles, and the maximum diving depth is 533 meters. It is equipped with five [-] mm torpedo tubes and can carry fifteen torpedoes."

Emperor Penello asked: "How much does this new submarine cost?"

"If it is built in batches, the cost of each submarine can be reduced to 28 U.S. dollars. The Admiralty named this new submarine the Mullet-class, and plans to build 29 more at a time. The Octopus-class that was previously equipped by the submarine force Submarines are going to build 25 more, so that our Royal Navy submarine force will have [-] mullet-class submarines and [-] octopus-class submarines."

Emperor Penello said dissatisfied: "The Admiralty is a little too stingy. Although the submarine's power has been weakened a lot due to the appearance of submarine detectors, it is undeniable that submarines under the sea still have Powerful attack power, I remember that the cost of the Octopus-class submarine should be 13 U.S. dollars, and I will spend another 600 million U.S. dollars to ask the Ministry of the Navy to build 800 more Octopus-class submarines, and I will spend another [-] million U.S. dollars British dollars, and one hundred more mullet-class submarines will be built!"

Facing the rich and powerful Emperor Penello, Prime Minister August really didn't know what to say, and then Emperor Penello suddenly asked: "How about the design of our new fighter jets of the British Empire?"

On the front line in the east of the Sharad Empire, the Stinger fighters and Eagle bombers of the British Empire were beaten up by the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire, and the British Empire immediately began to develop improved fighters and bombers. Deal with the more advanced fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire.

Prime Minister August smiled wryly and said: "Your Majesty, the new fighter plane has not yet completed the final design. After all, there are fighter planes from the Tang Empire for comparison, and the performance requirements of the new fighter plane are relatively high."

Emperor Penello asked again: "What about the development of tanks and armored vehicles?"

Prime Minister August hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, referring to the tanks and armored vehicles of the Tang Empire, a research institute under the Ministry of the Army recently completed the design of a light tank and an armored vehicle, and several large arsenals have already started Mass production of this light tank and this armored vehicle."

Emperor Penello said with some emotion: "I didn't expect the army of the Tang Empire to produce so many advanced weapons, not to mention the new weapons and equipment such as fighter planes and tanks, the rifles and machine guns equipped by the army of the Tang Empire, Both are better than what we have in the Royal Inaba Army."

Prime Minister August said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has begun to develop new rifles and new machine guns, but I think that even if the new rifles and new machine guns are successfully developed, they cannot be replaced during the war. After all, we Yingluoba The total strength of the Royal Army is close to 500 million."

After continuous military expansion, the Royal Inlobal Army already has 46 infantry regiments and [-] independent infantry divisions, of which [-] infantry regiments have been dispatched to the eastern front of the Sharad Empire.

Emperor Penello nodded slightly and said: "It is indeed not an easy task to change the rifles and machine guns of the entire Royal Inaba Army. The eastern frontline has repelled the counterattack of the Tang Empire army, what is the situation on the eastern frontline of the Sharad Empire?"

Prime Minister Auguste sighed and said: "Your Majesty, although the army of the Tang Empire cannot break through the defense lines of the three armies of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi, our army of the three countries can still take the defense of the army of the Tang Empire for the time being. There is nothing to do with the fortifications, and the positions of the Tang Empire's army are also extremely strong."

The armies of both sides currently facing each other in the border area between the Sharad Empire and the Datang Empire spared no effort to strengthen their defensive positions.

For example, the three armies of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi have set up multi-layer positions, including forward positions, main positions, and reserve positions.

The main purpose of the advance position is to delay the advance speed of the Tang Empire army and buy time for the defensive troops in the main position so that the latter can complete the battle preparations.

The main position usually has several layers of defensive strongholds arranged in a line. Each stronghold has hundreds or even thousands of troops, and trenches are used to build these strongholds into a continuous overall position.

During the defensive battle, the armies of the three kingdoms of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi will not wait for the Tang Empire army to break through the positions one by one, but will try their best to ensure that the front line can withstand the attack of the Datang Empire army. At the same time, the reserve team on the reserve position was dispatched to concentrate on attacking the Tang Empire army advancing between the strongholds.

Relying on such a multi-layered position, the armies of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi disintegrated a large-scale attack by the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, causing the Royal Army of the Tang Empire to lose nearly 80 people.

The positions built by the Royal Army of the Tang Empire are stronger than those of the three armies of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi.

The Royal Army of the Tang Empire built a total of three complete trench systems, which are about one kilometer apart. Even if a part of the first trench system is occupied, it is impossible for the armies of the three kingdoms of Inaba, Sharad, and Noomi to obtain a decisive victory. After all, there are still two complete trench systems waiting behind.

After He Yunfei, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, issued an order to retreat, the three armies of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi wanted to take the opportunity to break through the frontline positions of the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty, but Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi The Army of the Three Kingdoms was beaten badly before the first trench system, and had to retreat to the defensive position in the Sharad Empire.

Emperor Penello said with some helplessness: "It seems that in a short period of time, there should not be any breakthrough progress on the eastern front of the Sharad Empire. This war is not easy to fight."

On the evening of April 3014th in the year [-] of the Tang Dynasty, in the Hall of Virtue in the Imperial Palace of Chang'an City, Su Yi sighed and said to He Yunfei, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army of the Great Tang Empire: "At present, the two soldiers equipped by the Imperial Army of the Great Tang Empire The weaknesses of these two tanks are very prominent, and I have ordered several arsenals to stop the production of these two tanks, and concentrate their efforts on developing tanks with better performance."

Several arsenals in the Datang Empire imitating Renault FT-17 light tanks and 2C heavy tanks have produced more than 400 tanks in total.

He Yunfei hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly and said: "At present, the armored forces of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire still have more than [-] tanks, which is enough for the time being. However, these two tanks can still play a very important role in defense and offense. If a tank with better performance cannot be developed, these two tanks can still be used for the time being.”

Su Yi shook his head and said: "From the attack in March, it can be seen that the speed of the two tanks is too slow. When the enemy is equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns, they have become living targets. I don't know. We are ready to put these two tanks into the offensive again, and the remaining 600 tanks should be strengthened to the defensive positions on the front line of the border!"

He Yunfei sighed suddenly and said: "The armies of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi now have a large number of anti-tank weapons. Next, our Royal Army of the Tang Empire can only conduct a super-large-scale battle with the armies of these three countries. It's battle."

Hearing He Yunfei mention positional warfare, Su Yi couldn't help but think of the Battle of Verdun in World War I, which made Su Yi frowned. Positional warfare is almost equivalent to a war of attrition.

"Yunfei, if you fight positional warfare, it will become exhausting."

He Yunfei smiled wryly and said: "Your Majesty, I don't want to fight for consumption, but the armies of the three kingdoms of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi have deployed at least 2000 million troops on the eastern front of the Sharad Empire, and they also have a complete army. The fortifications, and the assault capability of our armored forces have been restricted, and now there is only one way left to fight the opponent."

Su Yi frowned and asked: "Can you choose a few points as breakthrough points to break through?"

He Yunfei shook his head and said: "According to our reconnaissance, the armies of the three kingdoms of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi also established three trench systems, and reserved a large number of mobile troops. For the attack, I also tried to select a few points as a breakthrough point, and gathered heavy troops to launch a fierce attack on these points, but the effect was not satisfactory."

(End of this chapter)