Arc of Gunfire

Chapter 324 “One-tenth of the losses were actually because of him!” (Silver Plus Update 3/10)

July 4th, Eagle's Nest, Prosen Empire Royal Meeting.

William Kelt was reporting to Reinhardt: "The census one year after the war started last month has ended. Our army has suffered irrecoverable losses of 980,000 soldiers, of which 100,000 were captured in Kalanskaya. Lieutenant General Kossov surrounded and eliminated."

Reinhard cursed: "Damn it, one-tenth of the losses are actually because of him!"

William Kelt glanced at von Bryan: "Your Majesty, the losses caused by Rokosov are more than that. He killed and injured a large number of our soldiers in Orachi and Shostka. Rokosov is obviously still He is a novice, but the exchange ratio with our army is close to one to one. "

Von Bryan said: "The defenders of the coastal fortress that was just captured recently also used Rokossov's tactics, causing huge casualties to our army."

Reinhard looked at Duke Redwitz, the leader of Rabboville: "Isn't your Krat Bureau very powerful? Can't you contact the remnants of Ant's Saint Sect? Let them kill Rokossov!"

Duke Redwedge looked embarrassed: "We only have a cooperative relationship with the Saint Sect. Of course, I can ask them to try to kill Rokossov. After all, the Secular Sect now relies on him to greatly strengthen its control over the Ant military. Strength, the Chongsheng Sect definitely doesn’t want to see this happen.

"But... I can't guarantee that they will agree, let alone success."

Reinhardt: "But you need to take action, do you understand action?"

William Celtic: "Assassinating the enemy's famous general instead of defeating him on the battlefield will make people look down on us."

Reinhard said angrily: "Then let him continue to shed the blood of the people of Prosen? No, I can't meet your request to confront him in an upright manner. If Rabelais can't kill him, let the air force do it!"

Grand Duke Meyer was shocked: "Me? Your Majesty, our airport is now far away from the enemy's capital. It is very difficult to bomb the capital."

Reinhardt: "He will still come to the front line, blow him up when the time comes! Kelt, you continue to report."

William Kelt nodded: "Okay, one year after we started the war, the irrecoverable losses of tanks reached 2179. The good news is that No. 1 and No. 2 accounted for a large part of them. The bad news is. These losses have not been reached so far. No additions were made.

"Since the beginning of the war, a total of one thousand tanks have been provided to the front line. The total number of tanks on the front line of our army has been greatly reduced compared with last year."

When he said this, William Kelt looked at General Moltke, the director of armored forces, who said: "It can't be calculated like this. The tanks we provide to the front line are all No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, and they have been improved based on front-line combat experience. The number three and four.

"The quality of these tanks is much higher than that of No. 1 and No. 2. In addition, although we have added fewer tanks to the front line, we have armed new armored divisions, and we can rely on these armored divisions in subsequent operations. Moreover, we will soon have new tanks The tanks are going to the front lines.

"The 88mm artillery carrier has just received the production number of the No. 6 tank. The trial production model has arrived at the front line and is fully capable of participating in Operation Blue."

Operation Blue, a battle plan drawn up by the Prosen Command to sweep through southern Ante and seize the Kuba Oilfield.

Reinhard seemed very confident in the Panzer VI and asked: "Which troops will these heavy breakthrough tanks be strengthened for?"

General Moltke: "It will be organized into an independent heavy tank battalion to strengthen the Said Armored Division of the Asgard Knights."

Several army generals present frowned slightly when they heard this. After all, the Asgard Knights are not considered an army force, but the emperor's personal soldiers. The generals began to worry because good equipment was provided to the Asgard Knights. Will the army be able to obtain enough new equipment in the future?

But no one is stupid enough to voice such concerns.

Reinhard crossed his arms and said, "Very good, Division Seder is doing a great job. They need to break through the Suhayaveli River with the utmost strength to prepare for the next phase of the attack. Keitel, continue Report."

William Keitel continued to recite the investigation report: "The number of assault guns our army has lost since the war began..."

"Wait a minute," Reinhard interrupted, "how many of our lost tanks were destroyed by Rokossov's troops?"

William Keitel was embarrassed: "Well, there is no statistics on this data, but if we calculate the number of tanks lost by our army in the Kalanskaya encirclement, it should be about two hundred."

"Another one-tenth!" Reinhard slammed the table hard, "This Rokossov is really annoying!"

William Kelt: "Can I continue reporting?"

"You tell me."

Afterwards, the Celtic Chief of Staff reported in detail the losses of other technical equipment of the army, and finally concluded: "Since the Battle of Ante, the armor strength and technical equipment lost by our army are far lower than those of the Carolingian Battle. Even if calculated The average daily losses were also much lower than those in the Carolingian Campaign.

"In the two most intense months of the Battle of Ante, our army lost only 15 tanks per day, while in the Carolingian Campaign, which lasted 42 days, the average daily loss was 26 tanks."

"That's right, that's right," Reinhard nodded repeatedly, "The number of Ant's armored forces is ten times that of the Carolingians, as many as 20,000! Ant is an inferior race, and such a large numerical advantage can only cause Our losses were so low.”

General Moltke interrupted and said, "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. "Celtic!" William Celt made a gesture, so 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 Bryan 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, 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!"