"In the three days since 28 June, our army has captured more than 7,000 sets of combined armor, collected more than 70,000 catties of lead bullets, seized more than 10,000 catties of various gunpowder, more than 10,000 pieces of firearms, more than 5,000 war bows of more than five buckets, and collected more than 200,000 arrows. More than 15,000 beheaded, more than 9,000 enemy captured, it is estimated that in the past three days under the capital, the enemy army has paid at least more than 50,000 losses, although there are also many temporarily mobilized recruits, but the casualties of the opponent's core force should be more than 105%. Especially when it is estimated that the loss of 30,000 enemy soldiers includes at least tens of thousands of elite armor, and even more than 1,500 elite soldiers. Moreover, judging from the situation in the world, almost all the mobile forces that can be mobilized in the entire north have been gathered under the capital at this time. At least in a short period of three or five months, or at most a year or so, unless the enemy outside the gate joins forces with the besieging enemy outside the city, there will not be too many cutting-edge forces for the time being. ”

The person who reported to Xiao Xuan internally was not Zhou Yuji, Sun Yingyuan, or Wang Chengen, Cao Huachun and others, but a soldier in the military intelligence system named Zhou Dayong, and one of the officers who was personally in charge of Xiao Xuan's affairs. Of course, Zhou Dayong is not a particularly intelligent person, but he can stand out on the battlefield and repeatedly risk his life to fight, and at the same time, he is a veteran soldier who has been rooted in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and has also conducted a lot of thorough investigations, so he is the most prominent person in the entire army, if not impeccable, in terms of loyalty and reliability.

At this time, Zhou Dayong didn't seem to have any reaction when he saw Xiao Xuan, he was still thinking about writing something, and after pausing for a moment, he realized that he still had some more important content unfinished, and he was somewhat ashamed, so he continued: "In the past three days, the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade have also killed 531 people, and 3008 people are not recoverable, and the proportion of pure losses is similar to that of the opponent. The Guards and Brave Guards brigades lost 1,145 killed, 752 unrecoverable, wounded, or missing, and the net loss was close to 2,000. The losses of the militia brigades were not small, with a total of 3,277 killed in battle, and 2,659 were unrecoverable, disabled, or missing. On the whole, the proportion of losses was slightly smaller than that of the enemy. A total of 21,900 catties of first-class gunpowder were consumed, 73,000 catties of second-class gunpowder, and 150,000 catties of third-class gunpowder were consumed. Consume all kinds of shells... ”

Xiao Xuan finally stopped writing at this time, roughly recalling and analyzing the figures reported by Zhou Dayong. Obviously: this figure that can be confirmed to be true seems that on the surface, it will not be too much of a problem to hold on to the capital, but Xiao Xuan's psychology has a premonition of some kind of crisis. First of all, the consumption of gunpowder and ammunition is obviously on the high side. If the enemy's army is trained and expanded like itself, there may still be restrictions or concerns of one kind or another, but the opponent who owns the whole world can be said to be almost unlimited in terms of the source and supply of gunpowder. If the enemy army outside the city stockpiles more gunpowder and artillery than before, and launches a relatively large-scale offensive, it will undoubtedly put the entire capital in danger again.

This is not to mention that many of the enemy's losses were caused by unnecessary casualties caused by not being very good on the first day of attacking, when the enemy army outside the city, who did not lack good generals, learned some of the laws of the city defense warfare in the new era, the losses of both sides were higher than in the whole day of fighting since yesterday

The sea power power dominates the world more civilized than the Soviet Union because it can influence resource points (the Soviet Union can also influence resource points, but it does not pay attention to the asymmetric confrontation methods of Putin's model)

Military power, while important, is not the only means of the dollar's pillar. For example, petrodollars, natural gas dollars (you can look at the price of natural gas exported to Europe by the United States), food dollars (you can look at the agricultural self-sufficiency rate of countries outside of France), as well as high-end industrial economic industries (medical equipment, aerospace, software and electronic information industries), science and technology dollars (university academic and scientific research capabilities, and a series of related institutions) and even pro-capital dollars (you can see the difference between European tax rates and the United States, especially for the wealthy)

** An important reason for Germany's defeat was the lack of energy and resource potential for Europe. Germany and Japan have almost always failed due to poor geographical and key resource conditions, as well as to the flow of elite talent and scientific and technological capabilities.

An integrated Europe is also unable to compete with the United States, which owns the entire New World of North and South America, and the convergence of Europe and Russia or even the Old Continent is possible, but this is too difficult

The sea power power dominates the world more civilized than the Soviet Union because it can influence resource points (the Soviet Union can also influence resource points, but it does not pay attention to the asymmetric confrontation methods of Putin's model)

Military power, while important, is not the only means of the dollar's pillar. For example, petrodollars, natural gas dollars (you can look at the price of natural gas exported to Europe by the United States), food dollars (you can look at the agricultural self-sufficiency rate of countries outside of France), as well as high-end industrial economic industries (medical equipment, aerospace, software and electronic information industries), science and technology dollars (university academic and scientific research capabilities, and a series of related institutions) and even pro-capital dollars (you can see the difference between European tax rates and the United States, especially for the wealthy)

** An important reason for Germany's defeat was the lack of energy and resource potential for Europe. Germany and Japan have almost always failed due to poor geographical and key resource conditions, as well as to the flow of elite talent and scientific and technological capabilities.

An integrated Europe is also unable to compete with the United States, which owns the entire New World of North and South America, and the convergence of Europe and Russia or even the Old Continent is possible, but this is too difficult

However, in modern times, the U.S. Navy's carrier-based aircraft have been greatly reduced, hundreds of Super Hornets with active phased arrays and local stealth capabilities, and a small number of F35s; Dozens of E2D silicon carbide AWACS aircraft are still more powerful than the aviation of any other country in the world, and not much inferior to the US Air Force, excluding the F22 and B1B2. With the continuous advancement of technology, it is becoming easier and easier to concentrate power.

The mass production cost of the F35 can be controlled at the level of the third-generation semi-heavy aircraft, and it is even cheaper than the F15 improved version and the SU35 foreign trade type. In the case of high labor costs, the same kind of key main battle equipment is not expensive.

(End of chapter)