In the first battle of the 202nd Battalion, with the strength of two reinforced companies, 2,200 enemies were annihilated. It suddenly became big news for the entire 2nd Group Army, Major General Zhang Yuliang immediately promoted Ye Xiao's rank to major, and some people who had the idea of playing the throne of the commander of the 2nd Battalion suddenly shut their mouths.

As a result of the victory of the 2nd Battalion, the attacking Crusaders had to shrink their forces on the entire 27-kilometer front because of this gap, and this section of the dividing line unexpectedly entered a rare state of calm.

A few hours later, the special service company of the 2nd Brigade successfully destroyed the heavy artillery group, and although more than 20 soldiers were killed as a result, the threat of heavy artillery dissipated, and even the left cluster command sent a congratulatory telegram to the 2nd Battalion, saying that this counterattack by the 2nd Brigade and the 202nd Battalion was an "unexpected" and "inspiring" victory on the garrison line.

The 2nd Battalion, which had won the honor, was carrying out a solemn farewell ceremony at this moment.

"Since the departure from the base, our department has killed a total of 93 soldiers, and 21 soldiers are lying in the hospital at this moment," Ye Xiao solemnly used the intercom system to speak to the whole battalion: "But I dare to say that none of our soldiers who died regretted joining the army and regretted coming to this place full of death!" ”

"Their sacrifice has created our honor, it is a blood-stained honor, an honor that they share with us! But don't let honor blind your eyes, and don't let honor lose your nature! In the final analysis, we are just a rookie army that has inherited the pride of our ancestors, and we are not worthy of being proud to say to people that we are an invincible Black Flag Army! ”

"I have only one request, you and I must protect this blood-stained honor with our lives! I hope we can tell others with ironclad facts that we are the real Black Flag Army, not just rookies who have inherited the name of martyrs! ”

After Ye Xiao used the topic of honor to chill the eyes of the soldiers who were fascinated by the proud achievements, he immediately held a battalion headquarters meeting.

"Before this meeting, I need to inform you of a few things," Ye Xiao's face was very ugly, and the officers attending the meeting saw his depression from Ye Xiao's expression, and sat honestly one by one, waiting for the report.

"First, the consumption of combat readiness resources exceeds the projections of the theater of operations, and in the next ten days, the theater will stop the offensive against the crusaders in the encirclement, and in ten days the offensive will be launched again."

"Second, the theater will rotate the attacking troops, so the Wehrmacht, which was originally expected to change guards with us in five days, has canceled the plan to change guards, and the troops that have changed guards with us will most likely come over in half a month."

"Third, in the next ten days, the pressure on our side will be even more terrifying, and it is even very likely to be attacked by the heavy group."

After Ye Xiao finished speaking, the officers attending the meeting began to discuss, if it was just an ordinary battle situation, they would definitely not be too nervous, but the battle on the entire garrison line was too tragic!

You must know that the 130-kilometer-long, more than 50-kilometer garrison line (dividing line) is an important place that divides the two parts of the crusaders, and it is also an important channel for the material support of the assault group.

However, the consumption of the imperial army since the beginning of the war is beyond imagination!

In the past few days of fighting, the consumption of materials is unimaginably huge, guns, ammunition, armored vehicles, etc., are small problems for the empire, but the most important thing is missiles, since the start of the war, has maintained a high level of consumption, the day of the war and the next day two days, only the missile troops, is the use of as many as 30,000 ordinary medium and large missiles, and since then every day, the number of missiles consumed is not less than 4,000.

The use of missiles has effectively reduced the wear and tear of the Air Force, and it is precisely for this reason that the logistics side of the theater has called the alarm - if this intensity is maintained, after five days, the front-line troops will have no missiles available.

Is it an exaggeration? Not at all!

You must know that the length of a large missile has reached 167 meters, but the range is only 500 kilometers, while the range of a medium-sized missile is only 200 to 300 kilometers, and the length has also reached 112 meters.

If we only rely on the air force to support the front-line troops, the daily consumption of 4,000 missiles needs to be replaced by at least 4,000 sorties of air force support, and under the threat of ground air defense forces, according to the calculation of 80:1 battle damage, at least 50 fighters may be lost every day.

Moreover, the effect of 4,000 sorties of fighter planes supporting bombing is really not comparable to the results of 4,000 missiles.

In short, the Imperial Army is now relying on the unparalleled bombardment of missiles to pry open the Crusaders' permanent fortifications, if they lose the assistance of missiles, the Crusaders have operated the defense line for decades, will really turn this place into a meat grinder, and it will not be able to achieve the result of completely annihilating these more than 2 million troops at a slight cost - even so, the current Imperial Army is still paying a casualty ratio of 7:1 in order to completely annihilate these Crusaders.

After Ye Xiao explained all this clearly, Bai Xiaobing muttered: "Then why did the assault group cut through the 50-kilometer-wide defense line so quickly when the war started?" Could it be that the latter is an idiot? ”

Shi Kai smiled bitterly and said, "Lieutenant Bai, do you know how many missiles the imperial army poured in an area of 150 square kilometers in order to cooperate with the four airborne divisions to open the gap?" ”

Bai Xiaobing shook his head, he really didn't know this.

"3,300 medium and large missiles! More than 3,300 of them, and later in order to cooperate with the assault cluster to break through the 130-kilometer dividing line, nearly 10,000 missiles were consumed. ”

"Then if it goes on like this, the empire will still fight a fart battle, and if there are ten or eight battles of this scale, the empire will go bankrupt directly!"

The company commander of the rear protection company shouted angrily.

"Do you know how much resources the two major Western powers invest in this line of defense every year?" Shi Kai said: "In order to build an unsinkable line of defense, the Holy See has a special iron wall tax, which is specifically for building this line of defense, and there are also special similar taxes on the side of the Demon Temple, and Western forces claim that this line of defense 'only God can break through'!" You may not have seen the endless bunkers and underground fortifications on the first three kilometers, if you do, you will know why the consumption of the imperial army is so serious! ”

Ye Xiao stopped his subordinates' discussion of the materials and said: "Don't talk about this, what we have to do now is to re-strengthen the combat readiness fortification group to meet the upcoming test, the future battle will be very cruel, I don't want the soldiers of our 2nd battalion to die because of the problem of fortifications!" ”

"Sir, can we get a replenishment of troops?"

"I don't know," Ye Xiao shook his head, if he knew, he wouldn't be so worried, after getting the news from the brigade headquarters, his mood has been heavy, from the enemy's predicament, he can imagine how crazy the enemy needs to face in the future, but, as the commander of the 2nd battalion, he can only show his strong side: "You can't fight without replenishing soldiers?" ”

Facing Ye Xiaohu's questioning, Zhao Lijian, who spoke, immediately shook his head: "Yingza, I'm just worried that we won't be able to defend the position in the end." ”

"Lao Zhao, can you say less frustrating words?" Sun Han glared at Zhao Lijian dissatisfied, and assured Ye Xiao: "Don't worry, the camp is in the position!" The people are gone, and the positions are there! ”

"The battle is there, and the dead are still there!" The officers assured Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao stood up solemnly, glanced at all the officers on the side, and expressed his determination in the most common sentence: "The empire is mighty!" Imperial Martial Arts! ”