Although the Ming army had an advantage in training, equipment, technology, and tactics, this advantage did not reach the crushing generation gap. www.biquge.info The combat effectiveness of the Ming Army is still at the level of the earth, and it has not risen to the level of aliens.

In this kind of fierce battle that was completely desperate attrition, the Ming army, which did not even have body armor, was not necessarily much stronger than the German army on the opposite side.

After all, the Ming army did not carry out the armored combat that it was good at and had strong combat effectiveness, but carried out very classical positional offensive and defensive battles. This kind of combat is definitely not something that can be ended in a short period of time. And the losses must have been staggering. This is the most basic kind of taking human lives to fill the position.

Because the previous fight was too smooth, the Ming army was a little too overly optimistic about their true strength. You must know that the Germans on the opposite side not only have sufficient personnel and no problem with material supplies, but also they are defending their homeland, and their will to fight is also extremely strong. Under these circumstances, it is not impossible for the Ming army to lose more than 100,000 officers and men in one day during the strong attack on June 6.

The main reason why the Ming officers and soldiers had not been able to cross the Oder River was because they were all troops from vassal states and colonies. In the minds of many Ming officers and soldiers, as long as they were replaced, they would be able to easily defeat the resistance of the Germans, and then smoothly enter Berlin and enjoy the privilege of the victor.

Then, there is no then.

The Germans used unbelievable tenacity to stop the monstrous offensive of the Ming army. The desperate fighting of the German officers and soldiers who were not afraid of sacrifice not only brought heavy losses to the Ming army, but also greatly boosted the morale of the Allied officers and soldiers.

Since the beginning of the war, the Allies have been defeated most of the time. The Ming armored forces quickly assaulted and outflanked, the artillery destroyed the position, the infantry broke through the occupation, and the air power mastered the sky to destroy everything in the rear of the Allied forces. The all-three-dimensional strikes of the Ming army have been invincible in recent years, and their attacks have hardly failed.

The strength of the Ming army greatly deterred the Allied officers and soldiers and demoralized them. However, the German army performed exceptionally well in holding the Oder line this time, and no matter how expensive they paid to hold on to the onslaught of the Ming army, at least they successfully "blocked the Ming army's offensive."

"The devil of the Ming Kingdom has been defeated!" This phrase spread to all allies.

The Ming army was only a failed attack, but it was promoted by the propaganda departments of the allies as a crucial battle that could almost determine the outcome of the war. It seemed as if after this victory of the German army, the Ming army would be routed all the way to the imperial capital.

While the Allies boasted about the success of the German defense of the Oder, they deliberately or unconsciously covered up the losses of the Germans in this battle. Even many media have not even mentioned it, as if the German army is all invulnerable supermen, and not a single cold hair has been lost.

In fact, the real reason why the Germans were able to hold their main positions in the storm of such a terrible attack of the Ming army was that the Germans were willing to make great sacrifices for this war. They are even willing to fill the battlefield with human lives.

At the time of the Ming attack, the fierce shelling and bombardment of the storm was hell for the Germans. When the Ming infantry stormed the Oder, the Germans had to enter their positions to defend, otherwise the Ming army would have to cross the river. And entering a position full of artillery fire means huge casualties.

On the most heavily fought positions, the average survival time of a German soldier on a deployed position was only fifteen minutes. That is, this defensive victory of the Germans was actually piled up with untold human lives. During this day's fighting, at least fifteen or more infantry divisions were filled into positions by entire companies and battalions.

The bodies of many German officers and soldiers could not be found after the war. Because their positions had been scorched by constant brutal artillery fire, and crystalline matter had even been produced by explosions and high temperatures.

The Germans lost more than the Ming army in this day's battle. And also when they are in a defensive position and have the Oder River Danger. Judging from the human and material resources of the Germans, if the Ming army is determined to fight with the Germans, then the Germans will shed their last drop of blood under the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

But compared with the Germans, who no longer regard human life as important, Da Ming obviously can't do this step. After the failure of the attack on 6 June, the General Staff of the Ming Army soon issued a new order, and the German front began to redeploy the main direction of attack from Berlin to Prague in the south.

After the end of this battle, which had a bearing on the struggle for the right to speak within the General Staff, a group of officers of the General Staff of the Ming Army went to the front-line units in disgrace, and the Army Command also made a series of adjustments. For all this, Zhang Cheng just watched.

As the person in power, Zhang Cheng can't take everything in his arms. With the huge territory and large population of the Ming Empire, if he really did this, it wouldn't be long before he would be exhausted to death.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng is only making strategic decisions, and there is a large group of people doing other things. As for the struggle for power among these people, as long as it does not affect Zhang Cheng's control of affairs, Zhang Cheng will not interfere. This is also a choice of survival of the fittest.

The Ming army began to redeploy, and this time Zhang Cheng decided not to keep it anymore.

Prague, the heart of Bohemia, is also the heart of all of Europe. Straddling the banks of the Vltava River, the city has a very important place in politics, culture, history and many other aspects. But for the current war, the biggest role of the city is its location at the moment.

Prague is located right halfway between Berlin and Vienna. Compared to Vienna on the Danube, Prague across the Vltava River was actually more suitable for the assault of the superior armored forces of the Ming Army. The Vltava River was not the Oder, and the German garrison in Prague was nowhere near the same as near Berlin.

After all, the Germans now had to defend themselves against the Ming attack on a long line from the Baltic coast to Prague, Vienna, Graz, Venice and then to Turin. No amount of German strength could maintain the same level of defense on the outskirts of Berlin on such a long front.

Zhang Cheng held the strategic initiative in his hands, and the Germans could only be passive defense. Zhang Cheng could look for the weaknesses of the Germans in the long defensive line and choose targets to attack, which is the main reason why everyone desperately pursued the initiative, even at the cost of preemptive strikes.

Prague is a strategically located city with land and water and excellent transportation. It has a well-developed rail and road network to the German hinterland and major cities in Austria. And it is also very important to note that the terrain here is basically plain, although there are seven hills in the city, in fact, they are just small dirt slopes that are not very tall. This terrain is the true love of the armored forces of the Ming army.

Compared to the heavily defended area around Berlin, the German army in Prague was weakly defended. What's more, some of the Ming forces had already forced their way across the Vltava River last month and had set up several bridgeheads on the opposite bank. This will be decisive for the rest of the war.

These bridgeheads are located in the city of Prague at the Great Bend of the Vltava River. Last month, the Ming army advanced rapidly, with the help of special operations forces and paratroopers, successfully captured and held a bridge across the river in the city of Prague. Subsequently, the ground forces of the Ming army arrived and quickly marched to establish a strong bridgehead on the opposite bank.

After stabilizing their position, the Germans launched several fierce counterattacks against this bridgehead, trying to drive the Ming army back to the east bank of the Vltava River. However, it was not only the German soldiers who fought tenaciously, but also the equally tenacious Ming army, after paying a huge price, not only held their positions to the death, but also used the sapper troops to successfully build two more pontoon bridges and expand their bridgeheads.

When the General Staff of the Ming Army adjusted its battle plan and selected Prague as the main breakthrough point, this bridgehead immediately became the main target of contention between the two sides.

It's like the infiltration of Germany by the Ming intelligence services. The Germans, or all the allies, were constantly infiltrating the Ming. The Germans also had their own intelligence system in the Ming Dynasty, although they could not know the true strategic intentions of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming army continued to start to build up troops and supplies in the direction of Prague, and this kind of thing was too large to hide from everyone.

After careful judgment, the General Staff of the German Army believed that it was very likely that the Ming army had abandoned its operational plan to storm Berlin and chose to open up the situation in the Prague area.

Once the Ming army opened up the situation in the Prague area, their armor flooded through the Prague area. Dresden and Berlin to the north, Brno and Vienna to the south, and the entire German hinterland to the west will become the battlefields of the Ming armored forces.

As long as the Ming armored forces were given room to move, they would flood the German positions like an irresistible tide. With the terrifying marching speed of the Ming army, the German army, which had penetrated the defensive line, did not even have a chance to stop it.

No matter how strong the army's combat effectiveness is and how tenacious its will to fight is. As long as the logistics supply line is cut off and the material supply is lost, then this army will not be able to hold on at all.

You can't fight bayonets after you run out of ammunition, right? And even if you fight with a bayonet, you have to be willing by your opponent. When you run out of fuel, don't even think about getting any vehicle moving. And without a food supply, no matter how elite the army will collapse in a very short time. (To be continued.) )