Chapter 850: Stealing Chickens Doesn't Make Rice
From the end of the naval battle of Chongyang Island, that is, on the afternoon of January 14, 1361, the army troops of the Merlin Kingdom concentrated more than 4.5 million troops, under the cover of the Merlin Air Force, like a tiger out of the cage, pounced on the Lombalou Imperial Army units in the territory of the Great Liang Empire, preparing to take advantage of the sharp increase in the logistical pressure of the Lombalou Imperial Army troops to recapture the territory captured by the Lombaru Imperial Army forces a few days ago. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Thanks to the fact that the Merlin Air Force temporarily gained air supremacy on the battlefield at a very heavy cost, the army units of the Merlin Kingdom achieved great results at the beginning, and the losses brought to the army units of the Lombalou Empire were also very large, and the speed of advance in the area occupied by the Lombaru Empire was also very amazing.
In the early morning of January 17, 1361, in less than 4 days, the army units of the Merlin Kingdom had recaptured the territory of almost three provinces, and the losses of the officers and soldiers of the Lombalou Imperial Army exceeded one million, while the losses of the army troops of the Merlin Kingdom were only about 70 percent of the Lombarou Imperial Army troops.
This is already a very difficult thing, you must know that the army of the Lombalou Empire has the strength to compete for the throne of the world's first army, and the overall strength of the army of the Kingdom of Merlin is much worse than that of the army of the Lombalou Empire.
Unfortunately, this situation has changed somewhat since the early morning of January 17, and a large number of fighters drawn from the mainland by the Lombalou Imperial Air Force have been stationed at various airports in the Lombalou Empire-controlled area in the Great Liang Empire, so that the air forces of the two sides have once again begun to fight for air supremacy, and the offensive of the army units of the Merlin Kingdom has also slowed down.
The Lombalou Imperial Air Force directly let a large number of fighters take off from the local airport, flew over tens of thousands of kilometers of ocean, and supported various airports in the territory of the Liang Empire, and there were air tankers on the way to refuel the fighters in the air, but before the territory of the Great Liang Empire, many airports controlled by the Lombalou Imperial Air Force were damaged in the air raid and needed to be repaired, so that the fighters of the Lombalou Imperial Air Force took off from the local airport until the early morning of January 17, and were stationed in the territory of the Liang Empire on a large scale.
After that, although the logistics and materials, especially the ammunition, were still tight in the Lombalou Imperial Army troops, because the Lombalou Imperial Air Force gradually regained the advantage of air supremacy, the army units of the Kingdom of Merlin could not advance as quickly as before, and the losses of the Imperial Army units of the Lombalou Kingdom were also reduced a lot, and the losses of the army units of the Kingdom of Merlin began to increase.
By January 21, 1361, when a strengthened aircraft carrier formation of the Lombalou Imperial Navy, escorting dozens of large ocean-going freighters, arrived at the coast of the Daliang Empire, the Lombalou Imperial Air Force had transferred nearly 3,000 fighters from the mainland to support the territory of the Daliang Empire, of which more than 500 were fourth-generation fighters, and the rest were third-generation fighters.
Dozens of large ocean-going cargo ships have brought a large number of combat materials to the 14 group armies of the Lombalou Imperial Army in the territory of the Daliang Empire, as well as more than 200,000 supplementary troops, and the arrival of one strengthened aircraft carrier formation of the Lombalou Imperial Navy also indicates that the sea transportation line from the Lombalou Empire to the Daliang Empire has been restored.
When the Kingdom of Merlin learned that another reinforced aircraft carrier formation of the Lombalou Imperial Navy had arrived in the waters of the Great Liang Empire, it immediately understood that it was pointless to continue to let the Merlin Army attack, so the Merlin Kingdom wisely ordered the army troops to stop the offensive and defend on the spot to prevent the counterattack of the Lombalou Imperial Army troops.
The Lombalou Empire saw that the Merlin Kingdom had stopped its offensive, and did not immediately take the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, but also temporarily ordered the army units and air forces in the Great Liang Empire to carry out a rest phase, after all, the big war between the two sides made the Lombalou Imperial army in the Great Liang Empire a little injured, especially the 14 group armies of the Lombalou Imperial Army, the attrition is very serious, and a large number of additional troops are urgently needed to fill it.
This large-scale offensive of the Merlin Kingdom Army finally recaptured almost 4 provinces, about 1.3 million square kilometers of land, and the Merlin Kingdom Army lost more than 1.5 million of its own, and also brought almost the same number of losses to the army units of the Lombalou Empire.
In the battle for air supremacy that lasted for more than a week, the air force of the Merlin Kingdom suffered very large losses, about 8,500 fighters of the Merlin Air Force participated in the war, and the loss of more than 5,500 aircraft, a small number of early warning aircraft, electronic attack aircraft and bombers participated in the war, almost all of them were wiped out, and the air force of the Lombalou Empire, the number of fighters lost nearly 3,400 aircraft.
Seeing the huge losses of the Lombalou Empire and the Merlin Kingdom, some people suddenly became impatient, and in the palace of Bianliang City, the capital of the Great Liang Empire, Ouyang Hong, the emperor of the Great Liang Empire, said excitedly to Prime Minister Wang Puqi and Minister of Military Affairs Yang Zhongming: "It's really good! According to the intelligence department, the air forces of the two sides have lost nearly 10,000 fighters, and the land forces of both sides have lost almost 1.5 million troops, and the navy of the Merlin Kingdom has lost nearly eighty percent, and the navy of the Lombalou Empire has also four strengthened aircraft carrier formations that have almost all been wiped out, but unfortunately now the war between the two sides has come to an end. It would be even more perfect if the two sides could continue to fight for a while longer, and the losses would increase a little more! ”
Prime Minister Wang Puqi said with a smile: "After this tragic war, whether it is the Lombalou Empire or the Merlin Kingdom, I believe that we need to rest for a while, and we should not have the energy to launch an attack on our Great Liang Empire in a short period of time, which is really the best news for our Great Liang Empire." ”
Emperor Ouyang Hong waved his hand, and then said loudly: "Not only good news, but also a good opportunity, now that the two sides have suffered serious losses in the territory of our Great Liang Empire, it is a good time for our Great Liang Empire to recover the territory, I am ready to order the army and air forces of the empire to launch the most rapid attack on the invaders of the Lombaru Empire and the invaders of the Merlin Kingdom in the near future, and it is best to drive these two invaders out of the territory of our Great Liang Empire." ”
When Prime Minister Wang Puqi heard this, a panicked look suddenly appeared in his eyes, you must know that after the facts have proved that the army and air force of the Great Liang Empire are more deficient than the Lunbaru Empire and the Merlin Kingdom, although the above two countries have suffered great losses in the territory of the Great Liang Empire, but there are still millions of army troops and thousands of fighters each, at this time the Great Liang Empire launched a counteroffensive, is the time really right?
However, Prime Minister Wang Puqi saw Emperor Ouyang Hong's excited face, and did not express his worries, but looked at Yang Zhongming, the Minister of Military Affairs on the side.
When Minister of Military Affairs Yang Zhongming heard Emperor Ouyang Hong's words, he was suddenly a little frightened, "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, the Merlin Kingdom is okay, but the Lombalou Empire ......"
Before Yang Zhongming's words were finished, he was interrupted by Emperor Ouyang Hong, "I know the strength of the Lombalou Empire, but this time the Lombalou Empire meddled in the Eastern Continent, obviously to annex the three major Eastern Empires, including our Great Liang Empire, we are going to fight with the Lombal Empire after all, and we will fight early and late, it is better to take advantage of the opportunity of the defeat of the Lombal Empire and the Merlin Kingdom at this time, and mobilize heavy troops to attack the armies of the Lombal Empire and the Merlin Kingdom in our Great Liang Empire, and launch a large-scale attack at the same time, Even if we can't drive both the Lombalou Empire and the Merlin Kingdom out of the territory of our Great Liang Empire, we must at least recover a few provinces and boost the morale of our Great Liang Empire's military and civilians. ”
When Prime Minister Wang Puqi and Minister of Military Affairs Yang Zhongming heard Emperor Ouyang Hong say this, they did not say anything against it, but shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is wise!" ”
On January 23, 1361, a tragic battle between the Lombalou Empire and the Merlin Kingdom in the territory of the Great Liang Empire had just ended, and the army units of the Great Liang Empire, under the cover of more than 3,500 fighters, suddenly launched a huge offensive against the domestic Lombalou Imperial Army and the Merlin Kingdom Army at the same time, but the more than 3,500 fighters dispatched by the Great Liang Imperial Air Force were basically second-generation fighters, no matter which enemy's air force was compared, they were all a little weak.
However, the army of the Great Liang Empire suddenly took out tens of millions of troops and invested them in this large-scale offensive, which is also the only confidence for the Great Liang Empire to launch this large-scale counteroffensive.
The recent attention of the Lombalou Empire and the Merlin Kingdom has not been put on the Liang Empire, none of them in the two countries thought that the Liang Empire, which they regarded as a soft persimmon, would take the initiative to launch a counteroffensive, and the scale was so large, plus the Liang Empire had been hoarding heavy troops near the border with the occupation areas of the two countries, so the army of the Lombalou Empire and the army of the Merlin Kingdom, at the beginning of the sudden attack of the Daliang Empire's army, were in a hurry, They also lost a lot of army troops and air force fighters, and the Great Liang Empire also took the opportunity to recover a lot of territory.
However, it didn't take long for the army of the Lombalou Empire and the army of the Merlin Kingdom to recover, and then the first to suffer was the air force of the Great Liang Empire.
The Daliang Imperial Air Force, which is dominated by second-generation fighters, is not at all the opponent of the Lombalou Imperial Air Force and the Merlin Kingdom Air Force, which is dominated by third-generation fighters, and soon the air supremacy of the two battlefields fell into the hands of the Lombalou Imperial Air Force and the Merlin Kingdom Air Force respectively.
More than 3,500 fighters dispatched by the Daliang Imperial Air Force soon lost nearly 3,000 in the air battle, while the Lombalou Imperial Air Force lost only more than 300 fighters, and the Meilin Kingdom Air Force lost less than 400 fighters.
Without the cover of the air force, although the Great Liang Imperial Army has an advantage in strength, but this advantage has become useless under the three-dimensional attack of land and air in the two countries of the Lombalou Empire and the Merlin Kingdom, and the generals of the Great Liang Imperial Army can only adopt the tactics of crowds and launch wave after wave of attacks on the enemy's positions, and the casualties of the Great Liang Imperial Army suddenly rose sharply.
You must know that in the army of the Great Liang Empire, many troops are newly expanded, that is, the old troops before, and the proportion of recruits is also very high, so under such a large casualty attack, many new recruits of the army will not be able to stand up, and the rout will occur immediately.
On January 23, 1361, the Great Liang Empire launched a large-scale attack on the Lumbaru Imperial Army and the Merlin Kingdom Army in the territory at the same time, and invaded the occupied area of the two armies, as a result, in less than 3 days, the army units of the Great Liang Empire were driven back by the Lumbaru Imperial Army and the Merlin Kingdom Army, and the Great Liang Imperial Army had about 3 million officers and soldiers, who did not withdraw, and either became a corpse, or became a prisoner of the Rumbaru Imperial Army or the Merlin Kingdom Army.
This is not the end, the army and air force of the Lombalou Empire immediately launched an attack on the territory controlled by the Great Liang Empire, and then the army of the Merlin Kingdom also attacked the territory controlled by the Great Liang Empire, and the Lombalou Empire and the Great Liang Empire tacitly attacked the adjacent areas controlled by the Great Liang Empire, and did not fight for the same place together.
In the face of the attack of the Lombalou Empire army or the Merlin Kingdom army, the army units of the Great Liang Empire were almost collapsed at the touch of a button, and they could not organize an effective blockade at all, and a large area of the country fell, and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of army troops were surrounded and annihilated by the army of the Lombalou Empire or the army of the Merlin Kingdom, and the situation of the Great Liang Empire suddenly took a sharp turn.
Ouyang Hong, the emperor of the Great Liang Empire, felt like a dream for such an unexpected situation, a few days ago he was still dreaming of recovering the fallen land, only a few days, tens of millions of army troops and more than 3,500 fighter planes of the offensive, by the Lombalou Empire army and the Merlin Kingdom army, made a smoke disappear, a large area of the country fell into the hands of the invaders, and worse, the army of the Lombalou Empire was about to hit Bianliang City, the capital of the Great Liang Empire. (To be continued.) )