Chapter 303: The Eastern Front Offensive of the Jarman Empire

Although it was an exercise, it was carried out in a completely real state, so the fighters quickly got into the groove, and hundreds of Wehrmacht artillery fired in unison, clearing the way for the troops to attack.

While the Wehrmacht was charging, a regiment of Guards relied on the rapid maneuvering of trucks to launch a counter-charge from the Flank of the Wehrmacht.

The two-week military exercise was very effective, and the Wehrmacht soldiers went from being nervous and deformed in their skills to being able to play creatively on their own, and played several times, which made the veterans of the Guards also scramble, and it can be said that although these Wehrmacht soldiers have not been on the battlefield, they have become quasi-veterans.

The results of the exercise were outstanding, but the casualties were also worrying to the staff. The two-week exercise, despite the use of training ammunition, resulted in more than 30 casualties and more than 200 wounded.

Tobul had to bite the bullet and found Fang Xiaoyu with the report, hoping to stop such a military exercise.

Fang Xiaoyu took the report and quietly asked him about the effect of the exercise, and after learning that the exercise was effective, Fang Xiaoyu immediately decided that such a military exercise should be used as a normalization and let all the national defense forces conduct rotation training.

Fang Xiaoyu believes that such a casualty ratio can be tolerated, and if these recruits are allowed to go to the battlefield without such training, it is the greatest irresponsibility for them, and the casualty ratio of training on the battlefield will be much higher.

With Fang Xiaoyu's holy decree, the General Staff had no choice but to continue to draw up training plans and arrange exercise teams, and the 'Rainbow Military Exercise' later became one of the many famous military exercises of the Chinese Empire, which allowed the soldiers of the Chinese Empire to always maintain a high combat quality, and also made a very important contribution to the status of the first powerful army in the world of the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire's 'Rainbow Military Exercise' is in full swing, and the national mobilization of the Yaman Empire is nearing its end.

With sufficient troops, the Eighth Army of the Yaman Empire immediately began to assemble on the Eastern Front, and a large number of supplies and reserve troops also converged there by train, and the preparations for war were prepared within half a month.

The Kingdom of Habushburg was supposed to attack at the same time, but their mobilization efficiency was obviously much worse than that of the Yaman Empire, and the Yaman Empire had to attack alone.

The Yaman Empire did a lot of cover-up work before the attack, which caused the Cossack Empire to be completely unprepared, and in this case, the Yaman Eighth Army suddenly entered the territory of the Cossack Empire.

With the support of cavalry, the Eighth Army quickly attacked in two arrow directions, quickly crushing the border garrison of the Cossack Empire, penetrating inland, and heading directly at the city of Dessa, an important city in the north of the Cossack Empire.

Shocked by the news of the invasion of the Yamans, Alexander III immediately ordered Field Marshal Kolchak, the Minister of War, to mobilize troops to block the attack.

Kolchak was also an experienced veteran, and he immediately saw the inadequacies of the Eighth Army of the Yaman Empire.

Since the trucks and other equipment used by various countries are imported from the Chinese Empire, the Yaman Empire does not have so much equipment to supply all the troops, so they give priority to the main force located on the Western Front, while the Eastern Front is not equipped with trucks, and they can only rely on the two feet of the infantry in addition to the cavalry, so the breakthrough speed is not fast, which gives the Cossack Empire enough time to prepare for defense.

Marshal Kolchak immediately ordered the two Cossack corps stationed nearby to build defensive positions along the way, blocking them layer by layer, and buying time for himself to mobilize his forces.

At this moment, the commander of the Eighth Army of the Yaman Empire, General Cruznan, was standing on the side of the road, rubbing the mud from his leather boots on a stone. He grunted angrily and complained to the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Rudolph, "The Cossacks are such a bad place, there is not much modernity at all, and the roads are so muddy, no wonder those old men in the staff headquarters refuse to equip us with advanced trucks and combat vehicles." ”

Lieutenant General Rudolph said with a smile: "This is the third time you have complained today, I think you are irritated because there are always small groups of Cossack troops on the road." ”

Admiral Cruznan snorted angrily, "Damn the road, damn the country. The Cossack Empire is so bad, I really don't know what the use of His Majesty wants us to attack here. ”

Lieutenant General Rudolph smiled slightly: "Of course it works, now the level of mechanization of the army is getting higher and higher, and our dependence on oil is also increasing, so we need an oil source, and the closest and most convenient place for us to obtain is Baku in the Cossack Empire." ”

Admiral Cruznan said: "Oil is very important, but roads are also very important, you look at such a bad road, even a truck can't drive." ”

Lieutenant General Rudolph smiled: "Okay, don't complain, there is Desa City in front, and when we capture Desa City, there will be dry rooms and clean sheets for you." ”

"I hope so." Admiral Cruznan said indignantly.

At this moment, there was a sudden explosion in front of the team, and a cavalry herald ran panting and reported: "Report to the two generals, our avant-garde troops are approaching the city of Dessa, and they are exchanging fire with the Cossack patrols. ”

"Great, it's finally here." Admiral Cruznan said: "Immediately order the Eleventh Army to deploy and attack in the direction of the city of Dessa." ”

Although it was not equipped with trucks, the Yamandi ** team was equipped with a lot of light artillery imported from the Chinese Empire, and the dense shells exploded on the positions of the Cossack army, so that the soldiers could only squat in the trenches and did not dare to get up.

The commander stationed in the city of Desa, Lieutenant General Ilzisky, was unmoved by the intensive shelling, he had experienced the battle against the Chinese territory, and he did not care about such an extent of shelling.

"General, let the troops withdraw, the casualties of such a heavy shelling will definitely be very large." A staff officer said on the side.

Ilzisky pouted contemptuously and said: "You won't say that when you have seen the density of the shelling of the Chinese artillery, don't worry, their shelling of this level will not make our troops lose their combat effectiveness." ”

It is true that although the artillery fire of the Yaman Empire was very dense, the Cossack army had trenches, and the caliber of the artillery of the Yaman Empire was on the small side, so not many people were killed.

After the shelling, the Yaman army followed closely behind the barrage and began to charge, and soon the Cossack positions were also shot out in a dense manner.

Both sides used Arthur 88 rifles, and the firepower was half a pound, but the Yaman army still had light and heavy machine guns and mortars for cover, and the Cossack troops suppressed by dense fire could not return fire.

"Artillery conducts blocking fire." Because the logistics couldn't keep up, there weren't many shells, so Ilzisky was reluctant to use artillery to counter-suppress in the shelling just now, but seeing that the Yaman army was charging so fiercely, he finally couldn't help it.

The Cossack artillery began to roar, and the blocking fire quickly disrupted the formation of the Yaman army, the charging team was disjointed, there were no follow-up units behind, and the advance troops were quickly eliminated.

"The Yaman army is really powerful, it almost broke through our position the first time." Ilzisky wiped the sweat from his face.

"The first attack is the hardest, as long as you repel the first attack, it's easy to do it." Chief of Staff Kurkin said.

Ilzisky said: "But I'm worried about the north now, what if the 82nd Army can't stop their northern route corps?" They're all new recruits. ”

"It's really not safe," said Kurkin, "but I think the marshal's reinforcements should arrive soon, so we don't have to worry too much." ”

Ilzisky said: "We can't win the battle just by defending, we have to strengthen the counter-charge." ”

"We only have one army, and it is very difficult to defend, so it is not easy to counterattack," Kurkin said. ”

Ilzisky said: "If it doesn't work, we'll use that secret weapon." ”

"Secret weapon?" Kurkin said: "This is not allowed to be used casually. ”

Ilzisky said: "If the secret weapon can change the tide of the war, we should use it, we must get rid of these Yaman Army as soon as possible and go to support the 82nd Army." ”

"There's no rush for this kind of thing, and it would be better for us to defend for two days and then use a secret weapon," Kurkin suggested. ”

The offensive of the Yaman Empire was like a tide, but the Cossacks relied on the innate ruthlessness in their bones, stubbornly held their positions, and did not back down at all, showing a stalemate on the battlefield.

Lieutenant General Rudolph was the most opposed to such offensive operations, believing that the troops should be mobilized and annihilate the opponent in a mobile war, and that such a tactic of completely competing with strength and filling with human lives is the most mentally retarded, and even if such a battle is won, it can only show the incompetence of the commander.

Moreover, such a victory in the battle was certainly a disastrous victory, which did not help the course of the war at all, so he repeatedly persuaded Admiral Cruznan to abandon the attack, flank it instead, and directly attack the logistics base of the Cossack Corps in order to cut off the supply of ammunition to the other side and the reinforcement route of the follow-up troops, but unfortunately Admiral Cruznan insisted on not listening.

On the morning of the third day of the Yaman offensive, the secret weapons of the Cossacks were finally sorted.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Yaman artillery began its routine pre-offensive shelling, and after the shelling, the 20,000 infantry began another charge, when a sudden rumbling sound was heard behind the base of the Cossack army, and with thick black smoke, a group of huge ironclad vehicles resembling chariots drove out.

Since the Cossack Emperor Alexander III hated Fang Xiaoyu, who had taken away his Far East and destroyed his entire main fleet, the Cossack Empire was the only Western Continental power that never imported weapons from the Chinese Empire. At the Imperial Chinese Weapons Fair, after the chariot caused a sensation in the world, Alexander III was quite envious of him even though he did not buy it, so he ordered his subordinates to start the study of chariots as well.