Chapter 90: A Shocking Reversal
On April 1, the year 316 of the imperial calendar, in Lusen City, the Duchy of Lucerne, Ouyang Yu, who was dressed in men's clothes with a fake beard, followed by the pretty Avril, Avril held her right arm tightly and walked on the bustling commercial street Looking left and right curiously, Avril can not walk out of the Duke's Palace many times in the past sixteen years, so she is very curious about the outside world.
Today's weather is good, although there is still the cold of early spring, but there are no clouds, the sun is shining on the body is warm and comfortable, Avril willfully left the government affairs that can never be handled, found Ouyang Yu, who was preparing to build the 88th Division of the Lucerne Coalition Army, and pulled her out of the barracks to accompany her shopping.
Ouyang Yu returned to the Duchy of Luxon more than a month ago, and after refusing Admiral Bonaparte's order to hand over the two flying wings, Admiral Bonaparte simply drove Ouyang Yu back to the Duchy of Lucerne in a fit of rage, and asked her to go back to form the 88th Division, and at the same time took out most of the strength of the Luxon Allied Army and went south to reinforce the pursuit of the fully retreating Imperial Army, leaving only less than 10,000 people and the 56th Division, which had the worst combat effectiveness.
Ouyang Yu couldn't ask for Admiral Bonaparte's new order, and happily returned to the Duchy of Lucerne with more than 20,000 of her troops, and after returning, she built the skeleton and flesh of the 88th Division on the basis of more than 20,000 Luxon garrisons that had seen blood.
Through the battlefield, it was proved that the idea of taking system soldiers as squad and platoon leaders and leading ordinary soldiers to fight was correct, as long as there was strict military discipline and training, coupled with a perfect political commissar system, it could ensure that the trained army had combat effectiveness and loyalty to herself, so Ouyang Yu made great efforts to build the 88th Division, wanting to build this army into the first armored division in the other world.
The tentative plan is that the 88th Division has two brigades, four regiments in each brigade, one tank regiment, three mechanized infantry regiments, and then there are artillery regiments, air defense regiments, guard battalions, etc. directly under the division headquarters, the tank regiment is equipped with one-third of the T-35 tanks, two-thirds of the T-26 tanks, and the mechanized infantry regiment is heavily equipped with American-made M3 half-track armored vehicles, because the Soviet Union obtained a large amount of equipment from the United States through the Lend-Lease Act during World War II, including the M3 Grant medium tank, M4 Sherman medium tank, P-39 fighter jet, etc., so there is a strange branch on the Soviet science and technology tree, which contains all the American-made equipment, tanks and fighters or something that the Soviet Union has better, so Ouyang Yu only lit up the famous M3 half-track armored car with merit points.
The M3 armored car was developed in the thirties, so the merit value required was not much but more than 7,000, and Ouyang Yu obtained more than 60,000 merit points in the battle in Norin City, so she spent the more than 7,000 merit points required for the M3 half-track armored car without hesitation.
In addition to the most basic model of the M2 12.7 mm heavy machine gun, it also has a variety of deformation vehicles such as a 120 mm mortar, a quadruple 20 mm anti-aircraft gun, an 85 mm anti-aircraft gun, a 76 mm anti-tank gun and a 76 mm howitzer.
A mechanized infantry regiment is equipped with M3 half-track armored vehicles and deformation vehicles, a total of one hundred and twenty-eight, and two hundred gas trucks, although there are many vehicles, the gasoline that Ouyang Yu buys from the system is very cheap, one hundred liters of silver, and the money to raise the army is still paid by the principality's finances, she doesn't need to spend a penny of her own, so she is a special tyrant, otherwise with her current economic strength, she can neither afford to buy so much equipment, nor can she afford to raise such a force.
At the same time as the formation of the 88th Division of the Luxon Coalition Army, Ouyang Yu is also forming the first and second divisions of the Principality of Luxon garrison, this is because the original garrison soldiers have become the soldiers of the 88th Division of the Coalition Army, which means that the Principality of Luxon does not have its own army and naturally needs to be replenished, so the second round of large-scale recruitment activities are carried out throughout the Principality of Luxon, and more than 40,000 young adults have been recruited for more than a month, and now they are being trained by Ouyang Yu's system soldiers, these two divisions are just ordinary infantry divisions, but there are more trucks and artillery than ordinary infantry divisions, and they are also funded by the Principality's finances。
Ouyang Yu was promoted to the commander of the 88th Division of the Allied Army, and her chief logistics officer also served as the commander, taking advantage of the opportunity of the new formation of three divisions, Ouyang Yu made a lot of false accounts, crazy money, earned tens of millions of silver coins, and then invested all this money in the construction of the Air Force.
Ouyang Yu, who had tasted the sweetness, increased the number of 120 I-153 fighters by more than 10 times and organized them into five wings, each of which had four brigades, each of which had four squadrons, and one squadron had four squadrons, each of which had four fighters.
In addition to the surge of fighters, Ouyang Yu also lit up the Soviet Union's Soviet SB-2 bomber, the twin-engine light bomber, SB-2 was the first all-metal aircraft in the Soviet Union, with a fuselage and skin forming an integral load-bearing structure. The initial model was equipped with two M-100 engines to drive two metal fixed-pitch propellers. The engine radiator is located at the front of the engine, so that several vertically arranged tempering louver blades can be seen from the outside. The aircraft flew faster than most of its contemporaries and was an advanced bomber in the mid-thirties.
The SB-2 bomber has a crew of four, a maximum range of 1,900 kilometers, a maximum speed of 450 kilometers per hour, a maximum ceiling of 9,300 meters, and a maximum take-off weight of 8 tons.
The SB-2 bomber is too expensive, the price of each system is 50,000 silver coins, Ouyang Yu only bought sixty-four to form two bomber groups, and the SB-2 bomber is just a transitional model, waiting to buy better ones in the future, such as the American B-17 bomber and B-29 bomber.
Ouyang Yu looked preoccupied, which made Avril Lavigne, who was ready to go shopping, a little unhappy, she shook Ouyang Yu's coquettish and said, "Sister Ouyang, are you so uncomfortable to accompany me shopping?"
"I'm sorry. Ouyang Yu sobered up from thinking about the construction of the army, showed an apologetic smile to Avril, and then cheered up and concentrated on shopping with her.
The commercial street of Luxon City was strolled by the two from beginning to end, Avril was interested in every store, especially the clothing store was her favorite, she had to go in every clothing store she passed, and then pick up the clothes and compare them on her body, but she just gestured but did not buy them, which made the waiters in the store quite complaining, but fortunately, Avril had an extraordinary temperament, and the clothes on her body were not bargains, otherwise she would have been kicked out.
Ouyang Yu accompanied Avril Avril who seemed to be a bird out of the cage all the way, watching her happily try on all kinds of clothes, and gradually let go of the affairs of the army and concentrated on being a staff officer for her.
"Now, Sister Ouyang, what do you think of this dress?"
Avril changed into a floral dress and walked out of the fitting room, this dress matched her innocent and cute temperament very well and completely set off her figure.
"It's good-looking, it's so good-looking. Ouyang Yu gave Avril a thumbs up, "Waiter, wrap up all the clothes you just tried on." ”
"Ah, yes, yes, yes. ”
The waiter at the clothing store paused for a moment, then smiled ecstatically, and began to wrap up all the dozen or so clothes that Avril had tried on before.
Naturally, Ouyang Yu and Avril do not need Ouyang Yu and Avril to carry bags and pay, Princess Rovigne, who was waiting a little farther away, walked into the clothing store with two guards, Princess Roni paid, and the guards took the bag, Ouyang Yu and Avril left the clothing store with empty hands and walked towards the next store.
Looking at the two of them happily, Princess Roni, who was following behind, glanced at the clothing store with a little regret, because there was a dress in it that she liked very much and wanted to buy, and it was rare to go out shopping, she also wanted to have a shopping spree, but unfortunately, she is now Ouyang Yu's "head maid", and she must follow behind the master to serve at any time, and finally glanced at the dress, Princess Roni silently wrote down the name of the store, and quickly followed behind Ouyang Yu and Avril.
Just as Ouyang Yu and Avril were about to walk into another store, the sound of an engine came from a distance, and then a gas car stopped steadily in front of Ouyang Yu, and a system soldier wearing a coalition army uniform handed a document to Ouyang Yu.
"This is an urgent order that has just been received. ”
Ouyang Yu took the document and read it, the order was sent by Admiral Bonaparte, and it asked her to immediately lead all the troops to the city of Saint-Ives, the royal capital of the Gallic Kingdom, as for why it was not said, but Ouyang Yu could guess it.
"Finally, don't ask for face? It's too late. After reading it, Ouyang Yu casually tore Admiral Bonaparte's order to shreds.
Although Ouyang Yu is in the Duchy of Luxemble, but has been watching the war in the Gallic Kingdom, after the imperial army fully retreated from Norin City, the hundreds of thousands of troops who were monitoring the coalition army of the Gallic Kingdom also retreated, and this retreat was a big retreat, almost giving up nearly half of the land occupied by the Gallic Kingdom, which made Admiral Bonaparte overjoyed, thinking that this was the best time to grab people's heads and brush up on the achievements, so he ordered Ouyang Yu to retreat and rest.
Then Admiral Bonaparte mobilized all the troops he could muster, including the allied forces transferred from several vassal countries, and launched a huge pursuit, and more than 600,000 allied troops vigorously caught up with the retreating Imperial army.
And the imperial army seemed to have changed an army, unable to resist the attack of the coalition army and withdrawing again and again, losing a large number of occupied areas one after another, but Ouyang Yu noticed that although the imperial army was defeated again and again, the real loss was not large, and there were nearly 400,000 troops.
Half a month ago, the battle situation suddenly took a shocking reversal, and the imperial army, which had been retreating steadily, suddenly gained a firm foothold and no longer retreated, blocking the pursuing Gallic coalition army, and then before Admiral Bonaparte figured out why the imperial army suddenly rose up, the two imperial armies appeared on the two flanks of the Gallic coalition army like divine soldiers, and launched a fierce attack on the flank and rear of the Gallic coalition army, not only cutting off the supply line of the Gallic coalition army, but also occupying all the material transit bases of the Gallic coalition army, which could support more than 600,000 people to fight for a month The supply was captured by the imperial army。
After losing all supplies, the form was reversed in an instant, and the more than 600,000 Gallic coalition troops were defeated after only three days, with 80,000 killed and more than 400,000 surrendered, and only Admiral Bonaparte with more than 30,000 remnants of the defeated army who had no food or drink successfully broke through.
It turned out that all this was a conspiracy of the Imperial Army, and after the main force of the Fifth Front retreated from Norin, Archduke Philip returned to command with illness, and after learning that the Kingdom of Gaul intended to pour the whole army into pursuit, Archduke Philip came up with a seemingly bold plan.
The first step of the plan was to make a general retreat as if there were insufficient supplies and could not fight, and lure the Gallic coalition forces into pursuit.
The second step is to pretend that the lack of combat strength due to logistical problems cannot stop the pursuit of the coalition forces, so that the Gallic coalition forces can build up the illusion that they can win step by step, lure the Gallic coalition forces to continue to pursue, lengthen the supply lines of the Gallic coalition forces, and at the same time shorten their own supply lines, so as to gain time to replenish the transportation of supplies from the rear to restore combat effectiveness.
The third step is to implement the fourth step when the vigilance of the Gallic coalition army is reduced to a minimum and the supply line is long enough, and the supplies of the Imperial army are also delivered from the rear.
In the fourth step, the nearly 400,000 imperial army is divided into three parts, with frontal forces blocking the attack of the Gallic coalition army at most and attracting the attention of the opponent, and then the other two groups carry out a great detour from outside the battlefield, penetrating the rear of the Gallic coalition army as quickly as possible, cutting off the supply lines of the opponent, and capturing or destroying the supplies hoarded by the Gallic coalition army.
The tactic of weakening the enemy's combat effectiveness instead of annihilating the enemy head-on was still learned by Grand Duke Philip from Ouyang Yu, and now he has successfully used his nearly 400,000 troops to surround the more than 600,000 troops of the Gallic coalition army who lacked food and clothing and only had three days of supplies, creating a miracle in the military history of another world.
The reason why Grand Duke Philip's plan can succeed is because Admiral Bonaparte's light enemy advances, and the combat effectiveness of the imperial army is already higher than that of the Gallic coalition army, and the soldiers' fighting will and discipline are also stronger than those of the Gallic coalition army, so his plan will succeed, if Admiral Bonaparte adopts the same plan in turn, maybe the fake retreat will turn into a real rout, and the implementation rate of the plan will not be so high.
Eliminated the main force of the Gallic coalition army, the Grand Duke of Philip led his army to fight back all the way, because Admiral Bonaparte transferred most of the troops of the Gallic Kingdom, so the troops of the Gallic Kingdom were extremely empty, and the counter-attack of the Archduke Philip was more like a grand armed procession, which was fought all the way to the city of Saint-Ives, the royal capital of the Gallic Kingdom.
Admiral Bonaparte wanted to order Ouyang Yu to go south again to rescue at the beginning of the defeat, but because he fell out with Ouyang Yu, he couldn't pull her down to beg her, and it was not until the Grand Duke of Philip came to the city that the Gallic Kingdom was in danger before sending Ouyang Yu an order to go south for reinforcements.