Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1165 Chapter 1166 The 3rd Armored Division is a capable person who works hard.

 But no one can decide this kind of thing, because under the current situation in Mirage, there are actually many risks in transporting supplies.

The first is the loss of air supremacy, railway lines are intermittent due to bombing, large-scale transportation consumes precious fuel, and unnecessary losses may occur due to bombing... These problems are of no concern to Mirage, which is in urgent need of supplies. Neither is willing to bear it.

 Another serious problem is: once the orc troops in the north really break through the defense line and start moving south, it will be like a kitchen knife cutting through the main island of the Mirage Kingdom. The Mirage Kingdom's control area will be divided into two parts: one is the central mountain defense line in the encirclement, and the other is the Mirage City Defense Area.

Who can guarantee that the orc troops that have surrounded the central defense line will attack the central mountainous defense line first and not attack the mirage?

This issue cannot be guaranteed. Why should the supplies, weapons and ammunition from the Mirage City be transported to the central defense line? The central defense line is important, so isn't the defense of the royal city important?

If supplies are not transported from the Mirage City, they can only be transported from areas further northeast, which will cause even more pain to the top management of the Mirage Kingdom: the journey is long and more transportation capacity and more fuel are needed... This sounds ridiculous. It hurts, doesn’t it?

You must know that even the front line transportation of some things now uses oxen and horses. At this time, the transportation from the east to the front line... It would be better if the train can be used. If the railway track is bombed halfway, the fuel consumed along the way may be more than the transportation. Ammunition on the front lines is much more valuable.

  After all, the small workshops now hidden in the mountains in the northeast of the Mirage State all rely on fuel to generate electricity to produce ammunition and weapons.

In fact, the Mirage has been transporting various ammunition and weapons out of the mountainous areas in the northeast, but the scale itself is small: firstly, it is because it wants to avoid bombing, and secondly, the production capacity there is also low and there are not so many things.

 So the third question is actually: The Mirage Kingdom does not have so many supplies to transport to the central region and Mirage City.

 There is nothing in the first place. Even if you prepare a car or a train, there will be nothing to transport, right? Therefore, the choice of the Mirage Kingdom is either to transport from the Mirage City area, which is relatively close and has relatively large material reserves, and demolish the east wall to repair the west wall; or it can only abandon the central mountainous area and retreat the main force to the orcs before the encirclement is completed. Mirages are all gone.

 But this goes back to the original problem: the senior officials of the Mirage Kingdom are reluctant to abandon such a good fortification! It took countless manpower and material resources to build these fortifications in the first place. It is a pity to just give up now...

This is the case for small countries with few people: they worry about some trade-offs and cannot bear to give up anything. They are hesitant and indecisive, but they are often greedy and vicious in decision-making.

"Looking at it now, we can only think of ways to defend the northern defense line." Mirage Haiping has served as the commander-in-chief of the navy for so many years, so he naturally has a bit of strategic vision.

 So he could tell at a glance that the defense in the north cannot be lost! Only by firmly guarding the north and preventing the orcs from bypassing the central defense line and going south can all difficulties be overcome.

"The commander-in-chief thinks so too. We have recently been deploying troops to try to reinforce the northern region and block the orc troops." Mirage Wuyou nodded in agreement.

 The commander-in-chief he is talking about is naturally the commander-in-chief of the army, that is, his immediate superior, Army General Mirage. If Mirage Haiping could see the problem, Mirage Wuke could also see it.

 So he has been deploying troops and generals recently to try to plug this gap and eliminate hidden dangers before the problem occurs so that the problem will not arise.

In order to achieve this goal, Mirage did not even replenish the losses of Mirage's 1st Armored Division. Instead, it replenished the twenty or thirty newly produced tanks of various types that had performed well in previous battles. The 3rd Armored Division allowed this unit to withdraw covertly to the second line, and then move north to support.

Now the so-called 3rd Armored Division has a total of 70 tanks and 200 trucks to support these tanks. The rest are all infantry.

Rather than being an armored division, it is actually better to be said to be an infantry reinforcement regiment organized by the Tang State: after all, apart from having more infantry, the armored division of this mirage country really cannot be counted as a division.

The Tang Infantry Division has an independent assault artillery battalion equipped with 45 No. 4 assault guns, and an anti-tank artillery battalion equipped with 45 No. 4 tank destroyers... This configuration is actually higher than that of this Mirage Armored Division. This is not to mention that the Tang Army infantry also had armored vehicles and armored reconnaissance vehicles...

"Now we can only hope that the 3rd Armored Division can stabilize the situation in the north." After listening to Mirage Wuyou's brief introduction, Mirage Haiping said helplessly.

"Yeah, I hope... they can thwart the orcs' offensive... so that they can... buy more time." Mirage Wuyou finally didn't have the courage to say anything about winning.

Looking at the orcs on the other hand, the current situation is much better: the biggest improvement is that the orcs control a small port, which significantly improves the unloading capacity of Tang's supplies.

 The orc artificial soldiers are frantically expanding the seaport, and every time the seaport is expanded, the Tang army can send more supplies to the island.

The Orc troops with supplies can be said to be wealthy. Their frontline artillery shells are sufficient and there is plenty of food. Even if they live in the trenches, they are much more comfortable than the Mirage defenders. After owning a port, the orcs' logistics have been significantly improved. Although this news is exciting, what really makes the orcs happy is that they obtained two airports in one go.

The damage to both airports was considerable, and the Tang Army's bombing completely destroyed the runways. But for the orc engineers, as long as they have raw materials, they can repair these facilities.

 After all, these two airports are frontline airports, and it is impossible for the Tang Army's jet fighters and jet bombers to be deployed here. Therefore, the requirements for the runway and supporting facilities here are not high, so the repair speed is very fast.

At the same time, because it controls the air, there is no need to consider safety issues in many facilities. For example, oil can be placed in a warehouse without any need to dig underground oil depots and other defenses.

In addition, supporting anti-aircraft gun positions can also be saved, and even some shutdown sheds can be repaired later. In short, just save what you can.

 Once these airports can be used, the problem of the Orcs' short air force will be solved. Those attack aircraft and fighter jets that can only stay above the battlefield for a few minutes can hover above the mirage army all day long.

Moreover, the Type 130 transport aircraft specially designed and manufactured by the Tang Empire for frontline airports can also take off and land at field airports. In this way, the supplies provided by the Tang Kingdom to the orcs can also be transported through air transport channels.

With these two airports and a small port, the orc army has stabilized its rear. More personnel can arrive quickly, and the strength of the orc army can continue to increase.

 As long as there are more troops, the orcs will be more confident in encircling the central mountainous area. Shanru is already planning to exchange more orc slaves for his second armored division.

Of course, the so-called "weapons and equipment of one division" provided by the Tang Empire to the Orc troops cannot be the establishment of the Tang Empire's own troops, but are provided by reference to the "infantry division" establishment of the slave countries.

In other words, it is based on the information given by the infantry division of Chu State: a division has a strength of about 10,000 people, about 400 vehicles of various types, dozens of medium-caliber towed artillery, plus some strange Make up the equipment.

These equipment include but are not limited to: some anti-tank guns, or some anti-aircraft guns, engineering construction vehicles, armored vehicles or No. 4 assault guns.

Each division has one or two battalions with similar equipment, basically maintaining the equipment of two or three Chu infantry divisions, and can be pieced together to form a Tang infantry division.

Of course, the armored division is not at this price: the Orcs' armored division, the only armored division, which is the 1st Armored Division currently fighting on the island, was actually formed based on the armored divisions of the Tang Empire for actual combat.

 The entire armored division has close to 500 tanks, which cannot be replaced by tens of thousands of slaves. However, Shan Lu decided to apply to the Tang Empire to see if they could form a second armored division.

He didn’t want it before, partly because he couldn’t afford it, and partly because he couldn’t afford it. It is obviously impossible to raise so many tanks with the supply capacity provided by the floating code. That is to say, with the recent addition of ports and airports, only the Orcs can afford to raise a second armored division.

In fact, the need for the 2nd Armored Division only appeared recently: the Orks hope to break through from the north and need a highly mobile armored force to fight in a roundabout way.

The Tang Empire agreed to the orcs' request, but the new tanks took time to transport. The orcs' infantry still had to rely on their own flesh and blood to break through the northern goblin defense line as soon as possible.

There is no way. If they wait for the tanks, the Mirage Army will definitely take this opportunity to strengthen the defense line. No one knows whether it will cost more to wait or to attack immediately.

 Since no one knows, no one dares to wait. War is like this, a lion fights a rabbit with all its strength. The head of state was waiting for his Ferdinands and Tigers in Kursk, but what he was waiting for was the anti-tank trenches and minefields of the Soviet Red Army.

Therefore, the 4th and 5th divisions were combined, and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th divisions of the orcs formed an offensive group and launched an attack on the goblins in the north.

 Because of the lack of fortifications, lack of ammunition, lack of medicine, lack of food... the resistance of the mirage army, although tenacious, did not have much effect.

  The orcs advance an average of 10 kilometers a day, while the goblins are retreating steadily and are almost unable to hold on. However, they still have hope, and that is the Mirage 3rd Armored Division, which is providing covert support.

 (End of this chapter)