On the frontal battlefield, the troops of the Puppet Empire dispersed and retreated, leaving behind a bunch of worthless puppets to defend themselves against Ailanthir's pursuit. Many of the defenders of the Holy Demon Empire still didn't know about this.
These abandoned soldiers stayed on the position waiting for Ailan Hill to destroy them. In just one morning, their defense line was broken through by Ailan Hill. After repeated battles, Ailan Hill pushed the defense line southwards.
70 kilometers.
However, after that, Ailan Hill also gave up the pursuit, stopped on the spot, and began to rest and replenish. The reason was not other than that after a fierce battle, Ailan Hill's frontline troops also suffered huge losses.
If it hadn't been backed by the westward railway, if it hadn't been cut back and intercepted some of the supplies supplied to the 9th Army, the 1st Army might not have been able to hold on on the second day of the counterattack. Now that they stopped to rest, it could be regarded as letting General Walter relax.
Take a breath.
Just when the 1st Army stopped heading south, the wartime economic meeting in Seris was held on time. All senior officials in charge of production and the army staying in Seris attended the meeting.
After all, the issues discussed in this meeting were about what was left after the fierce battles between the puppet empires.
The Minister of Defense, Archduke Higgs Castner, expressed emotion at the meeting: "This may be the best war we mortals have ever fought in history! We defeated the powerful Magic Empire, and the enemy even
Didn't break through our defenses!"
He was right. Whether it was in terms of scale or results, the battle between Ailanshir and the puppet empire was absolutely unprecedented. The number of troops on both sides participating in the battle was so large, and the battle process was so brutal. The Mortal Empire
The results were greater than any previous battle.
"Yes, but I am sure that this is also the most expensive war we have fought so far." Looking at the rough statistics of the report with a pale face, Gurlo added in pain.
In order not to fall behind in the battle against the puppet empire, the 1st Army, the main force of Airan Hill, suffered heavy losses yesterday. Countless ammunition was consumed, and the cost was truly heart-wrenching.
Des didn't have much objection to spending money. He was the first to witness the rise of Alan Hill, so in his subconscious, he firmly believed that Chris had the magical power to come back after all his money was spent.
But even so, he was still surprised by yesterday's consumption, and he agreed with Gurlo's statement: "Yes, yesterday's consumption in one day, the gold coins we threw out, was almost as much as all the wars launched in human history combined.
It’s almost spent.”
You know, just over four years ago, Siris' annual revenue was only about 1,000 gold coins. At that time, Chris was still worried about his taxes, and when a country launches a war, it is nothing more than expenses.
Just tens of thousands of gold coins, or hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
But now, in a battle, the total value of air-to-air missiles consumed by Airan Hill has far exceeded the amount of 100,000 gold coins.
Now you know why so many modern air-to-air missiles use infrared combat missiles? Because radar-guided missiles are more expensive... Analyzing from the seeker head, infrared-guided missiles are really very cheap, so cheap that many technologies can even
Extended to the civilian field.
The seekers of radar-guided missiles are very expensive, and the two sides are basically not on the same level. Therefore, even in the most wealthy countries, the seekers of air-to-air missiles are mixed, and the seekers of long-range air-to-air missiles beyond visual range are used.
The radar seeker highlights its ability to be left alone after launch. Infrared seekers are used for short-range air-to-air missiles, which control costs and have more reasonable performance indicators.
Of course, the wider locking range of the infrared seeker is one of the main reasons why most combat missiles use infrared seekers. However, the low price is indeed a reference reason. The Mika air-to-air missile is a counterexample, and the price is scary...
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Due to special reasons, Airan Hill cannot use the cheap infrared seeker, so it can only use expensive radar seekers. It is also a very deceptive choice for combat missiles.
After all, the infrared seeker is small, the missile can be made smaller, and its maneuverability will be better, making it easier to hit a target as big as the Magician.
Having said that, if Alan Hill enters the technical field of second-generation infrared air-to-air missiles, then these problems can be easily solved: thermal imaging infrared guidance technology is much more reliable and resistant to interference than the early pure thermal induction guidance technology.
If you include the assistance of other guidance modes, the new infrared combat missile is not unusable. On the contrary, it will join the air-to-air missile camp and strengthen the guidance weapons of the Airland Hill Air Force.
At least, when using infrared guidance, the locking area is very large, which is an unparalleled advantage when launching air-to-air missiles at close range and at a wide angle. No radar seeker can replace this advantage.
These are all things for later. The basic situation now is that air-to-air missiles are still expensive radar-guided, and the price is still very high. In yesterday's battle, the MiG-21 launched a total of more than 190 Sparrow missiles at various targets.
The hit rate is less than half.
Even so, this missile has already shown its strong future potential: less than 100 missiles hit the target, killing dozens of targets including the dragon, and the damage effect was very good.
"Is it so terrible?" After hearing Des' lament about the shocking expense, the curious Chief of General Staff Luo Kai subconsciously asked.
"We have fired a total of 72 Scud ballistic missiles from yesterday to today, more than half of which are the latest solid rocket motor models..." Glancing at Luo Kai, the general of the newly established Strategic Missile Force introduced.
This can be said to be quite a huge expense. You must know that a Scud missile is expensive, and you can shoot dozens of them at once. The price is also very touching. After hearing the news, Luo Kai immediately shut his mouth.
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His staff command and command of the battle was fine, but he was asked to consider these costs, which gave him a headache. Yesterday, he only thought about winning this sudden encounter, but did not consider the cost issue...
Under this kind of thinking, yesterday's 1st Army and 11th Army used whatever they could find. Basically, they used all the latest and most expensive weapons that could be found in Ailan Hill.
"Not just Scuds, but ordinary rockets, including Katyushas, and larger models... We consumed more than 600 rockets in a day and night... and also used a lot of cluster bombs." Another officer added.
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"We fired 39 air-launched Super Hound missiles, and one malfunctioned and crashed. Do you know how expensive these missiles are?" Another air force general glanced at General Butoria who didn't speak, and then went about his own business.
Then added.
"Just yesterday, we had more than 1,700 aircraft and took off more than 4,000 sorties in total. We dropped more than 8,000 tons of bombs and aircraft artillery shells on all the places we could hit," Butolya said at this time.
Then he added: "Do you know how expensive these bombs are? There are armor-piercing bombs that are expensive to make, as well as napalm bombs and cloud burst bombs... Ordinary bombs are cheap in comparison."
Modern warfare is all about money! Not to mention such high-intensity large-scale operations, even small-scale anti-guerrilla operations, the military expenditures consumed by the US military in the 21st century are enough to stagger people.
After flipping through the records in front of him, Des glanced at Chris, who was sitting at the front: "The troops poured out at least 200 million rounds of ammunition and about 200,000 large-caliber artillery shells yesterday. There were 27 scrapped cannons.
Three of the cannons are chambered, and more than 100 cannons need to have their barrels replaced before they can continue to be used."
What is this concept? About two artillery shells per second fell on the puppet empire's position! For one day, the artillery shells kept falling two times per second, without stopping for a second! More than half of the land in the entire war zone has been
The craters were covered, the soil was loosened, and some small highlands were even blown into small basins.
If you look through the nearby soil, you can either find the remains of puppets, or human blood clots, and of course metal shrapnel, as well as bullet casings that fell to your feet and were too hard to pick up and recover.
"To supplement such a huge consumption to the front line, the trains will use a lot of trains, and this does not include production problems." The official in charge of the railway spoke of his difficulties: "We are already reducing the number of trains given to the 9th Group Army.
We have supplies, but if we want the 1st Army to return to the level of the day before yesterday, we still need at least 50 trains of supplies."
"Let me give you a random example. Our consumption of ammunition yesterday was enough to bankrupt the Arant Empire four years ago." An official closed the report in front of him and shook his head.
Another official next to him sneered: "Bankruptcy? They can't come up with that much money at all! You haven't counted the fuel consumed yesterday, and you haven't counted the soldiers who died yesterday... God knows how much we spent yesterday.
, I guess we can build another Seris..."
Every fighter jet taking off is expensive. Until the 1990s, Chinese fighter pilots had very few flight training hours each year. The purpose was to save fuel in strategic reserves and reduce the training costs of the troops.
When a jet fighter takes off for combat once, it is almost enough to buy a Nissan car. Yesterday, MiG-21 fighter jets took off desperately to fight, and even shot down a dozen of them. This shows how much fuel they consume.
huge.
"In order to support the war, Higgs's oil extraction scale has been expanded tenfold! Our oil fields in the Dothan Empire are also producing crude oil, which is good news. There are also oil fields in the Jesno Empire..." Responsible for oil production
Officials report.
"It seems that General Kolya who went south is still making money..." An official in charge of finance breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, shook his head and sighed softly——
