"I really want to know how your Majesty made such a bold decision." Looking at the map in front of him, Walter, who was already the commander-in-chief of the 1st Army Group at a young age, touched his chin, his face
He asked full of doubts.
In fact, when they invaded the Holy Demon Empire, the main force of Airan Hill had already discovered that the enemy's road conditions were very bad.
In order to make up for the poor road conditions, Ireland is frantically laying railways and building roads. On the other hand, it is also equipping frontline troops with more cars to make up for the lack of transportation capacity.
However, transportation vehicles are always insufficient. To transport one vehicle of fuel to the front line, another vehicle of fuel must be used.
In terms of the cost of supporting a huge army group, it is obviously very uneconomical to transport it by cars and airplanes.
Walter still clearly remembered that in order to reduce the cost of the attack, His Majesty the Emperor endured the Dothan Empire for more than half a year before launching the southward campaign and conquering the entire Dothan area in one fell swoop, creating the myth of the rise of Ireland.
But now, in the Holy Demon Empire, Walter deeply felt the unfriendly local environment.
The road conditions in the Holy Demon Empire are actually very bad. Most of the roads are paved with dirt and are not even considered highways.
The 1st Army Group's attack under such road conditions itself was severely restricted.
"Originally, we applied for 400 transport vehicles, but this time, for some unknown reason, none of them were approved for us." The chief of staff shook his head, looked at the slightly messy desktop, and complained: "Our transport vehicles
The convoy is already overwhelmed, and in this case, there is no difference between continuing the attack and committing suicide."
"The troops will be short of fuel, and the Air Force also lacks transport vehicles to move its field airports... We have reached the limit of advancement now." He pointed to the critical point on the map and said to General Walter: "
If we push about 50 kilometers further, we will collapse on our own."
"If we attack the Gushan defense line according to the current situation, we will be seeking death. But I don't think His Majesty, who has always attached great importance to logistics supplies, will make such a mistake." Walter stared at the map, still thinking deeply.
After surrounding Longshek, the troops of the 1st Army Group and the 3rd Army Group were not even in a hurry to attack. They just stood by, modifying their communication systems on the one hand, and waiting for their supplies on the other.
The General Headquarters promised to provide them with sufficient supplies. This was a prerequisite for the empire to order the 1st Army Group, the 3rd Army Group, and even other subsequent army groups to attack.
This attack order came from more than ten days ago. Eiland Hill suddenly became extremely conceited and prepared to launch a large-scale counterattack in three directions at the same time.
You must know that this is not an ordinary counterattack, but a large-scale counterattack across the board. In order to prepare for such a battle, all fronts are frantically rushing to transport their own supplies.
But even so, the supplies needed to reach the front line are still pitiful, and even the trucks that transport these supplies are still scarce.
Except for the southern front, where the Imperial General Staff came forward to scrape together 4,000 new cars and formed some new car transport groups to support the offensives of Modeller and Coria, the rest of the western front and
The Southwest Front did not receive a new vehicle.
In other words, even if these troops have enough supplies, they do not have enough transportation capacity to transport these supplies to the front line to support their own troops in operations.
"I hope that this time, His Majesty the Emperor can solve our problem..." The chief of staff of the 1st Army Group crossed his arms and said in a heavy tone.
"It's not hope, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely solve our problem!" General Walter emphasized firmly.
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On the brand new railway bridge erected over the St. Runos River to the west of the magical city of Ludnar that was preserved after the surrender, the crowded infantrymen of the 20th Army Group were slowly passing by carrying their own weapons.
This bridge is 30 meters wide.
These soldiers, who have been serving for more than a year, have participated in very few battles. Because they have been following the 1st and 2nd Army, taking over the tasks of occupying cities and maintaining local security, and they do not have many tasks of storming.
Moreover, the equipment of these troops is not very elite. They are generally only equipped with Mauser 98k rifles, M4 tanks and other weapons.
It can be said that these troops are actually World War II-level troops, and the tasks they perform are not too important.
After all, no matter how defiant Ailan Hill is, it is impossible to fully arm a 10 million-strong modern army in a short period of time.
Therefore, of course, in fact, Airan Hill, which has mobilized 10 million combat troops, only has about 2 to 3 million people who can truly be called the main force. Most of the remaining ones are like the 20th Army, which is used to perform low-threat operations.
Mission reserve force.
"What is that?" Suddenly he found that the sunlight above his head was blocked by something. A soldier squinted his eyes and looked up, and saw a huge thing flying above his head.
This behemoth is almost 200 meters long and more than 100 meters wide. The huge body is like a battleship, literally blocking the sky and the sun, giving everyone who sees it a strong sense of oppression.
"Oh my God..." A captain said without caring about restraining his troops, looking up at the huge flying object that he had never seen or heard of before, and trembled subconsciously.
These soldiers, who were equipped with M42 steel helmets and most of the equipment was similar to that of the Germans in World War II, all stopped, looked at the things flying over their heads, and made a sound of admiration from time to time.
They don't know what this huge thing is, but they can still feel an unprecedented sense of pride.
"Long live Ailanthir!" I don't know who shouted first, and then tens of thousands of troops shouted crazily at the sky. Everyone was shouting hysterically. At this moment, they were sincerely proud of their motherland.
.
Following this behemoth flying in the sky is another behemoth, which looks equally huge and even looks exactly the same!
Between the two behemoths, there are two helicopters. These helicopters are relatively outdated UH-1, and they are hovering between two huge aircraft that are like hills.
Further away, another equally huge aircraft lined up in a straight line with the two similar aircraft in front, making it look even more majestic.
"If we still can't win...then let's just die." The commander of the 20th Group Army raised his head, watching the fifth huge mountain flying over his headquarters, and seriously asked the staff around him
Chang sighed.
"Yeah... when did we become so strong..." Even though he saw it with his own eyes, the chief of staff still had a strong sense of unreality. He also raised his head and agreed with his commander's words.
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In Seris City, Chris proudly looked at Vivian, as well as the dumbfounded Des and others, and said with a smile: "You think I am building a super battleship, but I really only build battleships?"
He crossed his arms, raised his chin, and said sarcastically: "People in the magical world, they see things too one-sidedly. Let a castle fly, let a city fly... but they are just fighting to the death to fight the enemy as a battleship.
?Don’t they think it’s too wasteful?”
Having said this, Chris shook his head again: "In fact, I don't blame them. After all, they don't rely on logistics as much as Ailan Hill, and they don't have as many advanced weapons and equipment as Ailan Hill. So after they have the floating castle
, the first thing that comes to mind is to use it as a battleship to go to the front line to show off its power."
Chris took out a hand and pointed at himself: "We don't need to do this! So we can play more comfortably."
"So, you took advantage of all the shipbuilding steel plates that were abandoned in the port of Dukou City, welded them together, made a large steel plate, and then carved a floating array to make them float... transporting massive amounts
supplies?" Vivian raised her eyebrows and asked.
She thought what was going on in Chris's mind was really terrible. He could always think of aspects that others couldn't think of and solve problems that others couldn't.
Since the floating array can make a castle weighing hundreds of thousands of tons or even millions of tons fly, it can also make materials of the same weight fly.
This thing is much easier to use than an airship or the like. As long as the magic energy is sufficient, it can run almost infinitely.
Because they don’t need to participate in the war, they don’t need too much strength. They can barely keep themselves intact, so the technical difficulty is also very low. They only need to assemble some power devices so that they can fly forward relatively quickly and turn.
, everything is done.
The scary thing is that such a cheap super transport aircraft can transport as much and heavy materials as a castle at a time to the front line, which is enough for an army to squander for a long time.
Moreover, it can transport materials from Seris directly to the front line, without the need for a transfer station or a large amount of energy consumption.
"The only drawback is that this thing is not strong... as long as the enemy attacks, it will crash with supplies worth billions of gold coins." Chris nodded and said to Vivian.
"This is not a shortcoming at all, right?" Vivian glanced at Chris with disdain, because her T800 god puppet was on these giant floating transport ships at this moment.
Above the head of Vivian's god puppet are dozens of air force fighter jets responsible for protecting these giant transport ships.
Who can attack these giant transport ships under the protection of a dozen super god puppets and dozens of fighter jets?