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Chapter eight hundred and twenty second gap

As the eldest grandson of the previous king of the Danner Kingdom, Prince Zhou Yaping was forced to leave the Danner Kingdom at a young age and went into exile in the Daheng Empire.

But Prince Zhou Yaping, who was forced to go into exile at a young age, has never lost his love for the Tanner Kingdom. Over the years, he has watched the Tanner Kingdom transform into a small country with the support and coercion of the Orissa people.

The national strength of the country was armed with more than 100,000 troops.

Such a large army, and an army equipped with advanced breech-loading guns and cannons, may seem huge, but the huge cost of such an army is simply not something that the Dynaudio Kingdom can support.

There are no rich mineral resources in the Kingdom of Tanner. Even the arable land is only the east coast plain in the north and part of the coastal zone in the south. On weekdays, it can only make a little money by exporting forests and supplying some merchant ships passing through the Endless Sea.

The population of the entire Kingdom of Dana is only six to seven million, and its economy is very backward. Let alone industrialization, it is not easy to have enough to eat.

How can such a country maintain an army of more than 100,000 people equipped with advanced weapons?

If we insist on maintaining it, we will be depriving more Tanner people of their hard-earned money, and even the people's rations.

Before the coup in the Tanner Kingdom more than ten years ago, although the Danner Kingdom was also poor, it could still manage to survive. However, since Zhou Yaping's uncle Zhou Qi came to power through a military coup, he has vigorously expanded his armaments and even wanted to join forces with the Orisa people.

Unite to fight against the Daheng Empire.

Countless military expenditures are spent every year, and the people's lives are getting worse day by day.

This situation makes Prince Zhou Yaping, who is far away from his hometown, extremely heartbroken.

That is his country and his people!

When he was a boy, Zhou Yaping determined to return to the Kingdom of Danner one day and lead the people of Danner to live a prosperous life again.

To this end, he actively moved closer to the Daheng people and won their support. At the same time, he contacted the Danner people in the northern area who were more inclined to Daheng people and gained support from the locals.

Using these forces and his old troops, he gathered a large number of supporters and formally launched a war to seize his throne and his country.

Everything went smoothly, and his army rapidly expanded from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and now to more than 100,000.

Fighting all the way from the north to the center, and then to the current Endless Sea Strait, his army has even surrounded Andan, the capital of the Kingdom of Tanner, which is also Zhou Qi's last stronghold.

However, Andan is the capital of the Kingdom of Tanner, and it is also the political, economic, and cultural center. The entire city of Andan has a population of more than 200,000. It is also the largest port of the Kingdom of Tanner, and is where many merchant ships pass through the Endless Strait.

time, go to one of the major ports for supply or transit.

There is no doubt about the importance of this place, he must win it.

The attack on Andan City started smoothly. His army successively conquered many hilltop strongholds of the king's army on the periphery and occupied many major highlands outside the city.

But when his soldiers began to advance towards the city, an entire Orissa infantry division was stationed in the military leased area on the outskirts of Andan City. The 37th Infantry Division of the Orissa Empire collectively withdrew its Orissa citizenship.

And directly joined the Tanner nationality, and then these people officially joined the Tanner Kingdom Army and formed the 19th Division of the Kingdom Army, which is the King's Army.

At first, Zhou Yaping thought that there were more than 80,000 people besieging Andan City, and they had already captured the main commanding heights outside the city. The field artillery deployed could already directly bombard the city and even the port. At the same time, they had successively defeated the Royal Army.

The king's army, the main force of the faction, has less than 10,000 remaining soldiers in the city.

In this case, even if the Orissa people sent a division to strengthen the defense of Andan City, it should not be able to change the overall situation.

But the battle in the next few days allowed Zhou Yaping to see the combat effectiveness of the great country's army for the first time!

On the first day it joined the battle, the 19th Division of the King's Army, the 37th Infantry Division of the Orissa people, used its powerful firepower to directly cover and bombard several commanding heights of the Prince's Army.

The Orissa people used at least thirty long-range heavy artillery, at least 120 mm field artillery, including many 150 mm field artillery. These heavy artillery fired directly at the port area, destroying the city.

The northern hills were razed to the ground!

Then the Orissa people joined the defensive operations. Their infantry did not counterattack rashly but relied on many buildings in the city to conduct defensive operations.

They directly defeated the Prince's Army troops who had entered the city and suffered heavy casualties, and were finally forced to stop the attack.

There are many reasons for the huge casualties of the Prince's Army, such as the opponent's heavy firepower, the higher overall quality of the officers and soldiers of the Orissa Empire Army, and even the Orissa's infantry firepower far exceeds that of the Prince's Army.

Their infantry firepower uses small-caliber repeating rifles with eight-millimeter caliber magazines, water-cooled gas-operated heavy machine guns with the same eight-millimeter caliber, and 60-mm and 80-mm mortars that use smokeless propellants.

guns, and a 75mm light howitzer.

However, the infantry of the Prince's Army still use 11mm rifles with tubular magazines. The black powder heavy machine guns and mortars of the same caliber also use black powder, and are far inferior to their opponents in terms of rate of fire and range.

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This is very difficult to fight.

The equipment of Zhou Yaping's Prince's Army is either retired and old weapons and ammunition aided by the Daheng Empire, or weapons and ammunition captured from the King's Army (these weapons and ammunition are basically from the black powder era that the Orissa people retired and provided to the King's Army.

breech-loading guns).

In fact, these weapons and ammunition are still at the average level of the Blue Star countries twelve years ago. The bullet caliber is still 11 mm, and the black powder propellant is still used.

However, this and the Orissa regular army opposite were equipped with the new generation of smokeless small-caliber firearms and smokeless powder artillery that were successively issued by various countries after the twelfth year of Qian Sheng.

Since the Unification War of the Daheng Empire, the military revolution of the army and navy has been launched directly on Blue Star. In the early stage, the main focus was on breech-loading guns. The equipment of various countries was obvious signs of single-shot breech-loading rifles, breech-loading artillery, and low-dry turrets.

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The mature stage is reflected in 11mm caliber single-shot breech-loading rifles or tubular magazine repeating rifles, 11mm caliber hand-cranked machine guns or gas-guided heavy machine guns.

Twelve years after Qian Sheng, that is, after the Lieji Incident, countries around the world followed the Daheng Empire and launched military innovations, and this innovation once again greatly changed the way war was fought.

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