Chapter eight hundred and ninety fifth battle of the second line of defense
On November 27, the twenty-first year of Qian Sheng, the Southern Theater Command of the Daheng Empire officially issued an order to launch an all-out offensive to break through the enemy's second line of defense.
After the order was issued, more than two million Daheng Army soldiers launched an attack on the enemy on a front of about 300 kilometers.
On the eastern front of its key offensive area, the Southern Theater Command gathered three legions here and formed a temporary eastern front cluster with 630,000 troops, including 630 tanks and more than 1,000 tanks. Wheeled or half-tracked armored vehicles, thousands of towed artillery pieces of various calibers, and more than 200 aircraft provide air cover and reconnaissance.
Using an armored group composed of tanks and mechanized infantry with strong attack capabilities as their spearhead, they forcibly broke through the enemy's trenches and barbed wire defenses.
The semi-mechanized and semi-mule cavalry troops in the rear, equipped with some armored vehicles, began to rapidly advance deep into the enemy's hinterland. When tens of thousands of semi-mechanized and semi-mule cavalry troops passed through the trenches, they rushed behind the second line of defense. In the heart of the Orissa Empire.
It also means that the second line of defense that the Orissa people have worked so hard to build has officially collapsed!
At the same time, the war model in the southern continent has returned from trench confrontation to traditional mobile warfare!
At this time, the cavalry troops of the Daheng Empire once again regained the thrilling feeling they had experienced in the battlefield for hundreds of years!
Tens of thousands of cavalry roared past, rushing into the enemy's hinterland, carrying out a large-scale strategic detour and outflanking!
When several old cavalry generals from Daheng looked at this scene, they couldn't help but burst into tears!
Our cavalry is not obsolete, at least not yet!
As for the damn trench warfare, it was just a special product of the small combat area and the massive accumulation of troops on both sides.
This has long been proven on the battlefields of the Western Continent. The battlefields on the Western Continent are actually divided into many areas, but only the battlefield on the west coast between the Kekel Empire and the Valia Empire was fought as trench warfare. , because that poor place is only two to three hundred kilometers wide, and it is a direct contact area between the two big countries. It has complete fortifications, and it is easy to understand how to use trench warfare.
But on other vast battlefields, mobile warfare is still the mainstream.
The cavalry units of warring countries are still very important.
Of course, in the cavalry units of various countries now, there are no cavalry who are foolish enough to charge directly. The cavalry of various countries now are basically used as dragoons, that is, mounted infantry.
What is needed is the ability to maneuver quickly, not the ability to charge and fight on horseback.
The Daheng Empire had already done this in the domestic unification war more than 20 years ago. It pioneered the use of large-scale cavalry units as fast mobile troops for large-scale maneuvers and strategic detours.
But now, this cavalry tactic is still not outdated and exerts great tactical value.
On the battlefields of the Western Continent, in the cavalry units of various countries, the cuirassiers, lancers and other cavalry units that were used for the purpose of charging in formations in the past have basically disappeared, leaving only light cavalry.
In addition to performing regular reconnaissance missions, these light cavalry are basically used as mounted infantry. Of course, they can also launch charge operations when necessary.
The same is true for the cavalry units of the Daheng Empire, but they are more extreme and are basically used as fast mobile units.
The same was true in this winter campaign. During the all-out offensive, the Heng Army assembled more than 80,000 cavalry troops in the Eastern Front Cluster. In addition to conventional war horses, these cavalry troops were also equipped with a large number of wheeled armored divisions and half-track armored vehicles.
and regular cars.
After the armored forces broke through the enemy's trench defense line, they began to cross the defense line, and then continued to advance in depth, fighting all the way into the Orissa hinterland.
Within three days of launching the offensive, the Eastern Front Cluster could only break through the defense line for more than ten kilometers. However, after completely breaking through the defense line, the cavalry regiment began to enter the battlefield and advance deep into the hinterland. From the fourth to the seventh day, in just four days, they
We traveled more than a hundred kilometers.
Then began to carry out roundabout outflanking.
At this time, a large number of infantrymen were still dozens of kilometers behind.
The entire eastern front group began to turn right collectively and began to encircle the other Orissa Empire armies in the second line of defense.
And within this line of defense, there are nearly 1.8 million troops from the Orissa Empire and its southern coalition forces.
Almost most of the Orissa Empire's troops and most of its technical weapons are concentrated here.
Once it is outflanked and annihilated, the blow to the Orissa Empire will be devastating.
It was even worse than the Heng'ao War more than seventy years ago. Although the Orissa Empire suffered huge casualties at that time, they were all continuous casualties, which did not mean that they were surrounded and annihilated millions of troops at once.
However, this time, with the collapse of the Orissa Empire's eastern front, the remaining army of more than one million people in the entire second line of defense fell into a huge crisis.
In the previous series of battles in the northern peninsula, the Orissa Empire had suffered heavy casualties, losing at least more than half a million troops.
If the main force of more than one million people is destroyed now, then even if the Orissa Empire still has millions of troops in the rear, and can even continue to recruit and mobilize more troops, it will still be difficult to stop Daheng's huge military force in the future.
swept across.
You know, the troops invested by the Daheng people have reached a huge number of two million, giving full play to the fine tradition of the Daheng people: overwhelming people with quantity!
Under the huge crisis, the Orissa Army and its coalition forces on the central line of the second defense line and the western front finally began a large-scale retreat in late December!
However, it was already too late to retreat at this time. At this time, the Daheng people's eastern front group had completed most of their strategic detours. At this time, the semi-mechanized cavalry force of more than 80,000 people was only a few meters away from the west coast.
It’s only over sixty kilometers.
On December 26, the cavalry group of the Daheng people reached the seaside. A few months later, it was officially announced that the strategic detour covering a distance of more than 300 kilometers had been completed.
Behind them is the entire Eastern Front cluster!
At the same time, the central cluster, with the cooperation of the eastern fleet, broke through the defense line and cooperated with the roundabout.
At this time, about 1.4 million Southern Continental Allied Forces had been compressed into a narrow area near the west coast that was about 80 kilometers wide and 30 kilometers deep.
In late December, the rear reserve forces organized by the Orissa Empire began to attack northward, trying to penetrate the eastern front cluster of the Daheng people.
In the spring of the 22nd year of Qian Sheng, after a month of hard work, the rescue operation organized by the Orissa Empire with more than 500,000 reserve troops officially declared a failure. They paid the price of more than 100,000 casualties, but still failed. Penetrating the eastern front cluster of the Daheng people, they themselves suffered heavy casualties.
After the request for help failed, the Orissa Empire was in mourning, and the Southern Allied Forces in the encirclement were even more desperate!