Chapter 302: Can't afford to play? !
Although they said they wanted to fight quickly, the Alliance's war on the Western Front still lasted for half a year.
When the war had been going on for almost a month, the 700,000 Star Army troops at the rear had already arrived at the front line.
The coalition forces had a total of 1.3 million troops, and they were unstoppable in the next five months, but they were still temporarily suppressed by Blackbird Heavy Industries' mechanical corps in some battle situations.
This also indirectly shows how ridiculous Cai Minjin's original idea was to produce results in three weeks, end the battle in six weeks, and rush back to the Facheras galaxy to celebrate the New Year.
If Yan Fangxu were asked to explain the root cause, he thought it was that the combat effectiveness of the Star Army of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion was not as good as expected.
Strictly speaking, according to the most standard requirements of the Empire, the combat effectiveness of the Astra Militarum should be very strong. In terms of the quality of the soldiers, they should be the best of the best.
The Alliance's army, under the Governor's magical training at the recruit camp, barely met the Star Army's minimum requirements for recruits.
However, this is not the case.
From what Yan Fangxu saw, the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion was a full-fledged interstellar military organization. Although it was not a well-known legion, it should at least be better than the Alliance's army, right?
But in reality, it is a level lower.
Take a so-called large division as an example. Generally, there are nine reinforced regiments, of which only two or so can reach the level of Alliance soldiers. The remaining few... can't be said to be just making up the numbers. They are definitely stronger than ordinary soldiers. For example, the soldiers of the Luman Kingdom encountered on Black Arrow Star are far inferior to them.
However, it is still far behind the level of the Alliance soldiers.
This is just a problem of the quality of the soldiers. Yan Fangxu still doesn't like the equipment of these people.
This group of Astra Militarum troops doesn't even have enough troop transport vehicles.
If the Alliance did not have sufficient logistical support and mobilized a large number of civilian vehicles and newly built trains to help with transportation, these Star Army troops would have to rely on their own two feet to run three or four thousand kilometers to fight on the Western Front.
The damn war is almost over, and these people may not be able to escape.
The Alliance's army, even the third-line garrison division, is a combination of infantry and heavy artillery, just a little less in number. However, these so-called large-scale divisions of the Astra Militarum do not have the concept of combined forces. Infantry regiments are infantry regiments, artillery regiments are artillery regiments, and armored regiments are armored regiments.
Yan Fangxu did not comment much on this. It might be just because of different military concepts. Perhaps the people from the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion felt that heavy firepower and armored forces should be concentrated and used, which in itself was not wrong.
Perhaps, organizing the army in this way would enable it to exert greater power in some decisive battle scenarios?
But... no matter whether you are concentrating firepower and armor, or the multi-service combined forces of the Alliance Army, and concentrating firepower and armor when necessary, the total number of various types of firepower and technical equipment must be sufficient, right?
They have a large division with a total strength of more than 40,000, which is equivalent to four divisions and brigades of the Alliance. But there is only one armored regiment in it, with a total of more than 100 armored vehicles and 40 tanks.
Compared with the Xifeng Brigade, it has only more than 9,000 people, 80 tanks and more than 200 armored vehicles.
The armored vehicles and tanks of a Xifeng Brigade are equivalent to two large divisions of the Dragon Eagle Legion.
If this is not a gap, then what is the gap?
Even if we only count the infantry, whether it is the infantry company in the combined brigade or the troops under the infantry division, all of them have been motorized and have exclusive military vehicles at the squad level; each squad has two to three rocket launchers, and each platoon has one or two mortars; each company has a heavy grenade launcher as a fire support point.
The Astra Militarum's infantry regiments do have these things, but they are all concentrated at the regiment level, and are inferior in quantity.
The difference in the quality of the troops and the difference in weapons and equipment led to differences in the actual performance of the two sides during the six months of fighting.
Often, at the same time, the offensive efficiency of a large division of the Astra Militarum with 40,000 soldiers is similar to that of two divisions and brigades of the Alliance with 20,000 soldiers.
The Alliance was able to achieve the same results as these Dragon Eagle Legion soldiers with half the force.
During the six months of fighting on the Angry Owl Star, Cai Minjin never did anything again. He just served as the second-in-command of the coalition forces and took care of his own business.
On the one hand, the orthodoxy and status were suppressed by Martins; on the other hand, the combat capability demonstrated by the alliance army in actual combat really left him speechless.
However, in the final stage of the war, a conflict still occurred between the two sides.
That was when the enemies had been almost wiped out, leaving only one strategic target - Blackbird City.
Martins formulated an offensive plan, with the allied army at the forefront.
However, Cai Minjin rarely raised objections here.
This has not happened in the past six months.
Martins and Yan Fangxu also understood General Cai's thoughts.
He may have come with a mission.
Of course, Faches was not the master of Dragon Eagle 3, but they had a strong influence on this army whose soldiers and supplies basically came from the three worlds of Faches Galaxy. It was normal for Cai Minjin to receive any special orders when he set out.
And this order must be related to Blackbird Heavy Industries.
The man who was supposed to be the manager of Blackbird Heavy Industries, Irón Fáció, has not been found yet.
In the previous battles, they had found the spider-shaped mechanical monster with the face of Iron Fachs many times. Its combat ability was secondary. The most important thing was that it seemed to always be the key node of information and command of the mechanical army. If it was eliminated, the strategic coordination ability of the mechanical army would be greatly damaged.
But obviously, these are not the real Irón Fáció himself.
Its real body must still be in the center of Blackbird City.
Cai Minjin's mission is probably to destroy all evidence of the connection between Blackbird and the Fats family.
Although the existence of Iron Fachs and the Fachs family's investment in Blackbird Heavy Industries made the relationship between the two sides unclear, they were already trying to cut off the relationship, and with a positive attitude, they would feel much better if they destroyed the evidence.
In this situation, Cai Minjin really does not want the alliance to take the lead.
Even if his legion would lose a lot of men in the final attack, he would still take on this mission.
Martins thought about it and decided not to have a head-on argument with this imperial major general who rarely stood up straight.
The half-year war was finally over, thanks to the cooperation of this general. So it was only right that he should show some respect in this final battle.
He decided to send two troops, one in the south and one in the north, to attack Blackbird City in a pincer attack.
Fair competition, whoever enters the city first takes it all, is that okay?
Cai Minjin knew that this was the best result he could achieve.
He went back and began to prepare his troops, secretly summoned several officers to discuss the battle plan.
Although, before this, the Alliance's army gave him a great shock, making him dare not underestimate these armies that were named as planetary defense forces but were stronger than the regular interstellar army, but at this moment, in such an important strategy, he was determined to win once.
Then, he heard the news:
After the military meeting, Captain Martins personally led more than thirty fully armed Phoenixes and headed north.
Judging from his expression, it was obvious that he was going to personally join the alliance's battle sequence.
In the command post of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion, the heated strategic discussion that had just been going on suddenly stopped.
In the silence, Cai Minjin threw the document in his hand away and cursed:
"Can't you afford to play?!"
(End of this chapter)
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