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In the second air battle over Prague, the Ming Empire Air Force lost (including the part returned to the airport for reimbursement) twenty-two "Hercules" bombers and ninety-eight "Blackfoot Albatross" fighter jets.
At the cost of a total of 120 combat aircraft, about 500 enemy aircraft were shot down.
The number of our own losses has decreased compared with the first time (one hundred and forty), and the number of battle results has also slightly decreased. Overall, we have maintained the same combat level as before.
Considering that the losses were all twin-engine heavy fighters or four-engine heavy bombers, the opponents were all single-engine light fighters.
The Holy Roman Empire was not at a loss. It was just that it lost thousands of fighter planes in two air battles and lost so many pilots at once. It was difficult to replenish them in a short period of time, which would be too much for it.
It is reasonable for the opponent to lose so miserably, because the Ming Air Force concentrated three air fleets on the Western Front battlefield.
The largest combat unit of the Air Force is the Air Force, or Air Force.
Each aviation force has several groups under its jurisdiction, including groups of fighter jets, bombers, transport aircraft, helicopters and other types of aircraft. It can be regarded as a mixed organization unit.
It includes at least three fighter groups, each of which has three fighter squadrons, each equipped with twenty-four "Blackfoot Albatross" fighter jets.
Generally, in order to ensure the accuracy and attendance rate, twenty-eight spare aircraft will be equipped, bringing the number of available fighter aircraft in the entire fighter group to one hundred.
The Air Force divides each air force into its own defense zones according to the empire's territory.
The First Air Force was responsible for the mainland north, including the prairie areas and the entire Northeast.
The Second Air Force is responsible for the southern part of the mainland, now including Jiaozhi Province, and is bounded by the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River from the First Air Force.
The Third Air Force is responsible for the Western Region, including all of Central Asia and as far west as the Caspian Sea.
The Fourth Air Force is responsible for Xianbelia, which has the largest land area in the defense zone.
The Fifth Air Force is responsible for the Luzon Islands, the Greater Sunda Islands (East Indies), the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and the Nicobar Islands, and has the largest maritime defense area.
The Sixth Air Force is responsible for the Western Governor's Region. To the east, it is bounded by the Ural Mountains with the Fourth Air Force. To the west, the patrol airspace includes the island of Gotland in the northern Baltic Sea.
The Seventh Air Force is responsible for the eastern United States, including Mexico and the north.
The Eighth Air Force is responsible for the south of Mexico, including all of Ming South America.
The Ninth Air Force is responsible for the entire territory of southern Australia, including the southern island of Tasmani.
The armies of the Ming Dynasty's armies stationed in the United States and Australia were still under the direct control of Emperor Haojing.
Zhu Xiangtang, the eldest son who manages Australia, and Zhu Xiangzhen, the second son who manages America, can both form paramilitary police and reserve forces under their own command.
The garrison is an armed force that maintains local security. Unless necessary, it will probably not participate in major battles as the main field force of the Ming Dynasty King's Division.
Of course, there are also three branches of the navy, land and air force, but the performance of the weapons and equipment will be better than that of the regular army because its combat intensity does not meet the standards of the regular army.
Mainly reflected in bombers, heavy tanks, battleships, etc., as well as fighter jets, helicopters, light tanks, kiloton frigates and other equipment are all available.
In addition to the nine major air fleets, the Air Force has operations in the Middle East (Qatar, Bahrain, Horn of Persia), the Mediterranean (Crete), the North Sea (Shetland Islands), Africa (Madagascar, Seychelles Islands), South Asia (Tianjin (Land, Maldives, Chagos Islands) also has several directly administered mixed wings.
The formation of a wing is larger than that of a group, and it is also a combat unit with mixed types of aircraft. It can be regarded as a smaller version of the aviation fleet.
However, due to the size or importance of its defense zone, there is no need to set up an air force and let the wing manage it on its behalf.
In this military operation, the Sixth Air Force was the main force, and part of the troops of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Air Forces were dispatched to Europe to assist in the war. Since they were all elite pilots, they could be described as A gathering of talents.
It is normal for the Holy Roman Empire's air force to be defeated. If it were the air force of other countries, it would also suffer two disastrous defeats.
It can be said that the strengthened Sixth Air Force has the strength to compete with the combined air forces of most European countries.
The other party can organize a force with tens of thousands of "Albatross" fighter jets, and perhaps it can compete with the Sixth Air Force.
At the moment, the Holy Roman Empire Air Force obviously has to surrender, because most of its fighter jets have been burned out and turned into fragments or wreckage.
After receiving the report, Crown Prince Joseph now realized the horror of the Ming Empire, and was a little regretful of his previous arbitrary decision.
The first air battle over Prague took place on May 16, and the second air battle over Prague took place on May 28.
Before these two air battles, the Ming Empire's aircraft fleet still carried out five large-scale bombings on Prague.
Within a week after the second air battle, the opponent still bombed the city three times.
Even if Crown Prince Joseph didn't know much about the losses of the Ming Empire's air force, he could still guess the opponent's approximate strength through such frequent bombings.
On June 12, after being subjected to the tenth fierce bombing, the defenders could no longer hold on and surrendered unconditionally to the Ming army outside the city with white flags.
If we persist, everyone in the city will either be blown to death, burned to death, sick, injured, or have a mental breakdown and become lunatics. There will be no way to survive...
Zhang Huangyan had previously asked the Air Force to concentrate its superior forces and focus on bombing Prague. Now it has finally achieved something.
Only about half of the original number of people could make it out of the city alive.
The rest are either already buried or ready to be buried.
Some people also felt that they had suffered inhumane bombings and suffered huge losses of personnel and property, and planned to denounce the barbaric and brutal Ming army.
When he saw the other party's solemn military appearance, he did not dare to speak out what was in his heart because he was afraid of being sent to the Arctic Circle to mine.
If you were sent to Kursk to mine, it would at least be acceptable and you could just tolerate it and get over it.
If I were really sent to the Arctic Circle by a yellow-skinned monkey, I probably wouldn't survive this winter...
In order to survive, everyone has to choose to swallow their anger, so as not to offend the temporary winner.
Among the surrendered troops, there were still people who wanted to believe that the final victory belonged to the Holy Roman Empire.
But when it would reach the end, no one was sure. On the contrary, their own fleet did not appear for the third time.
Perhaps if we persist for another week, Crown Prince Joseph can send the third batch of aircraft to collect the arrogant yellow-skinned monkeys.
However, no one intends to hold on for another week, otherwise they will die in the next air raid.
People who surrender do not mean they are timid. Sometimes, people just don’t intend to make fearless sacrifices anymore...
Assuming that the Holy Roman Empire eventually fell, would anyone be willing to be buried with His Majesty Leopold?
Of course there will be, but not the majority!
Most people would rather choose to live humblely!
Even if the Holy Roman Empire is really gone, can't we force ourselves to be buried with it?
Many countries have been destroyed in history, but in no country have their ministers died with their monarchs.
The monarch did not call Chen Min when he was eating, drinking and having fun. When death was imminent, he hoped that Chen Min would be buried with him.
We can't share the glory and wealth, we can only jump into the pit together. Who would be happy with this nonsense?
so what……
Many of the nobles and wealthy people in Prague were willing to join the Ming Empire in exchange for not having to mine.
Naturally, many people gave gifts to Third Army Commander Lu Xuecheng. The gifts included money, antiques, beautiful women, etc.
The gift-giving is private and can be put in the pocket, while the seizure is public and needs to be handed over, but the two are not contradictory.
Many Bohemians were influenced by Crown Prince Joseph and called this disaster the "Second Yellow Peril"!
The last time, of course, was when the Menggu army swept across Eastern Europe, and almost even Western Europe...
The "First Yellow Peril" was caused by the Menggu army throwing rotting corpses into the city, resulting in a plague.
Europeans all believe that this is the source of the Black Death, so the term "yellow peril" is not an exaggeration.
The failure to stop the invasion of the yellow-skinned monkeys this time was due to the First European War, which severely weakened the national power of the Holy Roman Empire.
Those who are not willing to fail believe that before this, if the Holy Roman Empire can develop steadily for a hundred years, their own strength will not be weaker than that of the yellow-skinned monkey.
If that's the case, when the opponent attacks, the one who gets beaten up will be the hateful yellow-skinned monkey.
Furthermore, Europe as a whole is not united enough, especially France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Venice and other countries.
Its head of state was bribed by the yellow-skinned monkey and was not willing to fight side by side with the Holy Roman Empire.
The Holy Roman Empire has been fighting alone throughout the entire process. Even if it fails now, it will be a glorious defeat!
Some guys who were not clear-headed enough tried to negotiate their own treatment with the Ming army generals after surrendering...
Lu Xuecheng didn't even know how these guys' brains grew. He had to be kicked by a donkey several times before he could say such a thing.
Fortunately, the beauty and gold coins sent by someone who knew current affairs could calm Lu Xuecheng's strange mood a little.
However, due to the high temperature season in Central Europe, the corpses that had not been processed in the city had begun to fester on a large scale.
The plague broke out and the Third Army was forced to give up its plan to enter the city to seize the loot.
Even the prisoners had to have their bodies and demeanor screened by military doctors before they could be loaded into vehicles and taken away.
Lu Xuecheng ordered the entire army to retreat a hundred miles before setting up camp, and at the same time reported the situation in Prague to his superior Zhang Huangyan.
There was no problem in the bombing of Warsaw and other places before because the temperature had not yet risen. If we do this again now, something will really happen.
The First Army that besieged Chemnitz and the Second Army that besieged Dresden had already reported the relevant situation, which forced Zhang Huangyan to reorganize the battle situation.
As long as they work harder, the coalition forces will be able to penetrate the Holy Roman Empire and see the long-awaited French army on the opposite side.
However, in order to prevent the coalition forces from contracting the disease, especially those Japanese soldiers who were not very hygienic, Zhang Huangyan was forced to order the entire army to stop the attack.
First retreat to a safe area where there is no outbreak of the disease, leave a sufficient buffer zone, and observe for a period of time before proceeding.
At the same time, the entire army was ordered to strictly implement health regulations, especially drinking water. Raw water must not be drunk.
Ministries must be stationed upstream of the diseased city to prevent downstream water sources from being contaminated by corpses.
Prisoners obtained from the epidemic city must be observed in place for a month before being transferred to the hinterland.
So much so that starting from mid-June, including the entire month of July, the Ming-Japanese coalition forces did not launch a new offensive.
Not a single air strike was carried out, and the entire army was resting in the war zone...
Until early August, the temperature dropped, followed by the arrival of the rainy season, and the river water began to surge.
The plague caused another flood, and if we didn't retreat now, even our retreat would be cut off.
After Zhang Huangyan compiled the information obtained from all aspects, he could only reluctantly order the entire army to withdraw eastward.
Retreating at this time means that the military operation has basically come to an end, and there will be no larger-scale battles.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s an anticlimax or a failure halfway, but that’s it anyway, do as you like!
The Ming army lost 508 people and injured 8,722 people.
The Japanese troops who assisted in the battle killed 2,611 people and injured 19,350 people.
The coalition lost (including those that were severely damaged beyond repair) 144 tanks, 542 armored vehicles, 2,277 artillery pieces (including mortars), and 625 fighter jets. There were 364 bombers, 498 helicopters, 37 speedboats, more than 3,000 trucks and off-road vehicles, and more than 7,000 war horses and draft horses.
Captured more than 670,000 enemies (including generals and officers), about 5.08 million civilians, about 5,000 combat vehicles, nearly 10,000 military vehicles, more than 100,000 cattle and horses, and more than 50 million silver coins in property .
Zhu Cixiang was very satisfied with the battle damage reported by his disciples, and praised him for his correct decision to stop in time.
The Ming Dynasty's army went to fight overseas. Whether the battle was good or not mainly depended on one's own losses, especially the number of casualties.
The few things seized were almost out of proportion to the losses of one's own personnel and weapons, and Ming Dynasty was not short of money.
Otherwise, there would be no need to launch a combat operation against the Holy Roman Empire!
What Zhu Cixi really needs is to increase the number of slave miners in the Ming Dynasty while weakening the opponent's population.
In particular, more than five million people were captured in the army. It is assumed that each person can create wealth worth five hundred silver coins for the empire during his service.
Then the total is 2.5 billion silver coins, which is the fundamental reason for making sure profits without losing money.
It's nothing more than getting rewards in installments, which is a steady stream.
Being able to repay 150 million to 200 million silver coins a year is not a small amount.
For safety reasons, all prisoners were moved inland and were not allowed to stay in war zones or border areas.
The service period is the same as that of other slave miners, which is ten years. After the service period, they can be converted into free miners.
Anyone who pays more than 500 silver coins at a time can obtain the right to be amnesty, be exempted from military service, and can choose other occupations such as farming to maintain their livelihood.
Some captured rich people also have money to redeem themselves, but if they want to redeem the entire family, they need to pay a huge sum of money.
At the same time, Emperor Haojing also paid bonuses to the soldiers who participated in the battle, including the Japanese army. The amount of income was directly linked to personal military rank, position, and military exploits...
