Joseph's plan was good, but the reality was difficult to implement, because the Ottoman army heading north from Austria had already learned the basic situation of the Holy Roman Empire field troops in Bavaria through many confessions from prisoners and aerial reconnaissance.
In the area surrounding the forest west of Augsburg, there were as many as one armored brigade, two mechanized brigades, and more than 300,000 Qing cavalry conducting close-to-face surveillance.
It seems that only three brigades of mechanized troops can compete with the local First Army of the Holy Roman Empire, and the rest can only be regarded as their vassals.
But these three armored units of the Guards have as many as 600 tanks, including a heavy tank battalion equipped with No. 9 tanks.
The First Army of the Holy Roman Empire has three tank brigades, one cavalry brigade, and six infantry brigades, with a total rated strength of 50,000 troops and 360 tanks.
Each tank brigade is equipped with thirty-six Imperial Guard II, thirty-six Crusader II, and forty-eight Paladin II.
The so-called Type II of the three tanks is the Type I with armor added, or upgraded with iron plates. It is considered that the defense power has been greatly improved...
As for the actual combat situation, the Third Army who fled from Austria to Bavaria knew best.
As early as March 5, the unit fought once with the Austrian armored forces invading the North in the Vienna Basin area.
The reported record was the destruction of 102 tanks of the opponent at the cost of losing 55 tanks!
The battle loss ratio was doubled, which is not surprising, but the actual situation is unknown.
Because after the war, the Third Army withdrew from the battlefield, allowing the Ottoman army to move north to attack Vienna.
According to the battle report provided by Ottoman to the Ming army, at least 87 enemy tank wrecks were discovered on the battlefield.
The Austrian army lost less than fifty tanks. Regarding this ambiguous matter, Zhang Huangyan, who was unable to be present to count the results, could only laugh it off after reading the battle report...
At present, most of the field troops of the Holy Roman Empire are hiding in the Swabian Mountains of Württemberg, the Black Forest Mountains, two forests north of Stuttgart, the forest west of Augsburg, and the forest west of Regensburg. About these five in the area.
It turned out that there was also an armored force of the Holy Roman Empire hiding in the forest west of Nuremberg, but after the Ming army dispatched bombers, they ran westward overnight.
According to negotiations with the Ottomans, the Ming-Japanese coalition forces were responsible for the enemies north of the Danube, and the Austrian army was responsible for the enemies on the south bank.
The two armies had already met when they sent troops to occupy Moravia. When the two sides met again in Bavaria, they were not so excited. It was just a meeting for senior generals to have a meal and communicate.
From the current perspective, the situation of this conquest of the Holy Roman Empire is better than the previous two, but we cannot be complacent and make the mistake of underestimating the enemy.
Summer has just arrived, and with it the changes in the war situation have also come. Based on past actual combat experience, it is difficult to predict what will happen in the future.
The fact that the enemy's main force took the initiative to attack made both Ming and Ao very happy. After all, there was no need to go into the mountains or woods to attack the target.
Since the three enemy hiding places on the southern front were large in area, although the Ottomans dispatched a large number of servant cavalry, these cavalry could not fight a tough battle.
All that could be counted on were the Guards troops of three armored brigades and seven mechanized infantry brigades, but to monitor three places, the Guards troops participating in the war were undoubtedly forced to be divided into three.
There is no doubt that the result of dividing the troops is that each group can monitor the enemy's movements, but each group of troops cannot complete the task of annihilating the enemy.
Coincidentally, this move had the effect of luring the snake out of its hole.
If you really surround the enemy, you may not be able to get the other party to take the initiative.
The Qing cavalry who acted as scouts quickly reported their experience of being "repaired" by the opponent's tanks.
After confirming the incident through aerial reconnaissance, the Ottoman Guards armored forces immediately fell behind the prey and followed it.
But it did not completely allow the enemy to move out arrogantly. The Ottoman Air Force still sent hundreds of fighter planes to cover up the enemy.
The enemy will never be allowed to reach their destination to complete their assembly. Even if they do arrive, it will only be a group of defeated soldiers meeting up.
In order to cover the actions of our main force, the Holy Roman Empire Air Force in Augsburg also came out in full force, and a fierce air battle broke out in the northeast of the forest.
Both parties were students of the Ming Air Force. The Ottoman Air Force was taught step by step, while the Holy Roman Empire Air Force was at best an auditor.
The Ottoman Air Force dispatched 65 "Black-footed Albatross" and 42 "Flamingos" fighters, while the Holy Roman Empire Air Force consisted of 24 "Eagle", 41 "Falcon", and four "Flamingos". Sixteen "Albatross" came to fight.
The numbers of both sides were almost the same, with the Holy Roman Empire's air force having a slight advantage.
But in terms of quality, the Holy Roman Empire Air Force is obviously inferior to its opponent.
Especially after finding tactics against the "Albatross", a fighter with lagging performance, the "Albatross" directly became a living target on the battlefield.
After the experience of the first two wars, the pilots of the Ottoman Air Force have gradually matured. Less than 30% of the first-line troops are novices, and most of them are experienced veterans.
The Holy Roman Empire Air Force was much inferior, with less than 30% veterans and novices accounting for the majority, thus reducing the combat effectiveness of the fleet.
There is nothing that can be done about this. The first two times were wars of attrition with the world's number one air force, with a combined loss of more than 6,000 pilots.
It is not impossible to expect that novices can become veterans within two years, provided that the opponent cannot be the increasingly powerful Ming Empire Air Force.
The result of fighting with the Ming Empire Air Force is to add water to the wine. As the Holy Roman Empire Air Force's losses increase, the overall pilot level will plummet.
The unanimous view of military observers from various countries is that the Ming Empire's air force strength is the only one at the top level in the world, with France and the Ottomans in the second echelon.
The situation of the French Air Force is slightly different from that of the Ottoman Air Force. The former has higher quality pilots, while the latter has richer actual combat experience.
If you take care of both, it would be the Ming Empire Air Force!
It is undeniable that the Ottoman Air Force, like the Praetorian Guards attached to the army, is an elite force of the empire.
Not only are they well equipped, well treated, and have high morale, but their actual combat experience has also been sharply honed by the Holy Roman Empire.
Facts have proved that a month of actual combat can yield much more than a year of drills.
Shooting a hundred targets is not as shocking as killing a lively enemy!
There is no need to shoot down enemy aircraft, even if they are performing ground support missions, pilots can benefit a lot.
On the one hand, the Holy Roman Empire Air Force will not sit still and wait for death against its old enemy. It has been pushed to the edge of the cliff and must fight to the death.
The two sides launched a fierce air battle in the airspace east of Augsburg. You came and I shuttled back and forth. Fighters were constantly hit and emitted black smoke, and even exploded in the air. The scene was very intense.
In the end, the Ottoman Air Force shot down more than 90 enemy planes at the cost of losing 66 fighter planes, defeating the powerful enemy and winning a tragic victory.
If the Ming Air Force had gone into battle, the loss would not have exceeded 30 aircraft if the number of aircraft participating in the battle was equal.
Because as the war continues, the quality of pilots in the Holy Roman Empire Air Force will further decline.
When the Ming Dynasty Air Force was established, Emperor Hao Jing was ready to use this service to fight a war of attrition against the opponent.
If you cherish the feathers of the Air Force too much, that is, the pilots, it will be impossible for the Air Force to truly grow.
The air force is different from the navy. If the latter's opponent does not have a capital ship, it would be a fool's errand to just rely on a bunch of small sampans to attack tens of thousands of tons of battleships.
Even if the former's opponents do not have advanced fighters, they can still gain something by virtue of their numerical advantage.
Every pilot of the Ming Dynasty Air Force must be ready to fight enemy aircraft at any time as long as they perform missions on the front line.
The First Army and the Third Army of the Holy Roman Empire took the opportunity to quickly advance eastward. After losing hundreds of tanks, they finally arrived at their intended location, near Ingolstadt.
There, they completed the rendezvous with the Fifth Army that had been hiding here. As long as they continued to attack eastward along the Danube River for dozens of kilometers, they would reach Regensburg, which had been occupied by the yellow-skinned monkeys.
This is the first time that the three armies have assembled in the wild. The three army commanders also particularly hope that the armored troops of the yellow-skinned monkeys will come to die.
The Ming army dispatched from Regensburg, but it was not ground troops, but a fleet of hundreds of aircraft!
Among them, there are 21 bombers and 67 fighter jets. Although they cannot complete the circle of the target, they can still achieve the purpose of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger.
Of course, this is only an auxiliary force. The real main force is the fleet flying from Nuremberg, with more than 400 combat aircraft.
The ground troops of the Ming-Japanese coalition skillfully avoided the opponent's attack and waited for the air force to finish its work before going up to harvest crops.
Although it is relatively shameless at the tactical level, it is a good way to save time, effort and life after all.
Now is not an era where you can fight if you want. Whether to fight or not is decided by Ming Dynasty.
Lu Xuecheng's Third Army marched north from Landshut and stopped at Geisenfeld, only a dozen kilometers away from the main battlefield.
The department's reconnaissance battalion can see the situation on the battlefield, but will not go up to join in the fun.
Once the two sides get entangled, it will be artificially causing trouble for the brothers in the Air Force.
If it was accidentally bombed, don't blame the Air Force for being ruthless...
All three armies of the Holy Roman Empire carried secret weapons, namely rotten minced meat.
But what they encountered was something they didn't expect. Not only did they miss, they were reduced to fish on the chopping board, allowing the yellow-skinned monkey's fighter jets to blow them into pieces.
The Ming Air Force has monitored most of Bavaria. Except for forests, mountains and Munich, the rest of the places are within the patrol range of the air force fleet.
If the other side's air force dares to fight, then teach their air force how to behave.
If the opponent's army dares to fight, it won't even have the possibility of running back, and it will become brand new minced meat.
The three corps commanders originally planned to let the Fifth Army reach the south bank of the Danube through the pontoon bridge, and then the three corps would attack Regensburg eastward along the river.
However, before the Fifth Army could completely cross the river, a fleet of yellow-skinned monkeys flew over their heads.
Without any explanation, the mass killings began.
The air defense capabilities of the Holy Roman Empire Field Army are not completely absent, but they can only be described as average or mediocre.
Each tank brigade or mechanized infantry brigade is equipped with at least hundreds of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, but it cannot protect itself in front of two groups of aircraft.
Unlike bombing cities with incendiary bombs, when attacking armored forces, both bombers and fighter jets are equipped with cluster bombs that explode in one piece.
An aerial bomb can cover a radius of ten meters. In addition to the opponent's thick-skinned tanks, armored vehicles and trucks will be penetrated by the iron beads produced by the cluster bomb explosion.
After the two sides started fighting, Lu Xuecheng ordered his troops to press forward heavily. The whole army watched the grand scene not far away with eager eyes.
The bombers and fighters first carried out carpet bombing on the target, and then the bombers were protected by a small number of fighters and returned to the airport, while the remaining fighters circled to kill the prey.
But not long after, fifty-seven fighter jets and thirty-six "air gunships" flew from Nuremberg, the latter being the real "ground licking expert".
Since the enemy's armored forces have not shown up for a long time, and fighting cavalry is not the main business of the "air gunship", these crew members have been idle for a while.
Now that I finally got a good deal, I naturally had to work hard, like an anteater, to clean up all the "ants" on the ground that could be licked to death.
Bombers will leave after dropping their bombs, while "air gunships", on the contrary, will stay over the battlefield until they run out of ammunition or fuel.
Twelve "air gunships" are enough to kill hundreds of tanks, which is equivalent to the establishment of an enemy tank brigade. If you are lucky, you can capture two tank brigades.
After a violent bombing just now, the air defense forces of the three armies of the Holy Roman Empire have been strangled and exist in name only.
When they are attacked by thirty-six "air gunships", it is equivalent to facing a disaster.
Crown Prince Joseph ordered that all tanks be covered with a layer of armor, including the tops of the tanks.
However, the tungsten-headed armor-piercing projectiles fired from the cannons on the "air gunships" could still cause a major blow to the tanks of the Holy Roman Empire.
Especially the heat dissipation window on the upper part of the engine behind the vehicle body is the most vulnerable enemy. If attacked, it will catch fire and smoke, paralyzing the tank directly in place.
When the "air gunship" formation played the "carousel of death" tactic over the battlefield, heavily damaged tanks could be seen everywhere on the ground.
There is a chance of escaping by running away sporadically, but retreating in a group will lead to pursuit by Ming army fighter jets.
In order to increase the probability of success of the operation, Crown Prince Joseph did order the air force to mobilize as much as possible.
However, about 300 fighter planes that went to support the ground troops encountered an air blockage from the opponent halfway.
Nearly three hundred fighter planes of the Ming Dynasty Air Force, which attacked from Ingolstadt, Regensburg, Nuremberg and other places, blocked the enemy's path.
After being blocked several times by the opponent during the bombing, the Ming Air Force finally felt proud and proud, and let the opponent taste the feeling of being blocked...
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