Chapter 1057 The end of the strong crossbow (2)

So now the number of personnel and horses in this force has dropped to 3 to 2! The number of horses has even dropped to 6000! There is not even a guarantee of one horse per person! You must know that even in history, the ratio of personnel to horses in ordinary infantry units was about 3 to 1! So that now the fourth cavalry assault division of Arkady has become two-thirds of soldiers fighting on foot, and only personnel used for mobile assaults and reconnaissance can be assigned a horse! After all, you have to leave some horses for towing artillery and transport supplies. People can fight with two feet, artillery? You can drag a one-ton gun for a long distance with manpower!

Of course, it is impossible for all of these horses to be lost during the battle, nor were they killed by the Air Force during transportation. In fact, of the 17,000 horses lost, fewer than the number of horses actually lost due to battles With 10,000 horses, nearly half of the losses were due to insufficient supply and attrition of horses caused by the use of unclean water. A large number of horses will consume about 15KG of feed every day, of which at least about half of the concentrate is required. Naturally, these concentrates cannot be obtained from enemy-occupied areas, so they can only be transported. In fact, the horses of the Fourth Assault Division Except after eating a full meal on the first day of the attack, there was never enough concentrate for the horses! The ration on the second and third day is half of the demand. On the fourth and fifth days, only one third actually arrived! And now, the horses of the transport troops can only eat roughage!

"In order to feed these four-legged animals, we even cleaned the bark!" said a Russian army veterinarian after the war. In this supply situation, heavy manual labor is required, and these delicate horses naturally fall in pieces. So now, before the Bavarian Legion launched its counterattack, this elite group that was still alive a week ago has now become an army no different from ordinary infantry units, and they are not as good as ordinary infantry units, at least the latter. The supply line is slightly shorter!

The follow-up units of the eight divisions of the Seventh Army followed the road opened by the cavalry assault division to develop in depth. They were responsible for removing the remaining support points and consolidating their positions. Although they are not exhausted now, they are also weak in offensive power. The number of artillery they are equipped with is not even as good as the average level of the Russian infantry divisions at the beginning of the war. After all, the Russians have used a large number of artillery in Lviv to attack or strengthen The assault division is now available, so with a certain amount of equipment, the remaining infantry units will naturally not be able to allocate enough artillery. The equipment level of the Russians was originally a coffee table, but doing this would be a tragedy!

"Our division has only allocated less than 50 various artillery pieces, some of which are made up of old 47MM guns. We don’t even have an artillery with a caliber over 3 inches! There are nearly 15,000 artillery pieces in a division. You can only rely on the rifles in the hands of the infantry and less than 120 machine guns in total." The commander of a Russian infantry division wrote in his diary.

Even so, the Russian infantry supplies are almost unsustainable. Just 4 days ago, the Bavarian Air Force and the Austro-Hungarian Air Force, which had been fully prepared, were transferred from the rear to the front, a total of 7 bomber groups/attack aircraft groups. Begin to attack important targets such as supply lines and military depots in the Russian rear. Although the bombing volume of bombers in this era is very small, don’t forget that Russia’s carriage-based transportation method has no ability to fight against the ground, even if it cannot be destroyed, even if it can only cause delays or delays. It is also extremely deadly for the frontline troops. People are hungry and can eat later, but they cannot be shipped when they need ammunition. This is a problem!

And now, the air strikes of the Allied Air Forces have also been upgraded to a new level. It has changed from a mere bombing to the continuous suppression of certain important road sections. After all, there are only a few railways and hard roads. The meaning is to block, as to destroy? It is better to be able to destroy nature, but as long as the frontline can not get the materials, the strategic goal has been achieved!

In this battle, the Allied Air Force organized the largest attack on a certain target in history! Targeting the largest front-line material distribution center of the Russian Seventh Army-Stalowa Wola was a bombing that lasted for 3 days! Every day, there are more than 150 planes (including more than 100 bombers), and they bombard this key city, which is also at the intersection of railways, waterways and highways!

And the significance of this engagement is not only the blow to the Russian military's logistics system, but also the "accidental" heavy damage to the Russian front-line aviation! In order to keep this important transportation node, the Russians decisively played the spirit of not counseling or doing it. The Russian Air Force, which believed that it had the advantage of home battle, staged an aerial meat grinder in Stalova Wola! In the air with no cover and no cover, in the first battle without radar and system air defense, the defender itself is synonymous with weakness. Yes, you read that right. The defender does not have to worry about being captured except for the pilot falling down. What advantage!

Some people may say that the defender has an advantage in terms of range. What about this? how to say? At first the Russians thought so too, but after the start of ~lightnovelpub.net~, the Russian pilots discovered that some hidden factors have caused the so-called voyage advantage to be vain! For example, if you wait until the other's bomber is approaching before taking off, then 80% of you don't intend to stop your opponent. The climb of the aircraft in this era is simply a tragedy. If you climb at an altitude of 3000 meters for more than ten minutes, you are lucky! Climb to the designated height before heading to the war zone? Are you sure they have not left yet?

(In fact, even in World War II, when the Luftwaffe intercepted Allied bombers, it was a very troublesome thing to climb to a height of about 7000 meters. After all, many of the interceptor fleets were reloaded assault aircraft, and they had to carry them. The auxiliary fuel tank and the external weapon pod made the FW190A, which was a good climber, overwhelmed. In World War I, even the altitude of 3000 meters was very terrifying. Some bombers needed to fly slowly for more than half an hour to reach the predetermined altitude. What? You said 4000 meters? After the beginning of World War I, most planes couldn't fly at this altitude...)

And if you plan to be prepared, then you must always arrange patrol aircraft, and then it will be a tragedy. Combined with the common short legs of aircraft in this era, and the situation where detection is basically based on eyes and communication is based on roaring, the defending party is generally Very sad!

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