18th century total war

Chapter 424 Perfect Victory

With a loud bang, an anti-aircraft shell exploded on the dragon's neck. Obviously, it was a trigger fuze!

The naval ships of the Europa Empire are equipped with the most advanced anti-aircraft guns, equipped with two types of ammunition, in order to guard against the air force of visitors from other worlds.

One is a time-delay fuze, which can explode without touching the target, and deal with long-distance targets in high altitude.

One is a trigger fuze, which is mainly used against near-air targets.

Because the fire control system is too complicated, although the Europa Empire has ready-made technology, the Imperial Academy of Sciences has not fully understood it, let alone mass production...

In fact, if the life of Emperor Livy was not approaching, the safest way for the Europa Empire would be to fully understand all technologies and achieve mass production of modern armaments. At least it would have to complete the results of the electrification industrial revolution before releasing coordinates to other worlds.

Of course, it would take decades to do that, and Levi couldn't afford to wait...

Therefore, many military equipment of the Europa Empire can only be developed and mass-produced while fighting.

Those that can be mass-produced have been tested in actual combat and cost, and try to achieve the level of high quality and low price.

In this regard, Li Wei has a natural advantage, because he experienced World War I and World War II in his previous life, and he knows exactly what weapons that are more suitable for the battlefield look like after the end of the first industrial revolution and the end of the second industrial revolution. .

As for the actual combat test, it is easy. The Europa Empire has not fully conquered the African continent. One of the reasons is that the rebellious African black sorghum was used as a test target for new weapons.

Another major reason is that Africa is too vast and the level of development is almost zero. Many African tribes have their home bases in the tropical rain forests. The non-combat attrition of large armies is enough to make the Imperial Army drink a pot.

This is not a big problem for the loyal and fearless Europa Empire Guards, after all, they are not afraid of death.

The root cause of the Europa Empire's reluctance to go all out to conquer is that it is not worth the loss to conquer those backward territories.

Without developed land, there is no way to garrison large-scale troops. If there are fewer garrisons, it is easy to be attacked by African barbarians.

Guerrilla warfare is not a concept in modern warfare, and the savages also understand the truth that they can't beat the sniper behind their backs!
African black sorghum is just backward and barbaric, but it does not mean that their IQ is really on par with monkeys...

What's more, no matter how stupid a person is, he has fought many wars, and as long as he survives, he will become an experienced hunter.

There is no benefit in conquering Africa in an all-round way. In order to deal with the alien army, it is impossible for the Europa Empire to launch a full-scale war and consume military power and resources. As a result, the colonial rule of the Europa Empire in Africa has always been in a tepid state.

The real control sites are only rich areas along the coast of North Africa, some plains suitable for large-scale planting, and gold mines in South Africa!

Of course, the coastline of Africa is densely dotted with the colonial strongholds of the Europa Empire. The colonial strongholds near the sea are easier to get supplies, the cost of support is lower, and the African tribes encountered are not too strong, and even many strongholds are still inherited. A generation of European colonists had ready-made towns and fortresses to use.

In fact, almost all the colonies of the Europa Empire today come from the legacy of the original colonial countries of the Europa Continent.

Among them, Spain and Portugal contributed the largest area of ​​colonial heritage!
The original British royal family has not yet fallen, so the Europa Empire failed to inherit all the British colonies, but only took the British Central and South American colonies into its hands.

Thanks to the Europa Empire taking over the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the Americas, otherwise, with the poor national conditions and military strength of the two countries, the colonies would have been flooded with nationalism and established an independent country.

At the beginning, the Imperial Guard sent several division-level troops to South and Central America and the Mexican colonies to quell the rebels.

As a result, the hegemony of the Europa Empire in the American colonies was established.

The remaining independent countries, the United States and Canada, were conquered by Europa and did not dare to support the independence war of the American colonies, which made the American colonies of the Europa Empire stable. Nationalist ideas were also controlled by strict laws and public opinion. effective containment.

In this era without the Internet, it is not difficult to obliterate the people's thoughts. As long as there is enough courage and the army to implement it, it is completely possible to achieve ideological castration from top to bottom.

After all, in this era, the illiterate is the main body of the common people. As we all know, the illiterate is easier to brainwash than the intellectuals.

The root cause of the outbreak of nationalist ideology in Li Wei's previous life was the popularization of education. There were too many intellectuals, and nationalist ideology could not be suppressed at all!

However, without popularizing education and unable to keep up with the ever-changing scientific and technological progress, they are doomed to be eliminated in the international competition. Man Qing is a living negative teaching material!
Therefore, the popularization of education by imperialism, coupled with international conflicts, will eventually bury itself...

On this point, the dynasties in the Central Plains of East Asia understood it thousands of years ago, and the policy of obscuring the people was also listed as the top priority of the emperor's mind!
Fortunately, the world is not under a unified dynasty. Where there is competition, there is pressure. If there is pressure, there is no way to honestly implement policies to fool the people.

With the anti-aircraft gun that triggers the fuze, the damage to the diving dragon and griffin is undoubtedly higher, especially the griffin, as long as it is hit once, it will be disabled even if it is not dead, including the rider on the griffin!

Even a giant dragon will bleed out after being hit by a cannonball.

Soon, the dragon knights and griffon regiments in the sky were in chaos, and the huge casualties frightened the riders who were not prepared to die!

And because the commanders fell in the first place, the Azure Dragon Army's rear lost its restraint.

Many dragons and griffins began to use the cover of the melee to break away from the main force and fly high into the sky, trying to avoid the bombardment of the anti-aircraft artillery.

The anti-aircraft guns on the ship were all focused on the giant dragons and griffins that dived and boarded the ship to attack them, so naturally they had no time to deal with the 'deserters' of the Azure Dragon Legion.

In addition, it is not only the rider who is afraid, but also the mount under the crotch!

Griffons have a low IQ, and are full of wildness, bloodthirsty and ferocious. When fighting, they forget their own safety.

Therefore, almost all the fleeing griffins were controlled by the riders to leave.

But the IQ of giant dragons is slightly higher than that of griffins, and many dragons who have lived for a long time have developed an instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Except for the giant dragon who was forced to charge by the rider with a weapon, the rest of the dragons instinctively stayed away from the hedgehog-like fleet that kept firing!

The rider was also greedy for life and afraid of death. After seeing the dragon instinctively fleeing under his crotch, he put down the forcing weapon in his hand with a complicated expression, and let the dragon leave the battlefield...

This kind of chaos gave the Europa Empire naval fleet below a respite, and not a single battleship was sunk!

The number of swooping dragons was too small. Even if the swooping griffins were lucky enough to escape the fire of anti-aircraft guns, they would be shot dead by sailors who had already prepared various individual heavy weapons when they fell on the deck.

The sailors on the ship are also from the Imperial Guard, but they are more expensive technical arms. They know what the soldiers of the army know, and they know what the infantry soldiers don't know.

If all members of the Qinglong Legion really swooped down as if they were dead, the fleet would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Because every knight rank and above who falls on the deck will cause a lot of casualties to the battleship.

For a knight, if an ordinary rifle wants to break his body protection fighting spirit, it needs a lot of bullets to hit.

It is precisely because the Arigado Empire knows this that it dispatches all the air power of the Blue Dragon Legion to attack the main naval force of the Europa Empire staying on the North American coastline.

The Blue Dragon Legion has the strength to send all the warships of the North American Expeditionary Force into the sea.

It's a pity that the Qinglong Legion was first massacred by the air force that the Arigado Empire looked down upon and didn't understand, and then under the intensive anti-aircraft firepower, at least half of the cowards escaped, and the casualties caused to the navy were only casualties.

The battleship that lost the most was only a few double-mounted turrets on the deck that were destroyed by the dragon flame. The dragon was quickly dismembered by various artillery shells and bombs, and the whole deck was covered with blood.

The burning flames were also extinguished with the efforts of professional damage control troops, without harming the important facilities inside the battleship.

The top management of the Arigado Empire not only ignored the strength of the Air Force of the Europa Empire, but also overestimated the determination of the riders of the Azure Dragon Legion to see death as home!
No matter how high the sense of honor is, the Qinglong Legion cannot escape their essence as a feudal army. The tragic casualties and the "disconnection" of the commander made the Qinglong Legion disintegrate like an ordinary feudal army.

When the fleet of the Europa Empire dealt with the enemies who were not afraid of death, they found that the enemy's air force fled in all directions in the sky, still covering the sky, preferring to be shot down by anti-aircraft guns while fleeing, and did not dare to dive down to fight.

However, this also means that many dragon knights, the last remnants of the Azure Dragon Legion, can escape.

When they escaped from the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower net, they were thankful that they escaped from death, frowning and thinking about the bleak future after the defeat, suddenly groups of aircraft groups that had slaughtered them before flew over from all directions in the sky!

The fleeing Qinglong Legion no longer gathered together, but divided into several groups. The Imperial Eagle Yishi, who had replenished the ammunition, naturally also divided up and began to chase and kill.

With an absolute speed advantage and reconnaissance planes reporting the enemy's whereabouts at any time, the Air Force Detachment of the North American Expeditionary Force of the Europa Empire is impossible to find the wrong direction.

A unilateral hunting and massacre began on various battlefields...

The Europa Empire fighters that were chasing were even easier than the first battle, because they faced far fewer enemies than the first time, and they had no intention of resisting at all.

Both the dragon and the riders have been frightened by the fighter jets of the Europa Empire.

The only remaining gryphons that could rely on their biological instincts to fight back with ferocity, but because their attack methods could only be hand-to-hand combat, the riders who controlled them were equally timid, and became targets for massacre by fighter jets.

Compared with giant dragons with rough skin and thick flesh, these griffins can be killed with just a few bursts of machine guns.

The dragons and griffins in the sky started to drop dumplings again. If they were lucky, they would fall into the sea, and if they were unlucky, they would land on land.

The griffin that fell on the land naturally fell into meatloaf together with the rider on it. Even if the dragon escaped by chance, it could not afford serious injuries and could not even move around.

The fighters of the Europa Empire mainly target the dragons, and then the knights, so they didn't take care of the seriously injured dragons who couldn't move or had difficulty moving. They didn't fight in an orderly manner until all the dragon knights and griffins were shot down. Ground targets swoop down for the kill.

The fleeing Azure Dragon Army fled in a chaotic direction. Naturally, there was no way to deploy troops in fixed areas and sea areas to make up for damage. They could only rely on the winning fighter jets in the sky to make up for damage.

Fortunately, both the dragon and the griffin are huge and easier to aim at. Especially the dragon, it is so big that it falls on the ground. As long as the fighter pilot is not a rookie, it is impossible to miss it.

The fighter pilots sent to the North American Expeditionary Force are all veterans, and they are the best pilots in the Europa Empire. Naturally, they will not make such low-level mistakes.

As a result, the air force of the Europa Empire, with the huge advantage of zero battle damage, gathered and wiped out all the Azure Dragon Legion that would commit crimes in the future.

Not a single griffin or dragon escaped back to Washington!
Only a few lucky riders, taking advantage of the fighter jets slaughtering their mounts, went into the mountains and fled back to Washington with their strong bodies, reporting the process and results of the air decisive battle.

For the North American Expeditionary Force, this was a hearty and perfect victory. It was so perfect that when the North American Expeditionary Force High Command received the specific battle report, it wondered if the officers below were exaggerating in order to claim credit!

Of course, this suspicion was overturned by Karl. After all, the officers who confirmed the results of the battle were all from the Imperial Guards. This group of officers and soldiers who are not even interested in women and dedicate everything to Emperor Li Wei, naturally cannot make mistakes on such trivial matters. '.

Therefore, the Supreme Command of the North American Expeditionary Force immediately informed the Palace of Versailles of this perfect victory report!

This victory was decisive for the North American Expeditionary Force.

The armored corps, which has been hiding and dare not use it for fear of being overwhelmed by the Azure Dragon Army of the Arigado Empire, can finally officially set foot on the battlefield.

However, now that the Azure Dragon Legion has been lost, the White Tiger Legion has been maimed, the Xuanwu Legion has been completely wiped out, and the Arigado Empire, where the Suzaku Legion survives in name only, seems to have no need for the Armored Corps to show off its might on the battlefield...

Even an advance corps of all infantry, with only a few artillery units, could penetrate Washington.

Moreover, as long as the results of this battle spread, the remaining American and puppet troops will inevitably lose their morale and no longer have the courage to fight against the Europa Empire, even if the North American Expeditionary Force does all kinds of bad things in the homeland of the Americans...

A war that is sure to be defeated can easily make people completely lose their fighting spirit.

The North American Expeditionary Force of the Europa Empire, which possessed radio communication technology, was the first to inform the whole army of the result of this air decisive battle, including the advance legion headquarters that had been on the front line!
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