Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Naturally, the European coalition forces on the ground did not know that the power supply had long been cut off in the underground fortifications below, and that the soldiers and civilians inside the fortifications had collectively suffocated to death. They still drilled holes and dropped bombs in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the Battle of Moscow was about to be won, Yannick was worried about another problem.

After defeating the Soviet Union, the next target will naturally be the United States, but if they gather a large number of coalition forces to attack the United States again, and the United States surrenders after eating a few nuclear eggs, it will be in vain. The logistical support of millions of troops is no joke. The daily fuel consumption alone is astronomical. Although there is no shortage of oil in Europe today, it cannot be wasted like this.

After much thought, Yannick called Marshal Rundstedt to discuss. "Your Excellency, Marshal, do you think the Americans will surrender obediently after being hit by a few 'super bombs'?" In the original time and space, only the United States had dropped nuclear eggs on other people's heads, but he had not suffered one. Yannick did not know that the United States What will be the reaction.

Marshal Rundstedt thought for a moment and spoke slowly. "Everyone is afraid of a 'super bomb' that can destroy a city. But we have also destroyed many cities in the United States, and we have not seen Americans wanting to surrender. From this point of view, even if we really use this 'super bomb' If the bomb is thrown over, maybe the Americans will only marvel at its power, but they may not surrender."

"Yes." Yannick nodded slightly. Almost all the famous cities in the northeastern United States have been bombed into rubble, but these guys still show no signs of surrender.

"The horror of this 'super bomb' is not limited to its explosive power. The most terrifying thing is its radioactivity." When a nuclear weapon explodes, it releases a large amount of energy, and the reaction process is very rapid, usually within microseconds. Finish. The instantaneous release of huge energy will interact with the atmosphere to form various instantaneous killing factors such as "optical radiation", "shock wave", "early nuclear radiation" and "nuclear electromagnetic pulse". Moreover, the radioactive fission products and neutron jets produced during the explosion will also cause "radioactive contamination" of radionuclides on the ground that are easy to dry out. Compared with the previous factors of destruction and destruction, radioactive contamination lasts longer, ranging from hours, weeks, years, or even longer after the explosion, and will cause serious harm to people in the area. causing lasting harmful effects. "Once this 'super bomb' explodes, no one can live in that city for at least several decades, or even get close to it."

Marshal Rundstedt was shocked when he heard about this for the first time. "So scary?"

"Yeah, it's so scary." Yannick couldn't help but sighed, thought for a while, and asked again. "Your Excellency, Marshal, how many troops do we have now?"

"The total number of all branches of the army is about 7.6 million."

"If the Americans surrender happily, we don't need to maintain such a large number of troops. How about we start disarmament?" Disarmament is inevitable after the war, just like the United States in World War II in the original time and space. After the war broke out, the United States carried out comprehensive war mobilization, with more than 20 million troops mobilized, and the standing force at the end of World War II was as high as 12 million, not including the huge logistics service personnel. Such a huge number of troops and investment in armaments have severely strained the U.S. finances, and major disarmament is inevitable.

Major disarmament not only reduces the financial pressure on the United States, but is also conducive to the modernization and upgrading of the US military, because the United States has more funds to invest in the modernization and upgrading of armaments. In addition, these soldiers are all young and middle-aged people in the prime of life. Their employment has greatly alleviated the labor shortage in the United States and greatly promoted the development of the United States.

Marshal Rundstedt asked cautiously. "How many cuts do you want, Your Highness?"

Although the United States in the original time and space laid off more than 9 million soldiers in the three years after the war, the war is not over yet. Yannick cannot lay off millions in one go, so he should do it step by step. "Now that the war is not over, let's lay off 500,000 people first. Wait until the war is completely over to continue the layoffs, and keep..." How much is appropriate to keep? Think about it, the US active-duty troops in later generations will not exceed 1.5 million, so Germany will not need too many. After all, no country can confront them in a cold war and engage in a crazy arms race at this time. "No more than 1.5 million."

Seeing a flash of shock on Marshal Rundstedt's face, Yannick smiled. "Your Excellency, Marshal, I know that this number is a bit small. But in the future, the army will no longer use the number of people to measure its combat effectiveness. Nowadays, science and technology are becoming more and more developed, and the military will naturally have to improve its technological content. Humanity has experienced the era of cold weapon wars, the era of hot weapons From the era of weapon warfare and mechanized warfare, we are about to enter the era of information warfare."

The outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991 in the original time and space marked the official arrival of the era of information warfare. The Gulf War demonstrated the tremendous power of high-tech weapons and marked that high-tech local warfare has entered the world military arena as a basic style of modern warfare.

Due to the use of high-tech weapons in the Gulf War, major changes occurred in the operational thinking of modern warfare, the organizational structure of combat forces, and the process and outcome of the war. It strongly shocked the traditional war concepts formed since World War II. This triggered a new worldwide military revolution with the basic feature of transforming mechanized warfare into information warfare.

"The era of information war?" Marshal Rundstedt looked confused, and Yannick explained patiently. "To give a simple example. In future wars, frontline sensors and space satellites will transmit various intelligence on the battlefield to the computer system of the command organization. Images of this intelligence information can appear on the commander's display screen in real time. Therefore, we can learn more about the location, situation, assembly, movement, etc. of both the enemy and ourselves. The commander can immediately respond to various situations occurring on both the enemy and ourselves, and the troops can immediately take action according to the commander's intention, so that The combat process is almost simultaneous with the decision-making." This is like a war commander observing the entire battlefield from a God's perspective and conveying orders to every soldier like playing a real-time strategy game.

"Is this... really possible?" After hearing this explanation, Marshal Rundstedt was extremely shocked. If this could be realized, wouldn't it be easy to win future wars?

Yannick asked instead without answering. "Marshal, are you interested in astronomy?"

"Astronomy?" Marshal Rundstedt shook his head, not knowing why he suddenly got involved in astronomy. "Not very interested, but my grandson is very interested."

"Then you can go back and ask your grandson if there have been any strange things in the sky recently."