Chapter 265： Expensive war

On the frontal battlefield, the troops of the Puppet Empire scattered and retreated, leaving a bunch of worthless puppets to defend against Ailan Hill's pursuit. Many defenders of the Holy Demon Empire did not know this.

These abandoned soldiers stayed in their positions waiting for Ailan Hill to be devastated. In just one morning, their defense line was breached by Ailan Hill. After repeated battles, Allan Hill pushed the line of defense to the south. 70 kilometers.

However, after this, Ailan Hill also gave up the pursuit, stopped on the spot, and began to replenish. The reason is nothing else, because after a fierce battle, Ailan Hill's frontline troops have suffered huge losses.

If it were not for the westward advancement of the railway, or the reduction and interception of some of the supplies to the 9th Army, the 1st Army might not be able to support it on the second day of the counterattack. Now they stopped to rest, which was a relief to General Walter.

Just as the 1st Army stopped its southward footsteps, Serris's wartime economic conference was held on time. All senior officials in charge of production and the army staying in Seris attended the meeting.

After all, the issues discussed in this meeting were left over after the fierce battle of the puppet empire.

The Minister of Defense, Archduke Higgs Castner expressed emotion at the meeting: "This may be the best war we mortals have fought in history! We have defeated a powerful magical empire, and even the enemies Did not break through our line of defense!"

What he said was correct, no matter from the scale or the result, the battle between Ailan Hill and the puppet empire was absolutely unprecedented. Both sides participated in the battle with so many troops, the battle process was fierce, and the results of the mortal empire surpassed any previous battle.

"Yes, but I'm sure this is also the most expensive war we have fought so far." Gurlo said with a pale face looking at the rough statistics report.

In order not to lose the wind in the battle against the puppet empire, the 1st Army, the main force of Ailan Hill, suffered heavy losses yesterday. The ammunition consumed is countless, and the cost is really touching.

Desaier did not have much resistance to spending money. He was the first to witness the rise of Ailan Hill, so in his subconscious, he firmly believed that Chris had the magical power to return after his daughter was gone.

But even so, he was surprised at yesterday’s consumption and agreed with Gurlo’s statement: “Yes, yesterday’s consumption, the gold coins we throw away are almost the same as all the wars waged in human history in the past. It's almost the cost."

You know, just more than four years ago, Serris' annual revenue was only about 1,000 gold coins. At that time Chris was still worrying about his taxes, and a country to start a war was nothing more than spending tens of thousands of gold coins, or hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

But now, in a battle, the total value of air-to-air missiles consumed by Ailan Hill has far exceeded the amount of 100,000 gold coins.

Now you know why so many modern air-to-air missiles use infrared combat missiles, right? Because radar-guided missiles are more expensive... From the analysis of the seeker, infrared-guided missiles are really very cheap, and many technologies can even be extended to the civilian field.

The radar-guided missile seeker is very expensive, and the two sides are basically not on the same horizontal line. Therefore, even in the most wealthy and powerful countries, the seekers of air-to-air missiles are mixed. The radar seekers for long-range air-to-air missiles beyond the visual range highlight the ability to be ignored after launch. The short-range air-to-air missiles use infrared guidance Leading, cost control also has more reasonable performance indicators.

Of course, the wider locking range of the infrared seeker is also one of the main reasons why most combat missiles use infrared seekers. However, the low price is indeed a reference reason. The Mika air-to-air missile is a counterexample. The price is scary...

For special reasons, Airland Hill cannot use cheap infrared seekers, so expensive radar seekers can only be used. For combat missiles, it is also a very deceptive choice.

After all, the infrared seeker is small, the missile can be made smaller, the maneuverability is better, and it is easier to hit a target of the size of the magician.

Having said that, if Ailan Hill enters the technical field of the second generation of infrared air-to-air missiles, these problems can be easily solved: the thermal imaging infrared guidance technology is much more reliable and resistant to interference than the earlier pure thermal induction guidance technology.

If you count the assistance of other guidance modes, the new infrared combat missiles are not unusable, on the contrary, they will be added to the air-to-air missile camp to strengthen the guidance weapons of the Ailan Hill Air Force.

At least, when using infrared guidance, the locking area is very large, which is an unparalleled advantage when launching air-to-air missiles at close range and large angles. No radar seeker can replace this advantage.

These are things to follow. The basic situation now is that air-to-air missiles are still expensive radar-guided, and the price is still high. In yesterday’s battle, MiG-21 launched a total of 190 Sparrow missiles to various targets. The hit rate is less than half.

Even so, this missile has shown its strong future potential: less than 100 missiles that hit the target have killed dozens of targets, including the dragon, and the damage effect is very good.

"Is it so terrible?" The curious Chief of General Staff Luo Kai subconsciously asked when hearing Desaier's feeling that the cost was amazing.

"We have fired a total of 72 SCUD ballistic missiles from yesterday to today, and more than half of them are the latest solid rocket engine models..." After a glance at Luo Kai, the general of the newly formed Strategic Missile Army introduced.

This can be said to be quite a huge cost. One must know that a Scud missile is very expensive, and dozens of them are sold in one breath. The price is also very touching. Hearing this news, Luo Kai immediately closed his mouth.

It's okay for his staff to direct the battle, and ask him to consider these costs, which makes him a little headache. Yesterday he only considered winning this sudden encounter, but did not consider the cost issue...

Under this kind of thinking, yesterday's 1st Army and 11th Army used whatever they could find, basically using the latest and most expensive weapons that Allan Hill could find now.

"Not only Scuds, but ordinary rockets, including Katyusha, and larger models... We have consumed more than 600 pieces a day and night... Cluster bombs have also been used a lot." Another officer added. .

"We fired 39 air-launched Super Hound missiles, and one failed and crashed. Do you know how expensive these missiles are?" Another air-launched general glanced at General Butoria, who was silent, and then took care of himself. Followed to add.

"Only yesterday, we had more than 1,700 planes, and we took off more than 4,000 sorties. Over 8,000 tons of bombs and artillery shells were poured into all the places we could hit." Butoria said at this time. Then I added: "Do you know how expensive these bombs are? There are expensive armor-piercing bombs, napalm bombs and cloud explosive bombs... Ordinary bombs are cheap by comparison."

In modern warfare, what is fought is money! Not to mention such high-intensity large-scale operations, even for small-scale counter-guerrilla operations, the military expenditures consumed by the US military in the 21st century are enough to make people jaw-dropping.

Turning over the records in front of him, Dessell glanced at Chris who was sitting in the first place: "The troops poured out at least 200 million rounds of ammunition yesterday, 200,000 rounds of large-caliber artillery shells, and 27 artillery pieces were scrapped. Of the 3 guns in the chamber, more than 100 cannons need to be replaced before they can continue to be used."

what is this concept? Two shells fell on the position of the Puppet Empire in about a second! In one day, the shells kept falling twice in one second, and there was no pause for one second! More than half of the land in the entire war zone has been covered by bullet craters, the soil has been loosened, and even some small highlands have been blasted into small basins.

Randomly turning over the nearby soil, you can either find the remains of the puppets or human blood clots, of course, there are also metal shrapnel, as well as the bullet shells that have fallen to your feet and cannot be picked up and recovered.

"To add such a huge consumption to the front line, the train will have to use a lot of trains. This does not include the production problem." The official in charge of the railway said his difficulties: "We are already reducing the amount to the 9th Army. The supplies are available, but if you want to restore the 1st Army to the level of the day before yesterday, at least 50 trains of supplies are needed."

"Let me just give an example. The consumption of ammunition yesterday was enough for the Arante Empire to go bankrupt four years ago." An official closed the report in front of him and shook his head.

Another official next to him sneered: "Bankruptcy? They simply can't come up with that much money! You haven't counted the fuel consumed yesterday, and the soldiers killed yesterday... God knows how much money we spent yesterday. , I guess we can build another Serris..."

Every fighter taking off is expensive. Until the 1990s, the number of hours of flight training for Chinese fighter pilots was very small each year. The purpose was to save fuel in strategic reserves and reduce training costs for troops.

A jet fighter took off to fight once, and it was almost enough to buy a Nissan car. Yesterday, the MiG-21 fighter took off and fought desperately, and even shot down more than a dozen. It shows how much fuel they consume. huge.

"In order to support the war, the scale of Higgs' oil extraction has been expanded tenfold! Our oil fields in the Dothan Empire are also producing crude oil, which is good news. There are also oil fields in the Jesno Empire..." Responsible for oil production The official reports.

"It seems that the general Koriya who is going south is making money..." An official in charge of finance heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, shaking his head and sighed slightly--

Fourth! There will be more in a while!