Daming 1805

On the Ural battlefield, while the Forbidden Army's nuclear strike was successful, the operations of the army and air force were still proceeding step by step.

Wu Xiongying's fighter combat team, after repairing and supplying supplies at the military airport converted from the civilian airport in the demilitarized zone, soon set off again to search for enemy aircraft in Lucia.

These young pilots, as well as their superior officers, are very eager to win more combat achievements.

They didn't know the high-level combat strategy, and were actually a little worried about the enemy surrendering too quickly.

They do still have some chances to continue fighting.

The total number of troops stationed by the three Roman kingdoms in the Volga-Ural region exceeded 200 million.

After the three core bases were destroyed by direct nuclear explosions, the total number of troops stationed in small bases in surrounding and remote areas still numbered 50 to [-].

At the beginning of the battle, when the news was relatively chaotic, the troops were stationed in relatively remote areas.

They did not directly observe the nuclear explosions at the three core bases, and did not know what happened to the core main force.

During the process of setting up defense according to the predetermined plan, when they encountered the attack of the Ming army, they counterattacked as a matter of course.

At this time, they were still proud of having won three consecutive years and rebuilding New Rome covering the entire European continent, and their fighting will was still very strong.

So on the second day after the war started, some local battles broke out one after another on the entire front.

But their will to fight soon began to fade.

The most direct reason is, of course, that the Ming Dynasty's troops are completely ahead in military equipment, which makes them unable to fight back in local battles.

In most of the battles, their air force had just begun and their air force had been quickly wiped out by the Ming Air Force.

Then their ground forces were exposed and began to be bombarded continuously by attack aircraft and bombers of the Ming Air Force.

In most cases, when the Ming Dynasty's ground troops entered the battlefield, their main force may have been wiped out.

The entire battle may have entered the stage of clearing the battlefield.

Even the defenders in many places still retained a considerable proportion of their soldiers and tanks despite being bombarded by conventional bombs.

But the will to fight has been almost worn away in this process.

When the Ming Dynasty's chariots appeared on the battlefield, these lucky remaining officers may have thought that they finally had a chance to fight relatively fairly.

As a result, they found that they had hit the iron plate again.

The combat distance of the chariot troops of the three Roman kingdoms was usually between 500 meters and 800 meters.

Their main tank can only maintain sufficient destructive power at this distance, otherwise it will not be able to penetrate the armor of the main tank.

But the Ming Dynasty's armored fighting vehicles started firing continuously when the distance between the two sides was still 1000 meters away.

The officers of the armored forces of the Three Kingdoms of Rome subconsciously thought that the young master soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were "shooting badly".

As a result, our own tank was directly smashed by this bad shot.

Even the latest heavy tanks, as long as they are hit by Ming tanks at this distance, will be directly penetrated through the armor and destroyed.

After the distance is shortened, lighter tanks with thinner armor may even be penetrated by the opponent.

This made the grassroots officers and soldiers of the three Roman kingdoms completely unable to bear it.

No soldier can withstand the pressure of not fighting back when being beaten unilaterally, or the pressure of having to wait to die.

Soldiers in this era do not have special spiritual support, and their fighting will cannot be maintained for a long time under an absolute disadvantage.

After the Roman chariots of the Three Kingdoms were hit, a very few very lucky soldiers did not die on the spot.

Some of them saw the cannonballs of Ming chariots falling on the ground.

That thing looked like a "steel nail" the size of an arm.

These soldiers with artillery knowledge felt that their common sense had been subverted.

They couldn't understand why the ratio of the length and diameter of this steel nail cannonball exceeded the theoretical limit.

The ratio between the length and diameter of an armor-piercing projectile can usually be called the "aspect-to-diameter ratio." The larger the aspect-to-diameter ratio of an armor-piercing projectile, the stronger its armor-piercing ability.

Because the higher the cylinder, the smaller the base area, and the greater the pressure on the ground.

However, artillery shells must maintain a correct attitude during ballistic flight, which requires that the aspect ratio of conventional artillery shells cannot be increased infinitely.

After the aspect ratio of conventional artillery shells exceeds four, the artillery shells may not be able to maintain the tip-forward attitude during flight.

And the length-to-diameter ratio of the shells fired by the Ming Dynasty's tanks may have exceeded ten——

Of course, these soldiers did not understand that if they were German military craftsmen, they would be inspired if they could see such artillery shells.

This kind of shell is a "sub-caliber fin-stabilized discarding sabot" used on modern tanks.

Maintaining stable conditions during the flight of the cannonball no longer relies on the spin and aerodynamic shape of the cannonball itself.

Rather, it resembles the tail fins of airplanes and missiles.

This allows the aspect ratio of the artillery shell to exceed the limit of traditional artillery shells, reaching the level of thirty to one.

In order to cope with this new type of artillery shells, the Ming Dynasty's main tanks were also equipped with smoothbore cannons.

It is a new 120mm artillery made using electroslag remelted steel, single-meat hydraulic self-tightening process, and inner bore chrome plating process.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's standards in his previous life, Ming Dynasty's current tanks have reached the standards of modern tanks such as the T55 that were in service after World War II.

The tanks used by the Roman Three Kingdoms were probably at the level of typical World War II tanks like the T34.

The fight between the two sides was like a strong adult bullying a child.

At the same time, the core bases of the Roman Three Kingdoms on the front were directly "erased", and these secondary troops were completely disconnected from the command system.

The entire command system has been wiped out, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops have become a mess.

Whether subjectively or objectively, of course the original combat plan could not be implemented, and no one told them what to do next.

After they were discovered by Ming's troops and met Ming's attacking troops, they were no better than headless flies.

These scattered troops are no longer able to organize large-scale combat operations.

Even if the king issued an order to rearrange the generals to take command, it would still take time to re-plan the battle plan.

Before that, Ming's army had plowed the entire perimeter of the demilitarized zone.

From the start of the battle on February [-], the fourth year of the Grand Duke, to noon on February [-], a total of about two days later.

The Ming Dynasty's ground forces have basically controlled the entire demilitarized zone.

The Ming Dynasty's troops did not enter several fortress groups that were hit by nuclear attacks.

Although 24 hours have passed since the nuclear explosion, the local residual radiation level should have dropped below the safety level.

However, under the influence of Zhu Jingyuan, Ming's craftsmen and army were very careful about matters involving radiation.

The current standard is that it must be released for ten days before personnel can be arranged to directly confirm the situation.

This is why the garrisons in other areas of Lucia can safely go to the skies above these fortress groups to reconnoiter the situation without being attacked.

The main army of the Ming Dynasty bypassed these ruined fortress groups and advanced the theoretical front to the banks of the Volga River.

The main fighter group of the Air Force arrived outside Tsaritsyn on the afternoon of February [-]th.

Tsaritsyn on the Volga River was the Volgograd of Zhu Jingyuan’s previous life and the Stalingrad of World War II.

This is now the closest large city in Lucia to the border of the Demilitarized Zone.

It is also the closest large city to the Second Fortress Group in the Ural region.

The garrison and residents here can directly see the giant mushroom cloud appearing over the fortress dozens of kilometers away.

When Wu Xiongying flew his fighter jet and came to the sky above Tsaritsyn with his teammates, he did not find any aircraft groups coming out to fight.

The key is that white flags have been hung on the squares in the city.The team member in charge of communications even reported on the team channel that the Tsaritsyn defenders contacted through the public radio channel and expressed their hope to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

After the commander of the fighter group heard about it, he regretfully ordered the group to fly around for reconnaissance and reported the news to the headquarters.

Yang Yuchun's attitude was that he would not accept prisoners who had shot at his troops.

But that does not mean that if one of the millions of troops in the country fires a gun, they will no longer accept surrender from anyone.

In fact, each unit fighting independently will be given a chance.

As long as you surrender without hesitation when encountering Ming troops, you will have a chance to survive.

After all, the Ming Dynasty pretended to be a kingdom...

It is impossible to say that the other party does not resist at all, is willing to obey Ming's orders, and is willing to accept Daming's teachings, and Ming also orders to wipe them out.

No one can give such an order.

Yang Yuchun couldn't do it either.

After the surrender application from the Tsaritsin defenders was uploaded to Yang Yuchun, Yang Yuchun finally chose to accept the surrender.

At eight o'clock in the morning on February [-], the fourth year of the Grand Duke's reign, all the Tsaritsyn defenders left the city and surrendered their weapons.

The Ming army officially entered Tsaritsyn.

The Army's armored fighting vehicle corps was on the ground, slowly advancing along the main road.

Wu Xiongying's fighter group also flew slowly over the city as part of a demonstration entry ceremony.

Ordinary people in the city, including businessmen and workers from all walks of life, including Lucians and people from other countries, are paying attention to this matter.

They stood on both sides of the street, lying on the windows facing the street, watching the Ming army entering the city.

Fearful yet curious.

They have long known how powerful and civilized the Ming Dynasty was.

Many of them even saw with their own eyes the giant mushroom cloud a few days ago.

They all knew that there was a large fortress group dozens of miles away, with 200 million Lucian and German soldiers there.

They now also know that this fortress group and the soldiers are all gone.

They can then imagine that that kind of destructive power can also be used in their own city.

You can make everything you own disappear directly from this world.

While the front lines in the Ural region were rapidly advancing, the Ming armies in other regions were also advancing with all their strength.

In the northeastern region of the Principality of Persia, between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, there is a narrow corridor of coastal plains.

It's a bit like the Liaoxi Corridor connecting Northeast China and North China in the Ming Dynasty.

The southernmost part of the corridor is the Baku Peninsula, which belongs to the Ming Dynasty's outward-turned Persian principality, and the northern part belongs to Lucia.

The Ming Dynasty built city defense fortresses in the southern part of the corridor and a large number of military camps in the southern part of the Baku area.

The Lucians also built two coastal forts in the north and a large number of military camps on the plain behind the forts.

The Roman Three Kingdoms amassed hundreds of thousands of troops.

Then it was directly wiped out by a nuclear explosion from the Ming Forbidden Army.

The defenders of the two coastal fortresses watched helplessly as those terrifying mushroom clouds turned a city and hundreds of thousands of troops into ruins.

They even arranged for investigators to fly to the scene to see the actual situation.

Then they surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

After passing through the coastal plain corridor, the Ming army continued to advance northward along the coast of the Caspian Sea.

The remaining Lucia defenders encountered on the road and the remaining defenders in the Ural region were all in disarray, and they collapsed in the face of the Ming's attack.

The vanguard of the Ming Dynasty's Baku Army advanced [-] kilometers in just three days.

Also on February [-]th, at the place where the Volga River merged into the Caspian Sea, the Ming army in the Ural region was successfully defeated.

So far, all the coastlines of the Caspian Sea have finally been controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

Then there is the northwest corner of the Persian territory, where the original principality of Persia meets the three kingdoms of Ottoman and Lucia.

The Ming army attacked westward along the valley at the southern foot of the Caucasus Mountains and advanced all the way to the Black Sea coast.

Cut off the land connection between the Caucasus region of Lucia and the Anatolian plateau region.

The battle lines between Daming and Lucia are also completely connected.

The slowest progress was near the border between the Dashi Kingdom and the former Ottoman Empire. It took three days of fighting to advance more than 300 kilometers.

Not that the local defenders had a strong will to resist, but the local main force and command system were also directly wiped out in the nuclear explosion.

The remaining remaining defenders either collapsed at the first touch or surrendered directly.

However, the terrain on this front is fought from bottom to top. The key is that the terrain on the edge of the Anatolian Plateau above is extremely rugged and complex.

It is completely different from the Great Plains of the Urals and the Caucasus.

Therefore, the ground troops move relatively slowly.

The monarchs and court ministers of the three Roman kingdoms had a basic understanding of the situation on the battlefield, but the details were very rough.

At the same time, there was almost no way to deal with Ming's rapid advance and the rapid defeat of the remaining defenders.

The entire frontline command system has been disrupted, as have all generals at all levels. It will take a long time to rebuild the command system.

In addition to issuing orders via phone calls and telegraphs, the garrison forces in various places were asked to stop their original combat plans and defend in place to wait for new orders.

The monarchs, staff officers, and ministers of the three countries focused their main efforts on remobilizing and organizing more troops.

Without much thought, they issued a conscription decree requiring all adult males to join the army.

After all the adult men go to the front line, who will go to the factories to produce military and civilian industrial products?Who grows food and raises livestock on farms and ranches?
Obviously the only thing left to suffer is women and children.

So they also signed a decree making it mandatory for all adult women and children over the age of 12 to work in factories and farms.

All residents of this country, as well as all foreign residents except the Ming people, must obey these two new laws.

The Ming tourists, merchants, and craftsmen on the Thai-Spanish continent naturally began to evacuate when the Thai-Spanish War broke out.

The Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty directly issued danger warnings to these Ming people in accordance with Zhu Jingyuan's will.

Ming Dynasty's official agencies, government-run manufacturers, royal consortium manufacturers, and large food manufacturers all gradually evacuated in accordance with the imperial court's orders.

Most of the businessmen and craftsmen of private manufacturers also gradually evacuated according to Honglu Temple's advice.

Of course, evacuating does not mean giving up the assets here.

When the Ming people evacuate, they will directly arrange for the existing local managers to be temporarily responsible for the continued operation of the local industry.

But there are also a few businessmen who feel that there may be business opportunities hidden in this war.

They, as well as a small number of tourists and craftsmen, are confident that their status as Ming people can help Zhang avoid encountering danger in the war.

So a small number of people chose to stay.

During the war between the Thai and Western countries, the royal families and armies of each country were indeed very careful and tried their best not to destroy the Ming Dynasty's industry.

Even now, Ming Dynasty has gone to war with the Three Kingdoms of Rome.

The three Roman royal families and the imperial court still chose not to touch the properties of these Ming people.

Because the monarchs, staff officers, and ministers of the Three Kingdoms felt that the relationship between them and the Ming Dynasty was still not to the point of fighting to the death.