Imperial Elite

Chapter 165 Head of State, you didn't want this either...

The reason the Führer was angry was very simple: as the elite of the Teutonic Army.

Even preliminary statistics show that the armored forces suffered heavy losses in this battle.

Despite various unfavorable conditions in this battle, such as the lack of support troops, the Teutonic troops at the front were fighting against a combined People's Revolutionary Union and NATO forces that outnumbered them by almost two to one.

But the Führer doesn't care about that.

I entrusted you with my most elite armored forces, and this is the result you give me?

The People's Revolutionary Union's forces were not defeated; they even managed to hold onto only half of Warsaw.
If it weren't for the brilliant victory in the Gallic Wars, which led the Führer to boast about it so early, Erich would have been promoted to Field Marshal.

The current leader wants to dismiss Ehrlich and throw him into the reserves.

Although some compromises had to be made for the sake of propaganda, such as not immediately dismissing Erich but instead transferring him back to Germania to sit on the sidelines, the Führer was only prepared to make this compromise.

Damn it, these officers only learned how to eat with a knife and fork in military school, they're completely useless on the battlefield!

Replace him! He absolutely must be replaced!
While expressing his dissatisfaction with Ehrlich, the Führer commended the Air Force, even making a special phone call to the Red Knights to praise their contributions to the campaign.

However, the Red Knight's praise of the Führer was rather perfunctory.

As armored forces withdrew from the battlefield, they abandoned a large number of vehicles and technical equipment that could not be removed.

These equipment obviously cannot fall into the hands of the People's Revolutionary Union so easily, otherwise they could put these vehicles into the battlefield with just a little repair, which would not be good news for the Teutonics.

Therefore, we should destroy as much of the technological equipment abandoned on the battlefield as possible.

Since the army and guards had been driven to the west bank of the Vistula River, they were naturally unable to clean up their own mess, so the task naturally fell to the air force.

The Red Knights were clearly not going to be happy about a situation where the entire battle depended on me, and I would still be the one left holding the bag afterward.

Because nighttime bombing was inefficient, the Red Knights were still in Air Force Command, assigning tasks to the air force squadrons while the Führer was furious, referring to maps and photographs.

The level bombers were to bomb those transportation hubs to prevent the People's Revolutionary Alliance from taking the spoils of war off the battlefield, and the dive bombers were to finish off the remaining vehicles on the battlefield, ensuring that not a single vehicle was taken away by the People's Revolutionary Alliance.

Just thinking about it makes it clear that this is a massive undertaking.

Friends who often work overtime know that when you're busy working, someone calls you and says all sorts of random things. In other words, if the person calling is the Führer, the Red Knight can't swear. If it were anyone else, the Red Knight would basically curse their ancestors for eighteen generations.

Just as the Teutonic national radio station was broadcasting, boasting that the great General Erich had led the valiant Imperial army to victory against the People's Revolutionary Union's army outside Warsaw, and that old rogue Joe! Proud citizens! The Empire has won again!

Moscow, which also received the battle report, was very dissatisfied with the results of the Battle of Warsaw.

Regarding the war on the Western Front, Moscow not only set aside ideological issues and cooperated with Old Joe, the military proxy of capitalism, but also deployed the two best army groups in the entire alliance.

Upper Silesia Front and Western Front.

And they provided the Western Front with the best support they could offer.

However, judging from the results on the battlefield, the Western Army did not perform well.

Despite having a numerical advantage, they fought to a draw against the outnumbered Teutons on the battlefield. In the end, if it weren't for Old Joe's troops arriving at the last minute and capturing the eastern part of Warsaw the next day using a tactic that they still don't understand how they did it, they would have been in a very different situation.

They practically lost the battle.

Because if Old Joe hadn't arrived, the heavily damaged Western Front might not have been able to complete their mission.

To establish a buffer zone and a strong defensive line in the West to prevent the White bandits of the Teutonic and Lucia military governments from launching a combined attack on the great motherland.

Based on the results of the Western Front, Moscow is now reassessing the combat capabilities and defenses of the Caucasus Military District and the Caucasus Front, and whether it can seize the oil fields in the Caucasus region as originally planned after the outbreak of fighting in the Caucasus direction, thereby forcibly halting the operation of the Russian military government's war machine.

Of course, although they were dissatisfied with the results, they had achieved some of their campaign objectives. They had now captured eastern Poland and were able to begin setting up defenses along the Vistula River.

Therefore, the People's Revolutionary Union's radio and newspapers were notified that they would soon announce their victory to the entire Union, liberating the people of eastern Poland from the brutal rule of capitalism.

Just as both Moscow and Germania were dissatisfied with the outcome of the battle, yet were both prepared to declare victory.

After this battle, although there was no communication, they all reached a consensus that it was better not to engage in armored battles unless they were absolutely certain of success, because these things were simply too terrifying.

The impact of the Battle of Warsaw went beyond that.

After conquering Gaul in six weeks, the Teutons' military achievements were scrutinized under a magnifying glass.

Now that the war with the People's Revolutionary Alliance has reached a stalemate, almost all the armies have begun to study what methods the People's Revolutionary Alliance used to stop the Teutons.

Then, in the course of his research, the more he looked at the things, the more familiar they seemed. The organizational structure of the People's Revolutionary League and the tank classification design seemed familiar... Why does this thing look so familiar?
Never mind! Judging from the battle results, tanks are strong, tanks are good! We need to start developing some usable tanks!

Now that we've partially joined NATO, we can't afford to run into problems again when we ask Old Joe for a production license for those emergency tanks that NATO allows, can we?

Of course, considering technical factors, making some minor Bunita-style modifications to the tanks for production efficiency is acceptable. Meanwhile, across the ocean, the Americans had only one attitude towards the outcome of this battle: jubilation.

After all, after Poland announced its joining the Teutonic alliance, although many American people didn't know where Poland was, they learned from radio broadcasts that with Poland no longer neutral, Old Joe was completely surrounded in Bohemia.

This is making the Americans very anxious. People are sending letters to Congress every day, pleading for help for Joe! We can't just stand by and watch Joe die in Bohemia. Everyone knows what kind of guy Joe is; he definitely won't retreat, and even if he does, he'll be the last one to leave.

How could we, the Citizens, stand by and watch the last knight of the Old World die in Bohemia?!

Some people even collected a petition with over 100,000 signatures and sent it to the White House, saying, "We can't just stand by and watch; we have to help Joe."

Amid this sentiment, the most anxious party is the Citizens' military.

The military was anxious for two main reasons. First, apart from the navy who were not very familiar with Joe, Joe's old friends felt that since he had sent all the young men from his own family over, there was no reason for them to send Wagner's divisions to the Old World.

What is Old Joe doing? Old Joe is entrusting his son to someone! No! I have to do something!
We need to get the bigwigs in Congress to agree to help Joe.

Then, the US Army, which only began recruiting and training troops again at this time, really didn't have many capable troops at its disposal.

Due to postwar demobilization and the effects of the Great Depression, the size of the US Army is now somewhat small; its combat forces are basically smaller than a single Teutonic army group.

Therefore, while retraining troops on a large scale, the US military is paying close attention to absorbing advanced combat experience.

Then, after the US military received detailed intelligence about the Battle of Warsaw, before the US armored and infantry units could say anything, the US quartermaster department jumped out first.

I am very proud to say that you idiots have been cursing me every day for the past ten years. The armored vehicles I have put together for you are thin-skinned, big-filled pieces of trash. They are like five-brother iron coffins and seven-brother iron coffins. You even call these vehicles "Langsen lighters" because they light up as soon as you hit them, every time you hit them.

Look at what Old Joe used to launch this attack!
They're armored vehicles and assault vehicles! They didn't even bring many tanks. Isn't this what I've been working on for years?!

Besides, we have more product categories than Steve Jobs, and you still have a problem with that? You dare to have a problem?!
Pah! If you can't use it properly or there are any problems, it's all because you're incompetent!
Now! Apologize to me!
As for the supply department now jumping around with Old Joe's achievements, the armored and infantry units really have nothing to say.

There was no other way; Old Joe did indeed use a large number of motor vehicles in this battle, and the fact that he was able to reach the battlefield in the final stages of the battle and deliver the final blow to the Teutons was entirely due to the excellent mobility of these vehicles.

As a typical empiricist organization, the army could only begin to absorb the lessons learned from this battle and continue to purchase these motor vehicles in its expansion efforts, even if it meant holding its nose.

Then they began applying to send military observer missions and volunteers to NATO to learn from their experience.

The so-called military observer mission is an old military deployment scheme.

Since the military cannot be fighting all the time, but it needs to observe the latest wars to learn from experience, the peculiar phenomenon of military observer groups was born.

It's like A and B are fighting. At this time, C wants to learn from their experience, so C sends a military observer group to the party with whom they have a better relationship. Once the military observer group arrives, they basically do what ordinary officers do, but C and A or B will not enter a state of war because of this.

Even if they were captured, they were sent back through the embassy of Country C, in exchange for certain conditions.

The Citibank military believes that, given the current situation, although the men in Congress are still waiting for a better offer, it shouldn't be a problem for us to send some people to learn from their advanced experience.

Of course, our military observer group is probably quite large, with about 40,000 to 50,000 people.

There's no way around it. There's just too much to learn from Old Joe. Besides armored units and mechanized infantry, we in the US don't even know how to form a paratrooper unit. If we don't send more people over now, how can we learn anything?
This time, the members of Congress, unusually, did not refuse the military's request to send a military observer mission and volunteers.

Congress authorized the Army to send military observer missions to NATO, and the Air Force to send some volunteers to participate in NATO's air force.

Just as the United States was preparing to intervene in the war, the Lucia military government, having learned of the outcome of the Battle of Warsaw, was also stunned.

Since the end of the war, during the long period of low-intensity warfare, the Lucia military government has basically reached a consensus: they can share the entire Old World with the Teutons, but they absolutely cannot live under the same sky as the People's Revolutionary Union.

So, since the front lines froze, just as the People's Revolutionary Alliance had been preparing to resolve the war with an armored assault, the Russian military government also had only one scenario for its war plan.

That is to launch an attack like thunderbolts across the vast plains between Dnipro and the Volga, destroying the People's Revolutionary Union's defenses with an unstoppable offensive, and then marching straight to Moscow.

However, judging from the outcome of the Warsaw battle, if they had launched an attack on the People's Revolutionary Union from this vast area, it would have been fine if they had won, but if they had failed or lost, the situation would have been much more complicated.

The losses suffered by the Teutonic and People's Revolutionary Union in the Battle of Warsaw have left the Lucia military government in a state of great hesitation.

While going all in might be a smart move, the potential losses are simply too severe.

Moreover, the Teutonic Armored Division, despite having air support, still managed to fight so poorly, indicating that their own air force was clearly somewhat inferior to that of the Teutons.

In general, although the armored forces were trained jointly with the Teutons, their combat effectiveness was indeed somewhat inferior to that of the Teutons in the exercises.

So if the Teutons can't break through, then we probably can't break through either.

However, since this was the only scenario, the Lucia military government, after careful consideration, decided to tell their Teutonic allies that they could launch an offensive from the eastern front, but the premise for launching the offensive was that the Teutons, as planned in the past, would provide them with armored units as armored spearheads to break through the People's Revolutionary Union's defenses.

Of course, in addition to armored forces, air force forces are also necessary.

As for why the Teutons helped them deal with the People's Revolutionary League... Your Majesty, you don't want your armored forces to run out of fuel, do you?
Faced with the demands of the Lucia military government, the leader had only one sentence: "I am filled with grief and indignation!"

(End of this chapter)