Imperial Elite

Chapter 168 The people of Shengyang are all a bunch of useless trash

Due to some technical issues, the relationship between Joe and Buntania is now somewhat awkward.

This situation is like you and your girlfriend have just gone through a terrible breakup, and you've both thrown away everything the other gave you, signifying that you'll never see each other again.

Then, when you've booked a ride to the mountains for a vacation, you encounter a dramatic turn on the way: a psychopathic killer murders your driver, wrecks your car, and tries to kill you.

Then you discover that your ex-girlfriend is here too, and you now have to run away with her, someone you'll never see again.

Think about all those little essays you exchanged, and then look at those damn psychopathic killers. That's just how things are, and life is always this difficult.

So, in this awkward situation, Old Joe not only began receiving troops from Bonitania who were being deployed to NATO, but also began receiving intelligence from overseas intelligence agencies.

Although the collaboration has begun, there are still some awkward moments.

Winston and James both desperately wanted Joe to return to London, the heart of the empire, to command the war, but Joe felt it was better to stay on the Old World and command from there than to go to London.

Although he didn't want to go to London, as the de facto commander of the Allied forces, Old Joe also provided some things to the Buntinians while receiving troops from them.

For example, some Panzer IV and Panzer V tanks that Old Joe obtained from the battlefield, although the tanks he handed over to Britannia were severely damaged and basically only had research value.

However, when these tanks were sent to Brittany, Old Joe also attached the design specifications and technical standards for the next generation of tanks, and even some sketches that Old Joe had prepared.

Although NATO forces now have emergency tanks available, just as the name suggests, these tanks are only used to urgently fill the gap in NATO forces' lack of armored capabilities.

It belongs to the category of products that first address whether or not they exist.

After the emergency tank was finalized, the head of the Bohemian Arms Factory seized the opportunity to begin working with Joe to develop the next generation of the official tank that could replace the emergency tank.

Logically speaking, considering the logistical pressure on the troops at this time, Joe should have conducted joint research and development with Bunitania.

However, after seeing the People's Revolutionary Alliance, which looked familiar but not entirely familiar, and then seeing the organization of the armored forces, which made them look completely familiar and full of déjà vu, they realized that the armored forces were very familiar.

Old Joe felt he needed to keep his distance from London.

After all, there was no strait separating him from the People's Revolutionary Alliance.

Therefore, in terms of equipment development, Old Joe only provided Bunitania with some indicators and reference objects, while the specific projects were left to Bunitania to handle on its own.

Although the cooperation was fraught with difficulties, Winston understood one thing very well: to defend Bonitania, he could not place the defense line on the island itself, but rather on the Old World. The more fiercely NATO fought on the Old World, the less Teutonic would have the resources to attack the Bonitania islands.

Therefore, although Winston was unwilling to relinquish command of the Air Force, he was willing to send some pilots to Bohemia under joint command.

With the arrival of the Brittany pilots, Old Joe had also gathered the air power needed to launch the operation he named 'Paris Express'.

Although we have enough air power, we are still lacking in ground power and intelligence.

Given that the Teutonic prisoner-of-war camps were clearly not sanatoriums, many of the prisoners of war may have been physically unable to undertake long journeys, cross the border, or play hide-and-seek with the Teutons during their encirclement and suppression.

Therefore, Joe's plan was to use Wagner's transport fleet, along with elite paratroopers and special forces, to accomplish the mission.

Before the operation began, a large-scale bombing campaign was launched from Buntania and Bohemia toward the Teutonic homeland to cover the paratroopers' airdrop.

Subsequently, taking into account the preparation and flight speed of the transport fleet, in the week following the airdrop, they would attack at least two POW camps every night and then evacuate the rescued POWs from the camps by air using transport planes.

The danger of this plan was obvious, after all, taking off and landing transport planes in the wild and on roads is inherently risky, let alone taking off and landing at night in enemy-occupied territory.

This is clearly a life-threatening job.

However, although early models of this light helicopter, which has been under research since before the war, have been developed, not only are the pilots still in training, but the load capacity of this helicopter is also very problematic, as it can only carry a maximum of four people.

Furthermore, the current number is limited, so the only solution is to rely on an experienced and well-trained transport fleet.

However, this was not entirely risky. Although the Teutonic air force was very strong, they had almost no night combat capability.

Furthermore, while rescuing prisoners of war, they would continue to bomb the Teutons on a large scale, further dispersing the Teutonic air power.

Although Charles agreed to the plan, there were quite a few formidable young men among those Gallic lads who fought their way from the Low Countries to Dunkirk and then to Poland.

However, these young men had not received any parachute training and had never cooperated with Wagner's troops in combat.

Therefore, these young Frenchmen still need some time to train together with Wagner and get to know each other. They don't need to be familiar with each other, but at least they need to be able to cooperate in a basic way.

Meanwhile, the Citizens' Congress finally passed a resolution agreeing to send a military observer mission to the Old World and allowing volunteers to go to the Old World and join NATO.

Within two months, Old Joe received a large amount of support from the New World, along with a large amount of military supplies.

While Winston traded islands for old destroyers from the US to replenish his naval fleet, Joe's son Rhys, after creating the Future Legion, did not stop there.

Instead, they began raising funds throughout the New World and cooperating with the government to sell war bonds.

Rhys's achievement was the large amount of military supplies that arrived along with the Citizens' Volunteer Corps, as well as the active-duty equipment of the Citizens' Army.

This equipment is enough for Old Joe to arm two more Citizen-sized armored divisions.

However, after seeing these vehicles—whether they should be called armored vehicles or infantry fighting vehicles, or whatever they were—Old Joe didn't hesitate to distribute them all among the mechanized and motorized infantry units to enhance their firepower and mobility.

Simultaneously, the Paris Express and Vulture Operations were planned, causing Old Joe and the intelligence agencies of Bunitania to focus their efforts on the southern front and the Gallic POW camps within the Teutonic territory.

Furthermore, after the Battle of Warsaw, most of the Teutonic armored forces began to rest and reorganize, so they believed that the Teutons would not launch a large-scale offensive in the short term.

Completely unaware that the Teutonic troops were beginning to assemble in the north. And in those two months, Holtz had practically searched every inch of Paris, filling the surrounding prisons, yet he found no trace of the Parisian resistance.

It was as if he was trying to capture an imaginary enemy.

Fortunately, no more serious incidents like the previous ones occurred in Paris during this period, which finally allowed Holtz to give an explanation to the Führer.

However, after his efforts in Paris came to nothing, Holz had no choice but to leave Paris.

Because of the heavy losses suffered by the armored forces in the Battle of Warsaw, this armored division, which had been transferred to Paris, became one of the few armored units in the Teutonic Army that could still be deployed intact.

This force will now become the armored spearhead of the army, to break through the defenses of the northerners in the north.

At both ends of the front, both Old Joe and the Führer, each with their own ulterior motives, temporarily halted large-scale operations on the front lines, each preparing to stir up trouble.

During this rare period of calm on the front lines, a small incident occurred in the Far East.

As a nation with a strong sense of national spirit, after internal disputes became unresolved, the spirited staff officers of Rising Sun decided to stir up trouble directly on the border.

The People's Revolutionary League has just fought a fierce battle in the Old World and the Teutonic Kingdom. Its main force is still on the southern front confronting the Russian military government. It would be good enough if they could manage to reach a stalemate in the two-front war. Now, if I poke at their weakest point in the east, wouldn't that be easy to crush?

Therefore, the staff officers of the Rising Sun Army concentrated three Class A divisions and the only armored division of the Rising Sun Empire and launched an attack on the Human Revolutionary Alliance from the east.

At the beginning, the Rising Sun forces did achieve some results.

Just as the staff officers of the Rising Sun had predicted, the People's Revolutionary Alliance, which was already fighting on two fronts, did not have many troops available in the Far East, so its border defenses were very weak.

There are only some patrol teams and outposts at the border.

Although these patrols and outposts put up a very strong resistance, and the firepower advantage brought by their large number of automatic weapons gave the Shengyang people a real hard time.

In particular, the marksmen in the infantry squads turned the tanks that the Shengyang people were preparing to launch an armored assault like the Teutons into non-combustible waste on the steppe.

However, due to the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Rising Sun forces, these border troops were annihilated after putting up a resolute resistance.

Although they were wiped out, these border guards still accomplished their mission.

Before the border guards were annihilated, they reported the invasion route of the Rising Sun forces.

Ivan, who had just taken over the Far Eastern Military District, directly adopted the plan left behind by Konstantinovich.

After the Rising Sun troops crossed the border, the Far East forces of the People's Revolutionary Alliance did not launch a counterattack immediately.

Instead, they withdrew some troops, leaving the Rising Sun forces seemingly uninhabited in the Far East.

This prompted the staff officers of Rising Sun, who had already tasted success, to go all in without hesitation, adding three more Class B divisions to the battlefield.

As more Rising Sun troops are deployed to the battlefield.

The Far Eastern Front of the People's Revolutionary Alliance launched a counterattack.

If Joe could see the tactics employed by the Far East forces of the People's Revolutionary Alliance, it would surely awaken his memories of the last major war.

The People's Revolutionary Alliance's armored forces, accompanied by cavalry, launched a pincer attack on the Rising Sun forces.

Although the Far Eastern Front was not under too much military pressure, it was not equipped with the latest medium and heavy tanks like the troops of the Western Special Military District and the Southern Military District. Instead, it was equipped with a large number of old tanks that had been phased out by troops from other military districts.

From the Hound tank to its upgraded version, these were the transitional models produced by the Inner Man Revolutionary Union's armored forces during their exploration of tanks.

But even these tanks are far superior to the fragile little tanks equipped by the Rising Sun Tank Division.

Furthermore, although the Far Eastern Military District was not as strong as the other military districts in terms of armor, the pressure from the Southern Military District led the People's Revolutionary Alliance to relocate many of its air force training bases to the Far East.

Here, if you hit ten things with a stick, you might not hit a single person. It's a place where there are many people but little land, making it very suitable for air force training.

Therefore, the Far Eastern Front was able to receive air support far exceeding that of other military regions.

As a result, when the Far Eastern Front launched its counterattack, many of the Rising Sun units were already wiped out by the air raids before they even saw any Far Eastern Front tanks.

In this situation, being attacked by armored forces would naturally be fatal.

In particular, the equipment of the Rising Sun forces was basically still at the level of the last war, with no automatic weapons and no anti-tank weapons.

Thus, the pincer movement of the Far Eastern Front of the People's Revolutionary Alliance was like a hot knife through butter, easily encircling the five Rising Sun Divisions that had broken into the country, and began to prepare to annihilate these troops and teach the Rising Sun Empire a lesson.

The reason why it was five divisions instead of six was that from the beginning of the battle, one of the two Class A divisions initially used as spearheads by the Rising Sun staff encountered resolute resistance from the People's Revolutionary Alliance border troops on the border.

Subsequently, various diseases, ranging from dysentery to leg cramps, broke out in this division, leading to severe understaffing and insufficient combat power to launch an offensive. As a result, a fierce sit-in war was waged with the People's Revolutionary Alliance border defense forces on the border.

This brutal sit-in war also made this division slightly more distant from the other divisions.

When the People's Revolutionary Alliance's armored forces launched a pincer attack, this division was not on the People's Revolutionary Alliance's armored forces' marching route at all, thus escaping disaster.

The result of this battle was that the Rising Sun Empire began preparing to negotiate with the Human Revolutionary Alliance at lightning speed through diplomatic channels.

Upon learning of the failure of Rising Sun's clumsy offensive, he angrily slammed his pencil onto the table in front of him in the Germania bunker.

"Useless! They're all useless! The people of Shengyang are a bunch of useless trash!"

(End of this chapter)