Bunch of people playing Allies/Chinese placed 200.000 troops in a Chinese city- HEX 40X40 miles. They misused the system by miraculously building level 6-9 forts in few months. The system of trenches, underground tunnels and bunkers was so well planned that it could house 1/3 of whole Chinese armed forces.
Half of solders fought with knives and sticks but the magnificent Chiang Kai-shek build a iron bunker for every soldier.
considering number of soldiers per hex size (40X40 miles)
total air superiority/air recon of the attacker
a 25pdr shell lands 10 meters from you, chance of being casualty is 50% (
http://nigelef.tripod.com/wt_of_fire.htm)
Fight would probably end like in a Falaise Pocket with 100.000 dead in 2 days from. (artillery/air attack only)
7-22 Aug 1944 (near Caen)[/b]
Before the Allies closed the pocket, the death and destruction dealt against the German Army was horrifying even though a number of Panzer divisions were able to escape from the envelopment. "The battlefield at Falaise was unquestionably one of the greatest 'killing fields' of any of the war areas", Eisenhower noted in his memoirs.
"Forty-eight hours after the closing of the gap I was conducted through it on foot, to encounter scenes that could be described only by Dante. It was literally possible to walk for hundreds of yards at a time, stepping on nothing but dead and decaying flesh." Robert Rogge, who fought with the Canadian Army in Falaise, recalled the destruction:
It reeked of the destroyed [German] army. Burned-out tanks, lorries, motorcycles, and carts were in ruinous heaps. Bloated, black-faced corpses lay everywhere, and the summer stench was overpowering. Dead, grossly swollen horses were carelessly mingled with human corpses and savaged equipment.
The men held dirty handkerchiefs over their faces, but nothing could keep out the stench. It got into their clothes and remained with them for days.
Eight infantry divisions and two Panzer divisions were captured as German resistance in the pocket died down.
The nightmarish narrow escape route was later named the "Corridor of Death" by the Germans who survived it.
The defeat of the German forces during Operation Cobra cost Germany over
400,000 men and 1,500 tanks and self-propelled guns, while key positions such as Avranches and openings to Brittany were now in Allied hands.
The 150,000 German troops within the Falaise Pocket finally surrendered on 21 Aug 1944. An estimated 100,000 German troops succeeded in escaping back to Germany before the pocket was completed.
Where are 150.000 men that didn't surrender or returned to Germany?
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=112
