In this regard, Hu Weidong gave two methods for the central government to choose. The first is the strategy of elite troops. Although the reduction of troops must be strengthened to make up for it by strengthening firepower, considering that more than one-third of the supplies are needed by frontline officers and soldiers, it is doubtful that the personnel will be streamlined.
It can free up a lot of transportation capacity for the logistics department.
However, Taizu, who had unparalleled strategic vision in the world, saw many shortcomings of this method at a glance. First of all, at the strategic level, the biggest advantage between China and Japan is our large population (depth and breadth play a very important role in the defense stage).
Large, but now that it has entered the counter-offensive stage, it is obviously of little significance.), and in terms of industrial power and technical weapons, even though great progress has been made in the past two years, overall there is still a gap compared with the Japanese army.
The reason why the heavily armored troops of the 15th Group Army were able to achieve great results was not just because their weapons were more powerful than the Japanese, but also because their use of these technical weapons was more sophisticated than the enemy's. However, from a macro perspective, victory by surprise can only be achieved in the end.
It is difficult to completely change the overall trend by being complacent for a moment. It is not a wise approach to overemphasize the role of elite soldiers and weapons and use our relatively weak industrial power to compete with Japan.
Secondly, although technical weapons are powerful, they are inevitably much bulkier than light infantry. In the Northeast battlefield where the Japanese army has now completely regained air supremacy, this means that on the one hand, it is more difficult to penetrate and penetrate, and on the other hand, it is easier to be penetrated.
The Japanese aircraft were discovered and destroyed. China's current industrial power is still very limited compared to the major powers. This limited wealth cannot afford to be lost.
Thirdly, although there are very few elites left in the current main force of the Japanese army, even if the Chinese army concentrates its limited technical weapons into a few elite troops as the main offensive force, it may be enough to drive the Japanese out of China. However, as the leader, Taizu,
But the consideration is more long-term. Nowadays, the atmosphere of world war has become increasingly strong. It is difficult to
In case China does not go to war with a truly industrialized country that is stronger than Japan in the future, the only thing we can rely on at that time is our millions of light infantry who are already the number one in the world in terms of military strength and combat effectiveness. Therefore, even if we want to let more
Even if his troops had been tempered by war, Taizu would not accept the first method proposed by Hu Weidong.
Hu Weidong's second method is completely opposite to the first idea, which is to temporarily leave the heavy-armed troops in the rear and use the light infantry troops, which have much less logistical supply pressure, as the main force in the subsequent battle against Japan. Hu Weidong
It was also pointed out in the report that light infantry not only consumes less medicine, they can also more or less replenish their consumption in battle through capture (at least much easier than heavy armor), and the two
If connected, it can be seen that the continuous combat capability of light infantry units is far from comparable to that of heavy armored units (unless they have terrifying logistics capabilities like the Mei Yao). Continuous operations often leave the enemy with no time to replace lost soldiers and equipment and are forced to
Defeated with remnant troops, they will rush to fight again, thus more effectively killing the enemy's effective forces. This has been proven many times on the battlefield by the two leaders of the Central Plains Field Army who are good at continuous combat.[
Although the Japanese army has now regained air superiority in the Northeast battlefield, their air power has a big shortcoming, that is, the number of bombers is limited. Not to mention compared with the United States, which can engage in strategic bombing. Even the four countries of the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain and France
It is far from comparable to Japan. Historically, although the Japanese bomber force has performed outstandingly in the Pacific battlefield, it was mainly due to
Relying on the solid throwing skills of Japanese pilots and the crazy boldness of daring to lower their bombing altitude, but when they target a huge light infantry force with more than one million people, they will encounter an insurmountable deadlock. The economic gain of the bombing outweighs the loss.
And the loss is not ordinary. What's more terrible is that Japan does not have the confidence to dare to spend money like the United States.
Compared with heavy equipment such as tanks and cars with larger targets, the most common light infantry is relatively more flexible, and can easily use fortifications (even if it is just hiding in a pit, the loss will be higher than being bombed on the ground).
much smaller.) and terrain to protect yourself, just accept
Strict air defense training can greatly reduce casualties. In the historical competition between several air powers during World War II, from a macro level, the average number of aircraft dispatched (combat aircraft only) could not even defeat them.
An enemy that the Chinese army faced in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War
The huge casualties suffered by the Japanese army during the air raids were entirely due to our lack of air defense training and actual combat experience. However, after the "National Aircraft Fighting" training that had begun in various base areas before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, let alone the regular troops of the People's Liberation Army
, even each
Ordinary militiamen in a base area basically know how to protect themselves when enemy planes arrive, and even know what to do to cause possible damage to enemy planes. Although these attacks will generally attract enemy planes to retaliate and increase their own casualties.
In principle, everyone is not encouraged to do this
And this means that if the Japanese bombers use our army's light infantry as their main attack targets, even with the high quality of Japanese bomber pilots, the light bombers can achieve almost 100% hit rate in dive bombing missions, as long as they are attacked.
It is difficult to escape the ground targets it targets, but the problem is that the two major field battles in the Northeast
Once the commanders and fighters of the Japanese army detect an incoming enemy plane, they will immediately evacuate. When the Japanese planes start bombing, the average distance between people is at least 30 meters (Note 1). No matter how accurate the Japanese pilots are, they will be
A single bomb can kill one person. If there are complete field fortifications to cover it, the actual loss will be even smaller.
Note 1: In order to weaken the enemy's heavy firepower advantage, when the PLA infantry does not have the support of its own heavy equipment or air force, even when attacking, the average distance is generally about this number (because our infantry has automatic weapons)
Absolute advantage, so even if the troops are dispersed in squad and platoon-level battles, they may not suffer losses. On the contrary, the Japanese army has strengthened its heavy firepower after receiving technical and financial support from the United States, which will affect the PLA's
Wexe is bigger.), and operations such as marching, camping, etc. that cannot avoid the concentration of troops are all carried out at night. What is being bullied is that the Japanese aircraft do not have the ability to fight at night. However, if analyzed carefully, even if the Japanese aircraft have the ability to fight at night.
It's useless, because even with early airborne radar, the hit rate of night bombing is very low compared to daytime. With the Japanese's scarce resources and limited national power, they simply cannot afford such "waste" ()