Six hundred and sixtieth chapters between gains and losses
Hu Weidong’s so-called “people’s war” in a “narrow sense” is the concept of “people’s war” originally understood by most comrades, which refers to specific strategies in war. Hu Weidong’s understanding is to increase the cost of ruling the invading army through extensive guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
, and try every means to reduce the benefits it obtains from the occupied areas (this is the purpose of developing base areas behind enemy lines and grabbing territory from the invading army).
), allowing the invaders to gain more than they lose by occupying those lands. The longer it lasts and the more land they occupy, the greater the losses they suffer. Moreover, in the process, the invaded country has been trained, whether it is the main force, guerrillas or the people.
As it becomes stronger, the strength of the invading army continues to deplete, and the contrast in strength between the two sides creates conditions for decisive battles and counterattacks.
On the surface, this narrow sense of "people's war" does have a certain contradiction with the modernization and regularization of the People's Liberation Army, because if China's regular army is strong enough, then there will be no large areas of land lost. This kind of war is based on local defense.
Naturally, the strategy is meaningless.
It's righteous. But Hu Weidong believes that with China's weak foundation, no matter how smoothly it develops, it will never be able to become the world's first industrial country in one generation, and even if China's total industrial output becomes the world's first
, it does not mean that China’s national strength is already
No. 1 in the world (in fact, China’s total industrial output value is already No. 1 in the world, and it is much higher than that of the United States. Does anyone think that China has surpassed the United States?), because the overall level of industrialization still needs to catch up with the world’s advanced level.
In another generation or two, plus
War itself is extremely accidental. Even if the national power is superior, it is very common to suffer early setbacks and lose thousands of miles. There are countless such examples in history. Therefore, the work of local defense cannot be relaxed, and the "people's war" cannot be relaxed.
It is still important, but of course its status will decline.
In the final analysis, the "People's War" is for a country that is poor and weak like China during the Anti-Japanese War (it is not that a powerful country cannot use it, but its value is relatively limited, and it may not be able to defeat the invader if it is not used) but has a large population (compared to the aggressor country).
A defensive war strategy tailor-made by a major power
.It is not a universal truth that applies to all countries, and if it is a small country with a sparse population, adopting this strategy may suffer the catastrophe of complete genocide, unless the enemy is restrained and cannot use all its strength, or is concerned about the international impact.
And dare not wave the butcher knife like Japan and Germany did
Although the Nazi suppression achieved certain results, committing such a heinous crime could not come without a price. In addition to completely forging a deadly feud with Britain, it also gave the Allies enough reason to act similarly. Originally, America still had
Some countries (such as Argentina) are close to the Axis powers, hoping to get rid of the control of the United States. However, the Americans use the German naval power to compete with them head-on, and the air force is too far away to exert its weakness. You are not polite.
dispatched navy and
The Marines quickly landed and swept across the island of Ireland with a thunderous offensive, capturing and shooting or imprisoning many anti-British figures such as the President of Ireland. At the same time, after establishing a puppet "government", not only the Republic of Ireland was forced to return Northern Ireland, which was finally recovered, to the United Kingdom.
, and at the same time withdrew from the Axis camp and joined the Allies, it also served as a warning to other countries. At least until Germany shows its ability to protect them, those small countries that are anti-American and anti-British will not dare to act rashly for the time being.
The recovery of Ireland was the result of Roosevelt's overthrow, and it was also considered by later generations as a coup to stabilize the Allies' position and the European war situation, but the cost was also huge. Since the main force of the navy has been stranded in the Atlantic waters, Japan, which has no opponent, united
Fleet and Germany
The Far East Fleet naturally became fearful. Although the Japanese and German navies did not dare to attack the west coast of the United States because using a limited number of carrier-based aviation forces to challenge the tens of thousands of U.S. land-based aircraft was seeking death, Japan still seized the opportunity to seize the opportunity in the Western Pacific.
Seized a large area of land
By the end of April 1942, Japan had not only completely occupied and strengthened its control over the Philippines, East Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, it had also successively captured East Timor, the former Portuguese colony that had become independent with the encouragement of the United States, and East Timor, which the United States had ceded from Japan.
It conquered the Marshall Islands, the Caroline Islands and the Palau Islands, and captured Guam, an important U.S. naval base in the Pacific, thus solving the lack of flanks in the Wake Island-Midway Island-Oahu-Hawaii Island chain.
The weakness of protection.
In order to remove the obstacles to entering Australia, the Japanese army then launched the Solomon Islands Campaign, which was mainly attacked by three infantry brigades of the Marine Corps. The total force was close to 30,000, and the weapons and equipment were not inferior to those of the US military. There were also
The First Air Fleet of the Japanese Navy and the German Far East Fleet jointly provide sea and air support, and their strength is unprecedentedly powerful.
At this time, although the U.S. military in the Solomon Islands seized the time to replenish a large number of troops and supplies, the U.S. Navy was worried that the division of troops would be defeated by the powerful Japanese combined fleet, and did not dare to stay on the mainland (all 3 aircraft carriers and 5 aircraft carriers available at the time were
The battleships are supporting the Marine Corps in advancing
Four battleships and one aircraft carrier that had completed maintenance ahead of schedule were sent to support the attack on Ireland. The largest warship sent was only a heavy cruiser. When encountering the eight battleships of the Japanese-German coalition, they could only flee, and once they were attacked by enemy ships
The carrier plane discovered that even escaping was not easy
Without naval support, the U.S. military in the Solomon Islands could only rely on the emergency land-based aviation stationed on the island to defend the islands. However, the Japanese-German coalition had two battleships in this battle, and there were no large-caliber fortress guns in the Solomon Islands that could threaten them.
It is then necessary for the carrier-based aircraft units to launch ground attacks against the enemy's powerful ground anti-aircraft artillery fire. They only need to protect the two King Kong-class battleships and let their huge cannons destroy the airports on each island one by one.[
As a result, the U.S. Navy, Navy, and Army pilots in Chennai were forced to take the initiative to attack the Japanese fleet. However, they suffered heavy losses due to the fierce anti-aircraft fire from Japanese and German warships and the attack from the Japanese and German carrier-based fighter groups. During the entire Solomon Islands Campaign,
No fewer than 300 U.S. aircraft were shot down, while the Japanese only lost 1 Japanese destroyer and 21 fighter jets, and the Germans only had 3 aircraft shot down by U.S. fighter jets.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the U.S. Navy has been continuously transferring submarines to the Pacific Theater since the Pearl Harbor incident (anyway, Germany has lost its sea control, and U.S. submarines have nothing to do in the Atlantic Ocean.), by early April 1942
At that time, the total number had exceeded 60, but after the Panama Canal was interrupted, they had to take a long way around the Cape Horn route in the southern part of the Americas. In addition, the speed of submarines was not as fast as that of surface ships. As a result, they were delayed a lot of time, and because of the islands in the Pacific
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It was extremely frustrating to repeatedly shrink the area of activity due to continuous losses. However, due to the low anti-submarine capabilities of the Japanese army, they still achieved certain results, sinking 11 Japanese transport ships and 18 merchant ships at a small cost of losing only 2 ships.
and
Of the 3 destroyers, if it were not for the torpedo fuze problem that caused less than half of the torpedoes to successfully detonate after hitting the target (historically it was worse than this, but the United States solved the problem very quickly after discovering the problem), the results would have been even better.