Chapter 272: Great Depth Strategy
In fact, Chen Xu didn't expect that the Soviet Union would spend so much blood to arm the Vietnamese, and he insisted on turning the Vietnamese army into a small Soviet army in Southeast Asia. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Coupled with the rapid swallowing of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, the country's strength is still sufficient, and its strategic expansion in the Middle East is a foregone conclusion. In order to prevent China from operating in the Far East and hindering the Soviet Union's expansion plans, they had to get Vietnam to do things on the southeastern border of the flower planters and attract China's attention.
After all, the flower planter has just been reformed, the country is poor, and maintaining a two-front war readiness in the Far East and the border of Vietnam is already the greatest ability of the flower planter, and he has no energy to meddle in the Soviet Union's march into the Middle East.
Vietnam's military strength suddenly became stronger, so that the flower planters were a little caught off guard, Chen Xu was also unexpected, if China still followed the normal trajectory of history to fight Vietnam, under the strong Soviet firepower, then the losses will be extremely huge, and the number of casualties will be unbearable for the flower planters.
Therefore, Chen Xu must use digital air tactics to restrain Soviet equipment, and directly use aerial bombardment to bomb the Vietnamese army to the collapse!
After all, the United States also hopes that China can start a war with Vietnam as soon as possible to contain the Soviet Union's expansion in Central Asia.
In the end, General Electric, which had no choice but to be the manufacturer of Tomahawk missiles, could only walk on the edge of the law at the instigation of the Pentagon, and basically assembled most of the Tomahawk missiles in the original state of parts, and only needed to transport them to China for the final assembly of the last few steps.
In this way, even the US Congress has nothing to say, after all, as long as the missile is not thoroughly assembled, it cannot be counted as a weapon. If there are really congressmen who want to go online, and there is no need for the military intelligence bureau of the flower planter, the Pentagon will also send agents to slaughter this kind of obstructive guy.
In the face of national interests, this kind of troublesome flies and mosquitoes must be swatted to death without mercy!
The strength of General Electric is not known how many times stronger than Chen Xu's missile factory, and the Americans are also guarding against the Soviet Union, so the missile industry system is very huge.
After Chen Xu sent out the order request, only half a month later, General Electric sent the first batch of thirty semi-finished Tomahawk missiles, and then two batches every month. In this way, when the war starts next year, at least more than 600 tomahawks can be gathered, which is enough.
The Americans are still very caring, these half-finished Tomahawk missiles are close to the finished product, the missile factory only needs to install the warhead warhead, then inject fuel, and finally add the tail fin to complete it, without any technical difficulty, a skilled worker can do it in less than two hours.
In fact, with the power of General Electric, it is completely possible for Congress to pass a bill to export finished Tomahawk missiles to China in batches. But if you do this, the whole world will know that China is going to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles, and secrecy will not be guaranteed!
The issue of how many missiles China has is highly classified, and the Soviet General Intelligence Directorate and the General Staff of the Vietnamese Army are directly connected by a hotline, and the Soviet Union will also transmit to the Vietnamese army reconnaissance photos of Chinese front-line troops taken by spy satellites.
Therefore, once these secrets are known to the Soviet Union, it is equivalent to the Vietnamese knowing, and then taking corresponding precautions, then Chen Xu's decapitation tactics may fail.
Military secrecy is extremely important, and any small detail may cause a leak, and this seemingly inconspicuous intelligence leak, magnified to the front line, is hundreds or thousands of casualties, and if it is not done, it will even directly determine the outcome of a local battle.
Fortunately, until now, Vietnam is still in the dark, thinking that if the flower planters start a war again, the mode of war will definitely be the same as last time, first wash the ground with artillery, and then send infantry to fight in large corps. Therefore, the Vietnamese were very clever to build a large number of reinforced concrete forts in the front-line mountains, which were extremely strong and covered by mountains, and were not afraid of aerial bombardment, and also had an excellent defensive effect on artillery, so that the Vietnamese army could use this to preserve the vital strength for the next hand-to-hand combat.
It's a pity that the Yue Monkey didn't know that Chen Xu specially designed a mace weapon for these bunkers, these tortoise shells may be able to prevent air strikes, but they can't prevent frontal attacks from armor-piercing rockets at close range, and these forts will only become the graves of the Vietnamese army!
According to Chen Xu's plan, the air force will destroy all the heavy weapons of the Vietnamese army in the first wave of attacks, and without the threat of long-range weapons, our ground forces can slowly advance and knock out the fortresses of the Vietnamese army in the mountains one by one.
"Is this war commanded by me or by you? It seems that it is all your idea, and it sounds good if this battle is fought according to your ideas, but the central government will not necessarily listen, and may still take a safe way to attack. Chen Zhuo felt that Chen Xu's idea was too risky, it was simply unheard of, and the emperor would not agree to such a risky way of playing.
Regardless of whether it is feasible to directly use bombing to solve a country's armed forces, if the Vietnamese government institutions are really eliminated, the country's reorganized government is expected to be completely reduced to a puppet of the Soviet Union. Although the current Vietnamese government is attached to the Soviet Union, it has fought a ten-year war with the US military, and it is very tough in the international community, although it is only a miserable victory, but after all, it is also a victory, so even the Soviet Union has not reached the level of bowing its head.
It is conceivable that if all the high-level Vietnamese government members die, the newly established Vietnamese government is expected to sell all of Vietnam to the Soviet Union, which will be counterproductive, and this can be regarded as a sequelae of the decapitation tactic.
"I haven't thought about this, but that's for the future, let's win this war first, no matter whether Vietnam will become a puppet vassal of the Soviet Union in the future, as long as we completely hurt this country, they will never dare to make trouble on our borders in the future." Chen Xu No. 4 said indifferently, in his eyes, a weak government that survives by adding polar bear's eyes is not a threat at all.
"Although I don't know how the central government arranges its strategy, since they want to use our 69th Army as the vanguard, then how to fight must be in my way. If we still engage in old-fashioned large-scale corps confrontation, at least half of our 69th Army will be folded on the battlefield! When Germany engaged in a blitzkrieg in World War II, no one told them that it would succeed, and the result was surprisingly significant, pushing France sideways in less than a week. What age are we still conservative and crippled, and we are fighting according to the ideas of the Soviets, so we will suffer a big loss! ”
Chen Xu clasped his arms with both hands, what he was most worried about now was that the group of old generals in the imperial capital did not realize that the times had changed, and the steel torrent-style mechanized corps duel was vulnerable in the face of a powerful information-based combat system, and the tactical air force had offset the gap in numbers and equipment, and no matter how many soldiers and tanks there were, they could not withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the air force.
The Soviet Union suffered a big loss from Germany in World War II, so it was obsessed with a breakthrough in great depth, and the military layout of the Soviet army in the entire Eastern Europe was arranged for the theory of great depth. First of all, open a few openings in West Germany with a quick opening, and then let the tank cluster quickly advance to Antwerp, Belgium, as long as this strategic point is taken, the American troops who have gathered troops in Britain will not be able to go ashore. As long as the US military cannot establish a landing site in Europe, with the powerful attack power of the Soviet army, it will soon be able to take the whole of Europe, and whether Britain can keep it is a question of whether it can be saved, and the US troops on the other side of the ocean can only look at the ocean and sigh.
In fact, the Soviet Union's military thinking was completely shackled by the strategy of great depth, and the army had a strong air defense capability, and each group army would be equipped with more than three anti-aircraft missile regiments, as well as three fighter aviation regiments specializing in air supremacy, to protect the tank clusters that were lone in depth with powerful anti-aircraft firepower.
The Soviets even developed a three-defense tank, even if the US military dropped tactical nuclear bombs in Europe, it would not be able to stop the pace of the steel torrent! After all, the tank's protection ability itself is very strong, and only the tanks near the explosion center will suffer, and the tanks that are a little farther away will be blown off the surface paint by the shock wave, without damaging the combat effectiveness.
As for the question of whether the tank corps will soon hang up under nuclear radiation, it is not in the consideration of the Soviet military top brass at all, any war must have cannon fodder, and as long as these assault tank groups can take Antwerp before the US troops land, it is worth killing more soldiers.
There is no doubt that the US military's air-ground integrated warfare idea was actually specially designed to counter the Soviet Union's strategy of great depth, and a special anti-steel torrent tactic was established.
It was the Air Force that was used to destroy the Soviet tank cluster, so the fighters of the US Air Force emphasized ground attacks, especially the helicopters, which were overwhelming like locusts. The third-generation fighters F14 and F15 of the US military have been in service since the seventies, while the Soviet Union's third-generation fighters Su-27 have only just entered service in the mid-eighties, and it will not be possible until at least the nineties.
That is to say, the American fighters were ten years ahead of the Soviet Union, the third-generation aircraft had an absolute advantage in the face of the second-generation aircraft, and the Soviet Union was at a disadvantage in the air force.
The later Iraq war also proved that tank clusters that have lost air superiority will also be exposed to the enemy's air raids, and without fuel supplies, the huge tank clusters will all lie on their stomachs and become fixed targets for helicopter gunships and A-10 attack aircraft.
Of course, the Soviet army and the Iraqi army are two completely different concepts, the Iraqi army is just a copycat version of the torrent of steel, and the real Soviet tank cluster are two different things!
The fact that the Americans can use their air force in the Middle East to torture the Iraqi tank units does not mean that they can achieve the same results on the European battlefield.
The Soviet army exploded the tank sea in World War II and the German army, and had rich experience in actual combat, and the tactical use of armored aircraft groups was perfect. A tactical system has been formed with the assault of armored aircraft groups as the core, supplemented by powerful ground and air air defense forces.
Whether or not the US military's air-ground integrated battle can prevent the Soviet army's large-depth breakthrough is indeed a matter of five to five points. (To be continued.) )