It was not an accident to let Bai Huawei go to the Guia Fleet.

In the past few years, there have been three more famous figures among the officers of the Young Zhuang faction, namely Ding Zhennan of the Army, Bai Huawei of the Navy, and Li Tianling of the Air Force.

Because Li Tianling has been serving in the front-line army and is a typical action-oriented, at the level of the headquarters, it is mainly Ding Zhennan and Bai Huawei.

Now, Ding Zhennan is in Poshawan, so he must let Bai Huawei go to the Guia.

Ding Zhennan didn't go far, and took Bai Huawei to the pilot's restaurant.

The transport plane that sent Bai Huawei back to China was already ready to take off, and the pilot was already on standby in the cabin, ready to take off after receiving the order.

"Want something?"

"Don't bother, I'll leave later."

Although Bai Huawei said so, Ding Zhennan still poured him a glass of water.

"Here, congratulations in advance on General Bai's ascension."

Bai Huawei rolled his eyes, but he didn't bother with Ding Zhennan.

According to the unwritten rule, after arriving at the 41st Task Force, Bai Huawei was promoted to chief of staff and promoted to commodore general.

"Speaking of which, you don't have to worry too much." Ding Zhennan just said it casually, and he didn't mean to joke with Bai Huawei. "Judging from the current situation, the Nuland military is convinced of the theory we have proposed, after all, at present, there is no other theory that can replace it."

"Do you think we still have a chance?"

Hearing Bai Huawei say this, Ding Zhennan's expression changed suddenly.

Although Bai Huawei participated in the formulation of the plan and was an initiator of strategic deception, he never gave up the idea of "decisive victory."

To put it simply, it is to achieve the ultimate victory through a decisive battle.

This can't be blamed on Bai Huawei.

One way or another, he was a typical naval officer.

Historically, the navy has faced a "decisive victory" situation, that is, wars on the seas have been decided by decisive naval battles. For example, the Battle of Trafalgar, which decided the hegemony of the Bran Kingdom, the Battle of the Throat Strait, which sent the Liang Xia Empire to the throne of global hegemony, the Battle of the Watchman Strait, which determined the final outcome of the First Global War, the Battle of the Northwest Guia that became the watershed of the Guia War of the Second Global War, and the equally important Battle of the Southwest Fanyan Ocean, were all decisive naval battles without exception.

The point, this in itself is a naval feature.

As long as the navy still has to rely on the fleet to fight, and the fleet remains the supremacy of the seas, then this way of engaging the battle through the decisive battle of the fleet will not change.

In orthodox naval theory, the goal is to defeat the adversary in a decisive naval battle.

However, this set of theories of decisive battles is mainly embodied at the campaign level.

If you want to say anything, what Bai Huawei didn't understand is actually the difference between campaign and strategy.

It's not that he doesn't understand, but at some point, naval officers prefer to believe in the military ideas they know best.

At the strategic level, is there a difference in the Navy?

The answer is clearly no.

As a typical technical service, the navy is more dependent on military construction and pays more attention to the level of combat readiness in non-war periods.

Otherwise, when the two houses of parliament pass a bill to limit the number of aircraft carriers owned by the navy, the navy will not collectively resist.

It was this bill that made Zhou Yongtao take off his military uniform, and a few years later, he returned to the imperial capital as the first assistant of the empire.

From another point of view, this is actually the key to Bai Huawei's support for Ding Zhennan.

However, this also fundamentally determines that on a battlefield where the navy is the main force, do not expect the military doctrine put forward by Ding Zhennan to have an immediate effect.

To put it simply, no country can maintain a strong enough navy in a non-war period.

If a large fleet is maintained in peacetime, then before the outbreak of a major war, it will be crushed by heavy military spending.

Moreover, the arms race is inevitably the trigger for a major war.

The First Global War was triggered by the naval arms race, so it was only after the war that international treaties to limit the naval arms race appeared.

The result is that naval power, which maintains global hegemony in peacetime, or global interests, is not enough to defeat all opponents in wartime.

Nowhere was this more evident than in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Even after the Polish-Iraqi War, the Imperial Navy reduced its aircraft carriers to 15 ships, but it was capable of maintaining a global presence and global hegemony.

On the other hand, this strength could not guarantee that the Imperial Navy would defeat all the enemies after the outbreak of the Great War.

In fact, it was not even possible to defeat the Nuland navy.

Don't look at the aircraft carriers owned by the Imperial Navy, which surpass the combined forces of other countries, and the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Navy far exceeds that of all opponents, but such a superiority in forces cannot support large-scale offensive operations at all, and it is very difficult to maintain a global presence even during peacetime.

It is precisely for this reason that when it became the overall military strategy of the empire, Ding Zhennan proposed to adopt different strategic policies for different imaginary enemies.

Dealing with the Western Continent group led by the Empire is naturally a quick battle.

The reason is also very simple: to deal with the Western Continent group, the ground war is the mainstay, and the army and air force are the main forces. The Army and Air Force are far superior to the Navy in terms of readiness in peacetime and mobilization in the aftermath of war, and are therefore capable of quickly defeating the main enemy.

In fact, this idea emerged decades ago.

At that time, the Luosha Federation tried to defeat the Riman Empire through blitzkrieg, and if it wasn't for the Liangxia Empire's timely dispatch of troops, I am afraid that the Riman Empire would have been finished.

The failure of the Luosha Federation to defeat the Riman Empire quickly was not due to a problem with military theory, but because of insufficient strength.

The military theory put forward by Ding Zhennan is very different from the "blitzkrieg."

To put it bluntly, blitzkrieg warfare is mainly based on ground offensives, and the realization of military occupation of the enemy country to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy and ending the war means that it is necessary to invest a large number of ground troops, consume a lot of war materials, and have to bear extremely huge casualties and losses.

Crucially, it takes a lot of time!

Originally, the Rosa Federation planned to defeat the Riman Empire in one year.

Even after the war, in several similar strategic plans put forward by the Western Continent Group, the time for the capture of Dongluosha was set at one year.

This meant that in any case it would not be possible to achieve the strategic objectives of the offensive until the Eastern Bloc had completed its mobilization for war.

Then, the blitzkrieg will inevitably evolve into a war of attrition!

It was in this way that, after the first military reforms, the Reich abandoned the doctrine of "blitzkrieg" and set out to find a new military doctrine.

There is only one goal: to solve or avoid the trap of "war of attrition".

In fact, the military doctrine put forward by Ding Zhennan mainly relies on strategic strikes.

In other words, it is similar to the strategic bombing of the Empire against the Narrow Empire during the last Great War, and the strategic bombing of the Newland Federation and the Bran Kingdom against the Empire.

Through high-intensity strategic strikes, we will completely destroy the foundation of the other side's war and achieve the goal of victory.

As a matter of fact, Ding Zhennan was not engaged in strategic bombing, at least there was a huge difference from the strategic bombing during the last war.

In the last great war, strategic bombing had a very prominent feature.

Bombing targets is not only military and industrial facilities, but also civilian facilities, and in many cases even directly targeting civilian targets.

For example, during the bombing of the Imperial Empire, the Imperial Army Aviation repeatedly bombed residential areas.

Of course, this is not to say that this type of bombing does not serve the purpose of war.

At least judging from the results of the last war, large-scale strategic bombing is indeed an effective means of crushing the enemy and achieving victory in the war.

There is a very serious problem with such large-scale bombing, which does not distinguish between the nature of the target, that is, it is too costly.

When targeting targets such as large industrial cities, it is often necessary to dispatch hundreds, if not thousands, of bombers and drop thousands of tons of bombs at a time to achieve a limited purpose. If you take into account the fuel consumed, and the downed bombers, there is no cost-effectiveness ratio at all.

Of course, casualties must also be taken into account.

If there are more than a dozen crew members of a bomber, there are several crew members at least, and the probability of survival of the crew members after being shot down is extremely low.

Even if you succeed in parachuting, you will most likely land in enemy-controlled areas and be captured by the enemy.

In addition, large-scale strategic bombing will inevitably lead to a large number of civilian casualties, and then it will inevitably face the pressure of public opinion.

During the Polish-Iranian War, the Imperial Air Force was strongly condemned by international public opinion for bombing cities.

The problem with this is that strategic bombing on this scale can only be carried out in full-scale war, and after mobilization for war has been completed.

In the last war, this was very clear.

For example, before the completion of the war mobilization, the strategic bombing of the Narrow Imperial State was actually a small fight, basically did not form a scale, in the first half of the year, it was still dominated by double-engine medium bombers, and it was only in the later period that heavy bombers appeared.

The same is true on the battlefield side of the Western Continent.

At that time, the Newland Federation provided limited assistance to the Kingdom of Bran before it officially entered the war, so the strategic bombing of the Bran Empire led by the Royal Bran Air Force was more like a retaliatory action to boost the morale of the army. Even after the Newland Federation entered the war, because there were not enough heavy bombers, it did not immediately strengthen the bombing efforts, and it was not until the defeat of the Luosha Federation that it launched a thousand-plane bombardment against the Riman Empire.

To put it simply, traditional strategic bombing needs to be mobilized for war before it can play its due value.

This is exactly the opposite of the military doctrine put forward by Ding Zhennan.

If everything has to be carried out on the basis of completing the mobilization, what is the significance of the doctrine put forward by Ding Zhennan?

The military doctrine put forward by Ding Zhennan solves this problem.

The strategic strikes to be carried out against the Western Continent Group will inevitably be based on precision bombing and aimed at destroying the enemy's military and paramilitary targets.

The key targets are actually all kinds of industrial facilities.

As early as two years ago, Ding Zhennan, Bai Huawei, and Li Tianling jointly submitted a report listing hundreds of industrial targets in detail, and mentioned the hope that the Military Intelligence Agency would increase its surveillance of these industrial targets in peacetime based on this report.

The destruction of the enemy's industrial productive forces is tantamount to victory over the enemy.

In the war of modernization, countries that have lost their industrial production capacity will not only be defeated, but they will suffer worse than even defeat.

This is particularly evident in the Narrow Imperial State.

In the last war, after the collapse of the Imperial State, a nationwide famine broke out, not to mention civilians, and even the survival of soldiers was not guaranteed. Even after the Liang Xia Empire sent troops to occupy it and began to provide humanitarian aid, the situation of the Narrow Imperial State did not change much, and the people were still hungry. The point is that in the years that followed, the Sakuyi Empire continued to export labor in exchange for supplies necessary for survival. According to unofficial statistics, at least 6 million Narrow-minded laborers died in the war, more than half of whom had no bones, and less than 5 million soldiers were killed during the war.

Going back a few decades, it is almost unimaginable to destroy the industrial productive forces of a country, especially a large country, by bombing.

In the last two years of the last war, the Liangxia Empire and the Empire mobilized tens of thousands of strategic bombers to bomb the Nuland mainland, and at the cost of losing nearly 5,000 bombers and tens of thousands of dead crew members, 15 million tons of bombs were used to destroy the industrial productivity of the Newland Republic, and finally had to give up the war against the Newland Republic and accept the result of not winning.

If anything, the Second Global War was not finally won, and the Liangxia Empire and the Manman Empire quickly parted ways after the end of the war, which was related to the strategic bombing of the Nuland Republic in the last two years. The Empire felt that it had suffered greater losses, while the Liang Xia Empire believed that the Empire had failed to fulfill its obligations, and the two had an irreconcilable contradiction over how to divide the fruits of victory.

It is generally accepted that the division of war expenditures was the number one reason for the post-war breakup between the two traditional empires.

Fundamentally, it is actually that the cost-effectiveness ratio of strategic bombing is too low.

However, with the development of the present, it is no longer unattainable to destroy a country's industrial productive forces in a short period of time and force it to surrender through strategic bombing, relying on precision-guided munitions that have increased the strike efficiency by hundreds or even thousands of times.

In the war games over the years, Ding Zhennan and other officers of the Young Zhuang faction have proved the feasibility of this strategy with results.

But the problem is that it's just a wargame.

It was only after Iraq brazenly invaded and annexed Kuwait that the empire made a decisive move and let Ding Zhennan serve as an operational staff officer.

To put it bluntly, it is to use Iraq as a training hand and prove Ding Zhennan's military doctrine by bombing Iraq.

Let Ding Zhennan prove with practical actions whether it is possible to destroy a country's industry in a short period of time, completely destroy its war potential, and even force it to surrender through a strategic bombing that mainly uses high-precision ammunition, so as to achieve the highest level of objectives without fighting a ground war or strictly controlling the scale of a ground war, including sending troops to occupy the hostile country after a large-scale strike is over.

Judging from the previous battle for more than a month, to be precise, the results of the blow were very good!

Theoretically, it would be more difficult to defeat the Sairiku group, but there is no such thing as an insurmountable difficulty.

So, can this tactic be used against the enemy on the other side of the Guia Ocean?