Chapter 1070 New Strategic Thinking (I)

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Luo Ronghuan's eagerness to fight a big battle with the Japanese army can be said to represent the mood of the officers and men of our army in Shandong, and even the heads of the Central Committee and the General Headquarters are likely to have this idea. The reason is very simple, the main force of our army in Shandong has a total strength of 300,000 people, has a powerful artillery, and has a unique armored aircraft group that has been tested in actual combat, and the commander is Liu Yimin, a legendary hero of our army for a long time.

Cai Zhong fanned the flames on the side: "After breaking through from Xinwei, when we fought fiercely at Gulingtou, it was just a sharp knife company, and just like that, we fought two well-equipped regiments of the Gui army; During the Battle of Xiaoshui, we were a regiment against a first-class division of the Hunan army; When we fought Hu Zongnan's First Division, our Red Seventh Army was only three divisions, and there were no heavy weapons such as mountain artillery and field artillery; When the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was fully mechanized, was eliminated, our army was only seven brigades reorganized from the Red Army. How can that equipment be compared to what it is now? The little devils have planes, don't we have them? The little devils have a huge army, isn't our army stronger now than at any time in history? ”

Cai Zhong's meaning is also very clear, and he almost accused Liu Yimin of being afraid of the enemy and cowardly!

This was measured by Liu Yimin himself, and neither Luo Ronghuan nor Cai Zhong had this idea. The Japanese army used such a powerful force to encircle and sweep our army in Shandong, there were planes in the sky, and there were three tank divisions and more than a dozen divisions on the ground, and the only correct choice was to avoid the Japanese front. That's not much to say. It's just that seeing that the Japanese army occupied the base area, forced the main force of our army to the mountains, and killed the villagers miserably, Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhongli were in a hurry, and couldn't help but use words to squeeze Liu Yimin, the purpose was to force him to come up with a strange move, so that he could defeat the crazy sweep of the Japanese puppet army in one fell swoop and reverse the passive situation in front of him.

Liu Yimin, the brave and invincible Liu Yimin, Liu Yimin, who is extremely trusted by his comrades-in-arms, everyone is eager for him to create a miracle again!

Liu Yimin was silent, and didn't seem to hear Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong's words.

On the map on the wall, the situation of the enemy and us in Shandong is clearly marked with a pencil, the thick arrow is the position of our army, and the thin arrow is the position of the Japanese army.

"Too much deception!"

Liu Yimin scolded in a low voice.

Although the voice was very low, Luo Ronghuan, Cai Zhong and the comrades in the staff office in the room could hear it clearly. Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong thought that Liu Yimin was dissatisfied with the words of the two of them, and their brows were furrowed.

After scolding, Liu Yimin sat down on the chair, and the old monk was in a state of mind, thinking quietly.

It is correct to avoid the enemy's edge, and it is also correct to hide and standby, but the problem is that Liu Yimin is now thinking about a deeper and farther strategic issue.

Liu Yimin was thinking about what kind of consequences would be brought about if the Japanese army was beaten too hard, that is, whether it would affect the Japanese army's launching of the Pacific War and whether it would cause the Japanese army to concentrate on dealing with the Eighth Route Army.

Don't look at the violentness of the Japanese army, it is an airplane, two elite divisions of the Kwantung Army and three tank divisions, and there are seven divisions around central and southern Lu, Liu Yimin is not worried. With the current equipment and strength of our army in Shandong, it is completely no problem to covertly transfer and then find fighters. As long as the group of little devils and heavy troops is opened, there will definitely be divisions and regiments with little devils who are actively attacking and are in prominent positions and will become the meal on the plate of our army. As long as one division of the Japanese army is killed, the offensive of the little devils will immediately stagnate, and our army can completely adopt the method of retreating and advancing in stride, going north and south, fighting in the east and pulling west, and beating the little devils all over the ground to find teeth! This tactic was used many times in the history of our army during the Liberation War in Shandong, and the Kuomintang army lost its armor. Liu Yimin studied the history of warfare intensively, and was naturally familiar with the true meaning of sports warfare!

Now, the 2nd Division, the 7th Division, and the 3rd Tank Division of the Japanese Army have gone to Jiaodong, and the 29th Division and the 9th Division in Lunan who stayed in the base area in central and southern Lu, the 2nd Guards Division that entered Feixian, the 32nd Division and the 36th Division on Jiaoji Road, and the Japanese puppet army stationed in Tai'an and Jinan have all become a sumptuous dinner in Liu Yimin's eyes, just see when he uses his knife and fork to cut that piece of fragrant meat.

As a commander-in-chief of a large army, we must not only focus on tactical issues, but also think, analyze, and grasp from a strategic aspect. Strategic mistakes, even if some tactical victories are achieved, will not make up for the shortcomings of strategic mistakes.

The Japanese army was a strategically erroneous, tactically victorious force. The Eighth Route Army wanted to win a tactical victory under the correct strategic guidance, and finally obtain the result of a simultaneous strategic and tactical victory.

Liu Yimin thought that Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong's tone implied that he was afraid of the enemy and cowardly, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, when did he ever fight cowardly? His problems are clear only to himself, and they are all the sequelae of the crossing. Because he was familiar with the trend of history, he was constrained, and he always thought about how to win the war as soon as possible, so he got into a dead end, and always hoped that the Japanese army would quickly fight with the United States and use the powerful air and naval power of the United States to wipe out the Japanese navy and the elite units of the army. Therefore, the layout of the plan always revolves around the original historical trend, not only wanting to annihilate the Japanese army, but also afraid of beating the Japanese army hard, the little devils will not start the Pacific War, and concentrate on solving the squadron, then China's losses will be greater.

Gain and loss!

This is the sequelae of the standard crossing!

If this development continues, will it be like Chiang Kai-shek 40 years later in history, who is wholeheartedly waiting for the United States to enter the war?

Think about it, this time in history is on the eve of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments. At that time, the conditions were so bad, and the entire Eighth Route Army did not have a single heavy artillery, just that, Mr. Peng resolutely ordered to launch a hundred regiments battle and launch a large-scale attack on the little devils, what kind of courage and feelings was that?

Later, some people said that the sequelae of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments were great, and it was indeed a fact that the strength of the Eighth Route Army was prematurely exposed and caused the Japanese army to retaliate and sweep the base areas. However, even if there is no battle of 100 regiments, won't the little devils engage in law and order and upright combat?

However, in history, the Battle of the Hundred Regiments has become a big crime for Mr. Peng!

Liu Yimin suddenly thought that if **, Su Yu and himself were changed to serve as the commander of the Shandong Military Region, under the current situation, how would they fight?

Thinking about it, Liu Yimin smiled in his heart, ** and Su Yu are not traversers, they don't know the historical process, they don't have a score in their hearts when they can defeat the Japanese devils, and they don't have the mentality of gains and losses of a time-traveler like himself who is familiar with history, he doesn't have any baggage, so he doesn't care so much, he must be bent on winning the battle until he knocks the little devil out of the base. No, with the strength of our army in Shandong, in the hands of ** and Su Yu, it is likely that it will not be as simple as driving the devils out of the base area, I am afraid that they will have to recover Shandong and find the devils in a decisive battle as soon as possible!

Of course, this is just a hypothesis. At this time, he was only the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, he was not injured, he did not go to the Soviet Union to cultivate and study, he had not seen the real large corps combat, and his vision was not as broad as during the War of Liberation!

Su Yu is the same, at this time he is only the commander of a detachment of the New Fourth Army, and he also does not have the concept of large-scale field warfare of a large corps in his mind, and he still has to experience it for a long time!

It seems that the commander of our army in Shandong really belongs to him, but he has to re-analyze and judge his previous views.

The reason why the Japanese army was so rampant in history was that Japan had a high level of industrial development, a high level of national education, a high level of training for soldiers, and obvious advantages in the sea and air; Another is that China's national strength is weak, and the combat effectiveness of the army is not flattering. A brigade of the Japanese army can run a long distance with a division, take the Eighth Route Army as an example, in history, when the Eighth Route Army first entered the anti-Japanese battlefield, because the old Red Army had many components, tenacious style, and strong combat effectiveness, so from 1937 to the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the Eighth Route Army fought very bravely, and the expansion speed was very fast. However, the expansion of the armed forces will inevitably lead to the dilution of combat effectiveness. This is the phenomenon that after the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, an infantry brigade of the Japanese army dared to go deep into the hinterland of the base area to sweep away. The battle of Guanjianao in the later operation of the Hundred Regiments War is a clear proof of this, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army mobilized the main force to encircle and annihilate an infantry brigade of the Japanese army, but it was unable to overcome the attack for a long time, suffered heavy casualties, and finally had to withdraw from the battle.

As a result, there was a strange phenomenon that a single independent mixed brigade of the Japanese army in North China could defend more than 100 counties. ** of the guerrillas, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, circling around the county seat, entering the county town to attack and harass, but rarely can take the initiative to attack the county seat. Unless it is the main force of the Eighth Route Army, it will attack the county occupied by the Japanese army.

In the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the squadron failed to destroy a brigade of the Japanese army in a structured manner!

It is precisely because of this that in the second half of 1939, the Japanese army easily transferred most of the permanent divisions and regiments in China back to Japan to be rested or demobilized, while the vast majority of the permanent divisions and regiments were transferred back to Japan to cancel their numbers and demobilize, and the newly organized three-unit garrison divisions served as the main force in the war of aggression against China.

It is also for this reason that the Japanese army has the spare strength to easily launch the Pacific War, because their veterans and elite divisions are all shrinking in the Kwantung Army or Japan, and they are just pulled to the front line.

The Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness rebounded in the later stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the combat effectiveness of the troops was once again greatly improved after training and actual combat training. And the real rebound in combat effectiveness is after getting American-style equipment, ** firepower surpasses the Japanese army, and the combat effectiveness also goes up.

Now the situation is different, due to its own appearance, the strength of the Eighth Route Army is much stronger than in history, and the record is extremely brilliant, and the Japanese army now does not want to let those permanent divisions and special divisions return to China for rest and demobilization, but on the contrary, it has newly organized so many divisions and regiments, independent mixed brigades, independent brigades, and garrisons in advance, and it is still insufficient in strength.

In particular, our army in Shandong has eliminated so many Japanese divisions, independent mixed brigades, and garrisons, and has become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the devil. If the little devils don't concentrate their forces to destroy the Eighth Route Army, I'm afraid they will have to withdraw from Shandong, Shanxi, and even the whole of North China.

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