Li Kongrong suddenly turned the extremely heavy and arduous War of Resistance into a deal with countless rewards, which immediately made the editors-in-chief and reporters present cry and laugh. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but this is logically impeccable, the most important difference between the army and the navy is that the army can only drive the Japanese into the sea, while the navy can fight Japan. The former could not claim reparations from Japan, and it would certainly be at a loss, while the latter would pay reparations after Japan surrendered because it could besiege and land on Japan.

Yu Dafu was stunned and was about to speak, when the two editors-in-chief, who had not spoken, began to ask questions. Kwan Chupu of Sin Chew Daily asked, "Can Colonel Li elaborate on the country. Is there a specific strategy for the army counteroffensive? Why do we have to have 2,000 artillery pieces and 2,000 planes to counterattack? How is $1.1 billion calculated? Is it $300 million for two thousand planes? Guan Chupu's voice was loud, Fu Wubo just made a start, and then he asked Guan Chupu to ask first.

"The counteroffensive strategy of the national army?" Li Kongrong thought about the string of numbers he had just spit out, and suddenly felt that he had forgotten a premise: Japan and the United States went to war. If the Japanese Army had not been transferred to fight in the Pacific direction, the country. A counteroffensive with only two thousand artillery pieces is not enough, and two thousand fighters are not enough. But since the words came out, he didn't admit his mistake immediately, and after a little thought, he said: "Country. The army's counteroffensive strategy was very simple, that is, to start a war in various theaters to contain the Japanese troops, and at the same time choose the Yangtze River as the main axis of the attack. At any time, the first thing to consider in the decisive battle of the campaign is the logistics problem, the Yangtze River transportation capacity is more than 20 railways, so the country. The army's counteroffensive must be fought along the axis of the Yangtze River, and the first battle is Wuhan, and after Wuhan is captured, Shanxi can also be attacked, and Shanxi is a springboard for the counterattack in North China, but that side is along the railway.

Why do you need two thousand cannons, two thousand aircraft? This question is incomprehensible. There are no 2,000 fighters - I'm talking about 2,000 fighters, not 2,000 planes, but also bombers, trainers, transporters, bombers. Bombers are expensive, fighters are cheap, what these two thousand fighters have to do is not to attack on the ground, we don't have the money to use planes to hit the Japanese, so the loss of planes is very large, and two thousand fighters are for guarantors. The army troops and logistics were not harassed and bombed by Japanese aircraft. The corps also had logistical supplies that could be transported during the day without loss, and this was only a tactical air force, designed to render Japanese aircraft ineffective in the war.

With its current production capacity, it is possible to produce 10,000 planes a year at the maximum, but it is impossible for it to produce only 10,000 fighters, and it must also produce trainer planes, bombers, and transport planes. If the 2,000 fighters have advanced performance and correct tactics, they will be able to seize some of the battlefield air supremacy, but they must ensure that 2,000 planes are available every year, and in terms of battle losses, they will probably have to replenish about 1,000 planes and pilots every year, otherwise they will not be able to sustain themselves.

2,000 cannons does not mean that we only have 2,000 cannons, but that we have to buy another 2,000 cannons, plus the original ...... It's probably about 2,000 guns, a total of 4,000 guns. With fifty-four guns as an artillery regiment, this is seventy-four artillery regiments. This is still a little short, it is better to have a hundred artillery regiments with 5,400 cannons, so that it can be equipped with a hundred army divisions.

The real difference between the Chinese and Japanese armies lies in artillery, or in other words, the main gap between our strongest army divisions, that is, the German 88th, 87th, and 36th German divisions, and the Japanese divisions and regiments, is in artillery, and it is the artillery that determines the combat effectiveness of the armies of the two sides. This is essentially a problem that arises from the different learning outcomes of the last world war in our two countries.

Although Japan did not participate in the last World War, they seriously summed up the lessons and lessons afterwards, but we did not. The biggest lesson of the last war is that the artillery has been completely changed from direct aiming to indirect aiming, and the assault group tactics widely used by the German army in the later stage of the war were invented - first use 150mm howitzers to destroy the enemy's barbed wire and fire points and suppress the enemy's artillery positions, and then form two layers of barrage from the shells, one layer falls behind the enemy's position, isolating the enemy's reserves from coming forward to support; The other layer fell in front of the enemy's position, and the own assault infantry followed this barrage slowly, and the distance between the spearhead and the barrage was very, very close, only two or three hundred meters. Relying on the cover of this barrage, the assault infantry suddenly rushed into the position and eliminated the enemy when they were blown up.

Country. The strongest German division in the army has only one battalion of 75mm mountain artillery, which is said to be a battalion, but in fact, it is a company of four guns instead of six guns, which is also twelve guns. There are 24 37mm anti-aircraft guns, but the 37mm anti-aircraft guns are not helpful to the artillery battle between the two armies at all, so these artillery pieces still cannot change the nature of the troops, and this is still a light infantry division rather than a heavy infantry division with artillery as the core. These 12 75mm mountain artillery, not to mention the Japanese planes, only one division of the Japanese army could quickly destroy or suppress them in the artillery bombardment, so that they did not dare to open fire. This is the experience of the Japanese artillery in the Russo-Japanese War in exchange for their lives, at that time they only had the backward performance of the Trinity mountain gun, or the artillery back, but this kind of backward performance can only fire two rounds per minute The artillery can only beat the more advanced 1902 Type 76mm tube gun of the Tsarist Army, on what basis? It is based on the concentrated use of artillery in decisive battles.

This is the lesson of the Russo-Japanese War, and the German Army, which experienced the last world war, believes that in the next world war, the minimum caliber of the barreled artillery should be 105mm, and it is better to have all 150mm; And the ratio of artillery to infantry of an infantry division must reach at least 1:3; With the addition of 37mm anti-aircraft guns or mortars, the ratio of artillery to infantry should be 1:2. That is to say, the infantry of the three regiments must be paired with an artillery regiment composed of 54 guns, and the artillery such as anti-aircraft artillery and mortars must be organized in the infantry regiment, and the artillery establishment of the whole division must account for half, so that it can be regarded as a heavy infantry division.

This is the case in Europe, if the country. The opponents of the army are only other people, and twelve barreled artillery pieces per division are enough, but the War of Resistance is facing Japan, although we do not need 150mm howitzers, and 75mm mountain artillery is enough, but the number of artillery cannot be less. There can be no less artillery, no less trucks or horses towing artillery to carry shells. We had no hope for horses, and the Japanese spent decades improving horse administration, and we didn't have any horses, so we had to use trucks.

A division must be equipped with at least 54 75mm barreled guns, and because of the limitations of the battlefield and the logistics of the Japanese army, the two sides will have a maximum of 100 divisions, so I say that it is best to have 5,400 cannons for a total of 100 artillery regiments, and a certain number of 150mm cannons, and in the decisive battle, it is necessary to rely on long-range cannons to suppress enemy artillery; There must also be a certain number of 240mm and 280 heavy howitzers, which must be relied on to bombard the Japanese fortifications and open gaps for the infantry in the decisive battle. These two types of artillery are small in number, but they are indispensable.

Although there are many cannons mentioned above, the cannons are very cheap, and the 75mm field cannon is about 10,000 US dollars, and the shells are very expensive. A hundred base is 10,000 rounds, twenty-five dollars each, and one cannon is twenty-fifty thousand dollars. Why do you have to have 10,000 shells? This is calculated with reference to the Japanese army, and their military logistics are generally based on the battle parts, and the shell preparation of each cannon for a battle part is 3,000 rounds, and 10,000 rounds is three battle parts. In other words, as long as the three battles of Wuhan, Shanxi, and Nanjing were won, China and Japan would definitely negotiate -- for the Japanese, it would be better to withdraw as soon as possible if they fought or lost again; As far as the Nationalist Government is concerned, all that is fought is money, and Japan only needs to withdraw from China, and you will not get compensation if you fight again.

Without air supremacy, logistics will not be smooth, and artillery will be suppressed by Japanese aircraft, so two thousand fighters are necessary, and a thousand will be replenished every year; And the cannons, it is better to have 5,400 guns, and it is possible to do without 4,000 guns, but there can be no less shells, at least the shells of these three battles. ”

After explaining in one breath why the counteroffensive required 2,000 fighters, 2,000 artillery pieces, and 100 shells, Li Kongrong paused and began to drink tea; he felt that it was really tiring to explain military issues to a young reporter who didn't know anything, but in order to propagate the theory that the navy would win the War of Resistance, he had to popularize these difficult military knowledge of later generations.

Li Kongrong was talking endlessly just now, and the paperwork of the newspaper was still a little unable to catch up, and now he stopped to drink tea, and several documents hurriedly stepped up to record. Guan Chupu, Yu Dafu, and others listened to it with relish, and no one had ever analyzed the War of Resistance from the military and tactical level, and what they advocated the most was 'justice,' 'the people's will,' 'the vast land and abundant resources,' and '40,000,000 people will not give in' and so on.

"Why are there so many planes, why are there so many barreled artillery, why are there so many shells, I have said it all above." Li Kongrong put down the teacup and continued. "According to the above analysis, $1.1 billion is a gross underestimate. At present, the best-performing aircraft generally cost $50,000 each, and with the training of pilots and ground crews, each combat plane is counted as $150,000, and 2,000 planes are 300 million.

Moreover, these aircraft must use the right tactics, must have honest and combative commanders, must have responsible ground crew, and must have an effective early warning system, otherwise $300 million will certainly not be enough. To give the simplest example: the landing gear of the Hawker III fighter is retractable, but it is precisely because it is retractable that pilots often forget to put down the landing gear when landing, they think that the landing gear is down, because the landing gear of other fighters is not retractable, and there is no need to lower the landing gear when landing.

The result? Pilots often have people crash planes because they forgot to put down their landing gear. It's not once or twice, there's a lot of things like that. Whose problem is this? It is understandable that pilots do not have this habit, but the ground crew can be improved, they can send a person to stand on the runway to observe whether the pilot has lowered the landing gear, and if not, wave the flag or launch a signal flare to remind the pilot, so that the plane will not be dropped, but the ground crew just did not do this, so it fell one after another.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese Air Force had about 300 combat aircraft, but they could actually fight in the sky, do you know how many? Less than a hundred! I heard that the number was more than 90, and Mr. Chang almost killed Mao Bangchu at that time. Two-thirds of the planes cannot be lifted into the air! If we follow this ratio, then two thousand combat aircraft is not enough, at least six thousand are needed. Therefore, naval aviation attaches great importance to ground crews from the beginning of aviation schools, and their salaries are half of those of pilots, half of the honor and merit of shooting down an enemy plane, and half of the ground crew. The attendance rate of the navy's planes must reach 95 percent, and if the navy's five aircraft carriers and 300 planes have only more than 90 combat planes like the air force, what else can they fight? It's time to go home and farm.

300 million for airplanes and 5,400 artillery shells for 54 million shells, which is different from just now, when the shells were calculated at 20 million rounds and 500 million US dollars, but now they are calculated at 1.35 billion; There will also be an increase in trucks, and I don't know how many trucks there are in the country right now, so let's keep this unchanged for the time being. Compared with the cost of shells, artillery is very cheap, that is, three or four million dollars, which is not much.

As for the oil ......, I know that before the Anti-Japanese War, there were 200,000 automobiles and 1,000 airplanes of various types in the country, and 100 million gallons of gasoline needed to be imported every year[Note 74], and many of these 200,000 cars were cars. I don't remember the rest: the money for the shells used in the training of a hundred artillery regiments is not counted; 150mm cannons, 240mm, 280mm heavy howitzers, and shells are not counted. Now you add it up, and it will cost a lot of money to drive the Japanese out by the army.

There are two other points that we should pay attention to: First, this is only the money for the air force and artillery, and the money for purchasing weapons and ammunition that we cannot produce, and the money for heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, rifles, grenades, and all kinds of ammunition for infantry is not included in it. and the soldiers' salaries, clothing, and pensions are not among them; The destruction of the city and the accidental injury of the people during the counteroffensive were not among them.

Second, the choice of generals is also very important, if the commander is ...... Liu Zhi, who is known as the 'pig', although he has the name of a blessed general, but if he is unlucky and loses the battle, the cost will rise again......"

After careful calculation, the $1.1 billion just now rose to $2 billion, and several people shook their heads one after another. Wang Junshi said: "Colonel Li, we can't make artillery, can't we produce shells?" ”

"It can be produced. I remember that in 1936 more than 90,000 rounds of 75mm mountain artillery shells were made. Li Kongrong recalled the figures of the Ordnance Industry Administration, and laughed again: "The question is to counterattack, is this output enough?" The production of artillery shells involves raw materials, lathes, and qualified technicians, and how long does it take to increase the production from more than 90,000 rounds per year to 10 million rounds per year? ”