On May 1, 1907, International Labor Day, more than 100,000 Chinese troops, supported by the powerful fire of naval guns, launched an attack from the north and south at the same time......

Before the smoke cleared, the loud trumpet sounded, and the US officers and soldiers raised their eyes to see the figures of Chinese soldiers everywhere, as if they had suddenly grown out of the land, and if they did not know the actual strength comparison between the two sides, they would definitely think that the number of Chinese troops was far greater than that of the US army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Now that everyone has mastered the most critical part of the 'sea of people' tactic of alternate cover, even if the actual number of troops invested is not too much, in the eyes of the enemy, it is like a thousand troops, and our army is finally fully ......formed," Huang Haitao, who is now the brigade commander and political commissar, put down his binoculars and sighed with satisfaction. Perhaps because the Chinese are flexible, on the contrary, the seemingly more difficult infiltration tactics were mastered by the various units earlier, and although the "sea of people" is extremely easy to get started and has been widely used since the beginning of the Yiwei Revolution, it can only be called completely mastered until now, more than ten years later.

The more small-scale the battle and the more complex the terrain, the easier it is to give full play to the advantages of the "infiltration" tactic; The "sea of people" tactic is the opposite, the larger the battle, the more open and flat the terrain, the more terrifying the power of this tactic. The reason why Li Hui chose "infiltration" combined with "sea of people" as the basic tactical thinking of the Chinese military was precisely because the two could form a good complementarity.

The "sea of people" tactic seems to be just an insignificant addition, and its real horror is the other three points.

First of all, it is suitable for large corps operations, and only when there are more than 10,000 people can they begin to show their might, and the more troops they have, the more powerful they are; even if two or three million people are put into the attack, as long as the quality of the officers is qualified, they can still be arranged without messing up, and this is exactly the secret way of trying to pursue the royal road of fighting more and fighting less.

Of course, if the enemy is strong enough to counterattack and penetrate the "sea of people" front, the consequences will be very serious, but the "sea of people" is actually a tactic of bullying the weak, and only a tendon like Maozi will use it to deal with the enemy who is stronger than himself, Li Hui will not be so rigid, use the sea of people to attack the weak, and use the sea of people to attack the weak enemy, and the weak enemy will have to actively use his brains to infiltrate.

More importantly, the "sea of people" tactic has very low requirements for the organization of the troops, and the troops' ability to fight continuously is extremely strong; as long as the enemy cannot withstand a retreat, they will be beaten all the time and will not be able to reorganize, and eventually the army will be defeated like a mountain, and the 10 Stalin assaults in history are the most typical examples of war. The implementation of this tactical route with light infantry units is certainly not as sharp as that of armored units, but now the enemy is also light infantry, and there is no wide depth to retreat, so the effect is no less good.

The morale of the Ninth Army had already slipped to a low point, how could it withstand a terrible offensive like an overwhelming sea, the defense line soon collapsed, and then rapidly expanded, and other places also broke one after another, and it didn't take long for the huge number of US troops to be shattered like a collapsed embankment, countless US officers and soldiers were divided, surrounded, and annihilated, and the torrent of two Chinese armies, one south and one north, continued to advance. The U.S. Ninth Army, which was huge in number but had collapsed, was constantly squeezing and tearing apart......

"Is this the real strength of the Chinese army? Indeed, it is indeed the strongest army in the world, and it is convincing to lose to such an opponent. The commander of the U.S. Ninth Army put down his binoculars in despair, unable to bear to look at the tragic slaughter of his subordinates. After giving his last order in desperation, "retreat eastward", the army general committed suicide by drinking bullets, and he saved the last bit of honor as a soldier with his own death......

Less than three days later, this unprecedented scale of the world's history of the battle came to an end, including the previous defensive battle, more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers in three divisions killed a total of more than 90,000 American officers and soldiers, more than 220,000 prisoners, and the more than 140,000 people who fled eastward into the mountains because they abandoned their baggage, and it was the early spring when food was the most scarce in the forest, and as a result, most of them failed to get out of the mountains alive, and even the more than 20,000 people who survived, most of them suffered from mental illness to varying degrees. For example, almost everyone will store a large pile of dry food at home in the future, which shows what kind of psychological shadow this unsuccessful retreat left on them......

After eating so many enemies, it was naturally impossible for the Chinese army to suffer no casualties, but for the troops that adopted the tactics of crowds, only one-tenth of the troops were killed and wounded, and it was far from affecting the subsequent actions, so the US Eighth Army, which was ordered to go west to the rescue, ran headlong into the iron plate, and if it were not for the fact that the commander of the group army had become extremely cautious after successive setbacks, it would not be just a division that would have been eaten.

Even if the main force of the Eighth Army retreated to Spokane, their crisis was still not resolved, and the three ace divisions of China took advantage of the victory to pursue Seattle in one go, and at the same time annihilated tens of thousands of American troops, and also made Spokane completely an isolated island.

Although the strength still exists, and the terrain is advantageous, even if the Chinese army attacks from three sides, the US Eighth Army will not be destroyed soon, but in the supply line almost (say almost, because it can still use horse-drawn carriages to transport supplies by road, but that efficiency can definitely not meet the needs of more than 300,000 troops. How long can they hold out in a bad situation when they are completely cut off?

Retreat south? It might have been a little better than the Ninth Army's failed eastward retreat, since the south of Spokane was mainly grassland, and after the westward movement had mostly been turned into pasture, food was far easier to obtain than in the forests. But now that the Eighth Army is under attack on three sides, will those Chinese troops let them leave unharmed? This is obviously impossible......

In desperation, the U.S. Eighth Army could only cut off the tail of the gecko, leaving 100,000 elite soldiers (this is already the lower limit estimated by the commander of the group army) to rely on the terrain to block the attack of the three-way Chinese army, and most of the remaining men and horses abandoned most of the baggage and quickly retreated south.

Half a month later, the remnants of the Eighth Army finally fled to safety, and by this time, including their army commanders, the 100,000 remaining troops had been wiped out...... (To be continued.) )