At the same time that the military cranks of the American Empire and the Confederate States of America are meeting in New York to discuss breaking the current stalemate on the battlefield. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In Lancaster's former enemy headquarters of the East China Army, Han Si, who had just arrived, was also discussing the evolution of the battlefield situation with young generals such as Zhu Juan, Zhu Xingyi, and Yang Xien. Although the Battle of the Missouri River has shown signs of stalemate, neither Jujuan nor Han Si, nor even Zhu Jishi, who is in charge of San Francisco, does not think that the Americans will be willing to let the war come to a stalemate! Although the North American battlefield is likely to eventually evolve into a trench-to-trench, defensive line against defensive line of static war of attrition.

"King Juan, as far as the old man is concerned, it is unlikely that the US army will take a long-distance attack. Because the distance required to run is so far, whether it is from South Dakota in the north or Texas in the south, it will take hundreds of kilometers to threaten the Pacific Railroad line. Our army, on the other hand, can quickly dispatch troops through the railway line to meet the attacking US troops, and fight a battle to wait for work. At that time, our steppe army could run thousands of kilometers to break the Russian army, because the Russians did not build the railway to Central Asia, so they were unable to deploy a large army in Central Asia. In a completely different situation on the North American battlefield today, there is little chance that a long-distance attack will have a miraculous effect. Unless they can draw the full force of our forces to the Missouri River-Kansas City line with a frontal offensive. However, we will soon lay a temporary railway to the front line, and the movement of troops will be very convenient......"

Han Si stood in front of the sand table with crutches, a book, a book, a reading, and a novel, and talked about his views eloquently. Everyone present nodded frequently with a convincing expression. Han Si is a titan figure in long-distance raids in this era. He commanded the Steppe Legion's thousand-mile campaign, which is considered a classic in the history of warfare and a model of sports warfare. In the textbooks of the army academies of every country. There is a lot of space related to this. If you want to look for a general who can be compared with him among the military in recent decades. And only the late French Marshal Jérôme. Duke Peel - the latter is famous in the history of warfare with the concepts of defensive omnipotence and static warfare.

According to Jérôme. Peele's theory. With the advent of barbed wire, machine guns, dense trench defense areas, and long-range artillery, the war has become increasingly favorable to the defending side. It will be very, very difficult to drive a well-equipped army out of a strong fortification, and it will cost you dearly! Moreover, due to the emergence of a large number of heavy weapons and equipment, the army units have become more and more dependent on railway lines for logistical support. Once off the railway, horses and manpower simply cannot carry enough heavy weapons and ammunition for long-distance maneuvers. Without carrying heavy weapons and sufficient ammunition, the army has no way to maintain a sufficiently powerful attack. This has created a situation in which it is "difficult to form an effective breakthrough". In other words, even if a breakthrough is achieved at a certain point in a line of defense, the value of the breakthrough is reduced because it is not possible to transport enough troops with heavy weapons to the enemy's depth at a sufficient distance from the breakthrough site in a timely manner, and the concept of "ineffective breakthrough" emerges -- the enemy only needs to send reserves or simply establish a reserve line in advance to close the gap in time and maintain the overall vacillation of the battle line. Therefore, future wars will have a slow and flat offensive of the entire front, and the attacking side will even have time to lay railways behind the slowly advancing troops to ensure logistics.

And Jérôme. Peel's theory has now become the "iron law" believed in by the French Army, which is the main reason why the French are reluctant to enter the war. They are convinced that war will turn into a life-devouring mill of flesh and blood. The attacking side will be drowned in their own blood. So the best way to defend French interests on the European continent is a strong line of defense! As a soldier trained by the French Army Academy, Jujuan was of course deeply influenced by this set of negative combat theories. It was also the line of defense he would build along the Missouri River. And the main reason for taking a defensive position. But he is bent on grabbing more land in North America, and he is constantly thinking about ways to break this static defensive war.

"Han Shuai, in the past few years, the lone king has been thinking about a way to break the dense defense line. There are only two ways to think about it, one is to take a detour on a large scale...... Use a powerful cavalry corps to bypass the enemy's lines, break behind enemy lines, engage the enemy's reserves in a swift decisive battle, and achieve victory. ”

"It's very difficult." Han Si said, "But it's not impossible, the appearance of wireless telegraphy can allow the roundabout troops and the frontal main attack force to maintain close coordination." In this way, the main frontal attacking force can launch a timely onslaught to contain the opponent and make it impossible to mobilize enough troops to return to the defense. He paused for a moment, and then added, "However, if the enemy abandons the frontal line of defense and retreats in great strides using the railway line, the roundabout troops will be attacked by the enemy's whole army, and they will be annihilated." ”

Jujuan nodded, and said: "The second method is a continuous attack, which is to concentrate a large number of firepower, troops, materials, and logistics and transportation capabilities at a certain point of the enemy's defense line. Tear open the enemy's defenses with overwhelming superiority, and then continuously throw powerful reserves into the gaps to ensure a continuous offensive that defeats the enemy's reserves, breaks through their reserves, and plunges the enemy into total collapse. ”

As soon as Juan said this, he immediately attracted Han Si's admiring gaze, "King, what method are you going to use to achieve a breakthrough?" ”

"A sea of fire and a sea of people!" Zhu Juan said, "The absolute superiority of troops and firepower is concentrated in one point, and it is still enough to form a breakthrough if you are prepared to bear huge losses!" And once the enemy's entire defense line is shaken and collapsed, a large number of opportunities will be obtained to annihilate the enemy's living forces. The Lone King called this set of tactics a big deep breakthrough! ”

Great depth breakthrough! If Zhu Jishi heard this name, he would probably suspect that his son was a famous Soviet World War II general. However, this concept is far from being as "high-end" as imagined, and the concept of defensive depth that has been put forward by military experts nowadays, if conditions permit, no one will use a line of defense without any depth to resist the enemy's attack. It's just a question of how deep the defense is. And this kind of defense arranged in depth has also become the main reason for the current "static war". The reason is simple, the cost of building a defensive line is much lower than breaking through it.

As long as you dig some holes, put machine guns and pull barbed wire, you can barely be a line of defense. Without artillery bombardment, it would have been a dream to rely on infantry to break through this improvised line of machine guns and barbed wire. And to pull the cannon up from the rear, redeployment in place is a relatively long process, in this era there are no self-propelled guns and no trucks, the 75 fast guns with weak firepower are still easy to move, and it is very troublesome for the large-caliber heavy artillery to move on the front line full of craters and no good roads. Therefore, after breaking through the enemy's first trench, it is often necessary to rearrange it before the attack can be relaunched. And in the process, the enemy must have mobilized reserves to strengthen the reserve line. Thus the large depth breakthrough has been each. The difficulties faced by experts.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to break through continuously, right?" Han Si shook his head slightly, "There is not much of a problem with the investment of troops, but it is difficult for the firepower to keep up, and it is difficult to break through the enemy's reserve defense line composed of barbed wire and machine guns without strong firepower." ”

"Isn't there a mortar?" Jujuan muttered, "Aren't the Ming troops of the three armies that just came up equipped with this kind of light artillery? The Lone King believed that they could be used as the second and third echelons, and that the enemy had set up at most two reserve lines, and once a breakthrough was achieved, it would allow our cavalry units to penetrate the enemy's rear assembly area from the gap, sweep away their heavy artillery positions, important command structures of material warehouses, and cut off their logistics and material transportation lines. In this way, the enemy could only retreat from the Missouri River in great strides. ”

Han Si was stunned, "What?" What do you mean, my lord...... We're going to attack? ”

Jujuan nodded and said, "Use 1.2 million people to defeat a maximum of 1.8 million people!" (To be continued......)