In any war, the most important factors are not equipment, training, military guidelines, human and material resources, although these are among the most important factors in defeating the enemy, the most important thing is the planning of the big picture.

This is the "master strategy", or "master plan".

At the time of his time in Yucheng, Song Biao did not have a clear idea of the upcoming Sino-Chinese war, but only made some general arrangements, and he gradually rethought the overall situation these days, and finally set a new tone for this new war -- the people's war.

On the evening after the adoption of the joint declaration on the four principles of military and political unity, national rejuvenation, constitutional state, and civil rights and people's livelihood, Song Biao secretly convened a confidential meeting at the General Staff Headquarters, and only seven people attended the meeting, including General Martos, General Adviser of the Army, Shu Fangde, Minister of the Army, Jiang Fangzhen, Chief of the General Staff, Chen Qicai, First Adjutant General Staff, Jiang Zhengyuan, Director of the Army Intelligence Department, and Yang Tiesheng, Director of the Military Command Department of the Patrol Forces of the Three Eastern Provinces, who rushed from the northeast.

Song Biao waited for Yang Tiesheng for two days, Yang Tiesheng arrived at the headquarters in the evening, and immediately convened the meeting in the evening.

Yang Tiesheng entered the conference room with Song Biao, and the two talked while walking.

In the conference room, everyone else had already arrived in advance, General Martos, Jiang Fangzhen, and Chen Qicai were discussing various possibilities around the northeast border map, and Jiang Zhengyuan and Shu Fangde were also communicating the latest intelligence work in a low voice.

The two largest intelligence agencies are the Intelligence Department and the Secret Service Bureau, followed by the Army Secret Service of the War Department, Jiang Zhengyuan and Shu Fangde have different intelligence sources, and the two sides need to communicate frequently to confirm the latest situation and the correct surname of the intelligence.

When Song Biao walked into the venue, several generals stood up and saluted at the same time, even General Martos was no exception.

As the emperor, Song Biao bowed his head in return, then walked to his seat and sat down, and said, "Everyone sit down." ”

Hearing this, the generals sat down and continued to wait for the emperor's imperial training.

Etiquette is a very important thing, it is very empty, but it invisibly restricts everyone, so that people are always aware of who others are and who they are.

According to this series of new regulations, except for the public review of the troops, when the emperor receives the military salute of the whole army as the supreme commander-in-chief of the imperial [***] team, on other occasions, the soldiers also bow to the emperor in order to maintain equal treatment with the political axe officials.

Because the deputy chief of the general staff has been vacant, Chen Qicai, the first adjutant of the general staff, is exercising similar powers at this time, and at the same time represents the officers and close ministers around the emperor, and this meeting was arranged by him.

After everyone sat down, Chen Qicai was responsible for distributing the summary materials of each meeting, and then he made a brief report: "Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, as far as the Ministry of Intelligence knows, the War Department has secretly reactivated the name of the Manchurian Army, with the Third Division stationed in Longchuan and the Fifth Division stationed in Shuozhou as the First Army of Manchuria, and the Eighth and Tenth Divisions stationed in Maoshan and Qingjin as the Second Army of Manchuria. According to reliable sources, the 2nd and 6th Divisions of the Chinese Army are also about to intervene in the situation in Korea, and their stations may be in Gucheng, Anju, and Zaosan Bay. Recently, the Governor-General's Office in Korea has also begun to strictly investigate the gold mines of China's commercial organizations in Unsan, Dayu, and Changseong, and once war is declared, the other side will certainly be eager to forcibly take over these gold mines, and the current backlog of gold in the mines has also been forcibly seized by the garrison of Yueben, with a total amount of about 200 kilograms. ”

After hearing this, Song Biao simply reminded everyone: "They are all old opponents, almost all of them died in the first battle of Liaoyang back then, and we have expanded the Northeast Army over the years, and they have not stopped restoring the system." It is said that the speed of the army's recovery before the Meiji 41 years was relatively slow, and after 41 years, stimulated by the ronin incident in the three eastern provinces, the reconstruction of the army was suddenly accelerated, in fact, it was only in these two years that the army was expanded on a large scale, although it was nominally claimed that there were already fifteen divisions, in fact, only the first twelve divisions were completely restored, and the three new divisions were only started at the end of last year. ”

He only stopped here and did not continue.

Chen Qicai then reported: "As His Majesty said, the army is currently mainly dependent on its naval strength, and the actual real combat strength of the army is only 12 divisions and regiments, of which the first, second, third, fifth, and tenth divisions are the most elite, and the original eighth division has not been able to recover after suffering heavy losses. In short, the biggest difference between the army and our Northeast Army lies in the difference in the ratio of light and heavy machine guns. Affected by the impact of the Russo-Japanese War, the Chinese army put forward a great ratio of heavy machine guns in the process of reconstruction, and considering a variety of reasons, even if we knew that our army was mainly equipped with light machine guns, the Chinese army did not officially install light machine guns. According to our speculation, such a move by the military comes from two aspects: first, it failed to reach a patent purchase agreement with Madsen, and China has already purchased the patent for the Hatch Chase machine gun, and second, the weight and rate of fire of the 38-year-old heavy machine gun, that is, the 6.5mm caliber Hatch Chase machine gun, are between Maxim and Madsen; Third, the army had already drawn up a perfect plan to completely equip the 38-year-old heavy machine guns to the company level, with each company setting up a machine gun platoon, and each machine gun arranged to carry three machine guns. ”

After a slight pause, Chen Qicai glanced at the others briefly, convinced that everyone knew a lot about these issues, so he stopped repeating them and simply concluded: "In short, in view of the differences in equipment, training, and establishment, our army is stronger than rapid advances, and the army is stronger than positional warfare. The garrison will certainly not agree with this point, but we can learn from a comprehensive comparison that on the same position, the regular equipment of the division can last for 20 days of long-term operation, while an infantry division of our army can only last about 10 days. Therefore, I thought that the army was stronger than the positional warfare of long-term attrition, and the strength of our army was the positional warfare of rapid assault. From a logistical point of view, because of the large scale of firepower and the difficulty of supply, our army had to expand the size of the troops and increase the oversized baggage troops in the regular establishment of the German army of 18,000 people; the horsepower, manpower, and deployment capacity of a baggage regiment of our army are equivalent to 1.4 times that of a baggage regiment of the Chinese army, and the ability to maintain the normal position of the Chinese army is 15 to 20 days, while our army can only maintain 10 to 15 days even on the basis of the larger scale of the baggage troops, and this is where the difference and characteristics of our two armies lie. ”

Chen Qicai's conclusion will definitely be extremely controversial at the level of each infantry division and brigade, and there will be all kinds of arguments, soldiers, they are naturally unconvinced, but everyone here is the designer of the Northeast Army, and everyone understands it very well, especially Song Biao, Martos, and Jiang Fangzhen, the three of them can basically be regarded as the fathers of the Northeast Army.

Chen Qicai deliberately wanted to emphasize the difference between the Yue Army and the Northeast Army at this moment, just to pave the way for the general strategy formulated by Song Biao, because he was a first-class general staff adjutant, and he basically accompanied Song Biao every day, and discussed the most things, and of course he was the first person to know about this general strategy.

At this time, Jiang Fangzhen, Shu Fangde and the others smoked in silence, and everyone looked at Chen Qicai, knowing that he would soon get to the point.

Chen Qicai pondered solemnly for a moment, and then continued: "Therefore, if our army wants to decide the victory or defeat with the Yue army, it must take the four words 'quick battle and fierce attack' as the first key. ”

You nodded silently.

Each unit has its own strengths, the characteristics of the army lie in fineness and maintenance, and the characteristics of the Northeast Army lie in speed and firepower, once the Northeast Army rushes forward, it will not be able to destroy the army within three days, and it will become increasingly embarrassing later, and after seven days of strong attack, it must turn from offensive to defensive, or even begin to retreat. Once the army can't hold it, it will be broken through the defense line by the Northeast Army and quickly outflanked and divided, and the end will be the annihilation of the whole army, and it will be difficult to withdraw.

Such different characteristics are precisely caused by the differences in equipment, training, and combat policies.

The Northeast Army actually has a relatively good understanding of the situation of the army, and the three detachments directly under the jurisdiction of the Jilin Patrol Army Corps are simulated and built on the basis of the characteristics of the army's establishment, and they are often used for exercises and research.

In contrast, the Northeast Army's understanding of the Northeast Army is not deep enough, and its intelligence work is still very good, but the Northeast Army's counterintelligence and secrecy work is also very powerful, because the Northeast Army has to guard against both the Qing Dynasty and foreign factors, and most of its military secrets are closed, and the scope of the three eastern provinces is too large, and many units of the Northeast Army are hiding in the mountains, no matter what kind of exercises they are engaged in, or long-term intensive training, stationing, or even secret preparations, etc., the Army is completely unclear.

Including military spending, arms procurement, military supplies, and so on, the Northeast Army has too many secrets, and it is not something that the intelligence department of the military can find out if they want to.

Therefore, once the Sino-Chinese war really starts, the best policy for the Northeast Army is to pounce out, and it is imperative to annihilate two or three main divisions of the Army.

After Chen Qicai had almost laid the groundwork, Song Biao officially spoke: "I convened this meeting today precisely to set the policy of a decisive battle, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, invincible in a hundred battles, since our army is stronger than a quick battle and fierce attack, it is natural to give full play to this characteristic to the extreme, and it is necessary to surpass the limit of the army's defense as soon as the war begins, break through the army's multi-point defense, and achieve the first goal of encircling and annihilating the main force of the army." On this basis, I advocate that our army fight a people's war, fully mobilize the forces of the whole country and the three eastern provinces, and realize that the whole country plays a game of chess, with everyone putting the interests of the country first, and at the same time forming a large-scale labor force and the support of the people in some areas, so that the consumption of supplies and ammunition completely exceeds the conventional limit of our army, and in a short period of five to ten days, two or three divisions and regiments of the Chinese army will be directly annihilated at all costs, so as to deal a heavy blow to the strength of the Chinese army, deter the Chinese army, and force it to give up its naval superiority and negotiate peace with our country. In the process of mobilizing troops to participate in the battle, it is imperative to maintain secrecy, make full use of the mountainous advantages of the southeastern region and the border areas of the three eastern provinces, arrive in a large number of secretive mobile troops, and do a good job of concealing them, so as to suddenly form a superiority in strength and artillery fire three times that of the enemy army at the moment of the start of the war. ”

Speaking of this, he added: "Considering the constraints of many factors, our army is not suitable to provoke a war first, therefore, the Northeast Patrol Army can appropriately increase the scope of activities, seize the opportunity to focus on annihilating a Korean rebel army, and show in the overall situation that our army is not fully prepared, so that the army has the opportunity to take the initiative to attack, while our army is the last to strike, in the tactical design should focus on grasping the enemy's dynamics, and carry out sudden encirclement and encirclement in the process of the enemy's march. At the same time, it is necessary to fully avoid the firepower coverage of the navy on the main battlefield. ”

Song Biao said twice, and in fact he had already determined the overall strategy and general plan for this war.

Every general in the conference room was thinking carefully, and according to the principles and guidelines that Song Biao said, everyone was thinking about various details.

After a while, Jiang Zhengyuan first said to Song Biao: "Your Majesty, I personally think that the Yue army will be ready to prepare for battle before the end of the month, and they are very likely to start the battle by raiding our army." ”

Song Biao said: "Let the main division retreat a certain distance, avoid direct confrontation with the Yue army, as well as the possible surname of the surprise attack by the Yue army, and continue to maintain the front-line vigilance dominated by patrol troops from all over the country. We were still very wary of these things before, even if the scale of preparations for the first battle may be large, it should probably be completed before the end of the month, so you should not hope for diplomatic delays, and try to urgently complete the affairs of the general preparation plan before the end of the month. ”

"Yes!"

The generals paused.

After the general policy has been decided, all that needs to be discussed is the battle plan, and when the plan is finalized, it will be the military preparations and actions, especially the plan for the dispatch of military supplies.

The Northeast Army's defense against the army has always been very strict, and a large number of material reserve stations have been built in Benxi, Liaoyang, and Dunhua, and according to the calculation of the overall operational plan, at least 60 million rounds of ammunition are needed to ensure that the two-week assault of the main force of the 200,000 army requires at least 60 million rounds of ammunition, with a total of 1,450 tons, or an average of 150 rounds of ammunition per person per week, and there is still a spare amount of ammunition at present.

This figure seems staggering, but for the Northeast Army, a special military force that is equipped with light machine guns on a large scale to the squad level, such consumption is relatively low, and the reason why the army's sustained strength is strong is precisely based on the premise of low ammunition consumption.

How to transport 1,450 tons of ammunition to the front line is in itself the first issue that the [***] staff bodies often have to consider.

The total inventory of munitions depots in the three eastern provinces adds up to a total of 350 million rounds of ammunition in the three eastern provinces.

In the Franco-Prussian War, each rifle fired an average of 56 bullets, while in World War I, these bullets were only enough for a week's use, and one of the main changes came from trench warfare and the advent of light and heavy machine guns.

The total strength of the Northeast Army is 500,000 people, and the total ammunition reserve for three months based on an average of 56 rounds of ammunition per person for a week is 336 million rounds of ammunition, and before the start of the civil war, the total inventory of ammunition in the Northeast Army was 550 million rounds, and 300 million rounds were transferred to the Guannai.

Even if Song Biao's plan was to mobilize 1,700 artillery pieces to concentrate on the eastern and western fronts to attack the opponent, considering a large number of mortars, the Northeast Army's artillery reserve rate was still sufficient.

Not to mention the pitiful reserve of artillery shells in the pass, it cannot be compared with the Northeast Army at all.

If the number of mortars is counted, Song Biao's battle plan was to mobilize more than 1,700 artillery pieces, 2,200 mortars, more than 6,000 machine guns, and 3,000 submachine guns in the Yalu River area at the moment of the beginning of the war, and directly press them out to annihilate the three main divisions of the Yue army.

This campaign plan is basically similar to the Battle of Normenhan, that is, to frantically suppress the opponent with heavy firepower, and concentrate the opponent in a small area to implement firepower coverage, but the Soviet Army used the tank troops to outflank on both sides, while the Northeast Army purely fought the speed of the infantry division, and inserted the enemy's rear flank on both sides, which is roughly the same as the combat characteristics of the second campaign of the Korean War. Encircle and annihilate the enemy's main forces in advantageous locations.

History is very important knowledge for a military general.

The history of the past is important, and the history of the future is even more important.

In World War I and World War II, almost all of the best military commanders had a similar trait when they were students, and that was the excellence of their historical achievements.

Song Biao is very fond of history, his historical achievements in his student days are very good, in the military education of the Far East Lu soldiers, he also paid special attention to the requirements of history education, every student must be proficient in the general history of the world and the history of Chinese and foreign wars, all the non-commissioned officers and students to serve in the Northeast Army, unified must study in the staff section for half a year, the most important basic course in this half year is also the history of Chinese and foreign wars.

Similarly, Song Biao is also very familiar with these history courses, he often personally explains the history of the Three Kingdoms War and the history of the 19th century war, and almost all of the officers he reuses are excellent in the war history courses, whether it is Jiang Fangzhen, Chen Qicai, Jiang Zhengyuan, and Jiang Zuobin, Yi Naiqian, Guo Yuchi, and Han Chunlin, who he prefers at this stage.

If a soldier is familiar with history, he will be able to make fewer mistakes and learn from experience and make more useful moves.

Song Biao used his historical knowledge to answer the question, and at the secret preparation meeting that night, he drew up a complete set of preparation plans, requiring the main forces of the patrol forces to be drawn out, to travel by night and day, and to secretly enter the combat area by means of hiding in the mountains; in particular, the concentration of artillery units should be speeded up and the deployment should be accelerated, and it should be kept secret through various intelligence work, and it is imperative that all the artillery of the Northeast Army, including some of the artillery of the New Army, be concentrated under the condition that the army cannot be prepared, so as to ensure that the victory or defeat of the First World War will be decided.

The artillery reserve level of the Northeast Army is extremely strong, which probably even the army has not thought of, a great reason comes from the secret support of Russia and Germany, on the surface, the Northeast Patrol Army is not equipped with artillery, but in each training base retains a certain number of artillery for cultivating artillery reserves.

These artillery pieces are mainly old artillery eliminated by Russia and Germany, but in Daxinganling and other places, the Northeast Army has set up secret artillery training bases, and these places also have a large number of new artillery in stock, plus the artillery of the new army in Guannai, it is not difficult for Song Biao to concentrate 1,700 artillery pieces on the Sino-Korean border.

After all, Song Biao was a soldier trained by the artillery army, and he definitely attached ten times more importance to artillery than the army.

A very simple truth, as long as there are guns, soldiers can basically be recruited, as long as they are cleverly used, they can also fight tough battles after three months of training, and artillery is two different things, so it is not important to have no large infantry reserves, and it will be finished without artillery reserves.

There is a problem here, that is, artillery can be trained, but it cannot be formally organized, and an artillery brigade of the Northeast Army is only 122 artillery pieces.

There is no problem in temporarily expanding the various artillery brigades to the artillery corps, if it is really one to maintain, the cost is really amazing, we basically arrived in the period of the Liberation War in Siye before the wartime establishment of the artillery corps, Song Biao planned to directly organize two artillery corps and an artillery division to bombard the army indiscriminately.

If you want to do a good job in such logistics, you can only break through the current thinking framework and fight a people's war, simply put, that is, 400,000 troops are fighting in front, and 2 million people and 600,000 horsepower are supporting in the back.

The requirements were not high, and the people of the three eastern provinces held on for half a month and killed five divisions of the army.

The goal set by Song Biao at this preparatory meeting was to annihilate three divisions and regiments, but this was the basic goal of guaranteeing the bottom line, and the entire battle plan was designed around the five divisions and regiments of the entire annihilation army, with the main force of 150,000 plus the 200,000 patrol army and the 100,000 new army reorganized troops, and suddenly encircled the opponent with 2.5 times the strength of the army, the Yalu River front on the western front was basically three times that of the opponent, and the Yanji battlefield on the eastern front was twice as large as the opponent.

After half a month of offensive, he saw whether he would negotiate peace with him or continue to mobilize the whole country to invade China.

Song Biao must be confident that the preparations of the past five years were not made in vain, if it was really just for the fight against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he still used secret preparations for five years, one year is enough, and the remaining four years are specially waiting for Xiao Yue's original, and the idea of building the army is still in the stage before World War I, and the long-term damage to the army caused by the Russian war is very serious, and it is not completely made up for within these five years.

After the evening preparatory meeting, Jiang Fangzhen, who was the chief of the general staff, and Yang Tiesheng, director of the military command department of the patrol army of the three eastern provinces, were under very great pressure, but fortunately, the Northeast Army has now occupied the whole country, and the material, manpower, and material resources of the whole country are all within the scope of mobilization, and there is absolutely no problem with 2 million laborers and 600,000 horsepower, and everything is deployed according to Song Biao's plan, and the 400,000 troops suddenly exert force, and it is difficult to annihilate the five divisions of the Yue Army.

There is still a lot of detailed work to be done, so we can only discuss it while deploying.

The whole meeting didn't end until half past eleven in the evening, everyone left one after another, and there were only two people left in the conference room, Song Biao and General Martos, whether it was the Northeast Army or the Central Imperial Army, there were only two of them who were currently in the rank of general, objectively speaking, they were also the real fathers of the Northeast Army.

Artur. Krznovik. Junior General Martos is also a relatively interesting person, a very talented Polish military general, graduated from the Moscow Infantry Non-commissioned Officer School and the Russian Staff College, this person first studied chemistry, and then inexplicably went to apply for the non-commissioned officer examination, at first he was still in the Kazan Cavalry School, and later inexplicably went to the Engineer Department of the Infantry Non-commissioned Officer School to study.

Life's chances are very peculiar.

With the talent that Martos is currently showing, even if he goes to the Russian army, he is also a lieutenant general, Brusilov, who fought together in the Battle of Liaoyang, was already a cavalry lieutenant general at this time, and it is said that he will be promoted to general next year, General Mishuchenko has long been a cavalry general, Madenidov is an infantry general, and he is also the newly appointed Minister of the Tsarist Imperial Army, Samsolov is an infantry general, Pakilov is an artillery general, Neznamov, Seyenisky, Denikin, and Kornilov have all been promoted to lieutenant generals. Even Tuvaniel, who returned to the Russian army two years ago, was promoted to the rank of major general.

Song Biao is now relatively easy to talk with the Russian army, and the relationship is very close, a big reason is that this group of comrades-in-arms who fought together have been promoted to a very high position, for all, the Battle of Liaoyang is the most important military merit book, who is not because of this Lieutenant General Kornilov is currently in charge of the Russian army's ordnance and equipment work, General Pakilov is the dean of the Russian Staff College, Seyensky is the Polish governor, and Tuvaniel is the Kwantung governor.

Including in the matter of Outer Mongolia, although the forces within the Tsarist Empire that tried to split and occupy Outer Mongolia were extremely strong, under Song Biao's repeated persuasions, the two Russian War Ministers continued to block this matter, and for a long time supported the Northeast Army against the Chinese army as the first priority to balance Russia's interests in the Far East, to ensure that Russia could concentrate on dealing with European problems.

Even within the current Northeast Army, the number of Russian officers and instructors is still very large, including people like Popnin and Sergeys, who have been working in the Northeast Army for a long time.

Among these people, Artur. Krznovik. General Martos will always be the most special.

Song Biao has always concluded that there are only four Russian generals he has worked with. Brusilov, Andrew. Pakilov, Aleksandrovich. Neznamov and Artur. Martos.

As much as he could, Song Biao tried his best and used a lot of connections to re-integrate Aleksandrovich. Lieutenant General Neznamov was invited back to continue his post as adviser to the Supreme Staff of the Northeast Army and director of the Far Eastern Army Non-commissioned Officer School. Brusilov, Andrew. Pakilov's rank is too high, that is really not to be kept, Artur. Martos is Song Biao's true confidant and confidant who has relied on for a long time.

Really in terms of important surnames, Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Qicai together are not as good as Artur. General Martos.

This person is really important to Song Biao.

Therefore, after the meeting, the two of them continued to sit in the conference room and discuss privately. General Martos was largely unrestricted, he also thought it was a very good one, and all he was worried about was how to keep it secret.

The two of them re-pondered this issue for half an hour, thinking of more than a dozen small tricks.

Talking, talking, Artur. General Martos thought of another thing, and asked Song Biao: "How to use the Popnin light machine gun?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "According to the original plan, organize the most elite troops to use them to rush in directly, sacrifice is strength, and without sacrifice, you can't crush the enemy." ”

General Martos sighed and said, "You are right, Your Majesty! ”

Song Biao was silent for a moment.

He knew that the elite troops they were talking about were the elite infantry regiments of the 4th and 6th Infantry Divisions, as well as the two elite infantry regiments directly under the military headquarters, and the Popnin light machine gun was a submachine gun designed on the basis of the Madsen light machine gun, which was secretly tested and presided over by the Russian adviser Colonel Popnin at the Changling Arsenal.

In the process of developing the 7.62*54cr rifle cartridge, Song Biao also proposed a medium-power bullet, that is, the 7.62*54cr rifle cartridge is the alternative scheme of the 7.62*25b1 rifle cartridge and the 7.62*40b2 rifle cartridge, and the final success is the 7.62*40b2 rifle cartridge.

This intermediate power rifle cartridge was used in the modification of the Madsen light machine gun, which modified a large number of parts and stock of the Madsen light machine gun, cut the barrel shortened, and the wrap distance was shortened to 1/7 inch, and finally the weight was reduced to 7.54 kg, the world's first submachine gun with a standard magazine capacity of 40 rounds.

In the production serial number of the military factory, this submachine gun is called the Madsen A2 light machine gun, which is vague in terms of intelligence, and even the data has been maintained to the original standard and is not allowed to be disclosed to the public.

This equipment was not officially used by the Northeast Army throughout the Revolutionary War of the Liberation, along with interesting new equipment such as new mortars of 105mm caliber and 35mm grenade revolver guns.

If you really fight with the Yue army this time, you must use it.

At least in Song Biao's view, the 60mm mortar and the Popnin submachine gun can be called the two killer secret weapons of the Northeast Army, although the former has been equipped for two years, just like the mystery of Miss 75, the army is largely unable to confirm the specific parameters of this mortar.

The current mortars of the Yue army are basically copied from the 77mm mortars in the Russian War, which has a huge gap compared with the Northeast Army, and is too focused on the equipment of heavy machine guns, without light machine guns, and is too dependent on the Hatch Chase machine gun with a low rate of fire and low sustained power in the heavy machine gun, and too much emphasis on the sustained combat power of the troops, while ignoring the theory of fire coverage, which is itself a typical thinking before the First World War.

The Northeast Army, on the other hand, would rather frantically strengthen itself to replenish its troops, but also increase the coverage and density of firepower to the maximum, and concentrate the fate of the war within a week, rather than expecting a long-term fierce battle.

It is not that the thinking of the army is wrong, the Northeast Army is right, and it is not a real industrial country, but the military thinking adopted by the army is still in line with its industrial level, while the Northeast Army is too mature militarily and exceeds the bearing capacity of the Northeast industry, so it can only rely on the support of the military industry of Russia, Germany, and the United States to a large extent, and this requires a large amount of funds.

Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, at least at a certain moment, in a short period of two or three weeks, the Northeast Army can easily defeat the main force of the Yue Army.

If the war really enters a long-term fierce war, it will only be said later.

Song Biao was not unprepared for this, Bi Jing did not have the concept of an air force at this time, so he really retreated to the front line of Benxi and Haizhou to fight a mountain defense war with the army, and comprehensively fought a war of attrition of national resources.

(To be continued)