Honesty and contention are talked about entering the year. 【Full text reading】The flavor of the world war is gradually manifested※

Objectively speaking, if we say that in the last four months of the year, that is, the four after the end of the Saipan landing operation, the battles in the Pacific theater were petty battles. During this period, the battles on the battlefield on the mainland were not only vigorous, but also extremely thrilling.

As mentioned earlier, because the United States sent troops to Russia and invested 8 divisions at one time (only 2 divisions arrived in the first batch), Yuan Chenhao had to postpone the start of the second round of offensive campaigns from tomorrow to May. If it weren't for the imminent arrival of Russia's "rainy season", the weather would have become unfavorable for the offensive, and Yuan Chenhao might even postpone the start of the offensive for another half a month. Unable to postpone the time of the offensive, we can only adjust the campaign plan and reduce the purpose of the campaign to meet the challenge of the US military.

It must be admitted that Yuan Chenhao gave the US Army a very high evaluation.

For the Chief of Staff of the US Army, Admiral Buscher, it is not known whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Although in the eyes of the vast majority of people, the United States has never been a land power, to be precise. The United States has never been a country that relies on the army to fight the world, even in the heyday after World War II, the US Army was considered "the most powerful, but no one can deny that after the Middle East war in the Yingnian year, the army was highly valued by the US authorities. Got a great show. More importantly, since the beginning of the year, the direction of the U.S. Army's development has been very clear, that is, to defeat the Republic Army as the ultimate goal. If the U.S. Army cannot defeat the Republican Army, the United States will not be able to win a world war, and will even be defeated.

To achieve the ultimate goal, the U.S. Army undertook a long-lasting modernization of military reforms.

Even in the middle of the century, when the average life expectancy of the country is over the edge of the year, the centennial birthday star can be seen everywhere. The year is still a short and long time. The question is. The years are very short for building a strong army. Although the US Army took into account the threat of world war when formulating the reform plan, that is, the military modernization exhibition plan, due to various practical factors, the exhibition time was still set for the year of force, not the old year. Objectively speaking, this is also in line with the actual situation, that is, the average construction period of the army is between force years and years, and if the exhibition regulations are scratched as old years, even if there is no need to worry about being questioned by Congress, the construction results will be considered. To put it more bluntly, it is whether military personnel can accept the new military system and military thinking in such a short period of time, or whether they can complete the replacement of the old and the new in such a short period of time. In any case, the modernization and reform of the US Army must abide by the objective law of development.

In fact, the U.S. Army lacks the experience of comprehensive grass reform, especially the major changes from equipment to tactics driven by technology. Historically, several major changes in the Army have not been associated with the United States. Needless to say, in the era of cold weapons. At that time, the United States did not exist. After entering the era of hot weapons, the three army reforms introduced by artillery, machine guns, and tanks basically had nothing to do with the United States, all of which started from European countries and were adopted by the US Army after being verified. Under the protection of the Atlantic and naval fleets, the US authorities do not have to worry about the powerful European legion, and they do not need to invest too much material and financial resources in the period of army reform and exploration.

For example, the British understood the tank, the Germans promoted it, and the Soviet Union pushed the tank to the top, and as a result, in the Gulf War of the century, the U.S. Army, which equipped the states, easily defeated the Iraqi army. To make American tanks a new weather vane, for a while, mouth o-mm smoothbore guns, gas turbines, welded armor, tail ammunition compartments, depleted uranium alloy armor and armor-piercing shells, automatic explosion suppression systems, passive infrared night vision devices, and so on ... The standard equipment has become an important indicator to measure the performance of the main battle tank, and even... The shape is "advanced." Otherwise, the South Korean Army would not have made a relationship with the... Mountains are similar to citations. If you want to talk about scenery, I'm afraid that only the Second World War period can be compared to Bi.

The problem is that this "imitation of Kaetsu." The model must have a prerequisite, that is, it is far beyond the basic strength of competitors. In particular, the strength of basic scientific research. Let's look at the U.S. Army's experience in the years after World War II. As long as the direction of development is found and the goal is determined, the United States will be able to use its strong basic strength to make the army outperform its opponents in a very short period of time. Still in the case of tanks. At... None of the previous contemporaries of the Soviet Union were as easy-going as Peng (this was confirmed in the Middle East war and the Iran-Iraq war), and... Being able to surpass the sword of the same era in one fell swoop, and even more advanced than Tian and Na is inseparable from the strong basic strength of the United States, especially in scientific research.

The key is here, from the beginning of the 2 planing, the lead of the United States in basic strength began to decline.

In the final analysis, there is only one reason, and that is that it is not the United States that has started the power revolution, but the Republic. Because it has not been able to master the core technology of the electric revolution, the United States has gradually lost its leading position in various fields, and even in some exclusive high-tech fields. For example, in the field of electronics represented by computer chips, not only transistor technology was born in the United States, but before the beginning of the century, the United States almost dominated the world in this field, especially in commercial computer chips, and even Japan followed by it is difficult to match, with the advent of room temperature conduction technology, the United States' advantages in the field of electronics are gone, especially in new fields such as neural network computers and quantum computers. Far from having an advantage, the United States is at an absolute disadvantage, and the US authorities have no choice but to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in scientific research in related fields. For the U.S. Army, the impact of this backwardness in basic technology is even more obvious.

What is even more fatal is that the US Army still rests on its laurels for a long period of time and has not made adjustments to the exhibition mode even more than that, even though it has obviously lost its "rear advantage." Arguably. In the past few local wars, the main reason for the successive crushing defeats of the US Army was to rest on its laurels. If it weren't for the fact that "the skinny camel is bigger than the horse" and the United States is still "a big fart, the comprehensive national strength would be able to support Gab by eating the old book!" Decades. I'm afraid it's ga. Before the outbreak of the Spider Twenty War, the U.S. Army had been reduced to a second-rate army.

Regardless, it's better late than never.

After suffering a crushing defeat in the Middle East War, the U.S. Army finally came to its senses, realized the huge gap between it and the Republican Army, and laid out a plan for a year-long exhibition. Admittedly, as a nation founded by exiles, explorers, and bankrupts, the United States is very good at learning from its failures. When drawing up the exhibition plan, the US Army not only put forward a very clear goal, but also made a detailed plan for achieving the goal. Whether it's a system of reality or traditional habits, Americans are very good at making plans, and they are very detailed. According to the relevant report submitted by the US Army to Congress in the year of Likou, the progress of the Army's modernization construction was detailed in detail every quarter, and even detailed plans were made for which projects should be launched each month and in which month each project should reach a certain stage, and the feasibility of the regulations was also demonstrated in detail.

It has to be said that this is the characteristic of the "American-style meter".

Anyone who knows the United States should know that the US Army's exhibition plan will certainly not be realized. At least not at the time of the project. You must know that over the past 100 years, various branches of the US armed forces have put forward dozens of similar exhibition plans, but none of them have really been realized according to the plan, and they have been frustrated every day.

Although the U.S. Army's Zhan Mo Xiao has no setbacks, it has also changed in the process of implementation.

Judging from the final implementation results, if there is one part of the plan that is most different from the plan, it is the establishment reform.

As we all know, the US Army has a very cumbersome establishment system. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The U.S. Army has always pursued the establishment system established during World War II, that is, based on the theater of operations, under which group armies, corps, divisions, brigades, and battalions are organized (battalions are the smallest establishment with independent combat capabilities). After the Gulf War at the beginning of the century, as a response to the "air-ground integrated war." "The U.S. Army began to adjust its strength, army groups were abolished, and brigade-sized combat units were strengthened. To 2! The "War on Terror" at the beginning of the century. Period. Brigade-sized combat units have been reinforced, and the integration of the regular army into the National Guard has officially begun. Until the Middle East War in the year of Lishan. The US Army still has divisions as its basic combat units and brigades as its main independent combat units, and there has been no essential change in its organizational structure. It can be said that this is the US Army resting on its laurels. The main embodiment of the lack of a deep understanding of the modern military transformation.

When summing up the experience and lessons of the Middle East war, the US Army pointed out that the backward establishment is the main reason for its low combat effectiveness.

Affected by this. Before proposing an exhibition plan. The U.S. Army is planning to reform its establishment.

Because the target is the Republic of Vietnam Army, and before that, it will definitely catch up with the Republic Army. So in. At the age of the year, the U.S. Army made the decision to learn from the Republican Army. That is, to adopt the establishment system of the Republic Army, and after catching up with the Republic Army, we will seek ways and means to Vietnam. As an army of a major country, the US Army has adopted the strategy of "new wine in old bottles" in terms of specific expression, that is, on the basis of retaining as much as possible the number of troops and the code names of units at all levels, the US Army has reorganized its combat units in accordance with the establishment model of the combat units of the Republic Army.

The benefits of this are obvious, in addition to making it more acceptable to the officers and men of the army, and it will also reduce the amount of criticism from Congress.

It is precisely for this reason that the first thing the US Army did was to "expand" that is, to raise the division to the level of a combat unit.

In fact, it's also the easiest and easiest step.

Traditionally, the US Army has two or three brigades under a division, and with the exception of the various functional brigades that have clearly defined their combat use, such as the artillery brigade and the aviation brigade, each brigade under the divisional unit has no clear functional division, that is, they all have considerable combat capability and self-support capability. From the point of view of coping with regional conflicts and small-scale local wars of limited scale, this kind of establishment can maximize the combat effectiveness of the troops, that is, in a certain direction, the brigade-level troops can shoulder the heavy responsibility of fighting, and there is no need to deploy functional troops, thus reducing the input of military strength. The problem is also conspicuous, that is, in a large-scale local war, it is very difficult to concentrate a sufficient number of troops in a certain direction, and it is also difficult to display the combat effectiveness of the troops in a specific environment. The crushing defeat in the Middle East wars before World War III was a direct manifestation of this shortcoming. It can be said that the failure of the US military to defeat the Republic Army, which has much less troops on the northern front, has an absolute relationship with the fact that the troops are mixed and it is difficult to display the combat effectiveness of the combat units, especially the frontal combat units. According to a survey by the US Army, in the frontal battles of the Middle East War, "a US army division could not even defeat the combat units of the Republic Army!" A combat brigade often needs three US divisions to be able to withstand the attack of a combat unit in frontal combat. At this time, the U.S. military invested more than twice as many troops as the Republican ** team, and the U.S. troops fighting on the front line were more than three times that of the republican ** team. Even if the gap in equipment performance is counted, the combat efficiency of the US army is less than half that of the Republic Army.

With this understanding, the direction of the establishment reform is very clear.

The problem is that in the next reform, the U.S. military has encountered a lot of trouble. Don't say anything else. The need to reorganize brigades below the division level according to their functions is difficult for many US officers and men, especially officers at the grassroots level, to accept. The reason is simple. The combat brigade is definitely half a level higher than the support brigade, and as a "professional soldier", that is, a beautiful ** person who takes money to be a soldier, this means that salary, welfare, status, and even the level and order of future promotion, naturally no one wants to be a sacrifice, and someone must make sacrifices.

In order to promote reform, not only did three army chiefs of staff change in two years, but it also led to the election crisis in the year of the sword.

These things start with one. The side reflects the reality of the US ** team, that is, why the US Army did not raise the courage to carry out reform until it suffered another crushing defeat on the battlefield after suffering heavy losses in the Korean War in the Yang era for decades, especially in the Korean War in the Yang era. To put it simply, it is "hard to return". As an "institutional country", whether it is the US team or the US government, we must act in accordance with the system. No one can go against the established system unless they change it. Therefore, to change the system, that is, to change the army formation, Yi Xun Shu, dry fine notch, mixed Shan) different body clam mouth shallow heart for Leeds struggle basket point. It has become the most difficult and contradictory thing.

The problem is that the U.S. Army's establishment system has reached the point where it has to be changed.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the necessity of reform that the US Army's establishment reform has not been abandoned halfway, and has not only persisted, but has also steadily advanced in the face of many obstacles.

At the beginning of the year, with the success of Landes's joint election, the reform of the establishment of the US Army began to increase.

I have to admit that promoting the reform of the army establishment can be regarded as one of the few shining points of the not very successful president of Landes, during his eight meaningless years in office.

It was also in this year that the US Army's modernization plan entered the stage of full implementation.

In conjunction with the establishment reform, the U.S. Army has undergone a shocking metamorphosis.

During Randers's second term, the reform of the US Army progressed very smoothly, and not only did some of the main battle equipment projects in World War III be successfully launched, but also many equipment development projects that were not implemented or received attention during the previous Jatiya administration

Move.

All in all, the U.S. Army has received a very critical 4-year rollover.

By the time Landes left the White House, the arms race before World War III was in full swing, that is, in that year, the modernization and reform of the US Army ushered in a second turning point. Although at this time. Duchway is still the leader of the opposition party, not even a member of Parliament, so he has no opportunity to participate in national decision-making, but according to more credible accounts. In the reform of US affairs, Du Qiwei used his influence in the military, especially some subordinates without political affiliation, to exert a great influence on the modernization and reform of the US military, including the modernization and reform of the US Army.

From the perspective of contributions, the most important thing that Du Qiwei has done is to shorten the reform cycle of the US military.

Although there is no evidence to prove it, some people expected the war to break out in the new year. But there is reason to believe that it will not be Tian Nian at the latest. Du Qiwei should have realized that the war would certainly not drag on until after the end of the field, and that it was most likely to explode after the calendar year. As a result, a reform program like the U.S. Army, which was not completed until four years later, would not be viable

Finish.

Of course, shortening it by 5 years is definitely not an easy task.

In addition to the enormous military expenditures, the development of technology, especially basic science, has become the key to the success or failure of military reform.

In fact, it is precisely in this way that the reform of the US Army has changed its flavor.

In any case, any military system must be based on military thinking, and the basis of military thinking must be basic tactics, and the basis of tactics is weaponry. This is like in the era of cold weapons, the "ten-ten system" can most effectively swing the combat effectiveness of the troops, but in the era of hot weapons. The "three-three system" is more reasonable. All in all. The basis of the reform of the US Army was actually an exhibition of equipment, and there was no advanced weaponry; Any reform is empty talk. Of course, the inability of equipment construction to keep up with the pace of reform is not a problem only faced by the Army, and other branches of the US military also have the same problem, but the severity is different.

According to the assessment of the US Army, the modernization reforms of the old years were not successful.

Of course, this is for the highest purpose. That is, in the eyes of the generals of the US Army. There is only one criterion for measuring the success or failure of reform. That is, whether there is a Vietnam Republic Army and the ability to defeat the Republic Army.

Objectively speaking, the US Army has achieved a lot of results in the reform of the grass in the old years, which can be regarded as relatively successful.

Not to mention anything else, judging from Yuan Chenhao's reaction after the United States sent troops to Russia, the general who once commanded the Republic Army to defeat the US Army on the northern front of the Middle East War affirmed the reform of the US Army, otherwise he would not have repeatedly postponed the start of the campaign.

There is no doubt that Yuan Chenhao must be concerned about the modernization and reform of the US Army.

Although in the past few years, the Republic Army has focused its construction on expanding its scale and consolidating its foundation, that is, strengthening the combat effectiveness of reserve combat units, raising the training standards of reserve forces and militias, and reserving more military personnel, it has not made much adjustment to its establishment system. In terms of equipment construction, the Republic Army is also relatively conservative, that is, in accordance with the requirements of expanding its scale and enhancing its wartime mobilization capability, it has strengthened the strategic reserve system, and raised the importance of the quantity of equipment above the quality. But as the world's number one army, the Republican Army's reform work has never stopped and has not been slackened. Like the Navy of the Republic, on the road of exploring new tactics, the Army of the Republic has chosen the basic strategy of accumulation and accumulation, that is, on the basis of active exploration, it will not take action lightly, put its actions during the war, and make use of the convenient conditions of the wartime system to burst out the capital accumulated in the early stage and maximize the combat effectiveness of the troops.

There is nothing wrong with this strategy, because after all, military reform is difficult to keep secret, and therefore cannot be revealed to others too early.

Of course, the problem with this strategy is also quite prominent, that is, in the early stage of the war, at least within a year after the start of the war, it is unlikely that the combat effectiveness of the Republic Army will be greatly improved, so it will be difficult for the Republic Army to crush the enemy by increasing the combat effectiveness of its troops, except for increasing the strength and size of its troops.

In fact, this is the fundamental reason why Yuan Chenhao delayed the start of the second round of offensive campaigns.

The first batch of US troops to arrive in Russia was equivalent to two combat units of the Republican Army, and by the time the second round of offensive campaigns began, six US Army divisions had already arrived in Russia, and the first two divisions had already arrived in Kirov. Let the Russian army send 2 armored divisions and 2 mechanized infantry divisions deployed in Kirov to Ulyanovsk and Luoshan to strengthen the central defense line. The second group of two U.S. Army divisions is also on its way to Rostov-on-Don and is expected to participate in the Russian counterattack operations in the south of the front. From this deployment, it can be roughly inferred that the two US Army divisions that arrived in the third group were likely to be sent to Volgograd to become the backbone of the defense of the city, while the fourth group of US Army units that were crossing the Atlantic would remain in Ronezhv or Ryazan as a campaign reserve.

Although the U.S. military made a big mistake in deploying combat troops, the combat effectiveness of the eight U.S. divisions that arrived one after another was equivalent to six combat units of the Republic Army, and Yuan Chenhao's initial planning and investment in offensive troops was only concerned that the United States might increase troops to Russia, so Yuan Qiaotian had to add more combat units to the front line. If the combat effectiveness of the newly formed combat units is taken into account, it is better to rudder another combat unit and hand over the non-combat and secondary combat missions in the rear of the battle line to the allied team. It is precisely because of this that when the start of the campaign was postponed, Yuan Chenhao increased the number of combat units invested all the way to two combat units plus two allied divisions.

The problem is that increasing the number of troops can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. In any case, from the beginning of the Peninsula War in the 2o's, the Army of the Republic no longer relied on military strength to win. It can be said that in all the local wars after the Korean War, the Republic Army has never achieved superiority in troops, and it has rarely invested the enemy's forces in offensive campaigns.

It can be seen from this that the increase in troops is only a last resort.

For Yuan Chenhao, after increasing the troops, there is another thing that must be done, that is, to adjust the purpose of the campaign, and even adjust the entire campaign action.

Not to mention anything else, when the US Army entered the war, Yuan Chenhao would definitely have to re-evaluate the feasibility of the war plan.

Looking at it from another angle, even if Yuan Chenhao doesn't adjust the battle day standard, Pei Chengyi will remind him. Based on the situation at that time, when Yuan Chenhao started the second round of offensive campaigns, he first had to figure out whether to regard the Russian army as the main target or to give the US army a disadvantage. In other words, is it necessary to concentrate forces and fight a few battles specifically against the US military and mainly to destroy the living forces of the US military.

It can be said that this is also the biggest difference between Yuan Chenhao and Pei Chengyi.

Standing in Yuan Chenhao's position, he definitely wants to inflict heavy damage on the US military. The reason is very simple, to give the US military a disarmament and eliminate tens of thousands of American soldiers. It will make the arrogant US authorities realize that even if they go all out to support Russia, the US Army will not be able to change the situation on the mainland battlefield, and will only make thousands of American GIs become Russia's funeral objects. Although it is difficult to make the US authorities change their minds, that is, the US authorities will not stop sending troops to Russia because of the crushing defeat in the first encounter, it will certainly make the US authorities re-examine Russia's combat operations on the battlefield, allow the US Army to spend more time on formulating a plan for the Communist Party, and even create some contradictions between the United States and Russia, thus delaying the US troop dispatch. As long as it can slow down the reach of the US Army's combat units to the Russian battlefield, the Republican Army will have a chance to fight to Moscow before the US army can turn the tide of the war, and even if it can only advance the front to Ryazan, it will make the US authorities realize that Russia has been defeated and there is no point in continuing to send troops, thus ending the continental war in a relatively satisfactory way.

It is understandable that Yuan Chenhao has such thoughts. After all, after Pei Chengyi intervened in military command. His key role is no longer the chief of the General Staff, but the commander of the continental theater.

It can be seen that Yuan Chenhao's position seriously lacks a sense of the overall situation.

Let's not talk about it for the time being, after the United States sent troops to Russia. As far as the possibility of a war on the mainland is promised according to the original plan, the strategic decision of the US authorities to send troops to Russia is absolutely not unbelievable, and Duchway will not fight a war that he is not sure of. In other words, the U.S. Army must have been preparing for participation in the continental war for a long time, and if Russia is quickly defeated, what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who were originally planned to be sent to the Russian battlefield? You know, on any battlefield. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops are capable of changing the situation on the battlefield.

Judging by the situation in May of the year, as long as the Republic Army reaches Moscow by the end of the year. It is very likely that Duchway will send troop carriers bound for Russia to the Mediterranean, send hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the US Army to the Middle East, and use the victory in the Middle East war to make up for the fiasco in the continental war. Because Yuan Chenhao has always advocated winning the continental war first, and if he wants to attack Moscow before the end of the year, he must invest enough troops, so when the US troops reinforce the Middle East, Li Dongshi will definitely not have enough troops to resist hundreds of thousands of US troops, and he will not be able to hold the Middle East front. The result can be imagined, even if the Republic Army won a great victory on the mainland battlefield. It will also be overshadowed by the crushing defeat on the battlefield in the Middle East. What's more, even if the EU will declare war on Russia before the republican team occupies Moscow, and then send troops to control Belarus, Ukraine and the western regions of Russia, and block the Republic Army thousands of kilometers away, because of the crushing defeat of the Republic Army in the Middle East, the EU will definitely not declare war on the United States, and even make peace with the United States, after Russia's defeat, the attitude of the EU determines the final direction of the Third World War, so the price paid by the Republic will definitely be much greater than the fruits achieved.

In all fairness, the fundamental reason why Pei Chengyi opposes Yuan Chenhao's extreme claims is here.

It can be said that this also reflects the strategic decision-making ability of the two. Although a world war is a full-scale war consisting of multiple wars. However, no one can deny that the various wars in a world war are interrelated and will affect each other, so victory or defeat on any one battlefield cannot represent the overall victory or defeat, and only those that are useful for the final victory are valuable victories that should be actively pursued.

It can be seen from this that Pei Chengyi does not advocate taking the US military under the knife.

To be precise, it is not advisable to make the US military the number one target.

According to Yuan Chenhao's recollections after the war, Pei Chengyi's opinion at that time was very clear, that is, on the premise of appropriately lowering the campaign objectives, the main purpose was still to strike at and destroy the living forces of the Russian army, and to appropriately strike at the US troops, especially the US troops that were relatively active on the battlefield, and the main purpose of attacking the US troops was not to destroy the living forces of the US troops. It is a blow to the morale and fighting spirit of US officers and men.

Although Pei Chengyi did not explain why he fought like this, Yuan Chenhao did not mention it in his recollections. However, it can be concluded that Pei Chengyi wants to exert pressure on the US military, so that the US military will not break the will of the US military while making the US military realize the difficulty of the mainland battlefield. To put it bluntly, Pei Chengyi's purpose is only "that is, with the help of the second round of offensive campaigns, the US authorities will make a decision to increase the number of troops in Russia, and to increase them as soon as possible, so that the hundreds of thousands of US soldiers who have been armed and are being armed will not cause trouble on other battlefields."

As an army general, it is impossible for Yuan Chenhao not to understand Pei Chengyi's intentions.

The problem arises: if the US authorities decide to increase the number of troops in Russia and regard the mainland theater as an important battlefield for the army, then it will not only affect the second round of offensive campaigns, but also all future offensive operations, that is, the entire war plan, will have to be adjusted.

In this regard, Pei Chengyi also gave a clear answer, that is, winning the first "obituary battle". The United States began to massively increase its troops in Russia. You can be stunned if you can push it appropriately... The timing of the round offensive campaign can also be adjusted if necessary, and the battle plan of the third round of the offensive campaign and the entire continental war can be adjusted. According to Yuan Chenhao. At that time, Pei Chengyi had already hinted that he would increase troops on the battlefield on the mainland, and extended the planned time of the war from years to Beng. The premise, of course, is that the US Army must be inflicted a heavy blow on the continental battlefield.

What is incomprehensible is that Yuan Chenhao did not argue and "adopted" Pei Chengyi's suggestion in its entirety.

Of course, some people will say that Pei Chengyi is the supreme commander of the republic, although Yuan Chenhao is the chief of the general staff, but as a soldier, he also has to obey orders.

Obviously, the situation is not so simple. You must know that before this, Pei Chengyi had always advocated focusing on the Pacific theater, rather than on the mainland theater, and it was precisely at Yuan Wuhao's insistence that the mainland theater gained the same status as the Pacific theater. If Yuan Chenhao was a soldier who would only obey orders, he would not have fought against Pei Chengyi on the issue of going left and right. Returning to the essential issue, that is, how to fight this war, it is not difficult to understand why Yuan Chenhao did not confront Pei Chengyi on the issue of changing the mainland's war plan. To put it bluntly, Yuan Chenhao has selfish intentions, and Pei Chengyi also has selfish intentions, one wants to take this opportunity to revitalize the army, and the other wants to balance the various branches of the army to promote military reform. Adjusting the continental war plan and fighting a decisive battle with the US Army on the mainland battlefield would not be harmful to Yuan Chenhao. In any case, the larger the scale of the continental war, the higher the status of the army. Of course, this is not bad for Pei Chengyi. When the US Army sends its main forces to Russia, it will naturally be difficult for it to exert its strength on other battlefields, and it will also be difficult to open up new fronts. This allows other branches of the Republic to play a more significant role in other battlefields.

Of course, that's all later.

In any case, in just over a few days, Yuan Chenhao will definitely not be able to make comprehensive adjustments to the second round of offensive campaigns, so he can only appropriately reduce the purpose of the campaign and change the combat operations of the troops by means of tactical adjustments, as Pei Chengyi requested.

Obviously, the second round of offensive battles has changed its flavor as a result.

After the start of the campaign, the intention of the Republic Army could not be more obvious, that is, to focus on sweeping the Caucasus, focusing on defense on the northern front, and on the central front, to use tactical offensive to contain the Russian troops reinforcing from the south, and to ensure that the southern front could gain superiority in strength and firepower.

Although it was a very traditional way of fighting, and the battle attempt was completely clear, within hours of the start of the battle, the Russian army and the American army that had just arrived were still exhausted. If the US military is in a hurry because it is a newcomer and is not very familiar with the muddy Russian Great Plains after the beginning of spring, then it is difficult to understand the helplessness of the Russian army. Anyway. The Russian army has also been preparing for this campaign for months, and the mobilized militia guerrillas alone have been more than 10,000 fierce. It is even more difficult to calculate the guns and ammunition sent into the occupied area by excessive weight (at that time, the Russian army also ingeniously developed a kind of "wrapped shell", that is, the zero saber and rifle ammunition of the gun are loaded into the shells of the electromagnetic cannon, and then this kind of shells are projected into a specific area of the occupied area to provide war materials for the guerrillas in the occupied area), when the Republic Army adopts basic tactics, the Russian army should be more adapted to this rather primitive way of fighting, rather than being unable to touch the north.

Judging by the situation at that time, the Russian army must have committed the "advanced tactical syndrome".

To put it simply, after the first offensive battle, the Russian army must have gained a deeper understanding of the basic tactics of the Republic Army, especially the Republic Army. Not to mention anything else, in the battle between Orenburg and Ufa, the performance of the 7th and 10th combat units of the Republic Army shocked the Russian army, and even made the Russian top brass break out in a cold sweat. It also allowed the Russian army to reassess the combat effectiveness of the Republic Army, and even Russian President Cheryakov had to go to the troops to boost morale. When the republican ** team attacks again, the Russian military top brass will definitely not see the battle as so simple, and thus think that the Republic Army must have a more important intention behind the adoption of basic tactics, otherwise it will not easily expose the purpose of the campaign as scheduled.

What's more, this time the Republican Mother Army mobilized the old combat units, and also received the support of the late Allied divisions.

In terms of troops alone, with nearly three times more than the first round of offensive campaigns, will the Army of the Republic go to great lengths for that palm-sized place in the Inner Caucasus? You must know that in terms of the combat effectiveness of the Army of the Republic, a combat unit with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops is enough to fight Moscow. Although the Inner Caucasus is the breadbasket of Russia, it is also rich in mineral resources. But the republic is not short of food, much less mineral resources, and the attractiveness of the Inner Caucasus is completely negligible compared to the Russian source.

It can be seen from this that at that time, the Russian military top brass must have believed that the Republic Army was sweeping the Inner Caucasus. Create an opportunity for the march into Moscow. This is also very understandable, after a few months of "truce", Russia has preliminarily completed its mobilization for war, and the newly formed ground forces are close to Quanwan. Coupled with the elite troops sent by the US Army, the difficulty of the Republican Army's march into Moscow does not mean to reduce the risk, it must first open the front and make a feint far away from the direction of the main attack, forcing the Russian army to make a major strategic adjustment, thus exposing the flaws. So that the Army of the Republic can take the opportunity to storm Moscow. Geographically. The Inner Caucasus, the farthest region from Moscow, is an ideal direction for a feint.

After identifying this reason, it is not difficult to understand that the Russian army did not move in the first 3 days.

The problem is that the actual situation of the war is far from what the Russian army expected, that is, the republican ** team of the "feint" is the main force, and it is attacking very fiercely, and the Russian troops who are holding on to the spot are being broken and annihilated one by one. In this way, it is strange that the Russian army on the front is not in a hurry and at a loss.

Three days is enough for the army of the Republic to assault thousands of kilometers. It is also enough to make the battle situation clear.

By the time the Russian military top brass realized that they had once again misjudged the campaign intentions of the Army of the Republic. It's too late to adjust the defensive deployment, and there is no chance to turn it around.