Li Qiwei looked at the newspaper sent from China, and his eyebrows were twisted.

"Our politicians and generals are thinking about how to win this damn Gulf War every day, but Lin Youde is engaged in manned spaceflight? It really makes people feel like Lin Youde is letting us. It feels terrible. ”

"Yes, it's as if we're doing everything we can, and the other person says, 'I'm going to fight you with only one hand.'" Lieutenant General Taylor, Ridgway's aide-de-camp, agreed.

However, there is some truth in his speech, if there were unlimited resources, human beings would compete for each other and plunder each other would be much less. Of course, there are certainly predators who like to eat ready-made food and don't want to explore on their own, but I personally would love to go to new places and break new ground on my own. ”

"We're the descendants of the pioneers."

Li Qiwei shrugged his shoulders and threw the newspaper on the table next to him: "Forget it, I don't want to do this." We should have organized this offensive as soon as possible, and as long as we did not make mistakes in organizing it, MacArthur and Wilson should have known how pointless it was to continue this war. ”

At this moment, Li Qiwei has long had the luxury of winning the war, and the enemy has not been well supplied, but the exchange ratio between the front-line US military and the US-China Republic **** is always superior to the US-China side, and it is clear that the firepower configuration of both sides is better than the US army, but some of the weapons of the Republican Guard as an opponent are better in quality.

Ridgway had never fought the Germans on the Western Front, but he could understand why commanders returning from the European theater did not want to come to the Persian Gulf to muddy the waters.

The U.S. military naturally has well-trained elite troops, but almost every unit on the opponent's side can compete with the elite troops of the U.S. military, and they will not be taken advantage of. And these troops, which can compete with the elite of the US military, are in a state of overwhelming superiority when they encounter US troops with mediocre combat effectiveness.

The elite of the United States and China and the elite of the U.S. military generally encounter five to five, depending on the terrain and luck, but the elite of the U.S. and China will also be in a state of crushing when facing the usual U.S. military troops.

In other words, now Li Qiwei is facing such a situation, the Chinese attack, the entire front will only be left with the core support point, and the US troops filled in the core support point will all suffer heavy losses and have to retreat; When Li Qiwei attacks, the main force will often slowly break through the enemy's defense, and the attack in the secondary direction is like kicking on the iron plate. Then the commander of the United States and China will quickly concentrate the troops to the front because there is no pressure on the flanks, and go all out to attack the main force of the American army that has broken through.

In order to put sufficient pressure on the commanders of the United States and China in the secondary direction, it is necessary to invest far more forces than the other side in the secondary direction, and to do so is contrary to the principle of concentrating forces.

In the final analysis, it is still the strength of troops, and Li Qiwei firmly believes that if the troops in his hands are two-thirds of the troops he commanded on the battlefield of the Ming Kingdom in World War II, then it will be easy to win this war.

It is a pity that Ridgway does not have so many troops, and it is impossible for the United States to provide him with such many troops.

In fact, Ridgway now has much more troops in his hands than the Pentagon estimated before entering the war, mainly because the enemy's combat effectiveness is unexpectedly strong, and the Pentagon has to increase its forces to turn the tide of the war.

But after increasing the number of troops, it seemed that it still could not win, so it had to continue to increase the number of troops, and in this way, the Pentagon began to realize that the situation was not good. Continuing to increase the number of troops may run counter to the policy of "winning the war quickly with limited forces" that was laid down before the start of the war - in fact, it has already been violated, because it is impossible for the war to end quickly. Now the Pentagon is mainly thinking about how to reduce the number of troops as much as possible.

However, if the investment of troops is insufficient, it will continue to suffer losses on the battlefield, and then more troops will be invested. The Pentagon in this time and space made a similar mistake to the Vietnam War in another time and space, and the war that could have been won in one fell swoop was turned into a war of fuel, and in the end it found itself more inexhaustible than its opponents.

Li Qiwei thought it was stupid, but he couldn't say it clearly.

The U.S. military in another time and space at least has the advantage of the exchange ratio, and the U.S. military in this time and space does not even have an advantage in the exchange ratio, and fighting a war of oil is simply looking for death.

There will be such a situation, of course, it is because there is a time-traveler Lin Youde in this time and space. Because of Lin Youde, the Persian Gulf War, which took place in 54 years, already has some flavor of the Vietnam War, and there is a clear difference between the weapons of the two sides, especially light weapons.

In the Korean War in another time and space of 53 years, the U.S. military is still using World War II weapons such as BAR, Garand and Tom submachine guns, and the U.S. military in North Africa was beaten by the Germans who all used assault rifles with reduced charge ammunition, so they developed assault rifle equipment troops at the fastest speed, and now the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf has all M16, much earlier than another time and space.

In addition, the assault rifles on Lin Youde's side are all developed from STG44, and they all have a standard Kalashnikov shape, so the century feud between M16 and Kalashnikov in this time and space has been staged more than ten years in advance.

In addition, the Super Sabre vs. Super Saber in the sky is also quite the flavor of the Super Saber vs. MiG-21 during the Vietnam War, and the Super Saber of this time and space is really a reference to the aerodynamic shape of the MiG-21 that Lin Youde showed to the Americans.

The only difference is probably that neither side has reliable guided weapons at present, and ground attacks still rely on the experience of pilots.

Of course, the Republican Guard of the Republic of China is not a German army after all, and the style of fighting is not exactly the same as that of the German army. The German army built by Lin Youde was very dependent on firepower and armor, and it rarely made a very fanatical charge. German infantry would not have chosen to attack without the support of combat vehicles, and pure German infantry units would have chosen to attack at night if they had to attack a well-defended position.

Therefore, those grass-roots American officers in the US military in the Persian Gulf, who are accustomed to the tactics of the German army, tend to focus very much on protecting against night attacks when they find that there are no combat vehicles on the opposite side, but rarely think about preventing the enemy from attacking frontally.

But the troops of the Chinese Republic of America are different, even without the support of armor, they dare to launch a frontal attack, they are very good at the infantry attack tactics of alternating advance in battle groups, and can fight very skillful infantry shock battles.

Of course, the casualties of this kind of infantry attack must be greater than that of the German army's offensive warfare that relies on armor, and Li Qiwei believes that this is an important reason why the exchange ratio of the United States and the Chinese Republic is not as good as that of the German army and the American army.

But from another point of view, the troops of the Republic of China in the United States are not as high as the mechanization of the German army, almost all the units of the German army are equipped with armored units, and they have been fully mechanized in World War II, and even the pure infantry division will be equipped with some light combat vehicles responsible for reconnaissance in the reconnaissance battalion.

Of the troops of the Republican Republic, only the Republican Guard mechanized Cheng dù was comparable to the German army, and the other Republican Wehrmacht did not have so many combat vehicles.

Ridgway was also well aware of this, so he always found a way to give his armored forces an advantage over the Republican Defense Forces.

But it is clear that taking advantage of the situation is not enough to win the war.