Chapter 487 487 Breakthrough on all fronts
The famous British military scientist of the 20th century, Liddell? Hart's book "War: Indirect Strategy" put forward a military strategic approach, that is, war is not to seek a frontal decisive battle, but to weaken the enemy's resistance as much as possible, destabilize it, and create a favorable strategic situation, so as to bring the enemy to its knees with minimal military attrition and minimum losses.
In order to achieve this strategic objective, the most effective means is to take the "indirect route," that is, to avoid direct confrontation with the enemy as much as possible in combat, but to adopt all kinds of ingenious methods to strike and shock the enemy by surprise, to make him panic, shake, and lose his balance psychologically and physically. The goal is that the enemy will automatically collapse, or it can be easily routed.
In terms of means, the main means are to avoid frontal assault on fortified positions, and try to detour from the flanks to attack the enemy's vital points; The battle plan is flexible, and the deployment can be changed at any time according to the situation; Carry out extensive maneuvering of troops and weapons; adopt methods of deceiving and confusing the enemy to induce the enemy to make mistakes in the deployment of forces and combat operations; Threaten enemy supply systems and lines of communication, etc.
It can be said that Hart's concise line strategy greatly influenced the military command of Western wars throughout the 20 th century and even afterward.
It's just that as a Chinese, I am fully qualified to be cynical, because this kind of thinking was put forward by our ancestors more than 2,000 years ago, not to mention the high-end strategy of not fighting the soldiers, the four words of the army and the plan are actually very able to summarize these wordy words of Hart.
From the PLA army to Qi Yiming's Red Police Corps, in fact, they all adhere to the traditional strategy of going to the army to fight and plotting, and the foreign point is the indirect strategy. Even if Qi Yiming has two million heavy soldiers, he is not a person who fights blindly. Although he was not commanded on the local battlefield, the Red Police officers at the grassroots level were also delicate in their use of troops.
The main commander in charge of the Battle of Ufa was a Red Police Lieutenant General Fei Xin, and he also had a background in talking about this Red Police Lieutenant General. He is actually not from the orthodox Red Police, but has "crossed over" from "Command and Conquer: General". Qi Yiming unlocked this technology not long ago and obtained four generals with stars. These generals really have a bonus to their combat power when they lead their troops, and the combat power of their troops will be directly increased by one star.
However, the ranks of the four generals are different, only Fei Xin is a lieutenant general, and the other three are all major generals. The difference between this rank is mainly reflected in the bonus to the combat power of troops of different sizes, Fei Xin can add one star to an entire front army, while the other three can only add to one group army.
Qi Yiming also appointed a major general named Kang Dahan as the commander of the Red Alert First Army, originally thinking that the two-compartment bonus could add the Red Alert First Division to a five-star unit, but in the end, the Red Alert First Division was only added to four and a half stars. But it's also so powerful that it's blinding.
Not to mention, the generals who lead the troops in this profession are all famous generals, usually those Red Police Corps commanders and division commanders under Qi Yiming, Qi Yiming feels that they are decent in leading troops, and there is nothing brilliant about them, how do you ask them to go up, but the four from "General", the Red Police generals are obviously not at the same level as these generals.
Under the command of Fei Xin, a general who was "specialized in infantry", the offensive of the Central Front Army was as smooth as mercury, and he attached great importance to air-ground coordination and the rhythm of offensive transformation, and often after discovering the enemy, it was immediately a wave of air strikes, and when the air strikes were over, and when the Soviet Russian army had not yet gained a foothold and eased up, he often surrounded this enemy army from different directions and launched a siege.
Even if it was the siege of the ground forces, he fought very layeredly, which benefited Qi Yiming a lot. For example, a regiment-sized Soviet Russian mechanized infantry was exposed to the Red Alert Corps' attack range, and after a round of air strikes, the mechanized infantry battalion on the right flank first launched an offensive. This offensive is often carried out by the battalion's mobile artillery units with direct fire, which is immediately disengaged after one round; Then from the left flank, another battalion of red police planes came up and ravaged the Soviet Russian army almost in the same way.
After taking turns like this several times, I don't know where another Red Police tank battalion came out of nowhere, directly cutting through this Soviet Russian infantry regiment that was on the verge of collapse, and basically even the most tenacious troops would be completely annihilated.
On the battlefield of the entire Ufa Campaign, there are few battles of the scale of a division and more than 10,000 people, and they are basically confrontations with battalions and regiments, which are very scattered but very sharp. By the time the commanders on the Soviet side realized that they could not fight like this, they had already found that there were no troops available, and Fei Xin gathered up his own troops, divided them into two routes, and pushed the 9th Army, which had not launched an offensive before, from the middle road, and the Soviet Russian army could not resist at all, and was immediately defeated.
The Battle of Ufa, like the Battle of Perm on the Northern Front, lasted less than 12 hours, during which the coalition forces destroyed 35,315 enemies, captured 58,820 enemy troops, and captured a large number of weapons, equipment and materials, but a large part of them were weapons that Yankov had previously transferred to Makashev.
The two battles on the Northern Front and the Central Front were fought less than half a day apart, and they were fought cleanly, destroying more than 140,000 troops of Makashev in less than two days, which was equivalent to destroying more than a quarter of the combat strength of the Soviet Russian army. More critically, the defense line of the Ural Mountains was opened, and the coalition forces gained a major road and foothold to Europe, and the Soviet Russian army had to turn into a state of full retreat.
After the battles of the Northern and Central Fronts, the Combined Sixth Army, which was dominated by the Kazakh Army, and the Combined 10th Army, which was dominated by the Red Police, set out from West Kazakhstan and marched into Volgograd, an important town in southern Russia, in several hours.
More than half a century ago, the city was defeated in a battle that changed the fate of the European theater of World War II, namely the Battle of Stalingrad, and finally the Soviet Red Army dragged down the Nazi German army with blood and lives, which made the entire Great Patriotic War take a turn. Because of political influences, the city was originally named Tsaritsyn to commemorate the war led by Stalin here, renamed Stalingrad, and after Stalin's death, it was renamed Volgograd, and another face issued a strange rule in 2013, the city will be renamed Stalingrad for six days a year, and the rest of the time will be changed back.
But the city that once miraculously saved the fate of the entire Russian nation could not do much in this time. Volgograd, like many cities in southern Russia, is in a state of extreme emptiness in defense. One of Leopold's nuclear bombs flattened Grozny and brought radiation to the entire Volga Plain. Large numbers of Russians had to flee north to escape the murderous radiation.
The Soviet Russian troops originally stationed here did not even wait for the transfer order from above, they directly withdrew from Volgograd and fled north to Kamisin. At this time, except for a small number of people, the defenders of Volgograd were not enough for 2,000 people.
The coalition forces attacked Volgograd, and the defenders here surrendered without even a fight. Although two months have passed since the nuclear explosion, Qi Yiming did not dare to be careless, the Sixth Army and the Tenth Army all entered this area with the highest anti-chemical equipment.
But no one dares not to wear it, because although the nuclear explosion has passed, and Volgograd is 600 kilometers away from Grozny, the explosion of the Great Destroyer is a bit too powerful, so that this area still has a certain amount of radioactive contamination, which will not directly kill people, but it will also have an adverse effect on people's health.
Therefore, Qi Yiming ordered the two army groups to abandon the city immediately after occupying Volgograd and not to occupy it for a long time. Moreover, the Soviet Russian army is now basically unable to establish effective rule in the southern region, and the people's disgust with the Soviet Russian army dropping atomic bombs on the vicinity has reached its peak.
The Southern Front also had only two army groups, but also two army groups, the 2nd and 18th armies, were sent from Uralsk, and their main direction of attack was Saratov, where the Soviet Russian army had previously defeated the federal Russian army. The defense of the Soviet Russian army on the southern front was not as strong as on the northern and central fronts, about 20,000 people, and they needed to complete the task of leaving 200,000 enemy troops on the east bank of the Volga, which was almost impossible.
So I saw that the Soviet Russian army took the initiative to avoid the two coalition armies that attacked on the southern front, and finally chose to surrender heroically when they reached the Volga River and had no way to retreat.
At this time, ordinary officers and soldiers of the Soviet Russian army basically saw that Soviet Russia was about to finish. Makashev's great destroyer not only destroyed Chechnya and Ingushetia, but also destroyed his own meager popular base in Russia. On the other hand, the intervening China pulled up the 12-nation coalition army, and the Soviet and Russian armies did not know what the scale of the so-called coalition army would be at first, but judging from the situation in the past few days, I am afraid that there are not one million but also 800,000, plus the Chinese army is well-equipped, solidly trained, and has high morale, so the Soviet and Russian armies are not opponents at all.
Few people are willing to bury Makashev, even if there is a simple patriotic complex, thinking that the Chinese are invading their Russian motherland, maybe they will show the power of the fighting nation when they can beat the Chinese, but now they are not a heavyweight opponent at all, and they have to fight with others, which is brain-dead. Although the Maozi are very rude, they are not stupid, so it is normal to choose to surrender.
After the Southern Front Army surrendered the Soviet Russian army on this road, the muzzle of the gun turned to the north, broke through the city of Marx, and then crossed the Volga River here, tens of thousands of troops turned around again, and attacked from Saratov's back, there was a two-runway military airfield in Engels City on the opposite bank of Saratov, and the air force of the coalition forces directly dropped the front-line fighters and bombed the Saratov defenders nearby.
After holding out for two days, the Saratov defenders finally chose to surrender to the coalition forces, and two days later, the 6th and 10th armies, which had previously broken Volgograd, converged with the 2nd and 18th armies in Saratov, and the soft southeastern belly of Moscow was exposed under the sharp knives of the coalition forces.