In addition, unlike China's mountainous and hilly terrain, Western Europe's relatively flat terrain and infrastructure conditions are far from comparable to those of today's China, which favored the regular army and not the guerrillas. However, this is only a relatively minor reason, and factors such as the contrast of hard power, the external environment, and even the tactics of both sides have a greater impact on the final outcome of guerrilla warfare, otherwise there would not have been a well-known "guerrilla force on the plains" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

As a result of these discussions, Hu Weidong became aware of a problem that few people have noticed at present, that is, how to correctly understand the idea of people's war, which can be seen from the fact that many military officers are accustomed to opposing the "modernization and regularization" of the armed forces against the "people's war." In fact, whether it is attaching importance to the "modernization and regularization" of the PLA and despising the idea of "people's war"; It is still wrong to attach importance to the idea of people's war and oppose the "modernization and regularization" of the PLA.

As a military industry expert, Hu Weidong knows better than any other general about the significance of the "modernization and regularization" of the PLA, but he does not think that the people's war is just a helpless move by which the national strength is inferior, because even if two countries of equal strength are at war, one side only has the army to go to war, and the other side is the whole country mobilization, so it is obvious which side will win. Therefore, Hu Weidong believes that if the "people's war" is used well, it will not only enable a weak country to defeat a strong country, but also make the war capability of a strong country stronger.

Considering that the term "people's war" has been conventionally associated with all-people guerrilla warfare, Hu Weidong had to acquiesce to the great man. The "people's war" is divided into two concepts: broad and narrow. Among them, "people's war" in a broad sense refers to a way of thinking about building national defense, and its core idea is "integration of military and civilian affairs," and this includes two aspects.

The first is to improve the military quality and national defense awareness of ordinary civilians through extensive military training and national defense education, so that they can become qualified soldiers more quickly when the war breaks out. The second is conducive to cultivating "not warlike." Nor is it afraid of war. "Good national mentality. In this way, even if war breaks out suddenly, there will be no major chaos, which is conducive to the country's concentration of Liliang to fight back against the invaders. Neither of these things is easy to do, but make it a goal to work towards. But it's true.

And on the other hand. It means that the domestic economy should also take into account the needs of national defense. From a small place, "dual-use" should be vigorously promoted, whether it is products or equipment; Say it big. It is required that the country's economic and industrial layout must take into account national defense and security, and the reason why the conditions are more favorable than the coastal areas after the establishment of New China (except for the three shipbuilding bases of Qingdao, Shanghai and Dalian). The priority is given to the construction of infrastructure and industrial cities in the hinterland, although it is because of the foundation of the Luoyang Industrial Zone and the help of the Soviet Union, there are also considerations in this regard.

Admittedly, this is often not economically cost-effective, especially in the short term, but now that World War II is heating up, China will have to prepare well if it wants to stand alone, because the better prepared it is, the more it can avoid war. Historically, great people built the third-line project, and even seriously affected the economic construction (at that time, the total investment in the third-line construction [but there are also some economic construction projects] was several times more than the investment in economic construction in the same period), and then the nuclear war did not start, and many people thought that so much money was spent in vain, and how good it would be if it was used for economic construction? As everyone knows, it was precisely because China was well prepared that the Soviet government at that time felt that even if it carried out a preemptive "nuclear operation" against China, it would not be able to defeat China at once, and leave time for the United States to intervene, and the nuclear crisis could be avoided

Historically, if the Soviet Union had not taken precautions and established new industrial areas in the east in advance, such as the Urals and Novosibirsk, and in the early days of the Soviet-German war, Germany was stunned by a wave and lost most of the old industrial areas and then wanted to turn over, even with the assistance of the United States, I am afraid it would be very difficult, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government, which only began to transfer industry after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, is even more a negative example

However, Hu Weidong also opposes the need for national defense and security to be inflated, while completely ignoring the economic efficiency-cost ratio. For example, after the bombing of the British dam, many comrades felt that the reservoir was too dangerous during the war and opposed the construction, so Hu Weidong also asked the secretary to write an article according to his meaning under the title of "Don't Waste Food Because of Choking", pointing out that only caring about economic benefits can only build "fragile prosperity" and thus become extremely war-fearful (the economic system has a very poor ability to withstand war, and as soon as it is fought, or even just blocked by the economy, the domestic economy will collapse, and the external economy will naturally not be able to harden up). However, it is even more undesirable to completely ignore economic benefits for the sake of national defense and security or other considerations, because this is a great waste, after all, China does not have as much capital as the United States, and it is the right thing to do to take into account and balance these contradictions.

In a secret report that was only handed over to a few central leaders, such as Weiren and Zhou Gong, Hu Weidong also looked forward to the terrifying power of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) and the invincibility of long-range ballistic missiles in the future, and pointed out that after these two weapons are mastered by the major powers of Shijie, they are likely to form a terrifying nuclear balance, thus bringing long-term peace to the major powers of Shijie, and at that time, the importance of national defense and security will definitely decline.

Moreover, in the context of nuclear war, facilities such as large dams, which will cause terrible consequences after being attacked, only need to raise the requirements to make them reach the sturdiness of "non-nuclear bombs cannot be destroyed", and do not build arched dams with obvious structural weaknesses in order to save money, and then they will no longer be a hidden danger to national defense and security, because if the enemy country dares to attack large dams with nuclear weapons, it will mean the outbreak of a nuclear war. What a difference, so why bother? Or in other words, even if it is too much, it will all end up anyway, so what's the difference? (To be continued......)