When Hu Weidong heard these arguments later, he was frightened into a cold sweat, there is nothing worse than being alerted and even contained before he rises, fortunately, there are not many people who believe in these arguments at that time, after all, China's weak national strength is still there. More importantly, by the time some Western leaders began to be vigilant and guard against the new China, World War II had almost officially begun, so even those who had foresight could no longer contain or even strangle the nascent people's power, but were more worried about China joining the enemy camp and had to spend a lot of money to try their best to win it over

Also shocking was Ma Zhongying, who was originally only famous in northwest China, although even the Soviet army in the heyday of the 11-nation alliance that had defeated the eleventh alliance in the past and had not yet been affected by the Great Purge suffered heavy losses under him, but due to the blockage of transportation in the northwest and the secrecy of the Soviets, Ma Zhongying's reputation has not been able to spread to a wider area. After the Soviet army defeated it by relying on the superiority of numbers and troops, Ma Zhongying seemed to be disheartened and left the remnants to study in the Soviet Union, but unexpectedly combined the armored tactics of the Soviet army with the cavalry tactics he was good at, creating a unique armored cavalry tactics, which laid the foundation for his later blockbuster

When Hu Weidong tried to persuade the Soviet Union to release the people on the orders of Taizu and successfully brought them back to China, thus changing history, Ma Zhongying really lived up to the expectations of Taizu and Hu Weidong, relying on his original armored cavalry tactics to skillfully crack the enemy's highly targeted anti-tank fortifications, and annihilated nearly 200,000 Japanese elites with minimal losses. However, while highly praising Ma Zhongying's outstanding generals, the military strategists of the great powers were mostly noncommittal about the armored cavalry tactics for which he became famous, not because they did not think that such tactics were powerful, but because they all saw that such tactics could only achieve great success with specific users, specific targets, and the unique circumstances of China's War of Resistance. This success is almost impossible to replicate, and it does not have much learning value for the Western powers

Among them, Heinz, who was still studying and observing in the Central Plains border area at this time, was later the "father of armor" in Germany. William. Guderian knew it best. He believes that the advantages of the low battle loss rate of tanks and armored vehicles under the armored cavalry tactics are actually only effective against the enemy's ground attack, especially the infantry anti-tank Liliang, if the enemy has a strong air force or a long-range heavy artillery group, then the armored cavalry tactics will inevitably give the enemy more opportunities for long-range fire coverage because of the constant roundabouts and longer travels, so it may suffer greater losses than the seemingly simple armored cluster assault tactics.

Meantime. While it is true that armoured cavalry tactics can significantly reduce losses of tanks and other armoured vehicles under certain circumstances, they do so at the cost of a much longer combat time, and on the battlefield "time is of the essence". That is, in poor and backward China, because armored vehicles and armored troops are very scarce, and at the same time, there is a lack of powerful air force and long-range artillery groups to support the frontal attack of armored groups, which makes it much more difficult for armored forces to attack frontally, which is relatively cost-effective.

Guderian was even less interested in the light tank, which was crucial in armored cavalry tactics, because in his opinion it was entirely due to the fact that China's infrastructure was too poor (primary) and the terrain was too rugged (secondary). Because no matter how high the proportion of mountains is, the essence will always be plain terrain. As a result, on a European continent with well-developed infrastructure and open and flat terrain, light tanks with thin armor and weak firepower are of little value. Although light tanks are relatively cheap to build, and the failure rate is generally lower than that of medium tanks designed and produced at the same level of craftsmanship. However, in Guderian's view, the value of these two advantages, such as the strong industrial production capacity and logistical maintenance capacity of Germany and the relative lack of human resources, is actually very limited, and there is no need to "lose the big because of the small"

To put it simply, the so-called armored cavalry tactics are of great value only if neither the enemy nor the enemy is a powerful industrial country, so it has no practical value for the Western powers or even the Red Soviet Union, especially for Germany, which has the highest level of industrialization. Moreover, the armored cavalry tactics have extremely high requirements for the commander's tactical literacy and impromptu response, and to a large extent rely on the talent and experience of the generals, which cannot be cultivated by the Western military academy model, and can only be brutally selected in the war. Therefore, it is undoubtedly more frustrating for the Western powers, which have developed industry and whose human lives are much more valuable.

In contrast, although the loss rate of conventional armored cluster assault tactics that does not seem to have much jishu content is high, in Guderian's view, with Germany's strong industrial base, as long as it wins in the end, it will only take one or two months to replenish the hundreds, or even more than 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles that have to be lost in order to eliminate hundreds of thousands of people, and there are many people who can drive tanks in Germany, which is not as expensive as in China. On the contrary, the faster advance speed of tanks and armored vehicles under the conventional armored cluster assault tactics is more valuable to Germany, after all, their opponents are also industrial powers, so the German army would rather lose more in the early stage, but also quickly defeat the enemy's resistance, otherwise it will become a struggle for consumption by both sides relying on industrial strength, which is undoubtedly more disadvantageous to Germany, which lacks resources and lacks depth and manpower

Note 1: Compared with the total amount, it is not comparable with the giant of the United States, but that is mainly because the population of the United States is much larger than that of Germany, only in terms of industrial and technological level, Germany at that time should be the undisputed shijie first, although the advantage is far less than many German fans say, especially in many important sectors such as radio, Germany is not as good as Britain and the United States, all things considered, at most 10% stronger than the United States, 5% stronger than the United Kingdom. In fact, at that time, because there were many scientific and technological exchanges between Western countries, the gap between the industrial and technological levels of the great powers was generally very small, with the exception of the Soviet Union and Japan, which did not belong to the Western Shijie and were blockaded by Jishu to varying degrees (to be continued. )

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