Chapter 573: We Need a Result
Although it has been decided that in a war in the Far East, the navy will be the key to determining the outcome of the war, but the Russian top brass must not explain it! How do you say that? Do you want to tell those bigwigs in the army, you just watch the fight, hold the land and be a turtle with a shrunken head, and then wait for the navy to defeat the Huaxia Navy, let's sign a contract! Can you say that? Not to mention that this has directly intensified the contradictions between the Russian Navy and the Army, and made the Russian Army, which has always been arrogant, embarrassed. What's more important is that you said this above, how do you expect the army to work hard to fight?
Therefore, the Russian top brass came up with a not very clever way to reveal the news to a certain general of the army, and then let him say it at the army meeting, on the one hand, to take care of the army's face, and on the other hand, to tell the army to stop in moderation and stop making trouble with the navy and the top management. Just know the way, don't make everyone lose face!
In fact, there is another reason why the Russian top brass has not explained, and this reason is even more taboo than relying on the navy. That is, Russia needs a result, a result to understand the situation in the East, whether it is victory or defeat, Russia must put all its energy into Europe after this war, to meet a big war that will really determine the fate of Russia! Before that, the Russians had to fight again for the sake of the Far East's access to the sea and territory, and even if the loss was relatively large, they still had to do it like this!
This kind of reasoning may seem far-fetched, but it is actually very common for large countries, which all have their own dignity, sometimes without much interest, or even if the defeat is assured. It must still be carried out, for example, Xu Jie's Eastern Crusade of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet in that plane, the outcome must be tragic. This is a question that a normal person can figure out with his knees, but the Russians must persevere, just for a result!
But the Russian top brass thinks so, and the Russian Army can't do that. If the army does not take itself seriously, then the land war pattern in the Far East will really be unable to be saved! However, after General Linevich made his words clear, the generals of the army have understood their task, that is, not to seek merit but to seek no fault! Don't expect them to recover much territory. As long as it can resist the attack of the Huaxia Army, it can switch from attack to defense, which simplifies many problems.
The problem of insufficient firepower can be compensated for with fortifications. The problem of insufficient maneuver has also been solved, and in any case, there is no need to attack the opponent by detour, and in the case of internal operations, it is still enough to rely on mules and horses to maneuver. As for the question of consumption. It doesn't look like it's much. In a defensive state, the consumption of food and other materials will inevitably be reduced, and the pressure on logistics will be reduced, so that after all kinds of problems are solved, the Russians think that their strategic goals should be relatively easy to achieve.
"In future battles, it is highly likely that the Chinese Army will continue to strengthen their army chariot units to cover the infantry. Or as an offensive iron fist to shred our defenses, so. This threat level is second only to the Chinese Army's powerful heavy artillery units. As the actual commander of the last Sino-Russian war, Bilderlinger still has a relatively appropriate estimate of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army.
There is no way to use heavy artillery, unless you can hit this thing farther than the opponent and hit it more accurately than the opponent, otherwise you can only nest in the fortifications as a turtle with a shrunken head, but fortunately, the fortifications are built strong enough, and the other party will not be able to break through for a while and a half, the Russians may not be very fine, but cutting corners or anything is not the style of the Russians.
Well, people call it simplifying the production steps, for example, the T34 during the 2 war and the pull series fighters, which can be called the miracle of wood, although all kinds of rough simplifications, but at least they can be used. Especially the pull series aircraft are not bad. As for the later sale of all kinds of cheating goods by Russia to India, it is to deceive others, at least the Russians will not pit themselves! Don't you see, in the Russo-Japanese War on Xu Jie's plane, the Japanese made a bloody effort to break through the Lushun Fortress!
Therefore, it can be predicted that in terms of fortifications, as long as the building materials behind can keep up, the quality is still guaranteed, and in a short time, it is also very difficult to knock open the reinforced concrete walnuts of the Russians with heavy artillery! Then the remaining task is how to block the attack of the Beiyang Army on the non-fortified area.
As a large army power, the Russians' army campaign planning department is also very sophisticated, and the weapons deduction and so on are also very good, on the large-scale sand table, the Russians will put the forces of both sides in turn, and then begin to deduce the entire war process. After a period of deduction, the Russians also successfully discovered the problem of the Chinese Army, which is actually exactly the same problem as the Russians, that is, the mobility of the troops, and the disconnection between infantry and artillery firepower!
Like the infantry of various countries at that time, the vast majority of infantry had to walk on two legs, as said in an inspirational TV series in later generations, the infantry came out with their feet! Naturally, an infantry attack could not bring enough heavy firepower, and a machine gun protected by cover would not have any problem suppressing a company of infantry. And a lot of artillery was to be transported from behind by horses and vehicles! EVEN SMALL CANNONS LIKE 47MM AND 57MM ARE NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE TRANSPORTED OVER LONG DISTANCES BY MANPOWER, AND EVEN MORE SO FOR GUNS LIKE 75 CANNONS AND MORE THAN 105MM! The Russians have far more horses than the Chinese Army, let alone the Chinese Army? It can be seen from this that this time the battle will be the advance of the Chinese infantry braving the fire of the Russians!
The only variable in this is the armored car unit that shines in the Inner Mongolia operation. This force, in the opinion of the Russians, was a complete blend of mobility and attack power. There is a lot of pressure on the defending side. IT'S NOT THAT THE RUSSIANS LACK THE ARTILLERY TO DESTROY THIS KIND OF TANK, 47MM GUNS CAN PENETRATE THEIR FRAGILE ARMOR, BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE RUSSIANS NEED TO DEPLOY THEIR ARTILLERY ON A DEFENSE LINE THAT IS HUNDREDS OF KILOMETERS WIDE, AND SUCH A LARGE FRONT MAKES THE DENSITY OF FIRE DROP SHARPLY. Unless you can find the direction of the opponent's assault, otherwise, it will be a large number of tanks and infantry of the opponent attacking you at a point, and when the follow-up heavy equipment comes up, the Russian army will have to engage again with inferior firepower.
At this time, after comparing the combat methods of the Chinese Army when breaking through the defensive line, the Russians found that the attack of the Chinese Army began with a breakthrough with small elite units under the cover of artillery, and the artillery was responsible for delaying the reinforcements of the other side, while the elite troops relied on high speed and powerful firepower to open the gap instantly. Then wait for the large army to arrive and break through the opponent's defenses. Faced with this mode of attack, the Russians found themselves in dire need of a fire brigade that could quickly reach the battlefield and defeat the opponent's elite troops with a comparative advantage, and this force became the first rapid reaction force in Russian history! (To be continued......)