The Soviets also did not want to learn armored cavalry tactics, but based on the Soviet Union's strong industrial production capacity and extremely rich natural resources, they believed that with the support of the strong production capacity of 10,000 or more tanks per year, if the armored tactics were designed too finely, it would increase the difficulty of command and coordination, compared with "simple tactics + the number of terrors" was more in line with the Soviet Union's army building thinking

Compared with Germany and the Soviet Union, which attached great importance to armored tactics, the United States, Britain, France, and Italy paid much less attention to it, and they did not come to a clear conclusion after studying it for more than a year, when World War II had already begun. Relatively speaking, the Japanese army, which has a weak industrial base and a battlefield with very poor infrastructure, is the most suitable for learning armored cavalry tactics, and the Japanese decision-makers quickly discovered this, but Japan's original more than 1,000 tanks at this time have almost been lost, although because of the secret agreement reached with the navy, the production capacity of domestic tanks far exceeds the same period in history, but it still takes a while to regenerate enough quantities and form combat effectiveness, In particular, the devil also put forward higher requirements for the tank because of the poor performance in the previous battle, so that after the new combat vehicle is put into production, the production line will inevitably have to be readjusted, so it will be even slower, and the Chinese military and civilians who have switched to a full-scale counteroffensive will never give them this time

When he first proposed this tactic, he told Hu Weidong that this tactic would be more effective for a period of time, and as long as China completes industrialization (Note 1), or even only preliminary industrialization (the total output value of the secondary industry exceeds the total output value of the primary industry by more than three times), this tactic will almost be eliminated.

However, Ma Zhongying and his foreign counterparts have different opinions on the new armored tactics that China needs to adopt after industrialization, and he attaches special importance to self-propelled guns and armored transport vehicles (in fact, mechanized infantry) that carry infantry to fight with tanks compared to tanks, which are known as the "king of land warfare". The former is taking into account the rapid development of China's air force. It will take a long time to reach the first-class level of Shijie, and even if it is developed, it will definitely give priority to fighters, and it is not known when bombers, attack planes and other ground attack models will have to catch up with advanced countries. Therefore, it is necessary to carry forward the tradition of "artillery doctrine" that began with Hu Weidong, and in addition, large-caliber heavy artillery can only solve the problem of mobility in bad road conditions after being manufactured into self-propelled artillery; The great importance attached to mechanized infantry is mainly to give full play to the traditional advantages of China's infantry as the world's first, and at the same time, it can also be used as a rapid reaction force to deal with possible small-scale military conflicts and even local wars in the future.

Furthermore. Both self-propelled guns and armored carriers are much cheaper than tanks of the same grade, especially armored carriers. Generally speaking, it is less than one-third of the cost of a tank, which is undoubtedly of great practical significance for China, which is unlikely to become a developed country for a long time (Note 2), and in fact even Ma Zhongying's plan for building armored forces is still a bit too advanced for China today

Although because of Hu Weidong's efforts in the past few years, China's industrial and scientific and technological foundation has not been a little bit stronger than that of the same period in history, and it has also obtained from the outside world even more than the large amount of equipment and even talents aided by the Soviet Union in the early days of the founding of New China, but China's foundation is still too weak after all

According to Hu Weidong's estimation at this time. China will only be able to achieve complete independent production of all types of armored vehicles after the end of World War II at the earliest (this is still under the premise that the design drawings are provided by Hu Weidong, so only the production is not the design). As for the complete rearmament and unification of logistics standards, and the formation of an armored army with full combat effectiveness, it will take 5-10 years. And to want to have tens of thousands of tanks like the two superpowers in the middle and late Cold War in history, the United States and the Soviet Union, is even more distant

However, just when Hu Weidong was moved and regretted that he could not see this day as soon as possible, Mao Zemin, who was far away in the United States, suddenly sent back a great news that made him ecstatic, and even suffered some gains and losses because of it for a time

Note 1: The standard in the book is that the number of workers (including miners and agricultural workers) exceeds that of peasants by more than three times, and this standard is only applicable to large countries, because small countries do not need and cannot establish a complete industrial system and industrial sector, they can only judge the degree of industrialization according to labor productivity, and the following "preliminary industrialization" standard is the same.

Note 2: With China's total population at that time, it was only possible to concentrate all of China's economic aggregate in China to barely make China meet the standards of developed countries. In fact, considering that China's literacy rate was less than 30% at that time (because of the lack of reliable unified data during the Republic of China, there has been no conclusion on how much the average literacy rate is, 30% is the highest statement, but the literacy rate is only 15%, or even less than 10%, that is, the total number of people with junior primary education in the country is less than 100 million, and the number of people who have completed primary school or have the same academic ability is only tens of millions, which is even worse than the end of the Qing Dynasty. It takes a generation for universal education alone, because the first generation only has time to make up for the shortage of teachers, so it can be extrapolated that even if China can always have unlimited free access to the most advanced scientific jishu and machinery and equipment of the same period, China will need at least two generations, that is, 30-40 years of hard work to become a developed country, not to mention that the reality is much more cruel than this, Shijie's advanced level of technology and equipment can not be bought with money, not to mention, the inferior also needs to spend a high price, What's more, other countries are also improving, and we need to catch up behind, so the process is naturally longer. In addition, the large population also means that China must become the first power before it can become a developed country, and it is clear that the old overlord will not be able to give up this throne, which undoubtedly further increases the difficulty of China's revival

I can't help but complain that in history, because Lao Chiang fled to Taiwan, he took with him a large number of intellectuals and literate national officers and soldiers and their relatives and friends, a total of no less than 4 million people, plus the literacy rate at that time was much higher than that of the mainland (due to the foundation laid by the Japanese, Taiwan had basically universalized primary education at that time. In Taiwan Province, the People's Republic of China lost millions of high-quality literate people, so much so that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was not even possible to find enough primary school teachers, and as a result, it took two generations to popularize education alone

In contrast, Taiwan can directly skip the difficulty of universal education, coupled with the large amount of gold, silver and foreign exchange that Chiang Lao brought to Taiwan (in fact, although the amount of money is large, most of it was used by Chiang Kai-shek as military spending and was quickly spent within a few years, and Taiwan's economic take-off mainly depends on US assistance. and a staggering amount of U.S. aid (Marshall Jihua, who aided Europe in the United States, would not be as much as Taiwan would receive if it were distributed to various countries.) What is even more crucial is that Taiwan has not been blockaded by the West for a long time in terms of advanced science and technology and equipment like the mainland, and with such conditions, it is strange that Taiwan's per capita income, which was already three times higher than the average level of the mainland, could not develop economically as early as 1945. In fact, even per capita, the gap between the mainland and Taiwan has now narrowed a lot compared with the beginning, so using Taiwan's so-called economic achievements to squeeze out the new China that came out of the "one poor and two white" is actually a slap in the face of Wanwan (to be continued). )