"You're right!" Halsey nodded, "But...... How are you going to do that? ”

Halsey spread his hands a little embarrassed: "This requires us to take the three northeastern provinces in the shortest possible time, and this time is even very short, because the enemy's assembly does not take much time!" Meantime...... Even if the enemy's forces are scattered, their strength on the defensive line is no less than ours! It's almost an impossible task, isn't it? ”

Zhang Chi was silent for a while, and then said, "General, do you remember the one commonly used by the Germans?" ”

"You mean to say...... Blitzkrieg? Hearing this, Halsey's eyes widened. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, it's a blitzkrieg!" Zhang Chi nodded.

"But......" Halsey looked at Zhang Chi in disbelief and said, "We have never implemented or even simulated similar tactics, do you know how to fight this battle?" ”

"Blitzkrieg" may not be an unfamiliar term to modern people, but it is ...... for people of this era It has only been more than three years since Germany launched the first blitzkrieg against Poland, and during this time, various countries were busy dealing with the war, and there was little time and opportunity to study or have research but no opportunity to practice.

This is also the reason why Halsey felt incredulous when he heard that Zhang Chi was going to use a "blitzkrieg" to hit Northeast China, because this was a risk, and the vast majority of the allied forces, including the United States, were the side that was beaten in the "blitzkrieg" and had never used the "blitzkrieg" to hit others, that is, no one knew what problems would be with the use of the "blitzkrieg".

"So, during this time I studied the German examples!" Zhang Chi said calmly: "'Blitzkrieg' has several conditions, the first is intelligence, only by mastering the enemy's intelligence in detail, can we know the enemy's weaknesses, and concentrate our superior forces to launch a lightning attack on its weaknesses!" ”

"Hmm!" Halsey couldn't help but suddenly realize: "That's why you want to send a reconnaissance force into the northeast in advance...... You've been doing this for a while! ”

Zhang Chi nodded, and then said: "The second is air superiority...... 'blitzkrieg' is mainly to launch a surprise attack with armored forces, and the natural enemy of armored forces is the enemy's fighters!" ”

"It won't be too much of a problem at that!" Halsey flipped through the documents on the table casually, then took out one of them, handed it to Zhang Chi and said: "This is the information obtained by the reconnaissance unit on the air power of the Japanese army at several airfields in the northeast. According to intelligence, the Japanese army will not have more than a hundred aircraft in the northeast, and the vast majority of them are transport aircraft...... Their fighters and bombers were transferred to the frontal battlefield to support the infantry operations, or they were transferred to Okinawa for defense, leaving only the transport planes to carry supplies back and forth to the front line! ”

Of course, Zhang Chi also knew this information, which was also the reason why he was in a hurry to hit the Northeast...... The Northeast is the rear supply base of the Japanese army, and taking the Northeast means cutting off the supply of the Japanese army, which will undoubtedly give those Japanese troops who are fighting in the front a bolt from the blue.

"Again!" "We need an armored unit and a rapid mobile unit...... This is the foundation of Blitzkrieg, and we rely on its speed, defense, and firepower to overwhelm any enemy in our way! ”

"That's not going to be a problem either!" "Every Chinese unit has a tank regiment, and the New Seventh Army even has two tank regiments...... All we need is to get tanks and cars ashore! ”

After a pause, Halsey, who was looking at the map, nodded slowly: "This tactic may indeed work, the terrain in northeast China is flat and suitable for tank advances." On the other hand, the Japanese were relatively weak in anti-tank equipment......"

"It's not relatively weak, it's quite weak!" Zhang Chi added: "Their anti-tank equipment is even quite far from the Japanese we have encountered!" ”

Halsey thought about it for a while and agreed: "That's right, China basically doesn't have tanks, which means that the Japanese don't have the need for anti-tanks, especially in the rear...... The Japanese did not think that there would be enemy tanks in this place at all, and naturally there would not be much anti-tank equipment. ”

This corresponds to the saying "how strong the enemy is, how strong you are", because the opponents of these Japanese troops were poorly equipped national troops, so the Japanese army's equipment did not need to be so good, so the expeditionary force picked up a bargain.

"That is to say......" Halsey said more excitedly, "our tanks can easily tear through the enemy's lines and crush them under the tracks!" ”

"And we can also use tanks to organize a defensive line!"

"Yes, that's a great idea!" Halsey agrees.

"One last bit!" Zhang Chi said: "At the same time, it is also very important that we need sufficient supplies! Because only by ensuring sufficient supplies can our tanks move, and our tanks and machine guns have bullets and shells, and if this cannot be guaranteed, it will be a fatal blow to us! ”

"That's not a problem!" "We're going to start by concentrating a lot of strategic supplies on Iwo Jima...... You know, we're using a lot of transport planes to deliver supplies from the rear, and then we're going to use warships, transport ships, transport planes, etc. to deliver supplies to you! The question is...... Where are you going to land? ”

"Here!" Zhang Chi pointed to a point on the map.

"Dalian Lushun?" Halsey asked, "Why this?" ”

"Because this place is surrounded by the sea on three sides and the mainland on the other!" Zhang Chi replied: "This is good for our offense and defense!" ”

Zhang Chi didn't say it explicitly, but Halsey understood.

Surrounded by the sea on three sides and connected to the mainland on the other, this means that the Sino-US coalition forces, which have superiority in sea and air, can launch a flank attack on them from three sides, which is conducive to attacking.

After attacking and taking this area, for the Chinese and American coalition forces, which have sea and air superiority, they only need to defend one side on land...... It is even possible to use the superiority of the sea and air to carry out coordinated defense, which is conducive to defense.

At the same time, Port Arthur is also a natural deep-water and ice-free port, and the US military's equipment and supplies can be continuously landed from the port by sea.

More importantly......

In order to take advantage of the port and transport the goods plundered from China to the country by sea, the Japanese built roads and railways leading to Port Arthur in all directions, and these roads and railways would become excellent transportation routes and offensive routes for the Chinese army in the war.

(To be continued.) )