Chapter 522: Active Defense
"Let's put it this way!" Zhang Chi explained: "Defense can be roughly divided into passive defense and active defense...... Passive defense is our common defense method, and it is also the defense method used by the military seat in Shenyang, and the weakness of this defense is...... It is necessary to take into account all directions, as the breakthrough of only one place by the enemy is likely to cause the collapse of the entire defense system. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć As for the enemy, they can choose the time of attack, the breakthrough position, the firepower they need, and even formulate a systematic targeted attack plan after reconnoitring our entire defense system, and we can only wait! ā
Wu Xuexin couldn't help but nodded, what Zhang Chi said was exactly what the national army had always encountered on the battlefield, the national army always defended, defended and defended on the battlefield, but the Japanese army always found a breakthrough to beat the national army into a mess.
"There is no line of defense that cannot be attacked!" Zhang Chi continued: "Although such a defensive line can take advantage of the location and fortifications, if it is not enough time and sufficient materials to build strong fortifications, in the face of the enemy's artillery fire...... This location is basically not worth mentioning! ā
Wu Xuexin nodded again in agreement.
Wu Xuexin has experienced this many times when facing the Japanese army on the domestic battlefield. Worse still...... After breaking through the defenses of the national army again and again, the Japanese army also summed up the experience of penetrating the defense again and again, so it was already familiar with breaking through the defense of the national army.
"So, this will form a situation where the offense is greater than the defense!" Zhang Chi finally came to a conclusion.
This is not the same as the era of cold weapon warfare, the war in the era of cold weapons needless to say, it must be more defensive than offensive, but as weapons and equipment become more and more advanced, unless it is a special situation such as occupying a particularly dangerous geographical location, most of the advantages of the defending side will be easily resolved by weapons and equipment, so a situation of attacking more than defending is formed.
"So...... The meaning of the division seat is ......" Wu Xuexin asked with some shame.
Needless to say, why Wu Xuexin is ashamed, he is a few years older than Zhang Chi, and he also learned ink from the military academy, especially he has fought many battles with the Japanese, but he has not analyzed the pros and cons of friend and foe like Zhang Chi at all.
But that's actually quite normal...... For Zhang Chi, these war theories are all ordinary things, but for people in this era, they are still mainly defensive, for example, France and even the whole country have fallen into the erroneous military idea of "complete defense", so they will make jokes like "Maginot Line".
To be precise, these were all side effects of the "trench warfare" of World War I...... Because of the combat experience of "trench warfare" in World War I, most of the military thinking of this era was brought to the ditch that "a large-scale attack will cause heavy losses, and the defense will achieve great success."
This is also one of the reasons why the German army's "blitzkrieg" can be carried forward, most countries' military theories are on the defensive, but the German army is attacking, attacking, and attacking again!
"What I mean by active defense ......" Zhang Chi pointed to the map and continued: "On the one hand, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the combat radius of the fighters and form an advantage of 'I can hit the enemy, but the enemy cannot hit me', and on the other hand, we must make use of the mobility of tanks, armored vehicles, trains, and automobiles, instead of using them as mobile batteries in Shenyang......
Wu Xuexin was still a little confused: "Master, if it's an attack, I know how to use these equipment." But the defense ......"
"Defense can also be used!" Zhang Chi replied: "So the defense we are talking about here is not to stick to one place, but to defend the sport." For example, we can push the defense line forward by one or two hundred kilometers from Shenyang as a benchmark, and build several defense lines within this and two hundred kilometers. In this way, the role of the combat radius of our fighters can be brought into play, and the enemy will not be able to attack and suppress our fighters. ā
"Well, what about the mobility of armored forces?" Wu Xuexin asked, this is a new battlefield mode for him.
"Of course, armored units can't just be used for defending the line or for logistics!" Zhang Chi replied: "They should be used as mobile units or rapid reaction forces. For example...... If a defensive line is broken through by the Japanese army, the mobile troops, mainly armored troops, can quickly rush to the breakthrough point, quickly eliminate the Japanese troops who have broken through the defense line and fill the gap in time. For example, we can consciously abandon one, two, or even more lines of defense, and then suddenly launch a counteroffensive against the enemy with armored forces......"
"Oh!" Hearing this, Wu Xuexin couldn't help but suddenly realize: "Good way!" If we fight like this, we will defend if we want, withdraw if we want, and attack if we want, and the entire battlefield situation will be under our control. Especially the deliberate abandonment of the defensive line and then the launch of a counteroffensive...... The Japanese army could not build strong fortifications in a short period of time after obtaining the defensive line, but our army had aircraft, tanks, and artillery that could easily destroy the limited defense of the Japanese army, and at the same time could grasp the time, position and firepower of the attack...... Cleverly transfer the advantage of the attacker to our side! ā
"That's it!" Zhang Chi nodded: "That's why I said, we have to 'attack instead of defending'!" ā
"Yes, right, ......" Wu Xuexin nodded again and again: "On the surface, it looks like it is attacking, but it is actually defending, but it takes advantage of the offense and has no defensive shortcomings!" What a 'offense instead of defense'! ā
After a pause, Wu Xuexin said with some worry: "Master, if you fight like this...... It is inevitable that the rear of our army will be empty, what if the devils outflank it? ā
When Wu Xuexin said this, Zhang Chi was relieved.
What Zhang Chi is most afraid of is getting carried away when he knows a new tactic, and then thinking that the devil will only attack from the front and be played by his own side.
In fact, interspersed encirclement is the devil's forte, and if the devil is not interspersed with encirclement in a large-scale battle, it is not called a devil.
Now Wu Xuexin will ask this question, which shows that he has a substantive understanding of the entire strategy and tactics, and is not limited to the situation.
Zhang Chi nodded and said, "Don't worry about the left flank, because the left flank of my army's defense line is Liaoning Bay!" ā
"Hmm!" Wu Xuexin nodded, with the Chinese Navy in Port Arthur, there will naturally be no Japanese Navy in Liaoning Bay.
"As for the right wing!" Zhang Chi said: "We have reconnaissance planes, a large number of civilians and scouts, and then you will form a mobile force...... Wouldn't it be enough to crush them before they could get into place? ā
(To be continued.) )