readx; The biggest problem they faced in fighting in Russia, whether it was the German army or the Chinese army, was not the resistance of the Soviet Union or the Russian Wehrmacht itself, but the enormous distance of Russia's vast territory. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The concrete manifestation is that when the troops carry out military operations, the maneuver distance is very long, often hundreds of kilometers, and in this case, the traditional infantry units are simply unable to carry out these long-distance maneuver operations, because when they travel hundreds of kilometers away, it is estimated that the war will be over.

Therefore, when attacking Russia, the traditional infantry of the Chinese army slowly advanced along the railway line, and the mobile operations outside the railway were mainly handled by mechanized troops. In fact, this model has been like this for a long time, but before the large-scale appearance of tanks in the armies of various countries, the troops responsible for mobile operations were only cavalry, otherwise why the Kazakh cavalry during the Tsarist period was so famous, because they had a natural advantage in fighting on a wide range of Russian territory, for the same reason, the Chinese Army also had a large cavalry force in the twenties before the intervention in the Russian civil war and before China did not have large-scale equipment, It is only after the mechanized troops have become regularized that the number of cavalry has been greatly reduced, and now the cavalry of the Chinese Army is only a pitiful tens of thousands of cavalry, and most of them have become motorized cavalry, and the pure cavalry troops are only deployed in Tibet Province and the southern region of Xinjiang Province A cavalry regiment and two cavalry battalions, the reason why a regiment and two battalions of pure cavalry troops are retained here is also simple, that is, Tibet Province is facing India, and the transportation in that place in Tibet Province can no longer be described as poor. Not to mention the supply of mechanized troops, not even tanks and trucks can get in.

This is also the reason why the Chinese army stationed in Tibet Province still maintains mules and horses, not that there are not enough tanks and trucks in China, but that they cannot enter, and they cannot be used when they enter, so it is better to directly use mules and horses to maintain supplies, and it is more convenient to use war horses to fight.

However, this situation is not true in Siberia and Central Asia, because the vast plain, Gobi, and desert terrain in Siberia and Central Asia has led to the gathering of China's largest mechanized corps, and the Fourth Army, the Fifth Army, and the Sixth Army all have a large number of tanks, tracked vehicles and wheeled vehicles, even ordinary infantry divisions, all of which have completed motorized infantry divisions.

At present, although the Chinese Army has only two formal divisions: armored divisions and infantry divisions, there are mechanized infantry divisions, motorized infantry divisions, and mule-horse infantry divisions.

The mule-horse infantry division is actually the so-called mountain division, which is mainly deployed in areas with inconvenient transportation and mountainous terrain, such as the Tibetan province.

Mechanized infantry divisions are not pure infantry divisions, but armored divisions in a sense, except that there are fewer tanks, but their equipment is all self-propelled standards.

The motorized infantry division is an infantry division equipped with a large number of trucks and a small number of tracked armored vehicles, to a certain extent, it replaces the original large number of mules and horses with a large number of trucks, mainly reflected in transportation, and the combat is no different from the previous mule and horse infantry divisions.

Among China's more than 100 divisions and brigades, except for armored divisions and mechanized infantry divisions, most of the other infantry divisions are motorized infantry divisions, and some mule-horse infantry divisions are used for special mountain operations. Among them, even the second-line troops that have been reorganized from the garrison forces, such as those infantry divisions with numbers of more than 80 or 90, don't look at them as second-line troops in the sequence of the Chinese Army, but they are also motorized units equipped with a large number of trucks.

However, this kind of establishment is only a pre-war establishment, and after the full mobilization, China's production of various military equipment has almost shown an explosive growth, and the number of tanks that have been in short supply in the past has also become richer, and with reference to the US army, ordinary infantry divisions are also equipped with tanks, and the State Military Commission is already preparing to equip ordinary infantry divisions with a tank battalion.

Originally, in addition to building a large number of armored divisions and mechanized infantry divisions, the Chinese Army was only equipped with a reading tank regiment in the army-level establishment to support infantry operations. However, in actual combat, these reading tanks are often dispersed into battalions and battalions to support the operations of various infantry divisions. Therefore, the army simply planned to formalize the wartime establishment and directly assign a tank battalion to those front-line infantry divisions.

After all, even if the reading power of these tanks produced in large quantities during the war is turned into an armored division or a reading tank regiment, these tanks also need to provide fire support for infantry divisions in actual combat, so it is better to directly delegate them to each infantry division.

The most fundamental reason for this development in the establishment can be regarded as keeping pace with the times, and the most fundamental reason is that China's tank production has increased rapidly, and the number of tanks is no longer as small as before, and all of them need to be used as fists.

The 57th and 58th Divisions, which originally belonged to the Sixth Army, were the first motorized infantry divisions attached to a tank battalion, otherwise the State Military Council would not have incorporated them into the First Armored Corps to participate in the assault on Novosibirsk.

On the vast Siberian plain, the steel torrent formed by the 1st Panzer Corps headed straight for Novosibirsk with an irresistible momentum.

The Russian army soon sensed that something was wrong and ordered the surrounding troops to intercept it, but a Russian infantry division and a tank regiment in the northern direction of Bisk only blocked the 1st Armored Corps for less than a day, and was crushed by the steel torrent of the 1st Armored Corps, and the Russian army could not stop the advance of the 1st Armored Corps at all.

If the Russian army can still rely on the cities to resist along the railway, then on the field, the Russian army will not be able to resist the attack of the Chinese mechanized troops at all, which has nothing to do with the quality of the soldiers and the command skills of the officers, and in the face of absolute strength, any tactics are useless.

When the First Armored Corps launched an offensive against the Russian army in depth with an unstoppable momentum, it was only when the Russians saw what the strength of a military power was, why China dared to call out any country on a global scale, and only then did they understand that it was not groundless that China's 10 million army force shouted by the Chinese officer corps was enough to sweep across the Eurasian continent.

In the month before the outbreak of the war, when the Russian army still felt that they could resist the Chinese attack and had the confidence to hold Barnaul, then now, when China's huge mechanized corps was dispatched, they knew that all their previous resistance was in vain.

Not to mention the Fourth Army and other units of the Fifth and Sixth Armies in Central Asia and Siberia, the 1st Panzer Corps alone had more tanks and other tracked vehicles than the Wehrmacht had in its entire book.

Before the war with Soviet Russia, the Russian Defense Forces had about 1,000 new and old tanks, although this number could not be compared with the major military powers, but it was enough to rank among the top five in the world.

However, the strength of the Russian Defense Forces in front of the Chinese Army, is not worth mentioning at all, in November 1941, the Chinese Army has more than 8,000 tanks, and this number is still increasing rapidly, after all, although China began to mobilize in June 1941, the major arsenals have also entered the wartime production, but for the entire Chinese industry, in fact, it has not fully entered the wartime economy, major enterprises such as Fule Electric, None of these giants such as Fuhang Automobile have entered the wartime production state, and it is only those arsenals that have entered the wartime production state.

The same situation is happening in the United States, where the monthly production of tanks and military trucks is not as high as China's, but once their wartime conversion is completed, the output will reach a terrifying level.

The reason why China is still carrying out a comprehensive wartime economic transformation is to deal with a larger war, such as a war with Britain, such as a war with the United States, such as a war with Ben, in other words, only the United States is a potential enemy who can use all of China's industrial power for the production of military materials.

Today, in 1941, Britain, Germany, Soviet Russia, the Russian Republic, and the so-called 'Ben are all second-rate characters, not to mention Italy, which plays soy sauce, and only the United States and China can really influence the direction of this world war.

And in the past few years, although China and the United States have maintained peace on the surface, both Chen Jingyun and Roosevelt have regarded each other as their biggest enemies, why has China invested heavily in building a huge navy, all kinds of warships are almost like dumplings to start construction and launch, and even aircraft carriers are being built in dozens of ships, for what? Could it be that it is really because 'Ben, the clown, or the British Navy's old-fashioned battleships, can threaten China's strategic security?' No, the Chinese Navy's goal has always been the U.S. Navy.

The same thing happened in the United States, why did the US Navy successively place orders for more than 30 Essex-class aircraft carriers, and more than 10 new battleships of all kinds were under construction, just one said, "This navy is still worth investing so many resources, and the German navy is not worth mentioning, they have only one goal, that is, to fight the Chinese navy."

Whether before the war or after the outbreak of war, China and the United States have always regarded each other as their biggest enemies and have engaged in a costly naval arms race on an unprecedented scale.