The three battles were officially decided, and the greatest pressure was not Xiang Linghui and Yi. 【】

It was Pei Chengyi who proposed to fight a "sports war".

With Xiang Linghui commanding the "Battle of Jeju Island", Bae Seung-yi had more time to prepare for the third battle and more time to summarize the lessons of the previous two battles.

As a very smart general, Pei Chengyi knew that the most important thing to pay attention to in the next battle was the casualties of the troops.

At the military meeting held by the General Staff Headquarters, Wang Yuanqing and Gu Weimin repeatedly mentioned "casualties," indicating that both of them attached great importance to the casualties of the troops. Obviously, the thinking of the new generation of leaders, such as Wang Yuanqing and Gu Weimin, is completely different from that of the older generation of leaders, such as Zhao Rundong and Peng Maobang. In the view of Zhao Rundong and Peng Maobang, the war will kill people, and the duty of a soldier is to sacrifice for the country in the war, as long as the victory can be achieved, casualties are not the key issue.

Pei Chengyi is a "young strong" general, and he knows very well what Wang Yuanqing and Gu Weimin think.

Not to mention others, Pei Chengyi is a child, his parents have worked hard for 20 years, spent their life's efforts on a child, and pinned their hopes on a child for the second half of their life. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic, 70% of republicans under the age of 35 are only children! Statistically speaking, for every soldier who falls on the battlefield, one elderly person loses his only child.

As a national leader, we have to consider the social problems caused by war casualties.

Although according to the Chinese nation's ideology, sacrificing one's life for the country in the war to defend the homeland and the country is a matter of honor, nearly half of the people of the Republic do not think that sending troops to the Korean Peninsula is a war to defend the homeland and the country, and many more people believe that there is no need for the Republican Army to cross the 38th parallel.

As the fire spreads south, reducing casualties is not only important, but necessary.

By summarizing the two campaigns. Pei Chengyi had to admit it. The first two campaigns were not "ideal".

The main reason for the heavy casualties was the lack of combat effectiveness of the Republican Army, which was old-fashioned tactics and outdated combat methods. According to the statistics obtained by Pei Chengyi. In the first two campaigns. 70% of casualties occurred in positional defensive battles. Casualties in the field of movement warfare accounted for only 1.

To prove it. Pei Chengyi flew to Shanghai on the night of the 6th.

Utilize the "National Computing Center" supercomputer. Based on the ground statistics of the 1st Army and the 2nd Army of the ROK Army in the latter part of the Second Campaign. Two simulations of the third campaign were conducted. The first was to fight positional warfare with the ROK army in the manner of the previous two battles. The other time was to use movement warfare against the ROK Army's 3rd Army and 1st Regiment Army.

Although computer simulations are not necessarily the same as the actual situation, they can provide the most convincing evidence.

The results of the analysis show that: The casualty rate of the foreland is 3 times that of the backland!

After getting the results, Cheng Yi persuaded Xiang Linghui to get the chief of the general staff to agree to focus on mobile warfare in the third campaign, and try to avoid positional warfare with the South Korean army. Xiang Linghui took this opportunity to persuade Zhao Rundong and Peng Maobang to let the two "veterans" try the new.

In fact, movement warfare is the best tactic of the Republic Army.

Not to mention the Korean War in the 20th century and 50s, the volunteer army defeated the American army armed to the teeth with backward weapons and equipment. In the "Battle of Changjin Lake", there was a situation where US tanks and vehicles could not outrun the infantry of the Volunteer Army.

Fighting sports warfare does not rely on wheels and tracks.

Returning to the Shenyang front-line headquarters, Pei Chengyi mobilized more than 1 staff officer to reformulate the battle plan.

The core of movement warfare is not "movement," but the division of the enemy's forces through movement to make the enemy follow the movement, expose the defects and drawbacks, and provide an opportunity for the firepower strike arms to annihilate the enemy.

In order to turn a war of movement into a war of annihilation, it is necessary to have a sufficiently powerful strike capability, that is, "firepower".

In the Korean War, the Willing Army was unable to massively annihilate the U.S. military in a campaign war, mainly because of the lack of powerful firepower.

Unlike the founding fathers of the Republic, Cheng Yi commanded the most powerful strike force in the world and also held air supremacy on the battlefield.

Firepower is never a problem!

Another key element of mobile warfare is that the assault force must be swift and resolute in its assault.

Needless to say, the air assault force is the most ideal "movement warfare force", and the rapid reaction force is also a good choice.

When arranging combat missions, Pei Chengyi put the 77th Army and 5 air assault brigades in the main position. If it weren't for the other armies having such and such relationships, Pei Chengyi would have even cut the other ground forces in half and provided the saved combat materials to the air force.

According to Pei Chengyi's estimate, under the condition that air support is fully guaranteed, the number of troops required for ground combat will not exceed 150,000, that is, 3 armies, 5 brigades, and artillery brigades directly under the 1st Army.

How to choose the other two armies has become Pei Chengyi's most difficult problem.

If Pei Chengyi really had to decide for himself, he would choose two troops, one was the 38th Army, which had regained its combat effectiveness, and the other was the 24th Army, which performed well in the Haizhou Battle in the second campaign.

These two armies have one thing in common, that is, they are particularly capable of rapid assault.

By the evening of the 8th, the situation had changed. The General Staff basically agreed to let the 38th Army into the war, but never agreed to let the 24th Army into the field.

To put it bluntly, the "foundation" of the 24th Army was too weak and had no say in the General Staff.

Lined up the 24th Army, Pei Chengyi will definitely choose the 54th Army, which is still being reorganized. No one denies the combat effectiveness of the 5th Army, and the 54th Army is influential in the General Staff. Among the 27 generals of the General Staff, there are from the 54th Army, and 3 have close ties with the 54th Army.

The problem was that the 54th Army would not necessarily be able to regain its combat effectiveness at the beginning of the campaign.

According to the meaning of the General Staff, the 54th Army, as a campaign reserve, did not participate in the battle at the beginning of the campaign.

Excluding the 54th Army, the combat effectiveness of the other armies was equal, and all of them had relatively conspicuous problems, either because of the lack of assault capability or the lack of experience in mobile warfare.

The controversy continued until the morning of the 9th, and the General Staff did not make a decision on the issue of "sending troops".

According to Xiang Linghui's later mentions, in the days when the last batch of troops to participate in the war was determined, he received at least two phone calls, and most of them were from retired generals of the older generation. Without exception, some generals spoke for their "maiden family".

Xiang Linghui can not be faced, but he has to give face to these old generals.

Not to mention Xiang Linghui, even if it is Peng Maobang, he has to consider various factors.

At noon on the 9th, Xiang Linghui threw this thorny problem to Zhao Rundong and Peng Maobang.

The young chief of the general staff couldn't make a decision, so he let Yuan and the "boss" make a decision.

On the afternoon of the 9th, Zhao Dong issued an order: the 39th Army of the Metropolitan Garrison immediately went to the front line, and must arrive at Shaliyuan before the early morning of the 11th, ready to participate in the battle!

Now the man said something more.

The 39th Army is known as the "king of trump cards", and the 38th Army is known as the "Double Tiger of the Republic Army". In nature, the 38th Army belongs to the "border troops in important areas", and the 39th Army belongs to the "metropolitan garrison force"; both in terms of scale and combat capability, the 39th Army is above the 38th Army, and it is a well-deserved "number one trump card" of the Republic Army.

There is also the fact that the 39th Army is the only "super-heavy army" in the Army of the Republic.

The army has 6 combat brigades, of which 3 are heavy armored brigades, 3 are rapid armored assault brigades and artillery brigades, of which 2 brigades are equipped with large-caliber self-propelled howitzers, 1 brigade is equipped with long-range rocket artillery, 1 theater-level air defense brigade, 1 tactical army aviation brigade, and 2 independent reconnaissance battalions; It has 886 tanks, 1,174 infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzer doors, self-propelled rocket doors, 24 sets of air defense systems, and transport helicopters, with a total strength of more than 54,000 people. In terms of scale, the 39th Army is worthy of 2 38th Army!

Without special circumstances, the 39th Army would not leave the capital.

Zhao Rundong sent the 39th Army to silence the other troops and speed up the course of the war.

Now Cheng Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

Knowing that Yuan would let the 39th Army play, Pei Chengyi would not have arranged for the 38th Army to go into battle. With the strength of the 39th Army, you can take out the 1st Army of the South Korean Army alone!

The 39th Army went into battle, and the biggest problem was definitely transportation.

Even without taking into account the air defense brigade, there are more than 3,000 units of heavy equipment that need to be delivered to the front. If you use a train that carries 50, you need a full 60! Counting other combat equipment and ammunition supplies from the minimum base, it would take at least 00 trains to transport the 39th Army. And that's not counting the personnel, if the combat crew is transported by air, it will be enough for all Y14 and Y15 sorties of the Air Force to fly 2.

Fortunately, the front line stockpiled the supplies needed for the 39th Army to fight.

In order to reduce the burden on Pei Chengyi, Xiang Linghui was personally responsible for the transfer of the 39th Army.

Because the 39th Army was responsible for combat operations on the western battlefield, Pei Chengyi put the 38th Army on the eastern battlefield.

In order to ensure that the logistics supplies were in place in time, Pei Chengyi did not let the first army deployed in the eastern battlefield withdraw, but let the first army replace the Korean army and be responsible for logistics support. After the battle began, the first army that followed behind could also accommodate prisoners of war for the 38th army, reducing the burden on the 38th army.

When arranging the tasks of the 77th Army, Pei Chengyi had more options.

Previously, he was going to let the 77th Army assist the other 1 army in fighting in the western theater, and with the 39th Army, there was no need for the 77th Army to stay in the western theater. According to Pei Chengyi's deployment, the 77th Army, which has the most powerful rapid assault capability, is responsible for the in-depth assault mission and fully cooperates with the air assault force to encircle and suppress the South Korean army.

The key is still the air assault force.

With the cooperation of the 77th Army, Pei Chengyi did not leave the campaign reserve alone, but let the five air assault brigades each leave a tactical reserve.

Although the 39th Army's participation in the battle gave Pei Chengyi more room for tactical adjustment, the core of the third battle did not change, and the speed of the assault determined the success or failure of the battle, as well as the casualties of the troops. A protracted war can easily turn into a war of attrition, and Pei Chengyi has been avoiding turning the third battle into a war of attrition.

At 0:0 on the 11th of the 30th, the 3911th armored brigade arrived at Shariwon.

In the next one hour, the combat units of the 39th Army arrived one after another.

The trump card is the trump card, after arriving at the Shali Courtyard, the combat units of the 39th Army entered the combat state in only 2 hours and were ready for the assault! (To be continued, if you want to know how to know the future chapters, more,!) )