readx; On the surface, the B battle group of the 3rd Division gained a great tactical advantage in the Quechach conflict, and played a relatively good role in the hours of fighting before and after. But at this time www.biquge.info, we must take into account one point: that is, the third division does not generally represent the entire Chinese army, because this third division is the elite unit of the entire Chinese army!

At present, more than a dozen heavily armed mechanized units and more than a dozen motorized infantry divisions stationed in Europe are all front-line units of the Chinese Army, and the third division is called the five trump cards of the army along with the first, second, ninth, and first armored divisions.

However, such an ace unit against an ordinary US Army motorized infantry division has not been able to achieve a complete overwhelming advantage, if this is replaced by an ordinary infantry division in the Chinese Army, it is estimated that it will not be able to gain any advantage, and if it is replaced by a second-line army to fight, it will not be completely defeated!

Therefore, when the report of the Operations Department of the Army General Staff analyzing the conflict in Kochach was sent to Chen Jingyun, Chen Jingyun frowned, he also did not think that the combat effectiveness of the US Army was not bad, but he did not expect that an ordinary infantry division of the other side could also confront its own ace troops head-on.

Chen Jingyun himself knows that on the surface, the Chinese Army claims to have 10 million troops and even boasts that it is the world's largest army, but in fact the Chinese Army itself has many problems. First of all, in terms of personnel, most of the senior generals are born during the civil war, and their concepts are generally still stuck in the twenties and thirties and even the First World War period, unable to keep up with the pace of development of the army in the new era. Therefore, on the whole, the Chinese Navy is full of passion, which is completely different from the lifeless army.

Although many junior officers have been trained in many foreign wars in the past few years, the war experience gained by the officers is very limited because of the short duration of these wars and the fact that the opponents are not good.

Among the major participating countries in World War II, China is the only country that still maintains the normal service of its soldiers, and from before World War II to today, it still maintains a three-year compulsory service period for soldiers, while in other countries, because most of the factors that continue to fight for years are already not properly discharged, many soldiers are veterans who have fought for three or four years, or even five or six years.

The situation of equipment is better, the Chinese Army's equipment surname can not be said to be the first in the world, but in addition to the United States, other countries are really not comparable, even the United States, in some equipment is not as good as the Chinese Army, such as T18 tanks, 1944 automatic rifles, but the surname on some equipment can not affect the overall situation, with the technical level of the United States, it is not difficult to design more advanced equipment, and it is not difficult to equip it on a large scale.

Chen Jingyun's mind turned around slightly, and he found that if he fought a conventional war, China's advantages would not be obvious except for the numerical superiority in personnel.

If you really want to fight and want to win, Chen Jingyun feels that the only solution is to continue to expand the army, 10 million army is not enough, just 20 million or even 30 million, and it does not need to be all heavy troops, ordinary infantry units are enough. The population of the United States is so much smaller than that of China, and now that China has armed more than 10 million naval, army, and air forces, it has little impact on the country, and domestic factories and agriculture have maintained stable production, and there has been no shortage of labor; even except for rural women, women from urban families are still working as full-time wives as they were before the war, and there has not been a situation of large-scale employment of urban women so far. Although the Americans still claim that they want to continue to expand and expand their army to 200 divisions, they are now seriously short of personnel in their factories and agriculture, and they are forced to let a large number of women enter the factories.

That is to say, in terms of human resources, China has an absolute advantage, and after this part of the human resources has industrial support, even if they are armed with ordinary infantry troops, not heavy mechanized troops, but the huge army of 30 or 40 million is enough to sweep the world.

Of course, these are hypothetical situations, in fact, whether it fights or not, it is impossible for China to arm its 30 or 40 million army, not that it does not have this ability, but that it is not necessary, if you really want to go to war with the United States, it will definitely not be a conventional war, the first thing to throw is a nuclear bomb, and when a round of nuclear bombs is thrown, the war will be over, who will still fight a conventional war with you!

Although on the surface it is still talking about the follow-up development of the army, but judging from the content of the conversation and Chen Jingyun's attitude at that time, Chen Jingyun is extremely dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of the army today, although he did not say it explicitly, but Chen Jingyun has already revealed to Shen Gang and Chen Yi that he wants to carry out army reform.

As for how to reform and how strong it is, Chen Jingyun didn't say these things!

Just when the Chinese Army was dissatisfied with the outcome of the Battle of Khachach and began to reflect on and explore the possible name of reform, the United States was also frightened by the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army.

A conflict in Quechach frightened the top brass of the Chinese and American armies.

Washington, Marshall looked at the report sent back by the 5th Army in his hand, his brows furrowed!

"Our two tank battalions combined, the total number of tanks is more than one hundred and twenty, and in the face of more than sixty tanks of the Chinese, there are still such big losses! Could it be that their T18 tanks are invincible? Or is Clark's command ability good enough? President Truman was even more angry.

Although Marshall also frowned, but in the face of this problem, he felt that it was still necessary to defend Clark: "As we all know, the Chinese' T15 tanks and T18 tanks have been put into large-scale service, and the troops they sent to Europe are also these two new tanks, but in our troops in Italy, a large number of main tanks are still M4, and the new tank M26 is less than three hundred, and of the two tank battalions participating in the war at that time, only the 751st Tank Battalion has an M26 heavy tank company, The rest were all M4 tanks, and the arrival of the 767th Tank Battalion was too late, and the main battle took place with the 751st Tank Battalion. In the early and middle periods, we were in a weak position in the armor, and in the later counteroffensive, the enemy had already built a complete defensive position. It's good to be able to fight old tanks against new tanks, and inferior forces against superior enemies! ”

The reason why Marshall frowned was not because he was dissatisfied with the tactical ability of the front-line troops, but because he was worried about the future, as an army general, he knew very well that in the current and future ground wars, tanks are the absolute main force, and the ability and number of tanks have become the standard for measuring the combat effectiveness of the army.

Now the U.S. Army faces the Chinese Army, the biggest disadvantage is the lack of advanced tanks that can fight the T15\18 series of tanks, even though the United States has been mass-producing M26 heavy tanks since the beginning of the year, but in actual combat, the M26 tank against the T18 tank is not an advantage, and even at a certain disadvantage.

As a heavy tank aimed at the T15 tank and the Tiger tank during development, the M26's surname can be considered quite good, but in the actual combat confrontation between the Quechach and the T18 tank, many problems are still exposed.

First of all, in terms of firepower, among several practical examples of Kechakh, the M26 tank M3 type 90L53 main gun tried to attack the T18 tank at 2000 meters, 1600 meters, 1300 meters and 1000 meters when firing tungsten alloy APCR armor-piercing shells, but only in the two cases of 1300 meters and 1000 achieved frontal penetration, and the other two cases did not penetrate the T18 tank. That is to say, in actual combat, even if the M26 uses a scarce number of APCR armor-piercing shells in the US military, it is difficult to penetrate the frontal head armor of the T18 at a distance of more than 1500 meters, let alone the 180 mm thick turret armor.

It is so difficult to use tungsten alloy APCR armor-piercing bullets, so when using ordinary armor-piercing bullets, let alone 1500 meters, it is difficult to penetrate the T18's upper armor head-on even if it is a thousand meters.

However, as a comparison, the T18 tank is enough to penetrate the front of the M26 tank at a distance of more than 2000 meters when firing tungsten alloy APDS armor-piercing shells, and at a distance of 1300 meters, when firing ordinary armor-piercing shells APCBC, it is also enough to penetrate the frontal armor of M26.

As for the protection ability, the front of the hull of both is comparable, the T18 on the turret is better than the M26, and the other sides and the like, everyone belongs to the color of the one-shot wear, so in general, the protection ability of the two is comparable.

As for maneuverability, the T18 with the 700 horsepower of the SV700 engine can completely destroy the M26 and any tank of the same tonnage of its time.

The number of T18 tanks has been equipped with about 5,000 units in the Chinese Army, and it is still in production, ready to fully replace the T9\12 series tanks. The M26 tank in the United States is equipped relatively late, although the monthly output is also very high, but now it has only produced more than 3,000 units, and many of them are still in the United States and have not arrived in Europe.

In addition, there is another very important thing, that is, the Chinese Army began to carry out a large-scale technical upgrade of the T15 tank last year, upgrading the early models of the T15 tank, T15A, T15B, to the latest model T15D produced during 1944. In World War II, all countries carried out intensive and multi-batch improvement and upgrading of active tanks, such as the T34 of Soviet Russia, which was upgraded from the beginning of the 76.2 mm gun to the 85 mm gun, and at the same time, the protection capability has also been greatly enhanced, and the power system has also been improved a lot, so the T34 tank in 1945 and the T34 tank at the outbreak of the Soviet-German war in 1941 is very different.