During the Sino-Soviet war in history, the Soviet Union's armored cluster stationed on the northern border put great pressure on the Chinese government at that time. In the extremely dangerous situation at that time, Taizu, as a great military strategist that Shijie had not encountered in a hundred years, keenly saw the only weakness of the Soviet armor torrent - "supply". While there was not a single army on Shijie that was not afraid of being cut off from supply lines, the Soviets were undoubtedly more afraid of being cut off than any other army

That's right, tens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles are indeed unstoppable, and the Soviet army's sustained combat capability is extremely strong, and it can attack forward almost continuously under the premise of sufficient supplies, which can be seen in the historical example of the Soviet army easily sweeping 700,000 Japanese Kwantung Army within a few days. Therefore, it is not enough to simply rely on depth, but tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns and even countless cars that follow the advance are all to burn oil, even if the Soviet-style tanks are relatively fuel-efficient, they have to wait for supplies to come up and fill up fuel, and China's five million People's Liberation Army is not vegetarian, although they can't prevent the armored torrent composed of tens of thousands of Soviet tanks, the Soviet Union also can't prevent the Chinese army's all-out attack, no way, the border between the two countries is too long, there are too many places to break through

Therefore, both sides are easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the Soviet Union's supplies in the Far East are heavily dependent on the two Trans-Siberian Railways, as long as the Chinese army breaks into the territory of the Soviet Union and cuts off the railway, the armored forces of the Soviet Red Army will become toothless tigers, as for the Soviet infantry. Not to mention their combat effectiveness, just looking at their virtue of wasting ammunition compared to the Americans, they will not be much better off than the situation of the armored troops

Of course, if the Soviet Union completely ignored international public opinion, the forward troops could theoretically "requisition" supplies on the spot, but at that time, China was known as "700 million people, 700 million soldiers, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and thousands of miles of battalions", the number of militia reserves was the first, and there was a full set of tutorials for dealing with tanks in basic training, and the "vast sea of people's war" was not a joke, and the Soviet army wanted to grab supplies. The first thing you have to do is peel off a layer of skin. What's worse is that. In the process, they had to further consume the small amount of ammunition they had left, and China was still a relatively backward semi-industrial country at that time, so even if the resistance of the Chinese military and civilians was not considered, the materials that the Soviet army could "collect" must be very limited. It was simply impossible to support the huge attrition of the invading Soviet troops. Therefore, this powerful armored cluster of more than a million Soviet troops and tens of thousands of tanks and other armored vehicles really dared to invade. China's land will surely become their cemetery

On the other hand, contrary to the situation of the Soviet army, the Chinese army was dominated by infantry. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) also has a fine tradition of replenishing itself by using captures to replenish itself (Note 1), and the caliber of weapons and ammunition is the same as that of the Soviet Union, which can be easily used after capture. In addition, the Soviet Union is a developed industrialized country, even in relatively inhospitable Siberia, the abundance of industrial products such as fuel oil is far from comparable to China, even if only a small part is captured, it is enough for us to use it for a long time. Therefore, even if the PLA penetrates deep into the borders of the Soviet Union, it will be able to hold out for a long time, and even if the Soviet Union sends reinforcements, due to the limited capacity of the two railways, the troops will inevitably be insufficient if they come early, and it will not be enough for China's 5 million troops

At that time, after Taizu released the bold statement of "five million People's Liberation Army to eat in the Soviet Union" in response to the threat of the Soviets, the Soviet Union's top brass turned blue one by one, and after a simple deduction, they came to the conclusion that if only a conventional war was fought, China's economy in Northeast and North China would suffer heavy losses, and it was very likely that millions or even tens of millions of military and civilian casualties would be lost, but the Soviet Union would not only completely lose at least two million elites, but also lose Siberia forever, and after a period of time, face an even more powerful (although Siberia is desolateBut industry was much stronger than the whole of China at that time, and although the departments were not complete, it could still multiply China's strength, not to mention the significance of enriching natural resources. And China, which hated the USSR to the core

To some extent, even if the Soviet Union performs the so-called "nuclear surgery" on China, the outcome of the war will still not make much difference, China may have more deaths, but Siberia will still have to lose, and if the Soviet Union raises the intensity of the nuclear strike to the level of destruction, the Chinese will have no rut, but the Americans will never agree

It is precisely because of this that even with the strength of the Soviet Union, it did not dare to directly invade China later (only tested the determination of the Chinese government on Zhenbao Island), even during the war in Afghanistan, China became the main supplier of weapons to the Afghan guerrillas (in general, the United States paid for it, we gave the goods, of course, the United States also gave some directly, but in terms of quantity, China still produced the most. The Soviets also endured it and did not retaliate against China.

For the Chinese government, although it was confident that it would eventually win a possible Sino-Soviet war, the cost of the fall of the north and the possible death and wounding of tens of millions of dollars was too great, even if it was only for a period of time, and it was not something that the Chinese government was willing to bear, so the fear of the Soviet invasion could not be completely dispelled

Note 1: The Soviets almost never did this kind of thing, and even when they ran out of ammunition and food and surrendered, their previously captured weapons and ammunition were still in good condition, you must know that even if they were as proud as the German army and as wealthy as the American army, they often used captured weapons and ammunition in battle. Maozi's style is simply a fight with the fact that the national army never destroys weapons and ammunition when it is defeated

Note 2: Although China's "big third-line construction" and other national defense construction expenditures are not included in military spending, they are actually military investments, so although China's military spending figures were not large at that time, the pressure on finances and people's livelihood caused by national defense spending was not less than that of the Soviet Union, but the Chinese people were far more hard-working than the Soviets, and the economic structure was more reasonable, and with the support of the United States, in the end, it was the Soviet Union, which was much stronger, that fell first (to be continued......