.Chapter 137: Many difficulties

In modern warfare, the most difficult thing is not after the battle begins, but before the battle begins.

Before the information age, due to restrictions on communication, intelligence, reconnaissance, command and other links, it was difficult for planners to consider everything before the battle began, and they needed to rely highly on the temporary decisions of the field commander. Therefore, during the planning stage, there would be sufficient room for turning around and the plan would not be too dead.

After entering the information age, the appearance of war has completely changed.

Take the command chain as an example. Before the information age, the army was responsible at all levels. From the highest commander-in-chief to the lowest squad leader, the army group, army, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, and company needed to convey combat orders from the army group, army, army, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, and company. However, in the information age, the commander-in-chief could bypass these levels and directly issue orders to the frontline officers and soldiers. In the US military, the theater commander could even communicate with soldiers.

To put it simply, modern military forces have a horizontal command system, reducing intermediate links.

The new command system greatly accelerated the pace of war.

On the air battlefield, a large-scale battle takes up to several hours, and the duration of air combat is often calculated in minutes, and even seconds must be used to measure victory or defeat. The situation on the ocean battlefield is similar. Even for a more time-consuming submarine ambush, the confrontation time after the firefight is only a few hours. The pace of ground wars is slightly slower, but it has passed the previous wars, leaving the commander with very limited decision-making time.

The fast pace puts forward higher requirements for planning, organization and command.

In order to reduce mistakes, various situations should be taken into account in the planning stage and plans should be prepared in advance so that combat strategies should be adjusted in time when the battlefield situation changes.

For the staff, this requires the improvement of the combat plan as much as possible.

Although during the implementation stage of the battle, the field commander will still make adjustments based on actual conditions, and its importance will not only not be reduced, but will be greatly improved. An excellent field commander can often decide the victory or defeat of a battle. There are enough excellent field commanders to change the outcome of a battle, but when the decision-making time is limited, it is impossible to place your hopes entirely on the field commander. Only a complete combat plan, especially an adequate backup plan, can the role of the field commander be revealed.

In the joint combat of multiple arms, the importance of combat planning is more prominent.

To put it vividly, an army is a machine. Only when each component operates strictly in accordance with the rules can it work, and a positive control system that ensures that each component operates well. On the battlefield, the combat plan is the army's control system.

The difficulty of organizing a large-scale ground battle is imagined.

However, these have little to do with Mu Haoyang.

During the planning stage, Qi Kaiwei, mother Qi Tie and Yang Yufang, Mu Haoyang and Zhou Yusheng were only supporting roles, responsible for the combat plans of the special forces and submarine troops at night.

Among the many difficulties, the most serious is the tight time.

After Huang Zhibo proposed to take advantage of the opportunity of the coalition's adjustment of deployment to launch a ground attack, the Second Department of the General Staff sent the latest information, and the mobilization of the coalition's forces was far beyond expectations.

This information almost made Huang Zhibo dispel the idea of ​​a counterattack on the ground.

Within a few days, a US military advisor will arrive at the front line, including a 6th team division with an organization of more than 20,000 people, almost equivalent to two 6th military advisors.

With the Second Infantry Division and the First 6th Battle Division on the battlefield, the total strength of the US ground troops will be increased to 100,000.

Relatively speaking, the Korean team is not worth worrying about.

Although after the capture of Pyongyang, the absolute main force of the South Korean army, the 9th Armored Division, was rested and supplemented combat losses, and the personnel and equipment were all in the best state. In order to enhance the independent combat effectiveness of the South Korean army, the United States also urgently provided a batch of main combat equipment in stock, mainly M main battle tanks, m2a3 infantry fighting vehicles, and m1o Ninth Armored Division was the first to use American equipment. However, after several fierce battles, the coalition command controlled by the US military repeatedly asked the South Korean army to undertake workpiece tasks with huge casualties. The situation of the Ninth Armored Division was not ideal, and most of the supplementary soldiers lacked experience, and it was difficult for a large number of repaired main combat equipment to maintain the best state.

Compared with the US military, the only advantage of the South Korean military is its quantity.

After the war broke out, South Korea carried out the first phase of war mobilization, recruiting all reserve personnel, and then expanding the scope of the recruitment to retired soldiers. By the end of August, the size of the 6th Army of South Korea exceeded 1.2 million, twice that of the pre-war period. In early September, South Korea began the second phase of war mobilization, and the targets of male xing citizens aged 18 to 36. The total strength of the 6th Army of South Korea is expected to exceed 2.5 million. As for whether South Korea will carry out the third phase of war mobilization and expand the scope of the recruitment again, it depends on the direction of the war.

Of the more than one million Korean troops, about 40% were deployed on the front line.

This number is equivalent to five times the total strength of the US ground forces after the addition.

However, the South Korean army is still unable to undertake the main combat tasks.

According to the operational deployment of the coalition forces, in addition to the 9th Armored Division, the 7th Independent Armored Brigade, the 16th War Brigade and other elite troops, the main task of the South Korean army is to provide logistical support for the US military, and most of the front-line combat troops are deployed fifty kilometers behind the front line.

If the South Korean army had the ability to attack independently, they would have left the US army alone long ago.

In response to this situation, Qi Kaiwei put forward a suggestion: aim the gun at the South Korean army, strive to make a breakthrough on the South Korean army's defense line, and ultimately form an overall breakthrough.

Huang Zhibo adopted Qi Kaiwei's suggestion to continue to promote the planning of ground war.

Eating persimmons to pick soft and specifically attacking the Korean army is indeed the best way, but how to fight and how to quickly break through the coalition's defense line is a science.

It is obviously impossible to only fight the Korean army and not the US army.

The coalition put the weaker South Korean army behind and let the US army stand in front. One is worried that the Korean army will not be able to withstand the volunteer army, and the other is to facilitate the US army to rush to provide assistance quickly.

The best way to defend the defense line is not to defend the entire line, but to strike back at the right time.

As long as it is attacked, the coalition forces will look for opportunities to counterattack on the entire front.

Can the volunteers in the offensive withstand the counterattack of the US military?

This is not the issue Qi Kaiwei considered first. Before that, he had to solve another problem, namely how to enable the ground troops of the volunteer army to be deployed in time.

The intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Agency is very clear, and the time window for attack is only a few days.

At this time, the ground troops of the Volunteer Army were still on the north bank of the Yalu River!

Although the 39th Army, the 65th Army and the 16th Army were ready to cross the river at any time, the 24th Army and the 15th Airborne Army won by Huang Zhibo have also arrived in Liaoning and can be started within 24 hours, the logistics support forces supporting the troops' combat are still not deployed, and the combat troops can only carry combat supplies for up to one week.

Can the battle end within a week?

When Qi Kaiwei started to arrange logistics support, the Military Intelligence Bureau sent another piece of information. The 26th War Division had arrived in Yuanshan, but did not go to the front line, but deployed a defense line near Xianxing. Only one brigade went north to Jince and met the 16th War Division.

Now, the problem is serious.

The coalition put the new forces behind the front line rather than replacing the front-line combat forces, indicating that the coalition forces have given up the idea of ​​continuing the attack and are ready to turn the entire line into defense to meet the challenges of the volunteers.

A few hours later, the third battlefield intelligence sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau confirmed Qi Kaiwei's speculation.

The Third Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division who arrived on the Western Front did not replace the Second Infantry Division and the Ninth Armored Division of the South Korean Army, but instead stationed in Pyongyang and Shuncheon and began to build a second line of defense.

The coalition forces set up a large and deep defense line, which must be for defense.

As long as the coalition's defense line is connected, if the volunteers want to turn the situation around through a battle, they have to fight to the south of the 39th North latitude line in one breath, recover important cities such as Pyongyang, Shuncheon, Hamhung and Wonsan, and force the coalition to retreat, and then have the opportunity to organize the second battle.

Seven days may not be too short.

At this time, Huang Zhibo had to come forward in person to solve the logistics support problem for Qi Kaiwei.

Unfortunately, the commander-in-chief may not be able to solve the problem if he takes action.

Although after 6 Feng Lie made a phone call in person, the commander of the Shenyang Military Region patted his chest to make a promise and delivered the combat supplies of the volunteers to the other side of the Yalu River in time, rather than the north shore as agreed before. However, sending the supplies to the front line has nothing to do with the Shenyang Military Region.

The transportation of materials in North Korea is organized by the Volunteer Army and the People's Army is responsible.

Huang Zhibo's reply from the People's Army Headquarters was that it would take at least one month to open the railway line from Xinyizhou, Jiangjie and Huishan south, and it would take fifteen days to repair the highway line, provided that the volunteer army had to send tens of thousands of engineering troops to provide thousands of engineering equipment.

Equipment is not a problem, it can be solved at any time.

As the world's largest civil engineering market, China has the largest engineering equipment in the world and has several of the largest engineering equipment manufacturers in the world. As for the cement, steel bars and other materials required for construction, it is not a problem. As long as the transportation line is opened, it can be sent to the front line.

The key is that Huang Zhibo does not have so many engineers in his hands.

Not to mention that there are no Volunteer Army, the entire 6th Army of China only has tens of thousands of engineers. Including the engineering troops of the Navy, Air Force and Second Artillery, the total scale is only over 100,000.

It is obviously unlikely to send out an engineering force equivalent to an army in one go.

If the railway and highway routes cannot be built, the combat materials will definitely not be delivered.

It is not more than 60 years ago that the material transportation work can be completed by carrying shoulders and backs. The combat consumption of mechanized troops is very huge. One group of troops can burn thousands of tons of fuel and use thousands of tons of ammunition in a day. With manpower alone, one million workers cannot support the five group of troops. What's more, some important materials cannot be transported through manpower, and it is even more impossible to send them from the mountain road to the front line.

The problem cannot be solved, so you can only find a solution under the existing conditions.

To put it bluntly, it is to find a way to tactical things.
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