Bright Sword Military System

This is the conflict between strategy and tactics.

Normally there is no conflict between strategy and tactics because their goals are the same, which is to achieve victory.

Some even believe that as long as you keep winning at the tactical level, you will eventually achieve strategic victory over time.

This may sound reasonable, but in practice it is not.

The devils at this time faced such a problem.

The Japs are equipped with Type IV "Hast" fighters, and this fighter has a range of 1745 kilometers. If it is equipped with an auxiliary fuel tank, it can reach the ultimate range of 2500 kilometers.

Therefore, if this fighter jet is deployed along the coast, it will be enough to cover the Japanese navy: it can fly a thousand kilometers away, return a thousand kilometers away, and use five hundred kilometers of fuel for combat.

In other words, its combat radius can reach one thousand kilometers. Draw a circle of one thousand kilometers with the airport as the center. This area is the combat area of ​​"Blast".

So what else does the Japanese joint fleet need to worry about?

Eighth Route Army aircraft carrier?
The Eighth Route Army aircraft carrier is equipped with "Wildcat" fighters, which are no match for the "Wind" at all.

Or is it the "La-5" fighter of the Eighth Route Army?
Let's not talk about whether the "La 5" can compete with the "Haste". Even if it can compete with its combat radius, it will only have a pitiful 300 kilometers.

At that time, the "La 5" fighter jets will not only be exhausted, but also suffer a double blow from the high speed of the Japanese "Haifeng" and the maneuverability of the "Zero War".

After seizing offshore air supremacy, the next step is to use warships' guns to coordinate the army's attack and even land behind the Eighth Route Army's defense line. At that time, the Eighth Route Army will have only one option: retreat.

When the Eighth Route Army used this tactic to attack the Japanese, the Japanese were powerless, but now the situation will be reversed.

Therefore, from a tactical perspective, we must attack from the coastline.

If we attack northward along the hinterland mountains, we will lose the advantage of the combined fleet coordination at all.

Naosaburo Okabe also reported this idea to Tokyo, but the reply he received was:
"Do you know where Heping Village is? If you don't know, just open the map and take a look. It is northwest of Xinjing. If we attack along the coast, we will succeed and eventually capture all the coastline, including Dalian, but at that time there is still When will it be? One month? Or two months and three months?"

"Then we attack inland from the coast. By the time we reach Ping'an Village, the coastline will no longer exist, right? What will we face in the end?"

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Objectively speaking, Tokyo's considerations are correct. At this time, the Japanese simply have no time to fight like this.

This is not just because the Japanese are in urgent need of fuel, or it can also be said that the Japanese are in urgent need of confirming whether oil is really pumped out of Pingan Village.

If there is, they will first move the oil refinery to "Manchukuo", and then they may also firmly move the entire island to "Manchukuo".

All this takes time, and once the Eagle Navy wins a decisive victory in Leyte Gulf and attacks the Japanese home island, the Japanese will not be able to move even if they want to.On the other hand, Tokyo knows very well that the empire will never be able to win the victory along the "Manchukuo" coastline... Even if the Eighth Route Army Coast Guard Regiment is defeated, there is still the Eagle Fleet on the other side!

Yingjiang has hundreds of aircraft carriers, but the empire can count the number of aircraft carriers it can field on five fingers.

So, can the Empire really fight along the coastline?
At the last moment, as long as Takajia pulls the fleet in this direction... all the efforts will be in vain!

This is simply unrealistic and even doomed to failure.

Naosaburo Okabe also understood this, so he finally had to give up this tempting battle plan and choose to attack north along the mountains.

The battle plan was formulated by Umezu Yoshijiro... This battle is still based on the Kwantung Army's attack on Xinjing, so Umezu Yoshijiro has the initiative.

The reason why it is said to be Xinjing instead of Ping'an Village is because Ping'an Village is more than [-] kilometers north of Xinjing.

As long as the Japanese captured Xinjing, they would basically surround and control Ping'an Village.

On the other hand, if the Japanese do not capture Xinjing, even if they capture Ping'an Village, it will not make much sense. Fighters taking off from Xingjing can fly over Ping'an Village in minutes, or mechanized troops can attack on the undefended plains. You can set up the cannon outside Ping An Village and blow it into rubble.

What the Japanese want is the oil in Ping'an Village, and they may build an oil refinery here in the future, but of course this is not allowed to happen.

"The North China Front will make every effort to attack Chifeng!" Umezu Yoshijiro pointed at the location of Chifeng on the sand table with his baton and said: "Once Chifeng is captured, it will not only be able to cut off the connection between the east and west sides of the Eighth Route Army, but also use Chifeng Airport to establish a stronghold in the center of the Eighth Route Army. A nail!”

As he spoke, Umezu Yoshijiro raised his head and looked at Qiaomoto Toranosuke, and said: "Those guys from the North China Front, if they have air superiority, it shouldn't be a problem to win this battle, right? Don't they have experience in mountain warfare and helicopters? ? This should be what they are good at!"

Qiao Ben Toranosuke did not dare to answer. He thought to himself: The North China Front Army does have mountain troops, but everyone in the Eighth Route Army grew up in the mountains.As for the North China Front's air supremacy... Air supremacy is useful in plain areas or on the sea, but it has little effect in mountain warfare!

Therefore, Qiaomoto Toranosuke is not optimistic about this battle.

After thinking about it, he suggested: "Your Excellency, General, I think we can let the North China Front Army's fighter planes support our army!"

"Support our army?" Umezu Yoshijiro looked at Qiao Ben Toranosuke strangely: "Qiao Ben, but we don't have enough fuel to support the air force's battle!"

"We don't need fuel!" Qiao Ben Toranosuke pointed to the sand table and drew a line between the two places and said: "Our army's latest fighter plane has a range of [-] kilometers carrying auxiliary fuel tanks, and Chengde Airport to Heping Village The straight-line distance is only [-] kilometers, which is within the combat radius of our fighter planes!"

Umezu Yoshijiro said "Yes": "In this way, the fighter planes will gain air supremacy for our army!"

"Yes!" Qiaoben Toranosuke replied: "And most of the fighter planes fight in plain areas rather than mountainous areas! In addition, the practical ceiling of the Hayate fighter is 11000 meters. Flying at this altitude can also perfectly avoid the anti-aircraft firepower of the Eighth Route Army. !”

Umezu Yoshijiro asked: "What about the North China Front? How can they guarantee their air supremacy?"

"The new fighter jets taking off from Chengde Airport means that their air supremacy has been resolved!" Qiao Ben Toranosuke said: "They must first eliminate the Eighth Route Army's fighter jets at Chifeng Airport! After that, the issue of coordination with the army will be left to other fighters. Bar!"