Chapter 16 Under what circumstances can a wolf eat a tiger?

Is the tiger stronger or the wolf stronger? Needless to say, of course the tiger is powerful. In fighting, a tiger can kill a wolf with one mouth, but a wolf cannot kill a tiger. In terms of running, a tiger can catch a wolf in a few strokes, but a wolf can't run as fast as a tiger. But there is a situation where wolves can eat tigers. what's the situation?Can't seem to figure it out. In fact, it is when the tiger's eyes are covered and the tiger becomes a blind tiger. Hehe, you might say that blindfolding a tiger makes the tiger a blind tiger?This tiger is not stupid, what can it do?Unless the tiger went blind by himself.

No, it can really be done. The person who did this was Mao Zedong. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Mao Zedong turned the US Army into a "blind tiger" by adopting "submarine tactics".Then, seeing the opportunity, he pounced fiercely and swallowed the American army one bite at a time. After all, the wolf ate the tiger for the first time in his life.There is no experience in how much to bite and where to bite, and it needs to be summed up in actual combat. In the early days of entering the DPRK, Mao Zedong had envisaged concentrating superior forces to wipe out the enemy's divisions at a time, but the result was simply impossible to achieve the goal.

Only in the second battle, the 27th Army of the Volunteer Army took advantage of the special weather and terrain conditions to wipe out a reinforced regiment of the United States-the Polar Bear Regiment. Up to now, the captured polar bear regiment flag is still on display in the Chinese Revolutionary Military Museum! In the fifth battle, the total number of troops invested by the two warring parties reached 1 million.In the first stage of the war, the Volunteers repeatedly surrounded a regiment and a battalion of the United Nations Army at night, but none of them were wiped out, and the effect was far less than what was planned.

Under such circumstances, Mao Zedong concentrated his energy on studying the new characteristics and laws of this war. How to study?It's still the same old way: investigation and research. Books cannot solve the problem, we must rely on investigation and research to fully understand the reality. Despite the tense fighting, Mao Zedong recalled Deng Hua, the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, Xie Fang, the chief of staff, and the heads of the four main armies from the front, including Liu Xiyuan, the political commissar of the 38th Army, Wu Xinquan, the commander of the 39th Army, and Wu Xinquan, the commander of the 40th Army. Wen Yucheng and Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army.

Several tiger generals are back. Will it affect the war?definitely will. But Mao Zedong is Mao Zedong, he never seeks perfection, what he seeks is relatively the best choice. At the juncture of the fifth battle of the war, it is more important to determine new strategies and tactics than to win a few small victories. Mao Zedong first talked with Deng Hua for a day, and then had a long interview with four army commanders, asking about the battlefield situation in detail, and mastering first-hand information. Among them, one of the issues he is particularly concerned about is why it is difficult for the volunteers to wipe out one regiment of the enemy at a time?

The answer is similar: when the volunteer army several times larger than the enemy interspersed and surrounded the enemy, the enemy shrank into a small group and formed a dense defensive circle with tanks and artillery.The Volunteer Army lacked heavy weapons, and its firepower was too poor to end the battle for a few hours.Once dawn, the encircled enemies will escape with the rescue of planes and tanks, and our army will easily suffer losses in daytime operations. Mao Zedong realized that this is not a question of whether the fight is good or not, but a question of military force limitation and objective conditions.

Therefore, Mao Zedong, who was full of truth-seeking and exploratory spirit, proposed that if one army of our army could not wipe out one division of the US army at a time, one regiment of them would be wiped out, and if one regiment could not be wiped out, one battalion would be wiped out. The reports of several volunteer army chiefs confirmed Mao Zedong's judgment.For example, Wu Ruilin, the commander of the 42nd Army, reported: "During the 35-kilometer frontal defense of the fourth battle, our army continued to organize small counterattacks, and ran away after eating a wave of enemies. In one night, several waves of enemies were attacked by us. The attack eats up and eliminates a considerable number of enemies, and our army has little loss."

Thus, a new tactic was formed in Mao Zedong's mind. He gave this new tactic a popular name: "Zero Knock Brown Sugar". Mao Zedong asked the volunteers in his telegram: "Don't be too ambitious in each battle. It is enough for one army to wipe out a whole battalion of the US, British and Turkish troops in one battle, or at most two whole battalions." "Zero-knocking brown sugar" is the way Hunan people eat brown sugar. Brown sugar is very hard, so they have to be knocked off in small pieces to eat.Mao Zedong used it to vividly illustrate that our army is not greedy for big things in fighting the US military, but must do what it can, and fight small annihilation tactics.

Since then, the Volunteer Army has never fought a major battle again. Later results proved that this tactic is very effective.Eating one company and one battalion of the enemy at a time, our army ate easily, leisurely, comfortably, and warmly.In fact, after accumulating in this way, the number will not be small, and our army will not suffer. It can be seen that Mao Zedong’s new approach to modern warfare is to judge the role of weapons and equipment objectively under the conditions of modern warfare without sticking to the form, to "zero-knock brown sugar", to realize the transformation from a large-scale annihilation war to a small annihilation war, and to realize the combination of subjectivity and objectivity. explore.

"Zero-knock brown candy", a similar saying is called "ants move". Americans have experienced Mao Zedong's tactics on the battlefield. Davidson, who served as the assistant secretary of defense of the United States, said: "Flexibility for Mao Zedong is to change tactics and methods correctly according to the situation. He did this very well in North Korea. ... If you remember everything about Mao Zedong No, then, you just remember that he was the most pragmatic and critically receptive of all strategists." An officer of the United States Military Academy at West Point said: "Mao Zedong is the only military genius in human history who is good at attacking the strong with the weak, and defeating the strong with the weak.... The West Point Military Academy reveres two Chinese military strategists who are also all mankind. One is Mao Zedong, and the other is Mao Zedong. The other one is Sun Tzu."