What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Few generals in China's modern history can command large corps of fighters who are particularly good at combat, which is related to China's strategic and tactical thinking.
China's generals from ancient times to the present day have advocated surprising victory, like to "divide and attack", no matter how many people, they must be divided into several roads, and like small shares to be interspersed when fighting, such as Li Yunlong's playing style in "Bright Sword", which is typical of this, and because of this, he has suffered a lot of losses on the frontal battlefield.
This is also related to the establishment, the beiyang six towns established in the late Qing dynasty were the peak level of the Chinese army at that time, a town is equivalent to a division, the number of people is about 12,500 people, but until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the whole country only made 14, to the Republic of China period a mixed brigade dared to call the overseer, and although the number of warlords in the Republic of China was large, the scale was small, the fighting was not fierce, and there was no big scene.
Coupled with the backwardness of China's military academy education throughout the Republic of China period, the final result was the lack of generals who were good at large corps combat, which was especially prominent during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
When the all-out War of Resistance Broke Out, Japan mainly used divisions and regiments as the organization, the number of a first-class division was close to 30,000, while most of the Chinese divisions were still around 10,000 people, which led to very chaotic command, such as the first stage of the Battle of Songhu, the Nationalist army invested as many as 600,000 troops, but in terms of organization, it was 48 divisions, 15 independent brigades, 9 temporary brigades and various formations of corps.
In contrast, Japan had 150,000 people at that time, only 5 divisions and 1 brigade.
In the later stage of the Battle of Songhu, the Nationalist army was afraid of being cut off from the retreat route, and planned to retreat in the way of "turning in", but the result was that due to the lack of command, it directly became a "rout", and the Songhu battlefield suffered less than 200,000 casualties for several months, and a "turn-in" loss of 100,000.
After this, the Nationalist army formed a first-level command structure while entering the battlefield, usually 2-3 divisions to form an army to counter a Japanese division.
Of course, even if the number of an army has just been able to benchmark with a Japanese division, it is still impossible to fight, so the follow-up nationalist army actively formed a group army, and what is more interesting is that it is probably that Japan took the initiative to put down its body in order to benchmark with the national army, and in the later period, it rarely formed a type A division, but formed some B divisions, C divisions and mixed brigades with a number of 10,000.
In a word, due to the loose organization of the Nationalist army and the great lack of combat commanders of large corps, they suffered great losses during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Among the generals of the Nationalist Army, those who can be handy in the operation of the large corps are at most Li Zongren, Xue Yue, and Du Yuming.
During the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Zongren served as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater, responsible for coordinating the 600,000 people of the Nationalist army to confront the Japanese Kou, and completed the combat task as a whole, especially in the Battle of Taierzhuang, which severely damaged the Japanese army and created the most important victory in the frontal battlefield after the All-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China.
If Li Zongren was a ruthless man in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xue Yue was an outstanding general who stood out in the middle of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; in the three Battles of Changsha under his command, he never allowed the Japanese to penetrate deep into the hinterland; in the Third Battle of Changsha, Xue Yue mobilized 21 armies to fight with the Japanese in large armies, created the "Heavenly Furnace Tactics," and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese, so that the Japanese never broke through the changsha front.
In addition to Li Zongren and Xue Yue, Du Yuming is a rising star among the generals of the state, as a Graduate of Huangpu, because of the trust of old Jiang and constantly improved, there is a saying, Du Yuming has a certain command ability, otherwise he would not have arranged for him to command Liaoshen in the early stage, and then Huaihai.
However, Du Yuming's biggest problem was that he listened too much to Old Jiang's words, and did not have the courage of "being outside, and the king's life was not affected." Old Jiang fought in his early years, often commanding indiscriminately, making Du Yuming also very faceless and always losing the battle.
Compared with the generals of the Nationalist Army, the generals of our army are quite excellent, but as far as military quality is concerned, most of them are from the ranks, and they are not as good as the generals of the Nationalist Army, and Chairman Mao has said in view of this situation with the example of Lü Meng: "If Lü Meng does not read inexorably, makes good use of soldiers, and can attack the heart, how can he act as the commander of Eastern Wu?" Many of the officers and men of our People's Liberation Army are from the ranks, and they must not fail to read the "Biography of Lü Meng."
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were not many battles that could be called large corps battles, and it was not until the period of the War of Liberation that they gradually increased.
Overall, the main thing is That's Boss Lin and Su Yu, the Liaoshen Campaign commanded by Mr. Lin is called a wonderful, and those who have seen the movie "Armageddon" should have feelings, have not seen it, go and see it clearly.
In the Battle of Menglianggu, Su Yu commanded 9 columns and 1 special column to snipe at the Nationalist army, encircling and annihilating the nationalist ace force and reorganizing the 74th Division, dealing a heavy blow to the overall combat plan of the Nationalist army.
Compared with the traditional tactical thinking of ancient China, it likes to win by surprise, and few sides have invested millions of troops in battles, so they have been lagging behind in operational thinking, and even in the current anti-war dramas, they often preach "clever" victory, which is actually feared in large-scale wars.
In large-scale wars, we must not have the mentality of luck, but must hold on to fighting big battles, fighting hard battles, and fighting continuously and for a long time; this is the core part, and secondly, strategic command and application.