When watching Hollywood blockbusters, you will always find a routine, American soldiers holding machine guns to kill and kill, the enemy launched a "sea of people tactics" to swarming, and then left a corpse and left... Under the brainwashing of countless American entertainment cultures, many people think that American soldiers are all gods and gods, and they can fight with swords and guns against one hundred enemies, but a careful examination of history has found that the US military is the army that plays the so-called "man-sea tactics" the most slippery.
American troops in oil paintings
As a military term, 'Human Sea Tactics' is actually a small translation problem, and the real translation of this tactic should be called 'HumanWave Tactics', which uses a steady stream of scattered troops to inflict constant troops and firepower on the enemy, causing the enemy to collapse rapidly. And the kind of offensive formation that is densely packed in the movie is rarely seen in reality. Many of the so-called "man-sea tactics" are not at all the tactics of modern armies, but more of a backward system that relies on more people to go up and "recklessly wave". The most typical is the Battle of Entuman, where the British suppressed the Mahdi Uprising, where tens of thousands of Mahdi troops poured in with medieval tactics, but were collectively shot by British machine guns. In fact, the modern "human wave tactics" in the true sense are very testing of the organizational ability and discipline of a unit.
Oil painting of the Battle of Entuman
The Americans played the man-sea charge, I am afraid that many people do not know much about the number of times in the American Civil War, the charge war is more famous for the North Army launched by the Mary Heights Charge, the South Army launched the Pickett Death Charge in Gettysburg, the North Army launched the fierce Cold Harbor Charge, and the Confederate Army launched a more desperate bet on the various charges in the Battle of Nashville. In the American Civil War, the mutual charge between the North and the South often paid the price of the entire army, which was often thousands of casualties. However, under the high sense of seeking battle, the "man-sea tactics" formed by dense formation charging are still necessary means to crush the enemy in morale. The belligerent spirit of the Americans was particularly evident in the Civil War, in which the North took advantage of its demographic superiority and often launched a "man-wave attack" against the Confederate Army, several times larger than the Confederate Army, at the cost of casualties.
Oil painting of Pickett's charge
In World War II, in order to maintain its own superiority, the US military often gathered several times the other side's manpower and firepower to launch an attack. In the Battle of Iwo Jima, for example, the Japanese army had less than 20,000 troops, while the American army had as many as 70,000. Supported by heavy artillery fire, the Americans launched a comprehensive attack on the Japanese army, and finally took Iwo Jima after more than 28,000 casualties. Also on okinawa, the U.S. military dispatched 550,000 troops to besiege the Japanese army of only 100,000 people, and it was only after the loss of soldiers that they annihilated these Japanese troops.
The number of American troops attacking on Iwo Jima is also quite large
Not only in the Asian battlefield, but also in the European battlefield, after the Normandy landings, in order to defeat the German army in the Falais area, the U.S. army with the Allies used nearly a million troops to launch an attack, and 1500 aircraft were dispatched alone. Nevertheless, it allowed nearly half of the Germans to break through the siege, and these Germans suffered the Americans in the subsequent Ardennes counterattack. What is more intriguing is that in the later Ardenne counterattack, the American 101st Airborne Division was surrounded by the German army in the Bastogne area, although the US army has always boasted of resisting the five German divisions, but in fact most of the German army "just passed by", the real surrounding of the 101st Division nearly 20,000 people, only the old and weak and disabled German army more than 8,000 people, this is really not a record worth boasting.
American forces in the Battle of Bastogne
As for the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, countless people talked about the volunteer army as using the "man-sea tactics" to fight a war in order to vilify the volunteer army. But the gang immediately forgot that at the last moment of the battle at SongkuoFeng, the Us army launched a regimental charge against the Songkuofeng position, which was only defended by half a company of the volunteer army, and there was also an artillery regiment in the rear for fire support, and there were aircraft bombing in the sky. Such a fierce "man-sea tactic" and "fire-sea tactic" were beaten in front of the volunteer positions, and finally had to abandon all their heavy weapons to seize the road and flee. So my suggestion is that if anyone shouts that Americans are the "tactical nemesis of the sea of people", then ask them if they dare to say so in front of the American soldiers, and if they say so, they will not be slapped in the face by the American soldiers.
The tactics of the sea of people play no matter how slippery it is also the life of a prisoner