Li Qiwei looked at the newspapers sent from China, his eyebrows twisted into knots. "Our politicians and generals are thinking about how to win this damn Gulf War every day, but Lin Youde is engaged in manned spaceflight? It really makes people feel that Lin Youde is letting us down. This feels really bad." "Yes, that's right. It's like we're trying our best and the other side is saying, 'I'm going to fight you with only one hand,'" Ridgway's adjutant, Lt. Gen. Taylor, agreed. "However, his speech makes sense. If there were unlimited resources, the competition and plunder between humans would be reduced a lot. Of course, there will definitely be predators who like to eat ready-made food and don't want to develop their own land, but I personally am very I want to go to a new place and open up a new world." "We are the descendants of the pioneers." Li Qiwei shrugged and threw the newspaper on the table next to him: "Forget it, let's finish organizing this offensive quickly. As long as we don't make mistakes in the organization process, MacArthur and Wilson will know how meaningless it is to continue this war." At this moment, Ridgway no longer has the luxury of winning the war. The enemy has been poorly supplied, but the U.S. troops on the front line have been poor. The exchange ratio with the US-China Republican Guard always has the upper hand. The US military on both sides has better firepower configurations, but some of the weapons of the opponent's Republican Guard are superior to the US military in terms of quality. Ridgway had never fought against the Germans on the Western Front, but he gradually understood why those commanders who had returned from the European battlefield did not want to wade into the muddy waters of the Persian Gulf. The US military naturally has well-trained elite troops, but almost every unit on the opponent's side can compete with the US military's elite troops, and they will not be taken advantage of. And these troops, who can compete with the elite U.S. troops, will be at an overwhelming advantage when encountering U.S. troops with mediocre combat effectiveness. ??The encounter between the elites of the United States and China and the elites of the US military is generally 50:50, depending on the terrain and luck, but the elites of the United States and China will also be in a state of crushing when facing ordinary US military units. In other words, what Ridgway is now facing is a situation where when the Chinese attack, only the core support points will be left on the entire front. The US troops filling the core support points will all suffer heavy losses and have to retreat; while Ridgway attacks Sometimes, the main force will slowly break through the enemy's defense line, while attacks from the secondary direction will be like kicking on an iron plate. Then, because there is no pressure on the flanks, the American and Chinese commanders will quickly concentrate their troops on the front and go all out to attack the main U.S. force that breaks through. If you want to put enough pressure on the American and Chinese commanders in the secondary direction, you must also invest far more force in the secondary direction than the opponent. Doing so violates the principle of concentrated use of forces. In the final analysis, it comes down to military strength. Ridgway firmly believed that if the troops in his hands were two-thirds of the troops he commanded on the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty during World War II, it would be easy to win this war. Regrettably, Li Qiwei does not have so many troops, and it is impossible for the United States to provide him with so many troops. In fact, Li Qiwei now has much more troops than the Pentagon estimated before entering the war. This is mainly because the enemy's combat effectiveness is unexpectedly strong, and the Pentagon has to increase troops to reverse the situation. But after increasing the number of troops, it seemed that they still couldn¡¯t win, so they had to continue to increase the number of troops. After going back and forth like this, the Pentagon began to realize that the situation was not good. Continuing to increase troops may violate the policy of "quickly winning the war with limited troops" formulated before the war began - in fact, it has already been violated, because the war can no longer end quickly. Now the Pentagon is mainly considering how to reduce troop investment as much as possible. But if you don¡¯t invest enough troops, you will continue to suffer losses on the battlefield, and then you will have to invest more troops. The Pentagon in this time and space made similar mistakes to the Vietnam War in another time and space. The war that could have been won in one go at the beginning was turned into a war of fuel, and in the end it found that it was less expensive than its opponent. Li Qiwei felt that this was really stupid, but he couldn't say it openly. The U.S. military in another time and space at least has an advantage in the exchange ratio. The U.S. military in this time and space does not even have an advantage in the exchange ratio. A refueling war is simply courting death. Such a situation will occur. Needless to say, it is because there is a time traveler Lin Youde in this time and space. Because of Lin Youde, the Persian Gulf War that took place in 1954 already had some flavor of the Vietnam War. There was a clear distinction between the weapons of both sides, especially light weapons. In another time and space, the Korean War in 53 years, the US military (was using World War II weapons such as BAR, Garand and TOM submachine guns). In this time and space, the US military was beaten to a pulp in North Africa by the German army who all used assault rifles with reduced ammunition, so with Assault rifle equipment troops were developed as quickly as possible. Now the US military in the Persian Gulf has all M16s, much earlier than in another time and space.bsp; In addition, Lin Youde¡¯s assault rifles are all developed from STG44, and they all have the standard shape of Kalashnikov, so the feud of the century between the space-time M16 and Kalashnikov was staged more than ten years in advance. . In addition, the Super Phantom vs Super Saber in the sky is quite similar to the Phantom vs MiG-21 during the Vietnam War. The Super Saber in this time and space is really based on the aerodynamic shape of the MiG-21 that Lin Youde showed to the Americans. The only difference is probably that neither side has reliable guided weapons yet, and ground attacks still rely on the experience of pilots. Of course, the Republican Guard of the Republic of the United States is not the German army after all, and its fighting style is not exactly the same as the German army. The German army built by Lin Youde is an army that relies heavily on firepower and armor, and it rarely carries out very fanatical charges. The German infantry will not choose to attack without the support of tanks. If a pure German infantry unit must attack a well-defended position, they will choose a night attack. Therefore, when those grassroots US military officers in the US military in the Persian Gulf who are accustomed to German warfare methods find that there are no tanks on the other side, they often focus on protecting against night attacks, but rarely think of preventing the enemy from frontal attacks. But the troops of the Republic of America are different. Even without the support of armor, they dare to launch frontal attacks. They are very good at the infantry attack tactics of alternating combat groups and can carry out very skilled infantry shock battles. Of course, this kind of infantry attack will definitely cause greater casualties than the German offensive battle that relies on armor. Ridgway believes that this is an important reason why the exchange ratio of weapons between the US and China is not as good as the exchange ratio between the German army and the US military. But if you think about it from another perspective, the troops of the Republic of China are not as highly mechanized as the German army. Almost all German troops are equipped with armored units. They had already achieved full mechanization during World War II. Even pure infantry divisions would be equipped in reconnaissance battalions. Some light tanks for reconnaissance. Among the troops of the Republic of China, only the Republican Guard has a mechanization level comparable to that of the German army. The other republican defense forces do not have so many tanks. Li Qiwei also knew this very well, so he always tried to find ways to let his armored forces take advantage of the Republic Defense Forces. But simply taking advantage is obviously not enough to win the war.