The meeting was chaired by Xiang Yinghui, but the "speaker" was Pei Chengyi...

"Overall, the participating troops performed very well in the first two battles." Pei Chengyi first introduced the situation of the troops. "The 153rd Airborne Brigade completed the combat mission very well, laying the foundation for encirclement and annihilation of the US Marine Corps; the 54th Army, the 37th Army and the 38th Army fought the main attack in the first battle, especially the 54th Army's performance was the most eye-catching. In the second battle, the airborne brigade and the air assault brigade, especially the 163rd Airborne Brigade and the 173rd Airborne Brigade. The airborne troops exposed many problems in the two battles. Although they were mainly related to technical equipment and the nature of the airborne troops, there were still problems in the tactics and application methods of the airborne troops."

"How is the rest and rest situation of each unit?" Zhao Rundong asked a topic that everyone was interested in.

"Except for the airborne brigade, the other troops are being reorganized as planned." Pei Chengyi glanced at the secretary who assisted the meeting and asked the secretary to distribute the documents that had been prepared to the leaders of the conference. "The situation of the 37th Army and the 38th Army is relatively ideal, and they can reopen to the battle before January 10th. The 21st Army, 24th Army, 27th Army, 36th Army and 611th Army will go to the assembly site to rest and recuperate one after another, and it is expected to restore combat capabilities before the 10th. The Army is heading south and plans to rest and recuperate after the third battle. The 77th Army is gathering in Shaliyuan. If there is no special needs, it will not participate in the third battle. The worst situation is the 54th Army, and only the 543rd Brigade has recovered its combat effectiveness so far. The other two brigades are still being reorganized, and they can only restore combat effectiveness at the 15th."

"In other words, the 54th Army cannot catch up with the third battle?"

Pei Chengyi nodded, answering Zhao Rundongdi's question.

"The US military has withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula. The main problem of the third battle is not troops, but materials." Xiang Yinghui took over Pei Chengyi's topic and said, "The material consumption speed of the first two battles far exceeds the speed of material replenishment. Although the most effective solution is to open sea transportation as soon as possible, there is no connecting railway line between North Korea and South Korea. We must occupy a large port south of the 38th parallel in order for sea transportation to work. As we all know, the port on the west coast of the peninsula is known to be on the port on the west coast of the peninsula.

Only the mouth can be used by our army, and the west side of the peninsula is densely packed with reefs, shallow water depths and complex waterways. Not only does it lack a good port for deep water, it is also very easy to be blocked. The closest is Incheon Port west of Seoul, and the ideal south is Gunsan Port in North Jeolla Province, and then Lishui Port in South Jeolla Province. Gunsan Port is too far from the front line, and it is difficult to capture and is not obvious. After the third battle begins, our army must do its best to capture Incheon and solve the problem of logistics support.

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Zhao Rundong rubbed his forehead and glanced at Peng Maobang who was sitting next to him.

"It is very difficult to attack Incheon." Peng Maobang picked up the cigarette on the table. He had quit smoking after retirement, but he smoked again in the past few days. "No matter how stupid the Korean generals were, they knew the importance of Incheon. In the previous battles, our airborne troops, low-altitude assault troops and fast assault troops showed extremely strong combat capabilities. Since yesterday, the South Korean army strengthened the defense deployment of Incheon. According to the information we have already mastered, it is very likely that when our army attacks Incheon, the South Korean army will blow up all port settings and delay our army's attack speed. If we cannot use Incheon, we will lose the significance of occupying Incheon. In the short term, the ground transportation line will still be our army's main supply channel."

Pei Chengyi frowned slightly. He seemed to have some thoughts.

Before he could speak, Zhao Rundong said, "How to fight the third battle? It is determined by the combat forces of our army and the combat forces of the combat forces of the invested areas. General Pei Chengyi. Can you introduce the specific situation?"

Pei Chengyi was stunned for a moment and did not react for a moment.

"The combat plan is still being formulated. It has not been sent to the front line command. Let me introduce it." Xiang Yinghui fainted cigarette butts and said. "According to the General Staff, the ground combat plan was formulated. The third battle was to capture Seoul. Before that, we needed to concentrate our troops to capture Kaicheng and open the ground and ground passage to Seoul. Although the South Korean army has been strengthening the defense of Kaicheng, according to our judgment, we invested three armies, plus three to five independent artillery brigades. We can capture Kaicheng within three to five days. During this period, the 383rd Brigade captured Panmunjom and Wenshan, cut off the ground and ground traffic between Kaicheng and Seoul. The Seoul Campaign was launched within twenty-four to forty-eight hours after the end of the Kaicheng Campaign. Five armies and six brigades were invested, and a total of 150,000 troops were invested. The specific combat operations were not completely determined yet."

"That is to say, it is necessary to provide material support for nearly 200,000 ground troops?"

Xiang Yinghui nodded and lit a cigarette. He said, "Logistics support is mainly the responsibility of the North Korean Defense Force. Judging from the situation of the two previous battles, the North Korean Defense Force performed quite well. He used North Korean roads and railways to provide sufficient combat supplies for 150,000 ground troops. In the rest, we will mobilize air force transportation aircraft to transport 3,500 to 4,000 tons of combat supplies to the front line every day to meet the needs of the other 50,000 ground troops. Overall,

If the scale of the battle is not expanded, there will be no big problem with logistics support."

Wang Yuanqing listened for a long time and said, "The problem is that the scale of the battle is definitely much larger than the planned one."

Zhao Rundong and Peng Maobang immediately laughed, and Xiang Yinghui sighed.

"The Army has gone south. We only considered combat operations on the western battlefield, but not on the eastern battlefield." Wang Yuanqing glanced at everyone and said, "Although I don't know much about military affairs, as far as I know, if our army attacks Seoul, the South Korean army will definitely launch a counterattack in other directions. We must fight in two directions, at least we must let the combat troops on the eastern battlefield play their due role. In this way, can logistics support keep up?"

“That’s the problem.

"Xiang Yinghui smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "If the situation on the eastern battlefield is not considered, the battle can start on No. 8 or even No. 7. Because the South Korean army will definitely retreat to Busan and Ulsan. In order to end the war as soon as possible, the troops on the eastern battlefield must advance south as soon as possible to block the retreat of the South Korean army. According to the most optimistic estimate, during the third battle, our army's logistics support capacity can only reach about 70% of the needs of the front-line combat troops. According to the fifteen days of the battle, the total amount of combat materials lacking is about 550,000 tons. Our army's daily supply capacity is about 80,000 tons, so the battle start time is determined to be No. 10."

After listening to Xiang Yinghui's explanation, Wang Yuanqing had nothing to say.

Even those who know nothing about military affairs can see the key points of the war.

Before the troops move, food and grass will come first.

No matter what era it is, logistics support will always overcome the enemy.

The Republican team exposed many problems and flaws in the Peninsula War, such as the lack of armor and firepower of the airborne troops, the lack of support platforms of the air force, the lack of guidance methods of artillery, and the lack of cooperation of the ground forces, etc. However, these are tactical and technical problems and can be solved through tactical innovation and technological progress.

Logistical support issues are difficult to solve substantively.

To be precise, logistics support is not a tactical and technical issue, but a military ideological issue.

Since the Fourth India-Pakistan War, the Republic has experienced several foreign wars, but each foreign war is very limited in scale and lasts very short, and the requirements for logistics support are not high. Even in the old wars, the logistics support of the Republic's army can still meet combat needs.

Compared with previous wars, the Peninsula War was larger in scale and lasted longer.

Logistics support cannot keep up with the needs of combat, mainly since the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in the late 1970s, the Republican team has not fought a large-scale foreign war for decades, and is estimated to be too fierce to be sufficiently prepared before the war breaks out.

From Zhao Rundong to Pei Chengyi, no one realized that the speed of war consumption would be so amazing.

According to the estimates of the General Staff, the Peninsula War consumed up to 10,000 tons of combat materials. In fact, the first two battles consumed about 150,000 tons of combat materials. In the revised strategic plan, Xiang Yinghui increased the consumption of the Peninsula War to 5 million tons!

Material consumption is not a problem, transportation is the problem.

If transported by car, 250,000 heavy trucks with a load of 20~: are required; if transported by train, 125 trains with 50 standard trains are required; if transported by airplanes, 200,000 y-14 or 80,000 y-15s are required; even if transported by sea, 5 million tons of huge ships are required. If the war lasts for 3 months, on average, combat materials need to be transported to the front line every day. Calculated according to the material consumption rate of the previous two battles, about 12,000~: is about 12,000~: per day, then the battle time only accounts for the war time, and most of the time is spent on material transportation.

This is a "disaster" for the logistics support force of any army.

The problem is very clear. Whether you fight or not, you have to stop attacking for the time being.

Although no one said it, the participants knew that if the army stopped, the Korean army would get a chance to breathe. The longer the stop, the more fully prepared the Korean army would be, the more difficult the battles to fight later, and the greater the consumption and casualties!

Even Gu Weimin believed that Seoul should be defeated in one go and completely defeat South Korea's morale and fighting spirit.

The silence lasted for a long time, and everyone was considering solutions to the problem.

"Perhaps we should modify the combat plan for the third battle and launch combat operations to attack Jeju Island in advance."

Pei Chengyi broke the silence and everyone's eyes fell on him.

Xiang Yinghui glared at Pei Chengyi, who was a little ignorant of the world, and at the same time he had great hope for the brigade general.

"Pei Chengyi, let me tell you in detail." Zhao Rundong smiled and encouraged Pei Chengyi to continue.

Others also focused on listening to Pei Chengyi's "high opinions". (To be continued,)
Chapter completed!