Upon hearing Tuchachevsky's words, Colonel Mayinz was a little speechless.
Russia was indeed very big. Under the crazy drive of the hairy bear people for the perverted land, Russia had successfully established a huge empire spanning across Europe and Asia after hundreds of years of expansion.
At its peak, the empire covered an area of more than 25 million square kilometers. It was like a bear lying on the top of the European continent, and the nickname of the bear spread throughout the world.
Compared to Tsarist Russia, the Second Empire, which only had an area of 500,000 square kilometers, was like a small dot. After the First World War, this small dot had lost more than 90,000 square kilometers of land, and its area had shrunk further.
Tuchachevsky's words were full of the arrogance of a big country's chauvinism, but Mayinz was not angry because of it.
Although the other party seemed a little arrogant and even proud, he did have the capital to be proud. Compared to the huge tsarist Russia, Europe was indeed a little small.
"The battlefields of World War I in Europe were mainly concentrated on the borders between your country, Gaul, and Billy. The border between Italy and Gaul in the south is located at the southern foot of the Alps. This place is not suitable for large-scale battles, so the battlefield of World War I was quite small!”
Tukhachevsky further explained," Our country is different. In addition to the Great Plains of Eastern Europe, our country has battlefields in the Siberian Plains and the Caucasus Mountains. These battles almost span the entire empire, and the length of the battlefront is thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers. Colonel, you are an excellent soldier. You should know what such a long battlefront means for war.”
Maynz nodded. Of course, he knew what this meant.
Outsiders 'understanding of war was probably all kinds of aircraft, tanks, artillery, warships, and so on. However, for those who were truly knowledgeable, war was mainly about logistics, and logistics relied on a country's advanced system and powerful comprehensive strength.
It was precisely because of this that many people believed that the war was about national strength.
Of course, this view was not wrong, but it was somewhat inaccurate. National strength was important to war, but accidental factors could not be ignored in war. An accidental factor could very likely change a battle, and a battle would determine a battle. The success or failure of a battle would determine the victory or defeat of a war. Such complicated things could not be explained by national strength alone.
The reason why famous generals could leave their names in history and be talked about by future generations was because a certain decision they made in battle, or even a good idea that had a flash of inspiration, could directly determine the victory or defeat of the entire war. There were many examples of this. From ancient times to the present, even in ancient times, there were no less than hundreds of examples!
However, ever since the outbreak of the civil war in Yingjiang, the world's wars began to gradually develop towards a total war. In total wars, the national strength of each country became the decisive force. The influence of the generals 'flash of inspiration on the war began to weaken, and they no longer had the decisive effect as before.
However, even under such circumstances, there were still many famous generals who had decisive power in World War II. This meant that the importance of generals in war was still prominent!
Crossing thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers in a war required a completely different concept of logistical support compared to just a few hundred kilometers.
The difficulty of different logistical support determined that the tactics of the two sides would be very different. After all, the tactics of the armies of each country had to be as close to their actual conditions as possible. If they were separated from the actual conditions, it was no different from a castle in the air. It would not last long!
"So, General Tuchachevsky, what do you think the war in Europe is like?”
Maynz didn't ask about the civil war, which made Tuchachevsky's impression of him increase a lot.
After all, as the commander of an army, it was not convenient for him to reveal his country's military secrets to foreign personnel.
But for the war in Europe, there was nothing to worry about. From the perspective of a bystander, Tuchachevsky's way of looking at the problem was obviously more novel.
" I believe that the war in Europe has already left the scope of the original war and has become a meaningless meat grinder war. Such a war has rendered all previous tactics ineffective. Under the narrow terrain and dense population of Europe, trench warfare is almost the best choice for all countries. At the same time, it is also the worst choice because it destroys creativity and allows all countries to enter the same model!”
Tukhachevsky's expression was very serious. At this point, he could not help but frown.
"I believe that if we can't find a way to crack the trench warfare, the future wars in Europe will directly become a competition of manpower and artillery caliber!”
Tukhachevsky had naturally experienced the hardships of trench warfare. It was precisely because he had experienced it before that he hated such a war. Any normal person would probably have a mental breakdown if they persisted for a year or two in the wet or even muddy environment, where there was the stench of rats and corpses everywhere, as well as the occasional sniping by enemy snipers, the intentional firing of enemy machine guns, and the curved attacks of mortars aimed at the trenches!
Tukhachevsky couldn't help but gloat that the Europeans might fall into such a quagmire of war in the future. Of course, such emotions were not suitable to show in front of a German officer. It would be too impolite.
Maynz's expression was originally very serious, but after hearing Tuchachevsky's words, he let out a sigh of relief.
At least for the time being, this guy hadn't found a way to crack the trench warfare. His thinking seemed to be limited to how to crack the trench warfare and didn't involve the new tactics to replace it. This made Colonel Maynz feel relieved.
If this guy thought of a new tactic to solve the problem of trench warfare based on the weapon of tanks, he would definitely be shocked!
Tuchachevsky's use of cavalry tactics was actually quite outstanding. In the vast territory of Mao Xiong, without cavalry, it would definitely not work.
Therefore, most of the high-ranking generals in the Soviets had cavalry experience.
However, Tukhachevsky did not think of using the speed advantage of cavalry tactics to break the trench warfare, because this tactic had been used by the British in the Battle of the Somme River. The British cavalry who bravely rushed to the German position with the glorious tradition of knights were all torn to pieces under the German machine gun and artillery bombardment. The British army had 60,000 casualties, setting a negative example for future generations. They told them what the consequences of using cavalry to attack the trenches!
It was precisely because of this that Tuchachevsky never thought of using cavalry to solve the trench warfare.
It wasn't that Tuchachevsky lacked the ability, but that the Russian army lacked the experience of using tanks and armored vehicles. They couldn't accumulate combat experience with such weapons and equipment without them.
Thinking of this, Colonel Mayinz wiped his sweat. It seemed that the cooperation with the bear-men on the tank could be terminated. No matter what, he could not let the bear-men get the tank so easily, at least not from Hans!
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