In 1947, Chiang Kai-shek handwritten the key points of the combat review in the areas on both sides of the Longhai Railway, "In the future, the strategy, tactics and military technology and ideas of bandit suppression should be reviewed again." On August 16, 1946, Mao Zedong emphasized that " military technology and ideas are the most useful" of force concentration. This shows that during the period of the KMT and CPC civil war, the use of troops by both sides involved not only strategies and tactics, but also military technology and ideas.
The history of military warfare is easy to fall into the myth that what the winner says is the truth, probably because the winner is willing to decipher the files of the generals and soldiers who actually used troops on the battlefield and publish a large number of memoirs of his personal encounters on the battlefield. In terms of KMT and CPC civil war, the victorious CPC army released a large number of telegrams, archives and memoirs of the front-line generals and soldiers, so that for decades, the research on the military technology and ideas of both sides during the KMT and CPC civil war basically adopted the CPC army's statement. The military technology and ideas of the CPC army are mainly to annihilate the enemy's living strength, followed by siege and defense. On the contrary, the KMT army's method of military technology and ideas is mainly to siege the city and protect the land, and the second is to destroy the enemy's living strength. However, whether this argument falls into the myth that what the winner says is the truth ?
As the Academia Historica and the National Archives Administration deciphered the telegram archives of the military during the KMT and CPC civil war, this article can trace the origin of the military technology and ideas used by the KMT and the CPC, the military technology and ideas of the KMT and the CPC self-reported, the KMT and the CPC research on each other's military technology and ideas , Qualitative research on 3 battles Qualitative research and quantitative research on 90 battles, five aspects to examine the myths of warfare during the KMT and CPC civil war.
This paper finds that during the period of the KMT and CPC civil war , the formula of the CPC army’s military technology and ideas was “force concentration + one-point and two-sided = annihilating the enemy’s living strength”, and the formula of the KMT army’s tactics was “triangle attack + magnet = finding enemies and annihilating the enemy’s living strength”. Not only did the CPC army actually annihilate the enemy, but the KMT army’s also annihilating the enemy. During the KMT and CPC civil war, the myth that the military technology and ideas of the CPC army focused on destroying the enemy and the military technology and ideas of the KMT army mainly focused on sieging cities was broken. This proves that, in fact, during the KMT and CPC civil war, the military technology and ideas of the KMT and the CPC armies were indistinguishable. All of them emphasize the annihilation.