The so-called tactics are simply "the means to achieve strategic goals, the principles and strategies of commanding troops (military forces) on the battlefield."
Therefore, tactics must be formulated specifically for individual situations. Therefore, it has two important characteristics: colorful changes and quick response, which correspond to a far-sighted "strategy".
There are several basic types of tactics.
As a narrower combat technique and tactics, it can be listed as follows:
(1) Formulate tactics according to the battlefield situation;
② Tactics of battle formation;
(3) Tactics to form offensive combat types;
④ Tactics formulated according to different units or arms.
In a word, the so-called fighting is not just throwing automatic rifles and grenades, but must be aimed at receiving the effect of military action.
On March 1984 and 1 day, the guerrillas of the Vietnam Independence Union raided the Katby airport, which was heavily guarded by the French Air Force, and destroyed 60 military aircraft, which made the French army panic.
Cartby airport is located in the suburb of Hanoi. Only this, you can imagine how much the French army attaches importance to it. Surround the surrounding eight kilometers with seven layers of barbed wire up to three meters. Between the seven layers of barbed wire, there are mines for signal and killing. There are mortar and machine gun seats in the barbed wire. The patrol as a guard patrols the barbed wire every fifteen minutes.
How did the guerrillas get into such a strong and heavily guarded airport?
Here, there is a detailed and thoughtful tactical research.
The first is "reconnaissance" tactics.
Eight months before the raid was resolutely carried out, guerrilla scouts took turns to enter the airport in disguise and made a full investigation of everything at the airport, as if they knew their yard like the back of their hand. In the meantime, two scouts were arrested by the French army, tortured and said nothing, and finally sentenced to death.
On the other hand, the players who rushed into the airport completely mastered the "surprise attack" tactics within two months. To this end, repeated strict combat training. In order to successfully rush in and out, run five to six kilometers at full speed under heavy armed conditions. In order to prepare the river in front of the military swimming airport, we trained to swim 300 meters in one breath. In order to sneak into the airport, we also trained to crawl 500 to 1000 meters in just two hours. Besides. I also trained for a few seconds, putting explosives on the target, withdrawing immediately and so on. In short, the rigorous and intense training for the surprise attack on Cartby lasted for two months without stopping.
Therefore, when the guerrillas "carried out" this raid, they were as calm and accurate as usual training, thus winning a total victory.
This surprise attack was a tactic adopted by guerrillas without air force to "shoot down" the French air force on the ground. A total of 60 planes, including transport planes and reconnaissance planes headed by 28 B26 bombers, exploded and caught fire on the ground, which was a great loss for the French army in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. What an unexpected strategy the guerrillas have come up with to "shoot down" the plane on the ground! It was inherited and developed by the Vietnam War, which can be called the Second Indo-zhina War, and the same tactics are still often used today.
The first one mentioned above, that is, the tactics formulated according to the battlefield situation, was also used in this Cartby campaign. Tactics such as attacking, defending, chasing and retreating are adopted "according to the combat situation"; According to the terrain conditions, we also adopted tactics such as field, mountain, highland, forest, canyon and river.
The second category is about the tactics of battle formation, including concentration, dispersion and evacuation. In reality, these are often used together.
Third, as the types of offensive operations, there are frontal tactics, lateral tactics, interspersed tactics and encirclement tactics, which are often used together.
Fourth, according to different arms or arms, there are tactics such as infantry, artillery, tanks and aviation, which are integrated into mobile tactics and position tactics in real wars. In addition, new special guerrilla tactics and hijacking tactics have been adopted.