Heinrici Tactic - Ulchimumdeok of Koguryo used the similar tactic against 2,000,000 Chinese troops. He destroyed them all. During the Korean War, some of Korean and American commanders used the same tactic, often at the risk of reprimand from their high-ups. Such Heinrici tactic worked. The communist loss was horrendous. And Mao and Kim never caught on to it. Ignorance based on arrogance is fatal. I admire Heinrici as a most progressive military tactician with strong Christian moral principle. In 1941, during Operation Barbarossa, Heinrici served in the Second Panzer Army under Heinz Guderian and, as the commanding general of the XXXXIII Army Corps, received the Knights Cross. Late in January 1942, Heinrici was given command of the German Fourth Army. This unit was crucial to the rapidly crumbling German line directly facing Moscow. The Fourth Army under Heinrici held out against the Soviet onslaught for ten weeks, playing a critical role in containing General Zhukovs counterattack. Heinrici managed this even though his forces were sometimes outnumbered 12 to 1. During this time, Heinrici developed one of his most famous tactics: when he judged a Soviet attack was imminent, Heinrici would pull his troops back from the line prior to the preliminary artillery barrage. Then, immediately afterwards, he would return them unharmed back to their lines to face the attacking Soviet troops. When an officer protested this tactic, saying it resembled a retreat (something Hitler had forbidden), Heinrici replied, When a worker is cleaning a punch press in a factory, does he stick his head under the slab when it turns on? No! He pulls it out of the way in time! - from wiki -
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