This is why, as soon as Zhou Liping took over the formation of this special operations elite force, he asked the old leader for someone, and that person was the arrogant and brave general Liu Guopeng.
The battlefield for the red and blue forces' exercise was set near a rainforest with complex terrain.
There are both open plains and dense forests and cliffs here. The complexity of the terrain has caused great troubles and challenges to both the red and blue sides.
But this also simulates to the greatest extent the complex terrain that may be encountered in a real war.
The exercise was limited to forty-eight hours, so this afternoon could be described as calm.
Both sides seemed to be busy deploying their troops, only flexing their muscles slightly in some local areas and having brief contacts and exchanges of fire.
Because of the advantage in numbers and equipment, the tactic Liu Guopeng adopted was to concentrate firepower and numerical advantage, advance steadily first, use tanks and armored vehicles for cover, and squeeze the Red Army's space for activities.
As night fell, his method was very effective, and the Red Army's living space had been compressed by nearly half.
Most of them were forced into the rain forest, a terrain that prevented tanks and armored vehicles from entering, giving the Red Army a chance to catch its breath.
Although he had gained a local and temporary advantage, Liu Guopeng did not relax even a bit. He remained at the command post at night and remained highly vigilant.
And then, the night counterattack launched by the Red Army really shocked this brave general on the battlefield.
The Red Army carried out a three-stage progressive tactical impact, the first stage of which was night infiltration.
During the daytime fighting and retreat, the Red Army conducted a primitive technological reconnaissance. The Red Army used kites equipped with reflective lenses from multiple directions, simulating modern drone reconnaissance, and drew a defense map of the Blue Army.
Then there is the silent infiltration at night, using climbing hooks modified from bicycle chains to climb over cliffs, smearing mud all over the body to reduce heat radiation, simulating infrared camouflage, and setting up bell alarm systems in minefields to simulate modern sensors.
These are some suggestions put forward by Lin Huowang in "Several Suggestions and Guidelines on the Establishment of Special Operations Forces in my country" based on current technologies and equipment.
Especially infrared camouflage. The Blue Army is equipped with some passive infrared detectors imported from the Soviet Union. Under current conditions, they are considered to be very advanced detection equipment, which can provide early warning of the invasion of living organisms in designated areas at night.
However, the Red Team easily avoided the warnings of these passive infrared detectors by smearing mud, and instead infiltrated from the most unexpected direction of the Blue Team.
Immediately afterwards, the Red Army special forces that infiltrated began to use psychological deterrence.
When the Blue Team sentry suddenly found a wooden sign left by the Red Team on the edge of the trench, which read "12 people have infiltrated, the death rate is estimated to be 83%", the Red Team actually only sent 3 people to complete the marking, conducting a psychological warfare deception on the Blue Team.
Similar wooden signs appeared in multiple areas where the blue team was defending. For a moment, many grassroots commanders on the blue team were confused and unable to tell the truth from the false. They could only sound a high-alert alarm.
Even the commander-in-chief Liu Guopeng kept his eyes open all night, ready to give commands according to the intelligence at any time. He did not dare to close his eyes for a moment, for fear that his command center would be ambushed and destroyed in the next second.
After this first phase of night raids, the Red team only sent out less than a hundred people, but they threw the entire Blue team's camp into panic, and they couldn't rest well the whole night.
So, during the day of the next day, the Red Army turned the passive situation into active one and started the second phase of coordinated raid.
This coordinated raid was also Lin Huowang's exclusive introduction of coordinated tactics that surpassed this era into the concept of special elite operations.
The east was getting light and the day was getting bright.
After a night of rest, the Red Army immediately launched an electromagnetic interference breakthrough.
First, a simple electromagnetic jammer was modified with a diesel engine to paralyze the radio station of the blue team's tank. At the same time, the demolition team used fertilizer explosives to simulate C4 to blow up important bridges and key road sections, which directly divided the blue team's armored forces, making it impossible to take care of both ends and unable to mobilize troops and rescue in time.
Then the breakthrough group quickly locked onto the blue team's headquarters.
Occupying the commanding heights, the sniper team used a modified Type 56 semi-automatic rifle with a homemade 8x scope installed. They smashed the vase on the windowsill of the headquarters and the sign on the sand table from 800 meters away, demonstrating their precision beyond visual range.
There was also an assault team that broke in from the natural cliff at the back, blocked the view with smoke bombs and bags of lime powder, controlled the entire situation within 10 seconds, and directly raided the Blue Army headquarters, completely completing the decapitation operation.
Until the Red Team's assault team broke in, Liu Guopeng was still in a daze.
He never expected that the Red Army's special elite forces, numbering less than a thousand people, could break through the defense line of the modern mechanized forces that outnumbered their own by five times in such an efficient and swift manner.
The commander of the Red Army was none other than the deputy division commander Hong Tao, who had personally gone to the 323rd Regiment to seek advice from Lin Huowang.
He stood at attention, saluted Liu Guopeng and said, "Hello, Commander Liu! I am Hong Tao, the commander of the Special Operations Training Regiment. This exercise mission has been completed in stages. Please review it, Commander Liu."
As he spoke, Hong Tao also took out a hand-filled chart, which recorded the changes in the soldiers' heart rates during the raid, with a maximum of 180 beats per minute, and the duration of the actions, 1.2 seconds to break through the door, and 0.7 seconds to shoot per target, emphasizing that "scientific training reduces ineffective losses."
All these made Liu Guopeng feel personally shocked and realized the true power of the special operations forces.
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