Chapter 174: Changing majors and going to the base
Chen Mo's uneasiness didn't last long. Yang Shilei had already walked to the door of the audio-visual teaching building. He turned around and saw him still standing at the bottom of the stairs.
Yang Shilei frowned and urged, "What are you looking at, kid? Hurry up."
"yes!"
Hearing the noise, Chen Mo quickened his pace and followed him into the audio-visual teaching building.
Chen Mo was not very clear about the electronic education major in Lu Academy, and he didn't quite understand what this building was used for.
However, Luzhi's electronic education is quite famous.
Since its establishment in 1987, it has become quite famous and has trained many professional cadres at the undergraduate, master and doctoral levels, specializing in research on military slides, projections, movies, television, and computers.
To put it bluntly, the various offensive and defensive systems used by later information-based synthetic forces were all slowly developed by this group of people.
Things like visualization terminals and simulated adversarial modeling all started with this group of top students majoring in electrical engineering.
It was because Chen Mo knew all this that he was even more puzzled as to what was the point of Yang Shilei bringing him here.
As for the electrical engineering major, he only has theoretical ability, but no practical skills.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to go upstairs, Chen Mo quickly took a few steps to catch up with Yang Shilei, grinning and said: "Captain, what are we doing here?"
"Why are you asking so many questions?"
"I'm not looking for you, just follow me."
Upon hearing this, Yang Shilei responded unhappily and took Chen Mo directly to the multimedia room on the left side of the third floor of the audio-visual education building.
It is called the multimedia room because when you push the door open, the first thing you see in the room is a row of big computers, and many cadres in military uniforms are sitting in front of the computers.
The indoor area is not small, about 200 square meters, and there are thirty or forty officers here alone.
When I was working as a clerk in the Kuchi Reconnaissance Company, we didn't even have a single computer, but here there are dozens of them.
I have to say that in terms of funding, there is indeed a big gap between the army and the military academy.
"Just sit here and wait. Someone will come look for you shortly. Don't run around."
Yang Shilei led his men to the back of the multimedia room, pointed to a random location for Chen Mo, gave him a few instructions, and left in a hurry.
Chen Mo didn't look around because he knew the leader who was speaking at the front of the multimedia room.
It was Luo Yaowu, the former chief of staff of the Seventh Division, who is now the director of the Strategic Campaign Department of the Army Academy. I had met him before at the military training ground.
Chen Mo could understand the general content of the meeting.
It seemed like they were discussing a review after an exercise. The officers present all had stern expressions and their movements were so uniform that they dared not even breathe.
Chen Mo was brought in halfway through and didn't know what to do. The person who brought him ran away.
He could only follow suit, straighten his back, stare at the black screen of the computer stupidly, and listen to the lecture from above.
It was not clear how much time had passed. Anyway, Chen Mo was staring at his own shadow on the computer screen. When he was about to fall asleep, he heard the sound of a stool being jostled.
The meeting is over.
The officers present all began to stand up and leave. Chen Mo hurriedly raised his hand to rub his face, trying to make himself more energetic, and then stood up.
Not long.
Luo Yaowu walked towards the back with a serious face, holding a white ceramic cup.
After all, Chief of Staff Luo, who was once the chief of staff of the Seventh Division, was transferred from the field army to the military academy. He was different from Vice President Zhang and other instructors.
He doesn't have that kind of elegant temperament.
Just by walking over, there was a sense of oppression without anger. Chen Mo straightened his body again, saluted hurriedly, and shouted: "Hello, Chief!"
"sit."
Luo Yaowu waved his hand and placed the porcelain cup on the adjacent table. Behind Director Luo was a captain who helped pull out a chair and placed it behind him.
"Don't bother with this anymore. Go open the computer in front of Chen Mo and retrieve all the modeling data."
"yes."
The captain nodded in agreement, then quickly came to Chen Mo, turned on the computer, took out the CD he carried with him and inserted it into the host computer.
After a series of random clicks, a series of modeling patterns and various data after the exercise review soon appeared on the computer screen.
Chen Mo just glanced at the data and roughly understood the battle situation. This thing was not that difficult, especially the data after review.
All clearly marked.
Anyone who has worked as a staff officer in the army or served as a grassroots commander can easily understand it.
After calling up the modeling data, the captain sat a little further away, leaving Chen Mo alone staring at the screen.
"Can you understand it?"
Luo Yaowu took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it. Thin wisps of smoke rose up, and the air was soon filled with a strong smell of tobacco.
"I can understand a little." Chen Mo nodded.
"oh?"
Hearing this, Luo Yaowu seemed quite surprised. He took two puffs of his cigarette before smiling and saying, "If you can understand it, tell me about it."
"yes!"
"From the data, this is an armored regiment exercise."
"It's probably mountain warfare. After the exercise, the logistics of fuel, ammunition, and fresh water have been lost by 86%. The regimental, battalion, and company-level communication radios, vehicle-mounted radios, and high-frequency handheld radios have been lost by 100%. The core positions of various units have been lost by 60%. The entire regiment's effective assault capability has been lost by 70%. The entire regiment has almost lost all combat effectiveness."
The numbers were shocking, and Chen Mo's eyes twitched when he saw them.
You know, in regular exercises, as long as a unit's combat effectiveness is lost by 70%, it will be considered as annihilated by the directorate.
The degree of tragedy suffered by this armored regiment far exceeded the regulations of the directorate.
Behind each set of data lies an armored regiment of about 2,000 people, with a survival rate of less than 500 people, and most of them are logistics soldiers.
The commander should be dismissed if the exercise gets to this point.
Chen Mo felt terrible about the data.
Luo Yaowu even paused in his smoking action. He didn't expect that he could understand a little bit of what Chen Mo said. So this is how he understood "a little bit"?
"Someone just mentioned that there's a student with some talent for command in the reconnaissance department. I was wondering who it was."
Luo Yaowu shook his head, then gestured to the modeling data on the computer screen and asked, "Do you know which unit this is?"
"I don't know." Chen Mo responded honestly: "But this should be a unit of the 38th Army. It is also part of the armored force exercise data collected from the 63rd Army and the 38th Army some time ago."
In fact, Chen Mo’s understanding is very simple.
It was he who originally proposed this proposal. He knew best that the exercise data of grassroots troops in recent years was so terrible that it was unbearable to watch.
There's nothing we can do about it, since he used to be a confidential secretary.
When he was in charge in his previous life, a large amount of these data happened to be due for destruction, and Chen Mo also saw some of them when he was supervising the destruction.
Currently, there is no armored regiment-level unit within the 63rd Army, so it can only be the famous 38th Army.
"It is indeed the 6th Tank Division of the 38th Army." Luo Yaowu nodded, but then seemed to feel something was wrong and corrected him: "It's not called the 6th Tank Division now, it should be called the 6th Armored Division."
"And the data you just saw is the performance of the 24th Regiment of the 6th Armored Division in September 1997."
"The military requires this training base to work closely with the 6th Armored Division and focus on digital modification. Of course, this is something for the future."
"Can you tell from these data where the 24th Regiment lost?"
This time, it is much more difficult to respond to the inquiry.
After all, Chen Mo was not from the 24th Regiment, and had never experienced that exercise.
It is not impossible to restore the entire combat process based solely on the reviewed data, but it certainly cannot be seen at a glance.
So, Chen Mo did not respond immediately.
He pressed the keyboard to continuously pull up follow-up data to check the damage to his subordinate tank companies, personnel, and vehicles.
When we saw that two of the tank companies had lost their battlefield mechanical maintenance capabilities in the second half of the exercise, and their battlefield repair and hoisting vehicles either broke down or broke down, half of the main force of the entire regiment was lost in overall organizational mobility efficiency.
Chen Mo guessed what was going on.
You know, if the organization's mobility capability is lost by half, if it is replaced by assault capability, the loss will be even more serious.
After all, the mobile group is less likely to suffer losses under relatively strong conditions.
Without even mobility, how can we launch an assault attack that combines infantry, tanks and mechanized systems?
Just lay down.
This is only the loss of two of the main companies, and the other main company suffered even more severe losses.
From the company commander to the instructor, six cadres of the company were killed in battle in the middle and late stages, and nearly 60 soldiers were killed in battle. The command was taken over by the sergeant at the time (the sergeant was a conscript in 1997).
By the end of the exercise, the company's combat effectiveness had almost been reduced by 100%. This did not mean that the entire army was annihilated, but it was truly annihilated.
There wasn't even a single support soldier in the entire company who could fire back.
To be honest, even though the war was so brutal in the past few years, it was rare for an entire company to not have a single person return.
Nowadays, with more and more complete equipment and more and more powerful firepower, this kind of result can be achieved.
There really is no one else like him.
No wonder when Chen Mo came in just now, he saw so many officers sitting upright, as serious as eggplants hit by frost.
It turned out that they were all reviewing this battle. What I needed to analyze now was probably the same report that the officers needed to write just now.
Seeing Chen Mo sitting there in a daze, Luo Yaowu glanced at him and said, "Did you see it?"
"Report, I've seen something." Chen Mo straightened his chest hastily.
Hearing that it was "a little" again, Luo Yaowu raised his head and said, "Tell me about it."
"yes!"
"Based on these data, I personally believe that the exercise failed for two main reasons."
"The data doesn't mention the identity of the enemy, but I suspect it was a fairly strong main force regiment. Tactically, the 24th Regiment overemphasized or underestimated the enemy, leading to a hasty advance. Before the battle even began, the heavily armored troops suffered heavy losses."
"In addition, the mountainous terrain was not conducive to armored assembly and maneuverability. The overly long and dispersed defense line, coupled with the hasty advance, also led to inefficient combat coordination among the various company combat units in the rear."
"The report, that's all I can understand."
Hearing this, Luo Yaowu's face turned serious. As he sighed, a sense of vicissitudes of life emanated from his body.
After a long while, he finally said, "Yes, that's all you can understand, but you explained it very clearly."
"This regiment operates with a strong dogmatism. They fight without thinking, analysis, or reflection. Do you know why you were asked to come here?"
"It's because the grassroots are in urgent need of a group of people who can command and understand command, and they need to be injected into the units as soon as possible to make this kind of battle less ugly."
"I think there are not many people who can fight now."
Luo Yaowu angrily lit a cigarette again and took big puffs.
Chen Mo had no way to respond to this question.
Times are different, and so are the upbringing.
He also complained about the military exercises of this era, saying that all battles were fought according to scripts, but what was the point of complaining?
Does the government have enough money to allow all units to play their roles freely and fight openly?
Let's take a step back.
Even if the policy is relaxed and not in accordance with the script, many officers at the grassroots level are directly transferred from volunteer soldiers, and many company commanders and battalion commanders have low educational levels.
They didn't even know which way the gate of the military academy faced. If they started fighting without restraint, what would they use?
Dogmatism is something that exists in the times and cannot be changed by one or two people.
To put it bluntly.
Armored weapons have been equipped to various units since the early 1990s. Now that almost ten years have passed, do many units really understand how to use these weapons?
The answer is not necessarily.
A lot of learning at the grassroots level is limited to learning how to drive a tank and make a helicopter fly, and how to use these weapons of war reasonably and in coordinated operations.
The vast majority of grassroots people don’t know how to do it at all.
In war, the most important thing is not the equipment, but the people who operate the equipment. Just like these exercise data, armor will not break down on its own.
What needs to change is the mindset.
The idea is to think about how to prevent a modern army from falling into rigid and stereotyped operations.
If you don't let your troops lose their armor, they will lose their fighting spirit.
This was the original intention of Chen Mo's suggestion of the non-commissioned officer academy, and he suggested drawing on the data of the military region's armored unit exercises over the past three years.
It’s just to make this original intention more convincing.
Obviously, Luo Yaowu or the leaders of the Army Academy, after the deduction of the Department of Strategic Campaign and long-term attention, have realized what Chen Mo said at the beginning.
To find a future for the soldiers.
This future is not just about individuals. In other words, it is about creating a brand new future for the grassroots.
Because if this inherent thing does not change, dogmatism will never disappear.
How can those who have not received training compare with the soldiers and cadres who have all received training?
There is a reason why the national defense student policy can be implemented, but Chen Mo has defined the scope more precisely.
Without training, don’t expect your experiment to be successful. There are too many things that can become obstacles.
The conversation came to a temporary halt.
The atmosphere in the multimedia room was somewhat tense. It was already very late at night, and the director of the Strategic Campaign Department of the Army Academy still had a frown on his face.
He smoked three cigarettes alone.
Luo Yaowu let out a long breath and said, "I was in a meeting just now and didn't hear the details of the Chongshan assessment."
"I heard that your second squad is using matrix sniping and saturation attack to charge the mountain this time. Was that your idea?"
"yes!"
"What's the basis? How do you understand this tactic?"
"Commander, I served as a clerk in the reconnaissance company and came across a story about the Battle of Gecheng fought by the 131st Motorized Infantry Brigade during the 1995 Russian Civil War."
"Faced with a regular army, the armed personnel in Gecheng used a trap they had set to easily allow the 131st Brigade's armored personnel to advance straight through. This caused the armored convoys to pile up together when the battle began, preventing them from fully utilizing their capabilities."
"In 60 hours, the 131st Brigade was completely wiped out."
"After watching, I learned a few basic techniques. I also used bait to expose the firepower on the top of the mountain in advance, and then used matrix cross-sniping."
“I just didn’t expect it.”
Chen Mo tried to explain his thoughts at that time more clearly.
But Luo Yaowu didn't seem to have that much patience.
After only listening to half of it, he burst into laughter and said, "Well, well, what a great battle for Gecheng."
"You're quite smart, you can even connect the dots. I was wondering how you came up with this tactic."
"The Armored Academy's defeat was deserved. We have so many people studying strategy and warfare, but no one has thought of this method."
Luo Yaowu seemed extremely interested in this mountain climbing test. He smiled for a long time before standing up and saying, "How about this? You go back to the dormitory and rest first."
"Get up early tomorrow morning and write a transfer report. The Reconnaissance and Command Department is not suitable for you. Transfer to the Armor and Communications Department."
"That training base you mentioned is in its final stages. Armor and communications majors will be opened simultaneously within the base."
"The academy originally intended for you to study with them. As one of the main responsible persons, you should submit your report to the fourth floor of the teaching building tomorrow. Then pack up your things and follow me this afternoon."
"I'll take you to see the construction status of the training base you suggested. As for the subsequent teaching team, they will arrive in early June at the latest."
"Go back and rest."
After saying that, Luo Yaowu stood up with a smile and strode away without caring whether Chen Mo responded or not.
Chen Mo was also caught off guard by this sudden arrangement.
Are you going to change your major now?
And change to the training base?
Before he could react, the captain who had been sitting in silence in the distance came over and said with a smile: "Hello, Comrade Chen Mo, I am Director Luo's assistant. We are also destined to meet. The nature of my work is similar to that of a clerk in the army."
"My name is Pei Shuaijun. Where is your dormitory? I'll call you before we leave tomorrow."
"Hello, Captain Pei."
Upon hearing the question, Chen Mo quickly stood up and saluted.
"I'm in Cadet Building No. 3, Dormitory 402. Excuse me, Captain Pei."
"Yeah, it's okay. You have to keep working hard following Director Luo. I haven't heard the director laugh so happily in recent times."
"yes!"
Chen Mo straightened his chest and watched Pei Shuajun leave.
When he was the only one left in the multimedia room, Chen Mo was still immersed in what Director Luo had just told him.
In this mid-year assessment of Lu Academy, I tried my best and tried every possible way to get first place.
All I want is for the college not to forget me.
This is such an important assessment, and it cannot be arranged casually by a director. It carries more weight.
Chen Mo shook his head. He didn't care about the lights and switches in the multimedia room.
Just pack up and leave.
Anyway, there should be someone in charge of this thing in the audio-visual education building.
After returning to dormitory 402, as expected, Xie Yong, Ding Zeliang and others had already fallen asleep.
The assessment will continue tomorrow, and everyone needs to prepare intensively.
The snoring was deafening.
Chen Mo didn't disturb them. After a quick wash, he climbed to the upper bunk, looked up at the dark ceiling, and listened to the chirping of crickets outside the building.
He was not at peace.
Once you change your major, you can go to the training base, which means the first batch of people will go.
I haven't contacted the company for a long time.
I don’t know if Captain Cheng can figure it out. This is a rare opportunity.
With the leadership of the old 7th Division in charge, they must certainly take some care of the current 7th Armored Brigade in terms of personnel, right?
Director Luo also mentioned that we need to cooperate with the 6th Armored Brigade of the 38th Army. How will this be done specifically?
You will only know after attending the training.
However, no matter what, all the efforts made in coming to Lu Academy have not been in vain.
The first step towards success has finally been taken.
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