Chapter 212: We are in a desperate situation, mainly because principles are not on our side
In mechanized warfare, hiding soldiers is often quite powerful, especially being able to hide dozens of tanks.
The 188th Division’s contribution was indeed significant.
However, due to the commander's habitual thinking, he believed that they were hiding deep enough and that they could avoid being detected by the enemy by deploying scouts and sniper teams around the battlefield.
But the problem is that the information system does not require human reconnaissance at all.
The drone hanging high in the sky can see all the opponent's actions.
The drone's flight altitude and speed make it difficult even for armed reconnaissance aircraft to detect it.
Watching the main force of the 188th Division move out, all the forces from the No. 4 and No. 11 combat zones were concentrated from the No. 8 combat zone, including mechanized infantry, artillery, and armor, forming a torrent and rushing towards the No. 2 zone in a mighty manner.
The three cruising 206 drones captured the scene in full view.
Inside the auditorium of Huanglongwanggou Camp.
The expressions of many cadres changed. A group of people swallowed subconsciously and looked at Chen Mo in disbelief.
What shocked them was not how big the victory of the joint camp was.
So far, only a few hundred mechanized infantrymen have been blown up, which is not a big victory.
What they found incredible was that all the actions of a division-level unit could be clearly seen on a small display screen.
There are no secrets at all.
You know, the most difficult thing in fighting a war is obtaining intelligence. Without intelligence, what's the point of fighting?
This kind of information-based tactical thinking has almost overturned all previous war thinking, even though the officers present are at the grassroots level and their own ranks are not high.
But I have a lot of knowledge.
They are all ace companies from various units and are well aware of how difficult combat was in the past.
According to conventional combat methods, when a battalion fights a regiment, even if it has an advantage, it will never expand the advantage to this extent.
It is not difficult to imagine that after this battle, many people will have their backbones broken and will have to rethink their thinking and move towards informatization.
Watched Chen Mo's command.
Some people at the scene were reminded of the gap between the powerful Shadamu army and the Americans in the Bay Area back then.
At that time, the millions of mechanized Lion Country troops were destroyed by the Americans in 81 days.
This caused onlookers around the world to tremble.
Field Army, can you finally take this step?
Inside the auditorium.
Many officers looked at the enemy's mobile troops, and everyone looked at each other, and the initial worry was gone in their eyes.
If anyone was worried about losing before, it was because they were afraid of division-level firepower and were not sure what the other side had in store.
Now, Chen Mo used the enemy's tank corps to encircle and attack the reinforcements, forcing the enemy's main force to gather and expose themselves in advance.
They're all playing their cards straight.
What else is there to worry about?
Now, all officers of the joint battalion on the scene can tell those who are still worried in a serious and responsible manner.
Tell them that in future wars, human wave tactics will have no meaning at all, and the number of people will no longer be the crucial factor in determining victory.
Because in terms of numbers, the joint camp is far behind, and it doesn’t even have as many people as the other side’s logistics department.
The outcome of the situation was far beyond everyone's expectations.
To push the 188th Division to this point, the Joint Battalion only dispatched three companies.
Chen Mo ignored the shock of the cadres on the scene. He looked at Area 2, where the members of the reconnaissance company were retreating one after another with their weapons in their arms, running away from the enemy assembly area from different directions.
The angles of the drone shots started to deviate.
Chen Mo knew that the long-range rocket artillery company was ready for the bombing.
The so-called siege and attack on reinforcements is only of tactical significance, not really a siege from the beginning to the end.
We just need to lure out the enemy's main force, and there will be no point in surrounding them.
After all, if such a large tank regiment were to join the main force of the enemy, all the previous arrangements would be in vain.
Chen Mo stood up, took out the map of the battle zone and studied it carefully.
He turned around and said, "Comrades, it's our turn."
“Always be prepared!!”
Inside the auditorium.
Liu Hongyun from the Second Armored Battalion, Chen Haitao from the Howitzer Company, Zhang Mingjian from the Anti-aircraft Artillery, Fu Xiangfei from the Radar and Anti-aircraft Artillery, Liang Hongjie from the Logistics Department, and Dong Kehao, the captain of the Ninth Helicopter Squadron sent by the Military Region, all responded.
The voice is not loud.
But everyone had a smile on their face, mainly because this kind of controllable fighting style was so cool.
Previously, it was the reconnaissance, engineering, and long-range artillery that were doing the work, but now it is finally their turn.
Chen Mo looked at the confident expressions of the crowd. Without saying a word, he grabbed the map and used a slide projector to project the image onto the white cloth in the auditorium.
Then, he picked up a wooden stick he had found temporarily and pointed at combat zone No. 5 on the map.
"Comrades, the enemy's main force is currently moving from Sector 8 towards Sector 2. It is estimated that they will reach Sector 2 within an hour and a half."
"In about fifty minutes, I will arrange for long-range artillery to completely destroy the enemy's heavy armored positions."
"Based on the enemy's mobility speed, they will be able to reach Combat Zone 5 in 50 minutes."
"If their heavy equipment is destroyed, the enemy will likely change their battle plan immediately. Therefore, we have chosen this area for the decisive battle."
As he spoke, Chen Mo held a wooden stick and pointed it at the inverted "Y"-shaped terrain in Area 5.
"Order, Army Aviation dispatch!"
"Cooperate with the Second Battalion to attack the enemy's main force. No tactics are needed. Just a blanket bombing. No matter what, we must drive the enemy's main force to this maneuvering route on the right."
"At the same time, clear the left flank. The grenade company will be stationed five kilometers away. If you receive an order or discover any trace of the enemy, there is no need to report and you must attack with all your strength."
"The Second Battalion will attack in squads. Pay attention to the direction of the interception point. If the enemy converges on the right, prepare for mobile tank warfare."
"In short, the goal is to completely eliminate all enemies in Operation Zone 5."
"Is that clear?"
"Yes!" The team captains, battalion commanders, and company commanders responded at the same time.
"Okay, let's go."
"Comrades, I wish you a successful start. The second-class collective merit after the war is waving towards us."
Chen Mo stood at attention and saluted, watching the cadres leave the auditorium with great ambition.
Blow the horn, assemble, and move out!!
When the tank battalion came back last night, the tanks didn't even get in because the road back to Huanglongwanggou was difficult to travel.
Moving out at this time would save a lot of time and allow them to arrive at the battle zone earlier than the main force of the 188th Division.
I could hear the rumbling of tanks and helicopters taking off from the camp.
Chen Mo stood in the auditorium, staring at the inverted "Y" terrain in Area 5, without moving for a long time.
He chose this terrain after careful consideration.
This terrain has two forks in the road when you move from a highway in the distance, and there are towering cliffs on both sides of the forks.
It can greatly disperse the firepower of the enemy's main force, making it impossible for the enemy's main force to effectively carry out mobile warfare.
There is no choice but to do so.
Even if the 188th Division lost its heavy armored regiment, it still had nearly a hundred infantry fighting vehicles, as well as a small number of tanks and artillery vehicles to cooperate with each other.
Once they encountered the enemy in an open area, the combined battalion's more than 20 tanks would make it impossible to engage in a head-on confrontation.
We can only use the terrain to limit the enemy's excessive firepower.
Chen Mo stood in the auditorium, his eyes fixed on several screens, monitoring the enemy's advance.
As the 188th Division advanced deeper and deeper, it still did not find any trace of the enemy's aviation brigade.
Chen Mo's previous worries began to gradually ease.
I think so.
It's just an experimental exercise. The 188th Division already has a lot of strong soldiers and generals, and a large number of staff officers.
On the other hand, the command team of the joint camp is more than just shabby.
There aren't even many staff officers. Even if there are, they are just recent graduates who can only run errands.
In this case.
The 188th Division already has the advantage of organization, but if it also has air-to-ground firepower, it will be impossible to fight.
Chen Mo tried every possible way to weaken the enemy's strength. In the final decisive battle, he also chose a specific terrain and did everything he could to attract the enemy.
You can see the gap between the two.
Time passes by little by little.
As we watched, in Area No. 2, the reconnaissance company broke free from the obstruction of the eliminated soldiers of the 188th Division, broke through one after another, and scattered away.
Captain Hu of the long-range rocket artillery company requested the order to fire several times.
Almost fifty minutes had passed since our side was deployed, when the tank battalion entered combat zone No. 5.
Chen Mo nodded to the staff officer in charge of communications, indicating that they could open fire.
Boom boom boom.
Outside Huanglongwanggou, a row of nine rocket launchers launched their shells collectively into the air, like a giant dragon soaring into the sky, with a tail flame covering the sky and the sun, rushing into the sky.
The decisive battle begins.
Taishan Training Base, in the conference room.
Many leaders watched helplessly as the armored cluster in Area 2 was destroyed by rockets dropped from high altitude.
The reconnaissance plane stopped in mid-air.
Everyone could feel the ground shaking, and yellow dust from the explosion swept up from the ground, enveloping the heavily armored positions within a radius of several kilometers.
Fu Hongyi, commander-in-chief of the Kyoto Military Region, frowned slightly and clicked his tongue in surprise.
Of course, he also saw the tactic of besieging a point and attacking the reinforcements, but he did not expect that the joint camp would be so decisive in blowing up this "point".
That’s nearly a hundred tanks.
Most of the leaders watching in the base conference room had come through the most difficult period of the field army, and they had only been exposed to mechanized warfare for many years.
During normal exercises, who would be so generous as to blow up nearly a hundred tanks?
Even if a combat division only has one-third of its firepower deployed to the battlefield, it can last at least a week as long as the intensity is not too high.
Never thought.
So many main forces were wiped out by an unknown joint camp.
If Fu Hongyi was just feeling distressed, he was a little surprised that Chen Mo could bear to do it.
On the 188th Division's side, many generals and staff officers were so enraged that their eyes turned red.
Especially the commander of the 188th Division, Tang Haodong, who sat on the chair with his fists clenched, and was so angry that he almost cursed.
Those were his precious treasures, but they were blown to pieces before they were assembled or used.
Since the 188th Division was established, it has never suffered such a great loss.
But being angry is being angry.
At this moment in the conference room, everyone gradually realized the horror of the information system.
Just as terrifying as the American troops in mythology.
If it weren't for the information system, there would be no way to explain how the joint battalion found the location of the hidden soldiers of the 188th Division and their specific coordinates.
Wang Songhe felt even more uneasy, feeling restless and uncomfortable.
He regretted it.
Why hide the soldiers for no reason? If so many tanks were not hidden and transported by tractors, the situation would definitely not be so passive now.
But now, it's too late to say anything.
He only felt that there were countless eyes staring at him at the scene. These eyes were like jackals, tigers and leopards, forcing him to slap himself in the face.
"furious!"
Commander Wang roared to hide his anger.
We were going to surround the enemy and attack their reinforcements. I had already sent troops to support them, but you, you bastard, turned the table over and blew up my heavy armored regiment?
Is there such a person with no moral principles?
"Order!!"
Wang Songhe was just about to issue an order, asking his main force to stop maneuvering, deploy all reconnaissance forces, and search everywhere for the enemy's main force.
His voice suddenly stopped.
It’s not that he didn’t want to give the order, but he didn’t have to look for it, he could just watch it on the big screen in the conference room.
It can be clearly seen that on the flank of our main force's maneuvering flank, a row of 27 Type 96 tanks, running at full power, have formed a horizontal line of more than 2,000 meters.
He left deep ruts on the ground and rushed straight towards his own convoy.
“Ding ding!!”
“Ding ding!!”
The radar detection screen of the 188th Division went wildly red.
"Enemy attack, prepare for battle!!"
The non-commissioned officer in charge of guarding the radar of the 188th Division picked up the communicator and roared. During wartime, the radar has the highest communication authority and can connect to all units.
At the command.
The main force of the 188th Division immediately stopped maneuvering, with tanks circling the periphery to provide protection, while the infantry and artillery moved quickly to set up temporary combat positions.
Be prepared.
At this moment, the tanks of the joint battalion came from the flank, which was only visible to the base commander Wang from the perspective of the reconnaissance plane.
The main force on the scene could only make judgments based on radar warnings, and they didn't see how many enemies were coming.
But they couldn't see it. Chen Mo could see the whole situation clearly through the drone.
He grabbed the communicator: "Captain Liu, this is Chen Mo."
"The enemy's movement has ceased. Now, I order the tank assault formation to disperse and retreat. Keep the left and right spacing 200 meters, and the three-wave depth to 400 meters. Armored vehicles will intersperse and provide area coverage with downward fire."
"Don't fight too long. Force them to the side of the road at all costs."
"Luhang, wait for instructions and coordinate the attack!"
"Second Battalion has arrived!"
"Lu Hang understands!"
Following the response came one after another.
The second battalion's mobile team began to change its formation, with six armored vehicles sandwiched between the twenty-seven tanks.
At the same time, speed up and launch offensive attacks.
In order to cooperate with this information experiment, the 7th Armored Brigade used all its resources when it sent the 2nd Battalion to the base.
The infantry of the Second Battalion are equipped with not only rifles, but also 35mm howitzers, 40mm rockets, 87mm mortars, FIN-6 anti-aircraft missiles, and PG-3 anti-tank bombs. They have everything.
All the family assets were brought out.
High-altitude drones provide battlefield image transmission, and Chen Mo is responsible for correcting the formation.
The distance between the main forces of both sides began to narrow.
5000 meters, 3000 meters, 2000 meters.
At this distance, both sides can see each other with the naked eye.
The main force of the 188th Division stretched out for several kilometers on the main road, while the joint battalion had only more than 20 tanks and a few armored vehicles.
But he didn't show any fear at all.
2000 meters.
1300 meters.
1000 meters.
The fifty-ton armored monster was as magnificent as the earth opening its fan.
When the distance between the two sides was 800 meters.
When entering the practice firing range and the accuracy has been greatly improved.
Both sides opened fire at the same time as if they had agreed.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Accompanied by continuous explosions, the steel sequence advanced under the artillery fire.
Three armored vehicles of the 188th Division were hit, and yellow smoke rose from them. A tank of the joint battalion was hit by several artillery shells.
Exploded on the spot!
Casualty 3:1
But anyone with a discerning eye could see that the joint battalion suffered a heavy loss in the first encounter because they had fewer people and less equipment.
Immediately following.
The second wave of attack.
I saw dozens of streams of light whistling and hitting each other.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A grenade landed ten meters in front of the Type 96 tank that was speeding at full speed. Suddenly, thick smoke covered the body of the tank, fragments caused by the explosion flew at high speed, and gravel hit the tank like rain.
The armored vehicle crew of the Second Battalion followed behind the tanks, and the drivers looked at the vehicles in front with nervous expressions.
The tank was 10 meters away from the center of the explosion, which was between combat damage and non-combat damage.
Two seconds later.
The Type 96 tank emerged from the smoke and flames. The composite armor on the vehicle was blackened by the smoke, but there was no white smoke indicating battle damage.
The armored crew breathed a sigh of relief and accelerated to overtake the tank crew.
now.
The main force of the joint battalion was less than 400 meters away from the main force of the 188th Division.
In just a few hundred meters of assault, nine tanks of the joint battalion were destroyed, equivalent to a company of heavy tanks, which were lost along the way.
But it doesn't matter.
The task of the heavy armored forces is to deliver the infantry to three to four hundred meters away from the battlefield.
Six armored vehicles moved sideways and stopped at the same time, and the 25mm large-caliber heavy machine guns carried out tactical fire coverage shooting at the enemy in front.
Da da da.
Bullets flew and smoke billowed.
The infantrymen in the armored vehicles quickly got off, and 40mm rounds, 87mm mortars, and PG-3 anti-tank rockets flew towards the main force of the 188th Division as if they were free.
Seeing that our side had paid such a huge price, we finally got close and tied down the enemy's main force.
Chen Mo picked up the communicator: "Lu Hang, it's your turn."
"receive!!"
Buzz buzz buzz.
More than a dozen Wuzhi-9 fighter jets, which had been parked in the distance on standby, took off together.
The reason why it didn't move at the beginning was that helicopters, as fighter jets for close and low-altitude combat, were not as powerful as imagined.
Especially when there are anti-aircraft guns among the enemy troops, helicopters will only cause more serious damage.
But I'm not afraid now.
The main force of the 188th Division could not disperse and was suppressed by the coordinated firepower of tanks and infantry at close range.
They had almost no heavy equipment, and the most they had in their team were armored vehicles, which could not withstand the fire of large-caliber heavy machine guns.
Not to mention more than a dozen Z-9 attack helicopters, each of which is equipped with an HF rocket launcher.
Cooperate with heavy tanks in close-range attacks.
The Z-9 fighter jet launched an attack in the distant sky, and the commander of the 188th Division soon discovered that something was wrong.
They were suddenly attacked while maneuvering and had not yet deployed their formation. This style of fighting would only put them at a greater disadvantage.
Although concentrated firepower is an important principle in assault warfare, the problem is that the principle is not on their side.
Who dares to play assault without even heavy equipment?
"withdraw!"
"Orders: Strike the enemy's left flank, cut off their tank formation chain, and wait for an opportunity to break out."
The main force of the 188th Division was finally forced to retreat under the continuous interference of armor, land aviation, and ground-to-air forces.
There is a fork in the road ahead. As long as we force the main force of the enemy into the fork, their mobile operations will never be able to be carried out.
Chen Mo looked at the enemy and began to retreat in batches according to his own plan.
He smiled, then let out a long sigh and sat down in the chair.
I couldn't help but sigh that it was easier to command a battle at this time.
Commanders at all levels are not very smart and their reconnaissance capabilities are insufficient.
The information system can launch some system warfare even without communication interference under the conditions of invasion.
It is indeed easy.
Next, Chen Mo no longer needed to give orders.
Because the main force of the 188th Division entered a fork in the road, its forces would be severely dispersed, with pursuers behind and a howitzer company on high alert in front, as well as anti-aircraft company blocking the exit.
Without reinstalling.
The main force of the 188th Division, consisting of more than 1,000 people, has no way to retreat.
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