Chapter 217: The Blue Army moves forward and kills!
Time flies by in the busy and efficient work.
Chen Mo stood upstairs and showed off for a while, but he had no time to slack off. He turned around and went back to the dormitory to pack up all the documents and projects that Dean Lu had left for him.
Prepare to take it to Huanglongwanggou.
During the preparation period of each company, Chen Mo also went downstairs and took a few turns. Logistics layoffs were a big problem, and who to keep and who to leave required negotiation and communication.
If this was just an ordinary training session or exercise, many soldiers would definitely be happy to choose not to go in such hot weather.
After all, once the war breaks out in the desolate northwest, not to mention getting enough rest, even taking a shower and washing your face will become a big problem.
When the troops go out, it is common to not take a shower or wash your face for a month. Your body will stink every day, and few people are willing to endure this environment.
But the problem is that even the heads of the Kyoto Military District were paying attention to this exercise, and the second-class collective merit was given out as if it were free.
Not many people are willing to give up a similar task.
But Chen Mo did not interfere too much in logistics matters. As the battalion commander, he only took care of the training and left other trivial matters to the new instructor and Liang Hongjie to cooperate with.
Chen Mo has already made up his mind to train Liang Pai to be the future chief logistics officer, so he must take this opportunity to hone his skills.
"Hello, Battalion Commander!"
"Hello, Battalion Commander!"
When strolling around the base, occasionally a passing soldier would shout out hello.
Whenever he met someone so sensible, Chen Mo would respond. In order to hear more, he would even go to crowded places.
There’s no way, this feeling is so good!
In the past, everyone who saw him would call him "scholar", but suddenly he changed to a title with "director", which sounded comfortable.
During this period.
Chen Mo also specially gathered the intern cadres transferred from Lu Academy, such as Qin Xiaojun and Xu Zhanqi, who were acquaintances he met during the college's mid-year assessment.
They are assigned to various companies as staff officers according to their respective majors and learning and training focuses. This is to assist the company commanders in training coordination and to enable these new cadres to learn as quickly as possible.
The Blue Army Battalion was, after all, just a makeshift unit.
Later, according to the order of the Kyoto Military Headquarters, each major military region had to form an informationized battalion. These people were the old team of the Kyoto Military Region.
Must be cultivated in advance.
When the preparatory work was almost completed, Chen Mo got the list of remaining personnel from the logistics company and the training program unique to military doctors from the medical team.
The entire battalion was equipped and began to move.
Da da da.
The tank tracks twist and turn, the steel friction steering makes a roaring noise, and the high-horsepower engine roars.
The air was filled with thick exhaust fumes and turbid smoke, mixed with the unique smell of burning diesel and engine oil. This was a smell that was integrated into the bones and blood of the mechanized corps.
The sergeants in command of each company coordinated with the sergeants of the squads and stood outside the base, fifty meters apart. They waved the guidance flags with masculine and violent movements, and issued a series of commands to guide the reloading sequence and start maneuvering out of the warehouse.
Drive onto the main road and get ready to move forward.
The Blue Army Camp is going to training.
Chief of Staff Qin had left long ago to take care of equipment and personnel deployment, so the people who saw him off were naturally the leaders of the Lu Academy.
Led by Vice President Zhang Jinnan and Director Luo Yaowu, a group of teachers stood at the gate of the base.
Looking at the hundreds of pieces of equipment, nearly a thousand officers and soldiers gradually merged into one, the picture was strong and full of military might.
Wang Jianyong, a veteran of the reconnaissance company, was pulled to Chen Mo's side to serve as a temporary orderly. Wang Jianyong drove the off-road vehicle and Chen Mo stood in the co-pilot seat.
Circle around all the company's tank groups.
The vehicle stopped at the gate of the base.
Chen Mo quickly got out of the car, walked up to several leaders of Lu Academy, and saluted.
"Hello, Chief!"
"The entire battalion has been fully equipped and is ready to depart at any time. Please give your instructions!"
Chen Mo's voice was deliberately raised, and his report, with strong penetrating power, was like a tiger roaring in the mountains, attracting all the Blue Army Battalion cadres who had not boarded the vehicle nearby.
Line up on your own and wait for orders.
In just one morning, Chen Mo established prestige throughout the camp and made the cadres in the camp cooperate voluntarily.
Vice President Zhang returned the greeting solemnly, his eyes revealing appreciation.
He had a bad impression of Chen Mo at first, thinking that the man was young, too utilitarian, and too goal-oriented, and was not suitable for working in the army, where pure thinking was required.
But after several contacts.
He realized that his previous thoughts were somewhat biased. Chen Mo had only been in the army for a short time, but his courage and ability to take action were indeed extraordinary.
Seems more suitable for survival in the army.
Zhang Jinnan looked up at the determined and energetic cadres in front of him.
He began, "Comrades, do you understand why we must build an information-based system, conduct experiments, and expend enormous manpower and resources to try it?"
This question was suddenly raised during the farewell scene.
The cadres on the scene did not react for a while, or it was useless to react. Informatization is a common topic among senior executives.
But at the grassroots level, it is still a new word.
I waited for a few seconds, but no one responded.
Zhang Jinnan bared his teeth and said, "If you can't answer it, let's change the question."
"What is the most important thing in modern warfare?"
this?
The officers present saw that the old man was determined to ask something. One of the company commanders, who wore no military rank, looked up and shouted, "Report, the person operating the weapon is the most important."
"Yeah, that's right. People are important." Zhang Jinnan said in a warm and positive tone, "Anything else?"
"Report, advanced equipment is very important."
Another company commander, unwilling to be left behind, responded loudly.
Vice President Zhang reaffirmed: "Indeed, the generation gap in equipment is extremely fatal in a war."
"Does any other comrade have anything to add?"
The atmosphere gradually became lively.
There are even some flatterers who claim that technology is the most important and that the teachers in military academies who train cadres work very hard and are the most important.
In fact, what this flatterer said is not wrong. Science and technology strengthen the army. However, such direct praise in front of the leaders of the Army Academy is somewhat sensational.
Zhang Jinnan kept smiling.
Then he turned to look at Chen Mo: "Captain Chen, what do you think about this issue?"
If it were under normal circumstances, Chen Mo would have shown it long ago.
But as the battalion commander, especially in front of so many cadres in the battalion, he would not answer the questions rashly.
After hearing the question, Chen Mo straightened his body and said, "Report, it's the system."
"In recent years, the military region has been undergoing troop reductions, reforms, and mechanization transformation. The reasons for this are wide-ranging, but ultimately, it's because the determining factor in modern warfare has become systemic."
“Yeah, that’s the system.”
Zhang Jinnan looked up and sighed. At this moment, Vice President Zhang did not have his usual leadership airs, but his expression was filled with memories.
A memory that is shocking and takes a long time to digest.
"Let me tell you a story."
"In 1991, during the Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm, the Americans shocked the world and our field army with their brand-new information-integrated warfare model."
Vice President Zhang spoke slowly.
"A country with thousands of tanks and hundreds of fighter jets, having experienced the massive baptism of fire during the Iran-Iraq conflict, was unable to even fight back."
"While we were still obsessed with pursuing air supremacy, our enemies had already acquired and perfected a whole new set of attack methods, including air superiority, electromagnetic superiority, and even the derived intelligence and communications superiority."
"A war that lasted only a few dozen days has led to a true systemic asymmetry."
"And the ground combat only lasts 100 hours."
At this point, I don't know if it was an illusion or Zhang Jinnan's emotions were indeed fluctuating greatly, but everyone present, including Chen Mo, heard a hint of lingering fear in Vice President Zhang's tone.
That's right, it's the lingering fear, the kind of fear that can be revealed through words.
"100 hours."
Zhang Jinnan's voice suddenly rose.
"During these 100 hours, both sides deployed over a million troops. The Americans destroyed or captured over 2,000 tanks, over 800 armored vehicles, and over 960 artillery pieces. They captured nearly 180,000 prisoners and inflicted 100,000 casualties."
When this data was released, some senior cadres at the scene just narrowed their eyes and said nothing.
But some cadres with less experience felt their scalps tingling, their bodies cold, and their hairs standing on end.
Because this matter was not widely publicized internally, many grassroots cadres did not know about it at all. After all, knowing it would be of no use other than causing panic.
And this is not within the research scope of ordinary cadres.
But this does not prevent them from knowing what this data represents.
Not to mention how many troops were deployed, just the captured equipment is equivalent to the organization of ten 188th Strategic Assault Divisions.
Ten divisions.
They couldn't even hold out for four days before being completely defeated. No matter how intense the battles were in the past, they were never this exaggerated.
What's more, ten divisions are just the number of captured soldiers, and the actual number of troops deployed will only be greater.
It also didn't last more than four days.
When people first heard the news, they felt like the sky was falling. The enemy was too powerful.
It is already so powerful that it is intimidating.
Ignoring the expressions of the officials present, Vice President Zhang continued, "Do you know the casualties of the multinational forces led by the Americans?"
It gave everyone a few seconds to buffer.
Zhang Jinnan then said in a grave tone, "More than 600 people. This is the total number of casualties among the multinational forces, while the American casualties themselves are only about 200."
There were 600 casualties, causing more than 100,000 casualties on the other side, and another 100,000 were captured.
Casualties were 1:200, prisoners were 1:200.
This kind of data must have really happened. Otherwise, if anyone were asked to make up a story, they probably wouldn't dare to do so.
Even the anti-Japanese war dramas produced in later generations lack bold imagination.
This result was announced by the vice president of the Army Academy, and the atmosphere of the cadres lining up at the scene became chaotic.
Many people were breathing rapidly.
Luo Yaowu, who had been standing aside and listening silently for a long time, suddenly nodded: "Yes, that's the data."
"During the battle, information suppression disrupted communications throughout the Xiong Division. The ground command lost contact with the various corps, division, and brigade headquarters, and the communication chain was completely blocked."
"Absolute air superiority strike. Over 300 strategic targets, including the Lions' Ministry of Defense, Air Force Headquarters, Intelligence Bureau Headquarters, Reconstruction Department Headquarters, telecommunications buildings, power stations, etc., were bombed."
"Army units, various command posts, and more than a thousand tactical targets were hit by missiles, completely paralyzing the chain of command."
"This was an unequal battle, and the loss horrified the whole world."
"The war is over, and many people are afraid!"
Luo Yaowu's expression was serious, and he almost roared, "I'm not afraid to tell you, even I was scared when I learned the outcome of this war."
"We once achieved the pinnacle of light infantry tactics and once boasted that our army was invincible."
"The massive immigration is because of this war, and the crazy start of immigration. Our enemies are so powerful that it's despairing."
"How many people would rather go out and wash dishes than come back? Not only outside, but even when we were in the semi-mechanized and semi-motorized era, there was a lot of pessimism."
“Even in the subsequent joint exercises, many people didn’t have the will to fight.”
"Back then, the leader held a meeting and personally said that if a full-scale war broke out, we must be prepared for everyone to join the military."
"Because, no matter how we extrapolate, we can't last a year."
"Comrades, do you understand what it means to be a soldier for all?"
"That would mean sending a large number of civilians who have not received professional training to the battlefield to ensure that the country and race are not destroyed in a major war!!!"
"This is the greatest shame for us as soldiers!"
The scene was dead silent.
Some people gritted their teeth, some clenched their fists, and some had tears in their eyes.
Soldiers, when on the battlefield, will charge towards the artillery fire and destroy the enemy even if they are afraid.
However, they could not bear to let untrained civilians go to the battlefield, because Luo Yaowu was right, it was a shame for soldiers to have to do this.
"So, we have to catch up and make ourselves stronger."
"During this period, some people bowed their heads and knelt! Some people braved death!"
"Some people live in mediocrity! Some people strive!"
"Nearly 10 years of dormancy, just to catch up."
"We are now experiencing the third stage of transformation towards mechanization. In the past eight years, we have experimented with informatization five times and failed five times. This is the sixth time."
"You may still fail, but that doesn't matter. We will provide you with the best equipment, the best officers, and the most favorable conditions."
“Comrades, please remember this too!!”
"This training camp isn't just for participating in military exercises, you have to risk your lives!!"
“Be the spark that sets the prairie on fire!”
"Be that seed and change the entire army."
"Now, on behalf of the Kyoto Military Region, the General Staff, and the Field Army, I ask you to fight for the direction of the Army!!"
The words fell.
A group of colonel-level teachers from the Army College stood at attention and saluted in unison! !
This sudden scene left all the cadres present stunned.
The soldiers waiting to set off in the distance were also dumbfounded by the situation here, although the leader of the Lu Academy did not lead the troops.
But they are at least a group of division-level commanders.
Who has ever seen a group of leaders saluting their subordinates?
The Army Academy's research on informatization has received support from the General Staff and major military regions. As the director of strategic and campaign studies, Luo Yaowu has already shouldered a heavy responsibility.
He has the right to say such things.
Many cadres in the Blue Army Camp were stunned, but Chen Mo was not. He turned around quickly and jumped directly into the passenger seat.
"Blue Army Camp!!"
Chen Mo roared.
Although he did not lead troops for a long time, he had sufficient experience. He had lived two lives and had suffered grievances and been confused.
But when it comes to serious matters, Chen Mo never loses face.
With one roar, he roared out the momentum of decades of military service, and roared out the grandeur of fighting across three thousand miles and one man being as powerful as a million soldiers.
The fierce and fierce voice instantly covered the entire base.
Even though there was no prior rehearsal, the next second, the murderous intent of all the officers and soldiers in the battalion was awakened by the cadres' roar.
Passionate and tragic!
"kill!"
"kill!!"
"kill!!!"
The sound was like a raging fire, spreading among the soldiers.
Behind Chen Mo were thousands of soldiers roaring. He stood on the car and saluted the leader.
Then sit down directly.
"Set off!!"
"yes!"
Wang Jianyong responded, stepped on the accelerator, and the off-road military vehicle turned around and headed towards Huanglongwanggou.
The battalion commander has taken action.
What else was there to say? All the assembled cadres returned the greeting collectively, and then quickly ran towards the tank.
Rumble!
The high-horsepower engine roars.
The huge machine that had been prepared for a long time began to move.
The leaders at the gate of the base lowered their saluting hands only after the soldiers of the Blue Army Battalion had gone so far away that the rear of the vehicle was almost out of sight.
The above experiments have been required for a long time, and many people don’t understand why. Now, the answer is revealed.
Everyone in Lu Academy looked at the team walking away with burning eyes. They really hoped that this training camp would be successful.
Chen Mo sat in the passenger seat. He did not follow the troops to Huanglongwanggou. Instead, he held a map near the camp and let Wang Jianyong drive the car.
Take him for a walk around the neighborhood.
Chen Mo was observing the nearby terrain. The time for coordinated training was too tight, and there was no point in just participating in the training on the training ground.
The Blue Army Camp lacks experience in running-in, and for now it can only familiarize itself with the terrain briefly.
But to achieve this, he, as the commander, must conduct on-site inspections. Otherwise, if he doesn't even understand the terrain, how can he plan the training?
As for the training that day, Chen Mo was not in a hurry. After all, the deputy battalion commander was a colonel in the general staff and was quite capable.
Before setting off, Chen Mo communicated with Deputy Battalion Commander Gao Jin that the Blue Army Battalion’s equipment and personnel were not all in place.
Mobile collaborative mixing does not need to be too complicated, just follow the 31211 operation mode and carry out basic collaboration.
To put it simply, the Blue Army Battalion should first arrange three tanks, one armored vehicle, two troop carriers, and one engineer vehicle.
This kind of organization is connected by a communication or command vehicle. When the person who sends the arrow arrives, the logistics and medical teams will be incorporated.
There are many ways to organize mixed maneuvers, and this is just one of them. The purpose of this training is to connect the cluster dynamic chain in series.
Ensure that the entire battalion can quickly deploy assault formations when coordination is required in combat terrain.
This training method sounds simple, but it is very complicated to train and is much more difficult than simple infantry-tank coordination.
It can be said that if the 188th Division had known this kind of organization, it would not have been forced into such a miserable situation in the No. 5 combat zone.
Right now, we don’t have all the people or equipment yet, so we can only practice like this.
Chen Mo had been sitting in the car observing the terrain since around noon, even though the temperature was nearly 40 degrees Celsius.
Wang Jianyong, the temporary serviceman, had a hard time. He didn't even drink a sip of water and kept driving around in his convertible.
But I can't complain.
Because Chen Mo had no water to drink or food to eat, and he had to take out the map from time to time, write and draw on paper, and arrange subsequent collaborative training.
The two of them were exposed to the sun until almost five in the afternoon.
Even a proud scout like Lao Wang was tanned and exhausted.
Chen Mo, whose face was also tanned by the sun, finally put away the map, placed it on the back seat and said, "Let's go, squad leader, back to camp."
"Okay." Wang Jianyong finally cheered up a little when he heard that they were going back to the camp.
"Xiucai, you will be the battalion commander in the future. Even if you are the temporary acting battalion commander, you can't keep calling me squad leader."
"Just call me Lao Wang."
"Isn't this bad?" Chen Mo was stunned for a moment. He raised his hand to rub his temples and smiled: "It's okay, it will only take 10 to 20 days."
“There aren’t that many rules.”
"Well, I can't call you scholar these days. I have to call you battalion commander."
Wang Jianyong didn’t think there was anything wrong with his suggestion. He stepped on the accelerator, said something to himself, and drove quickly towards the camp.
Since the road leading to Huanglongwanggou was difficult to travel, the entire battalion's training was conducted on the outskirts.
At the beginning.
Chen Mo had no plans to watch the training. He wanted to go back to the camp to eat something and drink some water before coming over to watch it in detail.
After all, although the Blue Army Battalion is just a joint battalion and there is no tacit understanding, it is still a carefully selected company. There should be no problem in training mobile and coordinated groups, right?
But Chen Mo was really wrong this time.
Before we even got close to the training area, we saw several veterans using hammers to hit the front and compartment of a transport truck in an open space in the distance.
The car body was dented in many places and looked very flat.
You can see it from a long distance.
Chen Mo frowned and pointed to the location of the transport truck: "Go over there and see what's going on."
"OK."
Wang Jianyong nodded, wiped the steering wheel and drove the car over.
Seeing the new battalion commander coming, the busy veterans immediately stopped what they were doing, jumped off the car and lined up.
"Don't worry about all the rules. What's wrong with the car? Did it crash again during training?"
Chen Mo raised his head and gestured towards the truck.
"Yes, it has hit several times now." The veteran who responded grinned. It was obvious that the hammer in his hand had been busy all afternoon.
These people were sent here specifically to repair cars.
"Okay, get busy."
Chen Mo waved his hand and turned to sit in the passenger seat. This time, without Wang Jianyong saying anything, he drove towards the training area by himself.
What a coincidence.
Chen Mo had just approached the edge of the training area when the Type 96 tank and Type 63 personnel carrier driving in the distance collided with a "bang".
There was a failure in command and coordination.
Not only that, there are even worse ones in the distance.
Chen Mo watched helplessly as the infantry and tanks coordinated and needed to get on the vehicles with the team. He saw that the Type 96 gun barrel was about to poke into the car, but a lot of infantrymen refused to get on the vehicles.
Blocked at the entrance of the carriage.
Chen Mo prides himself on having a good temper and rarely getting angry.
But see this scene.
The black lines on his forehead were about to pop out.
This is fucking efficiency, can it be any more outrageous?
"Go, notify the suspension of training."
Chen Mo gave the order.
Wang Jianyong ran to the command sergeant in the distance and asked him to wave the flag, notify the command vehicle, and issue orders using the radio.
After the tank stopped, Chen Mo didn't care whether he had a driver's license or not. While Wang Jianyong was running back, he drove alone and went straight to the training coordination site.
When he got closer, the infantrymen who had been blocked were still standing at the entrance of the carriage.
"What are you doing?"
Chen Mo's face was filled with anger, his eyes fixed.
Hearing the noise, a group of people turned around and found that it was the battalion commander coming. The cadres nearby also quickly got out of the car and rushed over.
"I'm asking you a question. What were you doing just now?"
"ah?"
"The tanks behind us are pushing up, and you didn't see them? Call your platoon leader over here!!"
Chen Mo was really angry. Not only did he fail to meet the training standards, but he almost had an accident. Who wouldn't be angry if this happened?
"Reporting to the battalion commander, her legs just went weak and she couldn't move when she saw the tanks coming."
An old infantryman nearby responded with a helpless look on his face.
Following the direction pointed by the veteran, Chen Mo discovered that there were two female comrades squatting in the crowd.
Not only were there people squatting on the ground, but there were also six or seven standing nearby.
They are all interns from the Military Medical College.
Chen Mo took a quick look and immediately understood what was going on. The medic had never been with the team, and had never seen a tank in motion so close to him.
The training suddenly moved on to infantry-tank coordination, where they were being chased by such a huge machine, and the rumbling of the cannon barrels stretched out in front of them.
I couldn't adapt to the suddenness and was so scared that my legs went weak.
The entrance to the carriage was blocked, preventing people behind from getting on the train.
"Commander, it's my problem."
Before Chen Mo could say anything, the captain of the medical team, Liu Min, ran over breathlessly and spoke first.
"I didn't say it wasn't your problem. Your problem is huge."
Chen Mo snorted coldly: "How many people are there in your medical team?"
"Report, there are sixteen people in total."
Although Liu Min didn't understand why the battalion commander asked this, he still responded truthfully.
"Sixteen people?"
"Captain Liu, haven't you ever taken battlefield medical courses?"
Chen Mo pointed at the eight or nine female soldiers nearby and angrily scolded, "As a battlefield medical team, the basic principle is that personnel must be dispersed and must not be gathered together. As the captain, don't you understand?"
"One vehicle is packed with more than half of the medical personnel. If this vehicle is damaged in battle, the entire battalion will lose half of its medical capacity."
"Is this your arrangement?"
Liu Min's face turned pale after being scolded. As a lesbian, it was rare for her to be scolded so bluntly.
Even if she was wrong.
This is the first time for Chen Mo.
"Why, you still have questions?"
Chen Mo turned his head and looked at the two female soldiers who were still squatting on the ground and couldn't even stand up.
He said bluntly, "Captain Liu, I don't care what method you use, but within one day today, you must eliminate the fear among your comrades."
"Even if you have to stand in a row and have tanks run around you for a long time, you have to overcome this problem."
"If a similar situation occurs again tomorrow, all of you in the medical team should pack up and go back."
"Training camp is not for you."
"Do you understand?"
"Yes!" Liu Min pursed her lips, looking stubborn.
Seeing this.
Chen Mo didn't say anything more, turned around and left, walking towards the two unlucky guys who had just crashed into the car.
He still said the same thing: a kind person cannot command an army.
Whoever has a problem will be dealt with.
The entire battalion must be trained to have some information synthesis capabilities in the shortest possible time.
Otherwise, no matter how good the equipment is, it will not be able to withstand face-to-face combat.
The next few days.
He would let everyone in the battalion experience what it meant to live every day as if it were the end of the war.
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