Chapter 227: Approved by the Directors, the System Showdown Begins
11pm on the 8th.
More than two hours after the Blue Army Battalion arrived at the designated location, forty-eight night reconnaissance teams composed of the reconnaissance company and the division reconnaissance battalion gathered in the outermost area.
The vehicles were uniformly replaced with military jeeps, and all the wheels were tied with anti-skid chains. There were no bold words before departure, and no trivial instructions.
After everything is ready.
Divided into groups of six, Chen Mo took the map and assigned tasks to each group in detail.
Assign one group to set off.
In just half an hour, all eight groups of people disappeared from sight.
The reconnaissance location is hundreds of kilometers away from the base, so it is impossible to wait for news.
Chen Mo simply returned to the base, walked around the gathered convoy, and inspected the rest conditions of each team.
The environment here is too harsh and we can't set up tents.
The soldiers could only stay in the carriages, or some clever ones would lay stone slabs used for paving the road under the rows of transport vehicles to make simple beds and lie on them to avoid the strong wind.
Looking at the environment where the soldiers were resting, Chen Mo sighed. If the environment here wasn't so bad, tonight's reconnaissance wouldn't have been so troublesome.
A single-soldier hand-cranked drone can be used as a replacement.
But it definitely won't work now. With such a small plane, if it encounters such a strong wind, it will probably fly away uncontrollably as soon as it lets go.
If the battery runs out and it falls apart, you won’t know where it is, and the cost will be too high.
"Captain, do you think there are really Blue Army troops stationed at those reconnaissance points?"
Wang Jianyong followed behind Chen Mo, looking back every few steps at the direction where the eight teams left.
As a scout, he couldn't go to the front line to conduct on-site reconnaissance, which was more painful for Lao Wang than killing him.
"About nine out of ten," Chen Mo nodded. "I can't guarantee it's too precise, but judging by the terrain and the Blue Army Division's deployment, there's a high probability that the main force is there."
"What if there isn't one?" Old Wang asked unwillingly.
"If there is none, it means that my analysis of the southern front as the main battlefield is wrong. We need to analyze the Blue Army Division's target again."
"Well, actually, for a reconnaissance mission like this, I think I can do it too."
"That's for sure, you must be able to."
Chen Mo smiled and dealt with Wang Jianyong's complaints while patrolling.
Tonight's reconnaissance mission is the simplest. It only requires someone who is familiar with the terrain of Qinglong Gorge to confirm that there are people at the marked points.
Once confirmed, tomorrow's raid will be the highlight.
To carry out a raid, it is far from enough to rely solely on scouts. There must also be members of the rocket-propelled team and combat staff to connect with the raid team to ensure that the mission can proceed smoothly.
"Squad leader, don't worry. The real important task will be tomorrow night. You should gather your strength and lead the team to deal with them tomorrow."
"real?"
"That's for sure."
"Hey, I knew there would be more important tasks later."
When Wang Jianyong heard that he still had a chance to play, he immediately cleared away the gloom from before, took out a cigarette from his pocket with a smile on his face, and used a match to light it while spinning around in place.
After trying for a long time without hitting the target, he got so angry that he ran towards the command vehicle cursing.
Chen Mo ignored Lao Wang. He wandered around the periphery for a few rounds, checking that the visible and covert sentries in his own camp and the logistics department were all arranged properly.
The logistics department even brought several military dogs to make sure that there would be no problems. Only then did he return to the command vehicle to rest with peace of mind.
How do I say this?
When you are thinking about dealing with others, what you are most worried about is that someone will send scouts to your side.
Chen Mo didn't believe that after making such a big fuss, Military Advisor Lan would stay in his territory at night and not come out.
The other party will definitely conduct targeted reconnaissance of War Zone No. 7.
But fortunately, the night was peaceful.
The next morning, around five o'clock on the 9th, it was just dawn.
Before Chen Mo woke up, he was awakened by the buzzing sound of a helicopter.
He quickly got up from the bed, rubbed his eyes, put his hat on his head and straightened the brim.
When I stepped out of the command vehicle, I looked up and saw a large Z-8 helicopter slowly landing in the distance.
The wind during the day was not as strong as at night, and a ray of dawn was rising.
The surroundings were finally no longer gray and the sky was showing signs of clearing up. Perhaps they had heard the movement of the helicopter, and many soldiers were already staring into the distance with sleepy eyes.
"What's going on? Who's here?"
Cheng Dong, Liang Hongjie and others quickly ran over to ask.
Chen Mo was just as confused as the others. He shook his head and said, "I don't know. This kind of large aircraft is not the equipment of our Army Aviation Unit."
"Let's go and take a look."
"Don't join in the fun. All teams' vehicles need to refuel quickly, and those who need to unload the field tents and supplies should hurry up."
"Remember to press down the tents with the packed sandbags. Dig the dry toilets if necessary, and everyone in the kitchen team should prepare their own preparations."
When Chen Mo led the way over, nearby cadres dispersed the onlookers and began preparing for camp construction while the weather was sunny.
When the group walked quickly to the front of the helicopter, the cabin door opened and a major, followed by five or six veterans wearing red armbands, got off the plane one after another.
No introduction is needed.
Chen Mo recognized at a glance that the major should be the battlefield referee arranged by the directorate, and those veterans wearing armbands were battlefield observers.
In subsequent battles, every move of the Blue Army Camp, as well as its tactical arrangements and offensive targets will be conveyed to the directorate in real time by these people.
"Comrade Major, welcome, welcome. Thank you for your hard work."
Chen Mo and a group of cadres stood at attention, saluted, and greeted them with a smile.
The major in charge returned the greeting and said with a smile, "Hello, Captain Chen. Haha, I've heard of you for a long time, and we finally meet today."
"My name is Zhang Baolin, and I work as a logistics officer in the 47th Army. We've had a pleasant time working together."
"Chen Mo, happy cooperation!!"
The two men shook hands without much greeting. As mentioned before, the Blue Army Battalion did not participate in the war game simulation and was a non-existent unit in the script.
So the referees and observers were called in later.
Zhang Baolin turned his head and looked around. He glanced at the information battalion he had repeatedly instructed his superiors to visit, but didn't see anything unusual. Then he said, "Captain Chen, let's go."
"The commander has asked you to come over."
"Now?"
Chen Mo was a little surprised. He knew that after the Blue Army Battalion arrived at the designated location, they needed to report to the directorate.
But the entire battalion has not arrived yet. More importantly, he is not clear about the specific situation of the eight teams that set out for reconnaissance last night.
Are we going to the director's office now?
"Yes, the meeting was originally scheduled for today at noon. Before the meeting, the commander specifically instructed that your Information Battalion go there."
"Okay, wait a moment, I have something to tell you."
Chen Mo nodded and then quickly ran to Cheng Dong.
He lowered his voice and asked, "Captain, has the reconnaissance team that went out last night returned?"
"Six teams returned, and four of them discovered the Blue Army's camp. Hey, that's really strange. You really fooled us."
Cheng Dong responded with amazement: "There are still two teams that haven't returned, but it's okay. Considering where they went is far away, they should be gone in a short while."
"Okay, Captain, I'm going to be out for a bit. Remember to contact the logistics team and arrange for someone to go to the railway to pick up Gao Jin and the others."
"I know. Go ahead and do your thing."
Cheng Dong waved his hand. As the company commander of the reconnaissance team, he was naturally very concerned about the reconnaissance intelligence and was always paying attention to it.
After looking around and finding nothing else that needed to be explained, Chen Mo boarded the helicopter.
Follow Zhang Baolin to the director's office.
As for the observer who had just arrived, he stayed in the camp and stationed alone a little further away from the Blue Army Camp.
The Z-8 continued to fly in Qinglong Gorge for about half an hour. When it was bright, the helicopter landed at a camp.
Chen Mo was not familiar with Qinglong Gorge, or rather, he was not very familiar with many units and bases of the Jincheng Military Region.
You can get off the plane.
Chen Mo looked at the empty camp area around him. There was a three-story white building nearby, which looked like an auditorium.
In the square west of the auditorium, teams of soldiers in gray military uniforms were doing drill.
That guy was shouting slogans so loudly even from hundreds of meters away.
But what attracted Chen Mo's attention most was not the troops doing drill, but the thirty or so veterans in the center of the square who were practicing shovel-gun confrontation.
To put it bluntly, they were divided into groups of two, one holding an engineering shovel and the other holding a wooden spear. The sounds of hitting, roaring, and confrontation could be heard clearly from a long distance away.
This kind of confrontation is not a game, it is serious and the training is quite intense.
Chen Mo stopped and looked in the direction of the training for a while before he asked doubtfully, "Is this the base of the 184th Regiment?"
Zhang Baolin was surprised when Chen Mo asked this question. He responded, "Yes, you also know about the 184th Regiment?"
"I've heard of you and seen your information. You haven't been in the army for long, so how can you know so much about this unit?"
"I heard the person who fired the flare mentioned it, so I guessed it." Chen Mo said casually.
He not only knows about the 184th Regiment. If this is really the 184th's base, then according to the current timeline of 1999.
The regiment's designation had long been disbanded, and it was now a special forces brigade under the Jincheng Military Region.
The reason why Chen Mo recognized it was because only special forces would train in shovel-gun confrontation. Most reconnaissance units did not practice this because it was too dangerous.
If you are unfamiliar with the special brigade of the Jincheng Military Region, then many people will be familiar with the number of this unit after its expansion in later generations.
That is the famous Xuefeng Special Operations Brigade.
Seeing that the special forces were playing so hard early in the morning, Chen Mo's teeth were tingling just by looking at it.
Although this enthusiasm has to be somewhat limited because the head of the director department is here.
Only then can I express it deliberately.
But no matter what, the difficulty of the training is real.
I think I have good physical fitness, and I have the basic skills and thinking of the former "iron feet" in the motorcycle and infantry. I can get along well in many units of the army.
But forget about this kind of special forces brigade. It's really not something that ordinary people can withstand.
After sighing for a while, Chen Mo finally remembered the important matter and turned to look at Zhang Baolin and said, "Shall we go see the chief now?"
"It's a bit early."
Major Zhang turned his head and looked in the direction of the auditorium. He introduced, "See that three-story white building? That's the auditorium of the 184th Regiment Headquarters. It's now being temporarily converted into the directorate for the Fuxing 1999 military exercise."
"Let's go have a meal first, and then go to the chief's office."
"OK."
Chen Mo naturally had no objection.
When you come out to participate in military exercises, you don’t have many opportunities to eat a peaceful meal.
Especially since I always heard that the food in the special forces brigade was better than that of the dog squad leader, but I never had the chance to see it.
This is a good opportunity to give it a try.
Facts have proved that the food in the Jincheng Military Region Special Forces Brigade is indeed good.
The two of them came to the cafeteria. For breakfast, each of them could get two eggs according to the standard. Spare ribs, chicken and fish were common.
Compared with the reconnaissance company, where the standard of 5.5 yuan per person per day is only enough to buy radishes, green vegetables and peppers, and the standard of 7 yuan per person per day at the Army Academy base, the overall standard is several times higher.
Chen Mo was not a shy person.
For breakfast, I ate with great relish, picking out the foods that would fill me up.
Before coming, he really didn't know that the directorate was actually located in the special forces brigade.
If I had known this earlier, I would have brought a few people from the camp no matter what. It would have been best if I could quietly pack some back and share them with everyone in the camp.
We have no control over the conditions of other units.
But it was the first time for the Blue Army Battalion to arrive in the northwest, and based on the conditions last night, few people in the camp could actually fill their stomachs.
After finishing breakfast in the cafeteria, the two ran to a more secluded place, rested for more than half an hour, and smoked a few cigarettes. They guessed that the leader should have had breakfast by now.
Zhang Baolin brought Chen Mo to the entrance of the white building and explained the situation to the soldier on duty at the door. The soldier picked up the walkie-talkie and reported to the upstairs.
In less than a minute, two guards came down from upstairs.
These two men should have met Chen Mo at the Jinyang Taishan Base. They didn't do any inspection during this meeting. They just did a symbolic body search and checked his officer ID, then took him to the room on the innermost right side of the top floor.
The guard pushed the door open and Chen Mo followed closely behind.
When I entered the office, Fu Hongyi, the commander-in-chief of the Kyoto Military Region, was sitting in his office chair. On the desk in front of him was a white porcelain cup with steam coming out of it.
The entire office area is very simple. Apart from an "August 1st" military flag, there is only a filing cabinet and a set of sofas and coffee tables that have been repainted red.
Fu Hongyi was holding a document in his hand and was reading it attentively.
Seeing this, the leading guard shook his head slightly at Chen Mo, signaling him to keep quiet, and then quietly left and closed the door.
Chen Mo stood there, adjusting his breathing as best as possible, waiting quietly.
About seven or eight minutes passed.
Fu Hongyi put down the documents in his hand, raised his hand to rub his temples, and a rare hint of hesitation appeared in his eyes.
"The informationized battalion construction took less than two weeks, and the intensive training lasted no more than a week. The entire battalion conducted 39 maneuvers and 27 full-battalion attacks. The nine companies were divided into 27 squads, and the squad sizes were later adjusted."
"The entire battalion gave up their rest days, waking up at 5:30 every day and finishing work at 11:00. The squadron's assault performance went from poor on the first day to excellent on the last."
"If any unit could achieve this level, coupled with a military region's best officer corps, perhaps the informationization experiment would have been successful long ago."
However, Fu Hongyi knew that other troops could not do it.
In terms of foresight in informatization, gaps in chief officers, and gaps in command, there is no other Chen Mo like him.
Because people from later generations have seen the combined battalion, and for the current era, even in theory, it is an overwhelming existence.
"Chen Mo, you did a good job!"
Fu Hongyi praised her, then changed the subject: "What a pity! You should have been given more time to grow."
"This experiment was a bit too hasty."
Chen Mo stood there and listened for a while before he realized that Commander Fu was reading the report on the Blue Army Battalion's recent training.
"Chen Mo."
"arrive!"
"Do you know why I sent your Information Battalion to War Zone 7?"
"Sir, I'm not sure."
Chen Mo responded in a loud voice. At the same time, he took out the map he carried with him, took a few quick steps and put it on the desk.
"Commander, you said it's too early for the Information Battalion to go to the battlefield. I admit it is indeed a little early."
"But informatization doesn't refer to a specific unit; it's an innovative system. It's never too early for a system to appear on the battlefield."
"oh?"
Fu Hongyi was stunned when he heard this. He really didn't expect that the young man in front of him was not humble after hearing the praise, but started to discuss academic matters with him.
"Go on."
"yes!"
Of course Chen Mo wanted to be humble and deepen his impression on the leader.
But words are not as good as ability. No matter how much you say, it is not as good as taking action.
He returned to his desk and unfolded the map he had just been handed. "Commander, the 61st Division has established a nearly 100-kilometer-wide linear battlefield along the eastern, northwest, and southern perimeters of Operation Zone 7."
"The heavy equipment is concentrated on the eastern and northwest lines. I guess their oil sector is all in this area."
"And on the southern front, there are infantry regiments constructing tunnels, trenches, and sniper positions. If I'm not mistaken, during the war game simulation, the 61st Division used the southern front as the main battlefield."
"Using mobile support from the Eastern and Northwestern Fronts, force the Red Army troops of the Seventh War Zone to complete a campaign-scale penetration operation."
"Based on the terrain, topography, and logistical block layout, these areas should have main Blue Army battalions, companies, and units stationed there."
Chen Mo spoke out all the information he had analyzed, and finally pointed to the eight marked points.
"Captain, let's not talk about whether the Information Battalion arrived at the battlefield too early. Please let us finish this battle first."
After listening to Chen Mo's narration, Fu Hongyi looked up and stared at the young man in front of him for a long time.
He showed no surprise, let alone surprise.
After a long pause, he nodded and said, "You mean to say that you want to rely on the firepower of your battalion to completely disrupt the early battle deployment of the Blue Army's entire division?"
"Isn't this a bit too much?"
Fu Hongyi smiled.
To be honest, he hadn't seen such a rampant young man for a long time.
"Commander Wang of the 61st Division led the 188th Division to defeat the Blue Army Battalion. It wasn't because of his incompetence or lack of battlefield intelligence, but rather because that exercise was merely a system experiment. None of the 188th Division's units had been mobilized before the battle by the division headquarters."
"Kid, you underestimate the ability of Commander Wang Songhe."
"Commander, I want to try!"
Chen Mo swallowed and continued to stick to his opinion.
To be honest, it's quite stressful to be watched by a leader of this level.
What's more, if large-scale military exercises are conducted according to regulations, it is impossible for any unit to act on its own and violate the rules of the battlefield.
Military exercises are only to train the troops' ability to fight, not real wars.
Chen Mo’s confidence comes from two words: experiment!
"Hehe, you little brat just won't give up."
Fu Hongyi waved his hand: "Well, if you want to try, then try it."
"I'll grant you permission. Tonight at 8 o'clock, I'll notify the Seventh War Zone to start the exercise early."
"At the same time, the Directorate will also inform the 61st Division of your Information Battalion's raid, but they will not be informed of the time and location of the raid."
"Do you still dare to try?"
"dare!"
“Thank you, Chief!!”
Chen Mo stood at attention and saluted, his emotions couldn't help but surge.
The support from the leader was equivalent to letting him let go and having the ability to deploy troops at any time without following the script.
As for notifying the 61st Division, Chen Mo didn't care at all.
Because even if the directorate didn't notify them, Advisor Lan would definitely notice it.
As the host, to put it bluntly, they can even find out where the rat holes are.
The raid operation also requires helicopters to transport troops, so how can it avoid the Blue Army's reconnaissance?
But it doesn't matter.
The confrontation between systems often cannot be analyzed using common sense.
Only by comparing can we know who is strong and who is weak.
There will be results tonight.
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