From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

Chapter 159: Tactics: Abandon the Chariot to Engage the Enemy

Gao Cheng arranged for the soldiers of the 7th Steel Company to get on the bus and asked three platoon leaders to lead the team to maintain order. One carriage was just enough for each company.

Then he asked Chen Jun to go with him to the station entrance to greet the regiment commander and chief of staff.

The company commanders and the three battalion commanders were all riding in the same carriage with the regiment headquarters. They were now gathering at the entrance, waiting for the people from the regiment headquarters to arrive.

When Gao Cheng and Chen Jun arrived at the entrance, more than twenty officers had already gathered there.

They are all company and battalion commanders with a salary of more than 1.3 cents.

The deputy company commanders of other companies were not qualified to follow the regiment commander and were responsible for leading and managing the team in the carriage.

Chen Jun, the deputy company commander with a salary of 12 cents, is a special case. He was personally selected by Captain Wang to join the regiment. The deputy company commanders of other companies can only envy him.

8 points.

The regiment's motorcade stopped at the entrance, and nearly ten people from the regiment's combat command, led by Regiment Commander Wang and the Chief of Staff, got out of the vehicles.

"Talking as we walk."

Time was running out and there was no time to stop and chat. Captain Wang got off the bus, shouted, and walked straight into the station.

The officers waiting at the door followed closely.

"The heavy armored troops are conducting a mountain exercise, with a group of tanks and armored vehicles heading into the mountains. If it wasn't for the order from the group army, I would have thought it was a joke, haha." Captain Wang joked as he walked.

"Yes."

The accompanying chief of staff agreed: “Temperate forests, mountain jungles, more than 2,100 meters above sea level, and an average temperature of 21.5 degrees.

Each of these is a challenge, and it is indeed difficult for our heavy armored forces.

It seems that the military attaches great importance to us, and they want to make things more difficult for us and test us, so they chose this place."

"I'm afraid it's not going to be easy to celebrate this August 1st Festival." said a battalion commander with a smile.

"No grumbling allowed."

Captain Wang started the complaint himself, but he stopped and scolded the battalion commander with a stern face, which stunned all the officers including Chen Jun.

Only state officials are allowed to prevent fires, but ordinary people are not allowed to light lamps.

A perfect interpretation!
However, everyone was familiar with Captain Wang's temper, so they just laughed it off and didn't take it too seriously. Then they got on the bus at the captain's invitation.

Ordinary soldiers could only sit in iron box carriages, using quilts as stools under their buttocks.

The seats for the cadres were not much better, just ordinary hard seat carriages.

Fortunately, hard work and perseverance are basic qualities of a soldier. After being used to riding in tarpaulin trucks that can make your buttocks swollen, the iron train is much more comfortable.

At least the ride isn't so bumpy!
The layout of the hard seat car had not changed. After Captain Wang sat down, he specifically called on Chen Jun and Gao Cheng to sit in the six-seater car with him.

The political commissar and the regiment commander sat in a three-seater, while the chief of staff, Chen Jun and Gao Cheng sat opposite them.

"Lao Xu, in this mountain exercise, we don't know who the enemy is yet, nor do we know how they will fight. So let's stick to the old rules. I'll lead the charge, and you'll cover the rear..."

Captain Wang is a little impatient and started discussing the exercise as soon as he sat down.

When Chen Jun heard the commander talking about the old rules, he felt a headache. Facing the Blue Army undergoing information-based reforms, the old rules were like dead rules.

If no changes are made at the regimental tactical level, the 7th Steel Company alone will be unable to turn the situation around.

But now the captain did not discuss with everyone how to fight the next battle. Instead, it was obvious from his words that he decided to fight according to his own ideas.

This is a bit difficult to handle!
"It seems that I have to find a suitable opportunity to correct the captain's outdated ideas and convey the most appropriate tactics to him."

Chen Jun began to think secretly.

As a time traveler, he knew a lot of useful information. If he could fully utilize it and make arrangements in advance, he could catch the Blue Army off guard.

For example:
The Blue Force headquarters is not on the ground, but is set up on a helicopter flying in the sky;
Relying on Lao A's powerful reconnaissance capabilities, the Blue Army accurately locked onto the Red Army's regimental command center and used a helicopter formation to carry out a decapitation operation.

The Blue Army would also pretend to be defeated to lure the enemy deeper into their territory, and weaken the strength of the 702nd Regiment through ambushes.

Chen Jun could see clearly all kinds of tactics and playing methods in the TV drama, but the Blue Army did not know that Chen Jun had the eyes of God.

As long as we make good use of the information gap between the two sides, we can make the Blues pay the price.

Even caused heavy losses to the Blues!
However, although Chen Jun knew this information, it was a very troublesome task to transform it into intelligence and make the regiment commander and others believe him.

Saying it directly without any basis will make the matter very strange.

It’s not like I knew how the Blues would play this scene because I had watched the TV series.

Isn't that extremely stupid!

Chen Jun couldn't think of a good way for a while, so he could only keep these ideas in his heart for the time being and wait for a good opportunity next time.

Captain Wang was still very confident in the 7th Steel Company and regarded it as the trump card of this exercise.

He specifically told Gao Cheng and Chen Jun to attach great importance to this mountain exercise, to display their highest combat level, and to give the group army a full score answer sheet.

……

"beep--"

A long whistle sounded.

A military train with dozens of carriages carrying more than a thousand soldiers and hundreds of vehicles started slowly and headed towards the northeast.

The soldiers on the vehicle were looking forward to this large-scale regimental exercise with excitement and anxiety.

Even though they were sitting in a sealed carriage, they were still chatting happily.

The military train set out on time at nine o'clock in the morning and stopped at a temporarily closed train station at noon, where it rested for twenty minutes.

The logistics team was already in place on the platform and was distributing the prepared lunch.

The soldiers of the 702nd Regiment had to quickly finish their lunch and meet all their physiological needs at the train station within these twenty minutes.

There is no toilet in the iron train carriage, so if you want to go to the toilet, you can only do it at the station.

The special train stopped again at 8 o'clock in the evening.

The procedure at noon was repeated again, and this was the last hot meal the soldiers could eat before arriving at the exercise area.

Twenty minutes later.

The military train started off again.

They ran for a whole day without stopping, and then ran all night until they entered the LN province, and finally stopped at a blocked station.

All the armored vehicles, trucks, tanks and soldiers on the train got off.

Taking advantage of the still slightly gray daybreak, we switched from the train to a car, and from the railway to the road, heading towards the deep mountains and forests.

We drove on the road for a few more hours and finally arrived at the designated exercise area at noon.

The soldiers had nothing to do on the train except sleeping. A whole day's sleep was enough, but they were not in good spirits due to the long journey.

However, there was no time to spare when they arrived at the exercise area, as there were still a lot of things waiting for them.

Within the Red Army positions assigned by the directorate, each company had to find a location that was both concealed and advantageous, open up a site in overgrown areas, set up tents, and build their own company camps.

The police communication company is a unit directly under the regiment and the only unit in the regiment equipped with a radar vehicle. They are not only responsible for setting up the regiment headquarters, which is the command center of the Red Army, but also for debugging and installing various electronic equipment as soon as possible.

In addition, a large number of survey personnel will be dispatched to conduct an overall measurement of the exercise area.

Tomorrow is when the exercise will begin.

The 702nd Regiment arrived at the exercise area close to noon, and only had half a day left.

The logistics support platoons brought by each battalion must work non-stop to complete the relevant logistics and food support work in the shortest possible time.

There is no choice but to make do with dry food for lunch, but the dinner must include hot meals and hot dishes.

Let the soldiers eat and drink enough, have a good sleep at night, and greet tomorrow's confrontation exercises in the best mental and physical state.

The soldiers below were busy as hell, and the regiment leaders were also unable to relax.

Not only do we need to coordinate with the director's office to obtain relevant information about this confrontation exercise, but we also need to know what the exercise is about and what rules and restrictions there are.

We also have to get as much information about the Blues as possible through various channels.

Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to survive a hundred battles.

Only by figuring out what the Blue Army is, what they are best at, and what kind of force they are can we formulate a more precise combat plan.

More than an hour passed.

The time came to 7 o'clock in the afternoon on July 27th.

Thanks to the efficient work of the soldiers of the Police Communications Company, the big tent of the regiment's combat command center was set up and related supporting facilities were gradually put in place.

Captain Wang, who could no longer wait, immediately summoned all the battalion commanders to a meeting at the headquarters.

Because the 7th Steel Company was too special in the regiment, Chen Jun and Gao Cheng also received a notice from the headquarters and became the only two lieutenants in the entire meeting.

All personnel were in place at the operations center, and everyone gathered around the newly made sand table.

Captain Wang took the lead in launching a discussion on combat operations.

"The situation is very bad, even worse than we initially thought. The height of the hillside here has exceeded the maximum elevation angle of tanks and armored vehicles.

Heavy troops' tanks and armored vehicles are an advantage, but it would be no fun if they couldn't climb the slope.

In addition, the forest coverage rate here is too high, which will also pose a great obstacle to the firing range of our tank guns and heavy artillery."

Captain Wang had a blank expression on his face while speaking, and it was clear that he was not in a good mood at the moment.

To say that I am worried is no exaggeration.

Hearing that the situation was so unfavorable to them, the three battalion commanders became serious.

Whether it is the First Battalion which is mainly composed of tank companies, the Third Battalion which is mainly composed of various types of artillery, or the Second Battalion which focuses on armored infantry offensives, they all have one thing in common.

That is the highly mechanized nature of the entire battalion, which makes them extremely dependent on the terrain.

Once the vehicle cannot get up, the combat effectiveness will be at least halved.

"It has no effect on us. We are a reconnaissance company. Since we can't get on the vehicle, we have to run on foot. Humans don't have a maximum elevation angle."

Just when the atmosphere was becoming very serious, Gao Cheng jumped out triumphantly.

Although the firepower of the 7th Steel Company has been greatly improved after its transformation into a synthetic company, the upgraded equipment can be carried by individual soldiers.

It can still maintain its combat effectiveness without a car, but its endurance and burst will be slightly worse.

After all, without a vehicle to transport ammunition, there would be no way to carry so much ammunition, and the sustainability of firepower would inevitably be greatly reduced.

"You are right."

Captain Wang's expression eased slightly, and then he said: "Your reconnaissance company can still maintain its combat effectiveness, which is our last base.
Therefore, in the next exercise, the performance of your 7th Steel Company will determine victory or defeat, and no mistakes can be made."

"Don't worry, our Seventh Company is very stable and nothing will go wrong." Gao Cheng said confidently.

"That's good."

Captain Wang nodded and began to deploy: "The situation of the Blue Army is currently unclear, and our tactics cannot stop here.

We can only make assumptions for now and make solid plans and preparations in advance.

I think we have to rely on the reconnaissance company and the police communications company's electronic reconnaissance to conduct a full-scale investigation of the Blue Army's positions.

At the same time, the tank troops took the lead in attacking, providing fire cover and attracting the enemy's attention.

The first and second battalions, as the vanguard, abandoned their vehicles and engaged the enemy in the mountains under the cover of the tank troops' firepower, and first captured the forward strategic points.

The Seventh Company also abandoned the vehicle and conducted road exploration to find the command center as the main point and other strategic points as the auxiliary point..."

The directorate has already provided relevant exercise information. The red and blue sides each have a position area and strategic points that need to be defended.

The 702nd Regiment is the Red Army and the other side is the Blue Army.

而赢下这场对抗的规则为1+2选1，干掉对方的指挥部为必选项，剩下的2选1为战略点数量和伤亡率。

As long as we capture half of the enemy's strategic points, or make the enemy's casualties exceed half.

Just one of the two conditions will suffice.

Because the Blue Army is the "examiner" and the Red Army is preparing for the exam.

Therefore, the Blue Army knew almost all the information about the Red Army, except for where the Red Army headquarters would be located.

However, Captain Wang did not know how many troops the Blue Army had, what its configuration was, or what types of troops it had deployed.

The Blue Army positions can only be seen clearly marked on the confrontation military map.

It is also limited to a few frontline positions.

This is also the only information.

Under the premise of a huge information gap between the enemy and us, the tactical ideas arranged by Captain Wang were correct, and we could only take the initiative to attack and detect the enemy.

If we have to point out the problem with the entire playing style, it is probably that it is too traditional and too honest.

There is no routine.

Just follow the rules and proceed step by step.

In traditional combat, there is nothing wrong with this style of play.

However, facing the team led by Old A, which is equipped with a unified tactical approach and more advanced equipment, its combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the conventional Blue Army.

If we still use traditional tactics to fight back, there will be too many loopholes.

Chen Jun knew that he had to remind the team leader as soon as possible, otherwise it would be too late if Old A took advantage of him.

However, I didn't find a suitable opportunity, and forcibly interrupting and questioning the team leader's playing style was tantamount to slapping the team leader in the face, which was not a smart move.

It might even backfire!

So Chen Jun could only choose to remain silent for the time being, and at the same time think of the tactical strategy for counterattack in his mind, so that he could take action immediately when the opportunity came.

(End of this chapter)