From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

Chapter 233: Finally, the muskets have been replaced by cannons!

After leading his troops to the position, Li Fuguo did not dare to relax at all.

He personally drove his staff to survey the position, and also took people to scout the Green Army's high ground in advance. He also personally reviewed the site selection of the camps for each company.

Do everything yourself.

Afraid of making mistakes, afraid of missing something.

After returning, he immediately summoned all the company commanders and began to discuss tactical deployment without stopping, and he had to prepare two sets of tactics for both offense and defense.

One set is main and the other set is backup.

When deploying troops, you should not only attack, but also focus on defense.

Just like setting up a chessboard, you need to arrange your camp in the most appropriate position to best facilitate attack and defense.

It's not an easy thing.

Li Fuguo was very nervous and ready for battle, but Sun Dongping's style was completely different.

Compared with Li Fuguo who was under great pressure and was cautious, Sun Dongping did not seem to take it as a big deal, and did not trust any of the company commanders under him.

He just started to have the final say!
When he arrived at the position, he first called together the five company commanders, held a brief meeting, briefly introduced himself, and let everyone know that he was the supreme commander.

Then he made the request in a very serious and unquestionable tone.

In this confrontation exercise, he is the master of everything. No one needs to give him any advice. They just need to follow his orders.

Then he went into the command tent and sat there without coming out.

The entire attitude displayed can be summed up in four words.

Extremely conceited!!
Seeing that Sun Dongping was so strong, the five company commanders of the Blue Army specifically suggested that they do not need to give him any suggestions, which clearly showed that they did not believe in their abilities.

I feel really bad inside.

When I first heard about the excitement of joining the confrontation, it was like a bucket of cold water poured over my head.

But considering that he is a candidate for the combined battalion and is their direct superior in this exercise, what he says is an absolute order.

Even though they felt uncomfortable, they had to endure it and start to take care of their respective company's affairs.

Although Sun Dongping's style of doing things is very strong and he doesn't want to discuss tactics with anyone, he is confident that he can handle it alone.

In fact, he does have some skills and is very efficient in doing things.

Scouting the terrain and topography was very important, so he gave a direct order to the infantry company, asking them to organize four vehicles, with two people in each vehicle, to go out and scout the area.

One person drives and the other takes notes.

The battle plan was decided by one person alone. He didn't even call any company commanders to come over. He came up with the tactics and fighting style by himself.

There are both execution plans and backup plans.

It takes some skill to quickly write two combat plans that can be put into battle using limited intelligence in a very short period of time.

For most people who have just arrived at the war zone for an exercise, it is good enough if they can calm down. It is difficult for them to write two combat plans by themselves.

The three battalions were busy at their respective positions, preparing for the official start of the exercise on the second day, and the directorate was also busy at work.

In order to give this confrontation a better visual experience, the leaders were able to see the battlefield more directly.

The division used the newly distributed equipment, which was similar to the TV broadcasting equipment used for news interviews, and specially arranged for adjusters to drive to the scene for the broadcast.

The signal is broadcast to the director's office via satellite and played simultaneously on TV.

If there are more exciting and high-energy scenes, the dispatcher can follow up with real-time commands and broadcast the exciting operations at close range.

This eliminates the need for personnel to dictate via radio as was done in the past.

Compared with deploying wired cameras in the training ground, transferring the images captured by surveillance cameras to the director's office can also be more flexible and clear.

The camera is fixed and cannot move, so it is impossible to track and broadcast it.

The T Division's introduction of television broadcasting equipment into the exercise is definitely a milestone upgrade and is in keeping with the pace of information technology reform.

The training ground chosen for the confrontation this time also has a certain number of cameras deployed.

Combined with the newly introduced television broadcasting equipment, this time the leaders sitting in the director's office will definitely have an unprecedented experience.

Various preparations were carried out in an orderly manner and a day passed in the blink of an eye.

6 month 27 number.

8:30 am.

The director's broadcast room was already full of people. Not only was the leadership team of the 702nd Regiment basically present, but a number of battalion and company-level cadres were also sitting in the back row.

Even the division commander and chief of staff came and sat in the front row of the broadcast studio.

Directly in front of the crowd were four 34-inch TVs, with one placed every one meter in the middle, which could broadcast images from eight live camera crews at any time.

As for which TV plays which picture, it is all adjusted by the control center.

The 34-inch TV is indeed a bit small in the broadcast room, but with only a few dozen people watching, it is barely adequate.

It’s not that we don’t have bigger TVs, but the largest TV size these days is 34″.

As the company commander of the 702nd Regiment, Gao Cheng experienced this novel way of watching for the first time and was very curious about what the broadcast images would look like.

Curious, he asked the instructor next to him, "Lao Hong, I heard that new equipment was used in this confrontation. What's the TV broadcast called? Have you seen it before?"

"How could I not have seen it? Isn't this the equipment used for live news broadcasts?" Hong Xingguo replied.

"No."

Gao Cheng was speechless and said, "I mean, have you ever sat in a room like this and watched a live broadcast of a confrontation exercise?"

"That's not the case."

Hong Xingguo shook his head and laughed, "In our troupe, we just yell through walkie-talkies when we act out a play. There's no such advanced stuff."

"If we can get a set for the combined battalion, specifically for broadcasting and monitoring training, that would be pretty good." Gao Cheng said with a creative mind.

"I heard that this broadcasting equipment is very expensive, and we also need to purchase satellite communications, signal transmission vehicles and so on. I feel it's difficult." Hong Xingguo is not optimistic.

"That's right. I'm afraid our combined battalion has already spent a lot of military funds. It would be difficult to add more equipment."

Gao Cheng smiled and changed the subject, saying, "I say, Lao Hong, the confrontation is about to begin. Do you think our battalion commander can win?"

"Of course he can. I have confidence in him. Fighting on his own turf will at least give him an advantage." Hong Xingguo said without hesitation.

"Hey."

Gao Cheng sighed, frowned and said: "My feeling is the opposite of yours. The second battalion commander is indeed a good battalion commander, but compared with the guy opposite, to be honest, there is indeed a big gap.

Sun Dongping, a master's degree holder from the National Defense University, also studied abroad for a year and had also served as a battalion commander. His conditions were much better than his.

If the battalion commander doesn't come up with some unique tricks, it will be difficult to gain an advantage."

If Sun Dongping is a top student at Tsinghua University, then Li Fuguo is just a junior college student. The gap between the two is obvious.

If Li Fuguo didn't have some unique skills and tricks, he would not be able to make up the gap between the two sides.

The final result is obvious. Although Hong Xingguo is a political cadre, he also graduated from a military academy. Even if he is not as proficient in combat as a military cadre, he still understands the basics.

The gap between the two sides' personal resumes is too huge, and their combat effectiveness on paper is completely not on the same level.

It would be difficult for Li Fuguo to win if he didn't have any tricks.

Even if the 7th Steel Company provided a reconnaissance squad, it would definitely play a big role in the exercise, but it still could not make up for the huge gap between them.

So in his heart, he actually agreed with Gao Cheng's judgment.

But he was not as straightforward as Gao Cheng, who would say whatever was on his mind directly. After all, it was to destroy his own prestige, so he chose to remain silent.

Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo were not the only ones discussing this topic at the scene.

The other battalion and company-level cadres of the 702nd Regiment, and even the division commander and regiment commander Wang who were sitting in the front, were discussing the two sides of this confrontation.

In this atmosphere of collective discussion, time passed by minute by minute.

Soon it was nine o'clock!

"Hush-hush-"

As two red lights shot up into the sky, the curtain of this confrontation exercise was officially unveiled.

Two signal transmission vehicles drove to the practice field, and eight broadcasting groups started up at the same time. A large number of adjusters and referees deployed on site took their positions and prepared according to the arrangements.

The live footage captured by the broadcast team also began to be transmitted to the broadcast room in real time.

The director will quickly organize and classify all the collected footage in the background, and prioritize the best footage to be shown on TV.

The first thing that appears is the Red Army’s headquarters, where a pre-war meeting is taking place.

Li Fuguo and five company commanders gathered at the sand table, apparently discussing how to attack next, but the specific content of the discussion was not synchronized.

The audience in the broadcast room can see the broadcast images and know what the Red Army is doing in real time.

This is my first experience and it feels very strange.

Everyone watched with great interest!

I wasn't particularly interested in what they were discussing; my main focus was on this unique way of watching the game.

After seeing the appearance of the Red Army headquarters, everyone began to wonder what the Blue Army was doing.

The director was temporarily invited from the TV station because there was no one in the army who could operate it skillfully. He was very professional in broadcasting the images.

As if he knew what everyone was thinking, he then called up the footage of the Blue Army headquarters.

When the picture of the Blue Army headquarters appeared, everyone in the broadcast room was surprised for two seconds, simply because the gap between the actual picture and what they imagined was so huge.

The people in a tent inside the Red Army’s command center can feel the urgency of the beginning of the war from the picture.

But what about the Blue Army Headquarters?
If we exclude the broadcasting team and the two communications soldiers responsible for guarding the radio station, the only person actually commanding the operations is Sun Dongping.

And even if Sun Dongping was the only one left, he wasn't doing anything.

As if he was unaware that the drill had begun, he just sat at the head of the conference table with his hands on the table and even his eyes closed.

Sun Dongping's strange behavior immediately caused heated discussions in the broadcast room.

Even in order to maintain discipline in the room, everyone could only discuss in a low voice, but the discussion was too intense and it still became very noisy.

"The confrontation exercise has begun. What is he doing?"

"Why didn't he call a meeting of the company commanders? Don't they even hold meetings before the war?"

"Oh, this is really something strange. The confrontation has officially begun, but there is only one commander in the command center. This is the first time I've seen this."

"What's going on here? Why can't I understand?"

……

It’s not that people don’t know that Sun Dongping has become a dictator with the final say. There is no need to hold meetings. If there is anything, just notify via radio.

He had already arranged the matters that were to be arranged according to the notice yesterday.

Now Sun Dongping has only one thing to do.

That is to let the entire Blue Army follow his ideas, focus on his combat plan, obey his orders and dispatches, and complete this confrontation.

None of the other cadres, including the company commander, need to come to the headquarters.

Not to mention...

If Chen Jun were here, he would really praise him a few words.

The people in the broadcast room couldn't understand Sun Dongping. Even the division commander was confused and had no idea what Sun Dongping was up to.

Because they don't understand combined forces at all and have not yet grasped the key points of the word "informatization".

Chen Jun is a professional and he can see through it at a glance.

After all, Sun Dongping had studied abroad and served in a basically mature combined force. Even if he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run.

He knows how to play with synthetic forces.

The command mode of the combined forces is exactly what Sun Dongping has shown now. The command center only needs the commander-in-chief to stay there and work with logistics personnel, and everything will be handled through the command system.

The commander can command every soldier, which is the most core change of the informationized synthetic force.

Domestic troops do not yet have a professional command system that allows the highest commander to directly command every soldier, and the blue army participating in the exercise is even less likely to have one.

Sun Dongping used radio and telephone as substitutes, which could be considered to be able to restore the appearance.

The phenomenon of a large group of people sitting together to discuss tactics will completely disappear in the information digital age and will be replaced by computer simulation.

The basic staff will discuss a general policy, and then a specific combat plan can be formed after computer simulation.

The military cadres below do not need to participate at all.

The troops participating in the exercise were not a combined battalion and did not have a chief of staff group replacing the chief of staff.

Sun Dongping simply started to have the final say, allowing the company commanders under him to lead their troops in battle, while he alone was responsible for matters such as tactics and strategies.

This seemingly overbearing and powerful behavior is actually an imitation of a combined forces force.

It's just that Sun Dongping was too arrogant and didn't bother to explain to anyone, which made the company commander feel very uncomfortable.

If this happened on a real battlefield, it would actually have a huge impact on morale.

The people in the broadcast room had no idea of ​​a combined battalion and knew nothing about combined warfare. They all couldn't understand what Sun Dongping was doing.

One thing everyone is very sure of is that Sun Dongping is definitely not messing around.

It is even more impossible to give up and give up at the very beginning.

So what is he doing?

Everyone can't wait to solve the puzzle!

(End of this chapter)