War Military: From 1978

Chapter 238: Test? Future Direction!

“The Operations Unit’s plan does have the loopholes you mentioned, but nothing is without risk.

On this side of the border, the unpredictable risks are greater. If you trigger a landmine, not only will you sacrifice your lives in vain, but you will also be directly exposed, and your team will likely be trapped as well.

After all, there are too many devils here!"

At the headquarters, the chief of staff frowned and said this after listening to Chu An's plan and reasons for opposition.

But Chu An did not hesitate at all and immediately retorted: "No, the margin of error is much higher if we act at the border than at this outpost. We can trade space for time and act according to the battle plan in this plan. If any of the above situations occur, not only will the mission be failed, but all of us will also be killed there.

On the other hand, in the border region, I trust my soldiers!"

Chu An said seriously, “Although we don’t have a map of the mine distribution, the enemy doesn’t know we are going to attack.

We have enough time to slowly get there, and what's important is getting close.

As long as we capture them, even if the Yue devils react, our troops on Pingguan Mountain can directly provide support, and it won’t take long for us to bring people back to the country! "

Landmines are indeed a problem. Our army's troops will bury landmines when they return, and there is no distribution map of these mines at all. This means that if we want to go there, we will face the threat of landmines.

But Chu An still insisted on doing so.

The Chief of Staff and Chu An looked at each other.

Suddenly, the chief of staff laughed.

The laughter was very inexplicable.

The smile made Chu An a little confused.

"Haha! Chu An, yes, I was not wrong about you!"

"Hmm?" Chu An just said "hmm" this time.

The chief of staff lowered his head, and the next second he reached out and took the battle plan handed to him by Chu An.

"Tear!"

The battle plan that he approved and signed was torn up directly.

"Wow!"

He lit a cigarette and then threw it to Chu An.

But Chu An just took it and didn't take out the cigarette to smoke.

I'm not in the mood now.

And the chief of staff didn't care.

He just changed into a comfortable posture and lay down on the chair, looking at Chu An and smiling: "Do you know that our army is currently undergoing reform and rectification?"

Chu An was stunned, but quickly nodded.

The Chief of Staff laughed and said, "Do you think that because we need to resist the Vietnamese army on the front line, the temporary reform and rectification has nothing to do with us?"

"Isn't it?" Chu An frowned.

The front-line troops are now fighting, so reform and rectification are definitely not an option now. This is common sense.

Changing generals at the last minute, or even downsizing and reorganizing the organization, would be a fatal problem.

“Yes, but also no!”

The Chief of Staff smiled unchanged. After taking a puff of his cigarette, he slowly said, "We really can't make any changes to the troops below us right now, but that doesn't mean we can't do anything!"

Chu An was still frowning.

He had a very quick mind and actually had some guesses at this time, but guesses were just guesses and he couldn't say anything nonsense, so he was still listening to the chief of staff's words.

"Do you know where problems were most common among troops at all levels during previous wars?"

Chu An still frowned and said nothing.

"Haha, forget it, you don't need to say anything!" The Chief of Staff looked at Chu An's frowning silence, thought for a moment, and laughed again: "In this battle, the combat command at all levels is the place where the grassroots troops are scolded the most. Even after the war, many voices were directed at the various command posts!"

"Is that so?" Chu An thought to himself, but still said nothing.

It's hard for him to talk about this kind of thing.

After all, the command at all levels is not just the regimental command, and he is just a small company commander and cannot bear such a huge consequence.

The chief of staff no longer had a smile on his face, he silently exhaled a puff of smoke.

"We haven't fought any wars in the past. Due to the special nature of our Class B units, our command structure is somewhat bloated. We have too many cadres, many of whom lack the necessary skills. Many can't even understand the plans, and their educational level is even more challenging!"

Chu An was a little speechless.

He wanted to say, it's more than just a few words. Within the agency, there are people with only elementary school education, and even those who haven't finished elementary school are still in doubt. Conversely, before the war, the Operations Unit had another daily function; their full name was the Operations and Training Unit.

When there is no war, they only take care of the daily training of the troops.

But for Class B troops, do they have this thing?
Yes, there is still some training, and they train occasionally, but this training plan is not a problem for the cadres in the organs who are basically promoted step by step from soldiers.

But the daily training and combat before that are two different things.

During training, they can arrange it. It doesn’t matter if they don’t have much education or can understand the drawings.

But now the war has begun.

Once the training function shifts to operational planning, problems arise.

If you can't even understand the diagram, how can you formulate a reasonable battle plan?

What's more, the maps our army used before were outdated.

Because of this, we suffered a lot of losses on the battlefield and were cursed by basic soldiers everywhere.

Seeing Chu An's reaction, the Chief of Staff spoke again: "We really can't make any changes to the troops below now, but the organs, especially the combat units, must be changed!"

Chu An still said nothing.

But he guessed what the chief of staff wanted to say, and he even thought about what the plan that had just been torn up was about.

really.

The Chief of Staff watched Chu An look at the torn battle plan and immediately said with a smile: "This is a test for you. Of course, this is really the plan given by the Operations Department!"

"Chief, you don't want to transfer me to the combat unit, do you?" Chu An finally couldn't help it.

"Haha, what? Don't want to?"

"Sir, I still prefer the front lines, the headquarters, I..."

The Chief of Staff waved his hand.

"Right now, the combat unit needs more practical cadres like you who are educated, have experience in leading troops, and have experienced war.

Because your perspective when formulating battle plans is different from that of the staff officers who are not actually fighting on the front lines."

Chu An didn't say anything, but he agreed with what the chief of staff said.

Only cadres who have experienced hardships and led troops all the way, or even cadres who have been promoted directly from front-line soldiers on the battlefield, will clearly consider all these aspects when formulating combat plans.

No matter how good you are at talking about it on paper, if you haven’t experienced it, you won’t know what it’s like, just like looking at a photo of a table of delicious food.

No matter how real and beautiful the photos are, and how delicious the food on the table may be, you don’t know how it tastes if you haven’t actually eaten it.

"Go back and draw up a battle plan for me according to your ideas, before dark tonight.

In addition, the reform of the Operations Unit may have to wait for some time. During this time, please help me find a suitable candidate!"

Chu An opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he said nothing.

"Yes!" He saluted and turned around.

After leaving the headquarters, Chu An looked at the sky with a helpless smile on his face.

He really didn't expect that he would be transferred to the headquarters' operations department.

Along the way, from artillery reconnaissance to reconnaissance platoon and then to deputy company commander and company commander of the special forces company, he thought that even if he was transferred next, he would continue to be transferred to the reconnaissance unit.

For example, the division's reconnaissance company, or the army's reconnaissance battalion.

I didn’t expect that!
He is actually going to pick up a pen!

At this moment, the chief of staff behind him also stood up, stood at the window and looked at Chu An's back, and he smiled.

He actually had some things he didn't say to Chu An.

The regiment was reluctant to see Chu An transferred away.

They saw all of Chu An's abilities as a scout, but they also saw Chu An's flexible mind.

The invention of carpet tactics solved a big problem for our army on the battlefield.

How could a talented person who could come up with such tactics on the battlefield not be extremely useful?

What's more, the combat unit does need reform, and Chu An does need agency experience.

Although being transferred to the combat unit will not raise Chu An's rank, he will not have a long way to go in the future without any experience in the organization.

This is also good for Chu An.

(End of this chapter)