Chapter 375: Preparations for departure, don’t talk about war lightly
In the current stage of the exercise, the role of the director department can be understood as the producer, and the directing team is more like the director.
The staff members are like screenwriters or storyboard directors, these people have the heaviest responsibilities.
Not only must he be responsible for the design and writing of scripts, but he must also complete the writing of various documents. He must also help the leader complete tedious tasks such as campaign or tactical scenarios, combat operations, design planning, troop formation, etc.
Only when all these preparations are completed and the referees assigned to the combat units of the red and blue sides will hold the map and maneuver route.
Come and follow your unit and supervise them from departure to camp and then to the start of the war.
After all, the battlefield of the annual military exercise is too big. Although it is impossible for the first group army to set off with its entire army, it will only select elite troops to form The joint Red Army marched to the battlefield.
But there are too many aspects involved.
The director must ensure that they are always aware of the dynamics of all mobilizing troops and fight according to the planned script.
Avoid large-scale dispatches and unnecessary accidents.
Commonly known as fighting according to the script.
But don’t get me wrong, fighting according to the script is only a last resort.
This is not a joke.
Chen Jun and He Yingtao, the two managers of the battalion, are not raw melon eggs. Both of them are complete old oilmen.
They knew very well that Li Peifang's arrival meant the date of departure of the army.
The above has been finalized.
It's just that there are too many troops participating in the war, and only some of the First Army's members participated in the war and some stayed behind.
We must all listen to the direction of the director.
That’s why it seems like there hasn’t been much action at the military level in the past few days.
Chen Jun strode in front of several people to lead the way, while Lao He took out his cigarette and kept giving way, and even helped the referee who came over to carry his bag.
That guy's service awareness is better than that of a five-star hotel waiter.
When several people went upstairs.
It happened that Ma Hongjie, the deputy battalion commander, came down from upstairs. Chen Jun winked at the old horse.
We are all old partners, no one understands the other.
Ma Hongjie nodded immediately, then quickened his pace and ran towards the outside of the battalion headquarters.
He was going to notify each company to prepare a suicide note and hook up the tanks to the tractor trucks.
Ready to rush to the battlefield at any time.
The referees from the director's department are here, which means that all preparations on the battlefield continue and we are just waiting for the units to set off.
Every cadre in the camp knows this.
Go to the conference room on the second floor of the battalion headquarters.
Li Peifang didn't show off. He put his handbag on the table, reached out and took out a thick pile of information, and spread it all on the conference table.
"Battle Commander Chen, this is this exercise. Your battalion needs maneuver routes, combat plans, supply points and camp directions."
"The director department will be here tonight After twelve o'clock, the troops participating in the battle will be notified one after another of the departure time. "
"You should take a look first. If you have any questions, you can communicate with me at any time. "
"Okay, thank you!!"
After Chen Jun thanked him, he quickly grabbed the map on the table and introduced the specific background of this "Peace Envoy-2016" exercise.
Looked at it carefully.
The annual military exercises are fundamentally different from the National Day military training. In other words, the two are not the same type of combat at all.
The army marches hundreds, sometimes even thousands of kilometers away, but the director doesn’t care how you go, and the military region doesn’t care what you do.
Even if you run with both legs, you have to run to the meeting point within the scheduled time, because the exercise is like a war.
It is not military training.
Seeing from the map that the First Battalion was stationed in Fuzhou, Chen Jun casually threw the map to Lao He next to him.
“Go, inform Lao Liang, coordinate with the railway department as soon as possible, reduce the number of passenger trains in the next 72 hours, and make every effort to ensure the normal dispatch of military railway transportation lines.”
“Also, let the staff The personnel from the headquarters will go to the logistics support company and ask Lao Qi to contact all the military units in the brigade as soon as possible to prepare for departure." , set off early and asked Lao Liang to rush to Fuzhou with Sui Qin.”
"Okay, I understand."
He Yingtao nodded slightly and quickly left the conference room.
Although he is on the same level as Chen Jun in terms of rank, when it comes to military operations, all orders must be given to the chief military officer.
In other words, from now on, there is only one voice in the battalion, Chen Jun.
The depression before the war also made Chen Jun not as relaxed as before.
He sat in the conference room and kept staring at the information brought by the director's department.
Take out a pencil and keep writing and drawing on the map, mobile predetermined positions, and supply lines.
Li Wujie became the best person to pass on the microphone and run errands. Basically, there were any new instructions from the battalion commander, or things that needed to be explained.
He was going to convey it immediately.
Li Peifang sat aside and watched Chen Jun busy, and nodded secretly.
I have to sigh in my heart, it is not easy for Chen Jun to be able to handle departure matters in an orderly manner at a young age that only brigade leaders can contact.
You must know that the abilities of the heads of each unit are not necessarily of a high level.
When we arrived at the exercise, it was not like there were no leading officers who were confused.
Chen Jun already seems very different.
Of course, Li Peifang didn't know what a strong army plan was, let alone what a young eagle training plan was.
The nine months of training in senior year are not for nothing.
I don’t even want to think about who the leaders were who came here to take charge of the training.
Even Chen Huanran was considered a junior among that group of people. Many of them were retired veteran cadres who were forcibly invited out by the Joint Staff to conduct closed training for the students of the Eagle Training Program.
As for how much an individual can learn, there is no guarantee.
But for this military reform, the cadres on the list must be transferred to the army, and each one must be more capable than the other.
It was almost noon when Li Peifang came over to the first battalion, but Chen Jun took these combat backgrounds, maps, and scenarios and studied them until night.
During this period, except for eating some food brought by orderly Li Wujie, Chen Jun never left the conference room.
After all the preparations for departure were in place, Chen Jun opened the door of the conference room.
Strode downstairs.
When Li Wujie saw this, he ran to the battalion commander's office on the third floor, took down a thick military coat, and put it on Chen Jun.
The conference room is heated, but there is no heating outside.
On a late winter night, it is New Year’s Day.
The whistling north wind blows on the face, which hurts. Occasionally, tiny snowflakes can be seen floating down in the sky.
"Batalion Commander, you have been busy all day, go back and rest."
Li Wujie looked at his battalion commander worriedly and tried to persuade him to go back to the dormitory to rest.
But Chen Jun just waved his hand.
How can he still be in the mood to rest now? After twelve o'clock, the director's department will issue instructions for all units to set off.
Before the battle, I couldn’t sleep at all.
It’s not that Chen Jun is being pretentious or putting pressure on himself.
The main reason is that this time the first battalion represented the 179th Brigade in the battle. Although the main force only had one battalion, with brigade-level logistics, the number went straight to 2,000.
One battalion has nearly 400 tanks, and the brigade's logistics are no less generous.
Pengcheng is more than a thousand kilometers away from Fuzhou, and an army of 2,000 people, plus nearly 800 tanks and logistics vehicles, is burdened with mobile tasks on him alone.
How many times did you sleep like this?
Braving the cold wind, Chen Jun stepped out of the gate of the battalion headquarters.
“Hello, battalion commander!!”
The sentry on duty saluted from his sentry post.
After Chen Jun returned the gift, he walked straight towards the company barracks in the distance. During the day, the logistics in the camp and the brigade-level logistics truck team had already set off.
He is going to inspect the company to see the status of each company tonight.
Seeing that Li Wujie could not persuade the battalion commander, he simply followed him.
It didn’t take long.
Instructor He Yingtao also followed from behind wearing a military coat and inspected with Chen Jun.
In the cold wind of the dark night, there were only three of them, walking in the vehicle and artillery field, and in the barracks of each company.
Some people may think that Chen Jun attaches too much importance to annual military exercises.
But is this really too much emphasis?
When it comes to exercise, a thought may flash in many people’s minds.
That means drills are just acting, and they are all fake.
Some other words may pop up, but anyway, they are dismissive of the exercises.
Having this understanding of the exercise may be influenced by the TV series or other aspects. Anyway, no matter what the influence is, as long as you don't believe it or have not experienced a battle of this scale, you can criticize the exercise as just acting.
You can laugh at this as it is all fake, you can even say, how can an army like this fight a war?
Anyone who has not experienced military exercises or witnessed the cruelty of military exercises can express their own subjective assumptions and hearsay judgments.
But as long as someone has experienced it, he will definitely not talk about war lightly.
Chen Jun has participated in annual military exercises more than once, but the most impressive thing for him was the first time.
The first time he went on the battlefield, he encountered the common red-blue confrontation in recent years.
Before the exercise started, Chen Jun felt that although everyone was dubbed "red" and "blue", it didn't matter. After all, everyone was an army unit belonging to the same country.
Even if a fight breaks out, they will definitely be like what was shown on TV. They will go all out during the fight and become better than brothers after the fight.
As it turns out, this is not the case.
At the beginning, Chen Jun was a blue soldier. There were two soldiers from the reconnaissance company here, and they found the enemy's attack group's campsite.
Do you know what this means?
This means that once the exercise starts, the Blue Army can transmit this information back to the base finger as soon as possible. The base finger only needs to upload the coordinates and the base number of the Blue Army's artillery fire to the director's department.
The director's department will immediately announce that the red team's attacking group has been killed and ruled out.
Unfortunately, the Red Army camp was too vigilant that time, and the Blue Army scouts were discovered before they could hide for long.
That guy, there were hundreds of Red Army soldiers who responded to the order, holding shovels for digging dry latrines, guns, sticks, whatever.
He chased after me desperately.
Seeing that something was not going well, the two scouts from the blue army ran back desperately. In order to avoid being caught by the red team, they did not choose an easy-to-travel route, but chose a path covered with thorns. jungle.
The two people ran desperately through the thorn bushes, not daring to look back.
Because they can even feel the breath of the people behind them when they are closest, only two or three meters away from them.
That’s it.
The two scouts ran as hard as they could, and after many twists and turns, finally returned to the camp.
Chen Jun was shocked when he saw these two people.
Their faces were covered in blood, their eyes were wide open with anger, their clothes were all torn, and their skin and flesh were torn open by thorns inside. They looked quite miserable.
Blood and sweat are mixed together.
At that time, Chen Jun didn't understand why it was so bitter and bitter. It was just an exercise and it had to be like this.
The old squad leader in the company told Chen Jun that he said that this is what happens in drills. As an enemy, if you touch the position of the red side, it will be devastating for the people on the red side.
And there are so many people, as long as they catch the two scouts just now, they will probably die.
Because it will kill you.
There is no such thing as "everyone is a soldier" on the exercise field, there is only the enemy.
Anyway, according to the old squad leader at the time, the two scouts were very happy to be able to come back like this.
After experiencing that exercise, Chen Jun's heart began to harden.
He always reminds himself that on the battlefield there is only life and death, nothing else.
Now that he is the commander of the first battalion, Chen Jun is very aware of the uncontrollability of various emergencies on the training ground and how frequent they are.
That is not an attack on 215. We are all in the same army, and the purpose is to train troops and steal other people's blue army things, but they will not do much.
Arrived at the large-scale training ground.
Unless the number of people on your side is much higher than that of the other party, if you try to grab it like this, the other party will definitely fight you to the end.
Chen Jun remembered his previous life, which was the third time he participated in the exercise. This time he was on the red side, and it was a cross-regional mobile military exercise. The scale was very large and close to actual combat.
Just like this time.
At that time, Chen Jun's battalion was the main battle battalion. After being assigned to other forces, it served as the main attack group.
However, the enemy's defense was tight. Facing the unit known as the "Steppe Wolf", the entire battalion suffered extremely serious battle losses.
The soldiers were hit and smoking one after another, and the tanks were destroyed and stopped one after another.
The battle damage quickly exceeded the value set by the director. It was obvious that Chen Jun's main battle camp had been defeated in that attack.
Although at the last moment they managed to break into the Blue Army's core position, the battle damage had exceeded 80%, and it was useless to break in.
Do you know what it means to have a battle loss exceeding 80%?
That was equivalent to an infantry company with only two squads left, and a tank company with only two vehicles left.
If this was not an exercise but an actual battle, the 80% battle damage could not be described with the tragic casualties.
At the end of the confrontation and the final assembly of the troops, one of the most unforgettable things happened for Chen Jun.
That was his company commander at the time, who contradicted the battalion commander.
Those contradictory words directly stung the nerves of all the soldiers present.
The reason was that during the assembly, the battalion commander saw that the morale of the troops was low due to the failure of the exercise and the personnel seemed very lazy, so he couldn't help but started to get angry and curse.
Say something cliché.
Many officers lowered their heads in exhaustion. Only Chen Jun, the company commander at the time, raised his head with an unconvinced look on his face.
After scolding the battalion commander for a while, he noticed the company commander, and he became even more angry and cursed: "What, Li Feng, are you very capable? Aren't you convinced?"
< br>Originally, the company commander Chen Jun followed was a bad-tempered one, that is, Li Feng. When he heard the battalion commander asking, he finally got the opportunity to speak out
The guy would not let it go.
Li Feng raised his head and said loudly: "Report, I think it is useless for you to say these hindsight things here. It is very disrespectful for you to say this in front of these brothers who are fighting for their lives. It’s appropriate.”
At that time, the battalion commander’s face was green with anger. How could he not be green?
In front of so many officers and soldiers, the company commander talked back to him, and the battalion commander was about to lose his temper, but was stopped by the leader of the on-site director department.
He signaled Li Feng to continue.
This old Li also has an upright temperament. He first looked at the leader of the directing department, and then his voice choked up.
"Battal Commander, if this is a war, what you are facing now is a pile of dead bodies. Where can anyone stand and listen to you get angry and curse?"
"If this is a war, what are you facing now? How can you have the dignity to stand in front of these ten percent of people and claim to be their battalion commander and their leader?”
Li Feng was so excited that he might have risked his life.
He walked directly to the battalion commander and the leader of the director's department and said loudly: "Leader, if this was a war, how would you feel when you saw that the battle damage of the troops reached 30%? "
"Indifferent?"
"When it reaches 50%, will you still not make adjustments?"
"Wait. After the battle, there are more than 100 people left in the attack group of nearly 1,000 people. Will you still stand there and point fingers at them? ”
As Li Feng talked, tears were already streaming down his face.
Chen Jun still remembers those tears clearly even after many years.
Perhaps only the company commander at that time understood the meaning of tears best.
But Chen Jun was not far away at the time. He felt that the tears should include grief and indignation for the failure of the exercise, sympathy for the soldiers, love for the troops, as well as accusations and disappointment at the commander's adherence to rules.
The scene at that time has always been in Chen Jun's heart.
In fact, he had a good impression of the company commander at that time. Although his temper was a bit grumpy, who among the military commanders at the grassroots level of the company was not grumpy?
At least Li Feng helped Chen Jun and scolded the veterans in the class. He is usually a cautious person.
It’s just that I couldn’t hold it back that time, I got up and confessed my feelings.
It felt good when I scolded him, but unfortunately, he was transferred away not long after the exercise ended.
So, Chen Jun knows the cruelty of the exercise and has experienced the cruelty of the exercise, especially this time when he serves as the battalion commander.
Serving as the number one commander of a battalion-level command group carries a heavy burden on your shoulders.
This is also the reason why he would go out on patrol in the cold winter nights without resting.
He doesn’t trust his soldiers.
Chen Jun understands the cruelty of exercises, and even more understands the cold-bloodedness of actual combat.
So he always had an idea in his heart, that is, not to talk about war lightly.
Not talking about war lightly does not mean that we are afraid of war, because the world is afraid of whatever comes.
Don’t talk about war lightly, nor does it require you to stop studying war, because only by knowing war can we fight, and only by being able to fight can we stop war.
Do not talk about war lightly, let alone compromise blindly to avoid war, because without a bottom line, you will lose the line of defense.
Chen Jun’s understanding of this sentence is that he must always be alert to the cruelty of war and hammer himself to implement actual combat training.
A unit that can win a war is definitely not something that is shouted out, and it may not even be trained.
But it was typed.
It is precisely because the exercise is cruel and has to be faced that Chen Jun pays special attention to it.
After inspecting all the companies, it was almost late at night.
Chen Jun looked up at the dark night sky. There was no bright moon hanging high tonight, only coldness and blackness as if painted with ink.
He knew, again before dawn.
The troops are about to move out completely.
(End of this chapter)