Chapter 376: We were just on a journey, but ten or twenty thousand people were lost?
January 2, 2017.
That is 5:45 in the morning after New Year's Day.
In the duty room of the first battalion, Wang Yanrong, commander of the anti-aircraft machine gun company, was drinking strong tea and forcibly raising his spirits while on duty.
The radio on the table suddenly made a "hissing" sound, just like the mobile phone had an early warning before someone called ten years ago.
Lao Wang, who had drooped eyelids and was a little sleepy, sat up straight with excitement when he heard the news.
My eyes widened as I stared at the radio sounder.
Notice that during the war preparation period, all radio communication permissions have been opened, allowing direct access to the military area duty room.
"Broadcast Level 1 Combat Readiness Alert!!"
A low voice came from the radio.
When Wang Yanrong heard this, he didn't care about thinking. He grabbed the mouse on the desk in the duty room and clicked a few times on the screen.
In an instant, in each company of the first battalion, the shrill and soul-catching siren sounded throughout the camp.
It’s past five o’clock in the winter and it’s still not dawn.
The sound of whining through the air instantly woke up the entire camp.
This sound is played through a loudspeaker, no matter how deep you sleep.
The originally silent camp area seemed to suddenly come to life, and chaotic sounds of "dong dong dong" began to be heard from the dormitories of each company.
Chen Jun heard the movement outside, and he felt that not long after he lay down, the alarm sounded.
But this time, Chen Jun was not too anxious.
Emergency gatherings are also divided into priorities. Broadcast level one combat readiness is undoubtedly the most serious level of combat readiness without prior notice.
When this kind of war preparation is launched, it is necessary to directly use live ammunition and join the war.
However, if there is advance notice, that is another matter.
In each dormitory of the company, the duty officers who had prepared in advance began to cooperate with blowing the emergency assembly whistle and arranged tasks in an orderly manner.
The sound of sirens and whistles are intertwined.
Suddenly, an extremely solemn and solemn atmosphere formed in the camp, almost substantive, making people breathless.
The loud shouts sounded one after another.
A stream of people came out from each company.
The command vehicle is undergoing final debugging, the tractor truck is slowly leaving the warehouse, and the materials are being loaded.
Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.
These actions, although the first battalion has not been established for a long time, but the usual combat preparation process has not been neglected, so it will not be chaotic.
After Chen Jun finished washing, he took off his rank and handed it to the orderly, then picked up the military cap and belt on the table.
Leave the dormitory quickly.
As for carrying a backpack and so on, with Li Wujie here, he no longer needs to do these things.
Come to the camp entrance.
Wang Yanrong, the battalion duty officer, handed the key to the ammunition depot to Chen Jun. Lao Wang led the anti-aircraft machine gun company. Compared with the general, the machine gun company had the fewest tanks in the entire battalion, so his preparations were not that busy.
"Battalion Commander, each company is ready to set off."
"Okay, I understand."
Chen Jun nodded and walked towards the vehicle and artillery field.
The camp had already issued a mobilization notice for the news of this exercise.
Now that the alarm is sounded, it is just a matter of completing the dispatch process, which is naturally much faster.
When Chen Jun arrived on Chebaochang Avenue, the chariots on the tractors had already arrived yesterday and formed a queue of several hundred meters.
It looks even more cold and domineering in the night! !
The battalion commander of the second battalion, Zhao Ziheng, and the instructor Lin Jinhua were also awakened by the movement just now and ran over to join in the fun.
Chen Jun didn't have time to say hello to them, so he just nodded as he passed by a few people.
Then he said loudly: "Each company, do a final head count and set off in ten minutes."
"Old horse?!"
"Hey, here it is"
When Ma Hongjie heard the battalion commander calling him, he hurriedly ran over from the crowd.
“You lead the team and follow the railway and pay attention to safety on the way. If you can’t contact the battalion headquarters or me on the way, don’t panic and gather at the predetermined location as planned.”
“ Yes, I understand. "
Yesterday Chen Jun had arranged the logistics of the battalion and the logistics of the brigade. Chief Staff Officer Liang Kexiang led the team to set off the first day, taking the baggage of the engineer company and some ammunition. Go to the station assigned by the director to map out the terrain.
Build fortifications along the way.
Pengcheng is more than a thousand kilometers away from Fuzhou. It will take about three days including railway transportation to Fuzhou and then transfer to the combat zone.
The entire battalion was dispatched in three batches.
Lao Liang brought the first batch of railway transport chariots, and the second batch of soldiers who took the train together with the battalion.
The third group was Chen Jun, the instructor and Li Peifang from the directing department, who went in military vehicles.
At this distance, if Chen Jun rushes quickly, he will be the first to arrive at the battlefield and survey the nearby terrain.
It is a war after all.
It’s not enough to just rely on the map given by the director. This time there are blue medical troops participating in the battle. If we trust the arrangement of the director, we may lose our pants.
I hope there will be no accidents on the way.
After Chen Jun finished explaining the mission of Ma Hongjie's team, he watched with a faint look at the companies gathering for roll call, and then the personnel dispersed and got on the train.
Tractor trucks were dispatched one after another and began to slowly slide into the distance.
Anyway, there are medical blue troops, that is, professional blue troops, participating in this battle.
Chen Jun always felt that a bad feeling was growing in his heart.
The trajectory of the 2017 exercise is still too easy to grasp.
Only through the frequent mobilization of transport planes, the baggage continues to gather, and the outside world cooperates with the transportation.
It can be easily judged that the troops are going to engage in military exercises. According to some transportation routes, even ordinary people can feel the military's actions.
What's more, the blue army of those chicken thieves will definitely be aware of the red team's troop transportation arrangements.
It is better for future generations. If Chen Jun remembers the military exercise in 2022, it would be much more awesome.
There was no movement at all in the preparations before the exercise. The combat exercise was launched suddenly. The tens of thousands of people in the Air Force and Navy did not receive any news of the exercise in advance.
Fight if you say so.
That kind of confidentiality work is considered serious.
That's it now.
Chen Jun raised his head and looked at the transport plane still transporting supplies at low altitude. He couldn't help but smile.
Now that there is such a big commotion before the exercise, maybe those two bastards Lao Mei and Xiao Han are thinking in private these days.
"Old Chen, what are you thinking about."
Seeing that the chariots had set off, the battalion became empty, leaving only some soldiers stationed in the barracks.
Zhao Ziheng, who had been watching from the side, took out cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and held it in his mouth, and threw the rest and the box to Chen Jun.
"Is it too much pressure for you to lead the team to participate in the exercise this time?"
"A little bit."
Chen Jun grabbed the cigarette case and himself I lit one and wanted to return the rest to Lao Zhao Shi.
Zhao Ziheng waved his hand: "Take it. If you want to buy cigarettes in the combat zone, there will be no place."
"I applied with Tao Brigade two days ago and wanted to go with the First Battalion to help You are fighting this time, but the brigade does not agree.”
“Tao brigade also wants to train you. Don’t put too much pressure on you. You can fight as you want on the battlefield. I believe in you. "
"Okay, I know."
Chen Jun looked at Lao Zhao's worried eyes and grinned. Zhao Ziheng was his battalion commander. He had just graduated from the first battalion and followed Lao Zhao. He was worried that he would lead the team thousands of kilometers to participate in the exercise.
This is also reasonable.
Chen Jun also knew in his heart that it was not the military region that believed in him, nor the brigade that had confidence in him.
But if you have to experience it, you have to try it, right?
He is now the deputy chief of staff of the 179th Brigade, and also serves as the commander of the 1st Battalion, although he is only the temporary deputy chief of staff.
But in this case, everyone knows what is going on.
This position is a big one. If you don’t have the ability to organize a battalion exercise, then this position is not secure.
It is true that butt determines thinking.
But first, you have to check whether your butt is stable enough and whether you can support the corresponding work.
Whether this exercise is successful or not, as long as I perform well, I should be able to remove those two words temporarily placed in front of the deputy chief of staff of the brigade when I come back.
Chen Jun put away his cigarette, took the initiative to open his arms and hugged Zhao Ziheng, and then hugged Lin Jinhua.
After the few people separated, they stood at attention and saluted solemnly.
Chen Jun looked back at the First Battalion Headquarters, his eyes became firm, then he waved to everyone and got into the jeep next to him.
The cars were the same ones brought by the director's department. Two lieutenants were in charge of driving. Li Wujie was sitting in the first car carrying Chen Jun's luggage.
Chen Jun was sitting in the back car with Li Peifang and He Yingtao.
Under the attention of all the cadres in the brigade.
Two military vehicles roared out and quickly disappeared into the night.
As soon as I looked at the rear of the car, I could no longer see the lights.
Xiao Jianfeng, commander of the 179th Brigade Tank Battalion, walked up to Zhao Ziheng. He said with a sigh on his face: "Old Zhao, what do you think the superiors thought this time?"
"Let the first battalion I can also understand why the brigade participates in annual military exercises. Now they are the only battalion with combat effectiveness.”
"We have become mere commanders, but the brigade has allocated all the logistics to the first battalion. With such a large size, the strength and firepower are comparable to that of a reinforced regiment."
"Tao Brigade is so relieved. , Let this new guy, Lao Chen, take command?”
“Let us people follow us. Even if we can’t help much, we can form a staff group and lighten the burden on the first battalion.”
“But Tao Lu didn’t let anyone go, what’s going on?”
“You ask me, who should I ask to go?”
When Zhao Ziheng heard this, he rolled his eyes, biting the butt of the cigarette with a row of steel teeth, his face full of depression.
Can you not be depressed?
The annual military exercise is a big event, and it is a cross-regional battle, and he is also keen to see it.
But the Second Battalion now has no combat effectiveness, even if it can accurately deliver the two new companies to the battlefield in cross-region operations.
Don’t lose soldiers on the way.
Zhao Ziheng felt very relieved. There were too many new recruits in the second battalion, and the establishment work was arduous and had a long way to go.
Chen Jun’s ride in the director’s vehicle has many advantages, but there are also disadvantages.
The advantage is that the source of information is not blocked.
Not long after his departure, he summarized the dispatch status of the various units of the First Army participating in the war on the workbench.
When Li Peifang was communicating with other referees, Chen Jun could judge the dispatch status of the red team's troops from the content of the call.
They set off at around six in the morning, after noon, and had already left Pengcheng.
The director's department has just received the tanks of the first battalion, and they have all boarded the railway train and are ready to set off.
What surprised Chen Jun was that Li Peifang did not seem to report the logistics unit that was the first to be dispatched by the first battalion yesterday.
Anyway, when the broadcast summarized the schedule of the red and blue teams, there was no news that Liang Kexiang would lead the team.
Of course, the disadvantages of riding in the director's vehicle are also obvious.
In other words, what Chen Jun was most worried about happened.
When their vehicles reached the Shanghai-Wuhan Expressway, the director suddenly informed that the mechanized infantry brigade under the First Army had lost contact with its overland convoy.
The guidance agency was unable to contact this team and explicitly required the mechanized brigade to respond as soon as possible, otherwise they would be eliminated within eight hours.
When Chen Jun drove to the Wuhuang Expressway, the entire railway transportation of the mechanized infantry division under the First Army was lost.
The director's department ordered that it still lasted eight hours, and the unit's schedule could not be contacted.
Will be ruled out.
When the vehicle reached Chaohuang Expressway, another motorized infantry brigade land convoy of the First Army lost contact.
We are required to take the initiative to report the situation to the director before nine o'clock tonight, otherwise we will be eliminated.
Chen Jun's brows have been furrowed due to the continuous reports of the loss of contact with the Red Army's combat troops.
In order to conveniently use the car radio to report work, Li Peifang always sat in the passenger seat.
Chen Jun and He Yingtao were sitting in the back row.
At this time, I heard the news of missing contact coming continuously.
Lao He also looked like he had corns on his butt, and he sat there and kept twisting his buttocks.
It can be seen that He Yingtao is not very calm at this moment.
The troops lost contact? ! !
What an international joke.
Let’s not talk about the various preparations before the war. Let’s talk about those brigade-level units and division-level units. What storms and waves have they never seen?
As for the fact that they just moved more than a thousand kilometers and lost contact directly?
Chen Jun doubted whether the director had contacted him. How could it be possible that Nuo Da's battle group lost contact whether it was by railway or land transportation.
It’s just a rush, ten or twenty thousand people were lost like this?
It's not that outrageous, right?
Regarding this information, Chen Jun always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't explain it.
He turned to look at Lao He, his worried face seemed to have lost weight.
Chen Jun raised his hand and patted He Yingtao's shoulder, shook his head slightly and remained silent.
He feels that this style is like the Blues' method. After all, Zhu Ri and the Blues always like to do things that sound incredible.
But the problem is that Zhu Ri and the Blue Army will not participate in this kind of military exercise, and they will not travel long distances to Fuzhou.
Say no more.
Zhu Rihe's battle was not just a random operation. They were to simulate extreme situations and test the combat effectiveness of the troops.
See what existing problems the current troops can expose, so as to solve them and improve their combat effectiveness.
The purpose of their exercises and any means they used were not to let the Red Army learn how to win.
How to win is secondary.
The most important thing is that the disadvantages and problems exposed under high-intensity extreme conditions can be quickly solved.
The essence is to correct errors, and at the same time, develop and optimize the overall combat effectiveness of the army through iteration of tactics and tactics.
The victory of the exercise has different meanings when viewed from different perspectives.
Just like Zhu Rihe, sometimes victory means achieving strategic and tactical goals, and it does not necessarily mean winning.
But what happened this time?
Listening to the co-pilot, the staff of the director’s department have been urging various units to solve the connection problem. The first batch of missing people have not yet been traced.
Chen Jun looked at the road signs, they had all arrived in Fuzhou.
There is still no news about the missing unit.
Chen Jun was also a little confused as to what kind of medicine was being sold in the gourd of the director's department.
Is it possible that so many troops really got lost?
(End of this chapter)