Chapter 237 Prelude
That night, Liu Tao, Zhao Guoping and others arrived at Zhangjiakou.
There were military trains and military vehicles everywhere.
This place has become a huge barracks, and you can see troops training.
They were taken to the headquarters and met the commander-in-chief.
"This time, your combined brigade represents the face of the entire Kunming Military Region. You must not embarrass the troops!" The commander-in-chief spoke with a thick Jingchu accent, and he was intimidating without anger and would not tolerate refusal.
"Yes!" Liu Tao and Zhao Guoping stood at attention.
This commander-in-chief is not an ordinary person, but a battle-hardened general.
Afterwards, the two soon learned that as early as March, the preliminary exercise plan had been drawn up, and the superiors entrusted the Beijing Military Region to organize and implement this exercise.
This time, the combined brigade is an emergency task, so let the combined brigade participate in the exercise.
According to the exercise plan, the participating forces include the Army, Air Force Aviation, and support forces, totaling more than 114,000 people, using 1,327 tanks and armored vehicles, 1,541 artillery pieces, 475 aircraft, and 10,606 vehicles.
As for letting the combined brigade go north to participate in the exercise, the decision was made only yesterday.
The leaders want to review the combined brigade to see how well the combined brigade has trained and how strong it is.
The title of this exercise is the front-line defense campaign exercise, which mainly has four contents: one is to simulate the enemy's cluster tank attack, the second is airborne and anti-airborne, the third is the defense of the Army division's solid position, and the fourth is the counter-assault of the battle reserve.
It can be said to be very targeted.
This is also the follow-up impact of the "Red Dragon Roar" operation.
The lesson of the "Red Dragon Roar" is to practice more in peacetime and be handy in wartime!
Although the results of the battle were very impressive, when the casualties were counted and the battle situation was reviewed after the war, some of the original shortcomings of the troops were also exposed.
There are three main aspects of the problems that broke out, the first of which is the equipment problem.
Secondly, there is the problem of strategic thinking. All the wars experienced by the troops in the past were launched when the military equipment was lagging behind the opponent. To win the war, it is inseparable from the strategic mode of "defensive operations". From the initial contraction of defense to the concentration of forces to attack one point, it can effectively reduce the damage caused by the enemy's weapon advantage. And this kind of combat thinking was also brought into "Red Dragon's Roar". The troops played very conservatively and missed many great opportunities.
Finally, there is the problem of coordination of arms. In "Red Dragon's Roar", the troops dispatched a lot of artillery, tank soldiers and air force. In terms of firepower, they did exceed the enemy several times. However, it was difficult to coordinate effectively during battlefield command, which made the firepower of the troops unable to play normally. Sometimes, it was the infantry charge that was targeted by the enemy's firepower, and many soldiers died in vain.
It was based on the exposure of these problems that the superiors solved the problems one by one, streamlined the troops, replaced weapons and equipment, and strengthened peacetime training.
And this exercise action is for the troops to actually exercise, and also to see the results of the troops' training in the past two years, so as to find and solve problems.
On the morning of September 13, the combined brigade finally arrived at Zhangjiakou Railway Station.
When Liu Tao and Zhao Guoping arrived at the railway station, they saw the soldiers unfastening the anchor points and then starting to drive tanks, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and other weapons and equipment off the train.
It seemed very chaotic, but Liu Tao did not curse.
Because this was also the first time that the combined brigade had carried out long-distance train maneuvers, chaos was normal.
Only in chaos can problems be exposed and solved.
Liu Tao and Zhao Guoping whispered, and Zhao Guoping kept writing in his notes.
"In the future, we will carry out road maneuvers, field march maneuvers, and train maneuvers from time to time, so that the troops can be ready to fight at any time." Liu Tao said, "It is not terrible to make mistakes. What is terrible is that we make mistakes without discovering them or solving them. We must be good at discovering and solving problems, and build a strong and iron army with strong combat capabilities!"
Those with advanced weapons are elite?
That's not necessarily!
Advanced weapons are never equal to strong combat effectiveness.
In the future, a certain unit, with advanced equipment and the third-largest military expenditure in the world, was beaten to a pulp by a group of stragglers.
There was also a certain unit, which was equipped with all American-made equipment, but was defeated by the guerrillas in a short time, and all kinds of American-made equipment became spoils of war.
Liu Tao did not want the combined brigade to have only advanced equipment but no strong combat power, which was good-looking but useless!
When the entire combined brigade arrived, all weapons, equipment, personnel, supplies, ammunition and shells were unloaded.
Then, Li Fuguo led the troops to the military camp. It was called a military camp, but in fact it was a piece of open space allocated to the combined brigade, and the combined brigade had to set up camp by itself.
The soldiers began to build tents.
Liu Tao, Li Fuguo, and Zhao Guoping went to the headquarters to attend the meeting.
The commander-in-chief will give a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the entire exercise plan, after all, the exercise will start tomorrow.
Back at the headquarters of the combined brigade, Li Fuguo summoned the battalion and company commanders to make deployments.
It is a great honor for the combined brigade to be personally appointed by the superiors, to move the camp urgently, and to participate in this military exercise.
Everyone wants to show the training effect of the combined brigade in front of the leaders.
After the deployment meeting, the commanders of each battalion and company went back to mobilize. The military exercise started on September 14 and ended on September 19, lasting six days.
After the actual military exercise, a grand military parade and parade will be held.
Soon, there was updated news that an astonishing number of more than 32,000 leading cadres came to observe the exercise.
It is conceivable that the superiors attach great importance to this military exercise.
In the evening, Liu Tao, Li Fuguo, and Zhao Guoping went to the headquarters again.
Here at the headquarters, the commander-in-chief is holding a meeting, this time to make arrangements for tomorrow's exercise.
Liu Tao looked at the commander-in-chief's deployment and was secretly shocked. This was a large-scale battle. Each unit was moving like an arm, and each unit was arranged in place.
This was different from any battle Liu Tao had known. It was a real large-scale battle.
I am afraid that there are currently no more than ten countries in the world that have the capability to fight with large corps.
The pinnacle is probably the Soviet Union. The Soviet army is the best at fighting in large groups. The Soviet Union's torrent of steel is the most terrifying and impressive.
The second place is not the US military, but the Chinese army, because the US army has never been ranked first, and it has not been hammered once or twice.
The Chinese army is different. The Chinese army has a strong ability to fight in large groups.
Of course, compared with the combat capabilities of large corps, what the Chinese army is best at is guerrilla warfare, which is people's war. This is engraved in the bones of everyone in this era.