Chapter 134 What? We are all dead?

Chapter 134 What? We are all dead?

Chapter 134 What? We are all dead? (Long chapter)
"Cannon number one is ready, cannon number two is ready, cannon number three is ready..."

As the six mortars of the firepower platoon reported one after another and entered the ready-to-fire state, the third platoon leader raised his right hand and decisively gave the order: "First round, ready, fire!"

Six loaders took a step forward at the same time and placed the shells from the muzzle into the mortar tube.

“Clang! Hiss—”

There was a sound of friction as the shells slid down, but there was no follow-up artillery fire.

Because this is a simulated confrontation exercise, not a live-fire confrontation, only training simulated bullets are used, which do not have the ability to be launched.

but.

It is enough to have complete preparatory actions in the early stage and this firing action.

The referee from the director's department nearby will perform qualitative and quantitative analysis based on the 100mm mortar's conventional killing data, hit rate, damage rate, target information of the shelling site, etc.

Ultimately, mathematical methods are used to determine the exact outcome of each attack.

To put it bluntly.

As long as the firing data of the artillery attack match the target location and the damage rate is sufficient to cover the target, the target will be judged to be destroyed.

If the damage is not enough to provide coverage, an approximate percentage of survival is calculated.

This is also the main reason why it is necessary to set up a director's department and send a large number of referees to the scene to follow each combat unit.

Without the support of various high-tech technologies such as large-scale monitoring, drones, computer simulations, etc. in later generations, military exercises can only rely entirely on manual judgment and execution.

Although the process may not be so realistic, it does not generally affect the outcome of the confrontational military exercise.

Here, the firepower platoon of the 7th Steel Company, according to Chen Jun's order, carried out two rounds of saturation strikes on two squads of the Blue Army, firing a total of 16 mortar shells.

Such firepower is enough to blow up an entire platoon and is more than enough to destroy two infantry squads.

The referee on the firepower platoon collected the data and reported it to the directorate for manual deduction, and the results were quickly passed on to the blue team.

"I am officially notifying you now that you have all been killed in the saturation attack by the Red Army's mortar array. According to the rules of the confrontation military exercise, please hand over your communication equipment, stay where you are, and do not move. You are not allowed to contact anyone else."

The referee came to the Blues' position and announced the result loudly, adding jokingly: "I'm warning you, be good at being your corpses and don't mess around."

It was also the first time for the referee to see such an exaggerated thing: the reconnaissance company actually had the heavy firepower of an artillery company.

Thinking about the two main players of the Blue Army being eliminated without even knowing where the enemy is, I felt really weird.

So the tone was not that formal, and we even started joking in the end.

The referee was surprised and was still in the mood to make jokes. However, the two main squads of the Red Third Company who were declared to be corpses were not in such a good mood.

Everyone was blown away by this news!!

"What? We were all blown up? Are you kidding me?"

"The enemy is just a reconnaissance company. How could they wipe us out in one fell swoop? Where does he get such heavy firepower? I strongly doubt this result."

"You guys have been bribed by the 7th Steel Company, huh? You just mess around."

……

The soldiers of the two squads of the Red Third Company were very dissatisfied and rushed forward to surround the referee to demand an explanation. The scene became extremely chaotic for a while.

"Okay, everyone, be quiet."

The platoon leader in charge pushed through the crowd and came over, saying sternly to the referee, "Hey, you guys from the directorate, have you figured out that the 7th Steel Company is a reconnaissance company? It can't do a saturation strike."

The so-called saturation strike means overwhelming the enemy with firepower far exceeding his tolerance limit in a short period of time.

simply put.

If he can be killed with one strike, strike him two or three times to make sure he is dead.

In order to have such saturation strike capability, it must be at least a heavy firepower unit, and the 7th Steel Company is obviously not an artillery company.

The referee had seen it all before, and it was his first time seeing the "Heavy Artillery Reconnaissance Company" and he could understand the Blues' feelings.

He patiently explained, "Lieutenant, you are also a platoon leader, so you should know the basic company weapon data. I will ask you now.

Six 100mm mortars, two bursts of fire, can they defeat these two infantry squads of yours who have no cat-ear holes and just borrowed a few earthen trenches?"

The platoon leader had a solid foundation and answered fluently, "The Type 89 100mm mortar has a maximum range of 6.4 kilometers and a combat weight of 73 kilograms. It also weighs 8 kilograms with grenades.

Conventional high-explosive fragmentation grenades can have a killing radius of up to 32 meters..."

Having said this, the platoon leader paused and didn't say the rest.

Because the killing radius of a single artillery shell is 32 meters and the coverage range can reach 64 meters, the working distance between the two shifts is no more than a hundred meters.

If there were 12 shells fired at the same time, it would be enough to destroy a layer of the ground here.

There is no way both classes can survive!
"You mean..."

The platoon leader finally reacted and asked with disbelief, "The reconnaissance company of the 100th Company is equipped with six mm mortars?"

"Yes, military exercises are wars. I would never joke about such things." The referee nodded seriously.

"The reconnaissance company is equipped with six heavy mortars? That's more than our main assault company has. Is the Seventh Company crazy?" The platoon leader was dumbfounded.

The soldiers in the two platoons were also dumbfounded and couldn't believe that such a strange thing would happen.

"What? The two squads deployed in the middle line are all gone, not a single one is alive?"

The platoon leader of the Blue Army's frontline command was dumbfounded. The third company commander Huang Yang, who was in charge of the company headquarters, heard that two squads were completely wiped out and were "crushed" by a saturation mortar attack. They didn't even know where the enemy was before they died, and their eyeballs were shattered all over the ground.

A 100mm mortar requires five people to operate, and two people are responsible for carrying the shells. A total of 5 people are needed to operate six mortars.

Even a proper heavy mortar artillery company could only afford twelve mortars.

This is equivalent to saying that a company responsible for front-line reconnaissance actually started to configure itself as an artillery company and used artillery shells to flatten others at any time.

Who wouldn’t be confused when seeing this???
All the space in the 30th Steel Company's infantry fighting vehicles was used to carry artillery shells, and all personnel were transferred to artillery, so that 42 people could complete the work of people.

Such an unprecedented and bizarre configuration is naturally completely incomprehensible to outsiders.

"Old Seven is either crazy or possessed. Is the Seventh Company still a reconnaissance company if it's doing this? They might as well just call it the Artillery Company."

The third company commander Huang Yang was so angry that he cursed loudly, then slammed the table and shouted: "Okay, okay, Lao Qi, you play like this, right? You like to play with cannons, right? I will make you pay.

"First Platoon Leader!"

"To!"

A platoon leader stepped forward.

"Immediately organize your three squads to move forward to the center line to find the blue army's mortar positions. Don't leave any guns for them." The third company commander ordered.

"Yes, I promise to complete the mission."

The platoon leader stood up, saluted, turned around and strode out of the company headquarters.

……

Fight the command center.

"The latest confrontation dynamics: The Red Army's firepower platoon attacked, and with the data intelligence provided by the reconnaissance squad, they used six mortars to fire two rounds of saturation strikes, eliminating two squads on the Blue Army's front line. They are now in an advantageous position."

The analyst said as he removed the two small blue flags at the front of the Blue Army's position. "A Red Army platoon is equipped with six mortars? This configuration is equivalent to half a firepower company. Is this configuration of a reconnaissance company really reasonable?" the division chief of staff questioned.

"Chief of Staff, whether it is reasonable or not depends on actual combat. Now the results are in front of us, don't you see it?" Captain Wang said with a smile.

Talking is all fake, actual practice is the real truth.

"The core mission of the reconnaissance company lies in reconnaissance. The Red Army is seriously suspected of overstepping its authority. The reconnaissance company is not needed for heavy firepower output. That is the task of the artillery company." said the division operations staff.

"Does this matter? Not at all."

Captain Wang strongly supported the 7th Steel Company and said: "As long as they can complete the reconnaissance mission, no matter what method is used, they are a qualified reconnaissance unit.

There are enemy troops blocking the way ahead, so I think it's no problem to clear them quickly, ensure that we advance and conduct reconnaissance, and complete the mission quickly."

Captain Wang has already initially integrated into the contract operations, so his way of thinking is different from that of others, and his angle of considering issues is also completely different.

"The reconnaissance company can just do their job well. If you need fire support, you can ask for support from the artillery company."

The division operations staff insisted on his own views.

The idea of ​​doing your own job well and asking others to do the rest is a traditional combat thinking.

Now that a way of fighting has emerged that is contrary to his own, overturning everything he has learned and known for many years, it is normal for him to resist psychologically.

The more Captain Wang listened to what the staff officer said, the more he agreed with Chen Jun's theory of contract tactics.

In line with the principle of using discussion instead of learning, Commander Wang continued to argue with the combat staff: "It took the Red Army less than five minutes from preparing for the attack to destroying the target.

I want to ask, if you call the artillery company and ask them to move their guns over to destroy the Blue Army, can you do it in fifteen minutes, if not five minutes?"

Captain Wang mentioned the most crucial point——

Combat efficiency!

"This……"

The division's operations officer opened his mouth in dissatisfaction, wanting to say something in retaliation.

It can be imagined that the combat coordination between ordinary companies, even if they are friendly units with the best cooperation, requires a very complicated process.

The Red Army reconnaissance squad reported to the platoon, the platoon reported to the Red Army company headquarters, and then reported to the battalion for instructions.

After the battalion approves the combat, it issues a combat order to the artillery company. The artillery company moves according to the order and then communicates with the Red Army company headquarters. The company headquarters then passes the order back to the platoon. The platoon obtains data from the reconnaissance squad and passes it up step by step.

Just from the communication process, there are at least a dozen steps involved.

Not to mention that after the artillery is connected to the order, even if the mechanized troops want to move their combat position, they cannot just move, and the transfer process will be extremely time-consuming.

The two processes of communicating with each other and deploying troops took more than fifteen minutes in total.

If you can do it in half an hour, it is already very efficient.

It took the 7th Steel Company less than five minutes from launching the attack to completing it. Such efficient combat is simply impossible between conventional troops.

The divisional staff officer was well aware of the amount of information contained here, which is why he was speechless.

Just at this moment there was new development and the commentator informed the leaders present.

A platoon of infantry fighting vehicles organized by the Blue Army is moving rapidly towards the center line, and its combat intention is very clear.

The goal is to destroy the Red Army’s firepower platoon.

He just started asking one question, and no one said anything after that. The division chief of staff was listening nearby.

Hearing the latest developments, he suddenly laughed and said expectantly, "No wonder Captain Wang is so confident in deploying a reconnaissance company with six medium-volume mortars.

It’s true that the 7th Steel Company after the synthetic transformation is quite interesting. It really has come up with some new tricks and is quite exciting.

However, a main platoon of the Blue Army has been dispatched, and the firepower platoon can't do anything to them.

I am very curious, if the Red Army's firepower platoon is found by the Blue Army's main platoon, how can they escape from the Blue Army's hands? "

Artillery units fear being found by the enemy the most. This is the most basic common sense in war.

If the Blue Army's main platoon, equipped with 86 infantry fighting vehicles, can really find the Red Army's firepower platoon, the three infantry fighting vehicle squads will pounce on it like wolves and tigers.

The fire platoon vehicles were filled with shells, but they had no capability for frontal combat.

They will definitely be eaten until not even a bone is left!
"Chief of Staff, the synthetic transformation of the 7th Steel Company is not just a gimmick. You and I only have a vague understanding of what contract tactics are, but the 7th Steel Company is different. They understand. I believe they will have a solution."

Captain Wang already believed in the 7th Steel Company. Now that he has seen its successful start, he is even more confident and has absolute unconditional trust in it.

"What a good contract tactic. I really don't understand it. Let's wait and see."

The chief of staff smiled and said nothing more.

……

The first row of the Blue Army received orders from the company commander and perfectly demonstrated the greatest advantage of mechanized armored infantry, reaching the center line in just a few minutes.

Passing by, the two frontline classes had turned into "corpses" and were lying there, looking dejected.

"They disappeared without even knowing where the enemy was. This is really a disgrace to the Third Company."

The platoon leader's face became even uglier. He did not choose to get off the car or do anything, but ordered the troops to move forward as quickly as possible.

There was only one thought in my head.

That is, before the Red Army’s mortar position moves, they should quickly maneuver over to find out and encircle and destroy it.

All their movements were completely unnoticed, as they were all seen by the reconnaissance squad hidden somewhere along the midline, while the Blue Army Platoon was completely unaware of it.

When the Blue Army row reached the center line, the Red Army troops began to adjust their structure and deployment.

When the Blue Army's row of three infantry fighting vehicles entered the A051 area about 500 meters away, the Red Army had already prepared a good show in front.

The end result is hilarious, but all the more shocking.

The Blue Army platoon drove over a small hill and reached the other side to find a terrain with severe gullies, with only a road a few meters wide in the middle.

The Blue Army platoon leader was anxious to find the mortar array, and he didn't know the configuration of the 7th Steel Company.

Even though the terrain in front of them seemed a little wrong, they did not make any deployments or alerts. They just gave the order to increase alert and let the convoy pass.

Due to the terrain restrictions, the three infantry fighting vehicles could only move forward in a front-and-back formation.

Just when they drove to the middle of the road, two referees wearing red cuffs from the director's department suddenly appeared in front of them and waved for them to stop.

The platoon leader of the Blue Army didn't know what was going on and ordered the convoy to stop in confusion.

Just as he was about to open the skylight to ask the referee why their convoy was stopped for no reason, the referee's words struck him like lightning.

"Hey, don't leave, get out of the car. Just ten seconds ago, you were all killed. Please cooperate with us according to the exercise rules and get out of the car and hand in the communication equipment."

"What? We're all dead?"

This news is too explosive.

From the platoon leader to the soldiers in the Blue Army, everyone looked as if they had seen a ghost.

(End of this chapter)