Chapter 324: The Final Battle: "Monkey Extermination Operation"
Chapter 324: The Final Battle: "Monkey Extermination Operation"
The tactics that Chen Jun painstakingly came up with were complex yet ingenious.
Speaking human words is...
The five ideas discussed by everyone were refined to pick out the essence, and then Chen Jun's personal abilities were added to upgrade them.
It sounds complicated, and it is.
The implementation is divided into three parts.
First, the armored company and the armored infantry company were sent out together, and all of them were thrown into the front line without leaving a single one, preparing to attack positions No. 5 and No. 6 at the same time.
By this method, the main force of the Blue Army can be attracted and all ground forces can be transferred to the front line.
The Blue Army no longer has enough troops at this time, so the Red Army just needs to deploy all its troops to the front line and prepare for a decisive battle with the opponent.
In order to hold the front line to the maximum extent, the Blue Army will inevitably bet all its ground forces.
All those who can be moved from the main position will be moved away.
After all, if positions No. 5 and No. 6 cannot be defended and the blue army troops guarding the two positions are eliminated, even if one more company is left to defend the main position, it will not have any effect on the final outcome.
On the other hand, putting this company into defensive operations ahead of time can greatly enhance the defense of positions No. 5 and No. 6, and can withstand the Red Army's attack to the greatest extent.
Once most of the Blue Army's ground forces are attracted, Chen Jun will use his second move.
All armed helicopters were dispatched to launch the attack, constantly cutting in from the middle and pressing towards the main position.
They pretended to penetrate the Blue Army's position and launched an air strike on the Blue Army's main position, thereby attracting the Blue Army's air defense forces and aviation brigade.
The first step is to attract the Blue Army's ground forces, and the second step is to attract the Blue Army's air forces and air defense forces.
At this moment, both sides' large forces have been deployed to the battlefield, almost giving their all. The Red Army does not have much spare strength, and the same is true for the Blue Army.
Then Chen Jun will launch the third step——
Transport helicopters are on the move!
The Red Army's special operations platoon, which had the strongest individual combat capability and was best at decapitation operations behind enemy lines, was sent out to take a helicopter to bypass the Blue Army's rear.
Then a wave of airborne troops will come from the rear to carry out the most modern combat feature of "airborne lightning decapitation".
As long as the Red Army helicopters fly at ultra-low altitudes to avoid the radar search of the Blue Army's electronic warfare forces, and the Blue Army's main position air defense forces have been transferred away.
Chen Jun had enough reasons to believe it.
As long as the Red Army helicopter can reach the main position, the special operations platoon can transform into a pack of wolves entering the sheepfold and carry out a devastating sweep of the Blue Army headquarters.
Even if we cannot destroy the entire main position of the Blue Army, there are still a large number of logistical troops there.
Kill the battalion commander and destroy the Blue Army headquarters.
Absolutely no problem.
After a day of fierce fighting, the Blue Army's Electronics Company, although relying on its equipment advantage, has been suppressing the Red Army's Information Company.
But the Red Army was not a soft persimmon that could be easily bullied, nor did it achieve nothing.
After analyzing a large number of intercepted signals, the position of the Blue Army Command was accurately located, which was one of the biggest gains of the Information Company in this battle.
It was precisely because of this key information that Chen Jun dared to plan this lightning decapitation.
After Chen Jun came up with a perfect attack plan, he named the entire combat plan "Operation Monkey Extermination" and explained it in detail to everyone present.
The crowd was originally divided into radicals and conservatives, arguing endlessly there.
After listening to Chen Jun's "Monkey Extermination Operation", everyone abandoned their original tactics and became Chen Jun's loyal supporters.
"Old Chen, you are still the cunning one. This Monkey King is probably going to be beaten to tears. Haha." Gao Cheng was very excited.
He also understood the implication of Chen Jun's words.
"This is a good way of fighting. It's really brilliant. The ground forces attack head-on, and the small forces launch a sneak attack behind enemy lines. We take both actions together. No matter which one succeeds, we can win this confrontation exercise." Man Guangzhi praised it highly.
"We all have single-minded thinking, only thinking about jumping on a string, but Lao Chen is smart enough to come up with such a perfect tactic, which is simply amazing."
After just listening to Chen Jun's tactics, instructor Ma Tianxiang seemed to have seen victory.
The other staff officers also praised him highly. All the compliments were free anyway, so they were all directed at Chen Jun.
Chen Jun's status and strength level in the 7th Steel Battalion were thus raised to a higher level.
"Since everyone agrees with my plan, then the 'Monkey Extermination Operation' has been finalized. Now, all units will go down and make arrangements. At 5 a.m., we will launch the final general attack and strive to win in one fell swoop."
Chen Jun has always been decisive in his work. Once something is decided, he will arrange for its execution immediately.
After receiving the order, the staff officers and Gao Cheng and others immediately began to make arrangements according to Chen Jun's plan and notified the various troops below to make preparations.
The Red Army had a perfect "monkey extermination operation", and the Blue Army was also preparing for a final fight.
And the Blues' deployment was very strange.
The only remaining one and a half tank companies were all transferred by Sun Dongping to the rear of the No. 6 position, and there was no sign of them being stationed at the position.
Half of the armored infantry company did take up the position and was divided into two by Sun Dongping.
Positions 5 and 6 each have half.
The Blue Army’s logistics company was also very large, and at this critical moment of life and death, the logistics troops were also used by Sun Dongping.
Even though the logistics troops' combat effectiveness was not very good, they were still assigned to positions No. 5 and No. 6.
The medical soldiers and cooks were all sent up.
A logistics company of more than 200 people went to the battlefield. Regardless of the fighting capacity of this group of people, at least they stood there with guns in their hands and looked serious.
As for the fact that all the logistics soldiers have gone to the battlefield, the entire logistics supply chain will be completely interrupted.
It's a fight to the death, success or failure depends on this one move.
It's like a hammer deal.
Where is the need for logistical supplies?
Sun Dongping pushed all the logistics to the front line, and with the remaining half of the armored infantry company, the combat effectiveness was roughly equivalent to two companies.
With the advantages of fortifications and high terrain, they can definitely hold out for a while.
If we could deploy one and a half companies of tanks to the position to join the defensive operations, and then find some way to boost the morale of the entire battalion.
With high morale and fighting spirit, we might be able to hold on to the hilltop for another day.
The Red Army only has two days to attack, and now almost one day has passed. If the Blue Army can defend for one more day, they can really turn defeat into victory.
The guaranteed result can be a draw!
of course.
The premise is that the commander of the Red Army is just an ordinary character, and the troops fighting against him are not elite like the 7th Steel Battalion.
Perhaps Sun Dongping knew clearly that the 7th Steel Battalion commanded by Chen Jun was not the ordinary ones that were beaten by the Blue Army in the previous exercise. That was why Sun Dongping used a different tactic and did not deploy a half-tank company to the position.
But they kept such a huge force and hid it secretly behind the position, making an extremely secret camouflage, so it could not be discovered unless they got within fifty meters.
Only Sun Dongping knows what it is used for.
Apart from the strange arrangement of the tank troops, there was nothing unusual in the deployment of other Blue Army troops.
The Army Aviation Company still has two armed helicopters and two general-purpose transport helicopters left, all of which are currently parked on the apron and have not been assigned any tasks.
The artillery company's heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns did move forward a little.
We have made preparations to support the two positions at any time and provide them with fire support, and we have also done the camouflage work.
Relying on the advantage of special forces, the Red Army has already suppressed the Blue Army in ground reconnaissance.
At this time, the Blue Army's rear had been completely infiltrated, and the Blue Army had no idea how many Red Army scouts had infiltrated and ambushed near them.
In order to prevent the secret unit from being exposed and attracting long-range artillery attacks from the Red Army.
The Blue Army could only passively camouflage themselves, taking out all the camouflage nets and cloth and using them to maximize the visual camouflage as much as possible.
That was Sun Dongping's careful arrangement, plus the fact that the reconnaissance attention was all focused on the position.
A company and a half of tanks hid under the position and escaped the eyes of the infiltrated Red Army scouts, who failed to discover the situation in time.
Sun Dongping originally thought that setting up a special operations platoon in the combined battalion was superfluous.
The strength of the special operations platoon witnessed in this battle made his scouts breathless, and the ground counter-reconnaissance operation completely failed.
No matter how tough Sun Dongping said, he was really "envious" in his heart.
He only regretted that he did not have a special operations platoon, and he secretly made up his mind that if he could win this battle, he would secure his position in Zhurihe.
Sun Dongping is determined to set up a special operations platoon, no matter how much pressure he puts on himself.
The special operations platoon is so awesome!
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The red and blue sides were intensively mobilizing troops and supplies according to their respective tactics, and the atmosphere of a decisive battle began to permeate the entire battlefield.
Before I knew it, it was five o'clock and the sky was already turning pale.
At this time when the night was already dark and the sky and the earth had turned gray and white, the Red Army troops, who had been up all night without sleep, should have been very tired, but at this moment they were all full of energy.
There was a surge of morale in every soldier's eyes, and the desire to win was constantly spewing out like a fire snake.
"Monkey extermination operation begins!!"
With Chen Jun stationed at the Southern Army Camp, he officially issued the order for the final decisive battle.
The staff officers in charge of coordinating the dispatch of the command center immediately grabbed the microphone of the radio and issued combat orders to the troops they were responsible for.
The first to be dispatched was the Red Army's armored company, with more than a dozen Type 96 tanks rushing towards the battlefield with black smoke billowing.
Behind them followed an armored infantry company and a platoon of special reconnaissance company's infantry fighting vehicle squad. The Red Army soldiers in the vehicles were on high alert, with all the firing holes in the vehicles open and ready to fire at any time.
With the protection of infantry fighting vehicles at the rear, after reaching the position, the tanks can charge forward without worrying about being sneaked up by infantry.
This is the infantry-tank coordination that is unique to mechanized forces and has its own unique characteristics.
The armored company and the infantry company set out together, and gradually split into two groups on the way forward, heading towards the Blue Army's No. 5 and No. 6 positions respectively.
And as they got closer to the two positions, the distance between the vehicles became farther and farther.
When fighting in such open terrain, even if the tanks are attacking in groups, they must not be too dense. A dozen tanks clustered together will only look mighty and beautiful, but the rest will be disadvantages.
Maintaining the optimal combat radius of a single tank is the optimal grassland combat mode.
Let’s talk about the simplest case.
Assuming that the Blue Army is preparing to assemble several heavy artillery pieces to launch a saturation attack while the Blue Army is launching an attack, it will not pose much threat to the Red Army.
The Red Army's attacking tanks were so scattered that the Blue Army's artillery fire had no way to cover them.
The Red Army advanced to the bottom of the Red Army's No. 5 and No. 6 heights in a coordinated infantry and tank attack formation, but did not rush to launch an attack immediately.
The standard process must be followed.
The Red Army's heavy artillery company, which had been ready for a long time, launched an artillery attack on the Blue Army's position with all its might, and the shells rained down like raindrops.
Anyway, this is the final decisive battle, so the main purpose of the artillery shells is not to be stingy and to fire with all your strength.
When attacking the enemy's high position, first use artillery shells to clean up the ground, then use tanks to impact, and finally send infantry to clean up.
This is both the traditional heavy force combat mode and the synthetic force offensive mode.
No matter how the times change, no matter how the combat modes change, there are some basic war modes that remain unchanged.
First bombard, then charge.
It is the most typical of the typical.
The large armies above fight like this, no matter how the times change, they will fight like this, even if we enter the interstellar age, the frontal battlefield will have to be fought like this.
The Red Army's artillery shells were fired as if they were free, and they had a very good effect.
The Blue Army's positions were defended by logistics soldiers, whose basic tactical skills were not as good as those of the regular army, and their ability to deal with artillery fire was also much worse.
After a round of artillery fire that lasted nearly ten minutes, the directorate announced that the Blue Army had suffered nearly half a hundred casualties.
If it were a regular combat unit, it would have been a disastrous loss of 10 to 20 people just from this wave of bare artillery fire. It is simply impossible for so many people to be killed.
Sun Dongping had anticipated this and quickly came up with his countermeasures.
Artillery counterattack suppression!
The Red Army's heavy artillery attacked the Blue Army's front-line heights, and the Blue Army's heavy artillery attacked the Red Army's heavy artillery positions, forcing the Red Army's artillery to continue to move.
The Red Army could not attack during the transfer of heavy artillery, which was equivalent to buying space for the Blue Army's position.
While the Red Army's heavy artillery stopped attacking, the Red Army's tanks and infantry fighting vehicles had already been in place and were ready to launch an attack on the Blue Army's positions.
The Blue Army's position has individual anti-tank firepower, and it is impossible for the Red Army to rush directly up.
Basically, they take advantage of the Blue Army's position being attacked by artillery and its defensive capabilities being weak to launch a wave of consumption. As long as the Blue Army reacts and organizes a defense, the Red Army troops will immediately withdraw.
Put the Blue Army's heavy artillery back into work and continue to attack the defensive forces of the Blue Army's position.
In order to avoid artillery fire, the Blue Army infantry had to give up their defense and retreat into the air-raid shelter. The Red Army tanks took the opportunity to attack again.
The game went on round after round, continuously depleting the Blue Army's strength.
Wait until the time comes to start the second phase!
(End of this chapter)