Chapter 358 Da Mao's Favorite "Tradition"
Chapter 358 Da Mao's Favorite "Tradition"
At first, only a few officers in the Blue Army Command suspected that the Chinese troops were responsible for breaking through Hill 113.
But as everyone discussed the matter one after another, the officers who were listening were influenced. The more they listened, the more it seemed to be true, and they couldn't help but become suspicious.
This fully demonstrated the power of numbers.
As more people participate in the discussion, more similarities are found over time.
In the end, even the Blue Army's commander-in-chief, Markov, had to link the two battles together when faced with the evidence discussed by everyone.
But as a senior Russian military officer, he was unwilling to admit that the Russian troops were inferior to the Chinese.
So I could only interrupt everyone's discussion and actively change the subject, saying, "Okay, it doesn't matter who did it, what matters is how to prevent it next.
Without the heavy firepower of the artillery battalion, the left wing will inevitably have a major gap in defense..."
What Markov said is indeed the key point. Without the long-range fire cover of the artillery, the Red Army's offense will become easier, and the corresponding Blue Army's defense will become more difficult.
If this "gap" cannot be plugged, the Blues' defense is likely to collapse completely.
Thinking of the Red Army rushing in...
All the senior Blue Army members felt their hearts tighten as they realized the seriousness of the incident. They no longer cared to guess who the "murderer" was on Hill 113.
All attention turned to the left wing defense, and an intensive discussion began.
The defensive focus and attention of the Blue Army Command were concentrated on the left wing because the heavy artillery battalion was destroyed, which was exactly the effect Chen Jun wanted to achieve.
Chen Jun's combat experience is rich and varied, and his tactical plans are never single.
Instead, it is one link after another, closely linked together.
As long as the enemy is defeated by Chen Jun once, they will fall into Chen Jun's chain of schemes. Without great power, they can only be led by the nose by Chen Jun.
Everyone in the Blue Army Command only knew the surface: the 7th Steel Battalion used a trick to destroy the left-wing artillery battalion.
As a result, he fell into a trap and was only focused on defending the left wing.
Little did they know that after defeating the artillery battalion on the left wing, the 7th Steel Battalion had no intention of continuing to attack on the left wing, and did not even stay for a second.
Instead, he immediately maneuvered quickly to the right wing of the Blue Army, launching an upgraded version of "making a feint to the east and attacking in the west."
In order to continue to divert the Blue Army's attention, Chen Jun "kindly" notified the Red Army Command while the 7th Steel Battalion was maneuvering towards the Blue Army's right wing.
After a difficult and fierce offensive operation, our Chinese Steel Battalion 7 finally achieved significant results.
Our scouts, in coordination with the artillery, have destroyed the artillery battalion on the Blue Army's right wing defense line. As a result, our troops suffered heavy losses and were unable to continue breaking through the Blue Army's defense line, so they had to temporarily evacuate to the rear for rest and recuperation.
Chen Jun's battle report was brief, but the content made people imagine a lot.
In the Red Army headquarters, which had just suffered a setback in its attack and lost nearly two companies, and had lost face, all the senior officials looked sad and miserable.
Everyone wants to launch another attack to regain the lost face.
But no one had a good plan. They were afraid of repeating the same mistakes and being blamed for the defeat. Conventional tactics were not enough to save face, so no one dared to speak carelessly.
The atmosphere in the headquarters seems particularly depressing!
At this critical moment when the stalemate was reached, the 7th Steel Battalion actually took the initiative to send a battle report. The content was like timely rain in the desert for the Red Army at that time.
The Blues' right-wing defense is now greatly weakened, and launching an attack at this time will definitely yield significant gains.
The Red Army's previous defeat in the attack on Hill 259 was certainly mainly due to the failure of the wrong tactics, but the bombing by the Blue Army's artillery blocked their support, causing heavy casualties, which accounted for a large part of the failure.
Now that the left wing no longer has the fire support of the artillery battalion, the difficulty of attacking the enemy is reduced by at least 30%.
Everyone in the Red Army Command was excited!
As for why the 113th Steel Battalion revealed the news to them, they did not attack Hill as they did before and directly attack them in one go.
Instead, they gave such a good opportunity to the main force. Could there be some conspiracy behind this?
No one at the Red Army headquarters was worried.
In the view of Commander-in-Chief Dmitry, the 7th Steel Battalion was, after all, only a combat unit within a battalion. It attacked two heights of the Blue Army in succession and destroyed nearly two battalions of the Blue Army. It was impossible that it did not suffer any losses.
The reason why the 7th Steel Battalion did not mention any of its own losses in the battle report sent to the Red Army Headquarters was that it deliberately made it appear that the 7th Steel Battalion had suffered zero losses.
It must be that the Chinese troops were just trying to swell up their sleeves and deliberately reported false information to the Red Army headquarters.
The directorate also did not report the casualties of the 7th Steel Battalion. It must be that the 7th Steel Battalion was using tricks to cover it up. This exercise did not have real-time monitoring, so it was not very difficult to cover up the casualties of their own side.
As long as the fallen soldiers do not go back to the battlefield and are taken away with the troops as corpses, it does not violate the rules of the exercise and the directorate cannot do anything to them.
In fact, the current losses of the 7th Steel Battalion are definitely not a small number.
According to the estimation of the commander-in-chief Dmitri...
The Blue Army lost nearly two battalions of troops. Even according to the highest casualty ratio in the history of Russian military exercises, the loss of the 7th Steel Battalion would not be less than two companies.
Being able to replace two battalions with two companies was already very powerful in Dmitry's opinion.
A troop that has reached ace level!
The specific organization of the 7th Steel Battalion has not been made public, but it can be basically deduced based on the number of infantry fighting vehicles and tanks pulled by the train.
There are only two armored infantry companies and a tank company, and the rest are the 7th Steel Battalion, which is a logistics support and baggage unit.
This is equivalent to halving the combat force, which is indeed a huge loss.
The 174th Steel Battalion destroyed the Blue Army Artillery Battalion on the left wing, and instead of taking the A Highland in front of them, they retreated in a hurry and gave up the attack.
This further confirmed Dmitry's guess that the 7th Steel Battalion no longer had the ability to break through the Blue Army's line.
The 174th Steel Battalion had few troops left, and in order to retain the ability to continue fighting, it had to give up the A that had already been obtained.
This was what Dmitry personally thought, and he also analyzed it this way to the Red Army leaders present.
Everyone thought what Dmitry said was correct.
It is natural to think that since the 7th Steel Battalion itself is not capable enough to take on this piece of meat, then the Red Army Headquarters cannot be blamed for taking advantage of the situation.
All the Red Army leaders agreed that this rare opportunity must be seized.
Immediately organize the troops in the shortest possible time, and send the Red Army troops to attack Hill 174A again before the Blue Army can adjust in time.
Take down this already precarious high ground in one breath.
Wash away the shame of previous defeat!
All the senior officials unanimously agreed to do so, and the resolution for the second attack was easily passed unanimously. Dmitri immediately issued the order to attack.
There was no need to even discuss the battle plan; the first battalion of a nearby infantry regiment was immediately sent into battle.
The multi-service joint operation ended in a major defeat. Dmitry naturally believed that the lack of smooth command caused by the multi-service joint operation was also one of the reasons for the failure.
So this time they corrected the mistake of the last time and sent out a well-coordinated motorized infantry battalion to attack.
It was determined that learning from China's joint model would not work, and that using the traditional combat model, coupled with the weak defense of Hill 174A, would surely allow them to easily win the battle.
Dmitri's behavior and thinking of trying new things and stopping after a brief taste are indeed quite in line with the general environment of the Russians. After all, the Russians have never succeeded in synthesizing.
According to Chen Jun's memory from his previous life, the Russian army was facing economic difficulties at home and the funding for the troops was simply insufficient, so the pace of synthesis has always been slower than that of China.
It was not until after the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 that "BTG" began to be widely used.
Translated it means battalion tactical group.
This new type of troop organization of the battalion tactical group is essentially a modular battle group with a mechanized infantry battalion or tank battalion as the core, and then equipped with auxiliary artillery, air defense, reconnaissance, logistics and other support units.
The advantage of BTG is that it has a non-fixed organization and can be temporarily organized according to the task.
It is characterized by strong firepower and flexible mobility.
Rely on artillery and rocket launchers to destroy targets at long range, or eliminate enemy manpower and important targets as much as possible, and then use armored forces to advance and completely destroy the targets.
The advantages are very prominent, but there are also many weaknesses.
First of all, there is a shortage of infantry, which leads to weak occupation capabilities and requires subsequent conventional troops to fill in the gaps.
So the emphasis is on hit and run!
Secondly, the capabilities of electronic warfare and anti-drone operations are limited. To put it bluntly, the informationization reform is not thorough, and there is only a synthetic shell but no synthetic soul.
This was thoroughly exposed in the subsequent Russia-Ukraine battlefield.
Finally, their logistics are fragile, their self-support capabilities are poor, they have almost no ability to fight alone, they rely mainly on road transportation, and can be easily cut off by guerrilla warfare.
If there are weaknesses in other areas, there may be a way to save them.
But there are weaknesses in these three aspects.
BTG is destined to not live long, and it will come soon.
At the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022, the Russian army deployed about 120 BTGs, hoping that these new types of troops would be able to take down Ermao in one fell swoop.
The result is that the weaknesses are further magnified.
There is a shortage of infantry and a lack of garrison capabilities, and the logistics are chaotic and unable to provide effective support. In addition, there are various attacks by Ermao drones and a large number of anti-tank weapons are deployed on the battlefield.
The 120 BTGs that the Russian army had high hopes for failed to play the desired role.
Instead, they suffered heavy losses and were less valuable than conventional troops.
So just over half a year later, after 2023, the Russian army began large-scale adjustments, gradually returning to the traditional division organization, significantly reducing the reorganization of BTG, and retaining only some elite BTG.
This means that the Russian army has been going around in circles for twenty years, and the military reform has ultimately ended in vain.
We have returned to the traditional large-scale troop combat of decades ago.
Compared to China in 2023, dozens of heavily armored combined brigades built at great expense have taken shape and have become a terrifying force that the whole world fears.
This is the gap between countries!
The new type of troops under the Russian modernization reform took less than ten years from their birth to their glory. When they encountered a little setback, they were simply disbanded and returned to large-scale combat.
Just as Dmitri learned the fighting style of the 7th Steel Battalion, he returned to the traditional fighting style after only one defeat.
A motorized infantry battalion is fighting in a traditional corps. Everyone in the Blue Army headquarters is confident that they can take down 174A, and the st Battalion that is carrying out this mission is also full of confidence.
The 1st Motorized Infantry Battalion is worthy of being from the Central Division, and its configuration can really be called luxurious in the Russian Army.
The three motorized infantry companies each have 12 squads, three infantry platoons of 30 people, plus a firepower platoon of 30 people, totaling 120 combat personnel.
The infantry squad is configured with a command squad leader, RPK machine gunner, RPG grenade shooter, AK rifleman, SVD precision shooter, etc.
The firepower configuration of each class is already very complete.
In addition, each company is equipped with a firepower platoon, which includes an automatic grenade launcher squad, an anti-tank missile squad, a mortar squad and a large-caliber heavy machine gun squad, and its long-range firepower is very fierce.
In this terrain dominated by mountains and jungles, the organized Russian combat battalions do have the capital to fight tough battles.
Because speed was of the essence and they had to save time, the 174st Motorized Infantry Battalion took less than half an hour to maneuver at high speed to the outskirts of Hill A.
It was already past four in the morning, and the morning star was already shining brightly in the night sky.
The Blue Army stationed on Hill 174A had been harassed by the th Steel Battalion for an hour or two. Although there was no major loss, everyone was exhausted.
It was mainly due to the fatigue caused by the tense nerves, plus the fact that people were coughing when it was almost dawn.
The Blue Army soldiers, who had not slept all night, did not expect that the Red Army would attack at this time, and could not help but take a nap in the trenches.
Even the sent out sentries and covert sentries lowered their vigilance because they were too tired.
This gave the Red Army's motorized infantry battalion a good opportunity.
They no longer used artillery to fire at the enemy as they did before, and then rushed towards the position after that.
The 1st Motorized Infantry Battalion, which was a pure infantry battalion for space combat, chose the most traditional infantry combat method, which was to sneak towards the position on the top of the mountain.
Get as close as you can silently, and shorten the charge distance as much as possible.
After all, once a battle breaks out between the two sides, the defending blue army will fire crazily, and the attacking troops will have to risk their lives to move forward even one meter.
Before the battle broke out between the two sides, every meter the Red Army advanced was a waste.
The traditional pure infantry assault combat mode actually gave the 1st Motorized Infantry Battalion an unexpected advantage. The two motorized infantry companies sent out at once successfully reached the foot of the mountain.
It is more convenient to continue walking up the mountain from the foot of the mountain with the cover of the woods.
The two Red Army companies in charge of the attack had a very traditional idea, which was to quietly move up the mountain, get as close as possible, and never fire the first shot.
The Blues' lax defense coupled with the Reds' traditional style of play.
There really was a chemical reaction.
Previously, when attacking Position 259, the Red Army paid the price of losing half a company before they finally reached the mountainside.
Now, the 174st Motorized Infantry Battalion reached the hillside of Hill A without losing a single soldier.
The closer the two sides are, the easier it is to be exposed.
What's more, the Red Army dispatched two companies at a time, with more than 200 people groping their way up the mountainside to the top of the mountain. No matter how careful they were, they could not avoid making noise.
The Blue Army sentry, who had not responded at all, finally discovered something was wrong at this time.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack."
"Da da da da..."
The sentry's loud shout and the sound of gunfire broke the silence on the top of the mountain.
The battle between the red and blue infantry companies thus began.
(End of this chapter)