Chapter 66 Exercises
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Sun Chang and Li Siming took his squad and retreated much smoother than when they came because we, Director Liu, personally "sent" to each other. Poor Director Liu was undoubtedly the most unlucky person in this exercise. Soon his "good reputation" spread throughout the military region, so that no one dared to take him there in the exercise.
Li Siming observed a moment of silence for Director Liu in his heart.
The "captive" military vehicle drove straight into the Blue Army Command. The Blue Army Commander Sun Wei had been waiting for a long time.
"Company Commander Sun, you have made great contributions this time. We have made arrangements to change defense into breakthroughs in the Red Army's positions. This time we will surprise the Red Army." Sun Wei was very happy that Sun Chang's company made another great contribution this time.
"Chief, there's more than that. We have a bigger surprise this time." Sun Chang suppressed his excitement.
"Oh? Let's talk about it!" Sun Wei was also a little curious.
The commander of the Red Army, Yu Lide, was "escorted" in, his hat was long lost, and his military uniform was wrinkled. When he arrived at the Red Army position, he was awakened and said nothing. He was captured alive by others. What else can he say?
In the Blue Army Command, a large group of officers and staff were stunned. Do you still need to fight this battle?
The director department suspended the exercise in time.
The main officers of the Lan and Red Army gathered in the conference room of the director's department. The atmosphere in the conference room was very dull. When Sun Chang and Li Siming walked to the door of the conference room, they could hear a calm voice, and the leader was speaking with a tense face:
"Comrades, the exercise is over. Everyone knows very well. The Red Army was defeated so easily twice, not only in defeat, but also in a complete defeat. Both Red and Blue sides made speeches just now, but did they come to the point? Some people say that the army was not trained enough and the exercise experience was insufficient because of the "Gang of Four". This sounds very reasonable, but everyone has seen the exercise process. A small team swaggered away from the Red Army's positions, blatantly stole the most important military intelligence, and even the command center was taken away. What is this? You think this is an exercise, so that irrelevant people can enter and exit at will, and there is no sense of war at all. Most of you have participated in actual combat, and some were injured many times. Isn't this enough? Do you think it's coming to travel?" The leader slapped the table. Li Siming was a little worried about whether this simple table could be afforded.
The leader was so handsome that his hair was erect, and his face was majestic. However, the leader Li Siming looked familiar, but he just couldn't remember it for a moment.
The officers of all sizes sat upright in their seats, looking at their meeting notebooks, and the leader's words pressed them like huge rocks and did not dare to look up. The Red Army commander Yu Lide wanted to find a crack in the ground at this time. The Red Army commander was captured by life, and no one believed him when he said it.
After Sun Chang and Li Siming entered, no one paid attention to them. Li Siming looked around curiously. Before the leader finished his words, he had to stare at his shoes and count, but he was cursing in his heart:
"Damn, why did I run here for your military exercise? I have to accompany others when they are scolded. What's the matter? I'm just a little educated youth, and I don't want to be a soldier to eat food."
"Who is Comrade Sun Chang?" After more than a day, the leader finally finished his speech. He remembered that there were two people standing there.
"Report to the leader, I am." Sun Chang shouted and replied. Everyone who has been in the military camp knows that there are three major soldiers: strong, high appetite, and high voice. If you lack one, you are not considered a good soldier. If you are not strong enough, it means you are not hard-working in training; if you don't have a lot of appetite, it means you are not strong enough in training; if you don't have a lot of voice, it means you are not strict in training.
The chief seemed very satisfied with his volume: "You talk about these two battles from the perspective of front-line combatants."
Sun Chang was very satisfied with this opportunity and promoted his company and his special forces tactics. This time he explained the combat plan and combat process of their company in detail during the two exercises. At the end, he praised Li Siming, a special operations "theorist", because he knew that a civilian participated in the exercise, would be unreasonable in any aspect, let alone that Li Siming was forced to come over by him.
The leader seemed to be very interested in Li Siming: "You are Li Siming, and I have heard of your name. But it is a serious mistake for you, a civilian, to participate in the exercise."
"I'm wronged, I'm even more wronged than Dou E! Besides, what have you heard of my daimyo?" Before Li Siming could explain, he heard the chief threatening: "But you did a good job this time, at least let us know that we know that there are still many shortcomings in this army. Just explain to us why the Red Army was defeated this time and why the Blue Army won. If you can't explain clearly, you will be held accountable!"
"This old guy is still unreasonable!" Li Siming whispered, but he dared not say it out loud. Li Siming was not nervous at all. He had participated in this way in his previous life. Who is not a big shot?
"I think the result of the defeat of the Red Army this time was mainly due to the wrong tactical thinking." Li Siming clarified his thoughts. Alas, hey, I haven't reported this for a long time. "The traditional tactical thinking in the past, especially since World War II, the German army's mechanized lightning war has become a classic tactic. However, with the changes in the international situation, especially in a big country like ours, there will be very few possible opportunities for large-scale mechanized wars between countries. Why do you say so? China is a big one.
The country, any country that actively invades itself, is unwilling to confront me head-on. What I mean is that we do not need mechanized combat methods, but that new combat methods will shine. Our army is already accustomed to large corps movement operations or positional operations. Compared with the past, there are only more aircraft and tanks. Training or exercises are often aircraft cannon bombing, tank charge, and infantry pick up the mess. But we ignore the way small troops fight, such as special operations."
"What is special operations?" the leader asked with interest.
"There are many special operations, such as raids, assassination, reconnaissance, etc. The special forces are performing these tasks."
"Isn't that the same as our previous guerrilla warfare? And our current reconnaissance company, isn't it just a reconnaissance to catch the tongue?" Someone asked his own question.
"What you said is actually a type of special operations. During the Korean War, the operation of a surprise attack on the White Tiger Regiment, the most elite capital division of South Korea, was a typical special operations. However, modern special forces are very different from the past. Modern special forces, first of all, their mission is unique. They are ready to dispatch, cross mountains, cross rivers, cross seas, airborne, independently or cooperate with other troops, quietly infiltrate the enemy's occupied areas, reconnaissance hundreds or thousands of kilometers away, assassinate key targets, obtain valuable intelligence, or blast valuable targets. The special forces' equipment is unique. The special forces' special forces are unique.
Special forces are different from any unit of the three armies. Special forces are equipped with various state-of-the-art vehicles, ships, aircraft and diving equipment, which is like a miniature three armies. Tanks and armored vehicles and aircraft are placed on the same training ground, becoming a unique scenery. They can truly be called "sea dragons and land tigers". Special forces are trained in unique ways, ensuring that they can all be proficient in operating various light and heavy weapons at home and abroad, and drive various equipment on the ground, air, sea, water and high-speed maneuvering and combat. In peacetime, only they still insist on training with high difficulty, high risk, and high close to actual combat."
"The fifth company has such a level now?" Some people expressed doubts because Li Siming's statement was so exciting.
"Report to all the leaders, our fifth company has been training at the level of special forces. But we are still far from reaching the level that Comrade Li Siming said, but as long as the equipment can keep up, have enough training time, and necessary professional instructors, we can fully build such a force." Sun Chang stood up and explained that he always kept up with his ideas, which Li Siming could never compare to. Relatively speaking, Li Siming is more like a theorist. In fact, he is not even a soldier. He advocates this tactic, but is not enthusiastic about realizing this tactic. Just like Goldbach, he puts forward the topic and lets others prove it.
Li Siming continued to talk: "A special forces team will stay away from the base and go deep into the enemy's territory to carry out the most difficult reconnaissance, blasting and assassination missions. They are much stronger than the ordinary scouts now. Because they have undergone special training and even cruel training, they will not only use all guns, drive all vehicles, but also use enemy weapons. The main reason why our team can achieve such results this time is that the Red Army is still holding on to the old military concept. What is even more worrying is that they do not have enough vigilance.
It makes it easy for our team to find loopholes. This raid on the Red Army Command can be regarded as a ‘decapitation’ operation, which makes the entire army lose its command head. In addition, there is another thing that you may not pay much attention to. Once the highest leader is ‘shot’, our army is more likely to fall into chaos, because according to the principle of military command, the person with the highest rank should automatically become the highest commander. However, in reality, the rank system of our army has long been cancelled. In actual combat, there is a situation where there are no leaders or disputes and shirks responsibility. "
"You said so well, then explain to me why the US special forces failed in Vietnam?" The chief raised this question.
"This question is good." Li Siming praised the chief without restraint, and it was very pleasant to see the chief frown and frown. "First of all, it depends on the nature of the war. I don't think there is any difference between justice and injustice in war. But for soldiers, war is war, either you die or I die. The Vietnamese defend their families and countries. For their homeland, they must fight for every grass, even if they shed the last drop of blood, so they are very tenacious and brave in the war. On the contrary, the US military is not like this. They have set off waves of anti-war demonstrations in their country, and the soldiers' will toil is sluggish. So they are timid without fighting.
Second, the US Special Forces Department members were obviously not prepared enough. They were not prepared for long-term combat. Once they were trapped in the quagmire, they often gave up on combat immediately. This was related to the "fine tradition" of their army's good at fighting with the wind. Even the firearms they used did not undergo rigorous testing, so they had many failures on the battlefield. Some US troops even picked up the captured AK operations.
Third, the US special forces did not consider the horror of the Southeast Asian tropical rainforest in advance. There, poisonous snakes, leeches and even sultry and rainy weather became more terrifying killers than the AK47. This involves the training of special forces, and survival in the wild is an important aspect. Our army also has camping training, but the logistics are all following the troops and there are no worries. However, the special forces are different. I mentioned just now that they fight without a rear and usually go deep into the enemy's territory and cannot carry them.
A large amount of food. It is impossible to even make fires because fire and smoke will attract a large number of enemies. They must learn how to survive under harsh conditions. For example, how to find water sources, how to avoid bites from mosquitoes, how to replenish salt, how to distinguish poisonous and edible plants, how to make traps, how to make wild survival tools, such as bows and arrows, darts, etc. The above is my opinion." Li Siming said a lot, well, how do these people stare at me with this kind of eyes?
I don’t know who took the lead in applauding, and warm applause rang out in the entire conference room, which made Li Siming a little proud. On the other side, Sun Chang quietly gave a thumbs up.
"Comrade Li Siming's speech was very exciting. Today's meeting is here for the time being. Everyone here will write a report to talk about their experiences in these two exercises. The meeting ended!" The leader finally announced the meeting ended. Li Siming felt relieved and was about to go back, but was stopped by the leader:
"Comrade Li Siming stayed!"
When everyone left, the chief leaned on the chair as if relaxed: "It was a wonderful speech!"
"Average, average." Li Siming was very "moderate".
"I will consider providing equipment to your special forces, as long as you can..."
"Wait! What's my special forces, I'm not a soldier."
"This is a small problem, it's not simple. You are recruiting the army now." The leader smiled.
"I have old people and young people!"
"There are old people above, but as far as I know, your parents are still very young. As for the young people below, you don't have a wife yet, how could you have a young person?" the leader laughed.
"Have you investigated me?" Li Siming stood up.
"Don't be nervous. Everyone knows your name in our military region." The leader looked puzzled when he saw him, "Someone brought us five black notebooks. Have you seen it?" When Li Siming heard him mention "black notebooks", he immediately remembered the military works he confiscated by Xu Xueqing back then. It seemed that these notebooks were taken away by the old guy, which is also a good place to go.
"So what?" Li Siming didn't feel anything.
"Looking at your expression, then do you admit it?"
"I admit that I wrote it, why is there anything wrong?"
"Of course there is nothing wrong. I remember you told me a few years ago that you were not interested in the army, but why did you write these books?"
"We have seen it before? Oh, I think I'm here, you are the Chief Yang from that military compound, no wonder you look familiar with it. I'm just having a whim and just writing it casually. What's the point of making a fuss?"
"Write it casually, just write this? It seems that you can really be called a 'civil military theorist'!"
"Chief, if nothing happens, I will go back to Daxing. There is nothing wrong here, right?"
"That's how the army annoyed you?" the leader asked sternly with a blue face.
Li Siming was so scared that his heart was thumping: "Of course not. I love the army. You see, I wrote five books, I also helped Commander Sun in training, and I was brought to participate in the exercise this time, which all show that I love the army. But this does not mean that I must join the army, soldiers defend their country, farmers open land and farm, workers build mountains and bridges, teachers cultivate talents, and scientists engage in scientific inventions. These are all contributions to the country. Besides, I joined the army, at most one officer, but the country lacks one scientist. Think about it, a scientist is much more important than an officer." Seeing that Chief Yang's face slowed down, he continued: "Chief, since you have investigated me, I don't know if you know about Harbin 0916 Factory? Look at your expression, you don't seem to know. It seems that military intelligence work needs to be strengthened."
Seeing Chief Yang's expression just relaxed, he became ugly again: "Don't be angry. I went to the 0916 factory twice a few years ago. Of course, they invited me to go. I taught him several classes and helped him design more than ten varieties of light weapons. Do you know?"
"I know the new products they have produced. Are those really your credit?" Chief Yang was a little unbelievable.
"Of course, I can design more and more advanced ones. Comparing the two, do I still need to join the army?"
"Then tell me clearly what you want, the army needs the more people you want, the better!"
"What do I need? When I come to this world, I am thinking about this problem. Some people make money, some people make fame, some people make power, and some people make righteousness; some people study hard, some people work hard, and some people seize the day. And what I need is freedom!" Li Siming murmured, as if he was talking to himself.
Yes, it is freedom. This is the answer he has found in nearly six years. Li Siming seemed to have discovered for the first time that only troubled him. He came to the Great Northern Wilderness to be an educated youth, lost the right to receive education, went to labor reform, and lost the freedom of life. He did not care about these. In the coming era in the future, he did not allow anyone to try to restrict his freedom to use his intelligence, because this is an era full of passionate generations like him.
"But no one restricts your freedom now?" Chief Yang said in surprise. He had imagined various answers, some noble and some vulgar, but he did not expect it to be an answer.
"That's right, it's freedom, freedom to exert all my passion and talents, and dedicate it to my country! Chief, don't look at me with this kind of eyes, I think you can wait and see!"
"It makes sense to say this. Let's talk after the exercise. Go back and prepare!" Chief Yang stared at Li Siming for a long time. Li Siming's eyes did not retreat, so he simply threw this issue aside for the time being.
“What are you preparing for?”
"There will be another exercise for three days off, and you will be the protagonists in this exercise."
"What, I need exercises. I am not a soldier, and you have no right to order me!"
"Then you try it!" Chief Yang hummed, completely ignoring his protest.
Li Siming returned to the fifth company with a dejected head. We were just a young educated youth, and our arms could not twist our thighs, so we could only swallow our anger and be our young wife.
Sun Chang is very happy now. He has been unable to stop talking about his hands these days. His fifth company is now famous. More importantly, he used to change the training outline privately, and no one cares about it. Everyone is talking about his fifth company. When he walks in line, other companies always pay attention. The division leader is running here for nothing now, promising to support more in the future. This time, stinky tofu has become a hot commodity, and he is flattered and is not very adaptable.
"Siming, thanks to you this time!" Sun Chang said with a full face.
"Whoever is with us, but this time you are not authentic. If you sell me, I will count the money for you!" Li Siming was listless.
"I don't like to hear this. Now who doesn't know your Li Siming's name? The teacher leaders have been asking me about you these days."
Chapter completed!