Ballistic Silence of Special Years

one year later.

Chugor training ground somewhere in country E.

A Mi-171 helicopter flew across the sky.

Sitting in the cabin, Li Zheng, director of the Operations Bureau of the G Theater Joint Staff Headquarters, looked down at the troops on the ground. Armored vehicles and tanks were already deployed on the plains, and green military tents were piled up into temporary camps and garrison areas.

The national flag of country E is visible to the naked eye, fluttering in the autumn wind.

The Chugor training ground belongs to the Eastern Military Region of Country E. It is located 250 kilometers south of Chita City in Zabaikal Krai, close to the Mantank Mountain. It is named after it is 9 kilometers away from the Chugor residential area.

The training ground has a total area of ​​768 square kilometers and is easily accessible by road and rail.

As the largest cross-service comprehensive training ground in the Russian Eastern Military District, the Chugor Training Ground is mainly used for joint air-ground training. The E Army holds dozens of exercises of different sizes here every year.

This TE joint exercise gathered in Chugor. The E side participated in the exercise with about 2.5 troops, more than 7000 weapons and equipment, and about 250 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters; while our side participated in the exercise with about 3200 troops and 1000 equipment and vehicles of various types. There were 30 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters in Yutai, which was an unprecedented event.

Originally, the troops participating in the exercise were troops from the B military region, which had nothing to do with the G military region where Li Zheng was located.

However, the headquarters organized the directors of each theater combat bureau to come here to observe the exercise. After all, this joint exercise is not only large-scale, but also the commanding agencies of both sides jointly completed the exercise tasks such as joint operation planning, organizing operation coordination, and commanding troop operations. It crosses arms, Cross-border, from the first batch of troop delivery to the beginning of the exercise to the final military parade on the battlefield, the entire process is a great test of comprehensive coordination and organizational capabilities.

G War Zone sent Li Zheng out because it wanted him to gain more experience.

This year, Li Zheng's work was quite outstanding.

In the entire combat bureau, many people were older and more senior than him. From the initial run-in to the final work of the entire bureau, Li was so busy that he was as busy as a spinning top.

Just three months after taking office, he encountered a joint exercise with the navy. Li Zheng followed the orders of his superiors from organization to plan formulation to final tactical formulation, and received solemn recognition from his immediate superiors.

Therefore, a month ago, he had successfully removed the hyphen in front of the director, and naturally became his official position.

"Everyone, first of all, I would like to thank my counterparts in country T for their assistance and cooperation. Today's exercise was very successful. Our main force successfully broke through the simulated enemy defense line and advanced a full thirty kilometers..."

In the cabin, J. Changpopov of a certain group of the Eastern Military Region, who was responsible for accompanying several theater chiefs to inspect the results of the second day's exercise, proudly pointed to the E Army troops on the ground who were establishing new starting positions and temporary defense lines and said: "This It shows that our synthetic reform is very successful, and the advantages of combat units such as battalion battle groups with strong firepower and strong mobility have been brought into full play..."

The "battalion-level battle group" he mentioned is referred to as BTG. This is the result of a military reform carried out by the E Army less than ten years ago.

In recent years, the three strongest armies of the Blue Army have actually been working hard to carry out reforms to adapt to the combat needs of the new era.

The division-to-brigade route adopted by Tujia and Yingjia follows a route of highly informatization, synthesis, and flat command.

Because of the E-Gate conflict in 08 and the two previous CC wars, the Mao family deeply felt that the traditional military establishment system could not adapt to modern warfare, and they also ambitiously wanted to carry out military reforms.

However, due to historical and practical problems, the E Army has weaknesses such as a serious shortage of professional staff and a low level of informatization, which makes it difficult for the E Army to follow the "division to brigade" path of the Ying family and the Tu family.

In the end, E Army launched a special combined combat organization of "battalion-level battle group" based on the actual situation and the lessons learned from previous local conflicts.

Usually, the total strength of a "battalion-level battle group" is about 1200 people, 100% of which are contract troops. It has more than 10 company-level units under its jurisdiction, which is more than 30% higher than the strength of a Western standard army battalion, but less than a regiment-level unit.

To put it simply, the "battalion-level battle group" is based on the reality that the number of high-quality non-commissioned officers in the E Army is insufficient. It is based on a mechanized infantry battalion as the core, strengthened by a self-propelled artillery battalion, a rocket launcher company, a tank company, and an additional On reconnaissance, air defense, electronics, logistics, communications and other units.

In essence, the combat power of the entire brigade is used to support a battalion, and high-quality talents are used as concentratedly as possible to form a fist assault force.

Because of this, the BTG battalion-level battle group has very strong firepower and a high degree of armor. In addition, it is a battalion-level organization, which improves mobility and at the same time reduces the huge logistics support and other personnel of the division-level troops, saving money. incurred a lot of expenses.

In Popov's view, this exercise tested BTG's combat effectiveness and he felt very satisfied, so he couldn't help but show off his pride in front of our colleagues.

This flight was to take advantage of the pause in the exercise to conduct an intuitive inspection of the entire battlefield situation on the ground, so that everyone could see the actual combat situation at the entire exercise ground.

As a party to this joint exercise, there are actually not many troops sent here. There are only two combined battalions plus support troops, air forces and helicopter groups.

In recent years, T country's equipment has developed rapidly, and it is no longer comparable to Mao's family in terms of armored weapons, informatization, electronics, etc. Often when T country participates in exercises, in addition to running in with foreign troops, The most important thing is to gain some practical experience from the old big brother. These are what T country needs most.

When the former big brother saw the equipment of country T, he had to admit that this brother, who had been replicating himself in the army since the founding of the People's Republic of China, had now completely caught up with him and even surpassed him in many conventional equipment levels. one period.

Popov blew BTG to the sky, and he felt like he had found some ground to put some gold on his face.

The several directors present listened patiently to Popov's advice, and nodded politely to express their agreement. Even if they disagreed, there was no need to say it at this time. Wouldn't it ruin people's interest?
However, when Popov said it at the end, he didn’t know whether it was because he was not satisfied, or because he was the fastest. He glanced at his colleagues in the cabin and said: "I think our BTG combat group is a more successful route than the division-to-brigade transformation. If colleagues are interested, I think it can be used as a reference for future military reform."

Everyone present is an expert, and they have already studied whether BTG is good or not.

Popov just blew his BTG, and everyone just nodded, smiled, and said a few nice words, and long live friendship.

It would be a bit arrogant to ask everyone to imitate them. So besides laughing, everyone really didn’t know what to say in response to Popov.

Is that right?
They are all soldiers wearing military uniforms, so they are not in the mood to tell lies like this.

Is that wrong?
Isn't this a slap in the face?

Seeing that everyone was silent, Popov seemed to sense that the atmosphere was unusual.

For ordinary people, they just smile and pretend to be stupid and get over it.

However, Da Mao's national character is a bit reckless. Popov felt that his colleagues were silent because they had different views on BTG and did not even think it was worth learning.

This old temper got worse and he said again: "My friends, it seems that you look down on our BTG battle group concept, but today your combined battalion is not advancing as fast as ours..."

"That's because our participating troops are cooperating combatants and are responsible for flanking attacks. The speed of advancement depends on the orders issued by the headquarters, rather than rushing forward as they please. If your headquarters orders them to flank, I think The advancement speed of our combined brigade will not be slower than that of the BTG."

Popov followed the sound and saw that it was Li Zheng from the G Military Region Combat Bureau.

Li Zheng said sincerely: "Captain Popov, the BTG combat group may be suitable for you, but it is not suitable for us. To use a proverb, whether the shoes fit your feet or not, your toes have the most say."

Li Zheng's humor made several other combat chiefs in the cabin laugh.

He didn't say anything bad about BTG, just that it wasn't suitable, but Popov was a little unhappy, so he asked: "So, in your eyes, Li, BTG is not as good as your synthetic camp?"

"No, no, no, of course I'm not saying that. Your battalion has more than 1000 people, and our combined battalion only has more than 800 people. In terms of armor quantity and firepower ratio, BTG is dominant. It's just..."

"Just what?" Popov asked.

Li Zheng said: "I think there are some problems with BTG's model, which are even fatal."

"What's the problem?" Popov said, "You should come and listen."

Li Zheng smiled and said: "Then I said, you can treat me as a member of the same family. At least in my opinion, BTG's firepower is indeed very strong, but it is difficult to maintain sustainability. First of all, there is a lack of mobile troops and it is difficult to replenish them. , once there are heavy casualties, experienced soldiers cannot be replaced. Your battalion may seem to have more than 1000 people, but in fact the number of usable mobile infantry is only about 400. Once a combat unit suffers losses in actual combat, replenishment will be a problem."

"Secondly, although GBT is a battalion-level organization, its tactics require the use of drones, multiple types of heavy firepower, and coordinated assaults with infantry and tanks. It can be said that it has everything covered. It has many functions, but it also puts a lot of command pressure. It is necessary to coordinate the above synthesis In combat, a battalion commander is obviously not good enough. Although he commands a "battalion-level battle group", he actually does the work of a combined brigade. This also leads to the need for more senior commanders to complete tactical deployment, and senior commanders need to rely on This is equivalent to assigning a brigade-level command talent to each combined battalion, but in this way, these commanders only have 1200 people. Isn’t it strange? It is strange to use such a senior commander to command a Battalion, and sent to the front to command, have you thought about the battle damage? Have you thought about additional questions? "

"Finally, the requirements for communication support and technical level are too high, and for the time being, your communication level cannot keep up..."

Li Zheng said one by one, and Popov listened to each one. After hearing the end, the previous excitement disappeared, and his face became solemn.

Until the Mi-171 landed, Popov never boasted again.

Everything Li Zheng said is actually on point. They have discussed these opinions internally a long time ago, but most of their colleagues chose to pretend not to see it, because changing this situation cannot be eliminated by just one organizational reform, it requires economic support. , needs the support of science and technology and military industry, needs the support of high-level officials...

Popov recalled the words of Makarov, the director of the Black Sea Shipyard - "To complete the construction of this aircraft carrier, we need a great country to complete it..."

"Director Li!"

While Popov was still immersed in Li Zheng's words, a staff officer ran over.

"what's up?"

"Headquarters called and asked you to go back immediately, prepare your luggage, and take the afternoon flight back to China at three o'clock."

"Afternoon?" Li Zheng was a little surprised.

The staff officer said: "Yes."

"okay, I get it."

When the staff officer walked away, Li Zheng said goodbye to several other colleagues.

Popov came over and stretched out his hand: "Li, are you leaving? Come, let's say goodbye."

Li Zheng politely stretched out his hand and shook it with him.

"Lee, you're a genuine guy," Popov said.

Li Zheng smiled and said: "Popov, you too." (End of Chapter)