I asked you to repeat your senior year of high school, but did you miss out on joining the military

Chapter 375: Prepare for the expedition, don't talk about war lightly
In the current exercises, the role of the director department can be understood as that of a producer, and the directing team is more like a director.

The staff officers are like screenwriters or storyboard directors, and they have the heaviest responsibilities.

Not only are they responsible for the design and writing of scripts, but they also have to complete the preparation of various documents, and help the leaders complete tedious tasks such as campaign or tactical assumptions, combat operations, design planning, troop organization, etc.

Only after all these preparations are completed, the referees assigned to the red and blue combat units will come with maps and maneuver routes.

Come and follow your unit, and supervise them from departure to camp, and then to battle.
After all, the battlefield of the annual military exercise is too large. Although it is impossible for the entire First Army to be mobilized, only elite troops will be selected to form a joint Red Army to go to the battlefield.

But there are too many aspects involved.

The directorate must ensure that it keeps track of the dynamics of all mobilized troops at all times and fights according to the assumed scenario.

Avoid large-scale deployments and unnecessary accidents.

The common saying is to fight according to the script.

But don't get me wrong, fighting according to a script is only a last resort.

This is not just acting in a joking sense.

Chen Jun and He Yingtao, the two managers of the first battalion, are not green hands, but veterans.

They knew very well that Li Peifang's arrival meant the date for the army to set out.

The above has been finalized.

However, there were too many troops involved in the battle, and only part of the First Army participated, while part stayed behind.

Everyone must follow the director's instructions.

That's why it seems that there has been no movement at the military level in recent days.

Chen Jun strode in front of the group to lead the way, while Lao He took out cigarettes and offered them to others, and even helped the referee who came over to carry his bag.

That guy has better service awareness than the waiters in a five-star hotel.

When several people went upstairs.

Chen Jun happened to meet the deputy battalion commander Ma Hongjie coming down from upstairs, and he winked at Ma.

They are old partners, so who doesn’t understand who?

Ma Hongjie nodded immediately, then quickened his pace and ran out of the camp headquarters.

He had to notify each company to prepare a will and hook the tanks onto the towing trucks.

Always ready to rush to the battlefield.

The referees from the directorate have all arrived, which means that everything on the battlefield is ready to go on, waiting for the units to set off.

All the cadres in the camp understand this.

Came to the conference room on the second floor of the camp headquarters.

Li Peifang did not keep the audience in suspense. He placed his briefcase on the table, reached in and took out a thick stack of documents from it, and spread them all on the conference table.

"Captain Chen, this is the exercise. Your First Battalion needs a maneuvering route, combat plan, supply points, and camp locations."

"After midnight tonight, the Directorate will gradually notify the participating troops of the departure time."

"Take a look first. If you have any questions, you can communicate with me at any time."

"Okay, thank you!!"

After Chen Jun thanked him, he quickly grabbed the map on the table and the detailed background introduction of the "Peace Messenger-2016" exercise.

Looked at it carefully.

The annual military exercises are fundamentally different from the National Day military training, or it can be said that the two are not the same type of combat at all.

The army marches hundreds, sometimes even thousands of kilometers, and the directorate won't care how you go, and the military district won't care what you do.

Even if you have to run with your legs, you have to reach the assembly point within the scheduled time, because the exercise is like fighting a war.

It is not military training.

From the map, it can be seen that the first battalion is stationed in Fuzhou. Chen Jun casually threw the map to Lao He next to him.

"Go, inform Lao Liang to coordinate with the railway department as soon as possible to reduce the number of passenger trains in the next 72 hours and do our utmost to ensure the normal operation of the military railway transport line."

"Also, have the staff go to the logistics support company and ask Lao Qi to contact all the accompanying units in the brigade as soon as possible and make preparations for departure."

"No matter when the higher-ups notify us to go out, the brigade logistics and our logistics company will set off in advance, and let Lao Liang rush to Fuzhou with the logistics."

"Okay, I see."

He Yingtao nodded slightly, and then quickly left the meeting room.

Although he is at the same level as Chen Jun, when it comes to military operations, all orders must be given by the military chief.

In other words, from now on, the only voice heard by the First Battalion was Chen Jun.

The depression before the war also made Chen Jun not as relaxed as before.

He sat in the conference room, his eyes fixed on the information brought by the director's office.

He took out a pencil and started writing and drawing on the map, the mobile positions, and the supply lines.

Li Wujie became the best messenger and errand runner, basically receiving any new instructions or things that needed to be explained from the battalion commander.

He will convey it immediately.

Li Peifang sat next to him and watched Chen Jun busy, and nodded secretly.

One cannot help but sigh in his heart that it is not easy for Chen Jun to handle the deployment matters that only brigade-level leaders can handle in an orderly manner at such a young age.

You know, the abilities of the heads of various units are not all very high.

When the exercise started, there were some officers in command who were confused.

Chen Jun already seems very different.

Of course, Li Peifang didn’t know what the Strengthening the Army Plan was, let alone what the Young Eagle Training Program was.

The nine months of training in the senior year were not wasted.

I don’t even think about who the leaders were who were in charge of the training.

Even Chen Huanran was considered a junior among that group of people. Many of them were retired veteran cadres who were invited by the Joint Staff Headquarters to conduct closed training for the students of the Young Eagle Training Program.

As for how much an individual can learn, I cannot guarantee it.

But for this military reform, the cadres on the list will be transferred to the troops, and they must be more capable than the others.

It was almost noon when Li Peifang came to the first battalion, and Chen Jun took the combat background and maps, and studied them until the evening.

During this period, Chen Jun did not leave the meeting room at all, except for eating some food brought by the orderly Li Wujie.

After all the preparations before departure were ready, Chen Jun pushed open the door of the conference room.

Stride down from upstairs.

Seeing this, Li Wujie ran to the battalion commander's office on the third floor, took down a thick military coat and put it on Chen Jun.

There is heating in the meeting room, but not outside.

It was a deep winter night, and it was New Year's Day.

The whistling north wind blows on the face, cutting it painfully, and occasionally you can see tiny snowflakes floating down from the sky.

"Captain, you've been busy all day, go back and have a rest."

Li Wujie looked at his battalion commander worriedly, trying to persuade him to go back to the dormitory to rest.

But Chen Jun just waved his hand.

How could he have the mood to rest now? After twelve o'clock, the directorate will issue an order for all units to move out.

Before the battle, I couldn't sleep at all.

It’s not that Chen Jun is being pretentious on purpose or putting pressure on himself.

The main reason is that this time the 179st Battalion represents the th Brigade in the battle. Although the main force only has one battalion, with the brigade-level logistics, the number of people is close to two thousand.

The first battalion has nearly 400 tanks, and the brigade's logistics are equally impressive.

Pengcheng is more than a thousand kilometers away from Fuzhou, and the task of maneuvering an army of two thousand people, plus nearly eight hundred tanks and logistical vehicles, fell on him alone.

How many times have you slept like this?

Braving the cold wind, Chen Jun walked out of the camp gate.

"Hello, Battalion Commander!!"

The sentry on duty saluted while standing at the guard post.

After Chen Jun returned the gift, he walked straight towards the company barracks in the distance. The battalion's logistics during the day and the brigade-level logistics truck team had already set off.

He wanted to go to the company to inspect and see the situation of each company tonight.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade the battalion commander, Li Wujie simply followed him.

Soon.

Instructor He Yingtao also followed from behind wearing a military coat and inspected with Chen Jun.

In the cold wind of the night, there were only the figures of the three of them, shuttling between the artillery field and the barracks of various companies.

Some people may think that Chen Jun attaches too much importance to the annual military exercises.

But is this really too much emphasis?

When it comes to exercises, a thought may flash through many people's minds.

That means it's just an exercise, it's all acting, it's all fake.

Or some other words might pop up, expressing disdain for the exercise.

This perception of military exercises may be due to the influence of TV dramas or other factors. Regardless of the influence, as long as you don’t believe it or have not experienced combat on this scale, you can criticize military exercises as acting.

You can laugh at these fake tricks and even say how can an army like this fight a war.

Anyone who has not experienced military exercises and has not witnessed the cruelty of military exercises can express his or her own subjective conjectures and judgments based on hearsay.

But anyone who has experienced it will never talk about war lightly.

Chen Jun has participated in annual military exercises more than once, but the one that impressed him the most was the first one.

When he first went to the battlefield, he encountered the red-blue confrontation that has been common in recent years.

Before the exercise began, Chen Jun felt that although everyone was given the titles of "red" and "blue", it didn't matter, after all, everyone was an army unit belonging to the same country.

Even if a fight breaks out, it will be like what is shown on TV, fighting with all our might and being like brothers after the fight.

As it turns out, this is not the case.

At the beginning, Chen Jun was a soldier on the blue side. There were two soldiers from the reconnaissance company on their side who found the camp of the enemy attack group.

Do you know what this means?

This means that once the exercise begins, the Blue Army can immediately transmit this intelligence back to the base command, and the base command only needs to upload the coordinates and the Blue Army's artillery base to the directorate.

The director's office will immediately announce that the red team's attack group has been collectively killed and is eliminated.

Unfortunately, the Red Army camp was too alert that time, and the Blue Army's scouts were discovered before they had time to hide.

That guy, hundreds of Red Army soldiers moved at the command, holding shovels for digging dry toilets, guns, sticks, and everything else.

Chasing desperately from behind.

Seeing the bad situation, the two scouts of the Blue Army also ran back desperately. In order to avoid being caught by the Red Army, they did not choose an easily accessible road, but chose a jungle covered with thorns.

The two people ran desperately in the thorn bushes, not daring to look back.

Because they could even feel the breathing of the crowd behind them, only two or three meters away from them.

that's it.

The two scouts ran desperately, and after many twists and turns, they finally returned to the camp.

Chen Jun was shocked when he saw these two people.

Their faces were covered in blood, their eyes were wide open, their clothes were torn, and the insides were torn by thorns, looking extremely miserable.

Blood and sweat mixed together.

At that time, Chen Jun didn't understand why it was so bitter and vengeful. It was just an exercise, but why did they have to make it like this?

It was the old squad leader in the company who told Chen Jun that this is how an exercise is conducted. As an enemy, if you find the position of the Red Team, it will be devastating for the Red Team.

And they are so numerous and powerful that if they catch the two scouts, they will probably be dead.

Because they will beat you to death.

There is no such thing as "we are all soldiers" on the training ground, there are only enemies.

Anyway, according to the old squad leader at the time, the two scouts were very lucky to be able to run back like this.

After experiencing that exercise, Chen Jun's heart began to harden.

He always reminded himself that on the battlefield it was a matter of life and death, nothing else.

Now, as the battalion commander of a battalion, Chen Jun knows too well how uncontrollable and frequent various emergencies are on the training ground.

That is not an attack on 215. Everyone is in the same army. The purpose is to train and steal the Blue Army's things. They will not make any big moves.

Arrived at the large-scale training ground.

Unless the number of people on your side far exceeds that of the other side, if you try to snatch the power from them, the other side will definitely fight you to the death.

Chen Jun remembered that in his previous life, it was his third time to participate in an exercise. This time he was on the red side, and it was a cross-regional mobile military exercise with a very large scale and close to actual combat.

Just like this time.

At that time, the battalion Chen Jun was in was the main combat battalion, and after being assigned other forces, it served as the main attack group.

However, the enemy's defense was tight, and facing the unit known as the "Grassland Wolves", the entire battalion suffered heavy losses.

Soldiers were hit one after another and were smoking, and tanks were destroyed and stopped one after another.

The casualties soon exceeded the value set by the directorate. It was obvious that the main combat battalion where Chen Jun was located had been defeated in that attack.

Although they broke into the core position of the Blue Army at the last moment, the casualties had exceeded 80%, so it was useless to attack.

Do you know what it means to have battle losses exceeding 80 percent?

That is equivalent to an infantry company being reduced to only two squads, or a tank company being reduced to only two vehicles.

If this was not an exercise but an actual battle, the 80% casualties would not be enough to describe the tragic death toll.

At the end of the confrontation, when the troops were finally gathering, the most unforgettable thing happened to Chen Jun.

That was his company commander at the time, who contradicted the battalion commander.

Those defiant words directly hurt the nerves of all the soldiers present.

The cause was that during the assembly, the battalion commander saw that the troops' morale was low and the personnel seemed very lazy due to the failure of the exercise, so he couldn't help but started to get angry and swear.

Say some clichés.

Many officers lowered their heads in fatigue, but Chen Jun, the company commander at the time, raised his head with a look of unconvinced.

After a while, the battalion commander noticed the company commander and started to scold him even more angrily: "Why, Li Feng, are you very capable? Are you not convinced?"

The company commander that Chen Jun followed was Li Feng, who had a bad temper. When he heard the battalion commander's question, he finally got the chance to speak up.

That guy would never choose to let go.

Li Feng straightened his neck and said loudly: "Report, I think it is useless for you to say these things after the fact. It is inappropriate for you to say these things in front of these brothers who are fighting for their lives."

The battalion commander's face turned green with anger at that time. How could he not be?

The battalion commander was about to lose his temper when his company commander talked back to him in front of so many officers and soldiers, but was stopped by the leader of the on-site directorate.

Signaled Li Feng to continue.

Old Li was also a straightforward person. He first looked at the leader of the director's department, and then his voice choked with sobs.

"Captain, if this were a war, you would be facing a pile of dead bodies. Who would stand by and listen to you rant and swear?"

"If this is a war, facing the remaining 10 percent of people, how can you still have the face to stand in front of them and call yourself their battalion commander, their leader?"

Li Feng was speaking excitedly, or maybe he was risking his life.

He walked directly to the battalion commander and the director's office leader and said loudly, "Leader, if this were a war, how would you feel if you saw the troops' casualties reach 30%?"

"Indifferent?"

"When it reaches 50%, will you still not make any adjustments? Let the troops continue to charge forward?"

"When the battle is over, there will be only about a hundred people left out of the nearly a thousand-man attack group. Will you still stand there and point fingers and blame them?"

As Li Feng was talking, he had already burst into tears.

Even after so many years, Chen Jun still remembers those tears clearly.

Perhaps only the company commander at that time understood the meaning of tears.

But Chen Jun was not far away at the time, and he felt that those tears should include grief over the failure of the exercise, sympathy for the soldiers, love for the troops, as well as accusations and disappointment at the commanders' adherence to the old ways.

The scene at that time has always weighed on Chen Jun’s heart.

In fact, he had a very good impression of the company commander at that time. Although he had a bad temper, which military commander of a grassroots company was not bad tempered?

At least Li Feng had helped Chen Jun and reprimanded the veterans in the class, and he was usually a cautious person.

But that time I couldn't help it, I slammed the table and spoke out my true feelings.

It felt good when I was scolding him, but unfortunately, I was transferred away not long after the exercise was over.

Therefore, Chen Jun knew the cruelty of the exercises and had experienced the cruelty of the exercises, especially this time he served as the battalion commander.

Being the number one commander of a battalion-level command group, the burden on your shoulders is not light.

This is also the reason why he would go out for patrol even on cold winter nights without resting.

He doesn't trust his soldiers.

Chen Jun understands the cruelty of exercises, and even more so the ruthlessness of actual combat.

So he always had an idea in his mind, that is, not to talk about war lightly.

Not talking about war lightly does not mean that we are afraid of war, because in this world whatever you fear will come to you.

Not talking about war lightly does not mean that we should stop studying war, because only by understanding war can we fight it, and only by being able to fight can we stop it.

We should not talk about war lightly, nor should we compromise blindly to avoid war, because without a bottom line, we will lose our defense line.

Chen Jun's understanding of this sentence is that we must always be alert to the cruelty of war and remind ourselves to put actual combat training into practice.

An army that can win a battle is definitely not built by just shouting, and may not even be built by training.

But it was typed out.

Precisely because the exercise is cruel but unavoidable, Chen Jun attaches great importance to it.

After inspecting all the companies, it was almost the second half of the night.

Chen Jun looked up at the dark night sky. There was no bright moon hanging high in the sky tonight. There was only coldness and darkness as if it were painted with ink.

He knew, before dawn again.

The troops are about to set out.

(End of this chapter)