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Chapter 477 Experiment, Vertical Line Explosion Tank Tactics
"Entering the tank scattering phase."

"Tank 1, target, 800 meters, 13 o'clock direction, enemy Type rocket group, one round loaded, fire!"

"Tank 2, target, 810 meters, 14 o'clock direction, enemy machine gun position, one round loaded, fire!!"

"3 tanks."

At the training ground of the 179th Combined Brigade, the first and second battalions were organized into one group, and the third and fourth battalions were organized into two groups.

A joint training exercise is underway.

Laser side range, the cold voices of observers from each crew continuously reported the targets, and the automatically loaded ammunition was loaded and fired continuously.

The entire training ground was filled with intense gunfire and billowing smoke.

It was extremely lively.

The large training ground originally built for the Combined Battalion is now being used reasonably by Chen Jun.

Practice armored cluster combat.

The rectification mentioned in the previous meeting was not just talk.

At this time, more than half a month had passed since the last meeting, and it was now late August.

It also came in the autumn of 2017.

During this time.

Chen Jun almost lived in the first camp, which was originally his base camp.

I am quite familiar with the first battalion’s base, training ground, artillery range, etc.

Plus the reason of reorganization.

Chen Jun is going to lead four combined battalions for training.

The information command room of the combined battalion was almost occupied by Chen Jun and became a temporary brigade staff headquarters.

The brigade's training and operations staff, firepower staff, reconnaissance staff, etc., all moved their work locations here.

The voice of the observer just now was heard on the big screen in the information room.

Only three seconds had passed.

Chen Jun saw the 99A smoothbore cannon firing like a tsunami, flames bursting from the muzzle, and white smoke visible to the naked eye filled the air.

The huge thrust of the artillery fire could not even make the heavy-armored vehicle covered with composite armor pause for a moment. The shooting kinetic energy was directly converted into the steel monster weighing 50 tons.

Whoosh whoosh! ! !
The air made a tearing sound because of the high-speed rotating shells.

The whistling shells hit the designated blocking line like hail.

Suddenly, the earth was burning with fire.

The raging flames, coupled with the scorching hot weather, even distorted the vision.

When faced with this scene, Chen Jun simply turned around and instructed the firepower staff to record this set of numbers.

Next, he continued to command the tank cluster to practice assault formations.

Over the past half month, in order to save time, Chen Jun simply took over the command of the four combined battalions.

His task is to conduct drills every day and record the situation in real time.

The artillery battalion, reconnaissance battalion, and logistics battalion assisted from the sidelines, while the air defense battalion and logistics battalion learned along and provided help from time to time.

Have no idea.

The military district only gave them two months to reorganize.

If it is about rectifying work style issues, rectifying internal hygiene, or something else.

Two months is enough!!
It can be done easily.

But combat effectiveness is not something that can be achieved in two months.

It is not something that can be learned by simply bringing grassroots cadres to a meeting and explaining the essentials of tank cluster assault.

To put it bluntly, this amount of time is enough to finish several summer homework assignments.

We want to make a complete transformation in the combat capabilities of a combined force brigade of thousands of people.

Is it possible?
A step-by-step approach is obviously impossible.

Therefore, Chen Jun could only take a quick approach, which was for him to take over the direct command of the ground cluster.

Leading the grassroots cadres of four battalions, with the help of daily combat, honing and training bit by bit, it doesn't matter whether they understand or not.

The important thing is to become familiar with this way of fighting as quickly as possible.

And simple to master.

So that next time, we won’t be defeated without any chance to fight back when we encounter a synthetic unit like the 236th Brigade which is reorganized from an old unit.

A combined brigade is still the army after all, so the firepower of the land cluster is of paramount importance.

Because it is such a large combined brigade, if the four main battalions were easily wiped out by the enemy, then there would be no point in fighting.

Just admit your defeat. The more you fight, the more embarrassing it will be.

This is not.

Because the chief of staff took over the command of four battalions, the original commanders of the four combined battalions became idle.

At this time, I was standing on a platform at the edge of the training ground watching the training.

This was also Chen Jun's order.

The information command room can monitor the entire combat process, but after all, it is during the reorganization period of the entire brigade.

Your battalion commander runs to the information room all day long, but can neither help Chen Jun nor show up at the training ground. It's not a good thing after all.

So, on a hot day with temperatures of 30 or 40 degrees, several battalion commanders were like mascots.

Chen Jun chased him to the edge of the venue to watch the game.

Fatty He was wearing a steel helmet. He raised his hand to wipe the dense beads of sweat on his forehead. His whole fat face was sunburned red. "My goodness, I have to train you every day. When will this training end?"

"I thought that this time Lao Chen said he wanted to rectify the situation, and I specifically reminded the people below to pay attention. We have to grit our teeth and hold on from now on."

"As a result, everyone in the camp was having a blast fighting all day, and I was the one who had to grit my teeth and persevere."

No wonder Fatty He kept cursing.

A few days ago, a cluster of tanks took to the field, followed by artillery vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles in practice.

The people from the infantry company were exposed to the sun along with their battalion commanders, but today was different.

Even the infantrymen have gone on the field. Thousands of people in the huge training ground are almost going crazy, but these four old bachelors are the only ones standing there, like a magic needle that stabilizes the sea.

Watching training in the distance.

To put it nicely, the battalion commander is supervising the battle, which seems very awesome.

In fact, only those who post it will know.

Zhao Ziheng, who was also exhausted from the sun, looked around and found that everyone was busy setting up the battle line and scattering targets.

Old Zhao pouted at Fatty He and said, "Let's go, get some cigarettes and stop complaining."

"If you're really capable, go complain to Lao Chen." "I really dare."

When Fatty He heard this, he quickly shook his head and shut his mouth very honestly.

Then he followed Zhao Ziheng and called the other two battalion commanders, and the four of them ran to a trench nearby to smoke, arm in arm.

A few people complained as they pleased.

If they were really asked to go find Chen Jun, they wouldn't have the courage to do so.

Because he is one level higher in rank.

Fatty He also knew that Chen Jun had been studying how to break the assault formation of the 236th Brigade in recent days.

After all, when fighting on the battlefield, it is impossible to just follow and learn from others just because they are awesome, right?
What if I don’t learn the essence?

Or it’s useless to learn something that is neither fish nor fowl.

In short, no matter how hard I study, I am always left behind by others.

Only by breaking this tank cluster can the 179th Brigade easily deal with it if it encounters it again in the future.

The solution is easier said than done.

It can be called a crack.

That certainly isn't a way of just going for it with a 1:1 loss ratio. At the very least, it's the Tian Ji horse racing approach.

A small number of casualties in exchange for the destruction of the enemy tank cluster.

Just when Fatty He and his men were hiding in the trench smoking.

Chen Jun’s first cracking experiment began.

On the training ground, a group of 179th Brigade with hundreds of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and artillery vehicles formed a three-kilometer assault formation and charged towards the second group's positions.

The scattered target just now was the tanks of the first group killing the interceptors of the second group.

A group of assault troops were in full gear and roared forward, stirring up dust on the ground as they moved forward, which was quite spectacular.

suddenly.

The advancing tank cluster broke into the pre-laid anti-tank minefield.

Boom boom boom!
The anti-tank mines deployed in advance were detonated instantly, and white smoke came out of several 99A tanks.

But Chen Jun, who was standing in the command room, did not order the tank cluster to stop and continued to move out with all his strength.

Chen Jun was also experimenting to see how much damage this anti-tank mine could cause to this cluster of tanks.

Faced with such a weapon, commanders usually have only two options.

First: Arrange engineers to clear mines quickly, at the cost of reducing speed and stopping the assault.

Second: The front car paves the way for the rear car, at the cost of certain equipment damage.

Obviously, Chen Jun chose the second option during the experiment.

In fact, any commander with a clear mind would not choose to stop in the middle of an assault just because of a minefield.

After all, in actual combat, what does scrapped equipment mean?
The entire battle line is stretched out for several kilometers, so the chance of encountering an anti-tank mine is not high. However, stopping the assault and letting the entire cluster stand still is equivalent to putting one's own heavy-armored cluster under the eyes of the enemy's artillery.

If things go wrong, not only will the assault be ineffective, but the enemy's heavily armored forces may also make a detour and outflank them.

So, when one group encountered a minefield, Chen Jun did not order them to stop, but waded through it directly and asked the firepower staff behind him to record the damage value.

It is convenient for subsequent estimation of the power of the minefield.

The entire heavy assault group continued to rush forward with murderous intent.

Just as a group was charging.

Chen Jun had ambushed the three infantry companies on the flanks of the cluster in advance. All of them lay on the ground, each holding an individual anti-tank missile.

Waiting anxiously.

That’s right, this is how Chen Jun cracked the 236th Brigade’s assault cluster tactics.

This cracking tactic can be called the vertical tank explosion tactic.

The tactics were not something Chen Jun came up with randomly.

On the battlefield, without considering the requirements of cluster assaults in special combat terrain, like the large plain terrain in Pengcheng, the vertical and horizontal lines of tank charge are all within 2 to 2.5 kilometers.

The average distance is 80 to 90 meters. Even considering the changes in the actual battlefield terrain, the distance is only around ten meters.

Because the assault formation, whether it is a trapezoid or a triangle, the spacing of one hundred meters is the maximum spacing of the tank's firepower coverage.

During a heavy armored assault.

If he didn't want to confront this tactic head-on, Chen Jun's method was to establish an infantry and heavy machine gun blocking line at his own frontline position, that is, in front of the heavy assault group.

Dig enough trenches to block heavy assaults.

Infantry ambushed on the flank, armed with individual anti-tank missiles.

Some people may ask, using infantry heavy machine guns to stop heavy tanks, isn't this a definite suicide?
This question is both right and wrong.

If you fight a war, there will be sacrifices.

It can also be understood as active combat damage.

But please note that taking active combat damage does not mean committing death.

There are trenches dug next to the infantry and heavy machine gun blocking line, where people can hide in the trenches to avoid the tanks' smoothbore guns.

The tank cluster cannot break through, and the heavy machine gun blocking line is usually shorter than the assault line of the heavy armored cluster.

In this case, in order to ensure the assault mission, the tank cluster will generally choose to take a detour.

But if you go around, you can't leave the infantry fighting vehicles and mortar-howitzer vehicles behind.

Because heavy machine guns can't destroy your 99A, and can't do anything about your tanks, but there's nothing wrong with shooting at your artillery vehicles, right?
Therefore, when the assault group was circling, it had to change its formation and surround the artillery vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles that were originally at the rear in the middle.

The concept of assault warfare is to attack from the center, with the two wings circumventing the enemy's defense line and then shrinking to form a new battle formation and attack wave to facilitate continued assault.

The entire chain will not be stopped because of a small-scale enemy.

That is to say, the two wings of the attack must become new penetrating arrows when they circle.

At this time, the weakness of the heavy assault will be exposed.

In the tank penetration tactics, no matter whether the two wings make a detour or change their formation, they will eventually bypass the trenches and then restore the assault formation after making a detour.

All the oblique vertical lines must be pulled to converge.

This is tactical common sense.

Just wait for them to pull the vertical line and make a detour, and the hundreds of infantrymen ambushed on both wings will be able to avoid the line of sight of the tank observers.

You can attack the side of the tank unexpectedly.

With hundreds of individual missiles, no matter how strong the Type 99A tank is, it can still kill more than half of the assault forces on both wings.

By then, the entire heavy assault group will be left with only an arrow, who can it stab?
Of course, this is the longitudinal tank explosion tactic that Chen Jun initially researched, and the details of it still need to be supplemented.

And the first experiment has already begun.

(End of this chapter)