When it comes to exercises, officers and men serving in front-line units can usually encounter them at least once during their service period.

Except, of course, the unlucky ones.

For example, before the exercise, he suddenly couldn't move because he was lying in the hospital during training, or he was asked by the company commander to stay at home -- no matter how he pulled it, he had to leave one or two people to watch his family and stand guard in the barracks, and he couldn't leave no one behind.

Therefore, participating in the exercise is a common memory of almost everyone who has dedicated their youth in PLA, but the memories are different.

Front-line troops conduct exercises every year, ranging in scale from battalion-level confrontation to regimental to division-to-division.

As for the mode of confrontation, for a long time it was a hundred flowers blooming, each doing its own thing.

Like Zhuang Yan when he was in the 1st Division, he also participated in military region-level exercises, and at that time, because the electronic countermeasures regiment of the military region had just been established, he asked the 1st Division to try the knife.

As a result, as soon as the 1st Division started fighting in that exercise, the electronic countermeasures regiment interfered with the channel in a mess, and the coordination of the subordinate regiments was almost cut off.

Later, the reason was summed up, not because the equipment was not good.

Because the communication equipment of the 1st Division at that time was equipped with the latest type, it was only because the commanders of the battalion and company below painted all the new equipment such as electronic countermeasures vehicles and equipment to the new equipment out of love for the new equipment, and put them in the storeroom and almost set up a shrine platform for them, so they were not proficient enough and collapsed with one blow.

It was at that time that the 1st Division learned a lesson - equipment was sent to be built, not to be seen.

If you don't train your troops, you won't be able to become a soldier.

In terms of types, the exercise is also divided into unilateral confrontation, two-sided confrontation, multi-party confrontation, and so on.

Unilateral confrontation is actually very easy to understand, that is, the kind of "false targets" arranged on the preset exercise site, made some pillboxes, and marked the enemy's positions on the ground with lime powder, and the most realistic thing is to drag some scrapped tanks and armored vehicles, put them on the positions, and then simulate the enemy's approximate strength and firepower configuration on the sand table.

After that, the troops were pulled to the exercise ground and they were given tasks. Such tasks are generally relatively simple, and most divisions are offensive. For example, there is a regiment of the XXX coalition army on the line from the XXX heights to the XXX ridge heights, and the firepower is configured with how many tanks have fixed firing points, how many armored units, and how many mixed minefields are in depth.

Then, based on this information, the commander of the unit quickly formulates an operational plan and conducts deductions on the sand table.

According to the Red Army's offensive situation and progress, the director group responsible for organizing the entire exercise gave some unexpected situations from time to time to simulate the counterattack and defense of the Blue Army, so that the Red Army commanders could deploy and adjust their troops in a timely manner.

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Asking for a monthly pass!!!!

Commuter passes!!!

Finally, let the Red Army units carry out a simulated offensive on some of these positions, and in general, the most exciting thing is that this kind of offensive is often live-fired.

In unilateral confrontation exercises, there are also differences in scale.

The small ones are the regimental system or even the battalion supervision system. After occupying the artillery position, the artillery unit was sent forward, the squad was commanded to go forward, conduct reconnaissance and calibration, calculate the firing points, and send them to the command headquarters, which issued a firing order to the artillery units.

The artillery unit operated one by one, binding the yuan, loading the ammunition, and then bombing it violently.

Usually at such times, the chief will sit on the rostrum in the distance with a telescope - in most cases, this kind of rostrum is very well realized, placed on high ground, and can roughly see the attack posture of the entire small battlefield.

At this time, it is actually equivalent to an assessment, but it is a large-scale assessment, which tests the entire tactical coordination and coordination, as well as the training results of the troops.

In the field of view of the chief's telescope, the "enemy positions" painted in white were wiped out in a barrage of artillery fire.

If it is a large-scale exercise, it will also trigger the cooperation of the air force, and some bombers, attack planes, or fighter-bomber planes will go up and bomb the surface position of the target to pieces.

At the same time, the sapper units were not idle.

Aiming at the mixed minefield on the front line of the enemy's defensive position, the rocket minesweeper began to touch, and the minefield on the enemy's forward position suddenly turned into a bird...... (I made a mistake on purpose)

If the low-level ones do not have the cooperation of the engineer troops, then they can only rely on the infantry to open a breakthrough with the most primitive "forcible opening of passages".

This kind of course is actually to use a long wooden strip tied to the TNT block, under the cover of the fire of his comrades, rush to the edge of the minefield, usually in groups of two, all the way alternately blast over.

This kind of unilateral confrontation exercise has advantages, but of course, it also has disadvantages.

The advantage is that this is live.

Some well-trained front-line troops are simply playing with their lives when they engage in this kind of live-ammunition confrontation.

In the early stage of the attack, the infantry will charge to the front of the position in armored vehicles and then suppress the enemy's position, and the infantry will have to rush with guns and screams.

In order to create the most realistic battlefield environment, you will also be buried with low-powered medicine packets, which will be blown up from time to time when the infantry passes by.

The supporting firepower of the infantry or infantry group, of course, the machine gunners, began to shoot at targets on the position in a sudden and continuous manner, simulating fire suppression.

The director department will also set up some bunker targets, and ask the rocket launcher shooters or mortar squads in the infantry detachment to destroy them with live ammunition, so as to test the actual training quality of these squads.

In this case, the fire is everywhere, the smoke is billowing, the machine gunners behind are all veteran oils in control, the one that shoots beyond is called cheerful, the bullets are whizzing around you and overhead, the sound that seems to explode in your ears is terrifying, and if the psychological quality of the recruits is not good, they will really be scared to pee their pants.

In the past, Zhuang Yan participated in this kind of individual confrontation in the 1st Division, and even in the 4th Division and even in the Red Arrow Brigade, but the scale was different.

In his memory, this kind of live-fire exercise was very dangerous.

Once upon a time, when the solemn squad was attacking the target on the hill, it jumped into a trench, and the 12.7MM caliber machine gun bullets flew overhead, tracer bullets and incendiary bullets whizzed through the tranquility of the sky, hitting the stones in front of them and crackling, ricochet like a signal flare in the air, rising and falling slowly, falling in the trench, the soldiers dodged in embarrassment, lest they fall on themselves and become roast pigs.

Another time was in the Red Arrow Brigade. A small mistake occurred during a welcome performance - don't think that the special forces will not make a mistake, a comrade in charge of the attack was accidentally injured by a heavy machine gun and was directly broken in the arm.

In a certain sense, individual confrontation is more like a large-scale assessment, and the organization is relatively simple, so it has become the most important exercise that many front-line troops conduct every year on their own one-third of an acre.

It can not only assess the quality of soldiers, but also assess the tactical application of commanders.

However, its drawbacks are also obvious.

The Blues opposite the Red Army were dead.

It's all a bunch of lifeless bunkers, broken cars, etc., without any ability to resist, even if the director team tries to simulate the number and equipment strength, but it's still dead......

Therefore, in the face of a group of dead things, dead things that have no ability to resist, no matter how beautiful the attack is, it can only be more like a piece of paper.

Therefore, this kind of exercise often has its limitations, and it cannot really restore the top opponents and the most cunning enemies, and it is only a means of limited effect for polishing the troops.

And when it comes to confrontation between the two sides, there is another form. It has the same advantages and the same obvious disadvantages.