Combat is not only a major event for the Army, but also a major event for the 54th Army, and even more so a top priority. 【Reading.com】

In 20199, the 54th Army transferred more than 2 kilometers to participate in the Old War and the Vietnam War, fought side by side with the 27th Army, and became one of the three main forces on the battlefield.

Li Wen, who was already a second lieutenant and deputy platoon commander at that time, was very unfortunate that he suddenly developed acute appendicitis the night before the army entered old age, and when he was discharged from the hospital after surgery, the war had already ended, and he did not even have any leftover soup.

In the past five years, Li Wen has been haunted by it.

The comrades-in-arms who enlisted in the army at the same time as him and participated in the Old War and the Vietnam War are now at least captains and company commanders, nearly half of them have become major deputy battalion commanders and lieutenant colonel battalion commanders, and a few have become colonels and deputy brigade commanders. If it weren't for the fact that he had reached the age of service as a second lieutenant the year before last and the platoon commander was promoted to deputy company commander, I am afraid that Li Wen would still be the deputy platoon commander of the second lieutenant.

What is the picture of joining the army to serve?

Defending the country is a big pursuit, and returning home is a small pursuit.

If it weren't for honor and meritorious service, Li Wen would have chosen several famous universities when he filled in the college entrance examination, and would not have put the Shijiazhuang Army Academy, which is known as the "cradle of the armored troops of the Republic Army" to the outside world, in the early admission batch, nor would he become the deputy platoon commander of the 1st Company Platoon of the 554111 Armored Battalion, and now he is the platoon commander.

It has been almost 7 years since he joined the army and served as a platoon commander, and Li Wen didn't even have the face to go home to visit his relatives.

Among his high school classmates, there are many "celebrities" such as senior managers of large companies, associate professors of famous universities, researchers of scientific research institutions, and deputy chief physicians of tertiary hospitals.

Troops were transferred from the Central Plains to the Northeast. Li Wen knew that the opportunity to get ahead had finally come.

It has been more than one month in front of the court. Li Wen was definitely the most active platoon commander in the whole battalion. In addition to pulling the troops to engage in "intensive training" every day. I also go to the battalion headquarters every other day. Ask when you will join the battle and ask for the lead. Battalion commander Ban Gucheng and deputy battalion commander Xiao Dajian gave Li Wen a lot of face. Because they are both classmates of Li Wendi. He is Li Wendi's comrade-in-arms again.

Li Wen's most important thing is training.

As the first "heavy army" of the Republic to be fully reequipped. As early as 2022, the 54th Army began to be equipped with various types of new electric equipment. The 54111 battalion is the "sharp knife battalion" of the whole army. It was very fortunate to be the first armored battalion of the Republic Army to be fully equipped with all-electric main battle weapons.

The 1st Company is a literal tank company. In total, it is armed with 17 DZ211 all-electric main battle tanks.

with the main battle tanks of the previous generation of the Army of the Republic. i.e. Z99C type comparison. In addition to the DZ211, it is equipped with a 17-gram Class 6 composite battery and two superconducting motors with a rated power of 750 kW and an overload output of 1 kW. There have been huge changes in other areas as well.

The combat weight of the DZ21 is 54: , the travel system consists of 7 pairs of small-diameter load-bearing wheels equipped with a hydraulic suspension system, 3 pairs of carrier pulleys and high-strength composite plate tracks; Because the superconducting motor is set at the front end, the drive wheel is in the front and the guide wheel is in the rear; The center of gravity of the vehicle has been shifted backwards, providing more ideal protection for the three crew members placed side by side in the center of the hull; The vehicle is equipped with a small superconducting electric motor to drive the turret when the main power is turned off or damaged; With a hydraulic suspension system with a maximum stroke of 750 mm, the main gun can fire between minus 15 and 25 degrees.

The main gun is a caliber of 40 mm, equipped with an automatic loader, there are only 24 pieces in the reserve loader, and the other 18 are stored on the rear bomb racks on both sides of the crew compartment, and the crew needs to be manually loaded with electrothermochemical smoothbore guns, equipped with poor alloy shelling armor-piercing shells that can penetrate 1 mm thick homogeneous rolled armor steel plate at 1500 meters, and can easily penetrate the M11A2 frontal armor at a distance of 3500 meters; In addition to using high-explosive grenades and armor-piercing shells, anti-tank helicopter artillery missiles can also be used against targets at a distance of 0 km. A remote control station for weapons operated by the commander or gun commander is set up on the top of the unmanned turret, which is usually equipped with a 127 mm heavy machine gun, and if necessary, a 35 mm grenade projectile or a machine gun with a caliber of less than 30 mm. The coaxial armament is a 762 mm parallel machine gun, which is operated remotely by the commander or gunner.

The core of the fire control system is the wide-area search V barebones system controlled by the commander and the low-light infrared phase-oriented two-way stable targeting system specially equipped for the gun commander, and the 2 sighting systems are controlled by the central fire control computer and connected to the grid cross-linked. Under normal circumstances, after the commander of the vehicle presents the target, the gun commander is responsible for aiming and destroying the target; If necessary, the commander can overtake the gun commander, directly control the main gun, or destroy the target from a remotely controlled weapon station. Through the six dual-redundancy "all-round battlefield information monitoring systems" on the outside of the combat vehicle, both the driver and the commander can monitor the surrounding environment without leaving the combat vehicle. If necessary, the driver can also use a mechanical periscope to observe the surroundings.

Defense is a big highlight of the DZ211. In addition to the thickness equivalent to 1200 mm homogeneous armor steel, which is equivalent to 1750 mm of frontal poor composite armor for armor-piercing bullets, > can also be draped in key parts of the reactive armor for the battlefield threat situation and combat mission, the model and coverage of the reactive armor are divided into three levels: A, B, and C, with a total weight of 61 tons when Class A is draped, and a total weight of 58 when Class B is draped, and Class C is draped

56 tons. In terms of active defense, the 8 "explosive reactive active interception" system installed around the turret and the hull is controlled by the ground-milli-photoelectric "threat detection system" installed on the top of the turret to automatically intercept anti-tank missiles and anti-tank rockets flying at a speed of less than 350 meters per second. Unfortunately, the active defense system is not capable of effectively intercepting armor-piercing shells and top-attacking ammunition flying at speeds of up to more than 000 meters per second.

It can be said that before the successful development of the MX main battle tank of the US military, the DZ211 was the best main battle tank in the world.

Compared with Russia's T95, Germany's "Leopard 3", Japan's Type 19, South Korea's K88|, Britain's "Challenge 3", and France's "Fuxi" and "Leclerc" alternative models, which began to be developed in 20199, DZ211 is at least 1 year ahead in power system, and at least 5 years ahead in firepower, fire control, protection and other performance.

It's just that the DZ211 is not the "ultimate main battle tank" of the Army of the Republic.

The DZ211 was only a transitional product, and it was originally planned to equip only 1 heavy army. Under the circumstance that the war on the peninsula was inevitable, the army increased the amount of equipment by five times and purchased 2,000 vehicles for six heavy armies.

What the Republic Army really wants is a DZXX-type main battle tank that is being opened to the ground.

The main reason for the failure of DZXX to be put into production in time is still cost and technology, 12-level composite batteries, orbital electromagnetic guns need to be equipped with a small number of 16-level composite batteries, intelligent fire control systems, ultra-high-strength alloy armor, all-round active defense systems and other subsystems are not only expensive, but also many key technologies have not yet broken through.

Even so, for tank soldiers like Li Wen, DZ211 is an "invincible hegemon" on the land battlefield.

The problem is that many tankers struggle to handle advanced tanks that have become as sophisticated as fighter jets.

We have to admit that the quality of the officers and men of the army of the Republic urgently needs to be improved, especially the cultural quality.

Compared with the Z99 series main battle tanks, the DZ211 not only concentrates three crew members in the middle of the safest hull, but also uses a large number of electronic equipment. In terms of Li Wen's position as a "commander," the driver on the left and the gun commander on the right, in front of him is a tactical console with three 16-inch touch screens and 24 button knobs, and between the legs is a "weapon remote control stick" with five switches, like a fighter jet's joystick, and a periscope eyepiece and a tactical radio headset hanging above his head.

If you don't understand the situation, you think you're sitting in some large game console when you get in.

From November 2022 until November 2024, officers and soldiers of the 54th Army and Ground are learning "cultural knowledge".

In order to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, during the Spring Festival of 2023 and 2024, none of the officers and men of the whole army asked to go home to visit their relatives, and all of them mastered the operation and use of new equipment under the guidance of instructors from the Army Academy and the Armored Forces Academy.

Training is naturally indispensable, and in addition to eating, sleeping, and studying, all officers and men have been training.

Compared with the past, all-electric heavy equipment has a very prominent advantage, not only does it not care about how much fuel will be burned during training, and the power provided by the "vehicle-mounted controllable fusion power supply station" is not only sufficient, but also cheap, and no matter how much it is used, it will not make the army logistics commander feel pain. However, the problem of equipment wear and aging parts is very serious. Not to mention anything else, in 2 years of training, the 5th broken track can go around the Earth's equator for a week and a half!

As a platoon commander, Li Wen is not only responsible for his own ground car group, but also responsible for other car groups in the platoon.

On the morning of the 22nd, the order for combat mobilization was issued.

Throughout the morning, Li Wen personally inspected the 5 tanks in the platoon, replaced the "fragile" equipment such as tracks, load wheels, and gun barrels as required, and went to the training ground a few times before lunch to confirm the state of the tanks.

In the afternoon, the 54111th battalion entered combat readiness, and each platoon went to the battalion headquarters to receive rations.

After dinner, Li Wen led 1 company of 5 tanks to take the lead out of the camp and drove to Ji'an. Their task was to control the railway and highway bridge from Ji'an to North Korea and avoid "unexpected" situations.

On the night of the 22nd, the 54111th Battalion carried out the last replenishment operation in front of the offensive position.

As the vanguard of the 54th Army, the 54111th Battalion will not only be the first to enter the DPRK, but will also continue to serve as an advance reconnaissance mission, advancing along the Manpo-Jiangjie highway and railway line on the right bank of the Dlulu River, reaching the Jiangjie before the US troops, and then advancing to the Wolf Forest to the east of the Jiangjie, completing the combat mission of cutting off the northward passage of the US 1st Marine Division.

It's just that this wait is more than 1 hour.

It was not until after 9 o'clock on the 23rd, after confirming that the 153rd Airborne Brigade had occupied Wulao and blocked the passage for the US Marines to retreat south, that Pei Chengyi issued an order to march to the local troops stationed on the Sino-Korean border.

At 9:11, the DZ211 main battle tank driven by Li Wen crossed the middle line of the bridge and entered the territory of North Korea.

Unbeknownst to the lieutenant platoon commander, he had inadvertently become the first officer of the ground forces of the Republic of Korea to enter the territory of the DPRK, in addition to the special forces and the Airborne Forces.

It was in this way that Lee Vin was recorded in the annals of the Army of the Republic