Originally according to my idea...... War is a thing that is to be fought with real knives and guns, and the shells will be bullets for a while, and morale will be added or something, so how can there be a way to simulate empty cartridges?

If this is in modern times, there is that kind of laser device...... It's like a real gun shining on the opponent, and the other party will emit smoke, which means that if you are hit, it's okay, so at least you can reflect a battle more realistically. But the problem is that there is no such equipment in this era...... The submachine gun with the empty cartridge fired at the opponent in a burst, who knows if it hit! It's not like it's an act for others to see.

However, after Zhao Jingping's explanation, I quickly understood that this exercise was not as simple as I thought.

The reason for this exercise is that in addition to the red and blue sides that are competing against each other, there will also be a third-party team called the "director team".

The so-called "director group"...... As the name suggests, I think it should be an organization that guides and guides the performance, and their task is to set the situation, observe the situation and then make a scientific judgment, simply put, to make some coordination or play the role of a referee in the middle.

For example, in one battle: the Red Army carried out a fire preparation on the positions of the Blue Army...... During the exercise, artillery shells and other heavy equipment were still used with live ammunition. Of course, this could not have allowed the Blues to stay in positions and let the Red Army artillery or tanks bomb indiscriminately...... Here, the director team had to play a coordinating role in staggering the time of the two sides, allowing the Blues to withdraw from their positions first, and then letting the Red Army carry out artillery bombardment after making sure that there was no one in the position...... After that, the director team will determine how much the Blue Army will suffer according to the Red Army's firepower density, attack range, Blue Army's defensive posture, resistance means, protection level, etc., and then decide how many troops the Blue Army will withdraw from before going to the position to organize defense. If the casualties reach a certain level, the Blue Army can withdraw from the exercise.

To put it simply...... This exercise is actually to divide the battle into sections. After a while, the director team will shout "pause". Then this side will withdraw from the battlefield first, and the other side will start fighting. After the fighting, there was a "pause", and the fight began again on one side of the withdrawal of the position......

In this way, the two sides of the exercise can be staggered without casualties, and the overall procedure is still to follow the real battle steps, if the referee will be fair and the judgment method will be scientific, then to be honest, it can indeed depict a war or test the combat effectiveness of the red and blue sides.

It's just that stopping for a while will undoubtedly give the participating troops a sense of discontinuity, and in some respects it will not be possible to examine the commander's ability to adapt to changes in the tense situation on the battlefield...... When you pause, you have time to analyze and think about how to deal with it, and if you really have time to get together with your staff officers to discuss how to deal with it when you are really in a war.

At the same time, it is not possible to examine the psychological quality of the troops or the gaps in shooting...... The decision is based on firepower. Those who have never fought will be afraid of the dead, and a sniper rifle can suppress a company with good marksmanship...... This kind of thing has indeed happened on the battlefield of the counterattack war, because the firepower of our army's individual weapons is insufficient, the firing range is not long, and the special terrain of Vietnam has led to such extreme combat examples.

However, nothing is perfect, and there are bound to be shortcomings in simulating a confrontation with as few casualties as possible.

I and the soldiers of the second company didn't feel much about this exercise, just like I said before...... Those of us who have been on the battlefield have all been through the rain of bullets, the living Yue devils have been killed, and the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood have also been seen...... Now to call us to engage in such a confrontation, it is really a bit of the feeling of "the return of the five mountains does not look at the mountains".

Liang Lianbing said this: "Battalion commander...... If you are not careful on the battlefield, you will die. For the sake of our own lives, we will be in good spirits, but this exercise ......"

"You're going to die!" I said, "Wouldn't it just be a real battle?" Anyway, the bullets in this gun can't kill people! ”

"It's not a real battle!" Li Zuolong said with a bitter face: "I'm a little used to twisting the enemy's neck. In case another unlucky ghost is caught and twisted like this......"

There was a coax, and the warriors all laughed.

The warriors are really right...... For those of us who have been on the battlefield, coming to participate in the exercise is to suppress and limit ourselves, and this may not be a good thing in this respect...... Because this is very likely to lead to the real battlefield in the future, there will be the illusion that you are in a drill, and you will not dare to let go of your hands and feet.

On the contrary, they were full of energy, and they were all gearing up to show their skills on the upcoming training ground. Moreover, the hard-working spirit of the people of this era is incomparable to modern people...... This may be because life is generally more difficult in this era, they are not like us in modern times, they have a car to sit in and have air conditioning, so even if we repeatedly increase the intensity of training, even pull them out of bed in the middle of the night to do night training, they have no complaints.

So I said to Zhao Jingping: "Otherwise...... Let's let the first company go up, and the second company will be the reserve! ”

"How's that going to work?" Zhao Jingping looked at me with some incredulity: "Battalion commander...... I don't know what to say, but maybe it's related to whether or not our synthetic camp can go on, you know? I hope you have paid enough attention to this exercise! ”

"What do you mean by that?" The instructor couldn't help but ask with some confusion.

"Battalion commander, instructor!" Zhao Jingping realized that he had missed his mouth at this time, so he explained with some embarrassment: "I was originally from the General Staff Department of the Military Region, so I am more well-informed...... There are many people above who disagree with our training, saying that we are fooling around, saying that we are greedy for life and afraid of death, and that we have lost the spirit of the older generation of revolutionaries who dare to fight and fight...... So it's all waiting to see the jokes of our five battalions! It is precisely because of this that the formation of the 6th Battalion was supported by many people. If this exercise is lost, there will undoubtedly be more opposition and more voices, and the pressure on Commander Zhang's side will be even greater...... And it will also undermine the confidence of the entire force......"

"Hmm!" The instructor couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

I smiled lightly and said, "That's good! ”

"Battalion commander...... You're ......."

"Just now, I was worried that this exercise might be lost due to lack of training time!" I said, "Now I can rest assured after listening to what Staff Officer Zhao said!" ”

"This ......" Zhao Jingping and the instructor couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine I was selling in this gourd.

"Think about it......," I said, "since the upper echelons are in the same situation as Staff Officer Zhao said...... So how will this Chen Jiahao train the synthetic battalion in his hands? ”

"Oh!" When I said this, the instructor and Zhao Jingping quickly understood.

"That's right!" Zhao Jingping nodded slightly: "If Chen Jiahao also has our method training...... Even if we are defeated, it doesn't mean anything, but it can be said to have helped us and proved that our training method is effective! ”

"So the Sixth Battalion will definitely have the old-fashioned tactical thinking, mainly infantry!" The instructor said: "In terms of tactics, the spirit of courage will be emphasized, and the ...... will be used to attack and fight hard."

"That's right!" I said: "This is not speculation, but the situation forced Chen Jiahao to fight like this, so on the surface, these six battalions seem to be the same as our synthetic battalion, but in fact there are essential differences." Now that we all know their tactical direction, will it still be difficult to fight? ”

The instructor and Zhao Jingping nodded in agreement, but naturally this kind of speculation of ours will not leak out...... First, because we don't want our commanders and fighters to take the enemy too lightly. Secondly...... If our speculation is known to Chan Ka Ho, then unless he is a fool, he will definitely change the tactical training.

Later, I learned that Chen Jiahao was indeed trained as I thought, and even the members of the sixth battalion he even selected were very characteristic of this era, that is, to have a big competition...... In terms of individual tactics, the senior cadets of the infantry school were assessed once, and then a company with "firm thinking and tenacious fighting" was screened out, as for another company transferred from the Ninth Frontier Division...... In the counterattack, it was a company that captured three heights of the Vietnamese army in one day......

Capture three heights of the Vietnamese army in one day? I was a little surprised to hear this...... What kind of battle is this to capture three heights in a single day! You must know that the highlands and mountain roads of Vietnam have to climb for one or two hours at every turn, and capture three highlands in a row...... Even if there is no defense by the Vietnamese army, I am tired enough!

Then I quickly remembered...... During the attack on Lao Cai, when our troops penetrated to the rear of Lao Cai, the Vietnamese troops stationed in Lao Cai suddenly disappeared from the ground...... Vietnamese troops moved from the ground to the ground and hid in a tunnel under Lao Cai.

At that time, it was true that some troops captured several Vietnamese heights in a single day...... So I understood.

However, there is a saying that "strategically despise the enemy, tactically attach importance to the enemy," so although I was not very worried about future exercises, I did not relax in the slightest in training.

In particular, I plan to make it the main force of the new trainees...... Their training was a rotation of individual soldiers, infantry tanks, and infantry artillery. Of course, the training of the second company has not been relaxed, but the training of the second company is mainly to supplement the shortcomings of individual tactics and coordination, and it is also aimed at actual combat.

My thoughts are...... For companies that have not been on the battlefield, the exercise may allow them to improve their combat effectiveness or allow them to adapt to the battlefield more quickly in the future. But for the second company, which has long been accustomed to the battlefield, it is not so necessary to be a little tied. (To be continued......)