Chapter 236: Tanks Right In Your Face, How Do You Play!?
The Blue Army attacked the Green Army for a whole day, all of it was skirmishing in front of the position, adding up to at least twenty attacks, none of which were serious.
The Green Army was annoyed by the Blue Army’s ineffective, meaningless attacks.
At first, they were very vigilant, constantly watching the Blue Army’s attacking force, even trying to find opportunities to shoot at the Blue Army vehicles.
After discovering that all shooting was ineffective and the Blue Army wasn’t getting close at all.
The Green Army’s alertness began to slacken, feeling that the Blue Army’s playing style was too boring, too lazy to cooperate, just symbolically firing a couple of shots casually.
By three or four in the afternoon, the only feeling left was boredom.
Completely unable to figure out what the Blue Army was doing, attacking in such a boring way with no meaning, not knowing what they were still fighting for.
Not to mention the Green Army…
Even the Red Army, which was imitating them, gave up continuing to imitate later on.
You say one feint attack from the Blue Army can be understood, ten feint attacks I can endure, feint attacking for a whole day, nearly twenty times, what the hell is that?
All the Red Army personnel couldn’t understand the Blue Army’s meaningless mysterious operation.
So after learning it ten times, the Blue Army stopped this completely fuel-wasting attack and withdrew all the troops.
Just letting the reconnaissance squad continue watching the Blue Army, with no other actions.
However, the Red Army and Green Army, exhausted, tired, and bored by the Blue Army’s looped ineffective operations, failed to notice a very important change.
That was, every feint attack by the Blue Army pulled the distance closer by about four or five meters.
After more than twenty consecutive attacks, the Blue Army, originally playing tricks from over three hundred meters away, had approached to less than two hundred meters from the Green Army.
Since the distance shortened each time was too small, four or five meters was just about one vehicle length.
Hard to notice!
Under the psychological effect of boiling a frog in warm water, neither the Red Army nor the Green Army noticed the Blue Army’s change, even Shi Jin was paralyzed.
Moreover, not only was it not discovered, even if it was, no one would care.
Because continuous twenty or so feint attacks from three hundred meters, and continuous twenty or so meaningless fake attacks from two hundred meters, under the premise of meaningless attacks, wouldn’t arouse alertness.
The audience in the directing staff broadcast room also couldn’t understand the Blue Army’s strange operation.
This playing style was too brainless.
Making it impossible for everyone to believe that the commander playing this boring tactic not only went to the National Defense University but also studied abroad for a year.
“Is this the core tactical play of Europe’s combined arms unit?”
Everyone wanted to laugh after seeing it!
And because this playing style never changed, just like an infinite loop activated.
The broadcast room, initially full of people, was down to two-thirds by noon, and basically only a quarter left by five in the afternoon.
The division commander, Chief of Staff Shi, and others, who originally thought they could see a wonderful show, returned to division headquarters early because it was too monotonous.
After notifying Regiment Commander Wang of the result, just write it into a document and send it to division headquarters.
With few people left watching the confrontation, the Blue Army side’s attack was still in full swing, still that meaningless attack continuing nonstop.
The entire battlefield, except for fuel consumption, got a few meters closer with each attack.
There were no other actual changes.
Sun Dongping was like possessed, issuing no further orders during this time, just letting the troops loop infinitely like this.
Moreover, whether during lunch or dinner, this meaningless attack didn’t stop.
The main force was divided into six attacking groups, the attack rhythm was very dense without rest, but actually not high intensity for the Blue Army warriors.
Not only enough time to rest, but also enough time to eat and replenish.
But this attack with no technology, and always repeating the same actions, though not very tiring, was really boring.
After dusk, night fell.
The Blue Army’s ineffective attack was like endless, continuously without stopping, from day to night with no change.
As night fell and visibility worsened, the Green Army initially had a bit more vigilance.
Worried the Blue Army was playing tricks!
But as the attack remained the same old way, as boring as during the day with no change, showing no threat at all.
The Green Army position’s raised vigilance was consumed again with each attack.
Time reached past ten o’clock at night.
The Blue Army attacked like under a Sharingan, already lasting a full twelve hours.
Repeating one thing for twelve consecutive hours, even standing there doing the simplest task, would feel extremely monotonous due to patience exhaustion.
The warriors on the Green Army position were like this, already bored to death by the Blue Army.
If you’re going to attack, just attack directly, charge right up and be done.
But instead, they loitered at the entrance, and for over a dozen hours at that, you’re not tired of attacking, but the Green Army is tired of watching.
If not prohibited from initiating attacks proactively, the Green Army battalion commander would have long lost patience and charged.
The Red Army side was similar to the Green Army.
The Blue Army’s neurotic playing style really left the Red Army from top to bottom clueless, unable to learn and go crazy like that.
So they simply gave up the mirror simulation.
Thinking the Green Army had been tormented by the Blue Army for a day, they must be mentally very fatigued now, combat effectiveness less than half of peak.
Moreover, because the Blue Army had been attacking continuously, it must have attracted the Green Army’s main attention.
Decided to organize troops to attack the Green Army after midnight tonight, striving to take the Green Army position before dawn.
No matter how the Blue Army played or what they were up to.
Let the Blue Army serve as a wedding dress for the Red Army!
The Red Army’s idea was indeed fine, and tonight was indeed their best attack opportunity.
Not saying they could definitely take the Green Army, but at least tonight they could pose a great threat to the Green Army, and with luck, really win this round.
Meanwhile, the Blue Army warriors here were actually suffering unspeakably in their hearts.
Sun Dongping hadn’t told them at all what the next tactics and playing style would be, and their inquiries got no results.
The order they received was always just one: infinite loop of identical feint attacks.
Though feint attacks didn’t require real fighting, and personnel basically wouldn’t suffer losses, it seemed like easy work.
But actually not at all.
Feint attacks also required getting in vehicles and driving out, sitting in armored vehicles wasn’t comfortable, let alone high-speed armored vehicles.
Not exaggerating to say brains shaken to pulp, but at least stomach acid would be shaken up to the throat.
The Blue Army warriors feinting against the Green Army, after one trip, were no different from real combat, with huge physical consumption.
Even with six groups rotating, after a day and night, each group had to run four or five times.
The Blue Army officers and soldiers were exhausted!
Buttocks battered in the hard vehicle compartment for a day, when getting off and sitting on the ground, ached continuously, feeling like the buttocks weren’t their own anymore.
If it was just physical pain and fatigue, that would be fine, but mental torment was the hardest.
The Green Army warriors just needing to lie in trenches with minimal reaction were bored to discomfort by the Blue Army’s playing style.
The Blue Army riding armored vehicles at high speed, one can imagine how great their mental torment was.
When the neurotic feint attack reached ten o’clock, the Blue Army warriors were truly physically and mentally exhausted, able to fall asleep lying on the roadside.
However, their torment wasn’t over, the boring attack still had to continue.
With this kind of play…
Fortunately, it’s a troops where orders are duty, if in society, employees would have long run away, even beating the boss before leaving.
The company commanders of two tank companies and the infantry company commander didn’t want their warriors tormented like this anymore.
They jointly used the radio to contact the command post, asking Battalion Commander Sun Dongping to stop this meaningless attack, letting the main force rest and adjust.
They even bluntly said that if Sun Dongping had no tactics, they could come up with suitable tactical play.
But when Sun Dongping received the application from the three company commanders, impatient and laced with sarcasm, his response was as simple and forceful as before.
“Last restatement, you only need to obey orders, no need to give me any suggestions.”
Sun Dongping’s domineering and inhumane words made the three company commanders so angry their faces turned green, really wanting to throw down the gauntlet and let him play alone.
But they were all soldiers in the troops, the last thing they dared was disobey orders.
No matter how unhappy inside, they could only suppress the unhappiness, complain to superiors after the exercise ended.
If orders are wrong, execute first, appeal later, and not skip levels, only report level by level.
This is the troops’ iron rule!!
The helpless Blue Army three company commanders could only continue with Sun Dongping’s neurotic playing style, letting their troops repeat meaningless combat.
Another near hour passed like this, time reaching just after eleven late at night.
Just when all Blue Army warriors up and down thought this torment was endless, probably the whole night would be spent this way.
Sun Dongping, who had everyone repeating the same tactic, no movement for a whole day and night.
Suddenly issued a new order to the main force!
Order two tank companies plus one infantry company, along today’s feint attack route, toward the Green Army position high ground, launch a full-scale general assault.
Along with it was a complete set of attack tactics, from how to get the main force close to the Blue Army position, to how to rush to the high ground and take the green flag, every step had specific arrangements, just follow the steps.
After attacking a whole day plus half a night, over thirty attacks all feints.
No tactical changes in between.
The second order coming down at night directly did a triple jump, from small-scale unit feint attacks instantly escalating to full-scale general assault.
The Blue Army two company commanders and one infantry company commander were all shocked by Sun Dongping’s order.
Putting front and back together…
They all reacted in this moment!
Turns out Sun Dongping used a day plus half a night, having the Blue Army troops do dozens of ineffective attacks, actually to set up such a big trap.
After messing with the Blue Army’s own people to doubt life, and completely paralyzing the Green Army troops.
Then suddenly turning small unit feint attacks into large unit full-scale general assault, the change so fast no one could react.
The Blue Army could seize this opportunity to directly win the final victory.
To deceive others, first deceive oneself.
The Red Army and Green Army both were deceived, even the Blue Army’s own officers and soldiers were deceived.
Sun Dongping was really ruthless!
The Blue Army three company commanders, originally hating Sun Dongping itching teeth, dying to bite him a few times, after understanding, really had to be unconvinced.
Sun Dongping overbearing or not giving face or extremely arrogant.
At least he really had the ability.
Couldn’t black that!
The tactic of Sun Dongping killing people without compensation completely convinced the Blue Army three company commanders, who quickly began action according to Sun Dongping’s deployment.
First still the unchanged deployment, letting group after group of Blue Army repeat feint attacks.
The Green Army and Red Army didn’t notice anything unusual either, still thinking the Blue Army was just going crazy, so no other reactions.
The Blue Army had done it for a day and night, always repeating the same thing.
The Red Army and Blue Army from initial incomprehension, to mid vigilance attention, to later boredom, finally evolved to numbness.
Having a reaction now would be ghostly.
And the Blue Army’s attack was the same as usual, two to three tanks paired with two to three armored vehicles, loitering at the Blue Army front for ten to twenty minutes.
Then this Blue Army group would withdraw, replaced by a new Blue Army group to continue the same actions.
But this time, after receiving the order, the replacing Blue Army troops did arrive as before, but the withdrawing troops had a new change.
No longer withdrawing back to the main camp like during the day, that is, 2 kilometers away.
But retreating only seven or eight hundred meters back, stopping in a nearby blind spot from the Green Army’s view, and turning vehicle heads toward the Green Army direction.
Since Blue Army always turned off lights when withdrawing, plus poor nighttime visibility.
Most importantly, the Green Army mindset was controlled, trapped in the inertia that Blue Army would withdraw to main force, not thinking further at all.
So the Blue Army withdrawing troops, which didn’t go far at all, weren’t discovered.
And Shi Jin, who had worked continuously for a day and night, was now very mentally fatigued, so he switched to a fellow warrior for frontline monitoring.
He himself withdrew into the armored vehicle, wanting to rest in the second half of the night, continue reconnaissance tomorrow daytime.
This warrior’s experience was far inferior to Shi Jin, and he needed to watch at the Green Army front, unable to follow the Blue Army, completely unaware of the Blue Army withdrawing troops’ movements.
The Blue Army, borrowing this series of advantages, began a new round of looped feint attacks.
Group after group of troops finished feint attacking, none withdrew back to the main camp, all like the first group stopped after retreating a few hundred meters.
When the sixth group Blue Army troops went up for feint attack, the Green Army position still noticed nothing.
The remaining five groups were all in position, waiting for the sixth group Blue Army troops to go up for feint attack, firing cannons and guns, creating huge noise.
The remaining five groups, under cover of the sixth group with lights off, all pounced toward the Green Army.
After a day plus half night’s paving the way, the Blue Army troops’ distance to the Green Army position had been pulled to about one hundred fifty meters.
Therefore, when the other five groups Blue Army troops, together with the sixth group formed a steel flood, no longer concealing, full power charging toward the Green Army position.
With such short distance between both sides, even if it was a long slope.
Tanks at full sprint also needed less than 20 seconds.
By the time the Green Army troops discovered the Blue Army in front suddenly turned into a steel flood of dozens of armored tanks, charging straight at their position.
The Green Army simply had no time for any reaction, nor way to gather troops for defense.
In the blink of an eye, swept by the Blue Army’s steel flood over the position onto their turf, charging straight at the central green flag.
Tanks already riding face, still playable?
Answer is no!
The Green Army battalion commander thought the Blue Army was doing fatigue tactics, so to counter chose rotating rest for troops, not all troops on duty.
Facing this sudden accident, didn’t even have time to order the warriors of two tank companies resting to hurry put on clothes, get into tanks and assemble.
The Blue Army’s tanks were like entering no-man’s land, already charging to outside the Green Army’s camp.
Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles with lights on surrounded the entire camp, vehicle lights even illuminating the camp like daytime.
