Chapter 197: Bait The Hook, Reel In Old A!
The Logistics Support Company’s missions are heavy and the work is extensive, so it must be a reinforced company with five platoons.
The Company Headquarters remains unchanged, also 10 personnel.
The five subordinate platoons are all reinforced platoons.
They are respectively the Cook Platoon, Supply Platoon, Maintenance Platoon, Sanitation Platoon, and Engineer Platoon.
The Cook Platoon is equipped with seven field kitchen vehicles, five for regular deployment and two for backup emergency.
Plus six transport trucks, one off-road jeep, one mobile storage container truck, one freezer truck, and one water storage truck.
The transport trucks and kitchen vehicles are assigned to squads, while the other vehicles are uniformly allocated by the Cook Platoon Leader.
To ensure that each cook squad can support one company, and in a field environment, produce no less than meals for one hundred people within one hour, and deliver them simultaneously to every combat squad.
Each cook squad is equipped with ten cooks, so the Cook Platoon totals fifty personnel.
One Cook Platoon takes up half of a regular company establishment, which seems like a lot, but cooking support is a major task that must be fully perfected.
Only when full and well-fed can there be strength to fight.
The second Supply Platoon is the battalion’s lifeline, needing to deliver all kinds of combat supplies and equipment required by the entire company to every company in a timely manner.
The tasks it undertakes are equally important, though different from the cook squad’s work.
The Supply Platoon relies more on vehicles rather than personnel; it just needs someone to drive and deliver the goods, and the company can unload them itself.
Basically, one driver plus operator can handle it.
So the Supply Platoon only needs three squads, responsible for three major sectors respectively.
They are respectively the Fuel Squad, Ammunition Squad, and Logistics Squad.
The Fuel Squad is divided into five groups, each with two people, totaling ten personnel.
Mechanized troops are all armored vehicles and tanks, each an oil tiger, with massive fuel consumption and high fuel demand.
Moreover, after fuel tankers deliver to the company, the oil tanks cannot be emptied quickly in a short time and need to stay with the company for use.
So more fuel tankers and fuel trucks are needed, plus off-road vehicles for personnel rotation; must configure 12 fuel tankers, 8 fuel trucks, and one jeep military vehicle.
The Ammunition Squad operates in the same mode as the Fuel Squad, also ten personnel divided into five groups.
Equipped with 8 ordinary canvas trucks, plus one military off-road vehicle.
The final Logistics Squad is comprehensive, handling all the remaining miscellaneous supply tasks uniformly.
Equipped with 7 trucks, 2 power supply vehicles, and 1 jeep is sufficient.
The third Maintenance Platoon is the greatest assurance for the entire Combined Arms Battalion to maintain vehicle combat readiness and endurance, needing to configure five squads totaling fifty personnel.
The Maintenance Platoon equipment includes 6 mechanical repair vehicles, 3 electronic repair vehicles, 5 cranes, 2 jeeps, and 5 ordinary trucks.
To ensure that even if every company’s vehicles break down, the Maintenance Platoon has sufficient personnel and equipment for repairs.
The fourth Sanitation Platoon has three squads, each with ten personnel, totaling thirty.
One squad is the driver squad, the remaining two squads are all emergency squads, with every two to three people and one driver forming a treatment group, for rapid battlefield first aid, and subsequent wounded soldier transfers, etc.
Needs to configure 5 armored ambulance vehicles, 5 comprehensive treatment vehicles, 1 jeep, 1 truck.
The final fifth Engineer Platoon is a reinforced platoon, responsible for emergency road repairs, bridge building, demining, camp construction, etc., all kinds of engineer specialties.
Total five squads, fifty personnel.
Needs three bulldozers, three excavators, two cranes, 10 heavy trucks, five light trucks, 3 engineering operation vehicles, 2 jeeps.
Finally, the Combined Arms Battalion establishment summary is:
Battalion Headquarters 22 personnel, Tank Company 46 personnel, Artillery Air Defense Company 88 personnel, Electronic Warfare Company 100 personnel, Special Reconnaissance Company 108 personnel, Engineer Support Company 230 personnel.
Totaling around 595 personnel!
The Combined Arms Battalion’s main equipment includes: 12 main battle tanks, 21 armored combat vehicles, 8 self-propelled howitzers, 8 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and 97 other auxiliary vehicles.
A Combined Arms Battalion of less than six hundred personnel requires nearly one hundred fifty vehicles.
This is mechanized troops!
Almost every link in the entire battle is inseparable from vehicles, so logistics personnel occupy more than one-third.
A large group of people supporting a small core in combat…
This is the structure of future troops!
The reason White Eagle is so obsessed with petroleum, appearing wherever there is oil, lies in petroleum’s importance to war.
Global troops are all pursuing mechanization; mechanized troops without fuel will turn into a pile of scrap iron.
This is terrifying.
Only by mastering petroleum can one master the initiative in war.
And this is merely the pilot Combined Arms Battalion; for a fully equipped perfect Combined Arms Battalion, the logistics proportion would be even larger, with more vehicles configured and greater fuel dependency.
This fully confirms that saying—
War is fought with logistics, fought with money.
Chen Jun spent a full two days to write out the field assault Combined Arms Battalion’s establishment, then personally drove it to Regiment Headquarters.
Regiment Commander Wang, after reading the Combined Arms Battalion establishment data, was also surprised by this unprecedented establishment.
He remarked with deep admiration: “Chen Jun, no wonder you confidently guarantee that starting from the Combined Arms Battalion, combined arms units will fully possess independent combat capability.
With your meticulous logistics system, it’s already a self-contained army; probably no great pressure even facing a regular Infantry Regiment.
Moreover, with the logistics you’ve configured, adding another Tank Company and Armored Infantry Company would pose no problem at all.”
Regiment Commander Wang is very perceptive and understands the advantages and disadvantages of mechanized troops well.
Don’t look at Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment having fifteen or sixteen hundred people; actual combat personnel is just over one thousand, with logistics personnel several hundred.
Though not reaching one-third like the Combined Arms Battalion, it’s at least one-quarter, if not more.
It’s just that the Combined Arms Battalion’s logistics troops are integrated, all under one company for unified allocation.
This makes operations more efficient and resources more effectively utilized.
Unlike the current Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, where although cooking is supplied at battalion level, maintenance and such are handled by each company separately.
Most importantly, there is no Engineer Company, which has a big impact on Heavy Combined Arms Battalion.
“Logistics is the heart of the Combined Arms Battalion; as long as this heart runs well, once the pilot passes, adding establishment will be easy; as for which branches to add specifically, it can be adapted to local conditions.”
Chen Jun explained in response to the regiment commander’s evaluation: “The Combined Arms Battalion is just a combat model; how to configure troops specifically still depends on combat needs.
Heavy Combined Arms Battalion focuses on tank firepower, assault Combined Arms Battalion on speed, mountainous terrain Combined Arms Battalion can add more Infantry Companies.
This pilot Combined Arms Battalion I’m preparing is to be built as a field assault Combined Arms Battalion.
So if after the pilot passes, adding a Tank Company and Armored Infantry Company is indeed a very good choice, maximizing combat effectiveness.”
“Good, I trust your arrangement.”
Regiment Commander Wang does not question any of Chen Jun’s decisions; this pilot Combined Arms Battalion establishment is approved, and he immediately sends someone to Division level.
The earlier the military region approval, the sooner the Combined Arms Battalion can be stood up.
Everyone is full of anticipation!!
The supplementary materials needed by the military region are submitted; the next time is just waiting for results. Chen Jun uses this time to start laying groundwork to poach old A.
A Brigade assembles elites from nearly the entire army, with talents from Navy, Army, and Air Force.
And in the combined arms units Chen Jun is building, special operations personnel are an essential branch.
At the Combined Arms Battalion level, the demand is not yet strong, as the wars faced are usually not strategic level, or even just supporting roles in a campaign.
No need for special forces support.
Once reaching Combined Arms Regiment, brigade, or Combined Arms Division, every war can influence the entire campaign.
Special Operations Brigade or Special Operations Battalion then becomes an indispensable branch establishment.
But if waiting until Combined Arms Regiment level and above to prepare an elite special forces unit, it will be extremely difficult.
Cultivating a special forces unit is very hard, not just technology but more funding and time.
So Chen Jun must start, at the Combined Arms Battalion stage, to fully pave the way in advance for future Special Operations Battalion, or even Special Operations Regiment.
And A Brigade is a General Staff Headquarters direct unit, gathering elites from Navy, Army, and Air Force.
Casually poaching a few from inside is enough for Chen Jun to have the skeleton of a special operations force; if able to poach more old A, it could thoroughly solve the problem, letting Chen Jun also have a Special Operations Team.
Therefore, Chen Jun has always been thinking about how to poach people from A Brigade.
Old team members have been in A Brigade a long time, with strong sense of belonging, and special forces soldiers’ convictions are firm and hard to shake easily.
To poach from A Brigade’s old team members, aside from superior orders.
Other methods are almost impossible.
So Chen Jun needs to set the hook in advance, attract Railroad, the A Brigade Captain, and stage a classic overt scheme for him.
Let Railroad know it’s a trap but have no choice but to jump in headfirst.
And to make Railroad willingly fall for it, playing any tricks with him is useless; only one method can leave him helpless.
This method is the most practical, but something ordinary people can’t do—
Something that moves his heart!
As long as the thing that moves his heart has enough value, it’s sufficient to pry open his resolve, forcing him to trade soldiers for it.
In today’s world, what can move Railroad’s heart, aside from top military geniuses like Chen Jun, is only technology that can make A Brigade stronger.
Very clever.
In his previous life, Chen Jun was the Special Warfare Chief Instructor; what he excels at most is modernized special operations tactics.
Casually pulling out tactics that will only emerge in the future, or top tactics currently sealed off abroad, and placing them in this era.
That’s not just a little lead; it’s a king bomb that can drive people mad.
And the bait Chen Jun prepares to fish Railroad with is this era’s top tactics and special warfare techniques that only he knows, or rather, domestically only he masters.
Thus.
From late December to early January, in this nearly one month.
Chen Jun submitted three special papers to the Military Report, without detailing specific content, just rough surface sketches.
The three papers are respectively:
《What is a modern special forces》, 《The value of counter-terrorism CQB tactical system》, 《Special warfare technology imaginings one and two》.
The three articles are full of hooks, with extremely obvious tendencies; ordinary people can’t see the value, but the more expert one is, the more they discover the mysteries upon reading, deeply captivated.
Chen Jun believes that as long as Railroad or Yuan Lang sees any of these three papers published in the Military Report, they will definitely be hooked.
As for whether the Military Report will approve publication, Chen Jun has zero pressure.
With Chen Jun’s current fame in the Group Army, and prestige from multiple appearances in the Military Report, just the byline of Chen Jun’s name at the end.
Is enough for the military region’s propaganda department’s Military Report to publish these three articles.
The reason for not sending directly to Railroad or Yuan Lang, but using the Military Report as an intermediary transition, is also deliberate by Chen Jun.
Chen Jun wants to poach from A Brigade, Railroad wants to poach Chen Jun to A Brigade.
Both coveting each other, it’s a typical game.
In such mutual gaming, if Chen Jun actively sends papers to A Brigade, even good stuff, it would still put him at a momentum disadvantage.
The opponent’s momentum higher, making Chen Jun’s subsequent dealings harder.
But through the Military Report’s clever transition, the dynamic completely reverses, turning into Railroad seeking Chen Jun, with initiative in Chen Jun’s hands.
Then Chen Jun can have better methods to get the talents he wants from A Brigade.
Chen Jun’s preparations are tightly interlocked and meticulous; the military region propaganda department really gives Chen Jun face, treating him as a model for promotion.
Not only did all three papers make the Military Report, but all in prominent front-page positions.
Unfortunately, at this time, domestic special operations, especially building modernized special forces soldiers, is still in its infancy; A Brigade is the earliest pilot unit.
Others like Wolf Fang, Black Tiger, Jiaolong, etc., can’t compare to A Brigade at this point.
Some are just special operations teams upgraded from scouts, still a long way from true modernized special forces.
Some are even still in preliminary plans, unknown how long until implementation.
And traditional field units or border defense troops, etc., have no demand for special forces; reconnaissance units already suffice them.
Most importantly, Chen Jun’s published papers only have enticing titles, with no substantive content.
Moreover
The Military Report’s space is very limited, unable to publish long papers in full; Chen Jun can only make the content as enticing as possible in limited instances.
Using these three straight hooks to fish Railroad up.
So Chen Jun’s three papers didn’t stir any waves in the military region, not even many people standing up to discuss.
However, Yuan Lang at A Brigade base, after lunch with a cigarette in mouth, casually picked up the newspaper on the table, intending to glance and relax.
But the huge characters on the front page immediately caught his eye.
Making him uncontrollably immersed, and after one, still unsatisfied, he flipped through all previous Military Reports to see if there were more papers.
Only those who know the goods can understand; Yuan Lang obviously knows the goods.
Yuan Lang, engrossed in reading, even forgot to smoke, until the cigarette burned to the butt and scalded his finger, startling him awake.
His face then filled with ecstasy, excitement nearly bursting from his eyes.
Unable to contain his agitation, he grabbed the three Military Reports he’d read, rushing out of the office in a hurry, straight to the Captain’s Office at top speed.
