Chapter 137: What The Heck? One Company Takes Down A Battalion?
T Division, as the garrison heavy infantry division of the capital region, has a stronger configuration than a general field division itself. Its ground and air units are basically fully equipped except for lacking a missile unit.
With many branches of service in the troops, training cannot be compatible, so more training grounds need to be built.
Near the base where T Division is located, there are dozens of various large and small training grounds, training camps, and drill grounds combined.
Among them, the drill ground occupies the largest area and is specifically used for division-level exercises.
Moreover, targeted construction and modification have been carried out based on the terrain and landforms of each drill ground, specifically for use as particular exercises.
This time, division headquarters selected Drill Ground Number Eleven, mainly because it covers the largest area.
Both its length and width exceed 100 kilometers, involving terrains including but not limited to mountain forest, grassland, plateau, lake, and rugged areas caused by loess erosion.
In such an exaggeratedly vast and complex terrain drill ground, there is more operability.
Later, Yuan Lang, leading the old A team, came to 702 Regiment for selection, picking three promising soldiers from the entire regiment to attend old A training camp, using this Drill Ground Number Eleven.
Except for Chen Jun, no one else in Steel Seventh Company has been to this place.
Upon receiving the order, they drove to the designated assembly area, where various departments from the division were already coordinating to build a temporary field command center.
Steel Seventh Company was arranged in the designated rest area, with all company warriors and combat vehicles on standby here.
The company’s team leader officer Gao Cheng, along with Chen Jun, who had seemingly become Steel Seventh Company’s chief of staff, were taken together to the command center to receive confrontation information.
Chen Jun and Gao Cheng entered the command center tent and saw the chief of staff already waiting inside.
Regiment Commander Wang of 702 Regiment and the political commissar were accompanying beside the chief of staff.
Seeing the two walk in from outside, the chief of staff immediately beckoned them over, exchanged simple greetings, and then began to explain the content of this confrontation.
“I’ll give you a heads-up in advance: this confrontation has extremely high difficulty, because…”
The chief of staff said this, with a slight upturn at the corner of his mouth, and said in a teasing tone: “For a better confrontation experience effect, your opponent in this exercise is not a company. We’ve specially upgraded it by one level.
There will be a whole reorganized battalion’s troops fighting against you in this confrontation, and this reorganized battalion, like Seventh Company, is also a reconnaissance unit.”
The chief of staff deliberately withheld information, saying only half, wanting to create suspense and pressure.
However.
Regiment Commander Wang didn’t give him that chance.
“Your opponent this time is the division direct reconnaissance battalion, very tough to deal with, but not without opportunity. I believe your Seventh Company definitely won’t disappoint us.”
Regiment Commander Wang had just learned the news himself, and was extremely shocked when he found out the opponent was the reconnaissance battalion. The confident smile on his face disappeared from that moment.
But as regiment commander, he had to hold strong and give his subordinates full confidence.
So he specially gave this pep talk in advance.
“Division reconnaissance battalion??”
Gao Cheng exploded on the spot upon hearing the opponent’s name; his temper made it impossible for him to hold back.
He immediately expressed dissatisfaction: “What? Letting a battalion confront a company? And it’s the division direct reconnaissance battalion? Is this a confrontation? In my view, this is messing around, sheer nonsense.
Jealous of how awesome our Seventh Company is? If you want Steel Seventh Company to lose, just say it directly. No need to play these tricks with me.”
A battalion usually has three to five companies; 702 Regiment is the standard configuration of five companies per battalion, while the division reconnaissance battalion is the more conventional three companies.
Even if the reconnaissance battalion has only three companies, its troop strength is still three times that of Steel Seventh Company.
Not to mention that the individual soldier quality of the division reconnaissance battalion is not inferior to Steel Seventh Company, and with the privileges of being directly under the division, it is even stronger.
Troops three times yours, and individual soldier quality even stronger.
Just comparing on these two aspects on paper, Steel Seventh Company, which is comprehensively inferior, has no chance at all; it’s equal to the end being declared before it even starts.
No wonder when the regiment commander learned this news, the confident smile vanished from his face.
Gao Cheng broke down on the spot and counterattacked upon hearing this news.
Only Chen Jun’s expression remained unchanged; even his originally calm eyes surged with strong fighting spirit upon learning the opponent was the reconnaissance battalion.
With Steel Seventh Company’s current powerful strength, fighting any company in the entire division is no pressure.
It’s just repeating once again what crushing combat is.
Only challenging a battalion across levels, entering combat with all-around disadvantages, can shroud the result in mist, with no one able to guess the final outcome.
Only battles with unpredictable results can stimulate people’s fighting spirit, thoroughly igniting adrenaline.
Only defeating an opponent that everyone thinks is absolutely impossible to defeat can demonstrate Steel Seventh Company’s irreplaceable status today.
Would a company that can cross levels and beat a battalion still be included in the reorganization list?
Obviously not!
Thinking of the huge significance a victory in this battle could bring to Steel Seventh Company, no matter how great the challenge difficulty, it couldn’t stop Chen Jun’s blazing fighting spirit.
Thus.
While Gao Cheng was “bold as brass,” disregarding superiors, daring to challenge the division chief of staff, making the atmosphere tense, even Regiment Commander Wang worried about the chief of staff holding him accountable.
Although Chen Jun was just a mere first lieutenant underling, under the stimulation of strong fighting spirit.
He straightened his back, his voice like a bell, each word resounding powerfully: “Report to the leader, I believe the division reconnaissance battalion is a good opponent, with indeed very strong strength.
However, our Steel Seventh Company is not without opportunity.
Even if we are at a disadvantage in numbers, and even more unable to match in equipment.
But we have absolute advantage in tactics. As long as tactical application is proper, no matter if the enemy is a company or a battalion, they cannot block Steel Seventh Company’s advance.”
If another first lieutenant jumped out to say this, he would only get a scolding from the leaders.
What level are you?
Daring to speak in this setting.
However, since it’s Chen Jun speaking, it’s completely different.
Besides his rank being first lieutenant, he also holds titles like person in charge of Steel Seventh Company’s synthesized modification, author of combined arms theory works, legendary first lieutenant of the division grand competition, and so on.
With so many halos surrounding him, Chen Jun has the qualification to speak in this level of setting.
First lieutenant or not.
It obviously no longer matters.
Gao Cheng saw Chen Jun speak with such confidence, and also realized he had been a bit too presumptuous; questioning division leaders is not something a company commander can do.
His originally angry emotions calmed a bit.
He didn’t stand out again to say anything at this time, tacitly agreeing for Chen Jun to represent Steel Seventh Company and confirm the confrontation details with the chief of staff.
Regiment Commander Wang’s tense face also relaxed somewhat.
As the orderer of Steel Seventh Company’s synthesis, he knew very well that Chen Jun was the core of this self-reform, the undisputed soul figure of Steel Seventh Company now.
Chen Jun’s confidence.
Represents Steel Seventh Company’s combat effectiveness.
As long as Chen Jun has confidence in this confrontation, Regiment Commander Wang, you really don’t need to say anything more.
“Good, good, good. Worthy of being T Division’s rising star, outstanding performer among the new generation of young grassroots cadres, not only strong in personal quality, but also exceptionally bold. I appreciate it very much.”
The chief of staff was indeed not angry, instead highly praising Chen Jun.
Then he continued: “Having confidence is a good thing. I also hope you can win this confrontation, letting everyone in the division witness what combined arms tactics are.
So, Company Commander Gao, and Regiment Commander Wang, do you have any objections?”
“What are the confrontation rules?” Regiment Commander Wang replied with a question.
“The rules are actually not complicated. The reconnaissance battalion has its unique advantages. For the fairness of the confrontation, Steel Seventh Company will also be given certain advantages.”
The chief of staff first reassured everyone, then announced the confrontation rules and precautions.
Compared to the first confrontation with Red Third Company, where both sides occupied an area and mutually took out the other’s company headquarters, which leaned more toward frontal combat.
The tactics and methods that scouts should have were not fully demonstrated.
This confrontation exercise organized by the division is specifically tailored around the characteristics and demands of reconnaissance units.
The gameplay is like an upgraded version of cat and mouse!
The division reconnaissance battalion, as the cat in this game, needs to find and annihilate Steel Seventh Company by any means in the vast Drill Ground Number Eleven.
In this pursuit and escape process, both sides will showcase scouts’ combat abilities.
The division reconnaissance battalion must demonstrate how scouts use their skills and techniques to recon and find Steel Seventh Company that has run away.
While Steel Seventh Company, as the one being sought, needs to demonstrate counter-reconnaissance techniques to counter.
And also, while being continuously pursued, find ways to bypass the division reconnaissance battalion’s pursuit and interception, cross the 100 kilometers in between to reach the mission area.
As long as it can capture the objective point in the mission area, Steel Seventh Company wins this confrontation exercise.
The division reconnaissance battalion knows about this and also knows where the objective point is, and will definitely try to intercept ahead.
Whether Steel Seventh Company can reach the objective point tests their infiltration combat ability.
And it’s from actual combat perspective!
This objective point is equivalent to an enemy command post that needs recon during wartime.
The division reconnaissance battalion is equivalent to the enemy army, creating various difficulties in the middle. Steel Seventh Company needs to overcome heavy difficulties to complete the mission of reconning the enemy command post.
Being able to complete the mission in the hands of the powerful reconnaissance battalion means Steel Seventh Company’s self-synthesis reform is successful.
Because under the defense of a higher-level reconnaissance battalion, ordinary reconnaissance companies fundamentally can’t complete this mission.
Even actual combat has various shortcuts, let alone a confrontation exercise imagined out of thin air, inevitably with various bugs.
To prevent the division reconnaissance battalion from using the dumbest and most unsolvable method—
Not searching or pursuing Steel Seventh Company at all, just camping at the objective point, waiting for Steel Seventh Company, which needs to capture the objective point, to deliver itself.
Facing enemies three times their number guarding the objective point, Steel Seventh Company fundamentally can’t complete the mission.
The chief of staff specially set four objective points, located in four different places, each separated by more than twenty kilometers.
This way.
The division direct reconnaissance battalion with only three companies, if really split into four to guard four objective points, each point’s troops would be less than one company.
This would instead give Steel Seventh Company an opportunity, allowing it to win easily.
Company against company…
Steel Seventh Company has no fear at all!
But blindly searching everywhere for Steel Seventh Company without guarding the objective point won’t work either, as it would give Steel Seventh Company a chance to sneak one, easily taking an unguarded objective point.
This forces the division reconnaissance battalion, even with more people, to put effort into properly deploying strategy and tactics.
Absolutely dare not relax or be careless!
Moreover, the three reconnaissance companies of the division reconnaissance battalion need to depart from three different places.
Two companies’ starting points are set at the midway 50 kilometers, to prevent Steel Seventh Company from running too fast, turning this confrontation into an armored vehicle speed race.
The remaining reconnaissance company has the same starting point as Steel Seventh Company.
But different departure times.
It will be one hour later than Steel Seventh Company.
In the terrain of Drill Ground Number Eleven, armored vehicles can’t reach full speed at all; even flooring the accelerator only gets about ten kilometers per hour.
This gives Steel Seventh Company enough time to run ahead first and pull away distance.
It won’t be tightly bitten by the reconnaissance company behind, like having a tail on its butt. In a situation where everyone is driving, there’s no way to shake off the last one.
Allowing the division reconnaissance battalion to assemble three companies and wrap Steel Seventh Company like dumplings.
The specially set one-hour time also gives the division reconnaissance company triggered at the same location a chance, through tactical arrangements, to shorten the distance with Steel Seventh Company.
Pursuing behind to apply sufficient pressure, testing Steel Seventh Company’s pressure resistance.
Similarly.
To prevent Steel Seventh Company from winning easily through luck or coincidence by taking one of the objective points, removing the excitement from this confrontation.
The confrontation rules also restrict Steel Seventh Company.
For Steel Seventh Company to achieve victory in the confrontation, it must capture any two of the four objective points.
And there’s also a time limit for Steel Seventh Company: it must complete within three days. Exceeding three days without meeting the requirement will result in division reconnaissance battalion victory.
There are various other minor rules and matters, all to support this confrontation.
In summary.
The rules and details of this confrontation in all aspects are overall biased toward the reconnaissance battalion, with the purpose of giving Steel Seventh Company sufficiently great difficulty.
On the basis of this pressure and difficulty, it also gives Steel Seventh Company certain winning opportunities.
An ordinary conventional company in this confrontation would definitely have the ending of certain death with no chance of survival, fundamentally impossible to have even a sliver of winning opportunity.
And the chief of staff, having witnessed Steel Seventh Company’s extraordinary nature, specially set the threshold so tight.
Aiming for extreme pressure testing.
Giving Steel Seventh Company a chance to win.
But it must have real kung fu to win.
After understanding the relevant confrontation competition rules and confirming no issues, the chief of staff publicly announced that the confrontation would officially begin in one hour.
In this one-hour time, Steel Seventh Company can collect any supplies it wants.
As long as it’s supplies that Steel Seventh Company thinks it can carry and that can enhance its combat effectiveness, the division logistics department will provide unconditional support.
Emphasizing maximum combat effectiveness start, allowing Steel Seventh Company to fully unleash itself.
This also perfectly restores the preparations a mechanized armored reconnaissance company needs to make before executing a mission in a real war scenario.
