Chapter 175: Straight For Yuan Lang, The Deception Plan!
Chen Jun still didn’t know that with just one personal resume, he had easily conquered Old A Captain Tie Lu.
This stirred a strong desire to cherish talent in Tie Lu, who was even willing to change the exercise’s tactical core for this, just to probe the limits of Chen Jun’s abilities.
Tie Lu decided to counter Chen Jun’s playing style.
The boss of a strategic special forces unit was actually starting to settle down to study a mere first lieutenant.
Meanwhile, Chen Jun, who had already gained a small advantage, raised his goal to a higher level after fiercely biting off a large chunk of fat meat from the Blue Army.
On the Red Army Headquarters side, how to conceal and avoid reconnaissance from the Blue Army.
Everything Chen Jun could do was now done.
And it was a quite meticulous deployment!
The Red Army ground forces, according to the combat plan, had now developed a formed tactics for the follow-up operations to advance and occupy the Blue Army position.
Chen Jun no longer needed to help with this aspect either; everything that needed to be done was already done.
Moreover.
Under Chen Jun’s ambush night raid and turning the enemy’s plan to one’s own advantage, the Blue Army’s ground forces and air forces had both suffered varying degrees of weakening in strength.
The Red Army only needed to steadily and firmly advance to absolutely achieve 50% control over the Blue Army position.
The overall strategic pattern was already set. For Chen Jun, who had become the Red Army’s brain, he now only had one last task left.
And it was the most important task!
That was to find the Blue Army Command Post and then find a method to take it out.
Only then could they win the exercise.
The Red Army was doing everything to protect the command post. Chen Jun believed the Blue Army would definitely use various methods to protect theirs too.
Don’t think that just because the Blue Army put the command post on a helicopter, flying around in the sky every day with it.
But helicopter fuel is not infinite.
The Blue Army must still have a ground command post, or a supply camp serving the command post, that needed to be concealed by every possible means.
Only by finding this Blue Army supply camp and waiting for the helicopter to come down from the sky.
Would the Red Army have a chance to take out the Blue Army Command Post.
Otherwise.
A Blue Army Command Post always flying in the sky was almost invincible to the Red Army, which lacked beyond-visual-range anti-air strike capabilities.
So this further emphasized the importance of Seventh Company Vanguard Reconnaissance Squad.
Once the reconnaissance squad was gone.
The Red Army’s hope of victory would be gone too.
To maximize the chances of Seventh Company Vanguard Reconnaissance Squad surviving in the Blue Army war zone enemy rear, Chen Jun decided to use another of the Thirty-Six Stratagems—
Deceive the heavens to cross the sea!
He would lead a team that seemed to act very concealed but actually exposed inadvertently, to mislead the Blue Army’s judgment into thinking they were the ones searching for the Blue Army reconnaissance team.
This would allow the real Red Army reconnaissance teams to smoothly complete their missions in the enemy rear.
After all, Old A’s strength was obvious. Even if Vanguard Reconnaissance Squad ran into Old A face-to-face, or if Old A realized there was Red Army infiltration and conducted a search within the Blue Army war zone.
With the vast disparity in overall strength between the two sides, Vanguard Reconnaissance Squad simply couldn’t survive.
After all, special operations focused on small team combat, being the peak ceiling of small team combat.
Scouts were far inferior.
Chen Jun decided to use deceive the heavens to cross the sea to assist. The Red Army Headquarters didn’t need him involved anymore, so he quickly launched a new round of action.
First, leave the anti-air squad in Seventh Company, with Gao Cheng personally responsible for directing and commanding.
The current warfare form was already clear: the Red Army needed to seize more Blue Army positions, while the Blue Army needed to eliminate more of the Red Army’s living forces.
Only then could they achieve final victory in the exercise after crushing the command post.
So Chen Jun inferred that the next combat between both sides would inevitably be each showing their own special prowess, using every method to achieve their respective goals.
Due to the Blue Army ground forces fighting until now, Old A had suffered considerable losses.
One by one, two or three killed in action one after another, plus Chen Jun taking out eleven in one go, Yuan Lang’s Third Company had already lost more than twenty.
Originally only over eighty Old A members, it was equivalent to nearly two-fifths gone.
The remaining Third Company of over fifty Old A members needed to detach some to deal with Chen Jun’s reconnaissance team that was about to infiltrate the Blue Army hinterland using deceive the heavens to cross the sea.
With only that many Old A left, facing the Red Army that had already suffered losses early on and was now dead-guarding positions, it would be very difficult to take out several hundred Red Army living forces again and meet the 50% enemy kill standard.
This meant that in the upcoming battles, Old A definitely couldn’t be the main force in eliminating the Red Army.
They could only play a role in ground containment and support.
So Chen Jun had sufficient reason to believe that in the subsequent battlefield, the Blue Army’s army aviation force would be the main force, relying on its high-speed maneuver to continuously strike and massively consume the Red Army’s living forces.
Including but not limited to tank units, logistics units, and supply lines, etc.
The anti-air pressure the Red Army would face next would reach unprecedented heights, with every bit of anti-air force being especially important.
Steel Seventh Company’s anti-air squad was personally built by Chen Jun, with every shooter’s technology being excellent.
In this battle of air strikes versus anti-air defense, they would inevitably play a key role, laying more advantages for the Red Army’s victory.
Therefore, leaving the anti-air squad for high-level command would have a greater effect than Chen Jun taking them as bait.
The remaining Second Squad, as counter-reconnaissance squad, needed to stay behind to search and maintain vigilance against Blue Army infiltration reconnaissance.
Even if individual soldier abilities were far inferior to Old A, having a squad of professional scouts, cooperating with Signal Company to set up vigilance around, was better than no defense at all.
This way.
Only Firepower Platoon’s three squads, plus Tank Squad and Sniper Squad, were left.
To achieve inadvertent exposure without letting the Blue Army discover his intentions and thus prepare defenses, Chen Jun deliberately took all five squads along for a “grand-scale” enemy rear infiltration.
This looked very suspicious, but upon closer thought, it actually made sense.
Because Steel Seventh Company was originally a reconnaissance company. Deploying a reconnaissance company to find the target, and a strategic-level target at that, was completely necessary.
Not to mention…
Such a large group infiltrating into the Blue Army enemy rear—if the Blue Army discovered something off, they still had to dispatch large units to intercept.
They couldn’t let such a big group rampage and stir chaos in their own rear.
It was equivalent to an open scheme.
Forcing you to jump in headfirst even if you knew it was a trap.
But Chen Jun did want to attract the Blue Army, and tie down as many Blue Army troops as possible—the more people he tied down here, the safer Shi Jin’s side would be.
But at the same time.
He also didn’t want to court death and get annihilated by the Blue Army.
If they really charged in and all got wiped out, then this move wouldn’t be deceive the heavens to cross the sea, but delivering themselves to the door.
So although he brought these five squads in, Chen Jun made temporary changes to all five squads, with some special targeted adjustments.
Firepower Platoon’s main weapon was 100 mortars, which were really too cumbersome.
Chen Jun decisively abandoned them, replacing all with rifles.
The artillerymen instantly turned into “riflemen”!
The original Anti-tank Squad also needed re-equipping. The Blue Army had no armored units at all, so bringing rocket launchers in wouldn’t play much role.
Chen Jun swapped two of the 60 rocket launchers for two Vanguard-1 individual anti-aircraft missiles.
Back when Anti-air Squad and Anti-tank Squad were training, Chen Jun had them practice each other’s main weapons for greater flexibility in the combined arms company, making the two squads backups for each other.
This way, during war, warriors from both squads could switch anytime if needed.
Their carry methods were similar to begin with, and firing methods were essentially the same principle—training together doubled results with half the effort, and the training effect was indeed good.
He hadn’t expected Chen Jun’s bold idea back then to come into play so soon.
Anti-tank soldiers switched to anti-air soldiers in one second.
No problem at all!
Finally, although Sniper Squad didn’t need to change, their mission gained an additional task: temporarily act as reconnaissance squad.
Pull out two sniper teams and convert them to reconnaissance teams.
Snipers were already the best at concealment, and their observers were qualified scouts.
Switching between the two was seamless.
After completing the temporary adjustments to the five squads and applying to Regiment Headquarters Logistics for sufficient weaponry and equipment, Chen Jun then led the team to set off.
Worth mentioning is…
When Chen Jun went to pick up the needed weapons, he happened to run into Old Ma and his two companions on the road, who had just finished their supply mission and were still looking for someone to pass a message along the way.
From the start of the exercise, they had been trying to find someone to pass the message, and even now hadn’t delivered it to Xu Sanduo.
Old Ma and the other two really had perseverance, still persisting.
Originally, if they hadn’t run into Chen Jun, even up to the last minute of the exercise’s end, Old Ma and the other two couldn’t have found Xu Sanduo.
Because Vanguard Reconnaissance Squad had already deeply infiltrated the enemy rear, and every squad in Steel Seventh Company had important missions.
Who would have time to pass messages for them.
Who could deliver the message to Xu Sanduo.
And Chen Jun coming to the regiment logistics equipment depot for weapons was just a short trip—even twenty seconds off and they would have missed each other.
It had to be said.
For Old Ma to run into Chen Jun at this time was truly a stroke of luck in his life.
Chen Jun originally hadn’t planned to specially help Old Ma—after all, going all the way to Grassland Fifth Squad was really unnecessary, and he didn’t have that much time.
But since he had run into Old Ma now, Chen Jun simply did a favor in passing.
