Chapter 246: Top Ten Contract Tactics Crush The Enemy!
The changes in the Combined Arms Battalion after replacing the chief officer had an impact far beyond the division and regiment.
Since the Military Region replaced Sun Dongping, the leaders, although they did not personally come to the Combined Arms Battalion, kept their eyes on it.
Some people were even anticipating that Chen Jun would also mess up the Combined Arms Battalion, so that he could recover the face he lost.
However, four months passed in the blink of an eye.
Under the leadership of Acting Battalion Commander Gao Cheng, with Training Staff Officer Chen Jun personally taking charge, the Combined Arms Battalion submitted an answer sheet that could be called perfect.
Anyone with eyes could see that Chen Jun’s method of leading and training soldiers was extraordinary.
It had already transcended the ordinary path!
Not only could it enhance the troops’ combat effectiveness, but it could also greatly boost the warriors’ morale, and most importantly, strengthen the team’s cohesion.
It could be called achieving three benefits at once!
Such outstanding leadership ability and tactical thinking, along with exceptional talent in military training and command, were enough to gain high recognition from the Military Region leaders.
Some leaders even vaguely felt…
With Chen Jun’s unfathomably deep ability to lead troops, let alone giving him a Combined Arms Battalion, even if given a regiment or a division, it was highly probable that he would not be stumped and could bring out the troops.
In fact, Chen Jun did have this ability, because in his previous life he had already brought out a division.
And it was a digitalized combined arms one!
Chen Jun conquered everyone with hard power, further enhancing his influence in the Military Region.
In the more than one month left after the New Year, the Combined Arms Battalion, having completed basic training and tactical integration training, ushered in the final month-long sprint.
In this last month, Chen Jun would focus on the Combined Arms Tactics application for the Combined Arms Battalion.
It was equivalent to taking a knife that already had a rough blank and had been forged into shape, sharpening its blade and fitting it with a sheath, turning it into a true weapon.
For a knife to kill, it must be sharpened.
For a troop to have combat effectiveness, it must possess complete tactics.
To maximize the combat effectiveness of the Pilot Combined Arms Battalion, advancing in parallel on attack, defense, and emergency response, Chen Jun divided the taught tactics into three major categories: attack tactics, defense tactics, and special operations tactics.
Since the acceptance time was approaching, the Combined Arms Battalion warriors had limited time for learning and training, with no way to eat into a big fat man in one bite.
In terms of attack tactics, Chen Jun first taught only three basic tactics and one trump card tactic.
The first basic tactic was breakthrough tactics.
This tactic relied on the Combined Arms Unit’s unique ability for rapid integration and coordinated combat across multiple branches of service, catching the enemy off guard with speed.
Simply put, it was to first send reconnaissance units to reconnoiter the weak points of the enemy’s defense positions or key areas of strategic value, then concentrate troops and firepower to open a gap.
Subsequent troops could take advantage of this created condition to charge straight in and deal a heavy blow to the enemy.
The attacking force usually took infantry and armored infantry as the vanguard, under artillery and aviation firepower support, rapidly breaking through the enemy’s frontline defense and developing the attack in depth.
That was, acting as assault soldiers to help the main force tear open another breakthrough.
Then came insertion and flanking tactics.
Leveraging the Combined Arms Battalion’s greatest difference from Traditional Units, the advantage of independent combat, the entire battalion would insert through gaps or flanks in the enemy’s defense deployment.
Implementing rapid maneuver to the enemy’s rear or flanks to cut off the enemy’s retreat routes and strike the enemy in segments.
The entire battalion entering the enemy rear, detached from the main force, was something Traditional Units fundamentally could not do, but the Combined Arms Battalion could fully handle it.
Although this process would be very dangerous, this was precisely the advantage of Combined Arms Units.
As long as it was not completely annihilated by the enemy in the rear, the Combined Arms Battalion could completely disrupt the enemy’s formation, cooperate with the frontal attacking force to form a pincer attack from inside and outside, and easily achieve victory in this war.
To put it bluntly!
This set of Combined Arms Tactics was even Guerrilla Warfare plus version.
Traditional tactics’ guerrilla teams deep in the enemy rear usually numbered only dozens or even a few, while Combined Arms Tactics involved an entire Reinforced Battalion.
Guerrilla teams of dozens could already give people headaches, let alone a super-large team of nearly a thousand.
As for danger…
War never had any safety; having a 50% certainty was enough to fight.
If the first basic attack tactic was a frontal assault soldier, very conventional, with risk but not great, within acceptable range.
The second basic tactic was the ultimate fierce one, deep into the enemy rear meant either the enemy dies or I perish.
Then the final third basic tactic was the safest Combined Arms Tactics, emphasizing absolute safety, operating outside the frontal battlefield.
It was—
Firepower surprise attack tactics!
The specific tactical execution method was, before launching the attack or during the attack process, by widely dispersing reconnaissance units in the enemy rear to detect all important units of the enemy side.
And transmit the intelligence to the rear command post, activating the Combined Arms Battalion’s heavy firepower units.
Then, through concentrated artillery, aviation and other firepower, suddenly carry out precision strikes on the enemy’s command posts, communication hubs, firepower points, troop assembly areas and other important targets, pulling out the enemy’s key strategic points.
During combat, hit and run, run and hit again, always maintaining high maneuverability.
Ensuring the safety of artillery and aviation!
With the purpose of paralyzing the enemy’s command system, weakening the enemy’s combat effectiveness, and cutting off the enemy’s logistics supplies, creating favorable conditions for one’s own troops’ attack.
The three basic attack Combined Arms Tactics taught by Chen Jun encompassed danger, safety, and conventional.
They could almost cover most combat scenarios, and when war required, apply the corresponding tactics to strike the enemy optimally.
Combined with the “Thunderstorm” trump card tactic, it was more than enough to cope with the acceptance attack operations.
There were attack tactics.
Naturally, there were also defense tactics.
After all, if using the second set of attack tactics to go deep into the enemy rear for isolated combat, the enemy would definitely send troops for annihilation, and confidentiality measures were needed to survive.
Defense tactics similarly taught only three, mastering three thoroughly was far better than greedily chewing more than one could swallow.
The first was position defense tactics.
That was, relying on favorable terrain, building solid defense positions, setting up obstacles, organizing firepower systems, using stubborn resistance to repel the enemy’s attack.
Reasonably configuring troops and firepower to form multiple defense lines, with infantry and armored infantry holding positions, artillery, anti-air defense and others providing firepower support, special operations platoon roaming outside to reconnoiter and harass the attacking enemy at any time.
Overall defense was not much different from traditional combat, just more branches of service making the defense more layered, making it harder for the enemy to attack.
The second was mobile defense tactics.
Through active and rapid maneuver to frustrate and drag down the enemy’s attack.
And while the main force dragged the enemy on the front, part of the troops detached from the main force to roam outside for mobile operations.
Implementing counterattacks on the flanks or rear of the pursuing attacking enemy, disrupting the enemy’s attack deployment, forcing the enemy to change attack direction or stop the attack.
To sum it up in one sentence:
Run while fighting, fight while running, maintain harassment, pin down the enemy.
The third was key point defense tactics.
The focus was to hold key points and targets of important strategic and campaign value, such as transportation hubs, high ground, bridges, ferry crossings, etc., to stop the enemy’s attack and advance, buying time for one’s own main force.
Strategic key points were not limited to one’s own and natural points, but also included the enemy’s strategic key points.
Similar to encircling a point to strike reinforcements.
Making the enemy hesitant and afraid to attack rashly; as long as it achieved the purpose of delaying time, it fulfilled the goal of this key point defense tactics.
The three basic defense tactics had different emphases and could cope with over 90% of situations.
The remaining third major category—special operations tactics, was not specific defense or attack tactics, but could adapt and switch according to the situation at any time.
Under normal circumstances, it was not needed, only in special situations.
Like the previous two major categories, it also taught only three moves.
The first was urban warfare tactics.
In urban environments with many obstructions, through close coordination of various branches of service, fully utilizing buildings, streets and other terrain features.
Employing squad tactics means such as search, clearing, seizing and controlling key points, engaging the enemy in street-by-street, building-by-building combat.
Infantry could coordinate with armored infantry, engineers, etc., using firepower support, demolition operations and other ways to clear enemy strongpoints and obstacles.
To put it bluntly.
It was an upgraded version of “street fighting techniques”!
The second was mountain warfare tactics.
Combined Arms Tactics specifically developed for mountainous terrain that is complex, with rugged roads, limited observation and maneuver, and difficult for vehicles to pass.
If vehicles were restricted, simply abandon vehicles and directly use the mountainous high ground and passes to organize defense or attack.
Breaking up the Combined Arms Battalion and dispersing, implementing insertion and flanking in small groups on multiple routes, using artillery to control fire on valleys, narrow roads and other key sections.
The third was landing and anti-landing tactics.
When encountering lake, river, or sea landing operations, organize powerful firepower suppression to cover the landing force to complete beach landing.
The landing force must quickly establish a beachhead position, cover subsequent troops to converge, and together develop the attack into the enemy depth.
Anti-landing operations were the opposite, organizing defense on the coast and shallow depth.
Using firepower strikes, mine obstacles, artillery, engineers, armored infantry to form multiple circular defenses and other means to prevent enemy landing craft from approaching.
Then using counter-charges and counterattacks and other tactics to annihilate the enemy’s landing force.
Special operations tactics were not used under normal conditions, only suitable as backup techniques at specific times and specific environments.
Three attack tactics, three defense tactics, three special operations tactics, plus the trump card Thunderstorm tactic.
Perfectly complete!
By the time Chen Jun finished teaching all these tactics, the Combined Arms Battalion warriors could basically coordinate and execute them, and the time had arrived at the end of April.
With the third stage training time up, it finally ushered in the life-and-death acceptance assessment.
The Military Region seemed to have been waiting for this day for a long time, already impatient.
Because on the afternoon when the time was up, the Military Region’s order was issued to the division, transferred by the Division Headquarters to the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, entering the execution phase.
The Military Region issuing the order so quickly showed that the documents had long been prepared.
The content of the order was not complicated.
It could even be called concise.
The time was set for May 3rd.
The location required the entire Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment to maneuver 200 kilometers northwest to the No. 74 area assembly point to participate in the Military Region-organized acceptance assessment confrontation.
The specific assessment content was not specified, but the general assessment method was mentioned.
Perhaps because confrontation between similar troops could better show the Combined Arms Battalion’s role in combat, the Blue Army acting as the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment’s opponent in this acceptance assessment confrontation was also an Armored Infantry Regiment.
Even to avoid playing the emotional appeal card within the same division, it specially selected the 384th Regiment from N Division.
This was the strongest main force regiment under N Division, with status in N Division equivalent to the current Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, having absolute strength suppression in N Division.
Even looking across the entire army’s Armored Infantry Regiments, the 384th Regiment was among the top.
If placed three years ago.
At that time, the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment without Chen Jun had no power to fight the 384th Regiment at all, and fighting them would absolutely result in being abused to tears.
Precisely because the 384th Regiment was so strong, it was qualified to confront the current Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment.
The Military Region specially picking such a strong opponent, the ace regiment second to none among the same branch of service, showed how much importance it attached to this acceptance.
T Division Commander, upon learning the opponent was the 384th Regiment, specially came personally to the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment for a meeting.
While conveying the order to the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, he specially gathered the chief officers of the Combined Arms Battalion and the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, instructing Regiment Commander Wang, Gao Cheng, Chen Jun and others to be extra careful with the 384th Regiment in this confrontation.
He also printed the 384th Regiment’s previous confrontation battle records into a booklet and handed it to Chen Jun, Gao Cheng and others, reminding them to study it thoroughly.
With the Division Commander attaching such importance to the 384th Regiment, Chen Jun and others naturally did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
Looking at the documents for a long time.
The result was more and more shocking.
This 384th Regiment was really no boast; it had actually been pulled to participate in the Sino-Vietnamese War and even won a Collective First-class Merit, a first-class merit regiment.
In the recent ten years of confrontation exercises, it participated in various confrontation exercises twelve times.
And won eleven times.
The only loss was last year.
At that time, like the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, this regiment participated in the assessment exercise against old A Blue Army, paving the way for promoting informatized military reform.
Old A Blue Army was originally there to knock down the troops, with all conditions favoring the Blue Army.
Not only did it occupy absolute terrain advantage, but equipment was comprehensively crushing, soldier quality was much higher, and it seriously weakened the confronting Red Army.
It could be said the buffs were maxed out!
Even as strong as the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment with Chen Jun, the cheater present, controlling the Eye of God, ultimately only fought to a draw after a hard battle.
The 384th Regiment, no matter how strong, could not surpass the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment with cheater Chen Jun.
So like other regiments, under various severe weakening debuffs, it ultimately lost to old A Blue Army.
However, a combat loss ratio of 1 to 9 was already dominating all regiments except the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment.
Showing its formidable strength!
Even Chen Jun, who had full confidence in this acceptance confrontation exercise.
After reading the 384th Regiment’s battle records, he could not help but frown, an uncontrollable sense of pressure surging onto his shoulders.
Making him have to be extra cautious about this, raising twelve levels of vigilance for this confrontation.
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PS
To find Combined Arms Tactics materials, it made my head buzz; many of these are classified.
These 10 tactics are absolute dry goods, stripped from various military exercises, the most orthodox Combined Arms Tactics play, hope everyone is satisfied.
