Chapter 253: Everyone Stunned, Special Forces Platoon Vanishes!
The Blue Army Unit, based on the movements of the Red Army support troops, judged that the Blue Army infiltration troops were right ahead, and following the Red Army support troops would definitely lead them to them.
Thus, they all charged toward the Red Army support troops and the area ahead.
They wanted to intercept them one step ahead of the Red Army support troops arriving and linking up with the Red Army infiltration troops, and snatch back the Blue Army battle flag.
Then free up all their strength to pincers the frontline troops from front and rear, swallowing the Red Army support troops.
As long as they could swallow the Red Army support troops, it would inevitably be a heavy blow to the Red Army, and all the Red Army’s advantages would vanish.
And the Blue Army Unit could seize this opportunity to gain the advantage, pursue the victory, and launch a full-line counterattack against the Red Army.
Even without the regiment command post’s unified command, the Blue Army’s three battalions could complete a great comeback victory against the Red Army through the established temporary command center.
Especially now, the remaining Second Battalion Commander of the Blue Army would surely become the person in charge of the temporary command center.
If they could really turn the tables against the wind…
The Second Battalion Commander couldn’t help but feel his heartbeat suddenly accelerate, not daring to imagine how much benefit this would bring him; it might even mean he could live comfortably for the rest of his life.
The Blue Army cadres’ imaginations were beautiful, and the warriors’ execution capability was also very strong.
Worthy of the ace regiment’s reputation!
Even though the regiment command post had been taken down by the Red Army, the three battalions fighting independently could still react quickly, and the coordination between the three battalions was not chaotic.
The Blue Army Unit’s encirclement speed was very fast, and it seemed it wouldn’t take long to complete the envelopment.
The Red Army seemed to have realized this too, worrying that the special operations platoon would be preempted by the Blue Army, so the support troops had no choice but to further accelerate.
Almost at the fastest speed that armored vehicles and tanks could achieve under the terrain constraints.
Inside the Directorate Command Center.
The three directors, who had been constantly stirring things up and specifically targeting the Red Army, still felt that the current battlefield wasn’t chaotic enough.
They came up with another new “bad idea.”
Whether they wanted the confrontation to last longer, or to further test the Red Army’s limits, or to give the Blue Army, which had been constantly beaten, a chance to launch an offensive, making the exercise even more ups and downs.
They decided to serve the Red Army another dish.
And a big one at that!
Just as the Red Army troops were accelerating forward, seemingly engaged in a speed competition with the Blue Army, the director gave the Red Army another sudden incident.
Through the directing staff’s radio notification to the Blue Army, an accident occurred two kilometers ahead.
Due to severe soil erosion from heavy rain a few days ago, multiple collapses had occurred on the road there, and the ground’s load-bearing capacity was severely insufficient, making it impossible for heavy armored vehicles to pass.
When the Red Army received the directing staff’s notification, the entire Red Army Command Post exploded.
From the regiment commander down to the staff officers, everyone was furious.
If the director were in front of them right now, without a doubt, everyone in the entire Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment headquarters would rush up and beat him up.
At this crucial juncture, the director casually opened his mouth and said it so lightly, yet it left the Red Army with no road to take for no reason.
This was simply forcibly transferring the Red Army’s advantage to the Blue Army.
This was really too much.
However, this wasn’t even the most infuriating part.
The most infuriating was that the location selected by the director was right at the mountain pass between two large dirt hills.
The terrain on both sides was too steep with too large an elevation angle; tanks and armored vehicles couldn’t go up at all, meaning this mountain pass was the only passable route.
If this road was impassable, detouring around would take at least twenty more minutes.
On normal days, twenty minutes was just a moment.
No one would pay too much attention.
But now, with the Red and Blue sides racing against time and the battle at the most critical moment, even being one second slower could determine victory or defeat.
These twenty minutes were deadly!
No wonder after directors became standard in exercises, they directly became the most hated existence by all troops, even more so than referees.
The Red Army side was collectively cursing, all falling into a state of red-hot anger.
Only Chen Jun remained calm.
His face showed no expression.
The Blue Army, as the enemy, upon hearing the news, was overjoyed.
In the hastily assembled Blue Army temporary command post, the Second Battalion Commander acting as commander was grinning from ear to ear, exclaiming that the addition of the guidance system was truly great.
He confidently declared on the spot: “This accident for the Red Army is truly too unexpected; they absolutely have no chance left, victory definitely belongs to us.”
The Blue Army Second Battalion Commander was so full of confidence, just short of popping champagne to celebrate early.
The Blue Army and Red Army, due to the directing staff’s adjustment, suddenly fell into heaven and hell, one side full of laughter, the other constant cursing.
Inside the directing staff, due to this sudden change, opinions were sharply divided.
Some thought the director’s move was brilliant, making the already highlight-filled Red-Blue final showdown even more ups and downs.
Some felt the Red Army had always been dominant, pressing the Blue Army throughout, which wasn’t interesting.
Now, giving the Red Army two small pressures in a row, slightly eroding the Red Army’s advantage, indeed made the confrontation more anticipated.
Some believed this exercise was an assessment of the combined arms battalion, not just a simple Red-Blue confrontation,
so greater difficulty should be imposed on the Red Army.
Only if the Red Army could still achieve confrontation victory under greater combat pressure could it demonstrate the combined arms battalion’s advantage.
Otherwise, even if the Red Army won the confrontation, it wouldn’t prove the combined arms battalion was strong.
Only strong against the wind is truly strong.
These people approved of the director’s actions, feeling that adding difficulty to the Red Army at key moments was completely within reasonable bounds.
Some agreed.
So others opposed.
Among the opponents, some felt it was unfair.
In confrontation exercises, no matter the situation, even if the troops, deployment, establishment, etc., differed between sides, they should at least be based on fair rules for both sides.
The director unilaterally pressuring the Red Army, and changing the battlefield at a key moment.
This was obviously unfair to the Red Army!
Some felt there was no need, repeatedly increasing difficulty for the Red Army.
In the previous series of battles, the Red Army had already demonstrated the combined arms battalion’s mature integrated tactics, showing its versatility far surpassing traditional combat battalions, and its adaptability on the battlefield.
Adding difficulty at this critical moment might lead to the Red Army’s failure.
Others felt the directors’ appearance was a good idea, but their power was too great, almost arbitrarily deciding the exercise’s victory or defeat.
This turned it into the directors playing a game, rather than combat units training through the exercise.
Domestically, there had never been offensive wars abroad; even in modern history, they were all defensive combats, with troops severely lacking battlefield combat experience.
Confrontation exercises were the only way for all domestic troops to enhance combat effectiveness.
A few words from the directors outweighed years of hard training for the troops.
For the exercise, it was absolutely more harm than good.
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The directing staff’s officers were clearly divided into two major factions: support and opposition, with intense discussions between them.
However, those discussing were all the lower-level people; the top military region and military region chiefs did not participate.
Since the senior leaders didn’t speak up, no matter how intense the discussions below, they wouldn’t affect this confrontation exercise.
The unexpected event imposed on the Red Army still had to be strictly complied with and executed by the Red Army.
The T Division Division Commander was truly furious, his eyes bloodshot, staring fixedly at the screen, already mentally prepared.
If this exercise really ended in loss, he would definitely go all out.
Even if scolded harshly by superior leaders, the T Division Commander would speak out against the unfair treatment the Red Army received and demand justice for the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment.
A few colleagues on good terms with the T Division Commander also felt it was unfair and went over to console him.
However, just as everyone watching the exercise believed the Red Army’s momentum was gone and didn’t believe the Red Army could still win the confrontation under the director’s continuous targeting.
Little did they know.
Chen Jun had said at the very beginning that he would give the directing staff a surprise at the end.
And this surprise of his.
Indeed, no one had anticipated it beforehand.
Because the special operations platoon had sneaked away stealthily, the directing staff didn’t even know they had slipped away in the first half, unaware the special operations platoon would sneak behind the Blue Army for a sneak attack.
The camera crew responsible for live broadcasting naturally couldn’t keep up with the special operations platoon.
Without a broadcasting camera crew following, and no referee in the accompanying team, all the special operations platoon’s movements were completely invisible to the directing staff.
It was a case of hearing the sound but not seeing the person.
In other words.
No one had eyewitness confirmation of exactly where the special operations platoon was now.
It was purely guesswork and hearsay.
They thought the Red Army combined arms battalion had gone through great pains to breach a gap in the Red Army frontline, then charged quickly toward the Blue Army hinterland.
So the direction they were heading must be the direction the special operations platoon came from.
After all, they were going to rescue the special operations platoon!
And the information on the direction the Red Army troops were heading came from coordinates reported by the special operations platoon, not from real-time satellite or reconnaissance aircraft sightings.
Under this entire atmosphere, everyone’s information was swayed.
Firmly believing one thing—
The special operations platoon was ahead of the Red Army combined arms battalion, and following the Red Army combined arms battalion would lead to them.
No one even considered the possibility that the special operations platoon’s location wasn’t in the direction the Red Army support troops were heading.
Even if someone thought of it, they wouldn’t dwell on it, thinking it impossible.
The special operations platoon wouldn’t deceive their own people!
However, Chen Jun was precisely this “cunning and resourceful,” seizing everyone’s “common sense” psychology and conventional logical thinking.
He thus performed the most vivid anti-conventional routine tactic for everyone.
Even to make this tactic succeed, Chen Jun deceived his own people too, including Regiment Commander Wang, Gao Cheng’s led combined arms battalion, and others.
From beginning to end, they firmly believed the special operations platoon was ahead waiting for rescue.
So when they learned the road ahead was blocked and they had to detour from the side, whether Gao Cheng or Regiment Commander Wang, they were all so angry they broke down on the spot.
It was precisely because all Red Army personnel were kept in the dark that they could deceive the entire Blue Army and directing staff.
Thus.
A hilarious scene unfolded!
The Blue Army, leveraging the advantage given by the director, overtook and got ahead first, encountering a team more than ten minutes later.
However, just as the Blue Army encirclement team thought they had caught the Red Army infiltration troops.
With victory in sight.
They discovered that after grandly encircling several vehicles marked with Blue Army identifiers, thinking it was the special operations platoon that stole the Blue Army vehicles.
The large group of people who came down from the vehicles were not the Red Army warriors they wanted.
But rather the anti-aircraft company commander and his group, who were baffled and confused, not understanding why their own people were encircling them instead of pursuing the Red Army, nearly cursing.
“What’s the situation, Company Commander Qiu? Why is it you? Where are the Red Army infiltration troops?”
The person who got off the vehicle was the Company Commander of the First Battalion, who immediately recognized the anti-aircraft company commander ahead as an acquaintance and stared wide-eyed in confusion.
“You’re asking me? I’m asking you.”
Company Commander Qiu angrily cursed: “Damn it, I’ve been chasing all the way here perfectly, maybe catching up soon, why block us? If the Red Army slips away, can you take responsibility?”
The Blue Army annihilation troops lacked contact between units, mostly acting independently on orders without direct communication.
This was also the drawback of lacking the regiment headquarters!
“You’re chasing? Chase a damn ball.”
The First Battalion’s company commander irritably scratched his head and said: “We came from the frontline to envelop; if they were ahead, would it be your turn?”
“What? You came to envelop?”
Company Commander Qiu was thunderstruck by the news, completely dazed.
Now both company commanders were baffled.
The over a hundred warriors below collectively froze in place.
Reporting the information to their respective battalion headquarters, the Blue Army battalion headquarters above were also dumbfounded, and when it reached the temporary command center, everyone was dumbfounded.
From below to the top.
All the way dumbfounded upward.
So now came a big problem—where had the Blue Army infiltration troops gone?
Not only was the Blue Army Unit baffled now; they had clearly followed the Red Army support troops’ direction, so how did the Red Army infiltration troops disappear?
Even the Red Army combined arms battalion that detoured later saw the clustered Blue Army troops ahead from afar but heard no gunshots.
The Red Army was also confused!
The Blue Army clustered ahead and stopped moving; no gunshots from start to finish, and no special operations platoon seen, so they definitely hadn’t encircled anyone.
Then where had the special operations platoon at this location gone, as clearly stated?
In the enemy’s lair, where else could they run?
Frontline information fed back to the battalion headquarters; Gao Cheng sat with his mouth open, stunned for a full ten seconds, completely unable to figure out what was going on.
After reacting, he exclaimed it was eerie and immediately reported the situation to the regiment headquarters.
Regiment Commander Wang and others were all worried and unhappy, thinking they would soon hear bad news of the special operations platoon being besieged and the Blue Army battle flag returned.
Unexpectedly, the situation reported by Gao Cheng was something no one had imagined.
And they all simultaneously had a doubt—
“Where did the special operations platoon go?”
