Chapter 325: Sun Dongping’s Killer Move
The Red Army’s ground troops cooperated tacitly, attacking back and forth on the Blue Army highland for nearly an hour.
During this period, both sides suffered considerable losses.
The Blue Army was inferior in logistics soldiers’ combat capability, with more troops in combat losses, exceeding thirty percent, most of whom died from the Red Army’s artillery strike.
The Red Army, as the attacking side, fought very cautiously, launching assaults only after artillery strikes, with losses under twenty percent.
As both sides’ losses continued to increase, the ground combat also entered the White-hot Stage, with both sides attacking and defending in a stalemate.
Although the Blue Army was gradually showing signs of fatigue, it wouldn’t collapse in a short time.
Strangely, Sun Dongping remained as steady as Mount Tai, and the hidden tank unit still hadn’t moved, staying in that place from beginning to end.
“Strange, how has it been fighting for so long, and the Blue Army’s tanks still haven’t appeared?” Chen Jun was very puzzled.
The reason the Blue Army fell into passivity right from the start of the battle was mainly because the Blue Army’s tanks weren’t committed to the battlefield; otherwise, the Red Army wouldn’t have fought so easily.
However.
Although he still hadn’t figured out why the Blue Army’s tanks had completely disappeared, whether the Blue Army was playing tricks and holding back a big move.
But Chen Jun couldn’t afford to worry about it anymore, only because his killer move was in the third step.
As long as he could complete the final third step, even if all frontline troops were annihilated by the Blue Army, the Red Army could still achieve final victory.
What’s more, the Blue Army didn’t have the capability to wipe out all of the Red Army’s frontline troops.
Unless…
Chen Jun thought of the only possibility, but he didn’t believe Sun Dongping would do that, because if he really did, the risk would be too high.
So, seeing that the frontline offensive rhythm had entered the stalemate stage he wanted.
Chen Jun didn’t hesitate any longer and initiated the second stage.
The two attack helicopters, fully loaded with fuel and ammunition and having completed all pre-flight preparations long ago, received the order for a feint attack on the Blue Army main position from the center.
To make the feint attack look more realistic, while not actually getting themselves killed.
The two attack helicopters on mission brought out Oscar movie emperor-level acting skills and began their aerial performance.
The two attack helicopters advanced side by side, pushing their flight speed to the maximum.
They assumed the posture of a rapid breakthrough.
Then, when approaching the Blue Army main position, at about two kilometers away, they immediately launched an air strike on all visible units on the main position.
During the attack, they maintained high-speed maneuver to guard against ground anti-air defense at any time.
Sure enough.
Maintaining vigilance was correct.
Less than thirty seconds after the Red Army attack helicopters launched their offense, the Blue Army’s ground anti-air firepower attacked the helicopters.
“Bang bang bang…”
Anti-aircraft shells tore through space like longswords, with violent explosions like thunder from a clear sky.
The two attack helicopters were already prepared; upon encountering the anti-aircraft gun’s anti-air strike, they immediately began evasive maneuvers, dancing a waltz in the sky.
This blade waltz of dancing on the tip of a knife looked extremely visually impactful.
The anti-aircraft shells exploded into clouds of smoke in the air, seemingly about to shoot down the helicopters, but they never managed to hit them.
The two attack helicopters didn’t rush to leave; they deliberately showed off their technology in the sky.
At the same time, they released smoke grenades in the air, and performed high-speed dives to reduce altitude and other actions, depriving the ground anti-air guns of aerial field of vision.
And when encountering individual missiles launched from the ground, they used flares to escape.
It wasn’t until they had performed several minutes of special flight techniques over the frontline of the Blue Army main position that the Red Army’s two attack helicopters gracefully departed.
The Red Army attack helicopters’ behavior, though dancing on the tip of a knife and extremely dangerous, also carried a strong flavor of provocation.
And the latter was the main effect Chen Jun wanted to achieve with his order.
Even if one of the attack helicopters was shot down in this deliberate provocation, as long as the ultimate goal was achieved, Chen Jun felt it was not a loss at all.
The Blue Army’s anti-aircraft unit wasn’t large to begin with.
Because in this entire army exercise, the opponents they faced, apart from the special case of Steel Seventh Battalion, battalion-level units wouldn’t be equipped with air power.
So the Blue Army combined arms battalion’s artillery unit was only equipped with one platoon of anti-air defense.
Only three anti-aircraft vehicle groups.
When deploying the defensive operation earlier, two of the vehicle groups had already been placed on the left and right sides of the main position, respectively responsible for defending against Red Army helicopter air strikes from those two sides.
As for the anti-air defense of positions 5 and 6, it was entirely handled by infantry-equipped individual anti-air missiles.
As a result, the Red Army’s two attack helicopters didn’t play by the rules at all, charging straight from between the two positions toward the main position.
This caught the Blue Army off guard!
The Blue Army’s anti-air defenses placed on the left and right sides of the main position were in wrong positional angles and needed temporary adjustments to lock on the center.
That’s why it took nearly half a minute after the Red Army helicopters flew over for the Blue Army anti-air to react.
Now, having been ridden in the face by the Red Army’s two attack helicopters with a full mockery operation, and still failing to shoot them down.
Not to mention the Blue Army anti-air soldiers feeling extremely embarrassed, even Sun Dongping couldn’t keep his cool.
To prevent the Red Army attack helicopters from having another chance to ride in his face and act arrogantly, Sun Dongping dispatched the last anti-aircraft vehicle group.
He also moved the anti-aircraft vehicle group defending the command post to the front of the position to join the defense.
Assuming the posture that if the Red Army attack helicopters dared to come and act arrogantly again, he would definitely teach them a lesson.
Sun Dongping’s mind was full of his break the cauldrons and sink the boats plan, and he still had to command the frontline troops in defense.
His brain really wasn’t enough, and he had no time to think about anything else.
He didn’t realize that Chen Jun’s methods were far beyond what his little brain could imagine; this seemingly simple battle was laid with so many stratagems.
On the Red Army side, the frontline maintained the offensive rhythm, and the attack helicopters launched a second offense.
This offense was ten minutes after the last one, and the Blue Army side had completely readjusted all defenses against the Red Army’s air attacks.
When the Red Army’s two attack helicopters came to attack again as Chen Jun instructed.
The Blue Army’s anti-air firepower quickly reacted.
The anti-air array composed of three automatic anti-aircraft artillery vehicles, plus two individual portable anti-air missiles specially moved over, posed a great threat to the attack helicopters.
Especially the two individual missiles specially moved over, which were deliberately hidden and not used at first.
Waiting until the attack helicopters and anti-air high guns were playing blade waltz in the air, fighting intensely, then seizing the opportunity for a sneak attack.
Neither of the two attack helicopters escaped; both were hit and emitted thick white smoke.
The Blue Army anti-air soldiers seeing this result all cheered excitedly; when the order was relayed back to battalion headquarters, Sun Dongping felt particularly relieved.
His originally gloomy face for half a day now showed a bit of a smile.
Completely unaware of the problem within.
The two attack helicopters, under fierce anti-air fire, didn’t immediately turn around and flee the battlefield; instead, they arrogantly continued provoking on the battlefield.
This seemingly very arrogant behavior obviously didn’t match the disciplined Steel Seventh Battalion.
As long as he calmed down and thought deeply a bit, with Sun Dongping’s intelligence quotient, he could definitely see the trick and notice something wrong with the two helicopters.
He might even guess that Chen Jun deliberately sent the helicopters to “die.”
The purpose was only one.
That was to completely dispel the Blue Army’s concerns, so the Blue Army no longer had to worry about the safety of the main position, and commit all forces to the frontline.
This would reduce the defensive strength of the main position, this big rear area, to the lowest point.
In this way, the special operations team launching lightning decapitation wouldn’t encounter major resistance in the Blue Army rear, maximizing the probability of success.
However, Chen Jun’s deliberate “sending heads” with this move was originally just to paralyze the Blue Army’s defense.
Unexpectedly, this action also achieved an unintended effect, making Sun Dongping feel that the moment to counterattack had come.
The Blue Army’s one-and-a-half company tank unit had always been concealed under the highland without moving.
Mainly because Sun Dongping didn’t want to move rashly, as this was the only killer move in his break the cauldrons and sink the boats plan that could turn defeat into victory.
Consuming and dragging the Blue Army’s main troops was only one of Sun Dongping’s concerns.
The remaining concern was the attack helicopters.
The impact formed by one-and-a-half companies of heavy tanks on the grassland would be absolutely terrifying; apart from tank-vs-tank, they basically only feared air strikes.
Sun Dongping was worried that after the tank unit went out, it would be targeted by the Red Army’s attack helicopters.
Without the anti-air forces that could be moved over at any time during home operations for protection, the tanks going out alone would be like newborn lambs in front of attack helicopters, easily taken down.
Previously, the Red Army and Blue Army were fighting intensely on the frontline, completely entangled together, unable to disengage easily.
Sun Dongping had already eliminated a major concern.
No need to worry that after the Blue Army tanks struck out, they would be intercepted and held by the Red Army’s tanks.
Now, the Red Army’s attack helicopters took the initiative to strike, and arrogantly showed off technology in front of the main position, only to be shot down one by one by his ingeniously deployed individual portable anti-air missiles.
Sun Dongping practically wanted to give his stratagem 366 likes.
With the Red Army attack helicopters withdrawing from the battlefield, Sun Dongping’s last concern was completely gone, and his ambition surged fully.
The Blue Army tank company hidden under the position finally received Sun Dongping’s order at this moment—
Tank group full speed assault, destroy the Red Army main camp!
This main camp was not just the Red Army command post, but also included the Red Army’s rear artillery company, support company, information company, and everything else.
Sun Dongping believed that without attack helicopters and without the Red Army tanks’ frontal resistance.
The Blue Army tank group charging in cluster would become invincible on this battlefield, easily tearing apart any enemies it encountered.
In fact, it was indeed so.
If the tank group really charged through the frontline position and killed toward the Red Army’s rear troops, those rear logistics units would be utterly defenseless.
And as long as the Red Army command post was destroyed and all Red Army rear units were taken out.
The remaining frontline combat troops simply couldn’t hold out for long.
Once the Blue Army tank group completing the mission turned around, together with the Blue Army on the position pinching the Red Army troops from front and back, they could absolutely annihilate the Red Army.
Achieving a comeback in one move!
If he could really complete this comeback operation, then his Sun Dongping’s status in the combined arms unit would definitely rise a major level.
As for the positions of the Red Army rear units, how to ensure the Blue Army tank group could find them.
For the Blue Army, with absolute advantage in communications and always suppressing the Red Army in the silent confrontation battle, this was no big problem at all.
The Blue Army electronic warfare company had long accurately locked the positions of the Red Army’s various troops through technical means.
As long as the Blue Army tanks could break through the frontline, plus the warriors defending the Blue Army position dragging for two to three hours, this confrontation would completely flip.
The Blue Army would maintain its undefeated record, achieving an epic battle record of crushing the entire army.
Sun Dongping’s idea was good, and the stratagem he laid was very cunning; in a sense, it was not inferior to Chen Jun’s “Monkey Extermination Operation.”
Only unfortunately.
Sun Dongping’s break the cauldrons and sink the boats comeback required far too much time, while the battlefield most emphasized speed is of the essence in war.
Just as the Blue Army’s more than ten main battle tanks received Sun Dongping’s order and began moving.
Taking advantage of the Red Army’s frontline main troops charging onto the Blue Army highland and engaging the Blue Army, they suddenly burst out from the side of the battlefield.
Ignoring the fiercely fighting battlefield, ignoring the startled frontline Red Army.
More than ten Blue Army tanks suddenly appearing—this was truly a huge danger to the frontline Red Army troops; not being scared would be strange.
The Blue Army tanks pushed their speed to the maximum, rumbling straight through the frontline.
With a clear goal, heading straight for the Red Army heavy artillery company!
The Red Army heavy artillery company, to support the attack on the highland, had at this time moved excitedly to the rear of the frontline, less than 10 kilometers from the battle line.
Although main battle tanks weren’t very fast, they could still run thirty or forty kilometers at full speed.
10 kilometers was just a matter of more than ten minutes.
When the frontline scouts discovered something wrong, they immediately reported the suddenly appearing Blue Army tank group and the direction of their charge to battalion headquarters.
Gao Cheng and Chen Jun and others at the Red Army battalion headquarters were quite surprised to hear this news.
“What are they trying to do? Want to take out our heavy artillery company? But they’re being so blatant; with one order from us, the heavy artillery company can maneuver away at any time, leaving them with nothing.”
Gao Cheng couldn’t understand the Blue Army tank group’s intention and even felt the Blue Army’s playing style was a bit stupid.
“No, things aren’t that simple.”
Chief Staff Officer Man Guangzhi sensed something wrong, but for the moment couldn’t see where; he frowned and pondered deeply.
“Good you, Sun Dongping, indeed bold enough.”
Chen Jun, rich in combat experience, saw through the Blue Army’s intention with a slight thought.
Seeing that Sun Dongping, in such a desperate situation, hadn’t thought of defending with all his might but came up with a tactic that could flip the table if successful.
Chen Jun really had a bit of respect for him, giving him one point of recognition.
And only this one point!
