Chapter 326: The Red Army’s “godslayers” Go Berserk!
Chen Jun has eaten more rice than Sun Dongping has eaten salt.
Sun Dongping held back for a long time to come up with this big move, but Chen Jun saw through it with just one glance, clearly understanding the advantages and disadvantages of this move.
The advantage is the strong charge and destruction capability.
Given the Red Army’s current combat layout, mobilizing the frontline Armored Company back for defense—since both sides’ tanks have the same performance—they simply couldn’t catch up in a short time.
Without the tank’s charge on the frontline, the Red Army’s offensive would completely stall.
Without pressure from the frontline, the Blue Army might even pull troops back to defend the main position, seriously affecting the Red Army’s third step action.
So this move absolutely wouldn’t work; the Red Army Armored Company must not move.
Dispatching the Red Army Armored Infantry Company for reinforcement could catch up in speed, but Infantry Fighting Vehicles facing Main Battle Tanks would purely be sending heads.
If they couldn’t even beat them, what use was the reinforcement.
If Attack Helicopters were available, they could counter, but unfortunately, the Attack Helicopters had already been deliberately sacrificed by Chen Jun in the previous lure the enemy plan.
If the combat units were completely unusable, then the reinforcement route was effectively blocked.
To counter Sun Dongping’s this “big move,” they could only think of a method from his weakness—since they couldn’t beat him head-on, strike the enemy’s soft spot.
If Chen Jun didn’t have the Lightning Decapitation Plan, facing the Blue Army’s this sudden attack.
He really would have been thrown into chaos, and might even lose.
But Chen Jun had now formulated the Decapitation Plan and had successfully completed the second step, with only the final killer ace Decapitation left.
Sun Dongping wanted to take out the Red Army logistics command, and Chen Jun was similarly eyeing the Blue Army logistics command.
Everyone was using Combined Arms Tactics.
In certain tactical play thinking, they really shared some similarities.
Unfortunately, although the tactical ideas were the same, individual strategy, wisdom, and experience differed, so the formulated tactics naturally had high and low distinctions.
The set of tactics formulated by Sun Dongping, if divided into upper, middle, and lower schools.
Was at best a middle-school stratagem.
Against traditional battalion-level combat units, Sun Dongping’s this move was absolutely a must-kill big move; basically no unit could withstand it.
Unfortunately, Chen Jun’s tactics were even more superior, belonging to a higher-level upper-school stratagem.
When middle-school met upper-school, his ending was doomed.
The Blue Army Tank Unit dispatched by Sun Dongping clearly aimed to destroy the Red Army Rear Area and command.
Logistics and command were all in the Rear Area, over thirty or forty kilometers from the frontline combat zone—even if the tanks charged billowing black smoke, it would take at least an hour.
While Chen Jun’s formulated Lightning Decapitation Plan involved flying by Helicopter to the Blue Army Rear Area.
At most just over 10 minutes.
By the time the Blue Army Tank Unit arrived exhausted and dusty at the Red Army Rear Area, their own logistics command would have already been wiped out.
Chen Jun had found this key point: their side’s advantage lay in faster action.
So the thinking for the countermeasures was very clear.
Chen Jun issued three orders in a row to First Company.
First, have the Heavy Artillery Company avoid their edge, but not completely leave the Blue Army’s attack range—best to string them along on the Grassland.
As long as they could buy one more minute, making the Blue Army one minute slower to approach the Red Army Main Camp.
The Blue Army would be one step closer to failure.
Then, notify the frontline combat troops to detach one Platoon’s tanks and Armored Infantry units to form a reinforcement troop rushing at top speed toward the Blue Army Tank Unit.
Mainly to put on a full show, coordinating with the Blue Army’s action, not giving the Blue Army any chance to spot anomalies.
If Sun Dongping found out early that the Red Army had seen through his stratagem, and he changed tactics, it would instead affect the Red Army’s chance to win in one stroke.
The final order was to notify the Army Aviation Company that Monkey Extermination Operation Step Three was officially launched.
With Chen Jun’s three orders issued, the Red Army’s dynamics immediately changed.
The reinforcement troops peeled off from the frontline were exceptionally clear on the frontline battlefield, and intelligence quickly reached the Blue Army Command Post.
“Heh, aren’t you so capable? Let’s see how you handle this move.”
Sun Dongping saw the Red Army’s dynamic changes almost exactly as he had anticipated, immediately feeling his plan was solid, his mood exceptionally pleasant.
The previous great passivity and resulting oppression were swept away at this moment.
Imagining his this break the cauldrons and sink the boats move, assembling superior troops for the ace kill move charging out, soon wiping out the Red Army logistics command.
Sun Dongping couldn’t help but want to laugh, his mouth corners uncontrollably curling up.
The Blue Army Tank already charging toward the Red Army Position, its commanding Blue Army Company Commander was also full of confidence, feeling he had grasped the pulse of victory.
Under the Blue Army Electronic Warfare Company’s command, leading troops straight at the Red Army Heavy Artillery Company.
Preparing a wave of steel torrent charge to crush and wipe out the Red Army Heavy Artillery Company in one go, then nonstop straight to the Red Army logistics command.
The idea was good, morale high too.
But when the Red Army, with dominant morale, charged over to swallow the Heavy Artillery Company in one bite, they found the Heavy Artillery Company had long prepared for maneuver.
Seeing the Blue Army tanks charging ferociously, the Red Army Heavy Artillery Company turned and scattered like ducks.
The advantage of all Self-propelled Howitzers was this—not like Towed Artillery or towed artillery, which were very complex and time-consuming to pack and deploy, and very slow when moving.
Self-propelled Howitzers had armored mechanical chassis; though slower than wheeled vehicles, definitely faster than Main Battle Tanks.
The duck at their mouths was about to fly away, and the Blue Army Tank Unit immediately panicked.
They instantly started chasing!
Firing cannons while running, inaccurate but trying luck.
The result was they couldn’t catch up at all, watching the opponent pull farther ahead.
But just as the Blue Army Tank Unit was about to give up, the nearly escaped Heavy Artillery Company slowed down again, as if waiting for the Blue Army tanks to catch up.
Such blatant mockery.
Even an uncle could endure, but not the aunt.
How could the Blue Army Company Commander endure it; furiously wanting to order the troops to chase, but the next second reason prevailed.
After all, they were officers able to enter Zhu Rihe, all with real skills.
In emotion control, superior to average Company Commanders.
Deeply knowing what the main mission was, and spotting the Red Army Heavy Artillery Company’s deliberate delay suspicion, the Blue Army Company Commander forcibly suppressed inner resentment and ultimately did not order the troops to chase and bite the Red Army Heavy Artillery Company.
Instead, he returned to reason and focused on this trip’s main mission.
Abandoning the Red Army Heavy Artillery Company—which had some value but very limited—heading at high speed straight to the Red Army Rear Area.
“Aiya, too bad, didn’t hook the fish.”
The Heavy Artillery Company Company Commander slapped his thigh regretting, his face showing no nervousness from being chased and shelled.
The Red Army Battalion Headquarters soon received the frontline report, knowing the Blue Army Heavy Artillery Company was already racing full speed toward the Battalion Headquarters position.
Yet Chen Jun showed no nervousness.
No one in the entire battalion was nervous, even with smiles on their faces.
Actually, at this point in developments, the Red Army Rear Area facing the Blue Army Tank’s direct charge wasn’t completely defenseless.
As long as Battalion Headquarters made prior planning, and had the Engineer Company lay mines in suitable positions.
Even if the Red Army Armored Forces charged over, swallowing the entire Red Army logistics Main Camp wouldn’t be easy.
Anti-tank mines, once forming a minefield, posed a considerable threat to tanks.
However, Chen Jun didn’t do this.
Not because there wasn’t time, but because Chen Jun had absolute confidence that this battle was already a sure victory for the Red Army, no need to lay a minefield.
And what gave Chen Jun such confidence at the core was the Special Operations Platoon already en route by air.
Except for those on specific missions unable to return, the other twenty-six Special Operations Platoon warriors and Platoon Leader Tuo Yonggang boarded two Utility Helicopters respectively.
After this period of flight, they had arrived at the combat frontline.
To avoid detection by Blue Army reconnaissance, the two Helicopters took ultra-low altitude flight, less than fifty meters from the ground.
This was an extremely dangerous altitude, but fortunately here in the Grassland with open field of vision.
No worry of hitting trees or mountains.
Besides lowering altitude to evade Radar, the two Helicopters deliberately detoured several kilometers sideways, arcing a big circle on the right to the Blue Army Rear.
The Red Army Helicopters were so cautious, naturally undetected by the Blue Army.
A few minutes later.
The two Red Army Helicopters circled to the Blue Army Rear Area; to complete the Decapitation in the shortest time, not giving the Blue Army any reaction time.
The two Helicopters didn’t choose concealed approach but killed straight at top speed to the Blue Army Command Post airspace.
The Blue Army Battalion Headquarters and Electronic Warfare Company were together; at a glance, over ten Tents scattered orderly, hard to distinguish which was Battalion Headquarters.
But this wasn’t important.
The Red Army had a Special Operations Platoon here, and no Blue Army Unit stationed.
Their ending was already set.
Before the Blue Army Battalion Headquarters crowd realized the danger—thinking it was their own Helicopters passing overhead—the two Red Army Helicopters hovered one left one right over the Camp, clamping the entire Camp in the middle.
The two Helicopters about fifty meters apart, rotor winds extremely fierce, kicking up yellow sand everywhere on the ground.
Even some Tents were blown over!
Just as yellow sand filled the air with items flying chaotically, Blue Army warriors cursing as they ran out to figure out what was going on.
They spotted the Red Army Special Operations Platoon warriors descending from the sky like divine soldiers.
Over twenty Special Forces Soldiers rappelling down the ropes in succession.
Upon landing, the Special Forces Soldiers split into left and right teams, showing extremely professional ground combat ability, forming assault formation in under ten seconds.
Under the cover of the Helicopters’ fierce winds, they began charging one left one right into the Blue Army Camp.
The action extremely decisive and swift, taking out all encountered targets along the way, checking every Tent, not sparing any fish that slipped through the net.
Like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, quickly pushing forward.
“Da da da da…”
The two Special Operations Teams like Fierce Tigers descending the mountain, rapidly clearing the outer Blue Army Tents and soldiers, gunshots starting to ring out one after another in the Camp.
“What’s going on? Where’s the gunshot from?”
Sun Dongping at the Battalion Headquarters Command Center still hadn’t realized danger had arrived, the Red Army’s killer ace already one step ahead.
“Report Battalion Commander, trouble—Red Army, Red Army has a group coming by Helicopter.”
Just seconds after Sun Dongping loudly asked, a Blue Army warrior rushed in, panicked to the point of stuttering in his loud situation report.
“Red Army came? How is that possible? Where’d they get the people? Weren’t they all committed to the battlefield?”
Sun Dongping stared in disbelief, then a name that had long made his eyes red suddenly floated up like a curse.
“Could it be…”
Sun Dongping thought of the Red Army Special Operations Platoon, this unit that once made him spit disdain, now both loved and hated, making him very passive in this confrontation with no way to deal with them.
How fierce the Special Operations Platoon’s individual soldier combat effectiveness was, Sun Dongping had gained profound experience through this exercise.
Then thinking that to execute the break the cauldrons and sink the boats plan, the Blue Army main position was almost an empty shell, left only with technical command personnel.
Not to mention the pure Rear Area personnel like Electronic Warfare Company, who weren’t even issued weapons.
Even if handed a gun each, facing the wolf-like tiger Special Operations Platoon, they simply weren’t opponents—probably ten couldn’t beat one.
“Stay and it’s a dead end! I must live; only alive is there opportunity.”
Sun Dongping truly qualified as ruthless; he knew what he lacked most now was time—as long as he could delay, final victory would still be his.
So Sun Dongping decisively chose to bolt, leaving everyone else in Battalion Headquarters just to buy a bit of time.
As long as one more minute for him, Sun Dongping, it was one more minute to escape, possibly evading this wave of Special Operations Platoon Decapitation.
As long as Sun Dongping could reach Position 5 and Position 6, the Special Operations Platoon would have no way to touch him.
Thinking this…
Sun Dongping left only one sentence, telling everyone in Battalion Headquarters to stay and hold the Red Army, then he alone dashed out of Battalion Headquarters.
Protected by these few Battalion Headquarters sentries and Communicator, heading to the Vehicle Depot to take a vehicle and leave.
But just after going less than ten meters, gunshots sounded not far ahead, seemingly under twenty meters, and similarly from behind.
The Special Operations Platoon style of no survivors, all taken out, white smoke everywhere along the way.
Indeed ruthless enough.
And efficient enough.
Lightning Decapitation Operation had to be like this—no mercy or hesitation; every second extremely precious, even one more word was wasting time.
See person, take out; wipe out the entire Camp.
For this battalion-scale small unit, sometimes faster than capturing and interrogating.
Sun Dongping saw front and back blocked, and the Red Army Special Operations Platoon’s search speed terrifyingly fast; forcing to the Vehicle Depot was impossible in time.
Forced into a dead end, Sun Dongping could only make the most helpless choice.
Having been Battalion Commander for a long time without training, body out of shape from neglect, Sun Dongping now had to pump his aged legs into a mad sprint.
Attempting with this most primitive method to escape the encirclement of this group of Red Army killing gods.
