The army chief's words were loud, and Zheng Quanli immediately replied without hesitation: "Please rest assured chief, I promise to bring out the momentum of our airborne troops." ”

"Okay!" the military commander said yes, and then hung up decisively and ended the call.

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At the same time, in the director's office located on the south side of the foothills of Dabie Mountain, a huge exercise sand table was placed in the center, and the staff officers marked the arrangements of the red and blue sides on the sand table from time to time.

This is a confrontation exercise between the red and blue sides with real troops and ammunition, with the main force regiment of a division of the N Military Region serving as the red side, responsible for the defense of the imaginary city of S.

A regiment of the Airborne Forces commanded by Zheng Quanli was responsible for the attack as the Blue Army.

Although the director's department complied with the intention of the headquarters, it nominally did not have a plan for this live-fire confrontation exercise, allowing the red and blue sides to play at will in the vast exercise area.

However, in fact, judging from the composition of the arms of the two sides, the Red Army obviously has the upper hand, because the main regiment of the Red Army is also the fist unit of the N Military Region, and since it received the task of taking up the task of the Red Army, it has been strengthened in various ways by units at the corps and division levels.

Not only did they have armored vehicles, but they also had two companies of tanks in their hands, not to mention the artillery, which not only had 24 Type 54 122mm howitzers transferred from the division, but also received 12 152mm and Type 66 howitzers from military dependents.

In addition, an antiaircraft artillery company directly under the N Military Region was also transferred to this regiment, and 12 37mm antiaircraft guns were added, plus the 120mm, 82mm and other caliber mortars that the regiment originally possessed, bringing the total number of artillery pieces to more than 12.

What kind of concept is this, during the Korean War, the artillery of a main division of our army was less than 40, and the number of artillery pieces of this so-called main regiment alone exceeded the level of the four main divisions of our army at that time.

Coupled with the strengthening of tanks and armored vehicles, the size of this main regiment has long reached the level of a brigade.

On the other hand, Zheng Quanli's blue army has also been strengthened by the airborne troops, but due to the limitations of its own conditions, not to mention the hard-core armored forces, even the large-caliber artillery used for fire support, there are not many airborne troops.

Zheng Quanli's troops could only do their best to replenish some 107mm rocket artillery and 82mm mortars, and the rest was to strengthen the firepower of the squad with some more Type 56 machine guns and 40 rocket launchers.

As long as people who are not blind can see the comparison between the two sides, although the headquarters allows the red and blue sides to play freely, but one side is a heavy armored cluster armed to the teeth, and the other side is a weak light infantry, and it is still free to play, even if the rules are biased in favor of the blue side, the blue army will not be able to win the Red Army, and the strength is not equal at all.

It stands to reason that this disparity in strength should be corrected by the director's department, but out of the long-term concept of the Red Army's victory, not only did the director's department not make adjustments, but even the headquarters responsible for approving the exercise did not intervene too much.

The only one who is not angry is the commander of the airborne troops, even if he is dragged to be a sparring partner, he has to be beaten to the point that his nose and face are swollen, not to mention, he has to step on his face a few times.

They are all soldiers, and if they have the ability, they will do it with real knives and guns, why do they pull so much foreign aid.

As a result, the head of the director department slapped the table with the director department, and the head of the director department slapped the table louder than his, and the army chief was stunned with one sentence: "If you feel that you are in a panic, let alone replenishing the artillery of the blue army, even if you replenish the aircraft carriers, I will not stop you, the exercise plan is clearly written, each shows its strengths, and each takes what it can do, so if you can't do it, the troops will come to me? How did you become the head of the unit for so many years?"

The head of the director department was already a higher position than the army chief, and in addition, the exercise plan was indeed clearly written, and the director department clearly stated that "the two would not help each other," and the army chief really had no choice.

So he could only go back in disgrace, and immediately made a ruthless report to the Air Force Headquarters, saying that he helped Zheng Quanli's Blue Army get two sorties of helicopter landings and six sorties of air-ground support, which slightly alleviated the problem of insufficient long-range firepower of the Blue Army.

But on the whole, the strength of the Blue Army is still too weak, if nothing else, it is only a matter of time before the Red Army is pressed to the ground and rubbed, and the head of the army is very clear about this, but in order to boost morale, before the start of the exercise, he still cheered Zheng Quanli by radio, hoping that even if he loses, he will not lose too ugly, and it is best to bite off a piece of meat of the Red Army, so that the head of the headquarters can see that even if their airborne troops do not have heavy weapons, they are still the hard bones on Shangganling back then.

Perhaps he was really infected by his own tragedy, when the military chief came out of the communications office, his face was very solemn, and several people who knew him came up to say hello, and he was not salty or light, even if the head of the headquarters came to ask, he replied very coldly, and he looked like no one was close, so that other colleagues were far away from him.

On the other hand, the leaders of the Red Army units were much more amiable, and not only chatted warmly with their acquaintances, but also took good care of the leaders of other units they had just met.

So much so that many people in the director's department saw this scene and sighed, judging from the performance of the leaders of the red and blue sides, even if the Blues lost, they would not lose unjustly.

"Alright, it's not too early, let's start!"

After learning about the troop arrangements and general offensive and defensive plans of the red and blue sides, and talking with the military chiefs of the red and blue sides, the head of the headquarters looked at his watch, explained to the head of the director department next to him, and then took the lead out of the bunker, reached the center of the observation area, and raised the telescope.

At the same time, after seeing that the leaders of the troops watching the exercise were seated, the head of the director department picked up the radio intercom set aside and ordered in a loud voice: "The show begins!"

The voice fell, three signal flares shot straight into the sky, followed by a roar in the sky, two strong 5 roared past, throwing bombs at the preset position of the Red Army, only to hear the explosion of "boom~~", the distant hills rose bursts of smoke and dust, at the same time about two companies of the Blue Army approached the Red Army position, they first used the obstacle breaker to destroy the barbed wire and minefield in the front of the Red Army, and after opening the road, immediately launched an attack on the Red Army position.

At this time, the plane responsible for supporting the blue army had already flown away after completing the ground support mission, and if it wanted to continue to provide support for the blue army, it would have to wait for half an hour, and there was no way for the air force to give two strong five planes to participate in the exercise, return to the nearby airport to refuel, hang bombs, and check for half an hour.

So at this time, the artillery units of the Red Army, which had done a good job of air defense concealment in advance, finally tore off their camouflage, showed their fangs, and began to carry out fire strikes on the attacking Blue Army.

Seeing this, the head of the headquarters suddenly felt bored.

He could predict the rest of the situation, which was nothing more than that the Blue Army, seeing the Red Army's fierce firepower, continued to call for air support and strike at the Red Army's artillery positions; the Red Army evaded, and when the Blue Army's six sorties of ground support were exhausted, they used artillery to cover tanks and armored vehicles to carry out an armored counterattack, crushing the Blue Army in one fell swoop.

Such a cliché drama, the head of the headquarters does not know how much he has watched over the years, and he can guess the end after looking at the beginning, and he is not even interested in complaining about this kind of exercise, so he is ready to take a nap with his eyes closed, and is ready to lean until the end of the exercise.

But just as he was about to put down his binoculars, several triangular flying machines suddenly rose up in the grass on the side of the Red Army's frontal position, dangled in the air a few times, and then pounced on one of the Red Army's artillery positions regardless of it.