At 9:40 a.m. on March 22, 2003, at the Zhu Rihe Joint Tactical Training Base of the Yanjing Military Region, the sky was high and the clouds were light, and the autumn wind was bleak.

Suddenly, three red signal flares burst into the sky, and the "Leap-2003" live-fire test exercise, in which more than 60,000 officers and men of the Yanjing Military Region, Jinling Military Region, Northwest Military Region, and Air Force units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army participated, kicked off.

In fact, before the handover between the red and blue sides, the intelligence stations of the two sides had already been in close proximity.

Beginning on the night of 20 July, Zheng Lei, a recruit who had just joined the A Brigade for one year, followed their squadron leader Yuan Lang and hid in the cold cellar of the herdsmen's house next to the "Red Army" position, and together with 48 comrades-in-arms who were distributed in the "Red" Army's positions of several tens of square kilometers, they would report to the "Blue" Army Intelligence and Information Center in a timely and accurate manner from the herdsmen's abandoned sheepfolds, from the artificially dug "cat's ear holes," and from all the places where they could hide.

Although the "blue" army also uses advanced reconnaissance equipment such as helicopter gunships, unmanned reconnaissance planes, and radars, the commanders of the "blue" army still bet on the "treasure" on the scouts.

Sure enough, the "blue" scouts lived up to expectations. As soon as the combat deployment of the "blue" army was completed, the information was turned into radio waves, which quickly converged on the intelligence center of the "blue" army and presented it on the situation map of the field area network of the "blue" army headquarters.

In the hall of the director group of the headquarters, the bigwigs of the three major military regions are all here to observe, and Gao Cheng is of course here today, and his task today is to explain the information equipment mastered by the Blue Army, so that the heads of the three major military regions can understand the difference between their mechanized troops and them.

"Isn't there something wrong with the Blues, obviously they have already scattered the scouts before they have announced confrontation, I think they are too disrespectful to this exercise." An operational staff officer of the Jinling Military Region muttered in a low voice, but he did not dare to raise objections loudly at this time, after all, the leaders had not yet spoken, and he just wanted to test the meaning of the big leader.

Although the voice was small, it also attracted the attention of the director team. Although I didn't want to explain, I saw that several commanders and political commissars of the three major military regions looked at the director group, so they simply said: "This confrontation exercise is carried out in accordance with the requirements of multi-content, all-element, and continuous implementation of the whole process day and night. ”

To put it simply, this exercise is different from the previous exercise script plan is clear, the two sides clearly stipulate the time, place and person, this is a confrontation drill based on the real battlefield dynamics, there is no violation of the state unless the two sides of the exercise out of the engagement area in violation of regulations, but this is also impossible, the entire base is more than 1500 kilometers, that is, the armored forces let them run at full speed to cross the entire battlefield It will take a lot of time, and the battlefield can also let you go blind, and the enemy troop scouts are vegetarians.

Hearing the explanation of the director team, the heads of the major military regions stopped talking, not that they couldn't understand this meaning, but their thinking has been fixed on the exercise is equal to the script is equal to the fixed mode, and this time the blue army's non-routine cards make them think that the blue army has violated the rules, but the explanation given by the director team is that there are no rules, this time it is a real battlefield exercise, which makes them a little unable to turn around for a while, and then they are worried.

Although they have confidence in their own ace divisions, they look at the information platform that is connected here, that is, the combat system developed by Gao Cheng, and the complicated information imported on it, although some of them can't understand it, but they can see at a glance their own combat arrangements and judgment of the purpose of the battle.

This is basically their plan is almost touched, how to fight this, as the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing the other side will win all battles, but being known is the situation of being beaten, I hope that my division commander can react and make corresponding arrangements.

At this time, the leaders of these three military regions also increased their attention; according to their understanding of their own special brigades, in the past, even if they did not play their cards according to routines, it was impossible for them to sort out information so clearly and thoroughly when they conducted reconnaissance and platoon in advance, and any change in the coefficient on the battlefield could affect the battle situation.

But this time, the reaction of the several special teams that temporarily formed the "Blue Army" under their command shocked them, how to accurately convey information and deal with it, how to control the information feedback of individual soldiers, and how to sort out ideas in this complex information and then feedback effective information and classify other information.

Of course, this is Gao Cheng's work today, first of all, he gave a brief explanation of his system, and his combat command system can enable the command vehicles to have advanced functions such as satellite positioning, data transmission, and network transmission, and any command vehicle can be a regimental command post.

And the function of the system is not so much, for the reception of information, processing and feedback are point-to-point, the individual combat system can upload its effective information, and the squad and squadron can also collectively feedback the limited information they get, as for the information processing function Gao Cheng did not have a specific detailed analysis, this involves professional things, Gao Cheng will also pass by.

It can be said that as soon as the battle began, it entered a climactic stage, and the "Red Army" was very hurt by the strong assault of the "Blue Army," and the Blue Army even relied on advanced reconnaissance equipment to quickly lock on to a command post of the "Red Army" and call for a missile precision strike. The commander of the "Red Army" front also exclaimed: "How can the "Blue Army" not play its cards according to the rules.

Before the moment of contact warfare, they had already lost the formation of a regiment, which made the participating divisions and regiments of the Red Army very angry, and the head of the participating units of the Northwest Military Region even wanted to call to complain about the Blue Army, why they were unruly, why they were able to clearly get the precise location of their troops at the beginning of the exercise, and why the director team did not prompt them to conduct combat reconnaissance in advance.

The loss is their elite tank troops, I thought that this time I would definitely be able to make their tank regiment shine, after all, it is a newly equipped Type 96 quasi-third-generation tank, which can be said to be a generation more advanced than the equipment in service with other troops, but it was terminated by other missiles before it could shine.

Today's raid is not uncomfortable for the Red Army, what is even more uncomfortable is the electronic intrusion of the Blue Army, the electronic interference they received in the last exercise in Gaocheng is a little bit of electronic warfare, but this large-scale electronic interference is simply the difference between Li Kui and Li Ghost compared to that time.

The electronic countermeasures detachment of the "blue" army used advanced electronic warfare equipment to carry out strong electromagnetic suppression and jamming against the "red" army, and a certain new radio station of the "red" army was full of harsh music, and the command of the "red" army was not smooth.

When the first day of absolute suppression is over, the Red Army will have a bad taste, this is basically the abbreviation of the Gulf War, the Blue Army is stronger than them in terms of combat equipment and combat thinking, and as the Iraqi troops, they belong to the existence of backward combat consciousness and equally backward equipment, why can they come to this conclusion, mainly after a day of fighting, they did not even have the opportunity to go head-to-head, and were completely suppressed by the Blue Army's air offensive and precision strikes.

If this is a real war, after such a day of losses, the combat effectiveness of the Red Army will definitely be even lower than it is now, after all, this is an exercise, and everyone's feeling of death is not so clear, at most it is a set of data judged by the director team, or an order on the battlefield that the director team asked to withdraw from the exercise.

The next day, because of this superiority of the Blue Army, the Red Army made full preparations, and the "Red" Army activated a certain type of radio station, which had always maintained radio silence, and quickly issued one command after another, and the forward attack groups on the left and right flanks echoed each other from a distance and inserted themselves into the enemy formation.

During yesterday's discussions, they held that since their own communications equipment could not resist the electronic interference of the "blue" army, they concealed the truth and revealed the falsehood, and took the initiative to expose a certain new type of radio frequency that the "blue" army thought was most likely to use, but during the exercise, they suddenly activated a certain type of radio station that had not been turned on once, thus ensuring the smooth command flow before the "blue" army had time to react.

In the stage of striking in depth, the "blue army" adopted a variety of means, such as reconnaissance in close proximity, television reconnaissance on the battlefield, and reconnaissance by unmanned aerial vehicles, to obtain intelligence information on the "Red Army's" firepower cluster in depth in a timely manner.

The drill entered the stage of three-dimensional sabotage and counter-sabotage attacks, and the commanders of the "blue army" organized three successive firepower assaults, first hitting command posts, then artillery positions, and then communications bases, and striking at key points again and again.

At present, the most eye-catching performance of the Red Army here may be the 702nd Regiment Steel Seventh Company of the T Division. At the beginning of the exercise, due to Gao Cheng's absence, the deputy company commander Zhang Dacang was currently in charge of military activities, and although their company was not present with a military commander, it was still arranged to be on the front line as an advance force to reconnoiter the enemy's movements and the enemy's arrangement.

Gao Cheng's reform has not brought changes to the Seventh Company, and it may be the Seventh Company that can best understand that this exercise is not simple, because there is also a Wu Cheng here, and he is also a top student in this area, and from the series of performances of the company commander after his return this time and the requirements for the company, he can judge that the company commander is promoting the information reform of the troops, and the company commander was recruited by the director department before this exercise.

Therefore, when the Seventh Company was arranging this reconnaissance, he proposed to the deputy company commander: "Deputy company commander, we should maintain radio silence during the reconnaissance this time, and even if there is a situation, we must transmit information under the condition of absolute certainty or at a certain distance from the enemy. ”

ABC