Chapter Twenty-Four: Rounding Up the Old Birds
At a time when we are going all out to prepare for the year-end selection and training, and at the instruction of the head of the corps, in order to effectively temper and test the actual combat capability of our corps' special operations units in the face of future wars, we have decided to launch a one-week red-blue confrontation training. Under the enemy's powerful offensive, our troops were suppressed in local areas and waited for opportunities to find fighters for a counteroffensive. And the special operations forces are the fighters of this counteroffensive. My squadron, like many units, became the Blue Army for this exercise, and the special operations units of the whole corps, including the special operations squadron of our detachment, became the Red Army for this exercise, and our task was to protect the buildings that had been "occupied" and to find and destroy this special operations force. To put it bluntly, we are just the "whetstone" of the special operations unit of the General Brigade.
At the beginning of the exercise, all the officers and men of our squadron, except for some left-behind personnel, were dispatched to the designated place to assemble. In order to prevent the enemy's special operations units from crossing the jungle area to destroy and harass all kinds of buildings and facilities that we have "occupied," we, like many troops, have been stationed in various areas on the periphery of the jungle zone and have been conducting uninterrupted dragnet searches deep into the jungle. It is estimated that this is also to increase the difficulty of the special operations forces, and the headquarters of the general unit stipulates that the special operations forces can only infiltrate from the current jungle area, which means that we will have one or more encounters with the famous special operations forces, or contact them in various forms.
Our troops pulled out in the form of skirmishers, searching towards the core of the jungle, and we were moving at the same time as nearly one and a half regiments of troops, and we had an absolute advantage in numbers, but it was clear that although we were outnumbered, the vast majority of people were unfamiliar with the jungle area, so we could only fight quality with quantity.
"What people! Hold it! "A soldier suddenly found a few figures, and the people around him immediately surrounded them, and suddenly gunshots rang out, and more than a dozen yellow smoke floated into the air.
"Damn, chase! Catch all these dogs and drag them to the concentration camp for exhibition! The cadre of a squadron operating in concert shouted.
We couldn't help but speed up the pace of the search, and there were several exchanges of fire with special operations units along the way, but almost every time our side lost a few people, but it was rare for a single person to be killed in the place. In this regard, we are deeply disturbed, along the way, the number of our squadrons has reached nearly two platoons, and we only "killed" two enemy people, so in this way, we can't afford to spend it at all, don't catch people, and lose ourselves. At that time, several squadron leaders immediately decided to let the troops stop and stand on guard, and then several squadron leaders gathered around to discuss the next course of action.
A few squadron leaders happened to spread out a military map right next to me, which clearly marked the main entrances and exits of the jungle, as well as the locations of several important strategic targets nearby. Immediately, a captain squadron leader said: "I suggest that we use our respective squadrons as units to defend around these key strategic objectives, and wait for the rabbit to wait for work, otherwise if we continue to fight like this, our losses will be too great." ”
"But our task is to capture this group of veterans, if they abandon these strategic goals, directly penetrate in depth, and concentrate their forces to capture a little, the losses will also be huge." Another cadre pointed to the map, poked it several times, and said.
"Otherwise, we should continue to shrink the encirclement, and as long as they can't get out of the encirclement, it's acceptable for us to lose a little more. But my only concern is that if the enemy concentrates its superior forces to attack us a little, will the troops around us be able to quickly get closer, you must know that they are all wild monkeys who stay in the jungle every day, and their jungle combat experience and individual combat ability are not comparable to those of us soldiers. "My squadron leader also spoke, and in the process of their discussion, what my squadron leader said was actually what I was thinking, we can use quantity to increase quality, at most the loss is a little bigger, if we are not very different in quantity, then even if we lose ourselves, we will let this group of old birds fly.
"Report! I have an idea. "I had an idea and made a report.
Several squadron leaders immediately looked at me, "Come, tell me about it." ”
"Report! That's what I think, captains, please see. I pointed to several important strategic targets on the map, "This group of old birds in the woods, no, they are special combat soldiers, special combat personnel, their main purpose is to jump out of our encirclement and then attack these targets." But before attacking the target, you must first jump out of our encirclement. Then we can deliberately let them jump out of the encirclement, and then ambush them, even if they can't be wiped out, it's better than what we are now. ”
"Oh? Whose soldier is this, it's still a bit of reverse thinking, let's talk about it carefully. "One of the squadron leaders pushed the battle map towards me and said.
"Yes!" I straightened the map, re-laid it, and then re-drew the current encirclement with my hands, "Look, if I were the commander of this group of people in the woods, I would definitely avoid these marked road passages. Seeing that a few squadron leaders did not speak, and some even nodded, I continued: "If we put some troops on these marked roads and then advance with great fanfare, I believe that it will be basically difficult to touch the main force of these special combat personnel or even people, but we can drive them to places where there are no roads around." All we have to do is lay an ambush in the middle of these marked roads to make them think that we have our main targets on these main roads, after all, these roads are the easiest way to reach these targets. However, neither we nor them can afford to spend time, and in order to avoid our main force, they can only choose to pass through these roads, so in order to do something like this, we must also send some small troops to search in places where ambushes are buried, although they will basically be eliminated, but at least to a certain extent, they can dispel their doubts. ”
"Hahaha, good! I kind of get it, it's a pretty good idea! Which squadron are you in? One of the squadron leaders suddenly applauded and said with a smile.
"Report! I'm from Squadron X. ”
"Hahaha, good, good, good, Lao Huang, you can, a private under your command can catch up with the staff officer of the headquarters, and when the exercise is over, I will take a non-commissioned officer to exchange with you."
"Get out of your uncle, Lao Tzu's soldiers, I won't change you even if you take three non-commissioned officers!" Team Huang was obviously a little proud when he said this, I know, hey, my plan has been passed, and now I have given Lao Huang a long face.
After several squadron leaders made certain revisions to the plan I had just proposed, they immediately made adjustments and deployments, and the operation of rounding up the old birds was officially started.