A military airfield in Tabora.

Xu Fei and the others got off the military plane, got directly into the minibus that had been waiting for a long time, and was pulled by a car to the station of the western defense area of the Tanzanian People's Defense Force.

He had spent a few days at the Army Academy, and it wasn't until the academy had obtained a passport for him that he and the rest of the guidance team changed into civilian clothes and went to Tanzania, thousands of miles away. After several upside downs, then a car and a plane, and a plane on the way, it took more than 20 hours to finally reach the city of Dar Es in Tanzania, and the group rested for two or three hours before they had to pack their bags and fly to Tabora.

Because the confrontation exercises in two days will take place here.

Tabora belongs to the central and western part of Tanzania, with mountains and hills, forests and grasslands, rivers and lakes, etc., rich in natural resources, because of the complex terrain, the military has encircled a large area here for real confrontation exercises.

Originally, Xu Fei had a good impression of the upper-middle-class city of Dar Es, where they were warmly welcomed by the top military officials from Tanzania, held a banquet, and even the embassy in Tanzania and military experts and advisers also came, which made Xu Fei have a good impression of the hospitality of the African people.

He thought he would stay there for a few days, but he didn't expect to go to a barren place hundreds of kilometers away.

Even though Xu Fei had been mentally prepared for this, when he really saw the poverty and ruin along the way, he couldn't help but secretly shake his head in his heart.

The wilderness of Pingchuan can only be said to be full of vastness and desolation, there are absolutely no peaks in sight, the road is very flat and straight, but the dirt road, the car runs dusty, covering the sky and the sun. As for the scenery, it is very similar to the Gobi over there. In the woods by the roadside, except for the taller ones, which still stubbornly displayed their withering, the rest of the low and thin ones were all withered and black. The houses on the roadside are mainly mud houses or thatched huts.

Xu Fei looked out the car window and thought about how he would spend the next few days. When he was at the Army Academy, the guidance group held several meetings one after another, and Xu Fei learned about the relevant situation.

This time, the military guidance group was led by a bureau-level leader surnamed Ma from the Training Management Department, Director Jin of the Military Teaching and Research Department of the Army Academy, and two instructors participated, plus Xu Fei, a total of 5 people. Among them was the instructor Qin, who taught them combat command at the beginning. There is also a teacher Liu, but Xu Fei has no impression of him, and he is proficient in Swahili after listening to Director Jin's introduction.

The official language of Tanzania is English, but the locals generally speak Swahili, so perhaps Instructor Liu works part-time as a translator.

Xu Fei knew that he came with the guidance team this time, he was a soy sauce maker, and he didn't have any expectations, he just hoped that he would have time to enjoy the natural geography of Tanzania

He was able to come this time, mostly because of what Art said to Tuag, he was famous in the academy, and the rumors about him were one after another, and Art would know if he had a little heart.

It is therefore not surprising that Tuag invited him to go.

But what is the origin of this Tuag, he can ask the Tanzanian military to send a letter with one sentence?

Listening to what Art said before, Tuag is the son of a certain boss in the army, maybe it's his Lao Tzu's energy?

Xu Fei couldn't guess, he didn't have Art's contact information, otherwise he had to ask him what he meant.

Xu Fei knows his own affairs, he has indeed participated in the exercise, but he has no concept of how to plan and organize the exercise and guide the exercise.

According to the report of the steering group meeting, the Tanzanian State organized a live-force confrontation exercise, in which two brigade-sized units fought against each other. According to Instructor Qin's private disclosure, it should have been done by Tanzania in imitation of the model of our army in organizing a live military exercise in Zhu Yuehe.

In the past two years, our army has vigorously engaged in actual combat training, and has drawn a perverted blue army to temper the Red Army units, and has achieved tangible results.

However, when it comes to live-fire exercises, according to Director Jin, because the armies of African countries objectively do not have the conditions, they do not have any laser smoke canisters or the like. Drills usually have a lot of "acting", that is, they are mainly based on drill procedures, scripts, lines and everything are prepared in advance, and they are finished according to the process.

Director Jin had never been to Tanzania before, but Serbia, Ethiopia, and Egypt had all been, and according to him, all of them were true. According to his analysis, the task of the guidance group this time may not be as simple as observing and guiding on the surface.

The training of the Tanzanian army is in the same vein as that of our PLA, and many routines are carried out according to the model here, but they really do not have many high-level talents, especially the director's department, which has many deficiencies in researching and attempting to file cases, conceiving operations, and directing documents. Therefore, the steering group will focus on guiding them to improve these things, and if they don't do well, they will have to reinvent all of them.

In addition to Director Jin's mentoring of African brothers, they also often participate in exercises at all levels organized by the troops, and their experience can be described as very rich.

But Xu Fei is completely different, he has not been exposed to this situation, and he is completely unable to interfere in the preparation of relevant materials. Director Jin also considered this problem and did not arrange any work for him, only let him observe and study more.

Director Jin is the actual person in charge of the work of the military guidance group, and he assigns the tasks, while Director Ma of the headquarters is relatively relaxed, that is, he puts on a name, leads the team, gives a speech, and grasps the progress of the exercise from the macro situation.

Towards evening, the minibus finally entered the city of Tabora and settled in an internal military guest house.

Dinner was the usual reception, but this time the welcome host changed the relevant leaders of the Western Defense Region, a brigadier general named Mohammed received them, in addition to the local specialties "food", the table was more Chinese and Western food pairings, as well as local special banana brewing and Kilimanjaro beer!

Brigadier General Mohammed introduced in his opening remarks that in order to take care of the eating habits of the Chinese steering group, a Chinese chef was specially invited to prepare relevant dishes, and the banquet process was almost all according to Chinese standards, which made the steering group quite moved.

Africans are particularly lively, and a singing and dancing performance with African style is added to the banquet to open their eyes.

The participants were all high-level officials of the Western Defense Region, and Xu Fei didn't remember any of the names that were too long, but during the toasting session in the middle, a black colonel with a big beard came over and said a few more words to Xu Fei.

This person claimed to be Tuag, then deputy chief of staff of the Western Defense Region, and also the executive chief director of this confrontation exercise!