Chapter Eighty-Eight: The End
(1st Update)
The cold air fell on the window, and immediately rose into a vague mist, and the cold wind howled outside, but the inside of the house was warm, and the inside and outside were two completely different worlds.
Far away from the barracks headquarters of the exercise ground, Ye Kai held a cup of strong tea and sat in the greenhouse-like command hall, although the night had already fallen, he had no intention of going back to rest, as the commander-in-chief of this exercise, his mind was never far from the battlefield full of gunsmoke.
The telegraph room on the side of the hall was dripping non-stop, and a huge amount of information was constantly transmitted back here through the radio waves, and under the busy work of a large number of confidential personnel, any dynamics were presented to the commander-in-chief of the exercise at the first time, and the advantages and disadvantages of victory and defeat on the battlefield were turned into lead printed words and placed in front of him, even if he was not on the battlefield in person, he knew it well.
"Your Excellency, the emergency force has arrived."
A familiar voice suddenly came from the hall, Zhang Xiaoguang walked in from outside the door, as Ye Kai's military secretary, he was responsible for the task of transmitting information on the exercise ground, and he had been by Ye Kai's side during this time.
"Read" Ye opened his mouth.
Zhang Xiaoguang opened the telegram paper in his hand and read it word by word: "The black position was broken by the red side, and the black side personnel were basically 'killed', and now they have gradually withdrawn from the exercise area."
Hearing the content of the message, Ye Kai, who was still a little sour just now, immediately cheered up, subconsciously stood up from his seat, took the message and looked at it carefully.
The Black Army, Lu Shuangming's Black Army, as a secret force that affects the relationship between victory and defeat, when it gets this news, it means that its mission has ended ahead of schedule.
In the previously designed script, Lu Shuangming's Black Fang, the 538 soldiers of the machine gun battalion, were assigned by Ye Kai to secretly ambush on the high ground of the exercise ground.
According to the development of the background of the exercise, if the red side attacks the black position, they will act as a reinforcement force for the enemy's invading forces, and conversely, if the blue side attacks, they are the ambushes laid in advance by the defending side.
In short, this setting is to let the red and blue sides have a good experience of the sudden changes on the battlefield, no matter how well prepared, there will always be unexpected things that emerge one after another, constantly impacting their nerves, only in this environment, can they sharpen their ability to solve problems, as well as the decisive style of improvisation.
As a result, Red had a little less luck and was able to get a preemptive touch on the hidden mission, but they did a good job.
Ye Kai looked down at his watch, it was now seven o'clock in the evening, and there were less than five hours before the end, and the exercise had reached this point, and it had basically reached the end stage.
"Xiaoguang, sort out the battle damage ratio of the red and blue sides to me, you want the most detail!"
Ye Kai's order was quickly transmitted to the confidential room, and after a while, a real-time report of the exercise was handed over to Ye Kai.
The Red Army "killed" 2,865 people, the Blue side "killed" 2,068 people, both sides lost more than half, the result can be called tragic, after a bloody battle of the participating troops, has been completely killed, as time goes by, these two numbers are still rising.
At first glance, the blue side's losses are relatively small and occupy a certain advantage, but don't forget, the red side has successfully occupied the high commanding heights and is strategically superior, so Ye Kai already has a judgment in his heart about who wins and who loses.
"Their physical fitness and will have reached the extreme, and if they continue like this, there may be some adverse effects, and the exercise is meaningless."
Staring at the two bright red numbers on the report, Ye Kai said to himself, since his goal has been achieved, there is no need to continue, in fact, from the moment Black was attacked, Ye Kai had already moved the idea of ending.
"It's okay, stop the exercises, and the whole army retreats in an orderly manner."
Ye Kai's order was smoothly conveyed, and I believe that after a few minutes, when all the participating troops heard the order to withdraw troops, simple joy could no longer express the joy in their hearts
The fire was rolling, the ground was chaotic, after paying a huge price, the red soldiers finally attacked the high ground, if this was not a drill but a war, Sun Chuanfang really wanted to slaughter all the prisoners, not only him, the entire Red Army thought amazingly consistently, like a scratched wolf, looking at the bloody wounds, there was only revenge and tons of revenge on the opponent in his eyes.
"Sun Biaotong, preliminary statistics show that our side has more than 300 casualties, and there are more than 700 existing soldiers"
Sun Chuanfang couldn't listen to the report at all, the high ground was occupied, but the price was too great, more than 700 people, less than two battalions, Sun Chuanfang didn't know if such a force was still capable of experiencing a battle.
"How's the battle going over there?" His eyes looked at the foot of the mountain, where the light of the fire was faintly visible, and the gunfire of the exchange of fire did not stop for a moment.
"Your Excellency's latest information, our defense force is surrounded by the Blue Army, and now there are less than a thousand people left"
Sun Chuanfang's face completely darkened, and anger slowly accumulated under his tightly locked brows, although it did not cause it, his face was already extremely ugly.
"Listen to the order, everyone rush down with me and fight them to the death."
The staff officers on the side stared at Sun Chuanfang in disbelief, they didn't expect this usually calm commander to say such a thing.
"Sun Biaotong, our army has occupied the high ground, as long as we hold our position, it is irrational to rush down, and besides, our troops no longer have any advantage." The staff officers reassured that since they had spent a lot of effort and lost so many personnel, there was really no need to give up the existing terrain advantage and go head-to-head with the Blues.
"This little force is no longer enough to rescue the defenders below, and we can't watch them being eaten by the Blues." Sun Chuanfang said to everyone without a beak.
"Sun Biaotong, you have to think twice, if the conflict continues, not only can you not save them, but it is also possible to catch up with our remnants, according to the last general, we only need to rely on the terrain, organize a counterattack, and try our best to delay time is the best policy."
"Execute the order!"
Sun Chuanfang didn't give them a chance to speak again, turned around and stepped onto the war horse, and with a "poof", he pulled out his saber.
"You are right, holding on to the high ground is the most correct strategy, but have you ever thought that if this is really a war that can kill people, we rush down, even if we can't attack it, our generation will fight with their lives and die with their bodies, which will definitely inspire future generations, which is also a strategy."
"Everybody rush down!" Sun Chuanfang roared, and the war horse roared, ready to go.
"Newspaper"
Just as everyone was struggling to squeeze out a little more strength, the military soldiers ran to Sun Chuanfang's side out of breath and reported loudly.
"Tell your lord, an emergency announcement has been issued from the headquarters, the exercise is over, and the whole army will evacuate immediately!"
When this priceless notice was conveyed at this moment, it instantly spread throughout the entire position, and more than 700 people invariably breathed a sigh of relief, and many of them collapsed to the ground at once as if they had broken away, hungry, tired, clammy and cold, and all kinds of difficulties gathered together, and continued to torture them in less than a day.
And Sun Chuanfang, who heard this order, reacted completely differently, he gritted his teeth hatefully, and unwillingly held the reins in his hand, the current battle situation is not good for the red side, if you can give them a little more time, it is theoretically possible to turn the tide of the battle, but now there is no chance even for this.
Will this exercise be won or lost? He had no bottom in his heart, and sat on horseback with a heavy heart, and this thought was always entangled in his heart along the way.