Zhu Xue melted, soaked the mud ten wet, the south began to be busy for spring ploughing, the mouth is that the spring ploughing in the north has not officially begun.

The snow in the plains is long gone. However, in the mountains, you can still see the snow-covered peaks and slopes.

In Shanxi, Yanmen Pass, a spring military exercise is being held here, and the scale of the exercise is not large. Only five divisions participated in the exercise, but the standard of the exercise was very high, and not only the main officers of the General Staff were present, but President Zhao Bei also personally served as the chief of the military exercise

The army units participating in the Yanmen Pass military exercise are all ace troops, two infantry divisions, and one. The mountain division, an armored division, a cavalry brigade, an artillery brigade, a radial heavy regiment, an engineer Ran, and a paratrooper company, the total strength is close to five infantry divisions, and the equipment is also the best in the past. In addition to army units, air forces and special forces units also took part in military exercises.

This is the sixth regional military exercise since the end of the Sino-Japanese Northeast Asian War, and it has been more than two years. In addition to grasping industrial construction, Zhaobei's remaining main energy is on military construction, and in consideration of the current national strategy, the construction of the army has been given priority, and military exercises are an important benchmark for testing the achievements of the army's construction.

The Yan'erguan military exercise lasted a total of five days, and the main purpose of the exercise was twofold: First, to test the actual combat skills of infantry units against armored troops; Second, to test the ability of armored units to quickly pass through areas with unfavorable terrain and resist infantry ambushes.

Yanmen Pass is not only a mountainous area, but also a pass, since ancient times it is "a husband when the pass, ten thousand people do not open." It is indeed very challenging to test the actual combat capability of the armored troops here. Although most of the officers in the General Staff were not optimistic about the performance of the armored units in this exercise. However, Zhao Bei is very optimistic, and the reason is very simple, because in this exercise, the air force unit provides fire support for the armored troops.

In other words, this military exercise is a bold attempt by Zhao Bei to coordinate air-ground tactics. Although this can't yet be called a "blitzkrieg." However, this military exercise is indeed the first time that the air force unit and the armored unit have conducted tactical coordination through wireless communication equipment in the theater of operations.

In order to carry out the exercise smoothly, Zhao Bei even couldn't wait to bring over the prototypes of the dozen or so portable wireless phones that had just been manufactured in the electronics laboratory and handed them over to the troops.

Say it's "portable." "Actually, it's still very heavy. A soldier's back is required, and due to the use of tubes. Consumes a lot of power and cannot be powered by batteries. Only electric motors can be used for power, the aircraft relies on a wind electric motor, the armored units rely on gasoline motors, and the infantry communications units rely on foot-operated motors to power the wireless telephone.

Although the communication distance of such communication devices is limited. However, it can still be used for battlefield support, and now, the electronics laboratory is still stepping up the development of wireless communication relay equipment in accordance with Zhao Bei's order. Once the development is successful. The ground forces will have a longer communication distance.

It is precisely for this reason that although the scale of this exercise is not large, the standard is very high, and Zhao Bei wants the officers of the General Staff Headquarters to see what a real "modern war" is, so that their horizons will be broadened, and this will help them formulate better military action plans and strategic guidelines.

The exercise started on time at 9 o'clock in the morning, as the chief referee of the exercise, Zhao Bei did not directly participate in the command, but sat in the rear artillery headquarters with Lan Tianwei, Jiang Fangzhen and other senior staff officers, looking at the map to judge the state of the exercise troops, the difference between modern warfare and modern warfare is also this, the supreme commander of the battlefield is often impossible to witness the battle situation on the front line, everything must rely on communication equipment, and the front-line troops will report the battle situation to the command center. Then, according to the battle report, the staff officers will draw the real-time battlefield situation of the enemy and us on the map. For the reference of the Supreme Commander in order to make the necessary tactical adjustments.

Although the shells could not be seen blooming, and the sound of machine gun fire could not be heard, in the artillery headquarters, all the senior officers held their breath. Attention was focused on the glass plate that covered the huge battlefield map, and those staff officers were busy revising and revising the glass plate with colored drawing pens and erasers according to the battle situation of the enemy and the enemy summarized by wireless telegraphy and wireless telephone, while other staff officers stood by the same huge sand table model, fiddling with the models of the tanks and infantry to make the battlefield situation more intuitive.

Truth be told, of all the people present. Except for Zhao Bei, everyone else felt new about this new way of contact, at this moment. More than half of their minds are focused on the characteristics of this means of communication itself, as for the "battlefield." They don't care much about the situation over there.

For most officers, there is nothing in itself new about the commander sitting in the rear and remotely directing the front-line operations, since the telegraphy was published, the commanders of the Western military powers have begun to direct operations in this way, but compared to this newer wireless telephone communication equipment, even wireless telegraphy immediately seems outdated, although the two are indeed far from each other in terms of communication distance.

With this kind of wireless telephone, the supreme commander in the rear can give instructions to every battlefield commander on the front line at any time, even if he is in the sky, and the battlefield commander can respond immediately without going through any code procedures in the middle, which is directly sailing; The rotation rate of the troop movements. However, as far as the air force units are concerned, this is directly related to the efficiency of operations; through this kind of wireless telephone, the combat units of the air force can communicate with each other in the air to deal with unexpected situations, especially fighter pilots, who are more intuitive in improving combat efficiency.

As for the armored units, equipped with such a wireless telephone, it is possible to coordinate the pace of the attack at any time and maintain contact with the air force units. In the shortest possible time, the firepower in the combat area should be maximized, so as to achieve the suddenness and ferocity of the attack.

In the war against Japan, the main reason for the lack of effective coordination between the armored forces and the air force was that there was no such wireless telephone, and although heavy bombers could be equipped with radio receivers, they could not achieve coordinated command. Therefore, the Yanmen Pass military exercise will have such eye-catching significance.

This is a great revolution in military technology and, even more, a revolution in tactics.

From the "start of the war" to the present, this "battle" has been going on for nearly two hours, although it is responsible for "blocking." The infantry units advancing by the armored units occupied favorable terrain, but the armored units, with the strong cooperation of the air force units, quickly suppressed the fire of the blocking troops, and are now advancing rapidly towards the target area, and will arrive at the destination in half an hour.

However, the situation on the front line is still very complicated, if the infantry can hold the railway bridge, the armored troops will be blocked in the belt of the canyon, and once the reinforcements from the defenders arrive, the armored troops will have to retreat if they do not want to be completely annihilated.

Therefore, it is too early to say that the armored forces will win the final victory, and the key depends on whether the paratroopers fighting with the armored forces can occupy the railway bridge on time.

This is also the second organized airborne operation in the world's military history, and if other tactics cannot deter these high-ranking officers of the General Staff who have drunk foreign ink, then this airborne operation will completely deter them.

In the art of war, it is said that "the good defenders hide under the nine earths, and the good attackers move above the nine heavens" Today's airborne operations, but the ancients may not have thought that their exaggeration would be practiced in contemporary military operations. ”

Lan Tianwei is quite emotional, one is to lament the progress of military technology, and the other is to lament Zhao Bei's unattainable strategic vision, if it were not for Zhao Bei's strength to disagree with the public, there may not be a suitable transport aircraft for the airborne troops today.

This transport aircraft that can be used by paratroopers is the kind of "Progress" water transport aircraft that is nominally designed to serve the civil aviation industry, although it is true that it can take off and land on the water, but in fact. That type of transport aircraft can be fitted with fixed landing gear. Able to take off and land on the runway, it is very adaptable. And this is also what Zhao Bei emphasized before proposing the design plan.

The "Progress" transport aircraft was not fast. However, the range is relatively long, which is enough for tactical needs. It is precisely for this reason that this transport aircraft will play an important role in the Yanmen Pass military exercise.

"Command! Headquarters! The swans are coming! The swans are coming! ”

The microphone of the Yuan, which was used to communicate with the front, sounded the voice of a staff officer. "Swan" is the code name of that paratrooper unit.

"Let's go out and have a look."

Zhao Bei put on a military hat and took the lead out of the command headquarters. Boarding a partial three-wheeled motorcycle, he led a group of senior officers of the General Staff to the front line, and by the time they arrived at the place, the 15 "Progress" transport planes had already begun to drop paratroopers and equipment.

The airdrop height is 200 meters, first the equipment is dropped, and then the paratroopers are dropped, because of the vertical relationship, the paratroopers only carry submachine guns and a small amount of ammunition, and after landing on the ground, they look for equipment boxes to equip them with heavy equipment such as rifles, machine guns, mortars, etc., and then immediately put into the "battle".

The white umbrella flowers in the sky unfurled one by one, although only a hundred paratroopers dropped them. However, in this small canyon area, it is also very imposing, because the target area of the airdrop is the narrow valley in the canyon, which is also a challenge for the paratroopers, and if they are not careful, they will be blown to the peaks and cliffs by the wind.

The officers of the General Staff stood at the foot of the mountain, holding binoculars and looking at the sky, and before all the paratroopers had landed on the ground, a staff officer drove to the bottom of the mountain on a two-wheeled motorcycle. Give a telegram transcript to Zhao Bei. Lan Tianwei walked over and asked, "Where did you get the telegram?" Is there an urgent matter reported to the president on the central side?

Zhao Bei put the telegram transcript into his pocket expressionlessly, and then said: "This is a telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reporting on the current situation in the Russian Empire.

Xiuhao, I'm betting a lot on Russia. I don't know what we can win, but as long as the combat effectiveness of the army can be guaranteed, we will never lose this gamble, at least, we can make a profit from Russia. ”

The words did not fall on the fifteen planes in the sky "Progress." The transport plane had adjusted its formation and passed over the heads of the officers, and the deafening roar of motives completely overshadowed Zhao Bei's voice.