Episode 75 Explain the aftermath

On the entrance road to the east of Zhuangzi, there were two explosions, the fire flashed, and the Blue Army's Thunder-1 tank continued to drive forward two meters, then stopped, chirped and turned the turret, and the 57 mm thick barrel was depressed and aimed at the pigsty in front of the right.

The pigs in the pigsty screamed, and the two groups of Red Army anti-tank gunners hiding inside also shouted, trying to push the 37 guns around, trying to push out of the pigsty and retreat back. But the Thundering Tank fired. There was a loud bang, flames erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and several pigs in the pigsty howled even harder, their front hooves clinging to the fence, their long beaks squeezed in the middle, desperately trying to escape, as if it had reached the end of the world.

Behind the Blue Army tank, an exercise referee rushed up with a white ash bucket, and without saying a word, brushed a striking white ash on the front armor plate of the Thundering Tank, indicating that the tank had suffered minor damage.

The commander was upset, lifted the roof to reveal his body, and shouted below:

"Hey, my front armor is 50 mm thick, and he can wound me with two 37 small guns? This is Thunder 1, not Lightning 3! Mistaken, right? ”

The drill referee put the brush back in the bucket and let out a sentence:

"Make no mistake! The distance is so close, and two shots hit at the same time, even if you are slightly injured, there is no problem! If you don't accept it, you will be over! ”

Then he rushed into the pigsty and stopped the Red Army anti-tank gunners:

"Hey, don't run! 57mm high-explosive shells exploded among you, and you were all killed! Two anti-tank guns were destroyed! ”

The commander of the Thundering Tank laughed and muttered:

"That's pretty much it."

Then retract the turret, close the top cover, and continue to push forward.

The Red Army soldiers pushed two anti-tank guns out of the pigsty in embarrassment, and then honestly wanted to return to the place of death and lie down.

But in the pigsty, the stinking and stinking pig manure was all over the ground, and a few manic pigs were running around, neighing and screaming, as if they were going to eat people.

"Forget it," the drill referee shook his head, "you go and lie down outside the village." ”

Several Red Army soldiers were relieved and ran out.

As soon as the words fell, there was a louder bang in front of him, like muffled thunder. Then a voice came from ahead:

"The Blue Army's minesweeper tank was directly hit by 75 infantry guns and was completely destroyed! All the people in the car were killed......"

……

At the entrance of the village to the south, two tanks of the Blue Army had already been destroyed, and at the same time, machine gun flames were constantly spraying in the darkness on the opposite side, and the Blue infantry who tried to rush in were "killed" one after another. It's just that due to the narrowness of the battlefield, the dead on both sides could not lie in place, but gathered outside the village.

In addition, this was the last battle of the whole exercise, and there were many snakes and insects in the fields at night, so the judges of the exercise did not ask the "killed" soldiers to lie down, but just concentrate on waiting. Therefore, both sides are more "not afraid of death" when they start fighting, especially the blue army, which has sufficient troops, and the number of casualties has skyrocketed with the number of people rushing in.

Although the Blue officers and men were mentally prepared for the resistance of the remnants of the Red Sixth Division, they did not expect their firepower to be so intensive. On both sides of the path leading to the village, there seemed to be endless machine gun points. A machine gun point opened fire in the shadows, killing the Blues a dozen people, and then the tanks coming up from behind cleared the machine gun point with one shot, but then out of nowhere, a cannon would appear, often 75mm infantry guns, and occasionally 105 howitzers. In the face of such large-caliber artillery, what kind of tank will also be fatal with one hit.

By the time the infantry jumped out of the armored car from behind and went up with submachine guns to clear the artillery points, one or two more machine-gun flames would erupt in the darkness, and then half of the squad of infantry would be "killed".

Even worse are the mines that explode from time to time on the path. The infantry rushed in, occasionally stepping on anti-infantry mines, being "blown up", and then retreating out of the village in dismay. If you are riding in a tank or armored vehicle, you are not afraid of anti-infantry mines, but there will be even bigger anti-tank mines. Tanks will be destroyed on the spot, and armored vehicles will be even more deadly, not only destroyed, but also half of the soldiers.

On the trails, all the minesweeper tanks that the Blues had rushed to the front were destroyed and stopped there, blocking the road. The tanks and armored vehicles in the rear could not drive in, so they had to rush in with infantry while towing the vehicles of the repair battalion from outside.

If there were a real battle, if you were to fire back and forth, many houses would have been turned into rubble, and many buildings would have been knocked open and become new roads. But this is a drill, you can calculate the casualties, but you can't really knock the houses of ordinary people open. As a result, the Blues were only able to move on the original roads of the village. And these original roads were repeatedly designed by the Red Sixth Division to fire points, and the Blue Army was extremely passive.

……

"Division," the staff officer held a telescope on the high ground of the front headquarters of the Blue Army, and said anxiously, "I have to think of a way, if we continue to fight like this, the loss of this small Zhuangzi will be more than the loss of the entire exercise!" ”

"Hmm."

Hou Hekun did not answer, and continued to hold his separately equipped high-powered monocular, observing the battle in Zhuangzi.

"How much have we lost?"

He asked suddenly.

A few staff officers next to him immediately picked up a few reports and compared them, and then reported:

"Division, we have now 'killed' more than 400 people, and all the casualties have totaled nearly 800 people, six tanks and seven armored vehicles have been completely destroyed, four tanks and six armored vehicles have been damaged...... Shizuo, it has only been more than an hour since the attack, and the casualties are already so large! We haven't touched the door of Zhuangzi yet! ”

"Four hundred people were killed, thirteen ...... were destroyed," Hou Hekun said to himself, "It's not enough......"

Several staff officers next to him heard it, and they were all stunned:

"Master, what did you say? Not enough? ”

Hou Hekun didn't explain, but just ordered:

"You should be careful and be sure, when you take Zhuangzi, try not to have more than four or five thousand casualties...... Do you understand. ”

"Master?" A staff officer wondered, "Four or five thousand people? There won't be four or five thousand casualties, right? ”

Several others were also surprised. What's wrong with Shizuo today, why are you so pessimistic? This little Zhuangzi is more tricky, but it won't kill so many people, right?

"In short, keep the momentum going," Mr. Hou said, "not too fast, not too violent." ”

“…… Teacher, why? ”

Hou Hekun glanced at Xiang Xiaoqiang and Zhu Yourong, and said:

"No why, just do it."

……

On the high ground a few hundred meters away, Zhu Yourong and Xiang Xiaoqiang sat side by side on the grass, staring at the continuous flashes in the village in the distance, as well as the sound of guns and cannons.

Looking at the battlefield here, it seems extremely distant, and it is easy to have a sense of detachment from the war.

The surrounding guards and officers were standing at a distance, defending Her Majesty. The two of them could be seen from this distance, and at the same time they could not be heard.

At night in early June, there are not many mosquitoes, but because of the eight red lights around the high ground, many small flying insects are attracted to fly. An incense burner was placed next to Zhu Yourong, and the elegant-smelling mosquito coils floated around, but there were no mosquitoes to harass them.

"You're deliberately giving way to Red, aren't you?"

Zhu Yourong asked softly.

Xiang Xiaoqiang glanced at Zhu Yourong, but he didn't expect this girl's eyes to be really powerful. …… In other words, not the eyes, but the ability to perceive people's hearts.

He smiled slightly, looked around, and whispered:

"It's not me who gives red, it's the Blues who let red."

Zhu Yourong glanced at him and continued to stare at the battlefield in the distance:

"The Blues didn't get your instructions? …… What did Xiuxiu do? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was dumbfounded. Zhu Yourong was sensitive to find that Xiuxiu was no longer here. She is so sensitive to Xiuxiu...... What does that mean?

Not to mention, Xiuxiu was really sent by him to Hou Hekun to "hint".

How do you say that? War is a continuation of politics. Then the exercises are also a continuation of politics. The battle below is so fierce and so "flesh and blood" that it can almost be called a "new Mengzhuang meat grinder", but the Blues are very strangely useless smokescreens.

It seems that Hou Hekun still "understands politics" very well. You know, he can be like Rommel, who can't understand the hints.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Your Majesty, in this exercise, the Blue Army eliminated six divisions of the Red Army, and its own casualties were less than 3,000 people...... This ratio is too ...... How to put it, it's too ugly. ”

Zhu Yourong didn't speak, just silently pulled the grass under his feet. After a while, she sighed:

"I know, you're forced to ...... too"

"As a last resort?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was a little surprised. To tell the truth, he did this because he didn't want Tang Yunsheng, a respected old marshal, to be unable to come to power, and he didn't want to make the army boss he had just befriended look bad. However, this is only a thought of him, and there is no question of necessity at all.

Zhu Yourong was still looking at the war in the distance, pulling the grass in his hand, and said silently:

"I know, you're worried that you have to think about the future for yourself, and you want to get along better in all aspects of your relationship now......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang wondered, why did Zhu Yourong become more and more inexplicable the more he said? Think about the future?

Zhu Yourong looked up at the sky, sighed lightly, and asked:

"Well, you don't have to worry, we're good friends...... I still remember saying this, I will not let my good friend have no way back in the future...... The new territory of Nanyang has not yet appointed a governor, do you want to go? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was really taken aback.

Zhu Yourong mentioned that they were friends in the first half of the sentence, and Xiang Xiaoqiang had not just been moved, and the second half of the sentence scared him a lot.

Why, this sent himself to Nanyang? What's wrong?

Zhu Yourong continued to say quietly:

"If you don't want to go to Nanyang, I'll think of another way for you...... In short, let you have no worries. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang became more and more furious, and the battle in the distance at this moment couldn't attract him.

Why does this girl seem to be explaining what happened?

"What's going on?" He stared at Zhu Yourong and said, "What's wrong?" Tell me. ”