Midsummer night, deep in the Inner Mongolia Plateau. On the ancient battlefield where Genghis Khan raised his whip, there was a large-scale military exercise field with an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, consisting of deserts, grasslands, mountains, and trenches, which was the largest in Asia, the most modern in China, and the most modern in the army.

This is a super-large training ground that supports training in the complex electromagnetic environment of all branches of the army, and its vast space is fully capable of supporting the training and exercises on the scale of the group army.

But today, what is being held at this huge training ground is only a small-scale confrontation exercise of a new tank battalion.

The two battalions that act as the Red Army and the Blue Army are the same elite tank regiment from the 99A2 main battle tank, which was the first in China.

The tanks in this exercise all use the 99A2G main battle tank, which is a new generation of main battle tanks upgraded by using the 99A2 through improved armor and power systems, of course, there is another difference is that the Red Army has completely upgraded the software system part this time, using the latest successful research and development of the data link and theater joint tactical combat system, while the Blue Army still uses the original system.

Today there will be two exercises in different environments, the first being a purely separate confrontation of two tank battalions without any external interference, and the second being a confrontation between the two sides in an environment of a strong external electromagnetic storm.

Before the exercise began, Lieutenant Colonel Wang Shengcai, commander of the Red Army's tank battalion, was uneasy because his battalion had been receiving this new electronic warfare system for less than a month, although the operation of the electronic warfare system led by Duke was extremely simple and easy to understand, and everyone could operate it in a few days.

However, because the combat tips given by the system in the course of peacetime training are often very different from those that we usually make manual judgments, one by one, it is usually recommended that multiple vehicles concentrate their firepower on a common target, and in the absence of actual combat testing, the tank battalion has a very skeptical mentality about the system.

This is very natural, they are the latest tank regiment equipped with the 99A2 tank regiment in the whole army, and the familiarity with the 99A2 tank has almost reached the point of perfection, and many tactical shooting skills that the fighters have explored have been well rewarded in many exercises in the past, and the victory rate of internal confrontation is 50 percent, and the victory rate of external confrontation is as high as 90 percent, so that Wang Shengcai, the battalion commander, is very pleased.

However, today's superiors demand that the operation must be carried out in accordance with the prompts of the electronic warfare system, which is tantamount to completely abandoning a whole set of tactics that are effective on weekdays, which makes him feel at ease, although this is only an internal confrontation, but in the whole battalion, this is a war, and no one wants to lose.

What's more, they still claim to be driving a batch of the most advanced main battle tanks in the country, and the leaders who are watching the battle today are said to have the chief of the Central Military Commission, and Battalion Commander Wang feels the pressure is huge, and the people who are soldiers can not rely on the quality of the weapons, in their eyes, this time everyone's equipment is actually the same, and there is no difference at all in hardware.

Compared with Battalion Commander Wang's apprehension, Duke felt very new when he walked into the military exercise headquarters for the first time, and many things he saw and couldn't see on TV were now displayed in front of his eyes, which made him, a non-military fan, have a strong interest.

In a group of high-ranking officers who were shining with stars, as the only observer in civilian clothes, Duke was an outright outlier in the eyes of the guards at the training base, and if he hadn't been seen to have come with the chief of the military region, he would have been arrested and imprisoned in a small black room with the way he looked left and right now.

"Duke, how about it, there are a lot of interesting things in the army, if you want to come and play often, it's very simple" Old Man Liu looked at Duke with a new and excited look, and couldn't help but smile and said, "As long as you are willing to be the chief scientist of the general assembly, I will apply to the No. 1 chief, and let him approve you to enlist in the army as a special talent, and directly hang the rank of major general, then you will be the youngest general in the whole army." ”

If this is the case, Duke is not only the youngest general in the whole army now, but also the youngest general who has never been seen since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

If it is a military fan like Dong Feng and Zhao Jianwu, when he hears such an invitation, he may agree without hesitation, the general is not something that ordinary people can mix, so how much green smoke comes out of the ancestral grave, not to mention that Duke is only a little more than 26 years old now.

Although Lin Shuai once set a record of serving as the commander of the 4th Army of the Red 1st Army at the age of 23 during the war years, he was not a military rank at that time, and he was not a officially recognized general.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the regulations on serving in the military were restricted, and there was no such opportunity.

Although Mr. Liu is a bigwig of the Military Commission, it is only possible to apply for special treatment from No. 1, so this suggestion is really surprising.

But Duke listened, but smiled, did not answer Old Man Liu's words, but focused on the huge curtain wall of the exercise headquarters, using the new SAL display screen spliced out of thousands of square meters of curtain wall, the Red and Blue Army tank battalions fighting the exercise at this moment were completely displayed.

In order to fully assess the impact of the new system on combat effectiveness, in addition to shooting from a camera station preset on fixed heights, several helicopters were also sent from the air to film, so it was important to show all the details. This special audience will be able to grasp first-hand materials for further optimization of the newly developed electronic warfare system.

It stands to reason that these are very confidential materials, but Old Man Liu has taken out a lot of heavyweight and even strategic benefits from Duke, and has been determined to pull Duke, a scientific research demon, tightly on the military's scientific research chariot, so except for things that have nothing to do with research, everything else, Old Man Liu is now open to Duke, hoping to further "squeeze" Duke through the exposed weaknesses for improvement.

In Mr. Liu's mind, Duke is now an unnamed chief scientist of the whole army.

"All ready?" Old Man Liu glanced at it, turned his head and said to a deputy general of the Beijing Military Region.

"Chief, you're all set." The general who carried two generals on his shoulders replied respectfully, although he is also a big man who commands thousands of troops, but compared to Old Man Liu, the gap is not a star and a half, and there are many almost insurmountable hurdles in the middle to reach Old Man Liu's status today.

"Let's get started." Old Man Liu said lightly and sounded the alarm for today's exercise attack.

This first exercise simulated an encounter between the two sides, the red and blue armies met in the plain area for a real tank battle, after an order, the red and blue armies each more than 30 tanks immediately let out a huge roar, the latest improved engine horsepower so that the tanks quickly reached the maximum speed of travel, in the plain set off a burst of yellow smoke.

On the huge curtain wall of the exercise headquarters, tanks rushed towards their opponents like yellow dragons.