A few days later, the Spanning-2012 exercises officially began.

According to Wang Jiancheng's deployment, all combat units of the participating parties were connected to the Zhanlu system, and a de facto coordinated command was achieved.

The yellow sand was all over the sky, located in the exercise site of a certain place in IRAN, all the participating parties were ready, and with the order of the director's department, the exercise officially began.

The eyes of the whole world have been focused on this desert, and even at an altitude of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of meters, there are countless pairs of eyes staring at the billowing dust and smoke below.

At this moment, the corner tower.

Bob finally returned to his old job, sat back in front of the sand table, and began to deduce this "battle" tens of thousands of kilometers away.

There were several high-powered army commanders standing beside him, even those in charge of sand table scheduling, all of whom had the rank of colonel or above.

The all-powerful assistant received information from spy satellites and high-altitude reconnaissance planes, and at the same time reported the latest battle situation to everyone in the command room.

The exercise simulated a field army encounter, and ruled out all air superiority and electronic warfare superiority that could have an overwhelming impact on the operation itself."

"Neither side of the exercise used electronic jamming means or high-altitude reconnaissance planes."

"Air power is limited to small low-speed drones and helicopters, and at the same time, in order to close the gap, both red and blue sides are equipped with the latest reconnaissance equipment from the Chinese side."

"It can be said that they have brought modern warfare back to the period of World War II - this is not a comprehensive exercise of real troops, but more like a simple tactical confrontation exercise."

"The two sides of the confrontation need to make the most extreme and perfect deployment of the military strength of the opponent under extremely ideal conditions, so as to achieve a smooth battle."

"They're very thinking about it. Retro. ”

Speaking of this, the assistant paused slightly, and the expression on his face actually revealed his doubts.

What's the point of such an exercise?

At present, under the premise that modern warfare is increasingly pursuing the three-in-one and pursuing poor information, do you want to engage in tactical drills?

The meaning of "tactics" itself, in the face of equipment confrontation, has fallen too much.

No matter how interspersed, no matter how coordinated, no matter how camouflaged the surprise attack, you can't escape the attack of a precision-guided bomb, instead of practicing tactics, it is better to think about how to develop stronger prevention and control firepower, right?

In the same way, everyone in the command room also looked at each other for this exercise script.

"I don't understand what the point of this exercise is. Of course, we will have similar exercises, but they are generally below the company level. ”

"After reaching the battalion scale, a combat team has begun to have the combat capability of the whole system, and instead of giving full play to the role of the system, it will seek the near and far?"

"Yes, I don't understand it either. I can only think that the Chinese people are making a fool of themselves, and they are choosing the wrong direction. ”

Hearing everyone's discussion, the expression on Bob's face became more and more solemn.

Of course, he doesn't deny everyone's skepticism, but the problem is that he knows a little better than everyone else:

It's not that the Chinese don't have it, but they don't use it.

They don't have a structured framework for operations? They don't have air superiority? They don't have long-range precision strike capabilities?

What kidding, they have it too.

Just one DF-17 is enough to make their own side anxious on the regular battlefield, and they don't need to.

This means that what they want to try, or verify, may not actually be within the scope of their imagination.

Thinking of this, he raised his hand slightly and said:

"Regardless of the purpose of this exercise, let's see the progress of the exercise."

"How's the message ahead? What's the latest on the red and blue sides? ”

Hearing this, the assistant hurriedly checked the latest information, and then commanded several colonels to rearrange the sand table.

"According to satellite pictures and reports from reporters at the front, the two sides have now completed the first wave of mutual reconnaissance, and most of the troop deployment has been exposed."

"At the moment, the red side and the blue side have completely different strategies."

"The armored units of the blue side began to assemble, divided into two detachments, east and west, and marched towards the target point, while the red side was still in a loose formation, and there was no tendency to assemble for the time being."

"The tactics chosen by both sides are relatively conventional, and the information is still unclear and the direction of the attack is not clear, so it is not surprising that the red side chooses it."

"After all, the fast movement speed of mechanized troops, coupled with the long-range firepower they are equipped with, can play quite interchangeable even if the squad encounters the enemy"

"Evacuation operations?"

Bob interjected suddenly.

The assistant was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

"Yes, it seems to have the meaning of evacuation operations, etc., if you judge by the equipment level of the two armies, both of them can achieve the basic conditions for evacuation operations."

"But the question is, can they do it with their command skills?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone in the command room instantly became serious.

In fact, they are all the elite of the army, although they look down on the so-called "tactics", but in fact, under the premise of "equipment first", each of them is not low in familiarity with modern tactics.

Evacuation warfare, on the other hand, is a completely new combat method that has only been proposed in recent years.

Relying on a more powerful command system, a more convenient and stable data link system, and a more rapid and efficient level of tactical execution, it is a combat plan specially proposed to deal with the "damage overload" situation that may occur in the future.

Its basic principle is to make each combat unit have independent combat capability as much as possible on the premise of ensuring the integrity of combat effectiveness, to divide the overall task into hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of sub-tasks, and to evade enemy strikes and seek breakthroughs in battle results through real-time scheduling of each smallest combat unit.

——

Sounds beautiful.

After all, if a full-fledged evacuation operation can be achieved, the effectiveness of each combat unit will be maximized, and it will no longer be a myth to play all the ammunition reserves in a single battle, and the so-called "waste of firepower" will be minimized.

The "ghost fleet" program, which has been phased out in the United States, is an attempt by the Navy to carry out evacuation operations, or as they call them, "distributed operations."

It's just that they focused more on the direction of equipment in that attempt, and now Huaxia seems to have made a breakthrough in the system?

"It is impossible for more than 400 combat units to participate in this exercise, and a large part of them are backward equipment from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and IRAN."

"They don't even have a complete electronic system, let alone the ability to command the data link in an integrated manner."

"In this case, you want to achieve evacuation operations? What are you kidding? ”

"Even the most talented commander will never be able to do it!"

Hearing this, Bob nodded slowly.

Yes, such a style of command places too much of a burden on the commander.

You must know that in order to achieve meticulous control of the overall situation down to the smallest combat unit, it is far from enough to rely on the traditional hierarchical command system.

Orders will be deformed, execution will be deformed, and tactics will be "improvised" by front-line personnel in a flexible way, and each change may lead to a deviation from the commander's initial decision and final purpose.

This is also the key point that best reflects the talent of the commander.

Whether or not the commander can thread the needle and thread and "mend" the entire battle situation in such a complex situation determines how much of a role the commander can play in the entire battle.

——

But the problem is that even the most talented commander will not try to arrange the location of a machine-gun position.

The reason is simple, the human brain has a limit, and so does the computing power.

Blind attention to detail can lead commanders to lose sight of the overall situation.

"Maybe it's just an illusion."

Bob spoke.

"They are not necessarily doing evacuation operations, but they may just plan to rely on long-range firepower and a longer battle line to increase the detection range and obtain as much information as possible."

"After all, in this exercise, the reconnaissance methods of both sides are limited, and the importance of information is even more critical."

"It's a good deal to pay a certain price for information"

Everyone nodded, but then, just a few minutes later, the latest information shattered all their "predictions".

The red front began to move.

After obtaining the relevant information, as Bob said, the mixed and large fronts began to be mobilized in an extremely complex way.

Several adjacent squads cooperated with each other and began to form fire nodes, and after a wave of strikes was completed, without any pause, the synthetic team quickly disbanded.

The long-range fire detachment continued to shift its position, and the infantry detachment abandoned the traditional tactic of grabbing points, and instead began to intersperse in the middle of the line of fire with its excellent obstacle crossing ability, attracting a large amount of light and heavy firepower from the blue side.

From God's point of view, the infantry detachment with the most accurate dispatch is almost maneuvering close to the opponent's strike limit.

A kilometer further north will enter the strike range of the opposing anti-tank positions.

A kilometre further south, you will be caught by a returning helicopter gunship.

The exquisite operation made Bob can't help but sigh.

"That's scalpel combat. If I hadn't known in advance that they were in a state of information double-blindness, I would even think that this was a generational blow caused by poor information."

"How the hell did they do it? No, even if you can understand the deployment of the blue team, it will not be able to execute it perfectly, right? ”

"Their penetration formation, even with a single vehicle as the smallest unit"

No one answered him, for everyone was already stunned by the even more amazing dispatch.

Under the premise of the limited number of equipment as a whole, the red side has squeezed the potential of almost all combat units to the limit.

It has become a basic operation for a combat unit to conduct multi-node operations, and the most exaggerated thing is that a low-altitude air defense squad actually directly crossed the entire battle line and held almost all the nodes that were raided by the blue helicopter gunships!

"I can see it."

Bob slapped the table hard, then said:

"The core of their exercise is not evacuation operations-—— although the whole battle, this concept is everywhere."

"But in fact, what they are really doing is optimizing the echelon configuration of combat effectiveness."

"Among the red and blue sides, the equipment and combat power of the Chinese and Russian sides are very strong, but the other vassal parties participating in the exercise are not necessarily."

"But every time, the red side represented by Huaxia can use their strong equipment to fill the weak nodes that the vassal side is responsible for in the most extreme circumstances and at the most appropriate time."

"While filling the position, the weak equipment will be dispatched to other nodes to fight against the weaker teams on the blue side."

"In this way, at almost every node, their combat effectiveness is a cut above the blue side."

"It's a miracle on the battlefield, and it's not easy to do that, even from our God's perspective."

"It's too computational, it's too short a decision-making time, and I don't think any of us can do it."

Everyone in the conference room nodded heavily-——Yes, the real battlefield is not a war game, and what a commander needs to consider is definitely not "driving a tank from point A to point B", but "taking a tank that has been overloaded and may break down at any time, crossing the desert with a high temperature of 70 degrees, under the premise of always being in the coverage of their own communications, from point A, which is facing enemy artillery fire, to point B, which is about to be infiltrated by enemy infantry."

There are too many variables, and there are too many information points that affect decision-making.

No one can make perfect calculations, and it's hard to even derive a few executable strategies.

Unless, this commander is not a man, but a fast-running supercomputer.

Wait a minute?

At that moment, everyone raised their heads.

They looked at each other in acknowledgment, their horrified expressions revealing their thoughts.

"Artificial intelligence?"

Bob spoke first.

"It's a lot like that. Very much like that! ”

"This is too in line with the decision-making method of artificial intelligence, I don't know if you have played some similar strategy games, but I want to say that the current combat method of Huaxia is like a supercomputer in a strategy game!"

"What's even more terrifying is that behind this supercomputer, there are a group of top commanders!"

"Let the intelligence department quickly confirm this information!"

Bob said decisively.

At this time, this drill has come to an end without any suspense.

The red side won a big victory, and the battle loss rate was frighteningly low.

At this moment when he saw the confirmed results, Bob finally understood why Huaxia was so "open" to this exercise.

The reason is simple.

Because this is a tactic that can never be leaked, and it is also a strategy that is absolutely impossible to target!

In the face of their systematic and precise command, the security warfare and small-scale combat technology that they are proud of can be said to be nothing to mention.

"The world has completely changed."

"They destroyed our last line of defense."

"From today onwards, we no longer have an advantage even in skirmishes and proxy wars."

"I finally understand why they set the exercise in such a form, this battle is not for themselves!"

"We should have thought a long time ago, how could Huaxia abandon its biggest advantage, on the contrary, they want to rely on their own technological superiority to forcefully raise the combat power of the army of some allies!"

"It's a threat to them and a warning."

"It's funny — Congress also discussed the issue of disrupting China's deployment through proxy wars last week."

"Now, this strategy is about to come to naught"

(End of chapter)