The preparations for the acceptance of the results of the intelligence suppression force are being carried out steadily;

In order to better get the information needed, Nesta specially dispatched a group of witch doctors, more than ten apprentices, and more than 1,000 soldiers for this exercise, and opened up an exercise base in the forest far away from the headquarters.

This base will be a simulated stronghold that includes a command center, barracks, and a peripheral wolf smoke tower.

It also sets the reason for the existence of the stronghold, and assigns the identities of the internal members in the exercise, so as to simulate a military base with spellcasters, existential purposes, specific tasks to be performed, garrison forces, and internal and external patrols.

They will be the target of the Intelligence Suppression Brigade in this exercise to test whether the formation is working as expected.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye, and the final assessment was just around the corner, and the new troops led by Cui Wenli were nervously waiting.

~~~~

A certain day, probably a day around the time of March.....

Cui Wenli did not receive a notice about the arrangement of the exercise, but she did not neglect the formation training.

On this day, just as she was flipping through the training reports of the past few days in her office in the barracks, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside.

When I raised my eyes, I happened to hear the familiar "report!" sound, which comes from members of their own dedicated distribution group.

"Come in." Cui Wenli straightened the materials at hand and gave such an order.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, I have received a communication from the Command Department under the command of the army, please take a look!"

The communications officer handed over the two reports in his hand and handed them to Cui Wenli across the table.

The report is divided into two parts, one is the original data record of the signal, and the other is the essence of the former's coded translation.

Cui Wenli seemed to realize something, and she thought that this should be the beginning of the exercise, or the relevant notice.

After having the understanding that "the exercise may have begun", she deliberately began to strictly follow the rules....

First of all, I took a rough look at the original data, and focused on a few "meaningless signals" at the beginning, interruption, and end of it, and found that there was no problem, it was the signal code of the Command Division of the week.

After checking this, she began to check the translation file against the original signal, confirming the content and looking for potential translation errors.

[(Identification code) Note, the following is the content of the exercise.]

The Intelligence Office under the jurisdiction of the Army has received a report from the patrol militia that it has discovered three days ago in the 7-8-4 area of the northeastern region of the Black Forest that it has found abnormal traces of suspected hostile forces.

-- Military Fork Command (Identification Code) and Military Command Division Fork and Fork Communication Transmission (Identification Code)]

After reading the content and confirming that it was correct, Cui Wenli immediately got up and ordered loudly to the flag officer on duty,

"Prepare for war urgently! Right now!"

"Understood!" The flag officer turned around and ran.

And not long after, the heavy drums of war resounded throughout the camp.....

Under the drums of war, all the soldiers who were either resting in the tent in turn, or who were on a training mission, heard the sound and began to prepare for the mission.

There are many signals contained in the drum sound, including combat readiness level, mission level, and so on;

The soldiers in charge of their different divisions have to prepare for the corresponding level of tasks under the leadership of their respective direct commanders according to the content of these signals that they are familiar with in advance.

In addition to long-range and short-range weapons and shields, prepare emergency energy supplements such as fat and sugar crystals that you carry with you.

After they have completed these tasks, they will assemble and rest at the designated place to ensure that they are in a state where they can set off at any time, and wait for the next order of the peak.

And Cui Wenli also came out of her own camp at this time

tent, as he walked, he instructed the members of the flag officer group around him,

"Inform the military academy that according to the scale previously announced, send staff interns who meet the requirements to come over! Tell them that in one hour I will see all the posts in one hour!"

"Inform the General Logistics Division, 1, that the combat-ready moose must be fully prepared at the third sub-station of the Northeast Region, and I need to be able to see the mounts prepared for the troops when I step off the rail train; 2. Preparations should be made immediately for the special rail train for the troops bound for the northeastern region. 3. Most of the grain and grass quota of the troops should also be transferred to the third sub-station in the Northeast Region."

"Understood, I'll send a message."

Almost fifteen minutes later, almost all the soldiers in the formation were ready, and they were waiting in their respective dormitories.

At about the same time, the instructions related to the "Combat Moose" were also transmitted in a stepwise manner and sent to the relevant units; Then a batch of 250 moose was transferred from the nearest armament breeding base to the destination, and sent to the rail train to the receiving place set by Cui Wenli.

At the receiving site, work is underway;

This includes the food of the moose, the deer stable, the logistics materials of the soldiers of the army, and the preparation of the rail train, all of which are being prepared against time.

At the main train station, a rail train that is large enough to carry all the soldiers under Cui Wenli's command is also busy mobilizing moose for pulling carts and installing tow ropes after feeding them.

Half an hour later, twelve non-commissioned officers at all levels from military academies who had taken intelligence-related courses also quickly arrived at the camp; Although their professionalism was still very immature, they were also placed in the staff group at the detachment and brigade level.

I don't expect these students to come up with any ideas, just think of it as a practical class; After all, not to mention actual combat, it is an opportunity for a formal exercise, which is actually very rare at this stage.

Before Nesta came up with this concept for this acceptance, no one had thought that it would be possible to conduct simulated battles in this way.

However, if the results of this exercise are good, it will surely spread and become a common "activity" in the military in the future.

When all the preparations that could be made by the side had been completed, and the orders and materials were confirmed with the Command Department and the General Logistics Department, Cui Wenli led the temporary brigade under her command to board the rail car that had been waiting for a while.

On this trip, they will get off the bus at the third station in the Northeast Region, and then transfer to the battlefield moose and go to the "intelligence discovery site" to start reconnaissance operations.

However, perhaps in order to simulate the actual situation, the information given by the army this time is too simple, and Cui Wenli can be said to know almost nothing about the situation over there, so she is still worried in her heart.

~~~~~

A train on the move

Cui Wenli convened all the staff officers and officers and held a meeting in the office of the separated train, wanting everyone to ponder what situation they would encounter on this trip.

"Sir, I think there will definitely be a real confrontation group waiting for us, but the composition and scale are not easy to say."

"I think so, too, but after all, there is no precedent for drills, so I can only imagine it according to real combat..."

"Actually—" Cui Wenli began to think about it in a deep voice, "In terms of environment, it may be the jungle environment we are familiar with... Or, the plateau meadow environment of the northern plateau, the arable land environment outside the city;

"Uh... Sir, don't you say it's the Northeast Region? I think it's obviously a forest area, right?"

"It's not surprising that logging or simulating farmland has been going on for three months... Now, even if the Witch Doctor really built a new city over there, I wouldn't doubt it."

"Understood... It's a possibility."

"As for the confrontation group, it may be the local militia forces, maybe the wolves and a handful of black blade-toothed beasts, as well as the witch medicine disciples, and even a few empty witch doctors

Get involved."

"Uh... It can't be such an exaggeration."

"Whether we will or not, we have to think in the direction of "complex" and "difficult"; In other words, we need to be mentally prepared to face a station alone."

「.....」

The atmosphere in the partition fell silent slightly, and all the officers and non-commissioned officers were a little nervous at this time.

"Oh? Are you scared? What about your prowess? Tell me! Where did you run! If the virtual exercises are all so cowardly, then what can the Republic expect from us?"

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little wrong, Cui Wenli shouted decisively,

"Answer me! Are you scared!?"

"No! Sir!"

"Don't be afraid!"

"We're not afraid!"

The response was sparse at first, but soon resounded throughout the partition and even in the carriages outside.

"Very well, then from now on, all the guys give me something to think about, to think about what to expect, and what to do; After all, the army has just been established, and we have paid more attention to the run-in aspect during training, so although the situation this time is grim, it is not a good opportunity to exercise."

"When we really get to the battlefield, the enemy won't let us learn to improve."

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

~~~~~

The train arrived at its destination after a few light hours, and the soldiers who had already rested along the way did not enter the nearby station to rest, but after receiving the supplies prepared here and the herd of moose used to hurry, they rushed to the direction where the anomaly was found in the "intelligence".

After going out for a distance, Cui Wenli found a relatively hidden location and established a temporary command center for the brigade, so that the communication unit to which the brigade belonged could carry out communication preparations under the protection of the combat units directly under it;

The subordinate detachments continued to move forward in different directions, and the corresponding level of front-line command centers was deployed.

As for the squadrons below the detachment, they also began their own search missions, and in the following days, they successively found some traces of ruts, animal droppings, footprints, etc., and then made further traces.

The reconnaissance team was scattered one by one, relying on the totem to cover their own tracks, groping in this entire area with a radius of more than 100,000 square kilometers.

~~~~

Kunates, who chose to stay in the army when the Far Traveler unit was separated, is now the non-commissioned officer scout chief of the reconnaissance squad numbered 1 (Temporary First Brigade)-2 (Second Detachment)-1 (First Squadron Below)-1 (First Reconnaissance Squad under it).

At the moment, she is carrying out the exercise mission in her area with two covering hands.

This reconnaissance had been going on for several days, but apart from a few traces found on the periphery at the beginning, they had not found valuable information for a long time.

The reconnaissance group habitually remained silent, and since there was no trace of the enemy, in order to save physical strength, the covering hand did not unfold the optical cover totem at this time.

However, due to the consideration of the possible presence of the enemy in advance, the suppression of the smell was always kept on by the two covering hands in turn.

As she was walking, a handful of cyan hanging from the trunk of a tree in the corner of her line of sight attracted Kunna's attention;

She raised her hand for directions, then followed the two warriors and leaned against the ordinary tree.

It was a handful of hair, about 1.5 meters tall, and it looked like it had been scraped by burrs on the trunk of the tree.

Fingers pinched it, put it under the line of sight to look closely, and then put it to the tip of her nose to smell it, and Quinna made a judgment that it should belong to a wind wolf.

Due to almost all the wind wolves in the east, they are now in the main department

under control, so this guy may be cooperating with the trolls on some mission....

Wind wolf... In the eyes of the trolls, they are synonymous with weak combat power, and all they can perform is patrol missions using their sense of smell.

"It doesn't look like there's a big army marching on, so... Is this a patrol line? And what about the direction?"

She crouched down again and began to check the direction of the burr from earlier, and guess the direction of her target's wind wolf.

"It's from the northeast, but it's a bit hard to judge whether the ring patrol is a round patrol or a round-trip patrol..."

"I need to report back to the authorities, let's back down for now." After making a basic judgment, Kunna commanded the two subordinates.

"Understood."

"Understood."

After exiting about a kilometer from the point of origin, Quinna began to interrogate her superior squadron and report her findings there.

Shangfeng sent back a message saying that the two squadrons and a total of seven reconnaissance teams were rushing here, so that they could cooperate to grasp the possible patrol routes.

It didn't take long for the seven teams that had come to support them to enter the range of Kunna's sonic transmission, and formed an effective connection with each other at a distance of several kilometers.

Quinna did not elaborate in more detail, and all the plans of action had already been laid out at the squadron level;

Therefore, the eight squads, including themselves, began a boring incubation period at the eight points that they had found through calculations and could take into account several patrol methods such as "ring" and "round trip" according to the instructions of the upper peak.

Since the "enemy party" may also be a troll, if there is also a communication-related totem on the other side, then even if the signal of this party cannot be recognized in the case of a different password, the obvious sound wave disturbance in the air will really reveal the location of the team;

Therefore, all the squads in the incubation period maintained a "sonic silence" at this time, and further above, the squadrons and detachments also temporarily listed this area as a forbidden communication direction.

~~~~

The three of Kunna huddled in a small area underground, barely motionless with their ears pricked up, listening carefully to the movements above, and in the sound of birdsong, the running of small beasts, etc., the time spent in silence was easy to spend a few light hours.....

Just as the little insects were about to crawl over the bodies of the three warriors, several familiar voices came.

It was pitch black, and the three trolls heard a sound from above the ground almost simultaneously....

"Footsteps... 800 kilograms up and down..... Belonging to compatriots... Nine... militia patrols; Quadruped.... Two... Wind Wolf; This is it!"

"In terms of direction, it is likely to be a round-trip patrol, and you need to confirm the detailed route."

Unfortunately, the patrol on the ground, barely talking during the march, disappointed Quinna, who had wanted to hear something from them.

The sound of footsteps passed from the ground to the ground, passing only a strip of soil as a medium, and then reaching the ears of the three trolls;

But when they went from underground to above, Kunna's heartbeat and breathing were suppressed by the totem and the transformation of soil medium to air medium, and even with the agility of the trolls' ears, they didn't notice it in the slightest.

The same is true for taste, the complex composition of the soil has already reduced the smell, and under the combined effect of hiding depth and totem suppression, the noses of the two wind wolves have almost become ornaments at this time.

Gradually, the voice above the head drifted away and eventually disappeared.

It was only at this time that the three of Kunna emerged from the ground and quickly destroyed the pit.

While the rest of the squad went up, the other squads either missed or "encountered" the previous patrol.

The teams began to evacuate, and after being out of the forbidden interrogation range, they submitted their information to Shangfeng.

Intelligence came all the way to the detachment and brigade, and the staff officers and officers "encountered" the patrol according to the time and place of each squad

Zhi determined its patrol path.

Moreover, such patrols were not actually isolated in the spot, and similar gains were made in several other areas.

Therefore, after synthesizing all aspects of intelligence, Cui Wenli's side finally summarized and integrated the information, and demarcated the approximate scope of an "enemy base".

Next, it is natural to enter the second stage - to grasp the enemy's specific information, including the enemy's identity, location, number, composition, purpose, combat strength, and so on.

Doesn't most of the intelligence already have it in Chad?

For example, the identity is a troll, and the purpose is to conduct an assessment;

And the common establishment is nothing more than the missing nine troll militia squads, the full ten troll militia squads, and the wind wolves used to cooperate.

However, Cui Wenli has already speculated based on the content of the previous dispatch department's interrogation, and such an answer is definitely not something that can be brought up for a mission...

The opponent in this exercise definitely has a series of information such as the identity and purpose that have been set, and these need to be carefully investigated and mastered by her command.

With this awareness and the dissemination of this information to the subordinate ranks, this temporary brigade began to operate with the purpose of this information.

Groups of reconnaissance teams were sent to the "suspicious area" that they had previously known, and they concealed all their visual and olfactory information, and gradually bypassed the patrol and probed in the direction of possible enemy bases.

After that, as the direction became clear, patrols were discovered one after another, hidden lookouts were marked one after another, and almost in the most central location of the area, a stronghold that might have a large number of defenders was successfully discovered.

In other words, the base has finally been confirmed.

~~~~

Obviously, the purpose of gathering intelligence cannot be achieved by "seeing" alone, so after this step is achieved, the confrontation begins immediately.

As a result, the troops set up ambushes on the patrol lines they had already mastered, hoping to form more and less in the area, so as to catch a group of tongues without injury.

After that, four enemy patrols, a total of more than thirty troll militiamen, and eight wind wolves, were ambushed in several places.

"Hey~ Surrender! Are you still going to fight for real?" The ambushed combat troops "persuaded to surrender".

"That's not good, it said that we must have a good fight, haha, we just want to touch you standing soldiers~" The militiamen in ambush were gearing up, excited about the upcoming battle.

"Really... I thought it would be less troublesome, and the meaning of "ambush" has been lost, right?"

"So, haha, next time you go straight ahead, the other militia squads will definitely fight you, want to persuade you to surrender? Impossible."

With the militia squad clearly not intending to be captured, the battle inevitably took place;

They fought quite happily, but those wind wolves who were smart, but not smart enough, were a little dumbfounded at this time.

"Why are the bosses fighting... Which boss am I supposed to help?"

At this time, their minds may be full of such doubts, and they show stunned expressions one by one, and they can't figure it out or make a move until the two sides decide the winner.

Both sides are holding exercise weapons, which can leave an obvious colored mark on the body;

In order to "get" victory, the two sides specially picked each other's head and heart to crack and stab, and after leaving corresponding traces, they shouted to each other, "You lost!" Lie down!" "I hit it first!" You should lie down."

Obviously, no one could convince anyone with such a ruffle, so the two sides quickly threw down this inconvenient rule and began to fight with their hand-to-hand, deciding to lose if they were pressed underneath.

There are significantly more trolls forming the ambush circle, and some of them are combatants with combat totems to support, so they win a big way;

In this way, the new brigade succeeded in taking in these prisoners, turning them into data in the "combat power" column of the intelligence.

Look at all this in the dark, someone doesn't

His Excellency the well-known Speaker covered his forehead helplessly, feeling that the loopholes in the rules of victory and defeat were a bit too big.

~~~~~

The interrogation of the captives naturally had no results, after all, everyone was their own "people", and it was impossible to really press them down.

But it was not entirely without gains, as a certain percentage of the militia had been given "information" in advance and told to give them an account when they were captured.

So occasionally the following happens....

"Say! Who are you! What are you doing here! How many members are there?"

"We are. What's coming, yes, the Chosen Group! Haha, we're the Heavenly Chosen One!"

"Uh... What a broken name,."

「... I don't know, they said that if I was captured, I could tell this information..."

"Okay, what about the rest? The purpose or something, if you are caught, you can tell me if it's okay, and go back and invite you to eat something delicious."

"Hmph, I don't know! I don't know anything else, so I just get paid to work."

"It's annoying..."

There are several such "intelligence units", some of which are duplicate and some of which are new;

For example, this time, a few captives gave limited information such as "the identity of the forces" and "simple information about certain cadres".

After learning about this situation, Cui Wenli and other officers understood the method of obtaining intelligence stipulated in the exercise, and thus continued the operation of capturing prisoners.

However, with the disappearance of the first captured members, it seems that changes have begun to be made within the base, such as the reduction of patrol ranges, the merger of teams, and so on.

With the emergence of these coping methods, the situation faced by the temporary brigade has gradually become "severe".

And due to the successive entry of the witch doctors, the enemy's disadvantage in the totem has also been eliminated little by little, and the ambush of this side is no longer a one-sided gain, and the brigade has also begun to have "casualties".

Small- and medium-scale ambush and counter-ambush warfare broke out frequently in the course of the following exercises.

Under such circumstances, the information cooperation between the squads and squadrons, and the ability of the detachments and brigades to grasp the situation encountered by the subordinate groups, were gradually demonstrated.

Moreover, the enemy's endless totems also test the anti-risk ability of the front-line team to a certain extent.

Considering that in the process of carrying out tasks on the front line and behind enemy lines, the soldiers of the reconnaissance group did not have much opportunity to efficiently replace the targeted totems;

Therefore, the tactical application of the existing set of commonly used totems needs to be repeatedly examined to its upper and lower limits, and to explore the effects it can achieve in various situations.

For example, the ability of the three troll grassroots teams to escape when they are detected, the ability to resist when they have to fight, the cover effect in the face of high-pressure situations, and the efficiency of intelligence collection and transmission....

These indicators are an important basis for whether they can survive on the battlefield and give information that matches the risks, and they are naturally one of the key observation items in this trial.

They are mainly observed by a few advanced witch doctors such as Nesta, supplemented by some ordinary witch doctors who are idle.

Among them, advanced witch doctors rely on their wider and longer-term monitoring capabilities, so that the rest of the witch doctors can more easily grasp the location of new battlefields;

Ordinary witch doctors, on the other hand, will later use their more efficient and long-lasting spells than totems, such as stealth, acceleration, etc., to hide themselves, reach the battlefield, and then observe the battle.

As a result, many battles in multiple directions were carried out and ended one after another under the supervision of the witch doctors, allowing them to obtain a lot of first-hand information.

And for these witch doctors who spend almost every day doing research in their headquarters;

Although I was a little reluctant to be called, after a while in the forest, I also felt that it seemed good to relax occasionally, so I gradually enjoyed it as a spice.