The atmosphere at the promotion ceremony was solemn, and the three colonels were awarded new military ranks on a high platform.

The eyes of the people in the audience were hot.

For example, Zhang Jintao was promoted to colonel, and he was at the front of the high platform.

As for Chen Ming's promotion to lieutenant colonel and the promotion of other officers to major, all the captains were in the open space of the hall, and the new ranks were awarded together.

The scene was spectacular, but it was also depressing.

The repression does not come from the environment of the ceremonial assembly, but from the new mission brought by the new rank.

The 704th Division, codenamed the Strategic Assault Division, used to just shout slogans, and when we met people, we were a professional Blue Army, and the professional responsible person would beat you in the future, and so on.

There is no pressure to talk about it, because no one knows whether anything will happen in the middle of the establishment of a division.

Perhaps for some reason, when the 704th Division was expanded, it suddenly disappeared and no longer mentioned it.

After all, similar situations are not uncommon in the army, and the only thing that remains unchanged in the military camp of Nuoda is that it is always changing.

A lot of things are groping.

But now it's different, the new station has taken shape, and all the work is in full swing.

Even their officers have been promoted, but it's not a joke.

The bull that was bragged about two years ago is about to come true.

At this moment, they have really become the exclusive blue army unit in the Eastern Theater, and they have been labeled with blue.

Jiang Zhenjun, chief of staff of the Eastern Theater Army, stood in front of the high platform, swept the neat officers under the stage, and nodded slightly.

He said in a shocking voice: "Comrades, I am very pleased, because I have just seen the high fighting spirit from your eyes and actions."

"This is the state that our strategic assault division should be, do you know why the code name of the 704th division is called the strategic assault division?"

"Why don't you call it the Blue Division?"

"Do any comrades know?"

Jiang Zhenjun asked, and the officers in the audience were silent, including Chen Ming, and there was no response.

The camera is shining, this is the highlight moment of the chief, and it is not their turn yet.

Sure enough, seeing that no one in the audience responded, Jiang Zhenjun said generously: "The strategic assault division, to put it in a simple way, is a kind of unit of unconventional operations, mainly responsible for carrying out tasks such as surprise attacks, infiltration, and sabotage attacks."

"It is characterized by a relatively flexible establishment in peacetime, but it can quickly assemble and carry out operations in wartime, and has extremely high combat efficiency and adaptability, which is adopted by the armies of many countries."

"Since the beginning of the 20 th century, with the widespread use of aircraft, tanks, self-propelled artillery, and armored vehicles on the battlefield, the army's speed of maneuver and assault capability have been greatly improved, laying the foundation for large-scale strategic raids."

"During the Second World War, the ideas of preemptive strike, quick victory and annihilation warfare, as well as the overall strategic theory, formed the military idea of strategic surprise attack with blitzkrieg as the core."

"Today, with the continuous emergence of various new weapons, the effectiveness of strategic surprise attacks has been greatly improved, and it has become a common means used by countries that wage war."

"Our 704th Division, codenamed Strategic Assault Division, is because our positioning is the enemy."

"We are murderous enemies, enemies who will not abide by any treaties of equality, enemies who do not observe any military restrictions."

"Maybe there are still many comrades who don't understand this, but it doesn't matter, you will become a good doctor."

"A good doctor who trained the Red Army units in surgery."

"I believe you should have heard of some battles in modern history, using advanced electronic warfare planes, anti-radiation missiles, laser-guided bombs, and other precision-guided weapons to severely damage a certain command organization, airports, ports, and other important targets."

It has set a precedent for using high-tech weapons to carry out long-distance and large-formation "surgical" air strikes. ”

"A strategic raid in modern conditions may be a strategic raid in conventional conditions, or it may be a strategic raid in nuclear conditions."

"It's usually on holidays, Sundays, nights, dawns, and other occasions when the other party is off guard."

"The target usually selects the country's political and economic center, nuclear weapons base, industrial base, transportation hub, military command structure, military base, strategic first echelon, strategic reserve and other strategic targets."

"The way to do this is to first carry out a lightning-type, large-scale air attack, accompanied by large-scale electronic interference, to seize air and electromagnetic supremacy in the theater."

"The implementation of a strategic surprise attack requires a careful plan, adequate preparation, determination of its intentions and objectives; Widespread deception and active diplomacy; conducting reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, electronic jamming and counter-jamming; Use rapid assault forces and ranged weapons to deliver a sudden, fierce assault in depth on your opponent. ”

"With the extensive use of information technology, precision-guided weapons, aerospace weapons, intelligent weapons, and cyber weapons are constantly emerging, and strategic surprise attacks not only come from the air, the ground, and the sea, but also from the deep sea, outer space, and cyber electromagnetic space."

"There will be a new evolution in the style, scale, space, and means of strategic raids, and we are in line with this evolution, and we will do everything to become the enemy of the Red Army on the battlefield of the exercise."

"Remember, once the exercise operations begin, the Red Army that comes to the Niutoushan garrison base will no longer be our comrades-in-arms, but the real enemy."

"What we have to do is leave the hardest, hardest challenges to them and not be embarrassed."

"Because our real enemies must be more ferocious than we pretend, and we want to be defeated, sweat more when we practice, and sacrifice less in wartime."

"For you, this sentence is not just a slogan, but a standard for implementation."

"Understood?"

"Understand !!"

The crowd shouted in response, and the words on the stage were spoken generously and powerfully, and the people in the audience listened enthusiastically.

Chen Ming stood in the audience and listened in a daze, and from time to time he would sigh with emotion, it seems that the Blues Army's combat tricks are not the proposition of soldiers, this is in the same vein.

Chief of Staff Jiang did not speak so bluntly, but he laid out all the means that could be used in combat.

The topography of Fuzhou is already in a relatively sensitive area, and if it really develops to the level of a strategic assault, then I am afraid that it will not only be the enemy who will be prepared for combat during the holidays in the future.

Also beware of orders from their side for a surprise attack.

The ceremony was still going on, and after Chief of Staff Jiang finished speaking, Division Commander Wang Junwei came to the stage to make a summing up, which was nothing more than to talk about the prospects for the development of the 704th Division in the future.

Encourage the officers present to be in the same boat um . How to beat the Red Army wildly.

In the final summary part, the new brigade commander came to power, and most of what he talked about was the guidelines and requirements for training.

It has been repeatedly emphasized that time is running out for strategic assault divisions, and it is very likely that the landing of the Red Army will be arranged at any time, and then a major war will inevitably be arranged.

In the first exercise, whether it is a theater of operations, a strategic assault division, or a military headquarters, special attention will be paid to it.

If you're not nervous, you can't do it.

The predecessor of the 704th Division was only an expansion of the 169th Brigade of the 71st Army.

The entire 169 Brigade was at the bottom of the main combat force of the entire group army in terms of combat effectiveness in the past.

How strong is the Eastern Theater of Operations, the army units and naval forces can almost be said to be firmly at the top of the list of the five major theaters.

In this case, can the 704 Division be under little pressure? In the event that the strategic assault division ends in defeat in the first exercise, it will not be as simple as throwing people to grandma's house.

The end of the ceremony.

In order to welcome the military parade on New Year's Day, all units were arranged to enter the period of large-scale drills ahead of schedule.

The whole division, including battalion and company combat units, was dispatched in a unified manner to carry out round after round of live-fire tests at the Niutoushan garrison base.

Sharpen your soldiers and prepare for battle.

The ceremony is over.

Since the matter of military training has little to do with Chen Ming, and he is not in charge of this aspect now, he basically did not listen to the last part.

Arrangements for the firing are always being considered.

When the promoted leader left, and the surrounding officers were almost finished, Chen Ming moved his steps and prepared to go back.

In the large-scale live-fire exercise, the firepower department may be busy again, no wonder the division commander said that he would expand the manpower, good guy, if this is the case, the firepower department will definitely not have enough people.

In large-scale live-fire drills, the local fire department is responsible for dividing the data, and they are responsible for recording and recording the data of the drill.

The instructions and reserves of ammunition need to be handled by the fire department, and the gatehouse is built, the terrain is measured, the sand table is made, and the magnetic field is tested.

As far as the people of the company in the firepower department are concerned, it is not enough to use an egg.

If you want to go to the division headquarters to ask for talents, Chen Ming pondered his thoughts, and the firepower department is not like a company, a battalion combat unit, there are strict regulations, and how many people are fully staffed.

They are not full of people, and the tasks are piling up more and more, and if the progress is delayed, he can't afford it.

"What do you think? So into the gods? Zhang Jintao, who had just been promoted to colonel, Director Zhang, the corners of his mouth rose, and with a satisfied smile, he stretched out his hand and stabbed Chen Ming.

"What are you worried about, the director of the firepower department of the 704th Division, the No. 1 core department of the entire division, is more than me, the director, and you are still unhappy?"

As he spoke, Zhang Jintao stretched out his hand and patted Chen Ming's shoulder, which was hanging on two bars and two stars, and whispered gossipy: "Old Chen, to be honest, I have never inquired about your private affairs before."

"Are you expensive this year?"

Hearing this, Chen Ming, who was originally thinking about going to find an important person from the division, glanced at the other party.

"What's up? Check your account? ”

"Check the hammer account, just to see that you are promoted to lieutenant colonel so young, I want to compare the gap between our brothers."

"I joined the army at the age of nineteen, and this year is my seventh year." Chen Ming said casually.

"Oh, twenty-six." Director Zhang was just promoted to colonel, and his legs were a little floating when he walked, and they slipped straight in an instant.

Nima, can't be provoked

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the age of thirty-four, with a difference of eight years, and even so, he was quite good among the officers of the same batch.

At least spell it out, many of the comrades-in-arms who graduated at the same time, classmates, captains to majors is a big hurdle.

Even so, he didn't hope to be promoted before the age of forty.

The military career is basically over.

Compared with Chen Ming, his excellence is simply not worth mentioning.

Originally, I was thinking about the end of the promotion, and I took Chen Ming to the Tiger Wolf Camp to find Du Longfei and Du Longfei, the three of them are old partners, and they don't care about this, not to mention that there will be Lao Du in the next batch of promotion lists.

Now that I learned about Chen Ming's experience, and listened to the posture of his walking, I lost my mind in an instant.

There's no way, it's just the past, and there's not much light on his face.

Chen Ming glanced at this old partner, and smiled, they have been working together for so long, who doesn't know who.

Don't look at this instructor who usually doesn't take care of things, Chen Ming remembers very clearly that when he first went to the fifth battalion of the 169th Brigade, he was quite negative.

Or at that time, not many people in the whole brigade, or even the entire 71st Army, were optimistic about the establishment of the fifth battalion.

This big director Zhang has a high spirit.

"Okay, let's get together again when we have time, I have a lot of things to do here, and I'll talk to Master Wang about expanding my compilation later." Chen Ming helplessly spread his hands, and when he walked to the door of the auditorium, he was ready to part.

didn't wait for Zhang Jintao to answer.

A captain at the door of the auditorium saw Chen Ming come out, so he hurriedly greeted him.

It was Yang Linhui, the secretary of Xu Guoyang, the political commissar of the division, who had not come to the division before, and only the political commissar was here to preside over the affairs of the entire Niutoushan garrison base.

So an experienced officer was arranged to assist in handling it, and now the personnel are fully equipped.

Yang Linhui has also become the clerk of the entire division headquarters, and he runs errands for almost all big and small things, but he himself is a civilian in the organ, and he doesn't need to lead troops, and he can't be called overkill.

If the work is done well, maybe after two years, the old chief above will see his hard work and be directly sent to the brigade or battalion to serve as a deputy instructor or something, and he can mix quite well.

"Chen, the chief asked me to wait for you here, saying that he would take you to the office later."

"Wait for me?"

Chen Ming was slightly stunned, isn't this a coincidence, he originally planned to go over to find the chief to ask for someone, but he didn't need to find time.

Zhang Jintao, who was behind, saw that Chen Ming was really busy, and he didn't want to say anything more, so after saying hello, he turned around and left.

Seeing the people walk away, Chen Ming turned his head and asked, "The chief said that you should wait for me here, did you say anything specific?" ”

"Don't give me any more tasks, I'm still waiting to find the chief and ask for someone."

"At present, in addition to me, there are also comrades on duty in the fire department, all of whom have been sent out, and if the task is increased, I am afraid that there will be no more people on duty in the future."

Chen Ming told with a smile, his tone was very casual, but what he said was really true.

Many things in the Niutoushan garrison base have just started, and the logistics personnel and the people of the Propaganda Department cannot be idle, and their firepower department is even more idle.

The War Department took the companies borrowed from the reconnaissance battalion directly under the division to survey and map the terrain, and the Information Department was assigned to the combat units to collect data on the new weapons.

The people of the guard department followed the engineering troops to build the gatehouse, and the site was selected, which can be said to be used to the fullest, and the entire firepower was empty.

At the promotion meeting just now, Chief of Staff Jiang also notified all combat units to start a live-fire test in a unified manner to welcome the military parade on New Year's Day.

To be precise, to welcome the landing of the Red Army after the New Year's Day parade.

There was really no one in his firepower.

"Haha, then I don't know." Yang Linhui responded with a smile, after getting along for a month, he also found that the newly appointed director of the firepower department had no shelf.

Doing things and speaking, he is very easy-going, he is the secretary of the division headquarters, he often runs to the firepower, the people above are easy-going and easy to talk, and his work can be carried out more smoothly.

So for Chen Ming, he can be said to know everything.

When he came to the stairs of the division headquarters, Yang Linhui looked around and said with a smile: "Chen, it should be a good thing for the division commander to call you over."

"I saw it before the promotion ceremony, and several chiefs were studying it with the roster and key of the assigned room."

"Director Chai has already gone, I guess I'm going to give you a house."

Forehead.

Listening to this sudden gossip, Chen Ming was also a little speechless.

The ownership of the housing of the troops belongs to the military department, just like the land use rights of the strategic assault division, as well as the ownership of buildings and other attachments, all belong to the above department.

As for the distribution of officers who meet the conditions, it will be exercised by the representatives of the General Logistics Department, and no matter how bad it is, it will also be assigned to the joint logistics departments at all levels to be responsible for the allocation of housing.

It's good that when it comes to their strategic assault division, the head of the division headquarters will also be responsible for this bit of.

It can be seen how urgent their work is at present, and the logistics are directly left to no one.

However, it is not difficult to understand that the real role of the division headquarters is after the start of the war, and at this stage it is only necessary to grasp the general direction.

The main plan for leading the troops and training them is still in the brigade headquarters.

The division headquarters only coordinates the overall situation, and generally does not take the initiative to manage this matter, and its positioning is the command and dispatch department, and the battle situation is the command and dispatch department.

Yang Linhui took Chen Ming to the door of the division commander Wang Junwei's office, and the others left.

The office door was not closed, and standing at the door, I could see his wife Chai Shuyao sitting in the living room holding a stack of rosters, as if she was choosing a house type.

As for the division commander Wang Junwei, political commissar Xu Guoyang, and chief of staff Xu Wenqian, the three of them were sitting in the office area chatting.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ming was a little dumbfounded, he really didn't shy away from going through the back door.

Even if the 704th Division is vast and sparsely populated, and the places where it lives are all newly built, there is plenty of space, and there will be no shortage of houses, then it can't be so blatant to let his wife come over and pick first, right?

In case the other assigned officers see it, there will be a little protest in their hearts.

"Knock knock!!"

"Report."

"Enter."

Chen Ming strode into the office, nodded slightly at his wife, who looked up at him, and walked quickly to the office area to stand up and salute.

"Don't stick there, go and follow Director Chai to pick a house, one of you two is one set, one is ninety square meters of two bedrooms, and one is seventy square meters of one bedroom and one living room."

"Pick and I'll give you the keys, move in when it's time to move in, and the roster will be delivered to logistics in the afternoon."

Wang Junwei waved his hand, showing a very different attitude from the seriousness of the promotion ceremony just now.

Chen Ming is not old-fashioned, he does not refuse to go through the back door, but he is so open-minded, he is really a little uncomfortable, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the roster in Chai Shuyao's hand, and said: "Chief, this. Really? ”

"Less nonsense, you can pick if you want to, send it to logistics in the afternoon, and other comrades can also pick it."

"Do you think Lao Tzu opened the back door for you alone?"

Wang Junwei threw the Chinese piece on the desk angrily, "Look, you have a task in the afternoon, and you don't have time to go to logistics." ”

"The New Year's Day parade is coming, and the live-fire drill must also be planned, so we negotiated to add a planning department and a staff department to your firepower department."

"The fire department is divided into five departments, an operations department, an information department, a guard, a planner, and a staff officer."

"I don't care how the specific tasks are divided, you give me the job in place."

"In order to cope with the next work, you will go to the various combat units to pull people, the political department, the general staff, and the logistics, and then give you an establishment of 80 people."

"I have only one request, to get the firepower department officially in motion as soon as possible, and there will be many challenges for you to meet in the future."

"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission."

Chen Ming looked at the document in his hand, he was overjoyed, he was thinking about the important person just now, and he would add it when he came.

However, the more departments in the fire department are refined, the heavier the responsibilities on his shoulders.

(End of chapter)