Preparing for the wedding does not require the Tang Empire's army to do anything, so various recent exercises are still going on.
New weapons in the Tang Empire emerged one after another, so soldiers also needed to keep up with the development of the times, master the use of these new weapons, and know their performance characteristics.
With the development of weapons, the demand for soldiers is also getting higher and higher. For example, in the old models of tanks in the past, there were no rangefinders or infrared night vision searchlights. These equipments all require human operation, and the more sophisticated the instruments, the more precise they are.
Increasingly, illiterate people cannot use these things.
However, this kind of learning about new tactics and weapons through exercises has also caused many commanders to complain.
They have never fought such a frustrating battle in the past. When they competed with their own people recently, they lost completely.
At the military headquarters of the newly formed 9th Army, a headquarters staff officer who had just returned from a business trip dropped the document package he brought back on the table, rubbed his shoulders and complained tiredly: "This has no training effect.
… It’s a waste of time, a waste of fuel, a waste of morale, and a waste of everyone’s energy.”
He was on a business trip to the General Staff to study new tactics. The newly formed 9th Army also sent people to participate in two exercises. The performance of the two infantry regiments in street fighting could be described as rookies.
Feng Kezhi, the commander of the 9th Army, also felt disgraced. After all, the troops under his command suffered heavy losses during the exercise and were fooled around by the imaginary enemy troops.
The only consolation is that other units also did not perform well. Only the unit that sent people to Fengjiang to "study" achieved some results.
"It's not completely ineffective. At least it has a certain effect in making us more vigilant." An officer who had been popularizing street fighting training recently came over, opened the brown file package on the table, and took it out.
He lowered his head and read the documents brought back by the staff officer who complained.
The commander of the only armored regiment of the 9th Group Army was also very dissatisfied with the exercise he participated in: "Letting the crew of the No. 4 tank or the crew of the Leopard tank fight against the 59th tank is simply playing the piano. You think this has no effect.
What’s the use?”
Their army was newly formed after the war. They had never participated in actual combat and had no military exploits. Most of the soldiers were new. According to the equipment distribution method of the Tang Empire, the 9th Army did not receive anything decent.
thing.
Until now, this armored regiment is still equipped with the old No. 4 tanks. Using such tanks to fight against the No. 59 tanks of the imaginary enemy force is almost like asking for death.
"The range accuracy of the artillery can't be compared, nor can the penetration depth. The most extreme thing is the night battle. The Panther tank is okay. We are still equipped with the No. 4 tank for the time being. We don't even have serious night vision equipment. What the heck.
?" This regiment leader was originally a cavalry officer from Qi State. He studied in the military academy for more than a year and finally became the regiment leader. However, he was completely defeated in the exercise.
The imaginary enemy troops did not reason with you at all and just engaged in night battles and sneak attacks. The armored regiment of the 9th Army was sent home on the first day of the exercise.
Someone in the headquarters knew the gossip and answered with a smile: "This is not bad, but don't you know that in the Air Force, the J-6 unit of Long Island bullied a group of butcher fighter pilots? Isn't this a kindergarten attack?"
"You know what the commander over there said? He said, 'We didn't turn on the afterburner!' Afterburner is the temporary increase in engine output, which can make the plane fly faster. Listen! Listen to this.
Is that human language?" The well-informed officer was afraid that a group of army country people would not understand, so he also explained what "increased force" meant.
In fact, he doesn't know exactly how fast the J-6 can fly, because the supersonic jet fighter is still kept secret, and even the top military officials only have a rough idea.
The commander of the armored regiment added the experience of a brother unit: "The 1st Armored Division was directly stunned during the battle exercise with the Blue Army. It was covered by a round of rocket launchers with super high accuracy. The exercise command
The data given by the ministry is that these rockets use the latest technology... Rockets with a range of 300 kilometers are more accurate than Scud missiles..."
This setting is indeed a bit too advanced, but the Tang Empire is indeed researching large-caliber rocket launchers, and plans to install gyroscopes and other equipment on such rocket launchers to improve the rocket launcher's attack accuracy.
It's just that the entire equipment plan has not yet started, so even the Tang Army itself is not equipped with such a heaven-defying "new weapon".
As a result, in order to improve the battlefield vigilance of the troops, the imaginary enemy troops of the Tang Empire directly took the data and used it, and tortured some troops who came to participate in the exercise into dogs.
An officer next to him sneered and said with emotion: "Just be content! The 1st Armored Division gritted its teeth and endured half of the losses and continued to attack, only to be attacked by bombers again! The entire Armored Division was not prepared for air defense.
, I didn’t even touch the enemy’s forward positions, so I went home to write a review and summary.”
This incident has spread in the military. It is really unexpected that the famous 1st Armored Division was defeated so completely.
The 1st Armored Division itself was having a hard time with the situation. I heard that it had launched a series of enhanced training, saying it wanted to take revenge on the next exercise.
Upon hearing this statement, the commander of the armored regiment who was eliminated without even being hit by an air attack immediately said dissatisfied: "Isn't this a joke? Isn't the Air Force responsible for our air defense? The armored division only has one anti-aircraft gun.
Battalion, where did the anti-aircraft firepower come from?”
In the past, the ground forces of the Tang Empire never worried about air defense issues. Wasn't it always the Air Force of the Datang Empire that chased the enemy?
In the past, they were worried about accidental damage, and even emphasized that the roof of the tank must be covered with the national flag or painted with bright yellow paint to increase the probability of identification and avoid accidental bombing by the Air Force.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As a result, they are now taught to cover tanks with camouflage nets, insert branches and reduce identification features? Is this something sick?
The officer spread his hands and made a gesture that I couldn't do anything about: "The director refused to recognize it, saying that he would find a way on his own, disguise himself, and arrange anti-aircraft firepower in advance... Anyway, the 1st Division did not pay attention to air defense, so it was necessary
strengthen."
The commander of the armored regiment thought this was nonsense: "It's a joke. When the ground troops go back to train for air defense operations, isn't this a slap in the face of the air force? When has the Imperial Air Force ever had a problem? When has it ever lost air supremacy?"
The staff officer who went to the General Staff Headquarters for a meeting quickly answered: "Well, let's face it, we did suffer heavy losses when facing the 'enemy's J-6'."
His ridicule made people laugh and cry. The officer who was looking down at the documents he brought back commented without raising his head: "Well, your joke is not funny at all. In theory, we cannot defeat our stronger selves in the future.
"
Some of the previous confrontation exercises were quite reasonable. Although they were difficult, they were still within everyone's understanding.
But now with the emergence of some new weapons and equipment, the imaginary enemy data in confrontation exercises are becoming more and more outrageous. Although they are already the most visionary commanders on the planet, the commanders of the Tang Empire still cannot imagine that tactical missiles can
What a sight it would be like to use them in large numbers like artillery shells.
The staff officer who returned from the business trip recalled it and felt that the exercise that was more valuable for reference was still the exercise held on Dongwan Island not long ago: "In fact, the exercises have been so intensive recently, and I think the most useful one is the landing exercise, which was held in Dongwan Island.
That exercise on the island.”
"Indeed, the problems exposed in that exercise were really shocking. If you didn't do the experiment, you wouldn't know it. It turns out that our previous landing operations were really bad." An old officer smiled.
He had participated in the battle of landing on Dongwan Island back then. The landing at that time was simply a game. The troops crossed the ocean, and the soldiers almost vomited out their intestines on the way.
The unloading troops were also very amateurish, with few ships and few troops. If the combat effectiveness of the Mirage Army on Dongwan Island was not really unsightly, they might not have been able to win the landing battle.
Later, he was injured in the battle, so he was transferred out of the Marine Corps and transferred to the staff department. When the 9th Army was formed, he was promoted as a backbone to the 9th Army to serve as the staff of the headquarters.
The old officer's words immediately aroused the agreement of many people: "Isn't it true? Comparison shows that in addition to the new landing ships and landing craft, the past sampan-style landing is simply making fun of the lives of soldiers."
They are not professional, and a group of army commanders discussing the level of landing equipment here can only be regarded as amateurs. However, everyone is chatting and complaining anyway, so naturally they can make general remarks based on the internal analysis data that has been sent to them long ago.
And the landing operations really have nothing to do with them: compared with the limited number of marines, subsequent expansion of the results still depends on the ordinary infantry of the army ashore.
As the 9th Army has relatively little heavy equipment and is mainly infantry, it might be easy to be selected as the line-filling force for subsequent landings, landing behind the Marine Corps.
So the officers at the headquarters really studied the details of the landing, and with the encouragement of Feng Kezhi, the commander of the group army, they even made some research results.
At least, it sounds logical. Just listen to an officer speak, as if he is an expert in landing operations: "Also, the fleet layout when covering the landing, the distance from the enemy's coast, the control of air superiority, the use of airborne troops...
…There are just too many things to pay attention to.”
