The roar of the aircraft in the sky gradually disappeared, and silence returned to the surrounding areas. There was no sound of artillery, no machine gunfire, and no signal flares in the distance. In the darkness, there was once again the chirping of insects and frogs.
The tense atmosphere just now as the fleet flew across the night sky seemed to have disappeared. Even the soldiers who had most firmly believed that this was an attack by the Blue Army were hesitant at this moment, feeling that they were getting nervous.
Everyone knows that if the Blue Army attacks at dawn, they will at least fire signal flares for a while, and then prepare for several hours of artillery fire. When the opponent "pours artillery shells" on their own positions, the drill referees on their own camps will
They would jump out, counting and shouting who died and who died. Those unlucky ones who didn't jump into the ditch in time had to take out the "killed in action" sign and put it on, and then lie on the ground and pretend to be dead.
However, no one could explain the roaring sound of the fleet just now.
The soldiers who couldn't get the answer simply stopped thinking about it, got back into their sleeping bags, and forced themselves to fall asleep again. It was almost dawn and they couldn't sleep for a while.
After a while, something was wrong with the atmosphere again.
Some soldiers discovered that the chirping of insects and frogs outside was now gone. It was as if all the birds and insects in the fields had silenced themselves and were frightened by something.
After a while, some sensitive soldiers suddenly opened their eyes. They felt the earth beneath them vibrating through their sleeping bags.
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"Hey, are you feeling it yet?"
"What?"
"The ground is shaking a little."
"Go to sleep, don't think blindly, I will see what you do during the drill tomorrow."
"Hey, I'm really shaking."
"earthquake?"
It was the soldiers again, getting out of their sleeping bags and tents in twos and threes, looking at each other in confusion.
The western half of the sky is still dark blue, but the first touch of fish belly white has appeared on the eastern half of the sky. It's almost five o'clock.
Although most of the soldiers were sound asleep and the sound of the plane just now and the shaking of the ground did not wake them up, about a quarter of the soldiers had been woken up twice. They all got out of the tent and started cursing.
.There will be a drill tomorrow. Why did so many strange things happen the night before?
But this time it was different from the roar of the plane. It did not pass for a while, but became more and more obvious. Soon, more soldiers woke up. The dust and sand on the ground beat gently, and some soldiers knelt down.
Put your ear to the ground and listen.
"what sound?"
"It seems to be... an engine."
"It's not a tank, is it?"
"Ah, it's a tank!"
"tank!"
"tank!"
There were shouts of "tank" one after another on the battlefield, but most of the soldiers were either still sleeping or standing there blankly, not knowing what to do.
Is this a drill? But that’s not what the drill says!
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Now that you are not lying on the ground, you can clearly hear the roar of the engine. The "rumble" sound comes from the east, from north to south, the sound is connected into one large area, and it is getting closer and closer.
The sky has begun to dawn. It is getting brighter at the fastest moment. The eastern sky was just a fish belly white just now, and now it is a bright red. Just now, the surroundings were still dark and I couldn’t see very far, but now it is gray, and I can see it all at once.
It was several hundred meters away.
The early morning dew rolled down from the grass blades as the earth trembled.
More and more soldiers from the Second Red Division came out of the tents and stood randomly on the spot with their mouths open.
Five or six hundred meters away to the east, countless tanks appeared. The tanks were lined up very densely, with one tank every ten or twenty meters apart. Accompanied by a thundering roar, the overwhelming number of tanks rushed toward them.
The barrels of those tanks were lowered, and the black muzzles seemed to be pointed directly at themselves. Every few tanks, the turret cover of a tank was lifted, and a tank soldier wore a headset, gesturing, and saying something loudly.
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All the red soldiers here were stunned.
This...is this an exercise?
"Isn't it acting?"
"Yes, the drill must be prepared with firepower first..."
"Did the superiors ask their Blue Army tanks to move towards us?"
"I do not know……"
The drill referees among the Red Army soldiers were already prepared. They were staring at the Blue Army tanks in the distance. If there was a "firefight" between the two armies, they would immediately start counting casualties.
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On the opposite side, the Blue Army's tank cluster drove to a distance of three to four hundred meters. As if receiving a signal, all the crew members outside the tank turret retracted and closed the top cover.
Immediately afterwards, those black barrels sprayed out dazzling flames.
Countless thunderous noises came over, and the eardrums of the Red Army soldiers felt a sense of oppression. They subconsciously held their heads and fell to the ground.
Everything is clear.
Suddenly there was a shrill cry on the battlefield:
"The Blues attack!"
"The drill has begun!"
"Quick, enter the gun position!"
"Second Company, Second Company!"
"Assemble three rows! Assemble three rows!"
"Where's the anti-tank gun?"
"Get into the trench!"
"Your mother, who gave me my shoes?"
"Where are my pants?"
Above all the shouting, there were many voices shouting desperately, almost overwhelming all the voices:
"The shell exploded here and all three of you were killed!"
"You two, and both of you, were killed in action!"
"You, and you, were killed in action! You were seriously injured!"
"You, you, you, and you, why are you running? You're running even if you're dead!"
"What about you? What about you? You are dead. Where can you lie down?"
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The Red Army position had just come to its senses and was still in a state of chaos when the Blue Army tanks had already crossed several trenches and were very close. The coaxial machine guns and heading machine guns of the tanks in the front row began to spray tongues of flame towards the place where the Red Army soldiers were gathered.
"Strafing". It seems that the exercise referee is not enough. A large number of Red Army soldiers behaved very "unconsciously". They have obviously been shot by machine guns several times, but they still scream "ouch" and continue to run away. But despite this, there are already people lying on the ground.
Hundreds of people got off.
In order to be as fair and realistic as possible and prevent soldiers from becoming death squads because they will not really die in the exercise, the exercise stipulates that once a soldier is "killed", he must lie down and pretend to be a dead body at the place where he died, as long as there are no special troops to "take care of him"
", then you have to lie down for a whole day, unable to eat or relieve yourself... Therefore, all the soldiers cherish life just like in real war, do not want to die, and would rather surrender when they have to. Because the exercise stipulates that as long as you surrender,
You can immediately evacuate the battlefield and exit the exercise.
A few Red Army soldiers began to run toward the west, and more soldiers immediately followed. The human herd instinct played a great role at this time. Within a few minutes, most of the Red Army soldiers joined the team fleeing west.
None of them now doubt that the exercise has begun, and they all know that if they run slowly, they will either be captured or have to lie on the ground for a day. The best option is to follow everyone and run west.
As the Red Army soldiers ran, they realized that the Blue Army tanks were already in front, behind, left, and right of them. And they were running faster than themselves, so they were chasing after them. The tank machine guns behind them kept spitting out tongues of flame.
The sound of machine guns was deafening one after another, and the Red Army soldiers became more and more "unconscious". They all became like Rambo and couldn't be killed at all. The Blue Army tank crews were very dissatisfied, and they all leaned out of the turret and rushed towards the people under the vehicle.
The Red Army soldiers shouted and jeered:
"Hey, how many times have you died?"
"Are you still shameless?"
"What's the point of surrendering if you don't want to die in battle!"
As the tank group rumbled past, more armored vehicles followed. The Blue Army soldiers on the vehicle jumped out with submachine guns and began to capture prisoners. Soon, on the two-kilometer front of the initial breakthrough point, the Blue Army soldiers
The army has captured 3,000 to 4,000 prisoners.
These Red Army soldiers threw down their guns and walked in a large queue in the opposite direction. On the same road, there were military vehicles one after another, driving in the opposite direction of the prisoners' queue. Behind the vehicles were pulling various artillery pieces.
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However, not all areas are as devoid of resistance as here. On the front two kilometers south of here is the defense line of the third regiment of the Second Red Division. The third regiment reacted faster, and the regiment commander was calmer and commanded.
As expected, at least one-third of the soldiers rushed towards their own artillery emplacements and machine gun fire points.