From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

The special operations platoon soldiers locked onto the enemy tank together in order to maximize burst damage through coordinated fire, giving the enemy tank no time to react.

Everything is ready; there's no need to wait.

"Coordinated tactics, countdown 3, 2..."

Wu Liuyi is now the platoon leader of the special operations platoon, and he is in charge of directing the countdown.

When the word "fire" came out of Wu Liu's mouth, the thirty special operations soldiers of the ten attack teams pulled the trigger in unison.

"Puff puff puff puff puff..."

The tail blasts of thirty rockets locked onto the tank ahead.

Although the rockets were not equipped with warheads, the sight of thirty jets of flame was still quite impressive, and a strong wind blew through the forest.

"Huh? What's going on?"

What's that sound coming from the woods?

"Suka, something seems off."

……

The Blue Army tank crews standing near the tanks all heard strange noises coming from the nearby woods and turned their gazes in confusion.

The two sides were nearly 100 meters apart, with dense trees in between providing cover.

So the Blue Army tank crew craned their necks and stood on tiptoe, looking for a long time but couldn't figure it out. Instead, the tanks around them all started emitting thick white smoke.

The tanks are also equipped with a simulation system that emits smoke from different locations depending on the extent of damage.

White smoke billowed from the tops of all the tanks, and the Blue Army tank crews knew exactly what this meant: their tanks had lost their combat capability.

If only one Blue Army tank is smoking, it might be a malfunction in the exercise system.

But when all the tanks started smoking at once, the first thought in the Blue Army soldiers' minds was that the exercise system had malfunctioned.

This is the Blues' second line of defense, with the first line of defense already in front of them.

The entire tank company was wiped out in an instant?
That's absolutely impossible!
The Russians in the Blue Army tank company didn't believe it at all. They thought the tanks were smoking because they had been attacked by the enemy. Since they hadn't been attacked, then there must have been a malfunction.

"Did the system crash? This is ridiculous."

"Those bastards in the directing department must have taken kickbacks to get this bunch of shoddy stuff."

"A perfectly good exercise has been turned into a complete mess."

……

Just as the Blue Army soldiers were furious and were giving the directing staff and logistics personnel a good scolding, they were so excited that they even forgot about the commotion in the bushes.

Then the referee from the tank company came out.

It was publicly announced that the tank company had been attacked by the Blue Army, and the Blue Army's Ninth Tank Company had been completely wiped out.

"What??? The entire army was wiped out?"

The Blue Army soldiers in the tank company were completely dumbfounded. They hadn't even seen a shadow of the enemy, so how could they have been wiped out all at once?

The Blue Team tank crews were completely outraged and angrily swarmed around the referee.

It looked like the crowd was about to erupt in anger and beat up the referee.

A group of Red Army soldiers dressed in camouflage, with red armbands on their sleeves, emerged from the woods and rushed over, surrounding them.

Faced with this group of Red Army soldiers who seemed to have fallen from the sky, the Blue Army tank crews were instantly speechless.

My brain has completely shut down!

I can't figure out what happened.

Whether the Blue Army tank crews understood it or not, they all realized something that was already very clear.

Tank soldiers were not equipped with individual weapons, and faced with the Red Army troops that surged in and surrounded them, they had no choice but to surrender.

After a long time.

"We were defeated just like that?"

Looking at the group of soldiers with their faces covered in greasepaint, the Blue Army tank crew could only bitterly accept the outcome; they were captured without even firing a single shot.

"Report to the steel mill: The mission is complete. Please provide further instructions."

Ignoring the stunned look on the faces of the Blue Army soldiers, Wu Liuyi immediately reported the situation to the battalion headquarters.

Chen Jun quickly issued new orders.

"Steel mill received. We don't need prisoners. Take care of them all on the spot, then rendezvous with the Third Company and proceed to the next objective. Over."

Chen Jun's order surprised Wu Liuyi for a moment, as killing prisoners of war was a violation of the National War Law.

But then he thought about it again and felt relieved.

The combat exercise is not a real battle. If a tank is destroyed on a real battlefield, the tank crew inside would also have a high chance of survival.

In a real battlefield, these would have been a group of dead men, so there would have been no question of killing prisoners.

The lasers used in the combat exercise could not penetrate the tanks, allowing most of the Blue Army tank crew to survive; this was a specific situation during the exercise.

The Seventh Steel Battalion's main strategy is "lightning operations," and it cannot linger anywhere.

It was impossible to leave anyone behind to guard the prisoners.

It's impossible to leave these prisoners unattended; they're alive now, and if they run off to notify others, it won't violate the rules of the exercise.

Therefore, the best way to deal with them is to resolve them all on the spot.

"The battalion's order is to eliminate them all, without wasting bullets by firing. Open their smoke canisters, destroy all their radios, and then leave."

Wu Liuyi gave the order to the special operations platoon, and the men pounced on the Blue Army like wolves.

Although the Russian players on the Blue Team were bigger and frustrated by their defeat, they had no choice but to accept their fate as prisoners of war, with the referees from the directing staff standing right there.

The Red Army soldiers who suddenly appeared unscrewed all the smoke canisters on their bodies.

The radio station was also found and destroyed.

"withdraw!"

The special operations platoon, having accomplished all of this, vanished into the woods in the blink of an eye at Wu Liuyi's command, just as suddenly and swiftly as they had arrived.

"My God, is this a ghost army?"

The Blue Army tank crews, still emitting smoke, exclaimed in unison, for they had never seen such a silent force.

Come without a trace, go without a trace.

More elusive than a ghost.

"Great, it seems this method is working very well. We'll have some fun to do next."

Chen Jun was very satisfied with the special operations platoon's performance and decisively included all the Blue Army tank units on the right flank second line of defense in the destruction list.

The special operations platoon uses rockets specifically designed for exercises, which do not have warheads and produce very little sound when launched.

The 9th Tank Company was wiped out by dozens of rockets. The noise it made was less than that of two rifle shots, and it couldn't reach the neighboring tank company.

This means that no one on the Blue Team, from top to bottom, knew that the Ninth Tank Company had been wiped out.

...The Seventh Steel Battalion's plan was very successful. They wiped out several Blue Army companies in succession without revealing their plan. They will soon be able to clean up the right flank.

On the other side, the left wing, which had attracted everyone's attention, had been preparing with each other for several hours.

They even started fighting not long ago!
In order to witness this crucial battle, personnel from both the red and blue teams got up early and gathered at the directing department to watch the show.

Even without live video streaming, the word-of-mouth reports on the battle situation were just as compelling.

The attack was initiated not by the Red Army, but by a Blue Army infantry company that came from nearby to reinforce them, in an attempt to recapture the lost 174A.

Once the breach in the defensive line at Hill 174A is plugged, it will be extremely difficult for the Red Army to break through.

Even if one could force a breakthrough, it would come at a great cost.

The Blue Army tank company that fell to the defensive line, together with the Blue Army reinforcements, attacked 174A.

The Russian military has been slow in its modernization process, but it is, after all, a country that has been tempered by the blood and flesh of World War II, and it really knows how to use traditional tactics.

The Blue Army has mastered the traditional tactical benchmark of combined arms warfare to a high degree.

Fortunately, there was a Red Army infantry battalion on Hill 174A. With three companies of troops and the advantage of controlling the hill, they were able to barely withstand the combined infantry and tank attack.

The two sides traded blows back and forth in 174A for almost half an hour with little progress.

The Blue Army couldn't get up, and the Red Army couldn't get down.

Although the battle between the red and blue teams was very intense, and both sides' soldiers were exhausted and covered in dust, the audience in the directing department thoroughly enjoyed the show.

As viewers, we enjoy watching intense battles rather than dull, uninteresting long-distance contests between two sides.

Seeing that the Blue Army couldn't take down the 174A for a long time, Commander-in-Chief Maklov decided to step up his efforts and let the Red Army experience the Blue Army's heavy firepower.

The artillery battalion transferred from the rear was ordered to immediately find a location nearby to set up artillery positions.

The artillery battalion that came to reinforce was still more than ten kilometers away from Hill 174A, but its firing range could already cover Hill 174A.

About ten minutes later.

Two artillery companies under the Blue Army's artillery battalion have located their positions and set up their towed guns, aiming at Hill 174A and beginning their bombardment.

The Red Army's 1st Motorized Infantry Battalion was still fighting against the Blue Army when the sudden artillery attack caught them completely off guard.

Not only did they lose more than ten soldiers, but the artillery barrage also disrupted their formation, greatly reducing their defensive strength and giving the Blue Army an opportunity to take advantage.

The Blues launching an attack from the rear of their position is inherently much easier than attacking from the front.

With the long-range cover of their own artillery, the Blue Army's offensive pressure was greatly reduced, and they launched a full-scale attack with coordinated infantry and tanks, reaching the mountaintop in one wave.

It seemed that a "hand-to-hand combat" was about to take place on the mountaintop, and the Red Army might be driven back down the hill.

At this critical moment, the reinforcements from the Red Army finally arrived.

The powerful force of three tank companies, which penetrated from the left and right sides of Hill 174A, effectively strangled the Blue Army forces.

The Blue Army troops, unwilling to be cornered by two Blue Army soldiers on their position, were ultimately wiped out.

They had no choice but to immediately halt their offensive, quickly retreating from the high ground and back along the original route, returning to the second line of defense.

Fearing the artillery fire from the Blue Army, the Blue Army tank battalion did not rashly pursue them.

Instead, they joined up with the 1st Motorized Infantry Battalion, which had only one and a half companies left after such a fierce battle, and then regrouped before launching another attack.

At the very least, we have to wait for the Red Army's artillery units to arrive at the front lines and enter combat readiness.

The Blue Army's artillery is in position and must be countered by the Red Army's artillery; otherwise, any attack by the Red Army could be met with artillery fire from the Blue Army.

The Red Army sent an entire tank battalion, so the Blue Army needs to make adjustments.

Therefore, no action has been taken for the time being.

The Red and Blue teams, who had been engaged in intense combat just moments before, suddenly fell silent, and the directorate's attention began to gradually wander.

The red and blue teams were meeting to discuss tactics and strategies, but the discussion made no real progress, which was very boring for the opponents.

Ever since.

The Chinese and Russian officers who were directing the troops to observe the battle began to turn their attention to other directions of the battlefield and soon noticed something amiss.

The fighting on the left flank is fierce, while the right flank is unusually quiet.

According to normal traditional tactics, when the Red Army is engaged in high-intensity combat on the left flank, it will inevitably send people to the right flank to harass and attack other positions of the Blue Army.

This is the only way to tie down the Blue Army and create more space for our own attack on the position.

So much time has passed, there should have been some friction.

Furthermore, it's impossible for the Blue Army's more than ten companies on the right flank, the Blue Army troops on the first and second lines of defense, to have remained completely inactive for so long.

At the very least, they should report some news.

Almost two hours have passed, and the Blue Army has not sent back any battle reports. In fact, the orders that were sent out half an hour ago have not been answered yet.

Previously, everyone's attention was focused on the major battle on the left wing, and no one paid attention to the right wing.

Now that the left flank battlefield has entered a brief respite, the observing officers, whose minds have been cleared, can all see that something is amiss.

The spectators wanted to remind the Blues command to quickly send someone to investigate what had happened on the right wing.

It can act as a neutral directing department and cannot intervene in either party's affairs.

Even if the officers in the command headquarters were very curious and wanted to find out what had happened on the right wing of the Blue Army, they could only scratch their heads and wait.

Andrei was also among those curious, and as the head of the director's division, he had unique privileges.

You can't ask the Blues, you can ask the referee.

Referees are part of the directing staff, and it is the responsibility of every referee to truthfully report the situation on the exercise field to the directing staff.

As a result, Andrei asked all the referees on the right wing, but none of them sent back any information.

Because the entire right-wing area was jammed by the communication jamming vehicles sent by Chen Jun, there was no way to transmit any information.

The referees were very dissatisfied with the Seventh Steel Battalion's actions, and even the referees stationed at the Seventh Battalion went to Battalion Commander Gao Cheng to express their protest.

However, Gao Cheng retorted.

"We are conducting routine military operations, and communications jamming is one of our tactical elements. It does not violate any exercise rules."

Gao Cheng spoke with such confidence that the referee had no way to refute him.

Chen Jun even sarcastically remarked, "I've heard that your Russian military's directing department has extensive experience in exercises and uses the most advanced equipment in Asia. Don't you have any anti-jamming equipment? Is that really true?"

"..."

The referee, who already had no reason to refute, turned red with anger after hearing Chen Jun's words, but couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

Since Russian military divisions don't even have electronic warfare units, where would they get professional anti-jamming equipment?

Having failed to achieve their goal and been thoroughly humiliated by the sarcastic remarks, the director's referee could only leave the Seventh Steel Battalion headquarters in disgrace.

Chen Jun and Gao Cheng exchanged a glance and both laughed.

The equipment and configuration of the 7th Steel Battalion far surpasses that of the Russian troops, and they can easily defeat the Russian troops. They are not afraid of the referee making things difficult for them.

With sufficient strength, one has no fear of petty villains. (End of Chapter)