From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

The big boss was astonished to find the Red Army command post completely empty because he hadn't seen the whole play.

The 7th Steel Brigade assembled and set off at 8:00 AM, while the theater commander and Chief of Staff Shen had stayed up all night and needed rest to recover their energy due to their advanced age.

The calculation was based on the time the Red Army arrived at Xiaochong Village, which was around nine o'clock when they appeared at the director's office.

Meanwhile, the main force of the Red Army had arrived at Xiaochong Village, and a decisive battle between the Red and Blue forces was about to break out.

From the moment they arrived at the command center, the attention of the war zone's top leader and Chief of Staff Shen was drawn to Xiaochong Village. They paid little attention to the Red Army's main camp and had no energy to spare for it.

Furthermore, the big boss firmly believed that nothing would happen at the Red Army's headquarters, coupled with Chen Jun's deliberate concealment.

Therefore, there is no need to switch to a larger screen.

This resulted in them being completely cut off from information from beginning to end, having no idea about the situation at the Red Army command post, and even assuming that the Red Army's high command was staying at headquarters.

Now, when the camera cuts to the side, the brigade headquarters is no longer visible; only a few scattered telephone operators and staff officers are visible.

How could they not be greatly surprised?

The other people in the command center reacted even more strongly than the two leaders when they saw this, with exclamations rising and falling, and leaflets scattered throughout the command center.

Not only were the directors in the department startled, but the Blue Army soldiers who rushed in afterward were also taken aback.

When they saw the almost empty command post, their reaction was much stronger than that of the directors; they stood there stunned, as if struck by lightning.

They all know.

The decapitation strike was crucial to the outcome of the exercise, but what we see now proves that they have already failed.

Based on the information already known to the reconnaissance brigade, if this wave of attacks, risking premature exposure, fails to decapitate the Red Army command post...

Therefore, the reconnaissance battalion's value will be less than one-third of what it was before.

It was a huge mistake.

"How is this possible? Why is it empty? Where did all the Red Army brigade headquarters members go?"

Hong Yi had been leading the charge at the front, so he quickly arrived at the command post, but the scene before him caused him to immediately lose his composure.

To know.

Hong Yi was not only competitive and daring, but also extremely ambitious.

He had already prepared a plan before the operation. This operation was not only to decapitate the Red Army command post, but also to take down the 535 defense line in one fell swoop with the large force under his command.

Although the methods of attack are somewhat cruel, the success rate is extremely high.

That is to capture all the high-ranking officers of the Red Army alive, then bind and control them all on the roof of the vehicle, and forcefully attack the 535 defense line while the high-ranking officers of the Red Army are on the roof.

The fortifications the Red Army set up along the defensive line were mainly for defending against attacks from directly in front.

The defenses in the rear were already weak.

Furthermore, with their own brigade commander and political commissar all on the enemy's vehicle, the enemy is hesitant to attack, further drastically reducing their defensive capabilities.

The reconnaissance battalion could easily storm the Red Army's 535 position with minimal losses.

Once the distance closes to the point where trench warfare is the only option, Hong Yi is confident that he can wipe out the entire Red Army's defensive force with his reconnaissance battalion.

Hong Yi believed that the reconnaissance soldiers he trained had a far superior individual trench warfare capability compared to the mechanized infantry of the 7th Steel Brigade.

Mechanized infantry without armor and infantry fighting vehicles is like a tiger without teeth and claws, which Hong Yi doesn't take seriously at all.

pity.

The Red Army command post was just an empty shell; there wasn't a single deputy officer to be seen, let alone a brigade commander or political commissar.

At a glance, the highest-ranking officer in the entire Red Army command post was only a captain.

The rest were all "small fish and shrimp".

Hong Yi's plan could not be executed, and taking over the 535 defense line became a pipe dream, which he could not accept and felt so frustrated that he wanted to vomit blood.

However, the unusual situation at the Red Army command post greatly increased his vigilance.

They worried that this was a trick deliberately played by the Red Army.

If it's just a ruse like the Empty City Stratagem, it's not too bad, at least it won't pose a big threat. But if the Red Army uses a trap to lure the enemy into a pit, then the trouble will be much greater.

Thinking of this...

Hong Yi could no longer remain calm and hurriedly issued instructions.

First, explosives were planted to destroy the Red Army command post.

Then everyone immediately withdrew from the Red Army's main camp and entered the woods behind the camp to prepare for guerrilla warfare with the Red Army's support troops.

Now that we've been completely exposed, breaking out through the front lines is definitely not an option.

So they did the opposite. Fortunately, the Red Army's main camp was surrounded by dense forests. By retreating into the forests, they could maximize their survival.

Even if the Red Army attacked the 535 defense line, they wouldn't be able to take them down in a short time.

As long as we hold out until the main force of the Blue Army arrives and launches a full-scale attack on the 535 defense line, the reconnaissance battalion can then launch a pincer attack from the rear and capture the 535 defense line in one fell swoop.

have to say.

Hong Yi is truly a very talented and outstanding commander with exceptional on-the-spot responsiveness.

Unfortunately, Hong Yi's excellence was only relative to ordinary officers, making his abilities stand out in all aspects, at most making him a talented individual.

Compared to a monstrous genius like Chen Jun, the gap is like the gap between an ordinary person and him.

Chen Jun specifically left the special operations company behind and assigned them to defend the 535 defense line, but he did not tell them to hold the trenches on the front lines.

As a top-tier elite special operations company, most of its members possess the skills of special forces soldiers.

Sending them to be ordinary soldiers to hold their positions would be a real waste of their talents. Since this is a special operations company that focuses on unconventional operations, it is natural that we should do something different.

Therefore, Chen Jun's order to Tuo Yonggang was to let him act freely according to his own ideas.

As long as the 535 defense line is not breached, there are no other restrictions.

Tuo Yonggang was not a law-abiding, honest, and dutiful soldier. Since Chen Jun had given him authority, he naturally wanted to go all out.

In Tuo Yonggang's view, defending the 535 defense line...

That is impossible!

Since they don't want to defend the 535 line fortifications and can't go outside to fight the Blue Army, they can only wander around in their own rear.

What would be a worthwhile thing to do on this small piece of land behind our own house?

Tuo Yonggang slapped his forehead and suddenly had an idea.

The Blue Army's reconnaissance team has been missing, hasn't it? They've been able to stay hidden for so long without coming out, so Tuo Yonggang is certain they're preparing a big move.

The target was definitely the Red Army command post.

Since the special operations company was just sitting at home doing nothing anyway, he decided to find a way to locate the reconnaissance brigade and leave this rat nowhere to hide.

He refused to believe that the special operations company, by personally taking action, couldn't find a mere reconnaissance battalion.

If special operations can't even beat reconnaissance, then what's the point?

With this in mind, Tuo Yonggang immediately began making arrangements behind the lines after Chen Jun and Wang Qingrui led the main force out. If they could leave the 535 defense line and search in the woods in front of the lines, Tuo Yonggang was 80% confident that he could find the rat.

However, Chen Jun gave a strict order: as long as he stayed at home, he must not lose the 535 position.

Therefore, Tuo Yonggang had no choice but to stay within the front line and devise a suitable tactic to lure out the Blue Army reconnaissance team.

After careful consideration, Tuo Yonggang actually came up with a solution.

That is, although he has no way to leave the defensive line, if the Blue Army reconnaissance team has any designs on the Red Army's main camp, then they will definitely try to sneak into the defensive line.

As the company commander of a special operations company specializing in unconventional warfare, he was extremely knowledgeable about reconnaissance operations.

Therefore, Tuo Yonggang divided the special operations company into smaller units, with each squad heading in different directions to carefully inspect every part of the defense line, leaving no corner unchecked.

The main focus is on finding well-hidden and easily infiltrated gaps in the network, and then assigning people to monitor them.

And it really was such a coincidence.

The steep cliff that Hong Yi found was indeed located by the Fifth Platoon of the Special Operations Company, who immediately notified Tuo Yonggang to come and check it out.

No sooner had Tuo Yonggang arrived than new developments emerged—

The Blue Army reconnaissance team has climbed up!
When Tuo Yonggang saw the Blue Army, he almost burst out laughing on the spot.

They exclaimed that their luck was incredible.

The 7th Steel Brigade used drones, armed helicopters, and frontline sentries to conduct a continuous search, but they were unable to locate the Blue Army reconnaissance battalion.

He actually found it, and even caught it red-handed at a crucial moment.

If Tuo Yonggang led the soldiers of the Fifth Platoon to launch an attack on the Blue Army scouts who had appeared at this moment, they would definitely be able to drive the Blue Army scouts back.

We must completely block this opening, leaving the reconnaissance team with absolutely no chance.

The Blue Army reconnaissance brigade, unaware of the situation above and unsure how many Red Army soldiers had discovered their interception, dared not launch a rash attack.

The final result was that the reconnaissance team abandoned the plan and retreated along the same route.

This approach would indeed solve the problem, but Tuo Yonggang didn't want to resolve it that way, feeling that the gains would be too small.

Tuo Yonggang felt that since they were going to do it, they should solve the problem of the reconnaissance brigade once and for all.

Let this hidden danger be completely eliminated.

“These people must be the Blue Army reconnaissance team. They’ve been missing for so long, and now they’re here. They must be heading for our command post. Since they want to go, let’s let them go and trap them.”

That was Tuo Yonggang's idea at the time, and there was no risk in implementing it.

At this point, the Red Army command post was just an empty shell, and even the political commissar had gone to the 535 defense line to take charge, making it perfect as bait.

Therefore, Tuo Yonggang suppressed his urge to fire and decided to let the Blue Army reconnaissance team in.

And that's how what happened next came about.

Hong Yi was unaware that they had been exposed, and continued to climb up the slope as planned, proceeding cautiously until they attacked the Red Army command post.

It was easy for them to enter the Red Army's headquarters; they simply killed a few sentries and rushed in.

No difficulty.

When Hong Yi tried to lead them out, he realized that things had gotten out of his control.

Nearly three hundred soldiers from the reconnaissance battalion assumed that there would be many high-ranking officers in the Red Army's headquarters, and that a large number of people would be needed to control it. Therefore, most of the Blue Army soldiers rushed into the Red Army's command post.

Less than twenty soldiers remained, guarding the front and back gates respectively.

Just as Hong Yi realized something was wrong and gave the order to evacuate, sudden gunfire erupted outside the front and back doors.

"Da da da da da..."

A burst of intense gunfire rang out.

At the same time, almost all the Blue Army soldiers guarding the front and back gates started emitting smoke.

This shows how accurate the marksmen were.

"What's going on outside? Why are there gunshots?"

The alarm bells in Hong Yi's mind suddenly rang loudly, and a strong sense of unease suddenly surged into his heart, causing his heart rate to soar to 150.

Because all the reconnaissance team's communication equipment was removed and buried in the ground outside.

So even when Hong Yi shouted at the top of his lungs, no one could answer him.

Only the deputy captain rushed out in a panic to personally check what had happened; their communication was limited to verbal exchanges.

Not a moment.

"This is terrible, this is a huge problem."

The deputy battalion commander rushed in from outside, shouting from a distance, "Battalion commander, we've been ambushed by the Red Army! Both the front and back gates are blocked, and the dozen or so men guarding them have all been killed!"

"What happened? What went wrong? How did it turn out like this?"

Hong Yi couldn't understand it at all. His perfect plan, which should have given the Red Army a headache, had turned out to be the complete opposite. Where exactly had things gone wrong?

But the situation was already very critical; if they were not careful, they could be wiped out.

Hong Yi didn't have time to figure out the reasons, so he could only rack his brains to come up with a way to get out of the predicament, and quickly realized the biggest "need" at present.

That means we must withdraw from the base camp as soon as possible, and we absolutely cannot be trapped inside and beaten.

If it gets blocked, then it's really over.

"Charge! At all costs, we must break through!"

Even in such a predicament, Hong Yi made a very decisive decision. After analyzing the current advantages and disadvantages, he decided that rushing out was the most urgent task.

"Yes."

The deputy battalion commander also realized the problem and immediately ran out to organize a breakout.

However, the soldiers who can enter the special operations company are all tough guys who have undergone hellish training and have shed several layers of skin. Being a sharpshooter is already a basic skill for them.

Breaking through their encirclement would be extremely difficult.

Even after Tuo Yonggang reported the situation to Chen Jun, Chen Jun, in order to ensure the safety of the 535 defense line and to prevent the Blue Army from having any hidden tricks, did not agree to send the armored company over, and even the mechanized infantry company did not move.

The special operations company, consisting of fewer than 100 men, launched an encirclement and ambush operation on its own.

With fewer than 100 men against nearly 300 men from the Blue Army, the advantage still lies with the Special Operations Company.

The Blue Army reconnaissance team split into two groups and launched a breakout attack on the front and back gates respectively. The first wave of breakouts numbered over fifty men.

The rest of them found cover within the camp and suppressed the special operations company in the woods.

Combining cover with a breakout.

This tactic is fine.

However, under the special operations company's precise marksmanship, these fifty men only managed to reach the gate before being eliminated one by one, puffing out white smoke. (End of Chapter)