From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

Cheng Cai and his two companions worked together seamlessly, and their acting skills were impeccable. Using them to fool an air force sergeant was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

"It turns out it was the support unit for the expert group."

The air force sergeant was already quite convinced and said with a sigh, "Our company commander called us over to reconnoiter your unit that suddenly appeared. He was really nervous, thinking you were here to participate in an exercise."

"We would love to participate, but unfortunately, we only got odd jobs."

Cheng Cai shook his head repeatedly with a look of regret, then picked up his chopsticks and said, "Come on, eat quickly, eat while it's hot, let's chat while we eat."

"Yes, yes, let's eat and chat. Air Force brothers, come and try this beef." Xu Sanduo took the initiative to pick up a piece of beef with his chopsticks and enthusiastically put it into the Air Force sergeant's bowl.

Since his blockhead finally saw the light, and after undergoing a period of rigorous training in the Old A unit, he has experienced comprehensive growth in the years since returning to the Seventh Steel Brigade.

The current Xu Sanduo is a completely different person compared to the simpleton he once was.

"Oh, by the way, Air Force brother, we've been chatting for so long and we still don't know your name. Introduce yourself to us so we can get to know each other."

After Wu Liuyi finished speaking, he extended his right hand and introduced himself enthusiastically: "My name is Wu Qingsong, it's nice to meet you."

"Song Ping, my name is Song Ping, it's nice to meet you."

The air force sergeant was completely unsuspecting, shook hands warmly, and said his name.

"Brother Song, you're a straightforward guy, haha."

Wu Liuyi patted Song Ping on the shoulder with a smile and asked casually, "It's so nice to be a paratrooper. You can fly in the sky every day. We're so envious."

"But do you have an airport here? We've never seen one of your planes before."

Wu Liuyi asked for a crucial piece of information, and although Cheng Cai and Xu Sanduo remained calm, their ears were already perked up.

"We are paratroopers. This exercise is mainly to practice airborne and ground combat. We boarded the plane at Xiaojinhu Airport, which is 100 kilometers away."

After eating two pieces of smooth beef, Song Ping spoke very fluently.

"Over a hundred kilometers! That's quite far. Will you be able to get back tonight?" Cheng Cai feigned surprise, but was actually trying to find out more.

“I don’t need to go back. Our reconnaissance platoon lives in the nearby village of Shiliupu.”

Song Ping completely believed the support troops' explanation, and the fact that they prepared such a good meal for him was enough to make him put his guard down.

These important and crucial pieces of information were revealed almost without any reservations.

If the Seventh Steel Brigade is only there to provide support, then knowing these positions is truly useless, and it's not a problem for Song Ping to say it.

Unfortunately, the 7th Steel Brigade came to participate in the exercise, and even entered as a disruptor.

Every piece of information that Song Ping said that seemed harmless to him could become a knife in the hands of the Seventh Steel Brigade, ultimately slashing their Mountain Eagle Brigade's head.

Seeing that Song Ping had completely fallen into the trap, the three musketeers stopped worrying and began frantically gathering intelligence.

"I heard that these exercises are all planned out, and you just need to follow the plan. Why do we need to do reconnaissance?" Xu Sanduo asked, pretending to be clueless.

"You are a support unit, which has nothing to do with the exercise. Reconnaissance is indeed useless to you."

Song Ping swallowed the food in his mouth and continued, "Our main task in the exercise is to learn about the Marine Corps."

This time, when facing their Tsunami Assault Brigade, our brigade commander said, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated." We must thoroughly investigate them.

"Your brigade commander is truly talented, with such a clear operational strategy," Cheng Cai offered a small compliment.

"Of course, our brigade commander was a top-class pilot before, the commander of the flight regiment, he's really something," Song Ping said proudly.

"A top-tier pilot? That's impressive." Cheng Cai offered another compliment.

"Little Song, come on, let's drink instead of wine and toast to our friendship that started as a fight." Wu Liuyi took the initiative to pour Song Ping a drink.

"I'm very happy too. If I had been caught by the navy, I wouldn't have received such good treatment, haha," Song Ping said happily.

"Come on, let's do it!"

Just as they were happily immersing themselves in the atmosphere outside, toasting with drinks instead of alcohol.

Chen Jun quietly peeked over and whispered in Gao Cheng's ear, "Old Gao, go down and make arrangements. Go to Xiaojinhu Airport and Shiliupu Village immediately and quietly check the situation."

"clear."

Knowing the importance of this information, Gao Cheng nodded and quietly slipped out through the back door.

"Your plane is over a hundred kilometers away. How did your brigade commander know we were in this place? And why did he send you here to scout?" Cheng Cai asked, seemingly out of pure curiosity.

"It was all by chance."

Song Ping put his empty cup on the table and said while picking up some food, "This noon, I went to Xiaojin Lake with our platoon leader to report on the situation."

The brigade commander asked us if we had noticed anything unusual near the village recently. I said no, and the brigade commander took out a satellite map to show us.

They said a military unit suddenly appeared in this area, and they had a lot of equipment, so they told us to come and take a look.

I never expected to be caught by your people so soon after I arrived here.

Towards the end, Song Ping laughed awkwardly.

After all, it was a shameful thing for an elite airborne soldier to be so easily captured by support troops.

"You're the Air Force, with so many planes flying around every day, why are you still doing ground reconnaissance? Why not just send one plane over?" Xu Sanduo asked.

"I am an airborne unit, which belongs to the air force, but our main combat methods are on the ground, similar to the army, so ground reconnaissance is essential," Song Ping explained.

The Air Force's paratroopers and the Navy's Marine Corps are the strongest land warfare aces in their respective branches of the armed forces.

Ordinary people really can't get in.

"The Air Force's Army units sound awesome, and your brigade commander is so capable and powerful. Can I know his name? After we finish the support work and go back, I'll have something to brag about to my brothers."

Cheng Cai spoke as if it were the truth, gesturing wildly with his face full of hope.

"Our brigade commander's name is Xiahou Lan..."

"Xiahou Lan?"

Wu Liuyi interrupted Song Ping in surprise, prompting Song Ping to ask in confusion, "Do you know our brigade commander?"

“I don’t know him personally, but I know the name. A friend of mine told me that he was the commander of the Mountain Eagle Brigade, a very capable and skilled fighter.”

Wu Liuyi's acting skills have also improved significantly; he can tell lies without batting an eye.

"Our brigade commander's abilities are no joke," Song Ping said proudly, raising his head.

"Oh, right." Cheng Cai seemed to suddenly remember something and asked, "I went to deliver something to one of the leaders of the expert group today, and they told me that you're going to have an exercise with the Tsunami Assault Brigade tomorrow. I'm curious if you can beat them?"

"Of course we can beat them."

Song Ping immediately replied confidently, then added, "However, tomorrow is just a rehearsal, a show for the experts. We'll attack while they defend. We've been rehearsing for several days now, and we could handle it with our eyes closed."

We won't really start fighting until the actual drills begin the day after tomorrow.

Cheng Cai and Wu Liuyi exchanged a quick glance, a smile playing on their lips. With the most crucial information in hand, the matter was practically settled.

"Then I wish you a resounding victory, let's have another drink."

Wu Liuyi poured him another glass, and the four of them raised their glasses and toasted again.

"It's almost time, I need to go back and report."

Song Ping put the cup down and stood up as if to leave.

"Alright, it's so late, I won't insist you stay."

Wu Liuyi said very enthusiastically, "We've already filled up your motorcycle with gas, and we've parked it on the side of the road outside. Please feel free to ask if you have any other requests."

Cheng Cai chimed in, "I've never been to the airborne troops' unit before. When I have some free time, could you take me there?"

"no problem."

With such good food and drinks being served here, Song Ping felt embarrassed to refuse and readily agreed, saying, "We have a total of three battalions and one helicopter squadron this time. The brigade command center is located at Xiaojinhu Airport."

If you're planning to visit, just come find me at Xiaojinhu Airport.

"Okay, that's great. Thanks in advance!" Cheng Cai said happily.

"Your unit's garrisons are quite concentrated, with so many places all within one airport. Your reconnaissance company is even closer, as we arrived by motorcycle."

Wu Liuyi deliberately misunderstood the meaning, just to make Song Ping explain it himself.

Letting people explain themselves is more subtle than asking them directly.

Song Ping had indeed fallen into Wu Liuyi's trap. Seeing that Wu Liuyi had misunderstood, he quickly explained, "No, apart from the brigade command and the helicopter squadron at Xiaojinhu Airport, the other three battalions are separate."

The 1st Battalion was assigned to Zone 5, the 2nd Battalion to Zone 6, and the 3rd Battalion was assigned even further away, to Zone 8, which was over 100 kilometers away.

This resulted in the three of them being quite far apart, and it would take most of the day to make a round trip.

I still need to go back to Xiaojinhu Airport to report. It's over 100 kilometers and will take quite a while to drive there. It's getting late, so I really have to go.

Song Ping never expected that his explanation would inadvertently reveal a great deal of information.

What was even more unexpected was that the high-ranking officer support troops, who were eating and living so well and had nothing to do with the exercise troops, were actually invited by the commander to cause trouble.

This allowed the 7th Steel Brigade to gather almost all the intelligence about the Mountain Eagle Brigade without lifting a finger.

After working together, Cheng Cai, Wu Liuyi, and the other two had extracted a lot of crucial information and realized that continuing to force them to stay might expose their secret.

So they didn't try to keep them any longer, and instead got up and warmly saw them off.

"Beep beep..."

With a revving of the motorcycle, Song Ping rode away into the distance.

As Cheng Cai and his two companions watched Song Ping leave, they knew that their mission had been successfully completed without arousing any suspicion. They exchanged glances and smiled.

"Let's go, let's go report the situation."

With a wave of his hand, Wu Liuyi led the way, and the three of them returned to the tent and went inside to tell Chen Jun and his group the intelligence they had gathered in detail.

Although Chen Jun and his group listened inside the whole time, it was still necessary to report in person to prevent any information from being missed.

Having successfully obtained crucial intelligence from the Mountain Eagle Brigade, the next step is naturally to use this intelligence to make proper plans for the upcoming exercises.

After resting for about half an hour and waiting for the drones arranged by Gao Cheng to send back the reconnaissance intelligence, everyone in the brigade command and the battalion commanders of each brigade gathered at the brigade command tent.

"Based on our verification and investigation, the information we currently have is as follows."

As the person in charge of this meeting, Chen Jun stood in front of the military map and introduced: "The command post of the Mountain Eagle Brigade is indeed at Xiaojinhu Airport, and there is also a helicopter squadron stationed here, which is 110 kilometers away from us."

Tomorrow, the Mountain Eagle Brigade and the Tsunami Assault Brigade will conduct their first exercise, and their airborne landing point will be here.

Chen Jun tapped the map with his finger and continued, "Xiaojinhu Airport is a temporary airport at the Wufengshan Training Base, specifically for the temporary parking and take-off/landing of aircraft from participating troops."

Therefore, I estimate that their transport planes will arrive at Xiaojinhu Airport before the start of the battle tomorrow.

The three airborne combat battalions of the Mountain Eagle Brigade are located in defense zones five, six and eight respectively. Among them, the third combat battalion in defense zone eight is more than 100 kilometers away from the central exercise area.

In addition, there is a ground reconnaissance platoon stationed in Shiliupu Village, which is about ten kilometers away from here.

If necessary, we can consider taking it down before the operation begins...

Chen Jun organized the intelligence he had gathered that evening and explained it to the officers at the battalion level and above present, so that everyone would have a general idea of ​​the situation.

"The rest of the relevant information about this exercise will be explained to everyone by Staff Officer Qiu."

After Chen Jun finished recounting the intelligence for the evening, he naturally steered the conversation to intelligence officer Qiu Ming.

As the intelligence fusion center of the brigade's six major centers, and the de facto person in charge appointed by Chen Jun, Qiu Ming did indeed possess a large amount of intelligence.

"In this Operation Warrior exercise, the naval and air force brigades were roughly equal in strength."

Qiu Ming walked to the front of the map and took Chen Jun's place, speaking eloquently: "Both brigades are configured with three battalion-level units plus one company."

The Air Force has gained an additional helicopter squadron, nothing special.

The Navy has added a special operations squadron directly under its command. Although the number of personnel is not large and it is not a full-strength squadron, it is said that the squadron is very strong and is the spearhead of the Tsunami Assault Brigade.

Especially in projects such as maritime rescue, their performance is outstanding and they are definitely among the top in China.

The three battalions of the Mountain Eagle Brigade are roughly equal in strength, all organized as motorized infantry assault battalions, but all have undergone some special operations training, making them more combat-effective than ordinary motorized infantry battalions…

Qiu Ming's introduction was only a hundred words long, but what he said made everyone in the room frown.

The reason is that both the Mountain Eagle Brigade and the Tsunami Assault Brigade have special operations-related training and troops, while special operations in China are just starting out. Even elite army units like the 708th and 909th have no special operations units.

These two naval and air force units, which were essentially "pseudo-army" units, actually possessed army special operations forces even before the army itself.

This clearly demonstrates just how elite these two brigades are! (End of Chapter)