Starting from the deputy company commander of the Soldier Assault Team

Gao Shijun closed his notebook and continued, "That concludes the discussion on defining organizational ranks. Let's get back to the main topic and discuss the various preparatory issues we just covered."

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The meeting of Army Group C lasted for two hours before everyone dispersed.

At the foot of the army group's office building, Chen Shi, the commander of the T Division, looked at Liu, the commander of the B Division, who had a somewhat serious expression, and said with a smile, "Old Liu, why do you look so serious? You've learned a lot today."

Our army group's previous pilot combined arms battalion, although still in the exploratory stage, is clearly stronger than a regular battalion.

"Old Liu, it's great to have a directly subordinate battalion under your command soon. Come on, give me a smile."

When Liu Chunhua, the commander of the B Division, saw Chen Shi's grinning face, he was immediately furious. This old Chen's ability to tell jokes with his eyes open was getting stronger and stronger.

For the newly added heavy combined arms battalion pilot program, three suitable candidates for command were recommended. Zhang Anbang was ranked first, and Gao Cheng was ranked second. Both of them were under the command of Old Chen from Division T.

Although one of his subordinates, Chen Beizhou, was recommended, he was ranked third.

Military recommendations are not like sales pitches where they first set up a prelude to raise your expectations before giving you the best recommendation.

Finally, we'll present another option to raise the benchmark for comparison, making option two seem more cost-effective and causing you to feel like you'd be missing out if you didn't choose option two.

The military's recommendations are very straightforward. The first recommendation is the best and most suitable, the second is the main reserve, which is the second best choice, and the third recommendation is purely a backup.

Therefore, when you think about it, Chen Beizhou actually has no chance of winning at all. His lack of frontline experience is too obvious, even more so than Zhang Anbang's lack of seniority and Gao Cheng's unfamiliarity with digital information.

As for coming up with a plan to select who can serve as the supervisor, that is certainly fair, since it is an evaluation group formed within the army group itself.

But the best in the military are truly formidable; their reputations speak for themselves. He didn't believe that Chen Beizhou's proposal could surpass Zhang Anbang's and Gao Cheng's.

If things go wrong, not only will they lose the pilot project of the combined arms battalion, but they will also have to lose a lieutenant colonel-level deputy chief of staff.

Liu Chunhua snorted coldly, "Hey Lao Chen, don't you dare act all innocent here after getting the benefit. We've known each other for so many years, I can read your mind the moment you bend over."

With your little tricks up your sleeve, who do you think you can fool? And that smile you gave me? Get lost, get as far away as possible.

B Division Political Commissar Zhou Yuanchao looked at Chen Shi with a bit of helplessness, and quickly tugged at T Division Political Commissar Liu Gang, "Hey, Lao Liu, you and our division commander both have the surname Liu, you were one family five hundred years ago."

How can you bear to watch your own relatives be bullied like this?

"Ah," Liu Gang waved his hand, "Old Zhou, what are you talking about? I think they're having a good chat, there's no such thing as them trying to squeeze each other out."

Zhou Yuanchao was completely speechless. "Alright, alright, hurry up and take your old Chen back. Haven't you heard people say to keep a low profile and make a fortune? You've already gotten your share of the benefits, why are you still provoking people here? Get lost."

"Hahaha," Liu Gang laughed heartily a few times, then tugged at Chen Shi, "Old Chen, let's hurry back, after all, we need to notify two people to write a proposal."

Unlike Lao Liu and Lao Zhou, who only need to notify one person at a time, their task is much easier than ours.

"Yes, yes," Chen Shi immediately chimed in, "Commissar, you're so thoughtful. We really don't have time to waste chatting with them here."

After they finished speaking, the two turned and left, giving Liu Chunhua and Zhou Yuanchao no chance to refute them.

"You, you, you, don't forget you also have the surname Liu, you're also Old Liu."

"oh."

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A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and Zhang Anbang was sitting in his office, writing furiously the implementation plan for the establishment and annual training of the heavy-armored combined arms pilot battalion.

This is the third version, and it's considered the final draft. He has to take it seriously and not include any typos or ink smudges in the submitted proposal. These are the most basic writing guidelines.

I. Overall Construction Strategy

The construction of heavy-armored combined arms pilot battalions should abandon the old models of digital and information-based pilot projects. The focus should be on avoiding the structural shortcomings that existed in previous digital pilot projects, such as fragmented inter-service intelligence, delayed information flow, and disconnect between forward reconnaissance and firepower coordination.

We should base our efforts on the current configuration of main battle equipment, infantry fighting equipment, and vehicle-mounted simple information terminals, and adhere to a pragmatic construction path of prioritizing innovation over outdated hardware and mechanisms, avoiding empty modifications and premature construction that are divorced from the actual equipment.

Combining grassroots heavy equipment combat training and multi-service integrated training practices, it addresses the pain points of realistic combat.

This addresses issues such as the separation of reconnaissance, assault, firepower, and support links in traditional warfare, insufficient coordination of temporary wartime formations, and excessive combat losses.

The core construction logic is established, which includes normalized mixed formation, integrated intelligence flow, hierarchical firepower authorization, and modular accompanying support.

This completely breaks the traditional model of independent training for each company and temporary assembly during wartime.

In the short term, we will address the shortcomings in multi-service coordination by unifying communication frequency bands, standardizing intelligence documents, and establishing battalion-level joint staff teams.

The system reserves interfaces for digital upgrades and transformations in the medium and long term, enabling the interconnection of target data between vehicle-mounted terminals in stages. This will explore practical paths and accumulate combat experience for the informatization and integrated transformation of the Army's terminal tactical units.

II. Grouping Optimization Design

Based on the needs of realistic combat operations.

Within the basic organizational framework, the routine deployment of four specialized units—anti-tank, air defense, army aviation guidance, and electronic warfare reconnaissance—is solidified.

This changes the passive model of temporary deployment and temporary team formation in previous special exercises, and enables professional forces to be permanently stationed, integrated, and regularly coordinated.

It overturns the traditional organizational model of using tank companies and mechanized infantry companies as single independent combat units, reconstructs the minimum tactical combat system, and splits and forms multi-service mixed assault platoons as the basic combat unit.

The unit integrates specialized forces such as tank crews, armored infantry, forward reconnaissance and observation, and engineering obstacle breaching. Drawing on the concept of multi-disciplinary integrated operations, it constructs an integrated operational process of forward reconnaissance detection, real-time target identification, and on-site fire suppression. The simultaneous obstacle breaching and assault effectively reduces the time lag in intelligence reporting and circulation at each level, improving the speed of tactical response at the terminal level.

The battalion headquarters added a dedicated intelligence staff position to uniformly collect enemy situation information from multiple sources, such as armored reconnaissance, forward infiltration, and artillery observation, and to unify intelligence standards, analysis, and distribution.

To thoroughly resolve the long-standing problems of inconsistent observation data standards, prominent information barriers, and inability to share data among different branches of the armed forces, and to build an integrated intelligence flow system at the battalion level.

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