Girls und War

Not long after, Jiamei went to the radio station and had a brief negotiation with the commander of the area.

Xia Shu also gained a general understanding of this area through their conversation.

Xia Shu's intuition just now was not wrong. This place was indeed not any place she had been to before.

Specifically, this area is closer to the East Ocean Pole and is a complex island chain area where the Snow Area and the Eagle Area were originally fighting.

There are hundreds of islands of various sizes here, with a total area close to that of a continent. The Snow District and the Eagle District have fought several battles here before, but neither was able to defeat the other.

Now, the Flower District and the Snow District have reached a cooperation agreement. The Snow District has ceded a portion of its controlled area to the Flower District, allowing them to carve out a new battlefield on their own.

Because it was a new battlefield, the control area and strategic purpose of the Flower District were not very large. Therefore, the commander of this area was a major general.

If the major general can achieve the strategic goals and complete the combat mission assigned to her by the headquarters, she and her staff will be credited with military merit.

Perhaps the rank of major general can be promoted to one level, and he can become a new lieutenant general in the Generals' Council.

There is another small topic that can be extended here. If an officer does not want to spend a lot of time to gain experience, the fastest way to promotion is to join the staff of a general who is on the rise.

However, doing so also means that you will be bound to this general from now on and can no longer switch to someone else at will.

Otherwise, the identity of a traitor will make people dislike you no matter where you go.

At this time, if the general is lucky enough and wins victory after victory and continues to receive military merit and promotions, then her staff will also rise in rank, and she may even be able to sit in the office of admiral.

Just like the young commander's staff, they jumped from being frustrated at the beginning to becoming the Prince's Eastern Palace of the Hua District Army Headquarters.

And his chief of staff, Qimingxing, can take power as long as the young commander makes some moves.

This is a typical example of choosing the right leader.

However, if you are unlucky and serve under an incompetent general, you can only be an incompetent staff officer under him.

Therefore, surrendering is a choice with great risks and great rewards. If you want to be safe, there is no need to take such risks.

If you work honestly and steadily in major military departments, get promoted every few years, you will definitely be able to become a senior colonel when you retire.

Then go to the reserve and become a ragtag officer. Isn't this kind of life great?

Well, for an energetic young man like Xia Shu, it really doesn’t taste good.

If you think about it carefully, living off gigolos is indeed the life a macho man should have!

So after Jiamei finished talking to the major general in command of this area, he asked Xia Shu to bring the combat report to him and review it one by one.

The current one is temporarily the supreme commander of the front line integration department here.

Originally, this position should be held by at least a colonel, but Jiashui's original position was the general manager of the front-line combat camp. Now he is also serving as the commander of the front line at the regimental level, so no one will gossip about it.

Let me also briefly talk about the functional scope of the Front Integration Department.

First of all, the Front Coordination Department is responsible for contacting the three armed forces and issuing orders.

A strategic objective should be for the general's headquarters staff to analyze and propose operational requirements.

After this request is sent to the Front Coordination Department, the staff of the Department will analyze the feasibility of the request. In other words, they will determine the difficulty of implementing this order and whether it is within their scope of responsibility.

If it is within the scope of functions, the order can be issued directly.

If he is not there, I will have to ask my superiors to see if this order can be passed on.

For example, the commander of the island chain front here needs to completely occupy the fourth island chain before sunset. To this end, they analyzed that they only need to dispatch an aircraft carrier formation and several island landing forces to achieve this goal.

After receiving the report, the Front Integration Department will look at those matters that fall within its scope of responsibility.

Oh, the island landing force can be deployed on its own, but the aircraft carrier formation can't. So ask the War Control Headquarters—Hello, hello, hello? Is the aircraft carrier home? Let her come out to play.

Then the War Control Department responded, OK, I have talked to them at the Navy Headquarters, you can give her a call.

Then the War Control Department here can notify the navy and army to dispatch troops. At the same time, logistical support must also keep up, and the air force must also send a few reconnaissance planes.

This is the operational process of the Front Integration Department.

In addition, if there are any problems on the front line battlefield: for example, an aircraft carrier was hit while playing outside, which was terrible; or our army annihilated countless enemies and our army moved forward like the wind - such battlefield feedback must be reported to the command center as soon as possible.

In short, the task of their combat command department is to transmit orders up and down.

No matter what the result is, as long as their orders are transmitted correctly, even if their troops retreat thousands of miles and the bandits cannot catch up with them, and they retreat victoriously, the blame cannot be placed on them.

After all, they were only responsible for battlefield coordination. They were not in command, nor were they the ones who actually fought on the scene.

However, correspondingly, even if the troops won a battle, they would not get any credit.

766. On the Compatibility of Military Rank and Position

It was actually relatively easy for Xia Shu and Jiamei to get along with the internal staff of the War Control Department.

Because the position of the fake monitor is leadership, he only needs to approve orders and make bigger decisions.

The internal staff of other departments have basically gotten along quite well and do not need to be directed by an outsider like Jiamei.

At this stage, the Flower District has just begun to lay out the operational framework here, and only a small number of advance troops have arrived on the island. Therefore, there is no news of any fighting.

Even their reconnaissance was now conducted through a shared vision with the friendly forces in the snowy area. Therefore, the tasks of everyone in the camp were still analyzing existing battlefield intelligence and memorizing important terrain features.

Xia Shu also took the time to consult with officers from various departments about the details of executing the orders of the Combat Command Department, such as how to report after receiving feedback from the frontline troops, or how to communicate with different departments to carry out operations.

The officers in the War Affairs Department seemed to understand that Xia Shu's current position was just a personal communicator, so they were very friendly and patiently answered Xia Shu's questions.

So Xia Shu quickly figured out the logic of command communication within the War Control Department.

Simply put, the Combat Command Department has the highest priority and authority among all military branches at the same level.

Whether it is the right to speak or the importance of security, no other department is more important than them.

For example, in a small battlefield, it is necessary to build a firefight battlefield for regimental-level troops.

Then the two warring parties will deploy several flying companies, several armored battalions, several infantry action teams, and several logistics troops.

At this time, a regional front integration department with a regimental-level organization has the highest command authority on the battlefield.

All other battalions, companies, and squadrons in the battlefield have no right to disobey the orders of the front line coordination department, even if the order is to cover the rear and sacrifice.

As a command unit, the Combat Command Department also puts battlefield security as its top priority.

In principle, the Combat Command has the right to sacrifice other subordinate troops to ensure its own safe evacuation.

In addition, the organizational level of the regional command is usually one to half a level higher than that of the combat command.

Therefore, the Combat Command Department must also take the responsibility of protecting this command center that is more important than itself.

Other specific situations require specific analysis. For example, how should interactive operations be conducted in a complex battlefield with multiple engagement zones and multiple combat control centers? Or, in certain special circumstances, how should command decisions be made when combat units are organized at a higher level than headquarters (such as an aircraft carrier formation in a small coastal battlefield).

These situations all had complex command regulations, compiled into manuals. After being transferred to the War Coordination Department, the first thing to do was to memorize these combat manuals.

Fortunately, Xia Shu and Jiamei were both temporarily in charge of the class, and they were also the leaders. Otherwise, memorizing all these things would be a headache.

What Jiamei is in control of now is a newly developed combat area with a regimental-level organization.

When it comes to the relationship between military ranks and positions, it may seem very complicated to outsiders.

What is the relationship between a lieutenant and a company, the job standards of a colonel, and how large a force a general can control.

These things are indeed difficult to explain simply.

But you only need to remember one rule.

That is the captain, who usually controls the most basic combat group - the company.

Colonel is the basic military rank for a regimental commander.

Going further up, the scope of troops controlled by generals jumps between army, division, and brigade levels, making it difficult to fix.

Ranks can be combined with positions. For example, a general could control only an independent brigade, which is considered a high-ranking position. Or a major could control a company, and a captain could control a small medical team. All of these are possible.

But it is not compatible with higher versions and the CPU will burn out.

A regimental-level battlefield like the one Jiamei was controlling would have been a disaster for her. However, considering her current position was high enough, she was only covering for the shift, and there were recent rumors that Jiamei was about to be promoted. Therefore, skipping her level and covering for the shift at this time wouldn't have any negative consequences.

In addition, the regimental-level front-line coordination department where Xia Shu is currently located mainly obeys the orders of the regional major general and her staff, which is a deputy division-level organization.

Many people may not understand what deputy battalion, deputy division, and deputy army mean in the military.

There are actually two concepts here.

One concept is seniority level.

Two people may have the same military rank, both are captains, but their qualifications and positions are different.

One, having served as a captain for several years, was now serving as a deputy battalion-level department director at headquarters, while the other, a newly promoted captain, was currently serving as the head of a medical team, equivalent to a deputy company-level officer.

There is a whole level difference between the two.

Therefore, a person's specific position may be more accurately described by the level on his or her seniority badge.

Another concept is the organizational level of the troops.

For example, a tank company with three tank platoons is called a tank company.

But if a tank company is organized into three more platoons, with a total of six platoons, what should the reinforced tank company be called?

Let's call it a tank battalion, but it has less than three tank companies, so it doesn't seem appropriate.

So let’s call it the deputy battalion-level tank company.

It is slightly higher than the company level and slightly lower than the battalion level. You can understand it at a glance at the report.

By analogy, if it is a little higher than the battalion level, it is called the deputy regimental level. If it is a little higher than the regimental level, it is called the deputy division level.

Hmm? Something seems off here?

Shouldn't regimental level and above be brigades? Why is it directly a division?

Oh, because a division controls multiple levels of regiments, there is no need to insert other levels of troops here.

What happened to that brigade?

A brigade is actually an independent group force with special characteristics.

They usually report directly to the headquarters and have no subordinate units. Therefore, they are generally called independent brigades.

Brigade-level troops are generally able to conduct operations independently, and do not even need the command of the combat command center. The basic combat units within them are generally battalion-level.

In short, it was a particularly unpopular and unique combat organization. Even in the Flower District, there was only one central regional logistics protection unit with a brigade-level organization.

Its commander is the general who is on duty every day in the center of the flower district control area.

At this point, it is easy to understand the level of the flower district command in the island chain area.

The military organization they could currently command was not yet at the divisional level, but the regimental level obviously could not control such a large combat area.

Therefore, the deputy division-level organization is the most appropriate.

If the island chain battlefield expands in the future, the Hua District Headquarters may issue an order to adjust the level.

By then, we will be able to see whether the major general commander of the island chain will be promoted to lieutenant general.

767. Brother, the population is blocked! Your rapid military expansion is really powerful.

A few days later, news came from the Snow District that there was a small amount of friction with the Eagle District.

The command center in the Flower District seemed to feel that the time had come, so it moved the command center to the camp of the Front Integration Department.

Under the guidance of Jiamei, Xia Shu finally met the commander-in-chief of this operation - Major General Jingxian, commander-in-chief of the North Ocean Island Chain Front.

After the major general arrived at the camp, he did not give any bureaucratic speeches. Instead, after learning about the current combat situation, he gathered the heads of various departments for a pre-war meeting.

At the meeting, the major general's staff and the consuls of various military branches of the War Affairs Department got along quite well.

But Xia Shu knew that these were all illusions. When the battle intensified, both sides would undoubtedly argue fiercely over the deployment of troops.

After the meeting was over, Major General Jingxian took a nap and chatted for a few more minutes, while Xia Shu served tea and water beside her.

The two exchanged pleasantries. The major general first greeted the young commander, and then asked in detail about the upper limit of the troops she could mobilize.

According to the statistics in the document, Jiamei informed her of the number of existing combat troops and the number of follow-up troops that were about to arrive.

Xia Shu had also read the documents and knew the total number of these troops, which was roughly a regiment of amphibious combat armored forces, a naval landing ship, a helicopter destroyer, and two Marine squadrons.

Among them, only the Marine Squadron is composed of female soldiers, and the others are tool combat units controlled by naval officers.