Chapter 1566: Whetstone

Zhurihe is a vast area located in Siziwang Banner and Sunite Right Banner of Xilin Gol League in Ulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia. It covers an area of ​​about 1066 square kilometers. There are Harderer Mountains, Duxin Grassland and Wudeng Grassland. , Chahan Oboo hills, Hanggaidengji hills, etc., a collection of complex terrain such as deserts, grasslands, mountains, ravines, etc., is a good place for military demonstrations. Therefore, as early as 1957, a reinforced armored division was established here. Level tactical exercise field.
After the "Desert Storm" operation in 1991, we watched the entire process of the multinational coalition besieging Ikra. The Chinese military deeply felt that modern information warfare and the past war model have undergone earth-shaking changes. Many new tactics and new equipment need to be implemented. Therefore, in the second year, the base was selected for large-scale construction, with the goal of turning it into a modern training and exercise base.
This was five years earlier than the implementation of the same plan in another time and space-after all, it was because the small money in Hua Xia's pocket at this time was much more abundant than that in the other time and space.
After three years of construction, the Zhurihe base has begun to take shape, and it can unceremoniously claim to be the largest cooperative tactical training base in Asia with the highest technological content in the entire military, and it can be called the Chinese version of "Fort Irving."
The arrival of the entire army of Xie Li's Ministry indicates that Zhu Rihe base is about to launch an unprecedented large-scale actual military confrontation exercise in Chinese history!
Unlike the numerous exercises that have been held in the history of the Chinese Army, this time the "Blue Army" was not played by temporarily deployed active-duty troops. Instead, the "Red Flag Security Company" was invited to serve as a friendly, and there was no such exercise. The battlefield and tactics are preset, and there is no preset winner. Who can be the "Red Army" or "Blue Army" participating in the exercise will have their own ability!
This is the first time in the history of China’s military exercises, and the person who proposed this reform is Admiral Liu, who has already taken a step forward from the position of commander of the navy, and he proposed the significance of this to China’s army building. The major reform comes from hearing a seemingly casual ridicule from a certain young man.
"The Red Army won all the fights. It doesn't look like an exercise, but an act."
To tell the truth, when General Liu first heard this, he was still a little uncomfortable. Do you, a boy who doesn't know the heights and earth, know how this tradition came about? But after thinking about it again, I felt that this remark was very meaningful-after all, the person who said it was Tan Zhenhua. Now, with this position and influence, he will not talk nonsense anymore, he must have something. Point it.
Sure enough, under General Liu’s detailed questioning, Tan Zhenhua threw out his apparently long-planned "whetstone" theory, bluntly speaking about the shortcomings of traditional exercise methods in the past, and put forward suggestions for turning exercises into actual combat. The National Training Center "Fort Irwin" has long maintained a professional "Red Army" unit. Taking the sharpening of the "Blue Army" units as an example, it discussed in detail the advantages of not prescribing battlefields, tactics, and winning sides. This is the point of view that only an army polished under this situation can handle the real battlefield environment with ease.
He also suggested that China should build its own professional "Blue Army" troops, and allow the "Blue Army" to simulate all known weapons and tactics in the world to launch attacks on the "Red Army" in order to act as the "Red Army" troops. "Honestone", and the Red Army must be prepared to withstand all blows and failures. Since China is targeting "strong enemies", it needs to develop the ability to face "strong enemies" in the exercise. If you fail, you can also find out the reasons and find the gaps, and work out the corresponding ways to defeat the enemy, but if it is on the real battlefield, there will only be one chance, and there will be no director department to arrange the script so that the "Red Army" will win!
This theory of Tan Zhenhua completely moved General Liu. He then assigned the next task, requesting a "red-blue confrontation" without any preset conditions in the shortest time. Tan Zhenhua took advantage of the situation and proposed that since China currently has no professional expertise If the "Blue Army" troops are temporarily deployed and formed, one is that the time is too late, and the other is that China's army is in a line of inheritance, and they are all too familiar with each other's weapons and tactics. No matter how they fight, they will still be "internal fight." There is limited help in the real situation that may be against a "strong enemy" in the future. Otherwise, he has a ready-made armed force in his hand. The full set of equipment and tactical system of this team are based on modern informationized troops and synthetic troops. They were built according to the requirements of the war, and they have been tested in the fire of war. They have incomparably rich experience in actual combat. They have nothing to do with the various military regions in the country. It is more appropriate for them to serve as the "Blue Army" in this exercise.
After careful consideration, General Liu agreed to Tan Zhenhua’s opinion. As a result, Xie Li's transnational long-distance and large-scale maneuvering this time was also one of Tan Zhenhua’s goals-just to take advantage of this. This is a rare opportunity to rehearse the task of carrying out armed force projection to a target area thousands of kilometers away.
To be honest, strategic transportation capability has always been the shortcoming of China's military, and it is a very short board. This is mainly due to China's long-term lack of vehicles that can perform strategic transportation capabilities-China's current largest military transport aircraft is its take-off weight. With only 61 tons and a maximum load of 20 tons, the "Yun 8" has a load capacity that can't even move a single main battle tank. What about "strategic transportation capacity"?
Of course, Tan Zhenhua had already planned to solve this problem.
The reason why he took the picture of 6 "An-124" under the guise of Chief Alian, and then used various "unfair competition" methods to squeeze the Raksha "Volga-Dnepr Airlines", in order to The company's aircraft of the same kind is in the bag, and as a result, he has formed the world's unique giant transport fleet-all 25 "An 124", but in today's world, the actual commercial takeoff weight and commercial load are ranked first. The giant transport aircraft ("An 225" is not only a single seedling, but also has high requirements for the airport, and has no practical value.)
"An-124" has a single airlift capacity of 150 tons, and with its sufficient cargo storage capacity, a single frame can transport 3 50-ton main battle tanks at a time, and 25 frames can be assembled in one wave. Airlifted 75 main battle tanks to perform strategic delivery missions within a range of 5000 kilometers. For this exercise, each of the 25 An-124s flew 4 sorties, which means that Zhu Rihe and Tan Zhenhua were obtained from Liya. 15,000 tons of materials have been transported by air!
For this exercise, he obviously paid a lot of money!
And when all the equipment and personnel of the Xie Li Ministry arrived, they lined up to accept the inspection by the senior generals of the Chinese military headed by Liu Admiral, everyone knows how much the wealth Tan Zhenhua has accumulated in the Middle East over the years. Strong.
Is this really the armed force that a "security company" should have?
Well, what we should worry about now is the "Red Army" in this exercise.