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The "Red Army" command post is brightly lit.

There are less than five hours before the dawn confrontation exercise begins. All the war rooms are still busy nervously and orderly, and all the preparations before the "war" are in full swing.

In the Red Army 1 command post, the head of the team, Shen Gendi, is still arguing with the chief of staff, Wu He, about the specific details of the "head determination" in tactical operations. Especially in choosing the main attack direction, the two men were at loggerheads and did not give in to each other.

Others seem to have long been accustomed to this way of arguing between them, doing their own things in an orderly way and not looking up.

Senior colonel Zhang shixun, the chief of staff of the division, came to the 1 red army command post with a plate of fruit as before each exercise, followed by Gao Heizi, the chief of the division management section.

Excellent grades, Zhang Shixun, the division chief of staff who just graduated from National Defense University, is an old mountain guard. Sent to this garrison from the operational department of the military region, the head of the military region specially arranged for him to be a right-hand man with rich operational and government work experience to supplement a period of grass-roots work experience. Focus on training and prepare for the future "exploring great responsibilities and shouldering heavy burdens".

I don't know if it was the "forgetfulness" of the head of the military region that forgot Zhang Shixun who was sent to the garrison, or if Zhang Shixun stayed in the garrison and didn't want to leave. Anyway, by this year, he has worked here for ten years.

I personally witnessed and participated in three reorganizations of this unit. He is not only the organizer of several cross-arms optimization and integration, but also a witness, whether it is the frontier defense force, the railway corps, the garrison force or the field force.

It can be said that Zhang Shixun, chief of staff, has devoted a lot of energy and painstaking efforts to this unit and has unique and profound feelings.

Familiar with the command room business, good at operational command, famous throughout the theater. At the graduation ceremony of the strategic research class of National Defense University, he took the stage as an outstanding student representative of 50 military division-level cadres to receive the award and delivered a graduation speech.

In the first month of graduation, he organized and planned a staff meeting within the scope of the whole division. Its competition scale, content setting and subject research have great influence on the whole garrison area.

Make the garrison area within the whole region, and popularize the experience and practice of our 72 nd Division. It promoted the construction of the organization and command ability of the whole garrison headquarters in that year, and improved the professional level of the staff of the headquarters as a whole.

The visit of the head of the division made my participation in the Red Army Command instantly boil.

Head Shen Gendi and chief of staff Wu He happened to be on the big sand table. Because of the choice of the main attack direction and the weight of the deployment of troops, many differences have arisen. The two sides hold their own words, and one high and one low are deadlocked. Seeing the head of the division who came in with fruit in high spirits, he immediately got up and gave a standard military salute to Zhang Shixun's chief of staff.

"I heard you two yelling at the door, okay? Is there a warp in the quarrel? " .

Shen Gendi took a glance at Master Wu, turned around and took the fruit carried by Chief Zhang, and put it on the table covered with grass-green military blankets.

"The two of us, you don't look at the relationship between the superior and the subordinate at ordinary times. As soon as we met, we all came according to the rules. He salutes first, and then I reciprocate. However, when you enter the role of the exercise, it is that no one will accept anyone's opponent. "

"Chief, you come at the right time. You gave us advice. In the choice of the main attack direction, whose reason is more sufficient and whose judgment is closer to actual combat. "

Zhang, the chief of staff, looked at Wu He without saying a word with loving eyes, picked up an infrared laser pen and stared at the arrangement on the sand table seriously. Lost in thought.

This inspection exercise, based on actual combat, was planned by the Garrison and our 72nd Division for one year. With the consent of the Military Operations Department, it was included in the key training subjects of the annual commander's organs.

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In order to make this exercise closer to actual combat, we resolutely bid farewell to the joking gesture that "the victory or defeat is doomed before the exercise has started". In the implementation part of the training plan, the "three noes" standard was defined in advance.

Do not set the practice role. That is, all the troops in the establishment of the 72nd Division may be the Red Army, the Blue Army or the second echelon of the Red (Blue) Army.

I'm not sure. The exercise is basically decided. At the beginning of the year, three or five sets of basic plans will be drawn up, and then submitted to the guard room in the garrison area, and the special person will be responsible for strict management according to the security specifications.

Don't know the exercise area. Seventy-two hours before the official start of the exercise, according to the tasks of participating troops determined by the division party Committee and the combat meeting, the combat scenes used in the exercise were randomly selected from 3 to 5 sets of basic scenes.

To put it bluntly, all participating troops began to enter the state 72 hours before the exercise. Start with assignment, on-site investigation and preliminary determination. It can be seen that the rigor and cruelty of this exercise are no different from actual combat.

The heads of the military region and the garrison region attach great importance to this exercise. In addition to sending instructors, the scoring system will be automatically generated at random. A set of operable suggestions are given from the aspects of writing exercise assignments, selecting exercise contents and evaluating standards of exercise results.

From the source of deciding the relationship between victory and defeat, the habitual thinking of "the Red Army will win and the Blue Army will lose" was abandoned for the first time.

Strive to be close to actual combat and avoid artificial setting. The result of the exercise depends on a set of scientific, standardized and rigorous evaluation criteria for the exercise results. This is also the original intention and purpose of this exercise.

Therefore, from the selection of the red and blue participating troops, the division leaders attach great importance to it. In particular, Zhang Shixun, the chief of staff in charge of combat training, is not only the head of the army, but also the head of the command organ. It took a lot of brains.

Everyone wants to be the leading role (Red Army), and no group wants to be a supporting role, let alone a third party.

The reason why the main role (Red Army) is assigned to our regiment and can be put on the table of the division party committee meeting is sufficient.

First of all, Shen Gendi, the head of the regiment, and Wu He, the chief of staff, both graduated from Shijiazhuang Senior Army Command College and were high flyers of the campaign command department. Everyone has a unique set of thinking logic about fighting, and has in-depth research on defensive operations of defenders.

Secondly, this year, our regiment has a number of academic research achievements on the construction and development of garrison troops, which have been recognized by the headquarters and forwarded to units above the regiment level. It is the best time to test your academic performance with exercises.

Another reason is that our regiment bears the brunt of the organizational ability and tactical research results of several divisions and regiments within the vision of the heads and commanders of the garrison commands. Therefore, the main role of the exercise belongs to our group.

The personal preference of the officers also determines the role setting of the participating troops.

Among the chiefs of staff of all regimental units in the 72nd Division, Wu He, the chief of staff of our regiment, belongs to the style that division heads like, no matter from the aspects of thinking, language or personalized characteristics.

Always inadvertently, jumping with some creative inspiration, giving everyone a refreshing feeling. Show your personality charm, vivid body movements, concise and fashionable language expression, beautiful Beijing accent and rhyme, which are very inflammatory and infectious.

I have participated in many exchanges of experience with him. As long as he speaks, everyone will listen with ears and eyes open.

Zhang Shixun, chief of staff, slowly withdrew his eyes from the sand table, clicked the central axis of the main attack direction with a laser pen, and revealed a smile.

He pointed to the fruit on the table and said to everyone, "Come on, let's all stop and eat some fruit." Supplementary dimension C. "

Seeing us staring at each other, looking at the head and the chief of staff, no one moved. He turned and glared at Shen Gendi, then at Wu He, and said, "Come here first, you two, and have some fruit to moisten your throat. Others eat vitamins, you two eat brain cells, and then quarrel for a while. "

Shen Gendi's head, Wu He's chief of staff, is in no mood to eat fruit. Shen Gendi muttered: "At this time, you can still eat in and out of fruit. What a great experience? "

Following the last movement of Zhang Shixun's chief of staff with a laser pointer in his hand, he took a glance and seemed to understand something.

"Take part in the red and blue exercises, that is to say, you are my subordinates in Group A and Group B, and the palms and backs of your hands are all meat. Regarding any determination and judgment in the exercise, I can't participate in any biased opinions. "

Seeing that both of them were silent, Mr. Zhang went on to say, "This is my bottom line. However, then again, when doing exercises and tactics in sections, we must not be in the dark all the way, but try our best to "think first and then change." "Empathy is very important. No matter who the blue army is, it will not aim at the main direction you have already arranged and fight to the death. "

"Besides, you are both my lovers. I think it's good for you to fight, at least to prove that the brain hole is not empty. Some flashing things are mostly produced in the fierce collision of ideas. "

Say that finish, he said to the management section chief Gao, who has been standing at attention, "Gao, let's go around the Blue B Army," and Gao sunspot promised "good" in his mouth, smiling all over again, followed by Zhang Chief of Staff, and walked away.

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In the No.1 command post, it was not deserted because of the departure of Chief of Staff Zhang Shixun. Colonel Shen Gendi patted his chin with his right hand, his eyes still staring at the shoulder of Wu He, chief of staff of the sand table, and looked up and glanced at the time displayed on the electronic display screen customized for the exercise.

"Dude, have a drink?"

"What time is it?" Wu turned and took a glance at the electronic screen. Before the exercise, all participating troops displayed "3 hours, 56 minutes and 35 seconds" on the uniformly set time countdown display board.

"Dude, that can be agreed! You drink wine and I eat canned food. " Wu Shuo smiled, sitting on a folding chair on the edge of a table covered with a green military blanket, and stretched himself hard.

About 69 hours ago, when I was assigned a drill task at the battle meeting in the division, I still haven't had a decent sleep. Even "Iron Man" can't stand it sometimes. At this time, chief of staff Wu He was really a little tired.

Xiao Wang, a correspondent who followed Colonel Shen for one and a half years, took the military kettle full of pure grain and cooking wine off his shoulder and handed it to Colonel Shen.

Then, I took out an iron box of military luncheon meat and an iron box of military tomatoes and sardines from my satchel, unscrewed the lid of the can and put two open cans on the table.

Colonel Shen went to his bunk, and the cat bent down from the washbasin at the bottom of the camp bed, poured dental appliances into the washbasin, and held a dark green military teapot in his hand. Pour it into most jars, cook it with pure grain, and just take a big bite at first.

Good wine! Colonel Shen took a sip of wine and used a rhyme of Beijing opera to exaggerate these three words. Cadence, methodical; Ups and downs, melodious melody.

"Hey, old chap, you two throats, also dare to show off in front of me this thoroughbred Beijing Youzi? Do you remember the meaning of that idiom? "

Wu Hegen ignored their superior-subordinate relationship, closed his eyes, chewed tomatoes and sardines in his mouth, and ran to Colonel Shen with a strong Beijing accent.

Shen Gendi was the chief of staff of Group B before being transferred to Group A as the head of the team. Wu He, chief of staff of regiment A, joined the army in the same year. They were classmates of Shijiazhuang Senior Army Command College.

Before reporting to Shijiazhuang Senior Army Command College, they were all regimental chiefs of staff in their respective regiments.

However, one year after graduating from Shijiazhuang Senior Command College, Wu He returned to Group A of his original unit and continued to serve as the chief of staff according to graduation regulations. Zhang Changyou, an old colonel who was originally prepared to take over naturally, has reached the maximum service period at the end of the year.

This is already an open secret. A year ago, Zhang Changyou, the old head of the regiment, had been working for five years. According to the regulations on the rejuvenation of cadres in combat troops, if there is no hope of promoting deputy division heads, they will be arranged to change jobs in principle.

In order to make the echelon construction of military cadres more reasonable, the construction of reserve cadres in various positions has always been one of the primary tasks of political work departments at all levels.

The reserve force of cadres at or above the regimental level is usually strictly limited. And from the perspective of age structure, it is necessary to form uneven ladder equipment. To put it bluntly, it is the personnel replacement of a post. Usually, there need to be more than three candidates in the organization for key training, and the age structure of these candidates should be distinguished.

In Group A, Wu He is the only important backup candidate for the head of Group A, and there is no one. Organizationally, he was sent to Shijiazhuang Senior Army Command College for further study. The main reason is that he can successfully take over as the head of the team and prepare for the command skills of the troops.

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The adjustment and deployment of cadres at or above the regimental level requires unified adjustment, training, storage and use by political organs at or above the division level. So sometimes there will be a "successful" cadre who is really used, which is not necessarily the candidate of the unit. This is normal.

Shen Gendi, chief of staff of regiment B, has sprung up, deus ex. It's not easy to stand out among the candidates, including Wu He, chief of staff of Group A, Wang Daqing, director of military affairs department, and three rivals competing for the leader of Group A. After all, in many aspects such as ability, level, education, experience and meritorious military service, the comprehensive qualities of the three are equal.

When the head of Shen Gendi reported to Group A, the two students embraced each other. Apart from a few words of "congratulations, humility", they also felt a little embarrassed. After all, there is only one group.

Colonel Shen is from Suzhou, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. His skin is white and clean. Although I speak softly, I always click hard and never drag my feet. More than 60 degrees pure grain burning, no problem. What should I do after drinking? Except for the smell of alcohol on him, he behaved as usual and was not out of line at all.

This is what people often say, people who can really drink. It is far from those who "before drinking, he was from Beijing, and after drinking, Beijing was his".

Look at Wu He with a big waist and a round waist. Judging from his face alone, he has thick eyebrows and a straight nose. Say you can't drink, but the ghost doesn't believe it. There are indeed many people who saw him unconscious after drinking only one bottle of beer.

It was a farewell party when Director Liu of the Political Department was transferred to his hometown, and the team members sat together. At ordinary times, the two brothers call each other brothers and have deep feelings. Wu Ru, who has a family genetic alcohol allergy, grabbed a bottle of beer on a whim and did it.

After that, all the comrades present spent the night with him in the health team. Comrades were shocked into a cold sweat.

The next day, the first thing I woke up was to hug Director Liu's neck and say, "I died once just to make you live well in the new army (promotion)."

Half a pot boils, two cans bottom out. Dressed in camouflage uniforms and shoes, they fell asleep on the camp bed.

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In Inner Mongolia in late autumn, the temperature difference between morning and evening is huge. At this time, people will feel cold when wearing sweaters in their coats.

When the messenger gently covered his two heads with a quilt and walked out of the tent, it was already faint blue and it was dawn at once.

The tent with camouflage pattern was suddenly wrapped in Woods. This is also the quietest time before dawn.

Command post 1 was built by a company's military tent. In addition to the sand table, wired and wireless network hubs, various maps and large screens, this is basically the headquarters of Group A, where the main members of the most important departments commanding combat missions gather.

After dawn, during the whole exercise, the battle orders, coordinated action plans and various forms of combat documents for organizing and implementing the two stages of the battle will be generated from this humble little tent and directly reach all the action teams.

The dark green tent will become the central nervous system that commands the troops' actions. Let those abstract things, such as radio waves, words and images, change from soldiers to image actions. Generate a complete picture of saving oneself and destroying the enemy.