Chapter 640 This battle cannot be fought!!
The autumn weather is clear and refreshing on the endless prairie.

On this very land, there were swords and spears, fireworks and artillery fire. Two fully armed teams had been fighting for several days.

There was no shouting and killing everywhere, and the time for full-scale hand-to-hand combat had not yet come. At this time, the commanders on both sides were still racking their brains in a battle of wits and courage, and their trump cards were still held tightly.

In the command post, a commander was standing in front of a sand table, looking at the battle line.

The battle lines had not yet reached the point of being intertwined, that was the final stage of penetration, and now both sides were still testing each other. Even many flags representing enemy forces on the sand table were still placed aside and not put on the sand table because they had not been found yet.

While the commander was looking at the sand table, a staff officer came in.

"Report! Scouts from the Blade Battalion have discovered an enemy artillery group. Judging from its equipment and size, it should be part of the enemy division's artillery regiment, about a battalion."

Gao Dapao was overjoyed when he heard this and turned around: "Haha, after wandering around for so long, I finally caught him! What's the direction and distance? Can we reach him?"

The staff officer handed over the intelligence in his hand: "It's on the map, within reach."

Gao Dapao took the intelligence, read it, turned around and gave the order: "Order the first battalion of the division artillery regiment to fire rapidly, hit a base number, and directly cover it. Don't calibrate the fire first. The enemy is not a pushover. They run very fast. Start calibrating the fire slowly. I'm afraid they will all run away."

"Will the shot be inaccurate this way?" the staff officer hesitated.

"I trust the comrades in the front-line reconnaissance! Just shoot according to these coordinates!" Gao Dapao said firmly.

The comrades from the 1st Battalion of the Division Artillery Regiment quickly received the order.

The soldiers rushed to the 130mm gun position and quickly turned the gun's elevation and steering mechanisms to point it at the target.

It is said to be pointing at the target, but in fact it is invisible and is more than ten kilometers away.

In less than a minute, they had loaded their shells and were ready.

"emission!"

Following the order from the commander of the artillery group, the artillerymen pulled the firing cord, roars shook the sky on the battlefield, and the unique bright yellow flames at the muzzles lit up at the same time.

For all cold cannons, whether or not there are other firing mechanisms, the first few shots must be fired by pulling the rope, and people cannot be next to the gun body.

"Load!"

A group of soldiers surrounded it again and continued to load and fire.

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In the divisional command post, listening to the artillery fire many kilometers away, the Red Army commander Gao Dapao showed a smug look on his face: "Let's destroy some of their artillery first, and then we will be more proactive. Now, they won't dare to use artillery to fight us."

That’s right, he has the same surname as Gao Zhendong, and the same nickname – Gao Dapao.

The command post is far away from the artillery group, this is inevitable, otherwise if they were caught in one fell swoop, they would have no place to seek justice.

Even the divisional artillery regiments themselves were scattered widely and not in the same place.

Judging from Gao Dapao's words, the enemy is also a ruthless person, the kind that dares to exchange pieces at any time.

From afar, the sound of artillery can still be heard. With a basic amount of ammunition, a battalion can fire about 10 rounds.

"It's the fourth round, almost halfway through. After this base number, their entire heavy artillery battalion will be gone. Hahaha." Gao Dapao was feeling happy when suddenly the phone rang.

He picked up the phone and said to his staff officer, "Wow? The results came out so soon?"

He put the phone to his ear and after listening to one sentence, the smile on his face disappeared completely.

He put down the phone silently and looked at the chief of staff: "Our first artillery battalion is gone. The enemy's artillery battalion lost 60% of its troops."

The chief of staff was horrified: "Could it be that their scouts have also found our location?"

Gao Dapao thought about it and shook his head. "It's unlikely. To reach the First Artillery Battalion, the enemy must pass through the Seventh Mechanized Infantry Regiment. This is also an arrangement made to protect the First Artillery Battalion. There is no reason why the Seventh Mechanized Infantry Regiment is fine while the First Artillery Battalion is destroyed first! I don't believe that the enemy can bear to see the fat piece of meat of the Seventh Mechanized Infantry Regiment and is determined to attack my Artillery Regiment! My First Artillery Battalion! It's gone just like that!"

Gao Dapao calmed himself down and issued another order: "Order the Second Artillery Battalion to continue attacking the target just now, but only hit one-third of the base, and retreat immediately after the attack! Retreat as quickly as possible!"

It seems that something is wrong.

The situation of the Second Artillery Battalion could no longer be heard from here, and in less than ten minutes, the phone rang again.

Gao Dapao answered the phone and almost dropped the receiver on the ground.

"The Second Artillery Battalion is gone! The Second Artillery Battalion is gone! In such a short time, they have barely completed one-third of the base, and they can't even evacuate. They are gone? How is it possible? Bullshit!! This is too much! Too much! This is not the way to protect your calf and increase the difficulty! These people above are blatantly helping the Blue Army cheat! No, the Guidance Department issued code No. 3, I want to ask for an explanation!"

Code No. 3: The participating units request to suspend the exercise due to force majeure.

From a code level perspective, this is already a serious situation.

The chief of staff opened his mouth and went to carry out the order. Gao Dapao got on the jeep and rushed to the command headquarters in a cloud of dust.

At this time, the cadres and soldiers at the positions of the 1st and 2nd Artillery Battalions were all confused.

"We have been discovered by the enemy scouts? That's impossible." Some soldiers muttered as they looked around the position.

"It was gone after just a few shots. How could this be possible?" I have never seen anything like this before.

"If they hadn't been discovered by the scouts, how could they have been so accurate?" Although everyone's artillery shells were fired at the same shooting range, the strike coordinates reported to the command and control department were accurate coordinates. It was impossible to hit the target by chance.

"What else could it be? Helping the Blues cheat. They're an old member of the Command and Control Department." This was someone who often participated in military exercises and knew the Command and Control Department's habit of "estimating the enemy's weakness."

"It's so frustrating. We prepared for so long, but quit after just firing a few shots." This was the soldier who was holding back his desire to have fun firing cannons.

"..."

Several military-level leading cadres gathered in the command and dispatch department, including a leader of the army.

In general division-level troop exercises, leaders of his level might not necessarily be present, but today was different. There were new equipment, so he had to come and take a look.

A military cadre looked at the No. 3 code sent by the Red Army and laughed, "Gao Dapao is getting anxious because of the attack, hahahaha."

"Don't blame him. If it were me, I would also be anxious about such a ridiculous war." Another military officer laughed.

"Yes, we finally found the enemy, but before we could fire a few shots, the entire artillery group disappeared. No one was killed after firing. No one was killed after firing."

The army leader laughed: "Hahaha, 'Gao Dapao' got frustrated by what 'Gao Dapao' made."

He knows the whole story of today's incident.

While everyone was chatting and laughing, Gao Dapao rushed to the command and control department.

He saluted as soon as he came in, then took off his hat and cried out, "Commander, we can't fight this war. You are too biased. I understand that you want to be lenient with the enemy, and I also understand that you want to increase the intensity on us. It's nothing. It's a war, so we just have to fight. But this is not the way to do it. You are not increasing the intensity, you are simply helping the other side cheat!"

In front of his superiors, he spoke very honestly. He might complain, but he would never speak in a foul language.

The superior looked at him with a smile: "What? Gao Dapao, you don't accept it, right?"

Gao Dapao shook his head angrily: "I don't accept it! This is equivalent to taking away the soldiers' guns. How can we fight this battle?"

The officer laughed: "This today was not arranged by our command and control department, but the other side actually discovered your artillery group! It's not that we helped them cheat, but they really have the ability to do it."

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I'm not a greenhorn. You don't know the deployment of the positions? I'm particular about it. It's barely acceptable to find one by luck, but it's unacceptable to find one after another!" Gao Dapao was extremely confident in his abilities.

The superior smiled and handed him a drill record: "Take a look first. These are the strike coordinates reported by the Blue Army. Check to see if they are the positions of your artillery group."

When Gao Dapao took a look at the records, he was stunned. Those coordinates were indeed the locations of his First and Second Artillery Battalions, without any error.

"Commander, this..." He would not suspect that the military was helping the Blue Team to falsify the records. There was no need to do that. Even if the Command and Control Department wanted to drop a nuclear bomb on you, it would only take a word. There was no need to forge an exercise record.

"Are you convinced?" the officer's superior said with a smile.

"I am convinced! But how is this possible? I am absolutely confident in my deployment!"

"This is a long story..."

The time goes back to more than half an hour ago, when the Red Army's 1st Artillery Battalion had just opened fire, at the Blue Army's division command post.

Outside the division command post, there was a device that looked like a radar.

The operator of this radar was sitting in the division command post. None of them were soldiers but looked like local comrades.

No wonder they are all in the division command post. It would not be appropriate to put them anywhere else.

The operating equipment of this radar is different from that of ordinary radars. The biggest difference is that it has a dedicated computer and a matching keyboard and monitor. This is very different from most current radars.

A group of comrades in plain clothes stared at the monitor nervously. Suddenly, one of them shouted, "Here they come, grab the shells!"

Everybody was very excited. Even though similar experiments had been conducted before, this was the first time they participated in a real-combat exercise, and performance in a real-combat environment was always exciting.

On the blue side, the commander was also very excited. Is it really useful?

Unlike Gao Dapao, who has been his rival for many years, Gao Dapao gave him a nickname, Mai Qixin, which shows his resourcefulness.

This new thing was distributed by the military. They said it was a new type of equipment and they were going to strengthen it to see its effect.

As a blue troop for many years, we have become accustomed to the constant care from the command and control department, but this time it is quite new and we never dared to think about it before.

Can you actually see the shells in the air and calculate the enemy's gun positions? If that's the case, how can artillery fire?
(End of this chapter)