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A few days later, the Leap-2012 exercise officially began.

According to Wang Jiancheng's deployment, all combat units of the participating parties were connected to the Zhanlu system, achieving a de facto coordinated command.

The sky is full of yellow sand, on the exercise site somewhere in IRAN, all the participating parties have made their preparations, and with the order from the director department, the exercise officially begins.

The eyes of the whole world have already gathered on this desert, and even at an altitude of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of meters, there are countless pairs of eyes staring at the billowing dust and smoke below.

At this moment, the turret.

Bob finally returned to his old job, sat back in front of the sand table, and started to deduce this "battle" tens of thousands of kilometers away.

Standing beside him were several high-ranking army commanders, even those who were in charge of sand table scheduling were all above the rank of colonel.

While receiving intelligence from spy satellites and high-altitude reconnaissance planes, the almighty assistant reported the latest battle situation to everyone in the command room.

".The other side of this exercise is simulating a field army encounter, excluding all air superiority and electronic warfare superiority that may have an overwhelming impact on the combat itself."

"Neither side of the exercise used electronic interference means, nor did they use high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft."

"Air power is limited to small low-speed drones and helicopters. At the same time, in order to bridge the gap, both the red and blue sides have equipped with the latest detection equipment from China."

"It can be said that they have brought modern warfare back to World War II - this is not a comprehensive exercise of real soldiers, but more like a pure tactical confrontation exercise."

"The two sides of the confrontation need to make the most extreme and perfect deployment of the military power at hand under extremely ideal conditions, so as to achieve a smooth battle."

"Their way of thinking is very...retro."

Having said that, the assistant paused for a moment, and the expression on his face actually revealed his doubts.

What is the point of such an exercise?

Under the current premise that modern combat is more and more pursuing the trinity and the pursuit of poor information, are you going to conduct tactical exercises?

The meaning of "tactics" itself has dropped too much in the face of equipment confrontation.

No matter how interspersed, no matter how coordinated, no matter how much you camouflage a surprise attack, you can't escape a top-attack attack from a precision-guided bomb. Instead of rehearsing tactics, why not think about how to develop stronger firepower for prevention and control?

At the same time, everyone in the command room looked at the script of the exercise.

"I don't understand what the significance of this exercise is. Of course, we will have similar exercises, but these exercises are generally below the company level."

"After reaching the battalion level, a combat team has already begun to have the combat capability of the whole system. Instead of giving full play to the role of the system, instead of looking far away?"

"Yes, I can't understand it either. I can only think that the Huaxia people are being stupid, and they chose the wrong direction."

Hearing everyone's discussion, the expression on Bob's face became more serious.

Of course, he does not deny everyone's doubts, but the problem is that he is a little clearer than everyone else:

It's not that the Chinese don't have it, but they don't use it.

They don't have a systematic combat framework? They don't have air superiority? They don't have long-range precision strike capabilities?

Are you kidding, they are too much.

Just a shot of Dongfeng-17 is enough to make one's own side suffer in a conventional battlefield, but they just don't need it.

This means that what they want to try or verify may actually be beyond the scope of their own imagination.

Thinking of this, he slightly raised his hand and said:

"No matter what the purpose of their exercise is, let's see the progress of the exercise first."

"How's the information ahead? What's the latest move of the red and blue sides?"

Hearing this, the assistant quickly checked the latest information, and then directed several colonels to rearrange the sand table.

"According to satellite images and reports from reporters ahead, the two sides have now completed the first wave of mutual investigation, and most of the deployment of troops has been exposed."

"Right now, the red and blue teams are taking completely different strategies."

"The armored units of the blue team began to assemble, and they were divided into two teams, the east and the west, and headed towards the target point. The red team was still in a loose formation, and there was no apparent trend of massing up for the time being."

"The tactics chosen by both sides are relatively conventional. Now that the information is still unclear and the direction of attack is not clear, the red team's choice is not surprising."

"After all, the mechanized troops move very fast, and with their long-range firepower, even if a small team encounters an enemy, they can still play quite a swap."

"Evacuation operations?"

Bob interrupted suddenly.

The assistant was taken aback for a moment, and then came to his senses.

"Yes, it seems to mean dispersal operations, etc. If we judge based on the equipment level of the two armies, both of them can meet the basic conditions for dispersal operations."

"But the question is, can their command capabilities do it?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone in the command room became serious in an instant.

In fact, they are all elites of the army. Although they look down on the so-called "tactics", in fact, under the premise of "equipment first", each of them is familiar with modern tactics.

Evacuation warfare is a brand-new combat method that has only been proposed in recent years.

It relies on a more powerful command system, a more convenient and stable data link system, and a faster and more efficient tactical execution level. It is a combat plan specially proposed to deal with possible future "damage overload" situations.

Its basic principle is to make each combat unit have independent combat capabilities as much as possible under the premise of ensuring the integrity of combat power, split the overall task into hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of sub-tasks, Real-time scheduling of units, with agile command methods to avoid enemy attacks and seek breakthroughs in combat results.

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It sounds beautiful.

After all, if mature dispersal operations can be achieved, the effectiveness of each combat unit will be maximized. It is no longer a myth to use all the ammunition reserves in one battle, and the so-called "waste of firepower" will be reduced to a minimum. lowest.

The "Ghost Fleet" plan that has been eliminated in the United States before is an attempt by the Navy to implement evacuated operations, or what they call "distributed operations."

It's just that they focused more on equipment in that attempt, and now Huaxia seems to have made a breakthrough in the system?

"It is impossible for more than 400 combat units to participate in this exercise, and most of them are outdated equipment from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and IRAN."

"They don't even have a complete electronic system, let alone the ability to command data links."

"In this situation, you want to achieve evacuation operations? What are you kidding?"

"Even if it is the most talented commander, it is absolutely impossible to do it!"

Hearing this, Bob nodded slowly.

Yes, such a command method places too much burden on the commander.

You must know that it is not enough to rely on the traditional hierarchical command system if you want to achieve the precise control of the overall situation down to the smallest combat unit.

Orders will be deformed, execution conditions will be deformed, and tactics will be "adapted" by front-line personnel in a flexible manner, and every change may lead to the deviation of the commander's initial decision and ultimate goal.

This is also the key point that best reflects the commander's talent.

Whether or not he can thread the needle and "fix" the entire battle situation in such a complicated situation determines how effective the commander can be in the entire battle.

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But the problem is that even the most talented commander will not try to adjust the position of a machine gun position.

The reason is simple, the human brain has a limit, and the computing power also has a limit.

Blindly pursuing the accuracy of details may cause commanders to ignore the overall battle situation.

"Maybe it's just an illusion."

Bob spoke.

"They are not necessarily doing evacuation operations. They may just intend to rely on long-range firepower and a longer front to increase the scope of detection and obtain as much information as possible."

"After all, in this exercise, the detection methods of both sides are limited, and the importance of information becomes even more critical."

"It's a good deal to pay a certain price for information"

Everyone nodded, but then, just a few minutes later, the latest information shattered all their "predictions".

The battle lines of the red side began to move.

After obtaining the relevant information as Bob said, the mixed and huge front began to be mobilized in an extremely complicated way.

Several adjacent teams cooperated with each other and began to form firepower nodes, and after a wave of strikes was completed, without any pause, this combined team quickly disbanded.

The far-fire team kept shifting positions, and the infantry team gave up the traditional tactics of capturing points. Instead, relying on its excellent obstacle-crossing ability, it began to intersperse in the middle of the line of fire, attracting a large number of light and heavy firepower from the blue team.

From God's point of view, the infantry unit with the most precise dispatch is almost maneuvering close to the opponent's strike limit.

One kilometer further north, you will enter the strike range of the opponent's anti-tank positions.

One kilometer further south, you will be caught by the returning armed helicopter.

Bob couldn't help sighing at the exquisite operation.

"This is the scalpel-style combat. If I didn't know in advance that they are in a state of double-blind information, I would even think that this is a generational strike caused by poor information."

"How did they do it? No, even if they can understand the blue team's deployment, it's impossible to execute it perfectly?"

"Their penetration system even uses a bicycle as the smallest unit"

No one answered him, because everyone was already stunned by the even more astonishing dispatch.

Under the premise of a limited number of overall equipment, the red team almost squeezed the potential of all combat units to the limit.

It has become a basic operation for a combat unit to conduct multi-node operations. The most exaggerated thing is that a low-altitude air defense team actually directly crossed the entire front and defended almost all nodes that were attacked by the blue armed helicopters!

"I see it."

Bob slapped the table hard, then said:

"The core of their exercise this time is not evacuation operations-although this concept is ubiquitous throughout the battle."

"But in fact, what they are really doing is optimizing the echelon configuration of combat power."

"Among the red and blue sides, Huaxia and Russia have strong equipment and combat power, but the other vassals participating in the performance are not necessarily."

"But every time, the red side represented by Huaxia can use their strong equipment to make up for the weak nodes in charge of the vassal side under the most extreme circumstances and at the most appropriate time."

"While filling the position, weak equipment will be dispatched to other nodes to fight against the weaker blue team."

"In this way, at almost every node, their combat effectiveness is more than that of the blue team."

"This is simply a miracle on the battlefield. Even from our God's perspective, it is not easy to do this."

"It's too much computation and too little time to make a decision, and I don't think any of us will be able to do it."

Everyone in the conference room nodded heavily——yes, the real battlefield is not war games. What a commander needs to consider is definitely not "driving a tank from point A to point B", but "driving a tank that has already Overloaded tanks that may fail at any time, across the 70-degree high-temperature desert, on the premise that they are always within the coverage of their own communication, dispatch from point A, which is facing enemy artillery attacks, to point B, which is about to be infiltrated by enemy infantry ".

There are too many variables and too many information points that affect decision-making.

No one can make perfect calculations, and even deriving a few strategies that can be executed is difficult.

Unless, this commander is not a human, but a fast-running supercomputer.

etc?

At this moment, everyone raised their heads.

They confirmed each other's eyes, and their horrified expressions had already exposed their thoughts.

"artificial intelligence?"

Bob spoke first.

"Very similar. Very similar!"

"This is very in line with the decision-making method of artificial intelligence. I don't know if you have played some similar strategic games, but I want to say that the current combat method of Huaxia is like a super computer in a strategy game!"

"And what's even more frightening is that behind this supercomputer, there are still a group of top commanders!"

"Let the intelligence department quickly confirm this information!"

Bob said decisively.

At this time, the drill had come to an end without any suspense.

The red side won a big victory, and the battle loss rate was frighteningly low.

At the moment when he saw the confirmed results, Bob finally understood why Huaxia was so "open" to this drill.

the reason is simple.

Because this is a tactic that absolutely cannot be leaked, and it is also a tactic that is absolutely impossible to be targeted!

In the face of their systematic and precise command, the security warfare and small-scale combat techniques that our side is proud of are simply not worth mentioning.

"The world has completely changed."

"They destroyed our last line of defense."

"From today, we no longer have an advantage even in small-scale operations and proxy wars."

"I finally understand why they set the exercise in such a form. This battle is not for themselves!"

"We should have thought a long time ago, how could Huaxia abandon its greatest advantage? On the contrary, they want to rely on their own technological advantages to forcibly raise the combat power of certain allied countries!"

"It's their threat and it's a warning."

"It's funny-the Congress also discussed the issue of disrupting China's deployment through proxy wars last week."

"Now, this strategy is about to come to naught."