Commander Xu could see that Zhuang Yan had done a very detailed analysis and summary of all the battles over the past few days, with notes on tactics, operations, coordination, and joint operations, compared to Group D's Chen Shouzheng's report, which seemed less in-depth.
He sized up the major in front of him, saw the blood in his eyes, and understood in his heart that I'm afraid Zhuang Yan really didn't have much time to rest these days.
Before seriously recommending Zhuang Yan to the G Military Region, Commander Xu held a wait-and-see attitude.
For one thing, it was the decision of the headquarters, and for another, it was due to Zhuang Yan's reputation and ability.
This is the first time he and Zhuang Yan close contact, found that this young colonel really have a little taste of desperation.
Ben thought more or less rely on a little background so young on the division level, this time it seems, really have real material.
"Continue."
Commander Xu turned to greet one of the staff officers present.
"Bring a cup of tea for Chief of Staff Zhuang to drink, I see that his mouth is dry from talking."
Soon, the tea was delivered to Zhuang Yan.
Commander Xu said, "There's no rush, drink it and continue."
Zhuang Yan said, "Thank you, Commander," and then took a large sip of tea, setting the teacup aside and returning his gaze to the large screen.
"The Air Assault Brigade is characterized by its extreme mobility and fast deployment speed, the ground forces cannot be on the same level compared to them, but the Air Assault Brigade also has a weakness, their equipment is on the lighter side, and a dead heat when encountering heavily armored forces would not be a good option."
He tapped his pen on the screen on the Bull's Head Ridge.
"But deploying here is a different story. According to the battle report, E Division's main force was greatly blocked as it advanced toward the Jiewolf Valley area, and the 113th Brigade was not mobile enough to deploy when fighting in the mountains, but once they entered the Jiewolf Valley area, the terrain in that area is relatively flat, and Jiewolf Ridge is only less than a hundred meters above sea level, with a very slight slope, so the heavy units were able to put up a sufficiently strong fight when they deployed there."
"Just as E Division's main attacking force encountered a blockade, the 32nd Air Assault Brigade directly circled around to the direction of Niutou Ridge and conducted a frog jump tactic, utilizing their large helicopter formations to drop two assault battalions there, quickly resolving an E Division infantry battalion that had stayed stationed on Niutou Ridge, and breaking through a communications base that had been set up there; the E Division commanders had thought of occupying Niutou Ridge as a logistical supply and forward support base, but they did not expect to be fished out by the 32nd Brigade, who directly took the whole thing in one fell swoop."
Zhuang Yan's statement gave a review of the details of the firefight between the two armies in the past few days, and directly pointed out the loopholes in E Division's command.
"Today ..."
Shao Xianyong pondered for a moment and asked, "How was the battle today?"
"Right now E Division is in a very passive situation. They originally wanted to take the Jiewolf Valley in one fell swoop, but they didn't expect to be successfully used by the 32nd Brigade and 113th Brigade as a decoy to carry out a counter-encirclement, and now they are already trapped within the live zone of more than a hundred kilometers in range between the Jiewolf Valley and the Jiewolf Ridge, and the E Division's rapid reaction detachment which was conducting a maneuver from the east has already been blocked by the 32nd Brigade's parachuted armed reconnaissance battalion and an armed battalion of Wushu Zhiqi, and have long ago given up on the highway The convoy on the road, people retreated to the mountains to hide to carry out mountain warfare. It must be said that this is also a choice among no choice, otherwise, they do not have any other good choice but to enter the mountains, in front of the Wudeng, the ground convoy is a living target."
Commander Xu asked, "What about the air force units and ground convoys we sent to E Division?"
Zhuang Yan said, "This is an important issue I want to mention. As E Division changed its battle plan twice, the coordination between the air force and land navigation was all disrupted, and there was even a situation where the air force flew halfway but received orders to temporarily stop operations and had no choice but to turn back to the airport to land, but when they encountered the 113th Brigade and the 32nd Brigade of the Air Assault Brigade's attack and called the air force to rush in to support them, the Red Air Force flew to the battlefield to see that both sides had already been fighting in a mess, and were so closely intertwined that they couldn't even drop bombs for fear of blowing up the ground troops of E Division. Afraid of bombing the E Division's ground forces, then the Blue Army's anti-aircraft fire began to extend, the red side's planes couldn't guarantee safety, they could only pull out and take off."
Shao Xianyong asked, "What about E Division's artillery units?"
Zhuang Yan said, "In fact, I'm afraid that both Song Yiming and Xu Xingguo have long considered this point. Since E Division was getting the reconnaissance results and then temporarily changed the battle plan, launching the attack at 7:00 and sending the news to the artillery regiment only at 6:30, the artillery regiment's frontline artillery fingers at that time had not yet been fully opened, and the artillery was not in firing positions in the hideout, so half an hour was not enough at all. And so without fear and danger of occupying the Niutou Ridge, E Division Command and give orders to the artillery unit, let them move the artillery to the depression in front of the Niutou Ridge, open gun positions ready for the fire protection for the troops in the highway when driving into the 32nd Air Assault Brigade armed reconnaissance battalion attack, I did not expect to have just crossed the Niutou Ridge to enter the designated area, 32nd Air Assault Brigade's Armed Forces Direct Battalion but came to the position is a flurry of wildly bombed, antiaircraft artillery fire! Before it could be deployed it had already been ruled destroyed and left the field, and it didn't play any role at all."
Shao Xianyong shook his head when he heard this, "If this is a real war, you don't need the enemy to hit you, I'm afraid that you can destroy yourself if you are so confused."
Zhuang Yan said: "The synthetic brigade is the command flattening, will be integrated, the command needs to transit less layers, so mobile and flexible, command fast, the traditional division here there is a command structure is bloated, more layers, transit more, command is not flexible enough problem. In fact, the artillery regiment did its best, they could not help it, they were in a hurry, in the case of the loss of a large number of anti-aircraft fire but still entered the battle, desperately for the E Division motorized rapid reaction detachment in the highway penetration of seventy percent of the fire support, only unfortunately, I'm afraid, this is my old comrade in arms has long predicted that he was using a reconnaissance battalion, using a small detachment raids mode of attack, he used a small detachment of attack. The artillery regiment's firepower covered the past, the result was not effective in killing the enemy, but let his own convoy was severely damaged ..."
Zhuang Yan said at the end, sighed: "In fact, even the traditional infantry divisions, these days are shouting to learn joint operations, to practice joint operations, shouting mountain loud but innately insufficient, a to the actualization, to come up with a little real work to the time, the air force air force did not link up, artillery artillery artillery artillery and bad synergy, infantry it? Is able to direct command, but no air-ground cooperation, is the ground scattered beans, only local air detachment fish meat."
Xu Commander tilted his head and sighed long, to the dying asked Zhuang Yan: "That now, E Division still have the opportunity to turn around?"
Zhuang Yan said: "There is, but the opportunity is very small very small, the blue army has completed the situation of catching a turtle in a jar, the E Division artillery unit has very little left, Niutou Ridge position was destroyed, communication is damaged, the good thing is that their main attacking force although encountered 113 brigade of blocking, found that something is not right has been retreated into the Niutou Ridge and Jiewu Valley between the mountains and jungles, and now the Morphological Division into a mountain division, the dead horse as a mountain division, the dead horse as a mountain division, the dead horse as a mountain division, the dead horse as a mountain division, the dead horse as a mountain division. a mountain division, a dead horse is a dead horse, whether we can achieve a final victory or not, that depends on the wisdom of the E Division commanders."
After the stage debriefing, the heads of the G Military Region left with wooden faces, and the heads of the D Group Army left with black faces.
After sending these people off and watching them go downstairs and get into their cars, Serious couldn't help but laugh out this time.
"Hahaha! You, you, still the same unforgiving solemn!"
He pulled out throat lozenges from his pocket and handed them to Zhuang Yan.
"Contain one, after staying up all night and talking for so long, your throat has to be dumb."
Zhuang Yan took the lozenges and threw one into his mouth.
Serious asked again, "You're probably going to be working in Group D Army in the future, so unforgiving, not afraid of offending people?"
Zhuang Yan laughed: "Have I offended fewer people? When I was in Prairie Wolf, I offended all the people long ago!"
Serious couldn't help but laugh brightly again.
In the end, Serious asked a very serious question, "Do you really think that E Division can still turn around?"
Zhuang Yan said, "We engage in military command know know that any battlefield conditions can not be 100%, even if the mouth said 100%, there will still be accidents. Now E Division, after all, there are two regiments of troops, the air force loss is not particularly large, is the armored forces all finished, depending on the old Xu and Lao Song, they both anxious not anxious, not anxious, drag can drag the death of the E Division, if anxious ... people anxious will have a crack, who can say that this is accurate?"
Serious listened, very emotional: "This time, if the E division is you to command, perhaps it will not be so miserable."