After all, we won a great victory and returned triumphantly.
After arriving at the military camp, Chen Ming asked the motorcade to park all the cars and then called everyone to gather.
"This time, we won. It's the first victory for our information operations battalion!"
"I know everyone is very happy, and I am happy too!"
"But you have to remember that the opponent's failure will only make them stronger, and we must continue to work hard and not be surpassed by them, understand?!"
Chen Ming stood in front of everyone and said a few simple words.
All the soldiers nodded heavily and responded loudly: "Understood!"
Chen Ming nodded in satisfaction, then smiled and said, "Of course, after all, we won a battle, so I can't just say nothing."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes became heated.
I was happy to win the exercise, but it would be even happier if my superiors could show some appreciation.
Chen Ming looked at their appearance and couldn't help but smile. He immediately said, "We will hold a celebration banquet in the camp auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight. We will serve you delicious food and drinks!"
After saying that, Chen Ming added: "Disband, go back and have a good rest!"
When everyone heard this, smiles appeared on their faces. On the way back, they discussed with each other what there would be to eat at the celebration banquet.
After everyone dispersed, Chen Ming came to the kitchen team and told them about the celebratory banquet.
The kitchen team, having received the order, immediately began to prepare intensively.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, tables of sumptuous meals were set out in the auditorium.
The people in the camp also gathered together, looking at the table full of food, they couldn't help but smile with satisfaction on their faces.
Although the troops are not allowed to drink alcohol, the sense of ceremony cannot be lost, so they replaced it with various drinks.
Everyone poured drinks and clinked glasses to celebrate the great victory in the first battle.
We drank until nine o'clock, then we let everyone go back to rest.
Chapter 209: Is it difficult to get promoted in military rank? I can go back to the old path of scientific research!
The next morning, Zhou Lijun and Xu Zhihua met in front of the military headquarters.
As soon as they met, Zhou Lijun asked, "Are the things ready?"
Xu Zhihua nodded, raised the black briefcase in his hand, and said, "I asked the clerk to work overtime to finish it last night."
After returning from the exercise site last night, the two shocked people discussed it with each other and both felt that it was necessary to report this exercise to their superiors.
At the same time, we would also like to discuss the expansion of information warfare forces.
After all, expanding into a brigade is not a trivial matter. There are too many things involved, and the decision has to be made by the people above.
So the two of them ordered the civilian staff to work overtime overnight to write the report on yesterday's exercise, and agreed to go to the Capital Army Headquarters together today.
The two men boarded a jeep and headed for the airport. After boarding the military plane, they traveled smoothly to the Capital Military Headquarters and met with the Army Commander-in-Chief, Hua Guozhen.
As the commander-in-chief of the Dragon Army, he exudes majesty. Even if he is just sitting quietly in front of his desk and doing nothing, people inexplicably dare not approach him.
In Hua Guozhen's office, Xu Zhihua submitted the exercise report.
After reading the report, Hua Guozhen's usually calm face showed a rare look of surprise.
He organized many exercises and confrontations between various military regions, mobilizing tens of thousands of people.
In his eyes, the confrontation exercises between the two battalions were like a fight between two groups of children.
However, he had never heard of this exercise before, and he was quite shocked.
Putting the report down, he looked at the two people standing in front of the desk and said, "Your Jinling Military Region is ahead of the seven major military regions in the country in terms of information technology reform. This is worthy of praise."
Before the information reform, this was a task issued by their capital military headquarters, but after more than a year of development, the response from various military regions was not very good.
After all, they are all used to traditional mechanization, and now suddenly there is talk of transforming to informatization. The various military regions are not very willing, so there is very great resistance.
The Jinling Military Region was able to excel in this regard. After the Feilong Special Forces Brigade completed its transformation, it also tried such an information warfare battalion.
Based on these two points alone, the speed of transformation is much faster than that of other military regions.
Hearing the commander-in-chief's praise, Zhou Lijun and Xu Zhihua also showed a faint smile on their faces.
Commander-in-Chief Hua Guozhen continued: "It is also beyond my expectation that this information warfare unit can have such outstanding combat effectiveness."
After a pause, he looked at the two of them, smiled faintly and said, "However, you didn't come here just to report to me about the new troop exercise, did you?"
This exercise, both in its process and its results, was truly shocking.
But strictly speaking, this is just a confrontation between two camps. Even if they want him to know, they can just send the file to him. There is no need for them to travel a long way.
Their thoughts were exposed, Zhou Lijun and Xu Zhihua looked at each other and chuckled.
Zhou Lijun stood up straight and answered, "Commander, we are here this time because we have something to apply for."
When Hua Zhenguo heard about the application, he became interested. He looked at Zhou Lijun and said, "Tell me more about it."
As the commander and staff officer of an army, these two people have considerable power. The fact that they were able to submit an application shows that the matter must be of considerable importance.
Zhou Lijun was silent for a while, then he slowly said: "Commander, as the report says, information warfare troops have unique advantages over other troops on future battlefields, and can even influence the entire battle situation and defeat the enemy without fighting."
After listening to this, Hua Zhenguo nodded.
Their report just now was very detailed. It said that the soldiers of the Information Operations Battalion ended the battle without even firing a single shot, but only used a few drones and high explosives.
This incredible fighting method may be the key to turning the tide on future battlefields.
Zhou Lijun continued: "Therefore, we plan to expand the organization and expand this new force into a brigade to further enhance its role on the battlefield."
No matter how strong a battalion's combat effectiveness is, it cannot achieve any significant impact on a battlefield where both sides have deployed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops.
As far as war is concerned, they are just a grain of sand in the vast flames of war.
If we want the information warfare force to unleash its original advantages, we have to expand it!
Only when they reach a certain scale can they stand out on the battlefield and become the backbone force.
After listening to this, Hua Guozhen thought about it carefully and then nodded directly.
Just as they said, a battalion of troops, even if it is a deputy regiment level organization, is still not enough.
"I agree with your decision. When the meeting is held at the military headquarters, I will highlight it."
Hua Zhenguo said with a solemn promise.
However, they just said that it would be brought up at the meeting, and they didn't make it a final decision that the expansion would be carried out.
After all, this is a military unit, not a one-man show.
A brigade is not small in size, and the movement of thousands of people requires a meeting to discuss the matter.
After a pause, he added: "I will inform you after the discussion. If you have any other requirements for expanding this new force into a brigade, please raise them now."
Once you know the requirements, it will be easier to implement them in the future.
Xu Zhihua pondered for a while and said, "The information warfare unit has relatively high requirements for personnel. This unit is mainly composed of technical soldiers. We have applied for spring conscription and expansion, and we will give priority to college students and graduates. The conscription publicity office needs to do more work in this regard."
He continued, "Secondly, the information warfare forces are highly dependent on various new equipment. We need to ask the General Armament Department and the Arsenal to increase the production of a series of new equipment, which can then be directly equipped to the expanded information warfare forces."
The most important things in building a military unit are naturally personnel and equipment.
However, due to the particularity of information warfare forces, the biggest difficulty lies in personnel.
After all, the people needed must at least have some technical attainments.
After listening to this, Hua Guozhen nodded.
He could understand these requirements. Although they were difficult to implement, they were not impossible.
After Xu Zhihua finished speaking, Zhou Lijun smiled and said, "Commander, I don't have any other requirements. The expansion of the information warfare force is not a matter of one day or one night. We just come here to apply and make preliminary preparations in advance to lay a good foundation for the formal expansion in the future!"
This time, they didn't think that they could expand the facility as soon as they returned. After all, this was a big matter and it was impossible to implement it so quickly.
I just thought that if I report earlier, I can prepare earlier.
Hua Guozhen simply wrote down their requirements on a piece of paper with a pen, and then said, "Okay, you guys go back first. When the expansion is confirmed, I will officially notify you."
"Yes!" The two shouted in unison, saluted, and turned to leave Hua Zhenguo's office.
He did not stay in the Capital Army Headquarters for too long, and took a military plane directly back to the Jinling Military Region.
As the military plane slowly took off and passed through the clouds, the two people sitting in the plane smiled at each other.
Xu Zhihua smiled and said, "This can be considered as putting an end to one's worries."
Zhou Lijun nodded without comment, "Then we'll have to wait for the result from the Capital Military Region."
Although Chen Ming proposed to them yesterday to expand a brigade, they felt that it was a serious matter and needed to be considered from many aspects.
But this matter has already been put on the agenda in their minds.
After all, the Information Warfare Battalion really amazed them in the exercise yesterday.
This exercise also convinced them that informationized warfare is the trend of the future, and the expansion of the information warfare battalion is a necessary step in the future.
Therefore, they planned to deploy in advance and make preliminary preparations.
That's why they rushed to the Capital Military Region early in the morning.
After returning to the Jinling Military Region office, Zhou Lijun immediately called Chen Ming.