In the jungle, soldiers in camouflage uniforms walked silently.
Walking next to Lu Ming was the platoon leader of the third row, Liu Sanmu. He was nearly fifty years old, but he was dark and thin and looked very strong. He was a veteran of more than thirty years. When his parents named him, they probably hoped that the family would have three acres of small farmland in the future. It was not known whether this dream had been realized today.
Liu Sanmu's military rank was sergeant major.
In the ordinary infantry regiment of the Black Mountain Brigade, except for the firepower platoon leader, the other platoon-level officers are not considered officers and are basically sergeants.
Lu Ming was also considering a question, whether sergeants should be further classified. Veterans like Liu Sanmu are not isolated cases. They may not be able to serve as officers above the company level, but as soldiers, they are extremely outstanding. Sergeants should be further classified into third-class sergeants, second-class sergeants, and first-class sergeants. Their actual ranks are the same, but the treatment of veterans can be further improved. For example, the salary and subsidies of the top-level first-class sergeants can be closer to those of colonels. This is also a respect for veterans who have fought in many battles.
"Sanmu, what are you thinking about?" Lu Ming asked with a smile, seeing that Liu Sanmu had been looking at him and there was some surprise in his eyes.
“The commander isn’t even sweating, but I’m quite tired…” Liu Sanmu’s breathing was indeed a little heavy.
Many soldiers were also out of breath, after all, they had walked more than ten miles along the mountain road with heavy loads.
"Oh, are we almost there?" Liu Sanmu looked at the terrain, lowered his voice, and waved his hand. The platoon leader brought a map.
This place is called Xiaomangshan. The second company is the Red Army and the third company is the Blue Army. At the same time, there are remnants of the Red Army and the Blue Army in Xiaomangshan. However, based on the distribution of the positions of the remnants of both sides, the Red Army and the Blue Army can only see the situation of friendly forces.
On the military topographic map that the few of them were looking at now, there were only a few scattered images of the positions where the friendly forces had last sent out their communication signals.
Not far ahead, there was a small red flag. According to the communication records before the last signal was lost, there was a squad of the Red Army here, but it was besieged by the Blue Army. Therefore, this squad might have lost its position.
At this time, Yu Luan and Hei Tou wanted to move. Both of them were wearing camouflage uniforms and mountain boots. Lu Ming waved his hand to stop them and said to Liu Sanmu: "Send scouts." Asking Yu Luan and Hei Tou to participate directly was somewhat like cheating.
Liu Sanmu whispered a few words to a skinny soldier who looked like a monkey. The soldier was just like a monkey. He climbed up a tree very flexibly and soon disappeared into the jungle.
Liu Sanmu looked around and made gestures again. The four squad leaders responded with gestures and led the people to disperse.
Lu Ming and Liu Sanmu hid behind a tree that several people could hug. Lu Ming smiled at him and said, "It seems that you know the soldiers in your platoon very well."
In fact, although these old soldiers are called old soldiers, they are basically veterans and they always return empty-handed when suppressing bandits.
But now it seems that veterans are veterans, the only thing to see is whether they work hard or not.
What's more, Liu Sanmu had been in the army for more than 30 years and had also experienced the bloody battle to suppress bandits more than 20 years ago.
Liu Sanmu glanced at Heitou and Yuluan. Lu Ming smiled and said, "Don't even think about them. Otherwise, I'm afraid someone will lose and won't accept it."
"Yes..." Liu Sanmu laughed dryly, revealing a mouthful of black teeth. It seemed that he was an old smoker.
Ten minutes later, the monkey-like scout slipped down from the vines, ran to Liu Sanmu, pointed at the map in Liu Sanmu's hand, and said, "Platoon leader, our Red Army squad is still there, and the Blue Army has only twenty or thirty people, but the terrain is better and has suppressed our Red Army." Then he began to describe the terrain over there.
"Okay, let's do this, do you think it will work..." After listening to the scout's report, Liu Sanmu thought for a while and wanted to tell Lu Ming about his plan.
Lu Ming waved his hand and said, "Just give the orders." He knew that he was not good at arranging the details of the battle on the battlefield.
Unless you bring a bunch of Qing'e guards like Yuluan, you can rely on abnormal fighting methods to achieve a surprise victory.
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The Blue Army, which had surrounded the Red Army, was counter-surrounded and the battle ended quickly.
Regardless of the Red Army or the Blue Army, they are all props similar to scarecrows, wearing military caps.
Two referees who had been observing this direction with binoculars in the distance appeared and ran over. They gave the casualty ratio based on the distribution of firepower, the timing of the personnel's charge, etc.
The remaining seven or eight Red Army soldiers were rescued.
Liu Sanmu was a little confused when he heard Lu Ming say that he wanted to set up a pocket here, but he still observed the terrain for a while and then began to assign personnel to each class.
Lu Ming pointed at the Red Army prop soldiers and said, "Don't forget to deploy them as well." He added, "You also forgot to report the situation here to the company as soon as possible. The company's military map must also be updated so that the superiors can have a clearer understanding of the situation on the front line."
Every company has a communications squad. During company-level troop clashes, communications soldiers are dispersed into each platoon, with 1-2 people in each platoon, carrying walkie-talkies.
Obviously, the understanding of this new change is the shortcoming of veterans like Liu Sanmu.
Thinking about it, Lu Ming looked at the military map and pointed to one of the points. "Send a sharp knife squad here. It's such a small battlefield and it's a military exercise. Fang Dazhuang doesn't care about communications, but he knows that if the communications squad is destroyed or pulled away, it will lose the support of all friendly forces. Although those friendly forces do not exist for this military exercise, it will also deduct a lot of points. Therefore, he will neither despise his communications squad as a burden nor abandon it completely. It will definitely follow behind his main force. Moreover, he has a simple mind and will definitely think that placing it in an open area will have a good signal and add points."
Liu Sanmu gasped when he heard this. Lu Ming smiled and said, "The character of the enemy commander is also an important part of intelligence analysis in war."
Liu Sanmu nodded repeatedly, then scratched his head: "Sir, now I know why I can only be a sergeant major." He added: "Sharp knife squad? Should we temporarily disrupt the organization and form a team of elite forces?"
Lu Ming nodded: "This is the only way for now." He laughed again: "Actually, I wanted to join in the fun, but it seems a bit like cheating. Of course, if I die by accident, we will lose too many points, so I won't go."
Liu Sanmu thought for a moment and said, "The reason why we set up an ambush here is that the commander believes that Captain Fang will not just attack from his side, but will definitely send combatants into our area to disrupt us?"
"He will probably want to destroy our company!" Lu Ming smiled, "Otherwise, how can he show his ability?"
Liu Sanmu nodded, and not daring to waste any more time, he immediately went to select personnel to form a spearhead squad, while at the same time ordering the other teams to deploy defenses, etc.
"Oh, we have captured a few Blue Army soldiers. Find someone to put on their hats and go to other firefight locations to disrupt the Blue Army. After the Blue Army loses communication, we can create a big chaos for them. The referee group will approve of this." Lu Ming gave another order.
Liu Sanmu was secretly shocked. It seemed that the brigade commander's methods were quite shady. He was worthy of being the most famous lawyer in the East China Sea.