blackstone code

Chapter 1863 The problem of night combat
There are corpses everywhere.

A young man who just graduated from high school stood blankly in the trench.

There are corpses all around, the corpses of their own people.

Since last year, the federal conscription has been targeting colleges and universities. The conditions for high school students are the same, with preferential tuition fees and no exams to go to college.

The condition for college students is to train directly as a reserve officer, and start as a second lieutenant on the battlefield.

This is not exaggeration, nor is it reckless. To expand the army by 200 million, let alone a second lieutenant, a thousand second lieutenants, or 1 second lieutenants can fit.

There are many high school graduates, but very few college students.

There are no more than two kinds of people who can go to college in this era. One is above the middle class in society. They are already regarded as the dividend vested interests of the entire society and era of the Federation.

Participating in the sharing of social and era dividends, even if they don't get much, it is much stronger than those at the bottom of society who get nothing.

They will not let their children go to the army, let alone reserve officers.

No matter how good a reserve officer is, can he have the management of a large company?

So those who actually sign up more are high school students.

The young high school student had only been training for four months before he was thrown into battle.

There were not many veterans in the Federation. Under the oppression of Gefra, the former president, the unlucky guy dubbed "surrenderism", agreed to disarm.

In the end, the total number of the army was less than 50. If it hadn't been for the naval battle to win Gefra, the ideal number proposed by Gefra at that time was 25 to 35 troops and a fleet.

In their words, the war is over, they are the victors, and the Federation, as the victor's little partner, does not need so many soldiers and warships.

The continued peace later made people a little paralyzed, so that when it really started a large-scale military expansion, it was too late.

Most of the soldiers were sent to the battlefield after a short training period. The first batch of veterans was only about 70 people, of which about 20 people are still fighting against the Penteo people in Amélia.

The military does not plan to withdraw this part of the veterans of many battles, because they have a lot to do with the follow-up Amélia strategy.

The federal government intends to swallow Amelia as well. Anyway, Gefra has already perished, and even if they don't die, they can't control it. They might as well sublease it to the federation.

Therefore, this part of the soldiers cannot move, and they have to be replenished from time to time.

There is also a part in Mariro, about 30 or so. The situation in Mariro is very special. As long as the people of Mariro have guns, they are militants. Therefore, elite soldiers are needed to suppress local riots that may or may not occur.

The remaining ten or 20 people have long been broken up and scattered to the current companies to bring newcomers.

But even so, the recruits of many troops are still very new, and most of them have only received about eight or nine months of military training.

Like this young guy standing in the trenches at this time, he has only received four months of military training.

This is actually considered good. You must know that the new round of conscription in the Federation is only going to give them 45 days of high-intensity military training.

Then when the time is up, put them on the local battlefield of Peng Jieao!

Sometimes in war you know it's stupid and wrong, but you have to.

But the people here, standing or lying down, they don't know.

Just overnight, the young student soldier was surrounded by dead bodies. He began to vomit violently, and his abdomen also had strong convulsions.

His hands and feet were trembling and he had no strength, a sign of obvious fear reaching its limits.

He vomited for a while, and someone walked past him, looking at the corpses in a trench, and could only express their condolences.

"Don't stand there. Although there is no firefight now, it doesn't mean they won't shoot you when they see you."

The veteran who was in charge of counting the casualties signaled the student soldiers to bend down. The trenches were not very deep, and the position above the shoulders could just be exposed if they were standing.

Originally, these trenches were used to deal with the Federals. After a long tug-of-war and scramble, the Federals finally grabbed some of the trenches.

Seeing his stupidity, the veteran could only shake his head and fill in the number of casualties on a statistical form, at the moment when he was concentrating on filling it out.

About two or 300 meters away, there was a sudden gunshot, and the veteran threw the young man to the ground subconsciously.

But he was still a step too late, hot blood spilled all over his body, and the young man who was still vomiting violently because of fear just now, fell down here forever just like his comrades in arms.

The place where the gunshot was fired in the distance was immediately caught fire. Regardless of whether the person who shot the black gun was alive or dead, at least the guy in front of him would not be able to survive.

The veteran shook his head, erased the ordinary words just written, and marked the words "all wiped out" on the team number again.

He bent down and yanked their nameplates from the bodies, which would be the last thing their families received!

During the war, a large number of corpses could not be transported back to the country with free time, and they were all burned on the spot.

Then the ashes were mixed with burnt mud and packed into urns in large quantities, and then sent back to the country together with the nameplate.

In fact, what the family members get is not necessarily the ashes of their own children, it may be the ashes of hundreds or thousands of people mixed together.

But at this time, would anyone care if the inside of the small box was their own child?

They don't keep the ashes at home, but the nameplate does.

Holding a large number of nameplates, he took out a white cloth and tied them together, wrote the team number on it, and put it in the bag behind him.

Only such a team that was completely wiped out would let him "collect the corpses", and those that were not completely wiped out would be done by the remaining soldiers.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the battle report from the front was sent back to the Federation.

Mr. Truman was waiting for the battle report early in the morning, and when the secretary brought it in, he immediately lit a cigarette.

The conversation with Peleus yesterday made him realize that the battle casualties in the future will not be as before, within an acceptable range, and the casualties will only increase.

After he smoked half a cigarette, he opened the report on the desktop.

More than 400 people died, 3000 were injured, and more than 100 people were missing.

In 24 hours, the total number of deaths and injuries is 3, and this is the first day!
The report also detailed the reasons for the greater casualties at night. In the final analysis, they didn't know where the Penteo people were, but the Penteo people knew where they were.

Those trenches were dug by the Penteo people, so these trenches will be reflected on the combat map.

At night, all they needed was artillery to keep firing at trenches or lost defensive positions.

On the other hand, the Federation didn't know much about the situation further away, and everyone didn't dare to believe the information obtained by the high-altitude reconnaissance plane before, and was hammered by the Peng Jieao people all night.

At the same time, some ideas were also mentioned in the report. For example, the front line now needs a large number of high-intensity bulletproof searchlights.

These are all considered for night combat. In fact, the frontline troops originally carried some, but they were all ordinary models.

Most of them were destroyed in last night's fighting.

After all, a searchlight is like a target in the dark.

So now they hope to have a slightly bulletproof searchlight that can be supplied, so that night battles will not continue to be smeared and beaten.

Secondly, some military officers put forward the idea of ​​letting the air force provide ground guidance. The Pengjieao people retreated at dawn, and the gunboat didn't know where to hit at night.

If there is anything that can provide you with even vague coordinates, it will be better than now.

A lot of feedback from the front line not only appeared in the presidential palace, but also in the Ministry of National Defense.

Almost all the research and development departments of military industrial groups were called for a meeting, and they were asked to design and produce some of them that could provide product suggestions.

The head of the Weapons Development Research Institute under the Flight Research Institute also came.

The Weapons Development Research Institute was originally a department in the Flight Research Institute that was responsible for developing new weapons for the Air Force. However, with many different types of aviation weapons with the same standard, they were developed.

The development of weapons is also bound to be separated from the flight research institute, and a separate research institute will be established.

Moreover, this research institute not only develops space-based weapons, but also researches some armor-piercing projectiles for tanks, and holds some compound patent formulas.

Generally speaking, this research institute is also very important and special, responsible for the development and research of more wide-area content.

The director and deputy director of the institute looked at a large number of research projects and began to discuss them seriously.

Not long after, they discovered that one of them was highly overlapping with the project they already had a technical theory for.

"This project... we can give it a try."

There was a special officer in charge behind them. The officer glanced at them and immediately reported the news to the person in charge.

Soon senior military officers came to negotiate.

"You say you can produce equipment that improves visibility at night?"

The officer looked at the list in his hand, a little surprised and a little surprised.

Judging from the information fed back by the lurking personnel on the side of Penteio, the entire Penteio Empire is very satisfied with the result of this night battle.

The Federation's advantage in the air force is no longer obvious. At the same time, relying on their familiarity with the terrain and their superiority in numbers, they can completely fight against the Federation!

This is what they didn't think of before!

Since they can defeat the Federation in night battles, why do they have to move the fighting time to daytime?
The chief of the army, Peng Jieao, proposed a new battle plan to the emperor. They planned to rely on the defense line to hold on during the day, and wait until night to take the initiative to attack the federal positions.

So now the military is eager to solve the invisible problems such as the short duration of incendiary bombs in night battles and the fact that searchlights are easy to be attacked.

At first, everyone thought this was a relatively difficult subject, but unexpectedly someone could try to develop it, which made the Ministry of National Defense a little relieved!

(End of this chapter)