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This is the second time Qiang has seen the current No. 1 chief up close.

The first time was in 1999, at the return ceremony of Hong Kong. That time, he focused on the exciting celebration itself, immersed in the pride of national unity, without careful observation.

This time, he was only two or three meters apart, and felt that there was a big difference between the current No. 1 leader and his ex.

The former leader No. 1 had experienced the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation in the Domestic Liberation, commanded thousands of troops and were old soldiers for decades. Even when he remained calm, his whole body was full of majesty of being unhappy. As a superior, he talked and laughed calmly and was freely free. Although Xiao Qiang met him only once, he left a deep impression and was still unforgettable.

The current No. 1 Chief may have been promoted from local officials because it was a peaceful era, and his face was full of harmony. Although he was wearing old-fashioned military uniforms without any military rank logos, he did not have the indomitable temperament of a soldier. Instead, he looked very much like researchers in the military industry system, with a bookish atmosphere.

This is probably the difference between a technocrat and an iron-blooded soldier.

"Everyone, sit down!" The officer on duty commanded loudly.

With a sound of Hula, everyone was in a consistent manner, holding their knees with their hands and sitting back on their positions. They looked straight ahead without looking sideways. A large number of generals and lieutenant generals, like soldiers, obeying the command in all actions.

This is the army, an armed group with strict organization and uniform actions!

The Ministry of National Defense and several generals of the General Staff asked Chief No. 1 for instructions, and the Chief of Staff walked up to the general.

He looked sharply in front of everyone. No one was missed. When he saw Xiao Qiangdi, a rare smile appeared on his stern face.

"You are all the leaders of the military region and the military chiefs who are plagued by Pepsi. This time you were called from your job, and everyone may be a little confused: What's so strange about a fully digital battlefield simulation platform?"

The whole audience was quiet. These generals were not newcomers who had never seen the world. The calm expressions could not tell that they had any emotional changes.

"If you still have such an idea, then you are unqualified military commanders! Because you do not have the ability to understand the essence of things, you cannot lead your subordinates and usher in one victory after another!

I want to tell you that the full digital battlefield simulation system is an epoch-making achievement! In peacetime, it is a more powerful weapon than nuclear weapons!

Although it only appeared for more than a year, it brought us an exciting surprise. Its shocking degree is no less than the explosion of the first atomic bomb. In just over a year, we have more than 200 ace pilots with first-class quality, excellent skills, and witnessed various war scenes. This is something that no country in the world can do!

And now, with the support of Huanyu Company's technology, we have done it!"

Wow. All the generals and officers applauded enthusiastically, especially the Air Force generals, with such eager eyes and radiating a stimulating light.

"We have decided to open a military training base covering an area of ​​dozens of square kilometers around Beijing. We will use a combination of ground buildings and underground buildings to train a batch of iron-blooded soldiers who have been tested in practice! I hope that Huanyu Company will continue to provide us with the greatest support, people and money, and will build a nuclear power plant underground to provide power demand for supercomputer groups. Our goal is to build a super-large military modern base with 10,000 supercomputer groups!"

There was even greater applause.

Xiao Qiang's eyes were straightened. He didn't expect that the military would discover the strategic value of its hidden place from the entire digital battlefield platform.

Ten thousand supercomputers, so great courage!

"Okay, that's our army's future construction plan. Let me talk about the specific courses in this exercise, which is to test the limits of our army's national defense!

Since the end of 1988, under the actual planning of Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Qiang, our army conducted a military exercise on the exploration of war mode under the conditions of high-tech weapons war, which clarified the future direction of military establishment and benefited a lot."

In the words of the Chief of Staff, Xiao Qiang was still called a lieutenant colonel, and it seemed that in his heart, he also regarded Xiao Qiang as an active-duty soldier.

"For more than ten years, after continuous exploration, our army is developing from the old continental army model to the field of high-tech sea and air technology, and has achieved great results. It can be said that compared with the military strength more than ten years ago, we have made extraordinary progress!

However, we are making progress and other countries are also developing. So, after more than ten years of military modernization, has our capabilities improved or lagged behind?

We always tell the people of the whole country in reports and news that we have achieved what field and what achievements we have achieved. However, the ultimate combat effectiveness of these achievements has not been carried out through actual combat, and we don’t even know in our own minds.

How much has been improved and where is the backward? This is the ultimate problem that our all-digital war simulation exercise needs to solve!

We are doing national defense exercises every year, and we have been conducting military strength comparisons at home and abroad.

However, these are very vague, and there has never been a real data, just a rough judgment based on the combat power of various weapons.

Type 99 tank, can it fight against the US m1a2 in actual tank combat? This is not something that can be summarized in a simple sentence in the report, nor is it that the Type 99 tank is equivalent to m1

In actual combat, there is never any saying that a weapon is equal to dozens of percent of the opponent's combat effectiveness!

If you can, it’s OK, it’s OK. No matter how much you brag, it’s OK!

Our J-10 claims to be able to defeat the latest improved F16. In actual combat, can the opponent directly compare the performance of the weapon with us? After comparing the weapons of both sides one by one, will the side with the weaker weapons admit that they have failed?

War has always been cruel. Only by fighting to the death can we draw the final conclusion.

Therefore, only actual combat, only actual combat can let us know truly whether we have truly possessed the ability to protect national security after more than ten years of military modernization!”

The generals present understood the intentions that the military command organs wanted to express from his words.

The introduction of the Chief of General Staff further let them know the clear intention of the headquarters.

"Every soldier knows that only actual combat is the only standard for testing the troops. But before, we could not fight a war with other countries in order to verify the actual combat effectiveness of certain weapons..."

The generals laughed together.

In this world, there is a country that uses various reasons to carry out a moderately intense war every once in a while.

This country is the United States.

"In fact, we can't afford it even if we give us this opportunity. Hundreds of cruise missiles, thousands of fighter jets, several aircraft carrier formations... After a battle, we may have exhausted our old foundation. The results were verified. We don't have the money to do improvement research.

Boom, there was a burst of laughter in the underground command center.

The Chief of General Staff smiled and returned to his serious expression: "So. Two years ago, when Universal Corporation first started to help us develop flight simulators, we were observing carefully. After more than a year of practical use, we can determine the significance of the full digital battlefield simulation platform. It has risen from tactical level to strategic level, which has played a crucial role in the modernization of our army. Soldiers learn war from war. Its significance is not an exaggeration no matter how exaggerated it!

Because in the full digital battlefield simulation system, soldiers will face various extreme situations. The result of this extreme training is more effective in some special military branches than in general small and medium-sized wars!

To this end, we organized this exercise, a practical military exercise that actually tests the achievements of our army's modernization, and a final conclusion of our army's true national defense strength under non-nuclear war conditions.

We cannot always wave the nuclear weapons in our hands and say to the enemy: Don’t mess with me, otherwise everyone will die together!

We must continue to make progress and be able to attack the invading enemy head-on and annihilate them in conventional weapons wars. Before that, we must understand how far we can fight against the enemy!

As middle and low-level commanders, we don’t have to know so much. But for us senior commanders who are responsible for national security, we must be clear in our hearts. When we have to fight back; under what circumstances, we have to endure; under what circumstances, we will be forced to use the ultimate weapon. If the senior commander doesn’t know in our hearts, then when the enemy really launches an attack, we may make wrong judgments.

The result of wrong judgment is either to use the ultimate weapon in advance to cause the demise of mankind. It is to repeatedly give in, and the result is to miss the opportunity, causing the enemy to do whatever they want and lose its territory.

This exercise is to make all senior commanders understand that now, in 2002, we can resist foreign military offensives to the extent!"

All the military officials from the military district where the exercises came to observe the exercises and their faces changed slightly.

It turns out that the real purpose is this, and it is to verify our actual combat effectiveness without exaggeration. This will also become the reference data for the next national defense strength verification exercise.

Once during this period, in the face of a full-scale foreign military offensive, this data will become the basis for the highest command and what steps to take.

The Chief of Staff had a low voice, but it echoed in the underground command, pounding violently at the hearts of all the people involved in the exercise.

“The code name of this exercise is: Bottom Line 2002!

Bottom line

This is the bottom line that China can tolerate when facing foreign military conflicts.

If this bottom line is exceeded and our defense system collapses, the Supreme Command will be forced to use tactical nuclear power, even strategic nuclear power, nuclear binding, and use methods of burning the ground together to force the other party to stop invasion, withdraw from Chinese territory, or destroy all mankind together!

Xiao Qiang's heart also contracted in waves and waves, adrenaline was secreted rapidly, and blood circulation in the whole body suddenly accelerated.

Since the birth of nuclear weapons, the actual number of times they have been used is only twice that ended in World War II.

No one with normal thinking can issue an order to launch a full-scale war against a nuclear country.

But after the end of the Cold War, the United States seemed to be a little lost.

They believe that using missile defense circles can protect the security of the United States. Therefore, they have established US ground missile defense bases all over the world and connected them into a network, hoping to protect the United States from being attacked by nuclear weapons.

Although many people know that this defense network is not reliable, the American people and politicians are confused by this false security. They are becoming more and more broad in the scale of invading other countries and taking action without any scruples.

The United Nations has become a puppet of the United States, and it is not even authorized by the United Nations. The United States dares to send troops brazenly!

Bombing the territory of other countries and massacre the people of other countries will become costless behaviors in the hearts of Americans without fear of revenge!

Such a result will be very terrible.

No one can predict whether humans will destroy themselves.

Xiao Qiang also maintained a military-like sitting position, but his hands were placed on his knees, but he couldn't help but hold them tightly together. He could feel his knees trembling slightly, the kind of fear that he could hear the ultimate fate of mankind!

Life is too fragile!

The utopian plan must accelerate, and at all costs, the progress of the utopian plan must be accelerated! The last hope must be retained for the continuation of mankind. Even when the worst happens!

After all, Xiao Qiang is only a soldier's child and has the temperament of a soldier, but has no experience of a soldier.

From the bottom of his heart, he is just an ordinary person.

In a trance, he did not hear the Chief of Staff’s explanation below, until someone shook his shoulder and called his name: “…Mr. Xiao Qiang. Xiao Xiao! Be calm, calm down!”

Xiao Qiang's eyes were a little distracted, and he looked at the blurry figure in front of him. After a while, he realized that it was the Chief of Staff.

In the command post, everyone was watching him with concern, including the No. 1 leader.

The Chief of Staff held his shoulder and said sincerely: "Xiao Xiao, I know that you must be in a very complicated mood at this moment. You should know that no one would want to use last resort, even a madman would not do this! Unless we face the last moment of the country's demise, no one would give such a crazy order! This probability is no more than one in 100,000! Because of this, nuclear weapons are called the ultimate weapon and the last resort for the whole world to die together."

"I understand!" Xiao Qiang felt a little difficult to breathe. He pulled open the collar with difficulty so that his breathing could be smoother. He didn't even notice that the buttons on the collar were pulled off to the ground.

Everyone else looked at him understandably.

Although everyone knows that the possibility of using nuclear weapons is very slim, hearing the word nuclear counterattack still makes them thrilling and difficult to hold on to themselves. What's more, a civilian suddenly hears this news, the burden in his heart is imaginable.

Leader No. 1 has a personal experience.

He was not a soldier, but from the day he served as Chief No. 1, the future of the entire country and nation was decided in his order. He would rather die by himself than take risks with the future of the entire nation and all mankind.

This psychological pressure is more than a hundred times or a thousand times than Xiao Qiang!

Many times, he feels endless tiredness from the bottom of his heart, hoping to take off this burden, take a good rest, and never have to bear endless pressure for it.

The head of state is more of a responsibility, especially in an environment surrounded by powerful enemies.

Human beings develop civilization on a thin steel wire. The foundation of this civilization is so fragile that it may turn into a castle at any time, and it will turn into ashes in one go.

Chief No. 1 understands the decision-making thinking of the United States. If China has this strength, it will do its best to build a solid barrier.

But as a possible hostile country, he could not accept the other party's behavior.

Because in this way, China will lose the right

The other party's behavior pattern will become increasingly unpredictable and the harm will become increasingly greater.

Comparing every country to one person.

The previous form was like hundreds of people walking on a steel wire, everyone was trembling and did not dare to cheat at all. At most, people with slightly stronger balance ability were with people who disliked behind their backs. Under the control of others, they did not dare to do whatever they wanted.

Suddenly one day, the man tied a life rope on his body. Although he himself didn't know whether the life rope could fully bear his weight. But subconsciously, his behavior began to gradually become arrogant.

If I offended him in the past, at most I was stabbed by him and scared people.

But now, No. 2 was fooled by him and accidentally fell down. Although he grabbed the wire and did not fall off the cliff, he had lost the threat to him. So he began to slap others openly and began to offend everyone without hesitation. He even swayed the wire occasionally, threatening to break the wire and let everyone fall.

As the No. 3 figure in the team, he has always been afraid of him. At this moment, he thinks that he has protection, so his actions are even more uncontrollable. His words are rude and his movements are rough, and he is just about to stretch his feet. He kicked No. 3 off the wire.

It’s so difficult to lead a country!

In this case, No. 3 dared not use the steel wire to break as a threat. He was also afraid that No. 1's safety rope could really withstand his weight.

As the leader, he must work hard to find ways to safely reach the other side.

There are three methods: the first one. While stepping on the steel wire, you can also cut off the opponent's safety rope.

Only in this way can the situation be restored to its original balance. Both sides are in an equal position and let No. 1 stop threatening.

But this is not easy.

The big gangster also had four hardcore subordinates: Britain, Japan, Canada, and Australia. The big gangster promised them that when the situation was most critical, they would hold him and use its safety rope to save their lives.

In addition, there are more than a dozen hopes to retain a lifelong follower with its life rope.

Number 3 is to sacrifice your life. At most, cut the wire, and it is impossible to cut off the opponent's safety rope, and it is impossible to truly threaten the opponent.

So, so far, No. 3 still lowered his eyebrows and looked like a compliant look, carefully hiding his strength. Although No. 2 seemed to have been hanging on the steel wire for a long time and could not get up, No. 3 still did not pick up his position, and carefully guarded his position of No. 3 so that No. 1 would not feel nervous.

The second road is to find a safe rope.

This is what No. 3 is doing privately. He is trying to find a way to hang the safety rope up, and all his energy is going on around this.

This is also very difficult, and No. 1 won’t watch him hang the safety rope without caring about it. It is hard to say whether he can succeed.

The third road is to leave this steel wire and find another steel wire in this black hole passage. In this way, even if No. 1 goes crazy and breaks the steel wire, No. 3 will be out of danger and don’t worry.

This is the safest way and the most difficult way.

In the dark cave, there was no place three feet away. Although everyone was striving to find another place to find a steel wire, no one found it. Even if they found it, no one had the ability to jump over it.

Only No. 1, he has this ability and spends most of his energy on finding other wires.

Maybe after walking a few dozen kilometers, everyone can find a steel wire to settle down, but maybe no one knows it.

No. 3 prays that before this, No. 1 will not be pushed off the wire...

Chief No. 1 rubbed his temples and felt physically and mentally exhausted. When will the days of stepping on the wire end? He was really exhausted. Perhaps, it would be a better choice to replace him by someone else.

"Xiao Xiao, why don't you go to the next door to rest first?" he said gently.

Chief No. 1 is not a soldier, so he is not very good at using tough command tones, and always discusses with others in a negotiating tone.

Xiao Qiang shook his head vigorously to make himself clear: "It's okay, I can persevere."

Chief No. 1 carefully said: "We invite you to come here because we hope you can understand the importance of the full digital battlefield simulation platform to us. We hope you will develop a better and stronger simulation platform to help us and let our civilization develop without threat. Therefore, you can participate in the first phase of exercise, watch the progress of the war, and understand the way war escalates. But the subsequent exercises involve top secrets, and I am afraid you will not be able to participate..."

Xiao Qiang was silent for a while and nodded, "I understand! Then I will observe the first stage of the exercise!"

Seeing him insisting, Chief No. 1 stopped saying anything, but nodded to the Chief of Staff.

The Chief of Staff looked at Xiao Qiang before continuing to say to the military chiefs of each military region participating in the exercise: "The exercise will be divided into two levels. One is the command organ exercise, and the participating hierarchy is from the headquarters to the level of the head of the group army. The purpose of the exercise is to test the strategic decision-making and command capabilities of the senior commander and whether it is appropriate.

Commander of the Central South Military Region and Commander of the Southeast Military Region!”

"Come!" The two military commanders immediately stood up and stood attentive.

"You two military regions have been temporarily merged to form the Central South War Zone. The commander of the Central South Military Region is the chief and the commander of the Southeast Military Region is the deputy, and the coordinated operation is unified and coordinated!"

"Yes!" The two commanders saluted cleanly, and sat down after accepting the task.

"Commander of the South China Sea Fleet!"

"Come!" An admiral answered loudly and stood attentively.

"Once the war zone is established, you will temporarily be assigned to the leadership of the Central and Southern War Zone. The Fleet Command is included in the War Zone Command and coordinated command in another place!"

"yes!"

"Commander of the Eastern Military Region! Commander of the East China Sea Fleet!"

"Come!" The two of them stood up.

"Once the war breaks out, you will form the Oriental War Zone Command to be responsible for alerting Japan! The first stage is to enter the first level of alert!"

"yes!"

"Commander of the Northeast Military Region!"

"arrive!"

"During the war, you will serve as the Northeast War Zone, be responsible for alerting the movements of the US and South Korean troops in the direction of North Korea, as well as the direction of Russia. The temporary alert level is level 2, and all soldiers will be cancelled off leave!"

"yes!"

"Commander of the Northwest Military Region!"

"arrive!"

"The first phase of the war. You will be listed as the third-level alert, Outer Mongolia and Russian military trends! And strengthen the troops in Xinjiang to deal with emergencies at any time."

"yes!"

"Commander of the Southwest Military Region!"

"arrive!"

"You will enter the third-level alert and draw a military force to enter Tibet to deal with changes in the direction of India! Some of the forces gather in the direction of Yunnan and stay vigilant about the direction of Southeast Asia!"

"yes!"

"Commander of the Northern Military Region!"

"arrive!"

"Your mission is to protect the security of the capital and Inner Mongolia, and may face large-scale Russian tank cluster attacks!

"yes!"

"Commander of the Southern Military Region!"

"arrive!"

"Your mission is the heaviest! The South China Sea Fleet has drawn to carry out combat against Hayden Island. Your remaining naval forces are no longer enough, but you must maintain control over the South China Sea and beware of the US military's use of Southeast Asian bases to harass our coastal areas. Therefore, you will mainly rely on the remaining naval forces for near-shore defense, protecting safety within a range of 200 nautical miles in the defense range of land-based fighter jets. The burden is very heavy!"

"I understand! Ensure the completion of the task!" The commander of the Southern Military Region answered firmly.

The Chief of Staff hesitated to look at the commander of the Southern Military Region and finally let him sit down.

"The Blue Army, who plays the enemy, has drawn command personnel from various agencies such as the Ministry of National Defense, General Staff, Military Intelligence Bureau, Navy, Army and Air Force Command, Second Artillery and Artillery. They will use the newly completed and the comprehensive training base building of the three armies as the command center. According to the information collected by the Military Intelligence Bureau, they will play the command and combat methods of the three potential enemies of the United States, Japan and Russia respectively.

In the future, the base building will be used as a permanent Blue Army command center to help our army adapt to other countries' war methods and promote the progress of our army's construction."

A group of sea, land and air generals stood up, saluted commanders at all levels and sat down.

The Chief of Staff also said: "The second level is the actual military drill. The three armies trained personnel from the comprehensive training base of the three armies are the main body, and they play the Blue Ocean Fleet and the main war zone in the southeast. The army will simulate a tank battle with Russia. These data will become commanding agencies at all levels, based on data for command operations, and completely abandon the past method of relying on deduction to determine the outcome. Each battle will be proven through practical data to obtain as accurate data as possible.

This is also the main basis for the headquarters to determine whether the war is escalating. No one should slack off. Forge and alter data are strictly prohibited. Violators will be tried by military courts!"

All the generals and schools in the local area were shocked.

The tone of the headquarters is unprecedentedly harsh, because the counterfeiting of data by the lower-level command organs may cause the headquarters to make mistakes in judgment. When making strategic decisions, whether it is scheduling the troops or whether the ultimate weapon is used, it is crucial.

If you are not careful, you may cause irreparable losses!

"When the war enters the second stage, the Ministry of Defense will randomly select a county and city in each province to conduct a local defense mobilization drill. Test the speed and level of national defense mobilization in our local area, collect reserve personnel in the exercise area, equip weapons, and immediately enter actual military training. The militia and local armed police will serve as local forces, occupy the main strategic locations, and carry out national defense tasks!

There will be one hundred military-industrial enterprises that will immediately enter wartime production after receiving the order and fully produce military equipment. This is to test our comprehensive national defense strength and lasting combat capabilities!”

What a scale of the earth exercise, it is truly a national defense exercise that mobilized the whole country!

Major military regions, local troops, militia reserve troops, and production in the country. This is a super-large-scale total war exercise since the founding of the People's Republic of China!

"Next, I'll explain the focus of this exercise.

There is only one key point: only the exercise background. There is no preset script! Remember, there is no preset script! We only temporarily stipulate the conditions for entering the next stage, but we do not set whether to enter. Everything is decided by the headquarters and the Blue Army Command, which plays the Blue Army.

The only limitation is that this exercise tests the overall warfare capability under non-nuclear war conditions, so the ultimate weapon, including tactical nuclear weapons, cannot be used!

Repeat, this exercise does not include nuclear weapons!”

The generals understood that this was a test of the maximum combat effectiveness that our army could exert under conventional warfare methods, and where was the limit?

In the end, all military forces may be exhausted and all collapsed. This is the moment when the exercise is terminated.

After that, the headquarters will re-argure each level of war based on the results of the exercise as a reference for future reference. When the critical point is reached, it is the time to use the ultimate weapon!

The best situation is to keep the enemy out of the country, or to pay a huge price of casualties to prevent the enemy from landing.

If that is the case, the headquarters will also have greater confidence, thus keeping humans away from the damage of nuclear weapons to a greater extent.

The victory or defeat of a conventional war determines everything!

Such exercises have actually been conducted countless times, but in the past they were all inferential homework on the graph.

What are the forces I have, how much combat power, what kind of weapons I use? How many enemy forces, weapon types and power data? How long will the two armies fight against each other? In the end, we will win or lose, how many remaining troops will be...

In short, homework on the map used to be similar to a chess game, which was very inaccurate.

But now with a full digital battlefield simulation system, all command organs will launch a war in Pangu World. The simulation training platform of the comprehensive training base of the three armies will be used as the specific soldiers participating in the battle field to strictly verify the combat effectiveness of our army and the enemy.

What is obtained in this way will be the data closest to actual combat under non-real war conditions.

The fog of war will be cleared away by the full digital battlefield simulation system. Military leaders of the country and the local government can finally understand their true war ability and level.

As a result, the possibility of making wrong judgments will be greatly reduced, and in turn, it will actually reduce the possibility of war breaking out.

Even if the war breaks out unexpectedly, the military core group can clearly know how much China can resist.

There is another advantage of full digital battlefield simulation, that is, to cultivate a large number of senior commanders who have been tested in actual combat!

The number of soldiers who simulated the war is still limited, and can only simulate local tactical confrontation, and the data obtained is still quite limited.

However, as the military increases its importance, the military has great courage to spend billions, tens of billions, or even trillions of dollars to build a super-realistic simulated world war platform.

The number of supercomputers continues to increase, the number of soldiers entering the simulation training system will continue to increase, and the scale of drills will also expand rapidly. The number of them may even reach hundreds of thousands of people, which is not a myth!

This repeated practice of large-scale regiments will lead to rapid improvement in the actual command level of our senior commanders!

There are so many high and middle-level commanders in the entire army. Although it is hard to say that they can produce a genius military strategist like the first leader of the No. 1. However, it is still possible to train dozens of senior military chiefs who have reached the level of founding generals.

Maybe, a group of senior commanders with considerable potential can be discovered!

If there were more than ten, dozens of senior commanders at Su Yu and Lin Biao level, what level could our army's combat effectiveness and improvement reach?
Chapter completed!