Chapter 409: The Dilemma of the 77th Legion
"Commander, it's windy up here, don't you think?"
Yu Zhengguo stood on the watchtower for nearly ten minutes, and finally returned to the underground command post at the reminder of the staff officer beside him.
This is also for his safety. Although the radiation area of a tactical nuclear bomb with a yield of 10,000 tons is limited, what if some radioactive nuclear dust is blown over by the airflow?
The underground command post of the 77th Corps was not newly built after the apocalypse, but was converted from an underground air-raid shelter. This can be considered as one of the advantages of Yucheng in the apocalypse, as there are air-raid shelters everywhere.
Maybe someone has established a survivor force relying on the air-raid shelter...
Isn’t it necessary to be a mole in the end times?
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The layout of the air-raid shelter is very old. When you come down from the ground, you can see circular arches and exposed fire bricks...
The sense of the times came up immediately!
It's like traveling back to the difficult times before Zhou Bang founded the country.
Thinking of this, Yu Zhengguo couldn't help but feel a little emotional. What this generation is going through now may be more difficult than the previous generation.
Especially as he got to know more about the zombie nest, he felt more and more uneasy...
The development of human technology has been blocked by the end of the world, but what has been revealed seems to be just the tip of the iceberg...
In addition to his long-term concerns about the future of mankind, Yu Zhengguo is also worried about the present.
The current 77th Army is a broken version from top to bottom...
The first wave of infection at the end of the world almost caused a devastating blow to the entire 77th Legion. The direct consequence was a heavy loss of organizational structure and heavy losses of personnel and manpower!
The heavy losses in the organizational structure were reflected in the indiscriminate and irregular infection of the zombie virus, which caused the entire 77th Legion to lose a large number of leading cadres at the first moment of the outbreak of the apocalypse!
For example, the former commander, chief of staff, deputy commander of the 77th Corps, etc., these are just the core leaders at the army-level leadership, and there are too many to count!
The brigades, battalions, companies and platoons below were also not spared. The infection of a large number of cadres caused the army's command system to suffer a systematic blow!
The combat effectiveness of the entire army has been weakened to an unprecedented level!!
It's like going from a normal person to a half-paralyzed person who drools when he talks...
Because his brain was damaged!
After Yu Zhengguo was promoted from deputy army commander to army commander, his main task was to re-establish the command system and organizational structure. After this period of adjustment, this problem has been basically resolved.
However, there are also issues related to the distribution of troop combat units and the shortage of personnel and manpower which have yet to be resolved!
When talking about troop distribution, we have to mention the Western Theater to which the 77th Corps belongs!
The Western Theater Command is located in Jincheng, Shu Province. It has two corps under its jurisdiction: the 77th Corps with its headquarters in Yucheng, and the 78th Corps with its headquarters in Xi Province.
Although the Western Theater only has two corps under its jurisdiction, the defense area it is responsible for is quite extensive! !
It covers seven provincial administrative regions, including Xi Province, Xin Province, Su Province, Shu Province, Qing Province, Yucheng Province, and Ning Province. Among them, Xi Province is also a border province with relatively intense border conflicts. For this reason, the troops of the 78th Corps are almost all deployed around Xi Province!
This resulted in the defense burden of the remaining five provincial administrative regions falling entirely on the 5th Corps (the new province consisted of a corps independent of the war zone), resulting in the 77 brigade-level combat units under the 77th Corps being deployed in a relatively scattered manner.
This is naturally no problem under normal circumstances. The Western Theater is located in the southwestern hinterland of Zhou State, and the defense pressure is relatively small, so such a deployment is reasonable.
But the problem now is that an unexpected doomsday crisis has occurred!
The 77th Corps has 12 combat brigades under its command, but the Corps headquarters can still control only four of them, and they are all partially or even severely disabled...
As for the other eight combat brigades, almost all of them were across provinces and could not be contacted, or they had lost contact...
Anyway, he can't help the 77th Corps in the short term, and Yu Zhengguo doesn't pin his hopes on them. He just hopes that these 8 combat brigades won't encounter any accidents!
It’s the end of the world. Don’t worry about how your life will be like. The greatest blessing is to be alive and not die!
This sentence is also sent to the current 77th Army Corps..
Because although the 77th Legion now has 4 combat brigades under its control, which sounds very powerful, it is actually also invincible!
It is really that the first wave of infection in the apocalypse was too abnormal. You must know that among the large number of professional soldiers lost by the army, not only infantrymen but also a large number of talents in key technical positions!
This type of talent is specialized in operating high-tech equipment such as radars and missiles. Although they are also ordinary soldiers, they are uniformly called technicians within the army.
For example, radar technicians, missile technicians, etc., they are all trained by the army with considerable resources and energy!
Those who are familiar with the military know that in order to enable soldiers to use increasingly technologically advanced equipment, the military sends a large number of soldiers to various military academies every year for training to learn how to operate and repair equipment!
Each one is quite irreplaceable!
It can be said that it is the key to how much the troops can exert the performance of their weapons and equipment in modern warfare!
After all, no matter how advanced the equipment is, it is still operated by people!
From this point, it can be seen that the system truly loves Gu Chengyuan. Not only did it provide him with equipment, it also provided him with matching professional soldiers with skilled professional skills!
And this is exactly what Yu Zhengguo is worried about now!
Positions such as infantry, motor vehicle soldiers, logistics soldiers, etc., which have low technical barriers and can be held with a lot of strength and courage, can be easily filled through conscription!
Although many people died in the last days, there are still many left!
Currently, the four brigades of the 77th Army Corps control four county-level gathering places in Yucheng, and the total number of survivors sheltered has long exceeded one million!
It is a piece of cake to replenish just four brigades with no more than 30,000 troops.
However, a large number of jobs with high technical content cannot be solved in a short period of time.
For example, in a tank crew, apart from the driver who is responsible for stepping on the accelerator, which one of the commander and gunner does not require long-term and extensive training?
Not to mention that there are also units in the legion such as the Aviation Brigade and Artillery Brigade, which have equally high or even higher proficiency requirements!
As long as the personnel are not in place, the equipment cannot move!
This means that although the 77th Legion seems powerful in terms of organization, its actual combat effectiveness may not be as good as that of a veteran strong force before the end of the world!
Also, a bit long
