Chapter 873 Ground Forces Enter

Battle report from the artillery brigade?

Looking at what was playing on the main screen of the Joint Operations Center and then looking at the staff officer, Lu Chong suddenly laughed.

"This kid Zhigang is playing tricks on me. Show me what he has!"

As he spoke, Lu Chong took the battle report from the staff officer, flipped through it casually, and found that the situation described in the report was basically the same as what he had just seen on the live broadcast screen, so he flipped through it twice and stopped reading it, but handed it to Yu Zhengguo again.

In response to this, Yu Zhengguo appeared silent and serious when he received the battle report, but he was actually very excited inside.

Lu Chong's simple action represented that he truly accepted him, otherwise he would never have handed over the battle report to him so naturally.

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"What's wrong with Old Yu?" Lu Chong glanced at Yu Zhengguo and complained in his heart.

Just now when I saw the artillery brigade firing, the other side looked like this... He is so old, and is a corps commander, has he never seen artillery firing?

Why are you still like a kid setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year...

cough~

When the battle report had almost been circulated among Yu Zhengguo and Zhao Gang, Lu Chong coughed twice, attracting the attention of all the military leaders in the command area, including the two of them.

"Comrades, our first phase of combat mission is about to be a complete success. Now it is time to consider the second phase of combat operations."

As Lu Chong spoke, the leading cadres in the command area all looked serious and quickly took out their pens and notebooks from their coat pockets, ready to take notes at any time.

The staff officer at the side quickly opened the map wall behind him which was made up of four 41-inch ultra-high-definition electronic screens, switched it to editable mode, and handed Lu Chong a touch pen.

"The artillery brothers have completed their mission in the first phase. Now it's time for our ground forces to move in and the battle to retake the city has begun!"

At this point, Lu Chong's tone was particularly heroic, and he habitually wanted to use his pen to tap the "map version" hard to express his excitement. However, he realized at the last moment that what he had in front of him was a relatively fragile ultra-high-definition screen, not a sturdy paper map.

So, fearing that he might damage the electronic screen, Lu Chong had no choice but to retract his outstretched hand as if he had just shit halfway.

But Lu Chong obviously didn't have the habit of letting himself get upset and wasted time, so he turned around and cursed at the several staff officers beside him:

"What the hell! Why don't we use electronic maps instead of paper maps? We can't fight the war if there's no electricity!"

"I think the government is having a good time. When you are safe, you forget to think about danger. Wars are fought under extreme conditions where anything can happen. Tell me, if there is a power outage now, how can we read the map?!"

"You, you, you! Go out and run around the Joint Training Command Center!"

As Lu Chong pointed his finger at their names one after another, several staff officers quickly turned around and ran outside, fearing that they would be punished for running too slowly.

Seeing this scene, Lu Chong's unhappiness instantly disappeared. He said why he always felt a little unhappy, it turned out that there was such a loophole in the command post!

When he turned around again and faced the military leaders including major generals, colonels and major generals present, he found that the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became serious.

Lu Chong, who knew the truth, was not appeased and he really had to tighten his strings before issuing the combat order.

Then, Lu Chong circled Peilin, Yongchuan and Hechuan with red, blue and yellow, and then said:

"Confirm one last time, are the combat troops of the East, West, and North columns in place? Are the combat supplies complete? Are the preparations for battle complete?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dark-skinned major general stood up immediately. He was another deputy commander of the Yucheng Military Region besides Li Kun.

"Report to the commander. Half an hour ago, I have already made the final battle confirmation to all the troops in the column. All the troops in the column responded that everything is ready and can start fighting at any time!"

"At the same time, I also contacted Deputy Commander Li Kun who was inspecting the front-line troops. He also said that the front-line troops were in good spirits and the soldiers were in high spirits!"

For a battle of this magnitude as the Battle to Recapture Yucheng, it is naturally impossible for the core leadership of the Yucheng Military Region to all stay in the command center and conduct remote control. It must be equipped with leaders with sufficient weight to conduct regular front-line inspections.

This is to stabilize and improve military morale, and also to avoid chaos in the troops caused by war.

After all, you can't expect everyone to have high moral integrity, so a two-pronged approach of daily education and necessary deterrence must be used to ensure that things are safe and unlikely to go wrong.

Given Li Kun's restless personality, he naturally couldn't stay in the rear, so he was very happy to be the leader of the military region's front-line inspection team.

"it is good!"

Hearing the deputy commander's two-way confirmation, Lu Chong showed a satisfied expression on his face. Then he straightened his expression and said seriously:

"In order to resolutely implement the operational intent of the 'Phase II Multi-Axis Central Clearing Campaign' and ensure the efficient implementation of the core tactics of 'Divided Axis Cutting, Layer-by-Layer Erosion, Fire Driving Out the Corpses, Day Fighting and Night Defense', I make the following deployment:"

"The Eastern Column's 2nd, 3rd, 9th, and 10th infantry brigades of Yezhou, with the 4th Armored Brigade as the spearhead, will advance along the east bank of the Yangtze River from the Peilin area, seize Peilin, Changshou and other hubs as soon as possible, cut off the flow of zombies across the river, and create conditions for the main force to encircle them!"

"The 4th, 12th, and 13th Infantry Brigades of the Western Column will cooperate with the 77th Mechanized Infantry Brigade to advance from Yongchuan District to Dazhu and Tongnan. While recovering the districts and counties, pay attention to blocking the mutant beasts in Wuling Mountain."

"The 9th and 11th Infantry Brigades of the Northern Column and the 77th Armored Brigade Detachment (30 ZB96 tanks) will penetrate the northern wing of the main city along the Hechuan-Tongliang corridor at high speed, establish a circular defense line, and block the zombie tide from connecting to the main city area, triggering a chain reaction!"

As Lu Chong's orders were issued, the leading staff in the combat command area kept taking shorthand notes, while the two staff behind him kept marking the attack routes of multiple battles on both electronic and paper maps.

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"Report to the General Command! Military Region Joint Command Order!"

In the headquarters of the East Column at Peilin West Station, the communicator who had just received the order trotted to the command area in the station hall.

"Read!"

Yang Wei, who was drawing a map on the corner of the field command table with one hand, was shocked when he heard the words. He threw away his pen and stood up.

"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the military region joint command ordered our troops to immediately launch a recovery operation along the direction of Fuling → Fengdu → Zhongxian according to the original plan!"

"Great, great! I've finally been waiting for this!"

Hearing this, Yang Wei excitedly turned around and looked at the full map of the Peilin area hanging behind him, which was covered with attack arrows of various colors.

"Pass on my order. The East Column troops' recovery mission has officially begun!!!"

"Yes!!"

...

At the same time, in the headquarters of the West Column and the North Column in Yongchuan and Hechuan, the commanders-in-chief of each column, like Yang Wei, issued attack orders to the troops almost at the same time without any particular order!

Immediately, the sound of gunfire and cannon fire echoed throughout the city of Chongqing like the sound of New Year's Eve!