1867 Problems with Night Operations

There were corpses everywhere.

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

There were corpses all around, the corpses of his own people.

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

The conditions for college students are to be trained directly as reserve officers, and those who start on the battlefield will be second lieutenants.

This is not an exaggeration, nor is it arbitrary. To expand the army by two million, not to mention one second lieutenant, a thousand second lieutenants, or ten thousand second lieutenants can be filled.

There are more high school students graduating, but very few college students.

In this era, there are only two types of people who can go to college. One is the middle class and above. They are already the vested interests of the entire society and era of the Federation.

They have participated in sharing the dividends of society and the times. Even if they do not receive much, it is still much better than those at the bottom of society who receive nothing.

They will not let their children become soldiers, let alone reserve officers.

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

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

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

The Federation originally did not have many veterans. Under the pressure of Gaevra, the former president, the unlucky man who was labeled a "capitulationist", agreed to disarmament.

In the end, the total number of armies was less than 500,000. If it had not been for the naval battle against Gaevra, the ideal number proposed by Gaevra at that time was 250,000 to 350,000 troops and a fleet.

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

Later, the continued peace made people slightly paralyzed, so that by the time they actually started large-scale military expansion, it was already too late.

Most of the soldiers were thrown into the battlefield after a short period of training. The first batch of veterans was only about 700,000, of which about 200,000 are still fighting against the Pengeos on the Amelia side on a daily basis. .

The military does not plan to withdraw these veterans of hundreds of battles, because they are closely related to the subsequent Amelia strategy.

The federal government plans to swallow up Amelia. Anyway, Gefra has already subjugated the country. Even if the country is not subjugated, they can't control it. They might as well sublease it to the federation.

Therefore, these soldiers cannot move and must be replenished from time to time.

There is also a part in Marillo, with about 300,000 people. The situation in Marillo is very special. As long as the Marillo people have guns, they are militants, so elite soldiers are needed to suppress local riots that may or may not occur.

The remaining ten or two hundred thousand have been dispersed to various companies to lead new people.

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

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

This is actually a good thing. You must know that the new round of recruitment in the Federation only plans to give them forty-five days of high-intensity military training.

Then when the time comes, put them on Pengeo's home battlefield!

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

But there are people here, some standing and some lying down, but they don't know.

Just overnight, the young student soldier was surrounded by dead bodies. He began to vomit violently and had severe cramps in his abdomen.

His hands and feet were trembling and he had no strength. This was an obvious sign of extreme fear.

He vomited for a long time, and someone walked by him and looked at the corpses in the trench. They could only express their silence.

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

The veteran in charge of counting casualties motioned the student soldiers to bend down. These trenches were not very deep. If they stood, they could just expose the area above the shoulders.

Originally, these trenches were used to deal with the Federals. After a long period of fighting and fighting, the Federals finally captured part of the trenches.

Seeing how stupid he was, the veteran could only shake his head and fill in the number of casualties on a statistics form at the moment when he concentrated on filling it out.

It felt like a gunshot was suddenly heard two or three hundred meters away, and the veteran subconsciously threw the young man to the ground.

But he was still a step too late, and hot blood sprinkled all over him. The young man who was vomiting violently out of fear just now, like his comrades, fell here forever.

The place where the gunshots were fired in the distance was immediately hit by concentrated fire. No matter whether the person who fired the black gun was alive or dead, at least the guy in front of him would not survive.

The veteran shook his head, erased the normal words he just wrote, and re-marked the words "total annihilation" on the team number.

He bent down and pulled their nameplates from the corpses. These nameplates would be the last things their families would receive!

During the war, there was no free time to transport a large number of corpses back to the country, so they were burned on the spot.

The ashes are then mixed with dried mud and put into urns in large quantities, and then sent back home together with the nameplates.

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

But at this time, will anyone care whether the person in the small box is their own child?

They won't keep the ashes at home, but the plaque will.

Grabbing a handful of nameplates, he pulled out a piece of white cloth, tied them together, wrote the team number on them, and put them into the bag behind him.

Only in this way will the team that is completely wiped out be asked to "collect the corpses", while the remaining soldiers will do it for those that are not completely wiped out.

At 7:40 in the morning, frontline battle reports were sent back to the Federation.

Mr. Trueman had been waiting for the battle report early in the morning. When the secretary brought it in, he immediately lit a cigarette.

The conversation with Peleus yesterday made him realize that the casualties in subsequent battles would not be like before, within an acceptable range, and the casualties would only increase.

After smoking most of a cigarette, he opened the report on the table.

The death toll was more than 4,400, 13,000 were injured, and more than 100 were missing.

In twenty-four hours, the total number of dead and injured was 30,000, and this was only the first day!

The report also detailed the reason why casualties were greater at night. In the final analysis, they did not know where the Pendeo people were, but the Pendeo 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, they only need artillery to keep bombarding trenches or abandoned defensive positions.

On the contrary, the Federation side had no idea about the situation further away. Everyone did not dare to fully believe the information obtained by the high-altitude reconnaissance planes. They were held down by the Penjiao people all night long.

At the same time, the report also mentioned some ideas, such as the frontline now needs a large number of high-brightness bulletproof searchlights.

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

Most of them had been destroyed in the battle last night.

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

So now they hope to be able to supply searchlights that are slightly bulletproof, so that night battles will not continue to be smeared and beaten.

Secondly, an officer proposed the idea of ​​letting the air force provide ground guidance. At dawn, the Penteo people retreated, and at night the gunboats did not know where to shoot.

If there is anything that can provide you with even a relatively small coordinate of the lake, it would be better than now.

A large amount of feedback from the front lines appeared not only at the Presidential Palace, but also at the Ministry of Defense.

The R&D departments of almost all military-industrial groups were called for meetings, and they were asked to propose, design and produce products that some of them could provide.

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

The Weapons Development Research Institute was originally a department within the Flight Research Institute responsible for developing new weapons for the Air Force. However, as many aviation weapons of different models but with the same standards were developed.

Weapons development 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 air-based weapons, they also research some armor-piercing projectiles for tanks, and master the patented formulas of some compounds.

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

The director and deputy director of the institute looked at the large number of research projects and discussed them seriously.

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

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

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

Soon a senior military officer came over to negotiate.

“You said you could produce a device that improves visibility at night?”

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

Judging from the intelligence feedback from the lurkers on Pengeo's side, the entire Pengeo empire was very satisfied with the outcome of this night battle.

The Federals' advantage in the air force is no longer obvious. At the same time, relying on their familiarity with the terrain and their numerical advantage, they can completely defeat the Federals!

This was something they had never thought of before!

Since they can defeat the Federals in night fighting, why move the fighting time to daytime?

Chief of Army Pengeo proposed a new combat plan to the Imperial Emperor. They planned to rely on the defense line to hold on during the day, and wait until night before taking the initiative to attack the federal positions.

Therefore, the military is now eager to solve the invisible problems such as the short duration of incendiary bombs and the easy attack of searchlights in night battles.

Everyone originally thought this was a relatively difficult topic, but they didn't expect that someone had already tried to develop it. This gave the Ministry of National Defense a slight sigh of relief!