Recently, an artillery brigade of the 73rd Group Army organized its troops to conduct long-distance troop delivery assessments starting from the southeast coast through a combination of railway and motorization.

Source: People's Liberation Army Daily Client · Chinese Bugle Author: Zhao Yaxiong, Liu Tuo and others

Recently, an artillery brigade of the 73rd Group Army organized its troops to launch long-distance force projection starting from the southeast coast through a combination of railways and motorization. Assessment. Tactical backgrounds are set throughout the delivery process to comprehensively test the artillery unit's long-range delivery capability and combat level under dynamic conditions.

After receiving the emergency dispatch order at 5 a.m., the troops quickly completed the gathering of personnel and preparation of supplies and equipment. In order to improve the concealment during maneuvers, the troops were divided into parts, using multi-channel formations and multi-point loading methods, and were divided into multiple echelons and maneuvered for more than 100 kilometers to the loading area.

The troops had just set off, and the assessment team took the opportunity to guide the formation and a material vehicle had a tire blowout. Upon receiving the notification, the driver immediately started "emergency repairs" and completed the situation in only 5 minutes, quickly returning to the vehicle formation.

After 2 hours of motorized maneuvers, the troops successfully arrived at the loading area, and the security team quickly occupied each channel for patrolling and security. At the same time, the loading team was divided into five groups, including the guidance group, loading group, and inspection group, to quickly load various types of equipment on the railway. During the loading process, they also had to deal with various "enemy" situations that may arise.

In order to keep the officers and soldiers' morale high, during the maneuver, the brigade organized the officers and soldiers to conduct mission study, mobilization before battle, review of the enlistment oath and other activities. After thousands of people and hundreds of vehicles arrived at the target area across more than a thousand kilometers, each artillery squad quickly unloaded, formed, and motorized to the designated area.

Next, this unit will carry out artillery unit combat capability training based on the annual training plan, test the combat effectiveness of each weapon platform, explore different firepower unit firepower coordination methods and methods, and improve the artillery unit's actual combat capabilities.

(Zhao Yaxiong, Liu Tuo, Li Zhenjie, Deng Jushan, Zhou Xiaoqiang, Wang Ge, Chang Fei)

(Produced by People's Liberation Army Daily Client·China Bugle)