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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.
To be continued...