Forged in the fires of war: The Qi family's generals rewrite the fate of eastern Hebei.

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Each brigade has thrown itself into active training.

Fang Zhenhua would go down to the grassroots level every few days. He was extremely happy to see the actual situation at the grassroots level because his plans were fully implemented in all the units.

Meanwhile, at the Information Brigade, the development of Project Tian'er was also progressing very smoothly.

This gave Fang Zhenhua the feeling that he had all the advantages of timing, location, and people.

It's a feeling that's hard to describe, but it's incredibly pleasant.

Time passes day by day.

Three months later, the entire division faced its first small assessment.

This made the entire division feel like they had encountered a roadblock. The reason was simple: although the first small assessment was nothing, it was the first time they had opened the door.

Is it a good start or a disastrous start?

No one in the entire division dared to make a complete guarantee.

All officers and soldiers can only demonstrate what they have shown in regular training.

It was during this assessment that he completely exploded.

Every unit in the division, from the battalion down to the company and platoon, passed the assessment.

No unit failed the assessment.

When this achievement was presented to Fang Zhenhua, his mentor could hardly believe it.

However, Fang Zhenhua quickly realized what was going on.

The assessment is extremely rigorous, and not every unit can fully demonstrate what they have learned in peacetime training during the assessment.

If they can perform at 80%, they can already be considered an elite force.

However, all the commanders and soldiers of the DA Division were able to demonstrate 100% of what they had been trained in.

This is certainly related to the strong foundation of the DA Division, because all the soldiers and commanders of this unit are elite troops from the entire army.

But it is also related to the rigorous training over the past three months.

From the division commanders setting an example, to the soldiers at the grassroots level working diligently.

That's why we had such a great start.

The entire DA Division Party Committee was naturally very pleased with the excellent results achieved in the first assessment. At the same time, they kept their promises and honored all the awards and rewards that were due.

This made all the officers and soldiers in the division feel the division's seriousness, and they trained even harder.

Fang Zhenhua reported this situation to the military and the military region.

Whether it was Fang Yingda, the chief of staff of the military region, or Zhong Yuannian, the army commander, or others.

They were also extremely shocked.

Some even found it hard to believe this result.

Fang Yingda even made a direct phone call to Fang Zhenhua, during which Fang Zhenhua's teacher asked him a serious question.

"Zhenhua, did you pass the first assessment without any problems?"

"Teacher, you can rest assured about this. We DA teachers can't guarantee anything else, but I can assure you that we DA teachers would never engage in fraud."

In this respect, Fang Yingda still trusted Fang Zhenhua.

Therefore, he was extremely happy after hearing Fang Zhenhua's words.

He even said that over the phone.

"Zhenhua, if I remember correctly, your DA Master's major assessment, which lasts for six months, is in three months, right?"

"Yes, teacher."

"Six months later, Commander Zhong and I will come to your DA Division. We want to see for ourselves what the DA Division's assessment is like, and see if you can really do it completely."

Fang Zhenhua said without hesitation over the phone.

"Please rest assured, teacher. Our DA Division will definitely perform at its best during the six-month major assessment and complete a perfect assessment in front of the military region leaders and army leaders."

"Zhenhua, you've said something wrong. The assessment isn't for us to see; it's about you producing something tangible and living up to expectations."

"Yes, teacher, please rest assured, our DA instructors can fully guarantee it."

After hanging up the phone, Fang Zhenhua immediately convened a meeting of the division's Party committee.

In front of all the members of the Party Committee, he directly relayed the words of General Fang Yingda, the Chief of Staff of the Military Region, to all his comrades.

After saying all that, he spoke in front of these people.

"Comrades, what we are about to accomplish is extremely important and meaningful. As you all know, countless people throughout the army are watching us."

"Some people expect us to achieve great things, while others hope that we will suffer a major setback."

"Therefore, we must let those who support us see that the DA Division is an elite unit with super combat power. The next time Chief of Staff Fang and Commander Zhong will come to our division for on-site observation and assessment."

"We must let those who support us personally experience the formidable combat power of our DA Division."

"After you return to your units, relay what I said today to all the soldiers, so that they know what historical significance they bear in the DA Division."

After Fang Zhenhua finished speaking, all the senior cadres and all members of the DA Division leadership team responded loudly.

The successful assessment, coupled with praise from superiors and additional rewards, contributed to the success.

The officers and soldiers of the entire division displayed an even stronger passion for training than they had three months ago.

This continued for three months until the first major assessment arrived.

Southeast Military Region Chief of Staff Fang Yingda and Army Commander Zhong Yuannian kept their promise and personally went to the DA Division's garrison to observe the unit's assessment firsthand.

The armored brigade was the first to participate in the assessment.

During the assessment, the armored battalion performed flawlessly in both artillery skills and infantry-artillery coordination.

Fang Yingda and Zhong Yuannian saw this scene through their binoculars, nodding repeatedly with smiles on their faces.

Following that was the Army Aviation Brigade.

The elite and first-class pilots of the Army Aviation Corps used their superb tactics to give the visiting leaders a detailed demonstration of what the art of flight truly is.

The entire assessment left Fang Yingda and Zhong Yuannian extremely satisfied.

Fang Yingda could clearly see that there was no cheating in the entire division during this process; everything was open and fair.

When the last engineering battalion appeared.

Fang Yingda spoke directly to Fang Zhenhua.

"Alright, that's enough for now. You don't need to read the rest."

Fang Zhenhua looked at his teacher and asked with a smile.

"Teacher, how are you feeling?"

"You certainly have something; you've definitely shown 100% training intensity, and I can sense that this is an elite unit with overwhelming combat power, but..."

"But what?"

"However, I always feel that these assessments are still lacking something."

Fang Zhenhua was somewhat puzzled, and he looked at Zhong Yuannian with his doubts.

Zhong Yuannian seemed to understand Fang Yingda's words, so he spoke to Fang Zhenhua at this moment.

"Do you know why Chief of Staff Fang said that? Because he wants to see your DA Division in actual combat."

"That's right, it's real combat."

Fang Zhenhua then looked at Fang Yingda and directly asked the question that had been bothering him.

"Teacher, you want to see real combat from our DA instructors, but for this real combat, we also need suitable opponents, right? At the same time, we also need to conduct some high-intensity training."

At this moment, Fang Yingda turned his gaze back from the training field and focused it on Fang Zhenhua again.

“Zhenhua, you need time to undergo high-intensity training again, so I will give you six months to train. You said you lack high-intensity opponents, I will find suitable opponents for you.”

"You should know that you'll be facing off against the army's elite troops one by one from now on, right?"

"I know."

"Six months from now, I will transfer an elite division from our military region to conduct a live-fire exercise with your DA division. Only by defeating our military region's elite division can we be better prepared to fight against others in the future!"

By this time, Fang Zhenhua had a complete understanding of all of Fang Yingda's plans.

In fact, Fang Yingda's plan included two aspects.

The first aspect, naturally, is to see how capable the DA Master is in actual combat.

At the same time, there is another crucial point: if we really lose in this live-fire exercise, it is, after all, a matter for our own military region, and it is still within our control.

If you haven't lost face, then everything can be salvaged.

However, all of this is based on the premise that the DA Division is defeated.

But is the DA Master really destined to be defeated?

It's hard to say. Judging from the current assessment of the DA Division, Fang Yingda can confidently say that even in the entire Southeast Military Region, the DA Division is a top-notch elite unit.

So another objective is that if an elite division from the Southeast Military Region is selected to conduct a live-fire exercise with the DA Division, even if that elite division loses, there will still be gains.

This shows that the DA Division's approach is correct. So, will the Southeast Military Region focus on building informationized integrated combat divisions in the future?

Learning from defeats in exercises and gaining more experience is a normal practice.

It's better to lose in an exercise than to lose on the real battlefield.

The DA Division completed this major assessment very smoothly, and all units met the assessment targets.

However, during this process, Fang Zhenhua noticed a problem that was neither too big nor too small.

Since the DA Division is an information-based integrated combat division, information technology is the most important thing.

However, Fang Zhenhua was not completely satisfied with the DA engineer's demonstration of information technology in this assessment.

Because in Fang Zhenhua's operational plan, the DA Division's tactics were as follows.

Information is obtained through the information brigade and then distributed to various brigades via the Tian'er system.

The missile squadron will launch a saturation attack to destroy key enemy targets, including armored forces, missile forces, and army aviation forces.

Then the army aviation brigade will carry out a sweeping attack, and after this phase, the armored brigade can go up and finish off the enemy.

This is the way DA divisions should operate; all squads must unite and fight together.

With this in mind, Fang Zhenhua valued the Information Brigade even more.

He decided that in the next phase of the mission, he would focus on supervising the development of the Sky Ear Project, and at the same time, combine the advantages of the Information Brigade to truly realize the concept of joint operations.

Chapter 134 First Live-Fire Exercise

DA Division, Division Headquarters.

After the first major assessment, the political commissar of the DA Division, the two deputy division commanders, and the battalion commanders of each brigade gathered at the division headquarters.

They were quite satisfied with the recently concluded major assessment, and indeed they were.

Judging from the content and results of the entire assessment, the DA Division still achieved a very high level of completion this time; otherwise, they would not have received praise from the Military Region Chief of Staff Fang Yingda and Army Commander Zhong Yuannian.

The meeting being held now is a summary meeting following the major assessment, and it also has the flavor of a commendation meeting.

Right now, everyone is waiting for one person, and that person is Fang Zhenhua, the commander of the DA division.

Five minutes later, Fang Zhenhua walked into the conference room with a notebook in his hand.

As soon as he entered the conference room, everyone stood up and saluted him.

"Hello, sir."

At this moment, all the cadres noticed that Fang Zhenhua's expression did not show joy, but rather some worry.

This made everyone's hearts skip a beat.

Is the division commander dissatisfied with this major assessment?

No way! If the DA teachers had made a mistake this time, that would be understandable, but they performed very well!

Fang Zhenhua arrived at his seat, pressed his hand down, and addressed all his comrades.