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Cheating on exams is punishable at best. What if the drill cheats?
In peacetime troop exercises and pre-war planning before the war, the armed forces of various countries will prepare corresponding simulation exercises to train the officers and men of the troops in skills and check and fill in the gaps in the battle plan.
▲ Above: The well-known Zhu Rihe exercise
Picture below: The wargame deduction disclosed in the "Military Report" column
Although the live-action exercise of 10,000 people and thousands of vehicles is spectacular, it is subject to the limitation of funds and time, after all, it cannot be held regularly, and the wargame deduction with little consumption can be used as a daily training program.
▲ Wargame push demonstrates intent
The lack of this link or the deliberate "release of water" treatment for this link will inevitably leave a huge safety hazard in the follow-up actual combat. In this issue, Junwu will share a story of "exam cheating" in the military.
In the 7th wargame deduction presented in "The Clouds of Sakaue", the victory, defeat and battle process of the red and blue armies (known as the "Red Army" and "Green Army" in the Japanese army) are decided by the referee team.
▲ Showa 10 (1935) Japanese Navy
Naval officer in a wargame exercise
The mutual attack between the two sides and the effect of the attack are determined by the "rolling of the dice". (Make a table of hits and damages in battle, and after the dice are rolled out of points, query the table to find the corresponding conditions to ensure the neutrality of the referee group and the randomness in the simulated battle)
▲ If the deduction process is reasonable, the referee is fair
Then such a deduction is very predictable for the future
On 28 April 1942, officers of the old Japanese Navy conducted a week-long review and thrust aboard the battleship Yamato of the Combined Fleet (the first three days of the battle before the review, starting on May 1, the toki simulated the next battle of Midway).
Chiaki Matsuda, then captain
and the battleship Yamato under construction
During the four-day wargame exercise, the Green Army, which simulated the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the Red Army, which simulated the U.S. Pacific Fleet, engaged in a simulated confrontation. In this confrontation, the commander of the Green Army was Ugaki, and the commander of the Red Army was Chiaki Matsuda, the commander of the Yamato.
▲ Ugaki winding
This military push has not yet begun, in fact, it has already buried a major hidden danger. Why? Because the commander of the Youth Army, Ugaki, in addition to simulating the commander of the Japanese combined fleet, also held two other positions, the "chief supervisor" (the chief in charge) and the "chief judge" (supreme judge) of this exercise.
The results of the simulated battle surprised the Japanese officers at that time, and the Red Army (that is, the Us Army) led by Chiaki Matsuda used bombers to violently attack the Green Army (that is, the Japanese Army) led by Ugaki, simulating the bombing of the Japanese aircraft carrier nine times, sinking the "Akagi" and "Kaga" aircraft carriers, and seriously damaging another one.
The process of simulated warfare is very similar to the fact that it happened later
After the Battle of Midway, a total of four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk (if Yamaguchi Didn't take the Wyvern carrier to the U.S. single ship, but chose to retreat and avoid, it was three ships that sank, 8 hits, and the results of the simulated battle were almost the same).
Ugaki, who had lost the battle, should have immediately suggested to his superiors to suspend the battle plan or revise the battle plan, but he did not do so, but used his rank advantage and status as the general responsible to forcefully demand a change in the results of the exercise, changing the number of bombs to 3 times , (so that the losses of the Japanese aircraft carrier forces became "acceptable") and continued to lead the Japanese fleet to victory in the simulation battle.
According to the analysis afterwards, the impressive achievements of the Japanese army in successive battles after the Pearl Harbor incident and the national sentiment that had fallen into fanaticism at this time should be the main reasons why Ugaki did not hesitate to take such a risk to revise the ending and violently push the established combat plan.
The joy of defeating the white powers at the beginning of the war, coupled with the frenzied national sentiment, the "Japanese chariot" at this time could not stop. "Jumping out at this time to pour cold water is really not long eyes, defeatism, too much scenery."
▲ Midway island sent away the Japanese national fortune
And Ugaki eventually died in the kamikaze attack
Ugaki and the combined fleet he served used bloody examples to tell posterity that every simulated engagement is something that must be taken seriously.
▲The process of modern wargame deduction
Supercomputers replace rolling dice
Simulated warfare, simulated warfare, simulated warfare. In the days we can't see, such a simulated battle is in progress.
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