As an important place for the confrontation between China’s Red and Blue forces, China’s Zhurihe military base has welcomed more than 30 brigades here to conduct actual combat exercises since 2014, which learn how to fight against possible future opponents and learn how to conduct a modern war, and this kind of confrontation is also inseparable from the “whetstone” blue army brigade.
In these 7 years of red-blue confrontation, the famous Blue Army brigade commander Man Guangzhi has actually lost only once. Now 7 years later, he has encountered the “Iron Hammer Group” of that year again.
According to reports, in the 2014 “Across 2014 Zhurihe-D” confrontation exercise, a certain brigade of the 78th Group Army, known as the “Northern Tigers” paid a relatively high price and narrowly defeated the aspiring Blue Army troops. And this was also the only victory for the Red Army in the entire series of drills in Zhurihe base.
In this recent exercise, the blue team “Prairie Wolves” – a synthetic brigade of the 81st Army faced the “Northern Tigers” again.
The 81st Group Army Blue Army Brigade Commander Man Guangzhi revealed that since 2017, the brigade has been adjusted from a professional blue army brigade to a heavy synthetic brigade, and its mission has been changed from “both red and blue, blue-oriented” to “both red and blue, red-oriented”, becoming a part-time blue army. The brigade is now more often a red army unit, and he hopes to work with the red army units to “jointly focus on the strong enemy, adhere to problem orientation, highlight shortcomings and weaknesses, and work tirelessly together for the goal of winning battles in the future.”
In respect of equipment, the current individual weapons of the Blue Army still use the Type 95 improved rifle. In terms of heavy weapons, the Blue Army is built in accordance with the standard synthetic brigade forces. It has not only a large number of tracked dual 35mm anti-aircraft guns, but also advanced infantry fighting vehicles, main battle tanks, 155mm tracked self-propelled artillery, etc. In addition, its deployment of the air force has moved closer to Western forces.
It’s known that the Chinese Blue Army brigade mainly imitates the US military, and Man Guangzhi’s statement this time means that the main task of this number one blue military brigade in China has changed from “imitating the US military” to “studying how to defeat the US military.”
