On October 25, 1985, Yang Weiping, head of the Oriental Union of Eastern Union, will pay a series of three-month visits to 10 countries and regions, including China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

After this news was officially announced by the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Eastern Union of China, it immediately aroused heated discussions among military and political leaders of various countries around the world.

What is more, he combined Sir Young's visit with his "theory of a multipolar world," believing that this would be the first and most important step taken by Baron John Young to actively promote the process of world multipolarization.

Prior to this, many enthusiastic people in the international community had made a lot of speculation and analysis about which country Yang Weiping, the head of the Eastern Union would visit, would visit. The vast majority of people think it will be one of the three permanent members of the United Nations: the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and China.

The vast majority of those who think it is the Soviet Union and Britain think it will be China, and only a very small number of people think that it will be China.

However, the Oriental Union, a new Asian power, always seems to have to come out with a little bit of demon moths every once in a while, and there will always be unexpected and extraordinary human moves.

The first country Sir Yang visited turned out to be China!

This was not only a surprise to Andropov, but even Margaret Thatcher found it a little incredible.

Moscow, Kremlin.

+ As soon as Andropov saw half of the top-secret document in his hand, titled "The Latest Assessment Report on the Military Strength of the Eastern Union", he received a call from the Soviet Embassy in the Eastern Union, informing him that Yang Weiping, the head of state of the Eastern Union, had temporarily changed the itinerary and date of his original visit to the Soviet Union.

The KGB and the Soviet military have revised their assessment of the military strength of the Eastern Union on more than one occasion, but this latest assessment report was combined with KGB's intelligence after the Soviet Defense Minister Solokov, who accompanied Andropov on his visit to the Eastern Union. Emphasis on writing.

In this report, Solokov solemnly pointed out that the military establishment of the Eastern Union Defense Forces is different from that of the Soviet Army and the US Army, and it is even more fundamentally different from the Chinese Army.

Taking the Army as an example, the main combat unit of the Army of the Eastern Union Defense Forces is the brigade. It is called the Infantry Brigade Combat Unit, or simply the codename "IBCT".

Such an infantry brigade has one brigade headquarters battalion, one air operation, one ground operation, one mechanized infantry battalion, two armored infantry battalions, one army aviation battalion, one base battalion, and one self-propelled artillery battalion.

Brigade Headquarters Battalion: It has jurisdiction over the brigade headquarters company, battalion headquarters company, intelligence company, network communication company, engineer company, and special investigation company. The battalion has a total of 674 personnel, including 85 officers, 27 technical officers and 562 soldiers.

Air Operation: It has a battalion headquarters company, a transport aircraft company, an airborne company, an unmanned aerial vehicle company, a navigation company (electronic jamming warfare), a machine repair support company, and an airlift support company.

Ground operation: It has a battalion headquarters company, a motor transport company, an amphibious transport company, a navigation company, a transport support company, an air defense company, and a ground transport support company.

Mechanized Infantry Battalion: Under the jurisdiction of the battalion headquarters company, the mechanized infantry company, the motorized infantry company, and the reconnaissance company.

Armored Infantry Battalion: It has a battalion headquarters company, three lightly armored infantry companies, and a weapons company.

Self-propelled artillery battalion: under the jurisdiction of the battalion headquarters company, two self-propelled artillery companies, and one air defense company.

Army Aviation Battalion: It has a battalion headquarters company, two army aviation squadrons, a UAV squadron, and a navigation company.

Base battalion: It has a battalion headquarters company, a logistics support company, a maintenance company, a health company, a mechanized infantry support company, an armored infantry support company, a self-propelled artillery support company, and an army aviation support company.

The officers and soldiers of each unit battalion are composed of four types: officers, technical officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers. Among them, 582 were operated in the air, 615 in ground operations, 562 in the mechanized infantry battalion, 617 in the armored infantry battalion (x2), and 572 in the self-propelled artillery battalion. There are 637 people in the army aviation battalion and 1,286 people in the base battalion. Including the brigade headquarters and battalions, the total number of officers and men in the brigade is 6,162.

In his report, Solokov specifically pointed out that the logistical support personnel of such a combat brigade account for almost two-thirds of the total number of brigades. The real combat unit is the weapons company under the infantry battalion.

This weapons company has a company headquarters and four assault platoons.

The assault platoon has one platoon headquarters and two assault detachments. Equipped with a TKM998 Hummer Heavy Off-Road. Four TKM1151 lightly armored Humvee Jeeps. Two sets of TKT Tao anti-tank missiles, two sets of TKB Javelin individual anti-aircraft missiles, two sets of TKM2 heavy machine guns, two sets of TKMK19 grenade launchers. This assault platoon is equipped with an over-staffed number of weapons, apparently to meet the needs of its vehicle or dismount for combat.

Looking at the army establishment of the world's major military powers. There is no other country that has created such a "freak" with extremely huge logistical needs like the Eastern Union Defense Forces.

However, in the ASEAN Defense Forces system, the Army is not the most valued branch of the military. Its air force and navy are the strongest attacking forces of the Eastern Union Defense Force.

The J15A, the main model of the Eastern Union Air Force, is a heavy fighter with superior performance than the MiG-29 and Su-27 of the Soviet Air Force, and its air superiority is even slightly better than that of the F15 of the US Air Force.

And the J10A is obviously a lot stronger than the MiG-23. Even the U.S. Air Force F16 has to be lowered.

Although the Eastern Union Navy has not yet launched an aircraft carrier into service, its J15B carrier-based aircraft is obviously not comparable to the Yak-38 of the Soviet Navy, and even the latest main carrier-based aircraft of the US Navy, the F-18A, is a little inferior to the J15B.

As for the surface capital ship class. As the Eastern Union Navy, which ushered in the era of stealth ships, its Irrawaddy-class frigates, Tiangong Aegis-class destroyers, Gonggong-class cruisers, Mandalay-class amphibious assault ships, Tianpan-class dock landing ships, and other advanced warships have long made the main warships of the navies of various countries in the world, including the US Navy, the British Royal Navy, and the French Navy, accelerate the pace of retirement and replacement of their respective ships, in order to catch up. The Soviet Navy, which was not strong in the first place, except for maintaining a certain advantage in nuclear submarines, the rest of the ships were facing an embarrassing situation in which they had to be phased out more gradually.

This is a world-class military force that has quietly grown up under the noses of the two world hegemons, the United States and the Soviet Union. Before the Soviet Union and the United States could react accurately, they quickly grew in South Asia.

Even with the existing powerful military forces of the United States and the Soviet Union, it will cost huge amounts of war to extinguish the rise of this new Asian power. This is obviously not in keeping with the existing national interests and current international policies of the two hegemons of the United States and the Soviet Union. In desperation, the Soviet Union and the United States could only watch as the Oriental Union stirred up the storm in the Asia-Pacific region and the Asia-India region. It was not until the Eastern Union put forward the theory of a multipolar world that completely changed the world pattern of the current Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In their hearts, the United States and the Soviet Union were willing to engage in Cold War confrontation for so long. After all, everyone doesn't want to see a nuclear war break out if both sides can't restrain themselves one day, which will lead to the destruction of the planet. It can be said that, in a certain way, both the Soviet Union and the United States vaguely expected to have a country that was relatively strong economically and militarily. to serve as a mediator for the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union to avoid the outbreak of World War III.

The change in the US policy toward China and the Soviet Union's efforts to improve diplomatic relations with China as much as possible were all based on this conciliatory mentality. It's just that Huaxia failed to become this role, and achieved the biggest variable of Oriental Union.

After Huaxia won the victory in the Vietnam War, the Soviet Union's interests in Asia, except for Korea, were basically replaced by the United States and Huaxia. Otherwise, Brezhnev would not have chosen to launch the war in Afghanistan to maintain the Soviet Union's strategic advantage over the United States.

It's a pity. What the Soviet top brass did not expect was that what was supposed to be a simple armed march in Afghanistan turned out to be a huge war quagmire that plunged the Soviet Union into it.

Brezhnev paid the price for his bad decisions, which enabled Andropov to take over the supreme scepter of the Union of Soviet Socialist States.

After Andropov came to power, he was very keen to put the bet of changing the existing predicament of the Soviet Union on the North Burmese regime, which was actually controlled by Yang Weiping.

And it turned out that Andropov won the bet. When he put down the shelf of a big country and took the initiative to visit North Burma in person, Yang Weiping chose to take sides quite pragmatically. Leaning towards the Soviet Union, it succeeded in making the Soviet Union reverse the strategic defeat caused by the war in Afghanistan. It continues to maintain its strategic superiority over the United States.

According to international practice, the first country visited by Yang Weiping, head of the Eastern Union of Eastern Unions, should have chosen the Soviet Union. The intelligence that KGB fed back from the Eastern Union showed that Führer Yang was indeed preparing to pay a state-style visit to the Soviet Union.

However, the news released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Eastern Union today is enough to show that there must be some special reason. Only then did he guide the decision made by Yang Weiping, the head of the Eastern Union of Eastern Union.

Andropov almost didn't have to guess to judge that something big must have happened in China. Otherwise, the first country Yang Weiping visited would definitely not be China!

"Order Major General Karenia to quickly find out what prompted Yang Weiping to choose to go to China first!" Andropov immediately gave instructions.

"Yes! The secretary respectfully accepted the order and left.

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Almost at the same time. Buckingham Palace in London and the White House in the United States have issued similar directives.

The intelligence officers of KGB, MI5, and CIA were dispatched one after another, and the target of the operation was directly aimed at the territory of the Chinese mainland.

Without exception, the Huaxia government was also caught off guard by the news suddenly announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Eastern Union. However, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China still responded quickly at the first time, and broadcast this good news to the people of the whole country through the CCTV news broadcast.

If you want to say that the Eastern Union is a strong country, the big country most affected by it is 100% China.

Internationally, almost all governments know that Baron John Yang, the head of state of the Eastern Union of China, once served as director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and director of the Planning Commission, and was a senior ministerial-level official in China. It's just that because Sir Yang was too young, he couldn't fight the conservative forces in China in the political struggle, and finally he was dismissed from office, expelled from the party, and forced to go abroad and start all over again.

As the largest red capitalist born since China's reform and opening up, Sir Yang's experience in China has long been listed as a classic textbook case by Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Stanford and other major business schools in the world for argumentation and analysis. One of the most talked about is how Sir Yang Da, who has made a comeback and achieved even more brilliantly, will deal with the relationship with the Chinese government in the future.

Whether Sir Yang is returning to his hometown in fine clothes, demonstrating to China, or smiling and smiling on the basis of the national interests of the two countries, all kinds of speculations have become the hottest topics in the world's major media for a while.

In the Chinese capital in late autumn, the red leaves of Xiangshan are like fire.

In the No. 5 courtyard of the rice grain depot alley in Jingshan Back Street, it is still green and new, and the pine is still green.

After retiring from the position of national leader, Deng Zhongyuan has always lived in this clean courtyard.

However, because Deng Zhongyuan still holds the posts of chairman of the Huaxia Military Commission and director of the Central Advisory Committee, it is difficult for him to do so even if he wants to be idle.

On this day, as usual, Deng Zhongyuan walked alone in the courtyard after dinner. Every time he walked under the pomegranate trees in the courtyard, he would stop and look up at the fruit that had crushed the branches.

In addition to these pomegranate trees, there are also three cedars with dense foliage, a few magnificent whitebark pines, and two other humble and healthy pines.

At this moment, Deng Fangpu, the eldest son who was sitting in a wheelchair reading under the cedars, saw his father standing in front of a pomegranate tree a little abnormally and was silent for a long time, and immediately understood that his father must have encountered a problem.

What kind of character his old man is, how can Deng Fangpu not know. The old man is worried about the fruitful results that have been achieved since China's reform and opening up!

For such a big event as Yang Weiping, head of state of the Eastern Union of Eastern Union, who is about to visit China, it is naturally impossible for Deng Fangpu not to hear about it.

Recalling the bits and pieces when he dealt with Yang Weiping at the beginning, Deng Dagongzi Ren was full of imagination, and he never thought that one day, that hairy young man who looked a little green would actually grow into the supreme leader of a country with a very strong economy and military.

This person is really incomparable.

If compared with Yang Weiping, Deng Fangpu really feels that he has lived to a dog for so many years.

Sometimes, Deng Fangpu also thinks seriously that Myanmar's industrial base, national economy, and land resources cannot be compared with the dignified China. However, why was Yang Weiping able to develop Myanmar into a new generation of Asian power in less than eight years, while China, which has more resources and a better foundation, has repeatedly faced layers of resistance in the process of reform and opening up.

If the Central Committee had not forced Yang Weiping to abdicate at the beginning, but had continued to let him preside over the leadership of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the Planning Commission, would the current China have a stronger national strength than the Eastern Union?

Did Yang Weiping's decision to make a high-profile visit to China this time come to prove to those people in China that you were wrong and that he was right? Doesn't he blame the old man at all for not being able to keep his godgrandson in the first place?

Deng Fangpu knew that Yang Weiping, a young man, definitely belonged to the type of ruthless person who was ruthless and decisive. As long as he thinks of Yang Weiping's ruthlessness in robbing the court and killing people in order to save his confidante Qiu Fang, and thinking of Yang Weiping's ruthless and merciless shooting of Lin Dongbiao, the former deputy secretary and secretary of the Longxi Provincial Party Committee, Deng Fangpu will feel a chill down his spine. (To be continued......) I1292