Chapter 722: Boss Yang's Far East Strategy
Standing in front of the two-meter-wide and four-meter-long world map hanging on the south wall of the book house, Yang Weiping stood with his hands in his hands, silently staring at the Soviet Far East on the map, silent for a long time.
This territory, which once belonged to China, although rich in natural resources, is vast and sparsely populated, and it is quite difficult to defend.
During the Cold War, the Far East was at the forefront of the Soviet-American struggle. The Soviet Union had to resist the United States and defend against China in this region, and deployed a large number of military forces. According to the information obtained from Karenia, the Soviet Union not only built strong permanent fortifications in all important areas of the Sino-Soviet border, but also deployed a large number of mechanized and heavily armored tank units with strong assault capabilities, plus the Pacific Fleet.
The Far Eastern Military District has 18 motorized infantry divisions, 1 tank division, and 1 airborne division; the Trans-Baikal Military District has 7 motorized infantry divisions and 3 tank divisions; the Soviet Army stationed in Mongolia has 1 motorized infantry division and 2 tank divisions; and the Siberian Military District has 5 motorized infantry divisions and 1 airborne division, with a total of 14,300 medium tanks and about 630,000 people.
The 1st Separate Far Eastern Air Force Army, the 23rd Air Force Army, the Novosibirsk Air Force Group, the Almaty Air Group Army, the 6th Air Force Group, the 8th Separate Heavy Bomber Aviation Army, and the two transport aviation divisions are equipped with a total of about 2,500 aircraft of various types, including about 2,000 combat aircraft, with a total strength of about 102,000 troops. In addition, the 11th Independent Air Defense Army, the 14th Independent Air Defense Army, and the Tashkent Independent Air Defense Army ∝ 1,100 combat aircraft, 2,500 air defense missile launchers, and 1,100 radars, with a total of about 149,000 officers and men.
The Navy has 610 ships of various types with a displacement of nearly 1.22 million tons. Among them, there are 172 major combat ships (630,000 tons), 342 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, 406 naval aviation combat aircraft, and about 130,000 naval personnel.
In addition, the Strategic Rocket Forces have 492 intercontinental missiles, 162 intermediate-range missiles, 14 intercontinental missile bases, and 21 medium-range missile bases, with about 120,000 personnel. Among them, there are 13 bases of the Far Eastern Military District. There are 7 bases of the Trans-Baikal Military District, 6 bases of the Central Asian Military District, and 9 bases of the Siberian Military District.
If we add the 45,000 officers and soldiers under the jurisdiction of the headquarters and academies of the Soviet military forces in Asia. The total strength of the Soviet troops in Asia was about 1.18 million, accounting for about 27% of the total strength of the Soviet army at that time.
Although the main targets of the Soviet army in Asia were China, Japan, and some US troops in Asia, its biggest and most direct target was undoubtedly China.
The headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District is located in Khabarovsk, the headquarters of the Trans-Baikal Military District is in Chita, the headquarters of the Siberian Military District is located in Novosibirsk, and the headquarters of the Central Asian Military District is in Almaty. The headquarters of the Turkestan Military District is located in Tashkent, the headquarters of the Soviet Army in Mongolia is located in Ulaanbaatar, and the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet is Vladivostok. The headquarters of these military regions are basically close to the border of China, which is a very obvious offensive deployment.
The last time Andarobov visited WÈN in the East Union, he asked Yang Weiping half-jokingly and half-seriously when he was chatting with Yang Weiping in private, whether he planned to report the revenge of being driven out of the Chinese mainland in the north. If this idea exists, the Soviet Union will certainly give strong support and cooperation, and the two sides will join hands to attack China in the north and south.
To this, Yang Weiping's answer at that time was: "What is the result of the Soviet Union's reflection on launching the war in Afghanistan? Is Afghanistan's military strength and war potential comparable to that of China? Does Afghanistan have nuclear weapons? If we really break out into a military conflict with China." Then Reagan and Thatcher would surely have laughed like crazy. The world is so big, can we afford to stare at such a big tiger in Huaxia?"
Yang Weiping, of course, knew that this was Andropov trying to control his attitude towards Huaxia. Naturally, he would not tell Comrade Lao An that the red flag of Huaxia would never fall, and on the contrary, the banner of socialism in the Soviet Union would not last long.
Due to the complete victory of China in the war against Vietnam, the Soviet Union had to withdraw its troops from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and was forced to abandon Soviet interests in Indochina. To say that the Soviet Union did not have any resentment towards China, Yang Weiping would never believe it.
Andropov did not hesitate to surrender his identity and took the initiative to visit the Eastern Union of China. It seems that the importance attached to the Eastern Union and the head of the Eastern Union Yang Weiping was actually a decisive decision that the Soviet top leadership had to make in order to prevent and prevent the Eastern Union from throwing itself into the arms of China.
Yang Weiping took into account the delicate international position that China is currently in. He did not want to make Huaxia once again the target of common hostility between the two world hegemons of the United States and the Soviet Union because of the Eastern Union, so he had to choose to temporarily form an alliance with the Soviet Union to reduce the international pressure on Huaxia.
Who would have thought that the "Su Hongmei and the Child Incident" that Ye Xiaoqiao and Yan Ning suddenly made Yang Weiping's brain hot, and he decided to visit China first on impulse. Completely disrupted his overall plan.
In desperation, Yang Weiping could only judge the situation and make appropriate adjustments to the original plan to make up for it.
During this visit to China, Yang Weiping will have an important itinerary. It is to investigate the border trade between Northeast China and the Far East of the Soviet Union.
Since Andropov realized that the Soviet Union and China had been in antagonistic relations for a long time, which was very unfavorable to the reform of the political and economic system that the Soviet Union was implementing, the Eastern Union of China, as an intermediary in the appropriate relaxation of Sino-Soviet relations, should make necessary efforts in certain aspects.
What's more, when the Soviet Union disintegrates in the future, if Yang Weiping wants to reap the greatest interests in the Soviet Union, it will undoubtedly be the most advantageous to take the Chinese mainland as a foothold. After all, the Eastern Union is too far away from the Soviet Union, and there will definitely be various difficulties beyond the reach of the whip at that time.
In Yang Weiping's mind, taking advantage of the golden opportunity of the collapse of the Soviet Union to separate the Far East from Russia and prop up a pro-China puppet regime is a strategic plan that no one can hope to stop him from implementing.
The world of the future is a world of energy competition. Whoever controls the most energy resources will have the largest voice in the world.
According to Yang Weiping's latest "National Security Strategy for the Eastern Union of Eastern Union before 2000," the scope of the use of force has been expanded to the field of competition for energy resources.
Yang Weiping believes that energy resources are the foundation for the economic development of OUC and further lay the foundation for the status of a great power. The Far East is a treasure trove of untapped natural resources, rich in mineral, water, forest and marine living resources.
Later generations of little Japan have been asking Russia for the four northern islands, and a large part of it is because of the rich natural resources of the islands and their nearby waters. If the Far East is successfully incorporated into the sphere of influence of the Eastern Union, it will undoubtedly be of great strategic significance for using the four northern islands in its hands to strengthen the containment of small Japan.
However, although the plan is good, it can be difficult to achieve the desired goal in the end.
Not to mention anything else, after the independence of the Far East, what kind of name should the Eastern Union garrison and the size of the garrison are a difficult problem that Yang Weiping must solve.
You must know that in the last life, after the end of the Cold War, the security form of the Far East changed. In particular, after the signing of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Good Neighborliness and Friendship, Russia's direct military threat in the Far East has been greatly reduced, and the number of troops stationed in the Far East has been greatly reduced, but the potential military threat facing the Russian Far East still exists.
The biggest threat is, of course, US imperialism. Since the end of the Cold War, US imperialism has continuously promoted NATO's eastward expansion, attempted to deploy anti-missile systems in Europe and Russia's periphery, instigated color revolutions within the CIS, and seized the opportunity of counter-terrorism to enter Central Asia. The aim of US imperialism is to take advantage of Russia's defeat in the Cold War and the fact that it has not recovered its vitality to do its utmost to confine the influence of this polar bear within its territory. For this reason, the US imperialists also launched a grand plan to dismember Russia in the 90s of the last century.
The fundamental contradiction between the national security strategy and the military strategy of Russia and the United States is irreconcilable, and even if there is an outlier in this lifetime, the struggle between Russia and the United States for strategic living space will continue to intensify in the future. And in Yang Weiping's global strategic planning, Russia, which is governed by Uncle Jin, will be the best powerful MT to attract the hatred of US imperialism for the Eastern Union and China!
The second is Little Japan. In the last century, nearly 65 years after the end of World War II, Russia and Japan have not been able to sign a peace agreement due to the dispute over the four northern islands. This means that relations between the two countries are in a quasi-war state. The occupation of the four northern islands has always been an eternal pain in the hearts of all little devils. During the Cold War, little Japan also always regarded the Soviet Union as an imaginary enemy, took the "defense of the north" as a strategic priority, and deployed a large number of military forces in the northern region. Due to his status as a defeated country, the development of the little devil's military power is limited. However, under the wing of US imperialism, little Japan has taken advantage of the momentum of rapid economic and national development to strive to take off the hat of shame of a defeated country on its head and restore its normal national status, and even unexpectedly seek to become a member of the UN Security Council.
In the previous life, the Self-Defense Forces of the little devils also continued to enhance their military strength and expand the scope of their military activities in the name of responding to crises in the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula, cracking down on piracy, and strengthening the US-Japan alliance. Backed by strong economic and technological strength, the little devils can also quickly produce various weapons and equipment, including nuclear weapons, in wartime.
The third is the Russian Federation. After all, with Uncle Jin's strong ruling style, it cannot be ruled out that in the future he will have the ambition to bring the Far East back under the banner of the Russian Federation.
If we want to follow the ideal state in Yang Weiping's mind, it is best for the Far East region in the future to rely on the big tree of China, and the Chinese government to shield itself from the wind and rain from the international community. In this way, OUEC can concentrate all its energy on the Indian Ocean region and fighting the US imperialism and the European Union.
It's just that Yang Weiping knows very well that this can only be his wishful thinking. Whether it is Deng Zhongyuan or the third generation of Chinese leaders after that, they will not consume China's already insufficient national strength by engaging in a long-term confrontation with Russia for the sake of the Far East. (To be continued......) I752