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Major General Ouyang Longyun, the number one commander of the base, Senior Colonel Zhang Yajie, chief of staff, Senior Colonel Wang Chunya, director of logistics, Major Chang Zixuan, deputy chief instructor, and Major Hao Zhao, deputy chief instructor, gathered in front of a detailed sand table, frowning or contemplating.

Lieutenant He Wenxing, an intelligence staff officer subordinate to the General Staff, and Lieutenant Wang Chunjie, an operational staff officer, are combining sand tables, projections, and three-dimensional demonstrations to quickly explain important information.

"We have just received reliable information that Wall Street has sent an expedition under the banner of searching for the treasure of the Great Khan of Mongolia, which has now arrived in the city of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, and is heading towards the Mongolian East Gobi Province, and is expected to appear in the city of Sainshanda in two days."

The command pole in the hands of Captain He Wenxing, an intelligence staff officer, fell heavily on the East Gobi Province in southeastern Mongolia, and he said quickly in a deep voice.

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Founded in 1931, East Gobi Province is one of the 21 provinces of Mongolia in the south of Mongolia and covers an area of 115,000 square kilometers. It borders the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China to the south and has a national border of 580 kilometers. East Gobi Province is bordered by South Gobi Province to the west, Kent Province and Central Province to the north, and Sukhbatar Province to the east. The government is located in Sainshanda City, about 463 kilometers away from the capital Ulaanbaatar, with 15 counties under its jurisdiction and a population of about 58,600 people.

During the Soviet era, Mongolia's East Gobi Province was the area where the confrontation between Chinese and Soviet reconnaissance forces was fiercest.

About half a century ago, that is, in the 70s of the last century, the Soviet Union gathered heavy troops along the long border between China and the Soviet Union from east to west -- in the Far East (outside the three provinces around the east), in the Mongolian East Gobi Province, and in Central Asia, several corps composed of various arms, including tank divisions, airborne brigades, and motorized infantry divisions, were concentrated. It has not only formed a strategic encirclement posture for the three northeastern provinces of China, but also exerted tremendous strategic pressure on the North and Northwest regions, seriously threatening China's national defense and security.

The Soviet Central Route Army was like a sharp knife, and its armored cluster charge launched by the Mongolian East Gobi Province against China could go straight to the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang area, and by virtue of its geographical advantages and weaponry advantages, it was basically certain that it would capture Beijing-Tianjin-Tang and choke the rooster's neck to cut off the connection with the northeast. This Soviet army seriously threatened the national security of China's capital and the northeast region, and many Chinese people at that time could not sleep all night because of this, but after thinking about it, they had no way to resist the Soviet army's armored group charge, so they had to plan to abandon the entire territory north of the Yellow River and fight a protracted war (fighting logistics).

At that time, war was on the verge of breaking out, and the situation was extremely unfavorable to New China.

That is the Soviet Union, with the largest steel torrent in human history, with millions of elite soldiers who experienced the blood and fire of World War II, such a giant like a polar bear, even the United States of America had the idea of retreating, who in the world would be optimistic about China at that time?

No! Not half of it.

The Soviet Union, which was located in northern China, came up with its own mode of warfare -- first reconnaissance and intelligence, then war and sabotage, and finally military occupation and annexation of territories. Of course, this is one of the universal laws of war!

In the face of such enormous strategic pressure, how could China allow Soviet scouts to return alive? Therefore, the Beijing Military Region did not hesitate to make huge efforts to intercept the Soviet reconnaissance troops as much as possible, and it was best to completely annihilate a small group of Soviet troops!

Due to its unique geographical location, the Mongolian East Gobi Province became an important battlefield for the scout troops of China and the Soviet Union at that time, and the tragic fighting continued until the Battle of Zhenbao Island.

With the passage of time, more than 10 years after the end of the Sino-Soviet confrontation, the international situation has been relatively relaxed, and this Gobi Desert region, which is strategically located extremely important to China, has not been able to produce any value to China's economic development, but has produced an increasing burden on the Beijing Military Region, and has become a chicken rib after the 80s.

In the 80s of the last century, the Beijing Military Region also conducted many inspections of this vast and desolate Gobi, and not only planned to use it as a training ground for special forces, but also prepared to go deep into Mongolia to carry out reconnaissance activities behind enemy lines, so that the embankment could be prevented, and it could be regarded as giving full play to the value of this area. But from an economic point of view, the price to be paid is significant compared to the limited value that can be generated in the area, which is often referred to as cost-effective enough. No, it's not that the cost performance is not high enough, it's just a loss-making transaction. The Beijing Military Region needs to provide supplies for the reconnaissance troops in the Gobi, including money, food, equipment, ammunition, and so on.

It may seem that the little supplies needed by the troops stationed in the Gobi at that time were really insignificant, but at that time, it cost more than three kilograms of food for every kilogram of food provided to the troops in the Gobi, and the consumption along the way was very staggering. This is because the loss rate is too high due to the specific geographical and climatic factors of the Gobi Desert.

Moreover, with the relative decline of the Soviet Union and the turmoil in the domestic political arena soon after (89 years), the Beijing Military Region finally made up its mind to withdraw the troops holding out in the Gobi, stopped this endless attrition, and began to concentrate on domestic construction, which it continues to this day.

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"Mongolia's East Gobi Province is extremely important to our country's strategic location, and I will not say much about it here. According to information from the Far East, the expedition landed in the city of Vladivostok (formerly the Chinese city of Vladivostok) in the Russian Far East and then arrived in the Mongolian city of Ulaanbaatar by special plane. The purpose of this is unknown, but we have to guard against it. The first recommendation of the Operational Staff is to track them, rule out possible dangers, and be prepared to annihilate them at any time. ”

The command pole in Wang Chunjie's hand flew from Vladivostok to Ulaanbaatar, and from Ulaanbaatar to the East Gobi Province, and quickly gave the advice given by the Operations Staff Office.

"The second suggestion is to levy Russia-"

Speaking of this, Wang Chunjie's tone also became very serious.

In today's world, China, the United States and Russia are showing a strong trend, and China and Russia have joined hands to resist the erosion of the United States, and this situation has long become a consensus. China and Russia seem to be brothers and sisters, but where does the so-called 'affection' between countries come from? As long as two of them join forces, if there is no accident, the third party will definitely become a loser! For example, in Afghanistan, known as the graveyard of empires, China and the United States and other countries joined forces to bury the pit of the Soviet Union, where the Soviet Union spent ten years in vain, its finances dried up, and finally collapsed.

Compared with the relationship between China and the United States and Russia, it should be that the relationship between China and the United States is more 'intimate'. The fact that the US personnel entered Mongolia through Russian territory is in itself worth pondering.