Chapter 714: Red Dandelion

"General Serov, there is a call from the Moscow direction, the target has lost its effect. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" correspondent came in with a telegram that had no beginning or end, and he was also a little strange, this encrypted telegram was worthless if it was literal.

"Got it!" Serov took the telegram and looked at it and understood that this was the telegram of the successful anti-satellite test of Ustinov, and the Airborne Army and the Black Sea Fleet still did not participate in the war. For satellites in space, such a large target of the Black Sea Fleet is inconvenient to hide, and it is useless to dispatch them at the first time except for the attempt to leak the Soviet Union. And the implementation of night airborne operations will obviously bring unnecessary losses, the strength of the USSR itself is much higher than that of Turkey, there is no need to risk playing stunts.

Because of the existence of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, there are only two options for the construction of railways between Europe and Asia, one is through Russia on the north side of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and the other is through Turkey and Iran on the south side of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Therefore, as long as there is a war between these three countries, they will naturally not have the economic capacity and internal environment to engage in economic construction, then the Eurasian railway will not be built, and no country will be able to seize the land rights of the entire Eurasian continent. In the struggle for land and sea power in later generations, the reason why the United States had the advantage was because Russia was not strong after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and it was effortless for the United States to settle several countries on the southern front, but now? Even if the Soviet Union destroyed Turkey, it still had a northern front to choose from, and it would still be the master of Eurasia.

The Kurds had 20 million people, more than the entire population of Iraq at this time, and Iraq could fight an eight-year head-on war with Iran. With the favorable mountainous terrain and the general righteousness and cohesion of national independence, once the Kurds formed a wave of independence, and the independence was successful, the Turks were destined to be unable to suppress it. Once the Kurds became independent, they were necessarily pro-Soviet, because they hated the Turks. The nascent Kurdish state did not even need any Soviet support, and automatically became the Soviet Union's chain to Turkey.

Now, even if the Soviet Union withdraws its troops and returns to China, without Constantinople, the Kurds will inevitably become independent. Moreover, the Soviet Union will not leave at all, and from the rise of the modern nation-state consciousness, it is doomed that the vast number of pacifists will not be able to return, and pan-Arabism still has roots and sprouts, so pan-peace religion will have empty soil.

Serov knew that it was impossible for the Soviet Union to hide from the United States for too long in its sneak attack on Turkey, and he had a certain record in mind about several responses from the United States, and in terms of probability, it was almost impossible for the United States to directly send troops to fight the Soviet Union on land. When has the U.S. taken into account the feelings of its allies? Even the British can shabu-shabu, and who can't? The willingness to give some comfort has shown that there is a strategic level of attention.

The second way is for NATO to put pressure on the Soviet Union with a posture of overwhelming the border, not that he looks down on NATO in this era, if it uses nuclear weapons, both sides will lose, and if it does not use nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union can beat the other side so that it can't take care of itself. The second is to use the method of the Cuban Missile Crisis to mobilize the world's navies to put on a posture of nuclear war on the surface, but in fact the navy is the slowest branch of the armed forces, which is tantamount to a step for both itself and the Soviet Union.

But Turkey is not Cuba, the Soviet Union and Turkey are neighbors, and when the US Navy arrives at the designated position, it seems that it will not play a role other than witnessing the Soviet Grad military parade.

The Pentagon is the military symbol of the United States, and its position during the Cold War was no worse than that of the White House. There was a certain amount of confusion in the Pentagon at this time, because they had a spy satellite that lost news. Units at all levels are in emergency contact to see if there is a malfunction. Although the Pentagon always fools ordinary people about the threat of the Soviet Union, but in fact wants to increase military spending, they themselves do not think that the Soviet Union is so terrible as described by the people, the Pentagon believes that the Soviet Union is a powerful opponent, but it only admits that the Soviet Union is on a par with itself, and the generals of the military do not accept it if they surpass themselves in a certain field.

"Could it be that something has happened, contact the NATO side to see, is there anything different?" The Pentagon decisively gave the order, and if it were not for Greece's withdrawal from the NATO military command system, the Pentagon would immediately know that something had happened to Turkey, because the electronic jamming of the USSR only covered Turkey, and the Greek Defense Forces, not far from Turkey, could simply see the flames of Istanbul with the naked eye.

Little by little, time passed, until two hours later, the Pentagon received something unbelievable, smoke billowing across Turkey, attacks were coming from almost all directions, and Soviet tanks were rushing into Turkey from all sides. Newly launched spy satellites have taken pictures of the devastating devastation of Turkey's major cities.

"Why didn't we get any news, this is also an attack on our United States, we don't know how we died." Defense Minister Schlesinger roared with a hideous face.

"Minister, until now the communication of the whole of Turkey has been interrupted, and we have not been able to contact the Turks at all." The technical officer holding the photo looked ashamed and said, "It's embarrassing that we can't get a little bit of information from Turkey." ”

"Electronic interference?" Defense Minister Schlesinger said to himself in amazement, "The Soviets are so powerful in electronic warfare? It's amazing, I'm going to the White House, you guys contact Greece and get Greece to fulfill its obligations to NATO and stop the Soviets. ”

The United States mainland and NATO headquarters suddenly exploded after confirming the news, and the Cold War confrontation has been approaching for nearly 30 years, and they have never felt that war is so imminent, and the Soviet Union really dares to make a big move against a NATO country. And as soon as they launched a merciless all-out attack, weren't they afraid of the third world war?

In the border area between Bulgaria and Turkey, more than 70,000 Soviet soldiers of the Soviet Army Group stationed in Romania have arrived at the designated position, and after a six-hour rapid march, they have reached southern Bulgaria by using Romanian and Bulgarian roads and railways, and with the full cooperation of the general secretaries of the two countries, more than 20 kilometers ahead of the border, that is, Istanbul, Turkey's largest city.

The Soviets are more familiar with another name, Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, the commander of the Romanian Army Group, General Ivanov, is holding a telescope to observe the movement ahead, behind him, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled guns and towed artillery, forming a magnificent scene that stretches for more than ten kilometers. Because the Soviet troops of the Romanian army group had not yet arrived, and even he himself had just arrived here.

It was here that the head of the Bulgarian National Security Council, Colonel-General Malakov, prepared fuel and food for the Soviet Army Group in Romania, but also for Army Group South, which had been completed half a year earlier, and with Serov and Malakov's personal relations, Bulgaria's preparations in this regard were uncompromised.

"Thank you, General Malakov, for helping us save a lot of time." Admiral Ivanov thanked Serov for sending a message every hour on the way south, an anxious attitude that annoyed Admiral Ivanov, but he could understand that as a soldier he fully understood how risky this Soviet raid was.

"It's okay, there's another division of troops on the way, it's okay, you can take a break." Malakov understood the fatigue after a night of rapid marching, the Soviet Red Army was a fully mechanized army, but even in a car, it was tiring after such a long bumpy ride.

"It doesn't matter, we'll rest for half an hour now, order the soldiers to eat, the Bulgarian comrades have already prepared food for us, and in half an hour we will attack Constantinople." Admiral Ivanov ordered loudly, there is nothing unfamiliar with Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union's southern cluster itself includes Bulgaria, but after the accident in Hungary, the Bulgarian garrison was withdrawn and went to Hungary, plus Bulgaria has been performing well, so the Soviet Union and Bulgaria signed a treaty to evacuate the garrison.

Ceausescu had always wanted Romania to be treated equally, but the Soviet Union had not relented, and this time, in order to get Romania to fully support the Soviet Union's actions, Serov, with the consent of the Central Presidium of the Soviet Union, promised that the Soviet Union would withdraw its troops from Romania if it succeeded in taking Constantinople.

"Commander, General Political Commissar Serov will call and ask if we have arrived at the designated place, when we can attack, and how long we can take here." While the two were chatting, a communications soldier came over to report.

Admiral Ivanov shrugged his shoulders at General Malakov in frustration, and simply ordered, "Tell General Serov that the Southern Cluster is ready to attack at any time, and as for how long it will take, we will work on our own plans." ”

Also at dawn, in the major airports in Osad, the Soviet military transport planes were neatly arranged like a military parade, the Soviet flag on the tail was spray painted to indicate their identity, and the Soviet airborne troops with umbrella bags on their backs had serious faces, but they boarded the planes very disciplinedly, and no one had a word of nonsense during the whole process, silently following the order.

Among the giant transport planes, the paratroopers have been loaded and unloaded, the centaur system and the giant parachute bag have been arranged, and in a short time all the airfields are spotless, and the Soviet paratroopers are nicknamed the Red Dandelion, and this time they will bloom in Turkey. One after another, the Il-series transport planes accelerated up, off the ground, took off, and then gradually disappeared into the blue sky, and all the ground crews stood up and saluted, watching the world's only paratrooper unit that could compete with the heavy troops. (To be continued.) )