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Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Caucasus, Turkey repatriated the rebels who had previously absconded to Turkey to Georgia as mercenaries, and in the mountains of the South Caucasus, the CIA provided Gorbachev with nearly 15 M60 tanks, 50 M113 armored vehicles, and more than 3,000 Kalashnikov rifles to support the Georgian insurgency. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 So when Comrade Vladimir made a strong statement of condemnation, Césaire was completely panicked.

Turkish leaders have long feared the military power of the Soviet Union, especially in recent years, when the contest between the military and religious factions is destined to produce only a moderate leader who coordinates the balance of interests in the position of Turkish president, rather than a hard-line tyrant. It was against this background that Césaire was born. After Mazyer's defeat in power, Césaire, as chief justice, became the president of Turkey in a contest between the military and the religious faction.

In reality, however, pro-American factions within Turkey saw a lucrative situation in the war, and if the Caucasus could be truly divided, it would be tantamount to creating a buffer zone for Turkey. If it were to support the unrest in the Caucasus from behind, then Turkey would be able to turn the Caucasus into the first line of defense against the penetration of the Red forces.

Both the religious and military forces are very satisfied with this result.

So in such a situation, the military department pressured Turkish President Césaire to cooperate with the Turkish government and the United States to provide financial support for Gorbachev and his rebel army behind the scenes. He also gathered nearly 2,000 mercenaries to fight in Georgia, all of whom had been persecuted by the Soviet authorities and had been exiled to Turkey. Part liberal fighters, part religious fanatics.

Now that martial law has been imposed in Tbilisi, Gorbachev has used the Tbilisi government building as his temporary presidential palace. Heavily armed soldiers accompanied by armored vehicles began to patrol the streets, and Mi-8 helicopters hovered at low altitudes, alerting the ancient building to prevent sudden incidents.

It's just that when Gorbachev walked through the city, every resident looked at him as if he were looking at a devil. After all these years of unsparing exposure, Gorbachev's glorious image has been completely discredited among the Soviet residents. The executioners of the destruction of the Soviets, demons, and all sorts of gossip reached Gorbachev's ears, so much so that he angrily ordered the soldiers to martial law the streets and not allow any inhabitants to come and go at will.

Tbilisi was laid out with a drip-tight arrangement, including anti-aircraft artillery on the Shikle River, to prevent attacks by the Soviet Air Force. At the same time, no less than a battalion of T72 tanks was deployed on the outskirts of Tbilisi, and Gorbachev hoped that with such a tight deployment it would be possible to stop the armored forces of the Red Army.

But the rebel commanders advised Gorbachev to evacuate to the easily defended border cities, so that they could build up strength and a steady stream of armored clusters to attack. But Gorbachev initially refuted the other side's suggestion, which he called cowardice.

"Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia, as well as the political and economic center of Georgia. Now the entire autonomous region of the Caucasus is telling us every move. Once we hold Tbilisi, they will also answer the call, and then Yanayev will not deal with one Georgia, but the whole of the Caucasus. ”

"But......" Minashvili suddenly changed from the commander of an infantry division to the commander-in-chief of Georgia, which is a bit unacceptable.

"Nothing but, Comrade Minashvili. You have to try to change your thinking. Gorbachev continued to instill the new commander with the wrong idea, "Now that you are the commander of most of the Georgian army, as long as we hold Tbilisi, then everything will not be a problem for the rest of the year." If we do not hold Tbilisi, we can completely evacuate to the border area for a second rectification. It's about our future, you know? ”

Gorbachev raised his hand, looked at his watch, and said, "Now only five hours have passed since the success of our coup d'état, and Moscow's efficiency of action is not so fast." They need a decision from the High Command to use the Black Sea Fleet. So we're perfectly ready to complete our deployment. ”

Gorbachev had not been in contact with the political situation in Moscow for too long, so he did not know that the current Soviet command and combat system had also been rectified, and the Southern Joint Strategic Command was the product of the Soviet command and combat system this time.

The Joint Strategic Command of the South proposed by Marshal Ogalkov consisted of the former North Caucasus Military District, the Black Sea Fleet, and the Caspian Flotilla. It has jurisdiction over the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet, the Red Flag Caspian Sea District Fleet, the 49th Armed Forces Composite Group Army, the 58th Armed Forces Composite Group Army, and the 4th Red Banner Aviation and Air Defense Group Army. The commander of the Southern Joint Strategic Command has the authority to command all the units under his command across services and arms, which has greatly improved the efficiency of joint operations. It was precisely because he was aware of the lag in the command of the Soviet army during the war in Chechnya that Marshal Ogarkov suggested that Yanayev cede part of the power of the Supreme Command.

For example, in the past, if the 58th Group Army needed the support of the Black Sea Fleet, it needed to be reported to the Supreme Command at all levels, and the Supreme Command would give orders to the Black Sea Fleet, which was time-consuming and laborious, and it was easy to delay fighters; after the establishment of the Joint Strategic Command, it only needed to be reported to the Joint Strategic Command or the front-line joint command, and the commander of the Joint Strategic Command could directly give orders to the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. In this way, the use of the Black Sea Fleet will be much faster than before. Just like after the rebellion in Georgia, almost within four hours, the fleet at the military port of Sevastopol was ready for war and began to prepare for Turkey and Georgia.

However, Gorbachev did not know that in addition to the Glorious-class and Kirov-class who went to Turkish waters to exert pressure, the Mob M-class frigates and Kilo-class submarines had begun to approach Georgia. Their task was to destroy military airfields, prevent the MiG-27 and MiG-21 fighters of the Georgian army from rising into the air for combat.

Gorbachev did not yet know that defeat was slowly looming over the whole of Georgia.

After leaving Gorbachev's office, Minashvili worriedly said to those around him, "I have an ominous feeling that the Soviets may have approached us......" (To be continued). )