In order to cover up the border war launched against the Soviet Union for the purpose of recovering the country, the Special Commissariat of the Far East of China made a series of diplomatic, economic, and military preparations before the war began, and at the same time adopted some camouflage and deceptive means.

In order to divert the attention of the Soviet Union, the Chinese Far East Special Mission, in accordance with the Indonesian reading power, the local indigenous people in Indonesia began to swell their nationalism, and the Indonesian political axe formulated various policies to restrict the artificial business activities of overseas Chinese, regarded the overseas Chinese economy as a remnant of the era of colonization and righteousness, and used radical legislation to comprehensively exclude and restrict overseas Chinese from all sides on the grounds of revitalizing the national economy. Indonesia's political axe promulgated a series of laws restricting and excluding the overseas Chinese economy, which imposed strict restrictions and supervision on domestic trade, import enterprises, automobile companies, rice milling, and timber industries operated by Chinese businessmen. Ultranationalists in Indonesia have also taken advantage of the religious differences between local indigenous people and overseas Chinese to incite anti-Chinese sentiments. In order to curb this [***] momentum in Indonesia, the Far East Special Commissariat once formulated a "plan of action for the protection of overseas Chinese" against Indonesia's partial occupation. He also asked the central authorities to convey this action plan to officers at and above the rank of major general in the four general departments of the People's Liberation Army. Of course, a large part of this was made for the Soviet spy Liu Liankun to see. Liu Liankun, a Soviet spy, took a picture of the document on the computer and quickly handed it over to Brown Bear, and handed over to the Soviet KGB a steady stream of information on the secret shipment of various strategic materials by the General Armament Department to Taiwan, Hainan Island, and the Shannan Special Economic Zone, as well as the information on troop movements to these three regions. Moreover, the Chinese Foreign Ministry also issued a sternly worded warning against Indonesia's [***] anti-Chinese behavior.

At the same time, the Chinese Foreign Ministry instructed Li Dawei to throw out a "redemption plan" with great concessions and a "dead face" posture of seeking peace during negotiations with the Soviet Union, posing as if China wanted to solve the Indonesian problem first and did not want to make a move with the Soviet Union at present.

At the same time, China's political axe announced to the outside world that it would further disarm 300,000 troops in 1959, and that eight divisions would be transferred to professional jobs en masse, and that 200,000 people would be added to the production and construction corps of each "new area" to support the economic construction of the "new area."

After the New Year of 1959, before the Chinese delegation headed by Li Dawei left Moscow, Li Dawei and Mao Anying also went to visit Molotov and Andropov, the heads of the Soviet delegation, hoping that the Soviet Union would reconsider the Chinese proposal and talk about the price of the "redemption." Anyway, the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, they are all socialist countries, and it doesn't matter if there is more or less, etc.

As a result of this series of real and false actions, the Far Eastern Corps successfully concealed the operational intentions of the Far Eastern Corps against the Soviet Union. By mid-January 1959, the Far East Corps had assembled more than 50 division-level combat units of the army, navy, and air force from east to west on the Sino-Soviet border, totaling more than 1 million people, more than 1,800 "destroyer" tanks, more than 10,000 self-propelled and towed large-caliber artillery pieces, 10 medium-range missile launching battalions, and more than 400 tactical cruise medium-range missiles with a range of 3,200 kilometers. more than 1,300 aircraft and 15 missile anti-aircraft battalions; There are more than 300 "Hunter" helicopter gunships and more than 100 Lux transport helicopters in six army aviation regiments.

The Soviets have believed in the various information provided by Liu Liankun, a spy embedded in China's high-level level, and this is not because the KGB of the Soviet Union was stupid enough to completely believe that the information provided by Liu Liankun was completely true, and the information was also verified before it was adopted. The Soviet Union has sent reconnaissance planes to verify the information mentioned by Liu Liankun on many occasions, and some of the information it has detected proves that Liu Liankun's information is accurate. Of course, this is a verification with the "permission" of China. For what China does not "allow", then the Soviet reconnaissance plane will definitely not return. Then the two sides will tacitly resolve such issues amicably in the interpretation of "misnavigation" and "miscarriage". Therefore, the Soviet side believed that through Liu Liankun's intelligence, it had learned about the deployment of Chinese affairs and the equipment of weapons, and was also well aware of the latest changes in the Chinese team. They knew that a lot of the top-secret information provided to the Soviet Union by Liu Liankun was only produced in the computer room of the Ordnance Department of the General Armament Department in accordance with the instructions of the Intelligence Bureau of the Central Military Commission, and then the relevant departments cooperated with the Soviet Union's verification, and all this was done seamlessly. It's just a little too hard for the special engineering unit in China to make the props background.

Therefore, the Soviet Union did not really know much about the real military deployment of China's Far East Corps, and it lacked the means to understand it, and it could not learn more. Although the Soviet Union also had satellites, at that time the understanding of the role of satellites was very limited, and it was not very clear what the satellites were going to do in the sky, that is, on April 12, 1961, the world's first cosmonaut, Major Gagarin, was stuffed into the "Vostok" 1 spacecraft, sent to the sky from the Baikonur launch site, flew around the earth once in 1 hour and 48 minutes, and then returned safely. The manned flight itself had no practical significance, and was more of a demonstration that the socialist Soviet Union was stronger than the United States.

Therefore, before the attack of the Chinese Far East Corps, the Soviet Union did not find any signs that the Central [***] squadron was going to launch a large-scale attack on the Soviet Union. In each of the six military regions on the Sino-Soviet border, the headquarters at and above the army level are all stationed in the cities, and the troops are also conducting camping training as usual, and only a few battalions and companies are on duty in the positions of the divisions on the front. Many units of the military districts were still involved in the construction of defense projects, and the aircraft of the Soviet Air Force were concentrated on a few airfields.

At 20 o'clock on February 10, 1959, Deng Feng issued an order for the whole line to enter the preparatory attack. The units began to move into offensive positions. At 2:30 a.m. on 11 February, Deng Feng announced the order to start the "Bear Hunt Operation," which was transmitted to the regimental-level command organs of all attacking units at the same time through geosynchronous communication satellites.

Those who dare to offend my Chinese will be destroyed!

All of a sudden, all kinds of short-range missiles and long-range rockets of various groups of the Far East Corps flew to the transportation hubs of the Soviet positions, the command organs at the division and regimental levels, the artillery positions, the radar stations, and the barracks of the troops.

This kind of thermobaric bomb is very "domineering", it uses solid explosives, and the explosives contain oxidants, and the solid explosives are dispersed in the form of aerosols when exploding, forming a cloud of explosive particles and detonating. Due to the explosive force of tiny explosive particles, thermobaric bombs are more powerful and long-lasting than any conventional explosive. According to a Soviet colonel who later survived the bombardment of this thermobaric bomb: "When the bomb used by the Chinese explodes, it can produce continuous high temperature, high pressure, and consume a large amount of oxygen in the air around the target, which is effective for striking a relatively sealed target." The lethal effect of explosion in confined space is 60%~100% higher than that in open area. In the semi-underground headquarters of our division headquarters, one such bomb exploded, killing all 102 people who were on duty and resting in this basement at that time. The shock wave and overpressure generated by the explosion of such a bomb can destroy a large area of living forces and destroy weapons and electronic equipment with no or only soft protection. The air currents from the explosion in the semi-underground headquarters of our division headquarters destroyed our spare power generation equipment and all communication systems. The command system of our division headquarters has been damaged. And I and the 10 sentries on duty who were smoking outside were only 3 killed and 3 wounded."

As long as the various armies of the Far East Corps assemble more than one battalion of Soviet targets in their own theater of operations, as soon as they are discovered by satellites, they will deliver long-range rockets with anti-personnel steel ball warheads to the Soviet troops in the assembly area as quickly as possible.

After receiving Deng Feng's order for a general offensive, the medium-range missile units of the Chinese Far East Corps immediately carried out saturation bombardment of the Soviet Pacific Fleet Headquarters in Vladivostok, the headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District in Boli, and the headquarters of the Zabaikal Military District in Chita, in order to destroy the Soviet command systems in various theaters in the Far East.

At the same time, in order to completely remove the Soviet strategic threat to China, the Soviet Union carried out precise strikes on four intercontinental missile launch bases and 21 medium-range missile launch bases of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Force.

In the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the Soviet Union, in the southern part of the Aral Sea, in the middle of the vast desert with sparse vegetation, inhabited and devastation, there is a small and incompensably small Tyuratam railway station, and near this small station, there is a little-known Soviet rocket launch base, within a circle of 50 miles in diameter, probably one of the most heavily defended places in the world.

Under the cross-light of four searchlights, a snow-white rocket towered high, pointing straight into the sky. The first and second stage engine compartments, which are connected by the conical docking compartment, are like a beautiful woman with a slender body, adding a unique beauty to the missile. The micro-round warhead and the fairing on the tail compartment are so harmoniously integrated that the missile construction appears to be even more perfect. Standing close to the 140-ton missile, you will feel her inner strength more and more. It is no wonder that Marshal Nie Jielin, commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Soviet Army, looked up and down for a long time without turning his eyes, unable to suppress his joy, and sighed over and over again: "Beauty! You're so perfect! Your beauty chills everyone who dares to challenge our great Soviet Union! ”

This beauty, which the commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Marshal Nie Telin, called perfect, is the P-7 that has just entered service in the Soviet Union, codenamed "Baton", with a range of 8,000 kilometers.

At 2:39 a.m. on February 11, nine minutes after Deng Feng announced the general offensive order, the 5th Battalion of the Medium-Range Missile of the Far East Corps launched a surface-to-surface medium-range tactical cruise missile at the Soviet Union's Tyuratam intercontinental missile launch base in the Yili area of Xinjiang Province, and this missile, under the guidance of the satellite, carried a 400-kilogram high-explosive conventional warhead, and accurately hit the waist of this "beauty". Adequate fuel was replenished for the fire.

At this time, the Soviet army's Tyuratam missile launch position was like a super volcano erupting, erupting in a short period of time with an energy hundreds of times higher than that of this 400-kilogram high-explosive conventional tactical cruise missile, and the launch position was covered with orange-yellow flames tens of meters high...... The fire quickly spread in all directions, destroying everything and all kinds of sturdy structures here, devouring all life in its path.

The fire detonated an oxygen plant not far from the launch pad, producing a roar of violent explosions one after another. The blazing poisonous gases and raging fire almost wiped out the entire base, and the people who slept were instantly engulfed in flames, and some people who did not die in their dreams fled in terror, trying to get away from this fire-breathing hell. Many more were swept down by the deadly toxic fumes in the air before they could get up. Some of those lucky enough to have fled to safety were scratched and bruised by trying to climb over the barbed wire fence with thorns, and some jumped into trenches with leaking fuel, and their bodies were burned by the acid that had accumulated inside. The fire detonated the missiles on the rocket, and a secondary explosion occurred, once again pushing the disaster to the **. Thankfully, conventional warheads.

Of the more than 4,000 people at this base, only more than 1,000 escaped the catastrophe. One by one, their eyes were glazed over, their faces were as blue as earth, naked in the bitter winter, and they watched in horror at the distant flames of the launch site, and the smoke filled the terrifying scene.

The fire lasted several hours. Everything that could be burned was reduced to ashes: the launch pads were burned and collapsed, all the facilities, equipment and cable lines of the launch site were melted down and burned, and the only thing that remained in the fire was the wreckage of a rocket engine made of special heat-resistant steel.

As a result of this Chinese strike, Marshal Nietelin, commander of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, 100 Soviet missile experts, and more than 3,000 Soviet officers and soldiers were killed in a sea of fire and poisonous smoke. Nie Jielin, commander of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, did not die in the accident on October 24, 1960, but "sacrificed his life for the country" more than a year ahead of schedule, becoming the first Soviet marshal to die in the Sino-Soviet border war.

As soon as the general offensive was launched, the air force of the Chinese Far East Corps launched anti-runway missiles loaded with 30 small bomblets and 200 small mines at more than 40 airfields in the Far East of the Soviet Army. For the destruction of airfield runways for Soviet troops. This anti-runway missile was produced using the technology of the later 70s, and after drilling into the runway, it can detonate at the optimal depth to maximize the damage to its runway. At the same time, 30 small bombs and 200 small mines filled with it were thrown into the surroundings to prevent the Soviet airfield runway maintenance personnel from repairing it, destroying the maintenance equipment, and killing and injuring the personnel repairing the airfield. The use of anti-runway missiles destroyed the runways of various airfields of the Soviet Far East Air Force and prevented the planes of the Soviet Far East Air Force from taking off normally, thus playing an important role in winning air supremacy in the early days of the war.

(To be continued)