Volume 14 The Smoke of Gunpowder Chapter 46 From Defense to Attack

After Pei Chengyi and Yuan Chenhao jointly launched the national strategic Langzhou demonstration initiative attack procedure, the strategic strike against the Russian military satellite system and the combat operation to resist the Russian strategic counterattack came to an end. [Full text reading]

To be on the safe side, in the next few minutes. The Republic's strategic reconnaissance satellites conducted two full-range scans of the entire territory of Russia and the surrounding waters, and the photographs taken by the Military Intelligence Agency's high-performance analytical computers and tens of thousands of intelligence officers were processed in real time to determine that Russia no longer has the ability to strike strategically. Liu Xiaobin was just on the spot, and he talked to Pei Chengyi on the phone. The situation was reported.

In that few minutes, the staff of the Strategic Command Center was also ready for the high-level meeting.

After talking to Liu Xiaobin on the phone, Pei Chengyi asked Dongfang Wen to prepare for a high-level video conference call. Although the first strategic strike is over. Russia's strategic counterattack has also been thwarted, but the strategic strike against Russia is far from over. In any case, the war has broken out, and no one can relax until Russia's strategic strike capability is completely destroyed.

At the old point, Pei Chengyi held a high-level video conference call at the strategic command center.

Although according to regulations, Yuan Chenhao should introduce the combat operations of the previous stage, the chief of the general staff gave this opportunity to perform on stage to the commander of the heavenly army. This is understandable, the war has only started for a few hours, and almost all the battles before this have been played by the Heavenly Army, and other branches of the military have not yet had the opportunity to perform on stage, and Yuan Chenhao, the chief of the general staff, has not had a chance to wield. Besides, Yuan Chenhao was not from the Celestial Army, and he didn't know much about air-space operations and strategic defense. Even if he is asked to explain, I am afraid he will not be able to say a name.

Unfortunately, this is a strategy meeting at the highest level and does not need to be too detailed.

Under Pei Chengyi's repeated reminders, the commander of the Heavenly Army, General Wei Jianhong, had time to speak, and he could only give a general introduction to the results of the battle.

"First of all, we must admit that the effect of active strikes and active defense has exceeded expectations, and so far not a single nuclear warhead of the enemy has reached the skies over our country. Secondly, we must know that the battle is far from over, and we have no reason to be proud of the victory we have won. Rather, if we don't win the next battles, those previous victories will be meaningless. Pei Chengyi said. While shifting his gaze from the hologram of the commander of the Celestial Army to the hologram of the director of military intelligence. Because of the use of holographic simulation imaging technology, it is similar to the situation of a normal meeting, and other participants can also know who Yuan is paying attention to through Pei Chengyi's gaze. "Although we are all generally aware of the current situation, we still ask Lao Liu to give us a brief introduction."

"Time is pressing, so I'll pick the most important ones." Liu Xiaobin didn't delay the middle time, Pei Chengyi's words just fell. And he spoke. "The first phase of combat operations has been successfully completed; And it's kind of a completion. Judging from the results of the war that have already been reunified, Russia's sea-based strategic forces have been completely wiped out, the land-based strategic nuclear forces have basically been completely wiped out, and the air-based strategic nuclear forces are still 70 percent. Because the Russian Air Force has already used up its stockpile of strategic cruise missiles in previous attacks, even if there are still some strategic cruise missiles that have escaped verification, it is difficult to form a scale. What's more, the strategic bombers can only return to their bases in two hours at the earliest, and then they can load up their ammunition and strike again, so we have almost two hours left to strike at Russia's strategic air bases. At present, the most urgent task is not to guard against Russia's strategic strikes, nor to pursue Russia's strategic forces, but to prevent the dispersal of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials in stockpiles, and more importantly, to make weapons of mass destruction from nuclear materials that Russia has not yet had time to destroy. ”

"Strike at Russia's arsenal of nuclear weapons?" Jiao Piaoshan immediately asked.

Liu Xiaobin nodded and said: "Taking advantage of the convenient conditions of verification, we have long grasped the basic situation of Russia's nuclear weapons arsenal. Although it cannot be ruled out that Russia has secretly stored some nuclear warheads and nuclear materials, it is certain that most of Russia's dismantled nuclear warheads and nuclear materials are in that nuclear weapons depot. But that's not all. The mother is undoubted. Before defeating Russia. In the long run, we must try as soon as possible to deal with some of Russia's strategic facilities, such as those fission nuclear power plants that have not yet been demolished, some controllable fusion nuclear power plants with military use, and some Russian chemical plants, chemical plants, heavy metal processing plants, and radioactive material recovery and processing plants in the upper reaches and north banks of the Heilongjiang River, which can or may pose a threat to China's homeland, causing a large number of casualties and property losses. and regional pollution targets, and the use of special means to minimize the collateral effect of the strike. ”

Jiao Shushan let out a sigh and turned his gaze to Pei Chengyi. As the deputy in charge of internal affairs, Jiao Yu remained silent at this time, which is equivalent to agreeing with Liu Xiaobin's point of view.

"How many goals are there in total, and how many are in each?" Pei Chengyi asked three questions with a calm expression.

"There are two hundred and thirty-eight targets in the military category. There are 1,377 targets in the non-military category. ”

Pei Chengyi frowned slightly, but still didn't nod in a hurry.

Yong Yugang hesitated for a moment, and then asked Liu Xiaobin: "If there is a target, how much will it be caused by adopting the special year you said, and how many civilian casualties will it cause?" ”

"The exact number of civilian casualties cannot be estimated. It can only be roughly concluded that the death toll must be more than 500,000, and another 10 million people will be evacuated and evacuated. Liu Xiaobin paused slightly. "If the Russian authorities do not carry out the relocation and evacuation of the contaminated areas, the death toll will certainly increase several times." "That's not a small number." Yong Yugang muttered and set his eyes on Pei Chengyi.

"It can be implemented, and it will be implemented as soon as possible." Pei Chengyi did not hesitate any longer and said, "The specific strike operation is still planned and carried out by the General Staff, and the Military Intelligence Bureau fully assists and cooperates. This will be the focus of the second phase of the strategic operation, and I will see the report of the strike by dawn tomorrow at the latest.

Yuan Chenhao and Liu Xiaobin immediately turned around and went to the staff and secretary and began to give orders.

It can be seen that this is a move arranged by Pei Chengyi earlier, and those things he did before. It's just that it looks more natural when he gives orders. This is also understandable, if in the previous battles, the republic still focused on strategic defense, even if it took the initiative to attack, it was to improve the defense effect. The order that Pei Chengyi began to give had already gone beyond the scope of defense, and it was a veritable strategic offensive order. Although Bae Seung-yi was the head of the republic, and the republic was essentially at war with Russia, before the two countries officially declared war. This kind of proactive strategic offensive will still leave room for other countries to speak, so try not to directly implicate Pei Chengyi. Naturally, it would be more appropriate for someone else, especially the heads of intelligence and military agencies, to raise it.

Strictly speaking, from this time onwards. The republican ** team is considered to enter the role.

From another point of view, only after the completion of this round of strikes can the basic strategic security of the republic be guaranteed. In other words, the strategic threat from Russia has been eliminated.

As we all know, the Treaty of London changed the whole world and also changed the history of mankind.

From the perspective of the United States, even without the Treaty of London, the arms race between the Republic and the United States would have turned into an all-out war, rather than ending with the collapse of one side as in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The reason is simple: both the Republic and the United States have learned from the experience of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and know how to avoid exhausting their national strength in a fierce arms race. What's more, driven by technological progress, especially the electric revolution, the threatening effect of nuclear weapons will certainly gradually decrease, and it will take no more than a few more decades for the Republic and the United States to strengthen the strategic defense system. Of course, without the Treaty of London, the world war would have been much more tragic. The destructive effect on human civilization has also become more prominent. It can be seen that the greatest significance of the "London Treaty" is that it opened a shortcut to world war for the two major powers. It is precisely because of this that some people think. The Treaty of London gave birth to World War III.

There is no doubt that both the Republic and the United States were beneficiaries of the Treaty of London until the end of World War III.

As Liu Xiaobin said, relying on the right to verification under the London Treaty, the Republic has long mastered the basic situation of Russia's nuclear weapons arsenal.

The problem is that as a country like Russia, it will certainly not be willingly slaughtered.

It is precisely because of the insistence of Russia and other medium-sized nuclear powers that the "London Treaty" does not clearly stipulate the final method of disposal of nuclear materials, but only stipulates that weapons-grade concentrated sodium and enrichment cups in nuclear warheads within the reduction range must be diluted, that is, the concentration is reduced to below the minimum concentration that can be used by nuclear reactors with proliferating capacity. in order to be sequestered, and how to deal with the mothballed nuclear materials. In the process of implementation, it will be negotiated and settled by the parties to the treaty. According to this standard, both enriched uranium and enrichment bowls must be sequestered under dilution to the gills. Because Russia has not reached an agreement on the final disposal method with other signatories, the destruction of nuclear weapons and the dismantling of nuclear reactors have diluted and sealed the nuclear materials, and by the time the war broke out, the nuclear materials stored in Russia were too old and stewed, of which the canine part was uranium concentration and only a small part was gill concentration bowl.

Theoretically, these nuclear materials could make hundreds of thousands of atomic bombs.

Because neon and cyanide are industrial raw materials, the most common is used as fluorescent agents, and the production of neon and lithiide is not a difficult task, so Russia is fully capable of using these nuclear materials to create a hydrogen bomb that is enough to destroy the earth.

Of course, this is not an easy task.

Among other things, uranium and cups with the name of concentration should be refined into weapons-grade enriched sodium and enrichment bowls. Even if Russia does not lack the relevant technology and industrial production capacity, nor does it lack electricity, it will take months or even years to produce centrifuges or diffusers. The reason is simple. Under the terms of the London Treaty, at the end of the year, when the second phase of reductions is completed, the signatories are required to destroy all the industrial equipment used to purify nuclear material and submit to full verification by the other signatories within the next few months. That is, at the end of the calendar year. There are no centrifuges and diffusers that can be used in Russia.

The question is whether the verification has been done thoroughly.

It is undeniable that the verification process is certainly comprehensive. Also very careful. There is only one thing to worry about, and that is that a country like Russia, which has an extremely vast land area, extremely mountainous resources, and an extraordinary industry, if it deliberately conceals this covenant and repents, it will help. It is certainly possible to preserve some of the nuclear material that should have been destroyed, or even nuclear warheads, and to hide them in places that are not easily detectable, and even if they were detected, they would be difficult to verify. Don't say anything else. There are at least thousands of prisons built during the Tsarist and Soviet eras. And most of them are in the middle of nowhere. Some of the nearest towns are even hundreds of kilometers away, and several nuclear warheads are to be hidden in these places. It's certainly not that hard.

Even if we don't consider the illegal storage of nuclear warheads, we have to consider the threat posed by the tens of thousands of tons of nuclear materials.

If nothing else, if the Russian authorities dump tens of kilograms of bowls on the Amur River, that is, in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, even if it is not weapons-grade plutonium, it will cause serious pollution in the entire basin, not to mention killing all the creatures in the river, it will definitely pose a mortal threat to hundreds of thousands of citizens of the Republic in the cities and towns along the river. You must know that the bowl is the most poisonous substance known to the world, if it is spread on average, about one spoonful, that is, the old gram can kill more than 400 million people around the world, and its toxicity is 10 billion times that of arsenic arsenic.

Of course, if you do this, Su Xiang's biggest thing is the environment.

From the standpoint of the Russian authorities, in a desperate situation, the old stew of highly radioactive and highly toxic nuclear materials definitely has more uses. Leaving aside the fact that these nuclear materials are made into a dirty bomb and thrown on the Republic, after all, a counterattack with a dirty bomb will not have much effect when it is difficult for a strategic counterattack to be effective. Just one thing. That is, the Russian authorities took the initiative to blow up the arsenal of nuclear weapons. Moreover, if the explosion was made more violent, and the radioactive fallout produced by the explosion was chosen at the right time, it would be necessary for the Republic to evacuate hundreds of millions of people in the northern part of the country with rain clouds and cold air currents. Don't forget, this is the time of year when the north winds are at their peak. The north winds blowing towards the mainland of the republic basically come from Russia, and most of them are generated in Russia.

on this. The authorities of the Republic have long done simulation analysis using state-of-the-art computers.

The results of a simulation analysis alone illustrate the extent of the problem. If the Russian authorities blow up the warehouse near the town of Yerbogaqiong in the upper reaches of the Tunguska River on the Central Siberian Plateau, where the materials for nuclear stew are stored, and use tactical nuclear weapons with a yield of about 10,000 tons to destroy them, as long as there is a suitable wind direction, the radioactive fallout produced will cover the entire Mongolia, most of Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Henan, Shandong, and parts of Gansu and Jiangsu, causing about 3,000,000 people to be affected and need to be evacuated urgently. 100 million people. And, within a month, evacuate the rest of the incarnation. 10,000 people

Needless to say, if the forces were concentrated on evacuating so many people, the war potential of the republic would inevitably be greatly affected, and it was even possible to lose the war. The authorities of the republic will face a dilemma between saving a third of its citizens or winning the war.

The tactical nuclear weapons in Russia's hands are even more worrying than the scrapping of nuclear materials.

Although it is difficult for the Russian authorities to turn tactical nuclear weapons into strategic nuclear weapons in a short period of time due to the limitations of throwing tools, even tactical nuclear weapons deployed in border areas are difficult to break through the national strategic defense system of the republic, as well as a tighter theater air defense system, but tactical nuclear weapons are also nuclear weapons, and many tactical nuclear weapons can adjust the explosion power according to actual combat use, such as the standard explosive yield. A stewed tactical nuclear warhead can raise the explosive yield to more than 10,000 tons without making any changes. In this way, tactical nuclear weapons are still a full threat, especially after the full-scale outbreak of war, the Russian army can completely use tactical nuclear weapons as ordinary weapons, and even use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield on the home battlefield in a self-harming way. In order to deplete the living forces of the offensive forces of the republic.

Thankfully, tactical nuclear weapons are more heavily regulated in any country.

The reason is simple, the tasks of combat readiness alert in peacetime are carried out by strategic forces, and there is no need to equip combat units with tactical nuclear weapons. The London Treaty also stipulates the manner in which tactical nuclear weapons are to be maintained, that is, the tactical nuclear weapons of all participating countries must be recorded. The purpose of this provision is to ensure global security and prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorist groups, but in practice it limits the deployment and use of tactical nuclear weapons.

Because the war has just broken out, even after the military coup in Kazakhstan, the Russian army will raise its alert, and no one will think of allocating the tactical nuclear weapons in the warehouse to the combat troops, so when Liu Xiaobin raised this question, the tactical nuclear weapons of the Russian army were still locked in the warehouse.

Of course, judging by the previous 2 hours of fighting, if these warehouses are not destroyed as soon as possible. I am afraid that the thousands of tactical nuclear weapons in Russia's stockpile will be used as conventional weapons by the Russian army.

It can be seen from this that pure defense against Russia's tactical nuclear weapons and scrapped nuclear materials is certainly useless.

In a sense, ordinary means of striking will not have much effect. For example, when attacking Russia's nuclear material warehouses, if you use ordinary methods, you will also drop a tactical nuclear warhead at the target, and what is the difference between letting the Russian authorities blow it up on their own?

For this, special means must be employed!