Although the cold wind from Siberia is still raging. The temperature has dropped below zero degrees Celsius. It set a new record for the lowest temperature ever recorded for the same period, but it was hot inside the Duzikov barracks. Dozens of tanks, dozens of infantry fighting vehicles, and hundreds of armored personnel carriers were parked behind the gate of the barracks, hundreds of heavily armed soldiers gathered in the square, dozens of pillars of light generated by high-power spotlights swayed back and forth above the heads of officers and men, and the loud army march echoed over the camp, and the atmosphere was so tense that people could not breathe. With the appearance of the commander of the garrison, Major General Akayev, the march came to an abrupt end, and the spotlight turned to the high podium. After an exciting speech by Major General Akayev, the officers and men gathered in the square divided into dozens of streams and marched resolutely towards their respective tank vehicles. In just a few minutes, a steel torrent of tanks and fighting vehicles with Russian aid left the Duzyikov barracks. In the bitter cold wind, unswervingly drive to Kazakhstan not far away. Before dawn, gunfire rang out in the city of Astana.

Less than two years later, another military coup broke out in this vast and sparsely populated country.

At this time, thousands of kilometers away, in the underground conference center of the new capital of the Republic, the emergency meeting had been going on for several hours.

Dongfang Wen came to the conference room again. The officers and men of the Yuanfu Guard Force brought lunch to the senior officials attending the meeting.

Because the meeting was particularly important, lunch was arranged casually, and everyone was a boxed lunch. Of course, if it's not enough, you can ask for a second copy. Just judging by the atmosphere of the convention center. I'm afraid no one has an appetite either.

As soon as the guards left, a young officer in the uniform of an Air Force major hurriedly walked in and whispered a few words in the ear of the chief of the General Staff. After letting the major officer go out, Yuan Chenhao nodded at Pei Chengyi, who was sitting next to him, and then looked at the secretary who assisted in the meeting. A few seconds later, a three-dimensional picture appeared in the virtual 3D projection area in the center of the hall, and Yuan Chenhao also left his seat and came to the console of the virtual 3D projector.

"This is a real-time picture taken by an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft of our army."

After saying this, Yuan Chenhao paused slightly. Because the participants are more or less a little bit of a military attempt, even Yong Yugang has a little to do with the army, and when he was young, he served as a military counselor in embassies and consulates abroad, so this sentence alone is enough to explain the problem.

In fact, it was only at this point that the meeting got to the point.

Before dawn, after Pei Chengyi received a phone call from Liu Xiaobin and learned that the Kazakh garrison had left the barracks without receiving an order, he immediately asked Dongfang Wen to contact the military and political dignitaries one by one and hold an emergency meeting. At the same time, Pei Chengyi personally called Yuan Chenhao and asked him to directly give an order to the strategic reconnaissance unit stationed in the northwest region and send a reconnaissance plane over to find out the situation.

Although the degree of strategic reconnaissance planes is above the Libermach, it does not mean that they can be dispatched immediately.

You must know that many years ago, the authorities of the Republic of China made great efforts to develop a high-pitched suborbital strategic reconnaissance aircraft.

At that time, it was Pei Chengyi, who had just commanded the republican team to win the war in India. According to the project plan submitted by Pei Chengyi to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, the strategic reconnaissance aircraft has many advantages, the most important of which is to avoid conflicts with the target country. In accordance with relevant international law, airspace has national borders, and outer space has no national borders. It's also easy to understand that spacecraft are orbiters. If you have to fly around the center of the earth, you will definitely go into the skies over other countries, and if outer space also has national borders, no one will want to launch artificial satellites.

The question is, where is the edge of the atmosphere?

From a purely natural point of view, the atmosphere is divided into troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and fugitive layer, with the largest outer edge above the concave kilometer, while the orbit of artificial satellites can be as low as more than 4 kilometers. As a result, the international community has not made a clear statement on how the atmosphere should be divided, that is, at what altitude it is considered an orbiter.

It is precisely this that there is space for the presence of suborbital vehicles.

For example, the high-pitched unmanned strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the Republic Air Force flies at an altitude of about 1,000 kilometers, that is, at the top of the middle layer, and its maximum flight altitude is 1,000 kilometers. at the bottom of the thermal layer. When carrying out reconnaissance missions, the flight altitude can be appropriately selected according to the actual situation. For example, when flying in low-risk areas. It is possible to reduce the altitude to less than 8o kilometers and fly in free mode for higher shooting accuracy. If you need to go to a high-risk area, you can increase the flight altitude to! of kilometers, flying in orbital mode, can not only obtain a near-infinite range, but also use international law to avoid interception.

Of course, this can only be done in peacetime. and when dealing with ordinary countries.

You must know that after the advent of strategic reconnaissance aircraft in this era, they were first used to reconnoiter important strategic targets in the United States, and each time they were highly concerned by the North American Air Defense Command and the US air defense forces, and on several occasions they were irradiated by low-power lasers, causing the airborne reconnaissance equipment to fail. More often than not, they are accompanied by the US Space Force's aerospace fighters, making reconnaissance operations meaningless.

Fortunately, Russia's Jade Army is not yet in the climate.

What's more, there is no strategic defense system in the Hazakh "Shanjintan. Of course, as a suborbital vehicle, even if it is ready to take off at all times, it will take several hours from receiving the order to reaching the sky above the target.

Before the arrival of the strategic reconnaissance aircraft, intelligence was obtained mainly through three channels. The first is the real-time news from the embassy of the Republic in Kazakhstan, the second is the information report from the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the third is the photos taken by the strategic reconnaissance satellite. Because the emergency mechanism has been activated, all the information is collected at the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the intelligence analysis department of the Military Intelligence Agency will conduct preliminary processing, and then give it to the Yuan Government for the reference of national leaders.

In fact, the information provided by these three lines is enough to repute it.

In the aftermath of the military coup, Astana's garrison stormed the presidential palace with lightning speed, detained President Tostoevsky, who had worked for Russia, and declared the Russian-backed regime established last year illegal, Major General Akayev declared allegiance to former President Dudayev in exile. Because it was a military coup that had been planned for a long time, less than half an hour after Akayev announced his political stance, Dudayev's spokesman said in Urumqi that Akayev had been appointed chairman of the Provisional Military Control Committee of Kazakhstan. Katinga Dudayev, the former Minister of Defense, who was responsible for everything during the period of martial law and then secretly returned to China, also Dudayev's younger brother, appeared in Almaty and announced the formation of the Provisional Transitional Government of Kazakhstan. At this point, all the steps necessary for a military coup d'état were successfully completed. It took less than 4 hours before and after.

If this was a military coup d'état orchestrated entirely by Dudayev's remnants, I am afraid no one would be able to believe it.

You must know that more than a year ago, Colonel Akayev, who was still the commander of the special police unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, was still a diehard loyalist of Tostoevsky, and without the support of this serviceman who controls the special forces of Kazakhstan, even if Tostoevsky could come to power, his hands would be stained with the blood of many compatriots, and his regime was doomed to be unstable. With the help of Akayev, Tostoevsky was able to complete the military coup d'état without blood. And to drive numerous opposition parties out of Kazakhstan so that the legitimacy of their regime is recognized. In return, Tostoevsky not only promoted Akayev to the rank of major general, but also placed him in the crucial position of commander of the garrison, making him one of the most influential generals in the army of Saxestan.

It can be seen from this that if it were only the remnants of Dudayev, Akayev would certainly not betray Tostoevsky.

The point is here, why did Akayev betray Tostoevsky. According to some information released later, in the Almaty air crash that shocked the world, Akayev's parents and eldest son were all killed, and the investigation into the crash was not completed. According to the relevant documents of the Military Intelligence Agency, the crash is likely to be related to the assassination of Dudayev by Russian intelligence, as among those killed was a security adviser during Dudayev's administration. It was this plane crash that changed Akayev's political stance. Pushed him into the Dudayev camp. Of course. Between Akayev and Dudayev, there must be someone who is matchmaking, and it is the Military Intelligence Service that plays this role.

In other words, this was a military coup orchestrated by the Military Intelligence Agency.

Of course, Cejon doesn't mean you have to participate. From the intelligence front, planning often means creating all the necessary conditions for an event, but not directly triggering the event, but with the help of third-party factors or in the form of incentives, with the participants in the event taking action. To put it bluntly, the MIA only needs to provide the necessary conditions for Tsego and Dudayev and Akayev, who staged a military coup. There is no need to be directly involved. The advantage of this is obvious: after a failed military coup, there is no evidence against the MIA, and there is no need to consider the consequences of involvement. At the beginning of the year, Russian intelligence agencies planned a military coup in Kazakhstan in a similar way, so that the authorities of the republic had nowhere to start and could not point the finger at Russia, and there was no reason to retaliate.

It doesn't matter whether you are involved or not, it is the outcome that matters.

As with all military coups, the first few hours are the most critical. If the situation can be brought under control before the other side reacts, the coup will be more than half successful.

Judging from the real-time footage returned by the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the situation is much better than expected.

Although the Astana garrison has only more than 10,000 people, Akayev is a general from the special forces and knows how to use troops wisely. After taking control of the presidential palace, the National Assembly, the State Council, the General Staff of the three services, the national television station, the central radio station and other important institutions, the garrison forces are gradually taking control of the capital's external access under the command of Akayev. In addition, roadblocks are set up at traffic points on the outskirts of the city to check passing vehicles. In order to appease the citizens of the capital, in addition to ordering the major daily necessities stores to continue to operate as usual and not to raise prices, Akayev also dispatched logistics troops and set up dozens of material distribution points in the city to distribute food, bottled water and other necessary materials to the citizens in need. Prior to this, hundreds of propaganda vehicles equipped with loudspeakers had entered the city. Broadcasting tours began after dawn, asking citizens to stay at home as much as possible and not to move around, even if necessary. You should also seek help from the nearest patrol unit first. Of course, Akayev did not forget the most important thing, that is, to let Asta Yi Xunshu dry the concave and say that Xun Shan is not the same body clam Chuan" When Xiao Jian Cha introduced the relevant situation to the new regime Ying Yuan Chenhao, the foot coin eight was doing this. Meet with the Astana Police Chief and get the veteran with years of service to follow his command.

It can be said that Akayev is simply familiar with carrying out a military coup.

Of course, this is also inseparable from the covert support of the Military Intelligence Agency. Although Liu Xiaobin has been huddled in the corner and has not said a word for several hours, Pei Chengyi and other leaders who know the Military Intelligence Bureau very well know. This autumn-swept military coup has a distinctly "MIA character." "That is, it is well planned. Swift action and limited scale.

The problem is that taking control of Astana is not the same as controlling Kazakhstan.

Similarly, the allegiance of the garrison to Dudayev does not mean that the Kazakh Defense Forces will owe allegiance to Dudayev.

You know, in the past Dondori, with the active support of the Russian authorities, Tostoevsky eradicated almost all the remnants of the Dudayev government.

Although Kazakhstan is a typical country with a vast area and sparsely populated population, there are less than 10,000 people in the country, and the average population density is only per square kilometer, which is not only lower than several other Central Asian countries, but also much less than Uzbekistan. However, Kazakhstan has a large army, and the total strength of the army is more than 10,000. More importantly, due to the vast territory, there were only 10,000 garrisons stationed near the capital. More than 90 percent of the remaining troops are stationed in other areas.

"It seems that the coup has been successful. But I would say that it's only half the battle at best. Yuan Chenhao said as he turned off the virtual 3D projector. According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Service, of the other eight divisions, at most only two divisions stationed in Almaty and Shymkent would defect to Dudayev, the 7th Infantry Division stationed in Akotau was likely to remain neutral, and the other five divisions were Tostoevsky's die-hard loyalists, of which the 2nd Panzer Division stationed in Karaganda, the 4th Panzer Division stationed in Paplodar, and the 1st Infantry Division stationed in Alekseevka could reach Astana within 24 hours. The 1st Infantry Division encircled and suppressed the coup. Although the infantry division is the most powerful unit in the Kazakh army in terms of combat effectiveness, the chances of victory against three divisions at the same time are very limited, if other factors are not considered. In my judgment, the counterinsurgency forces are either already on the road or are about to hit the road. That is, by this time tomorrow, Astana will be attacked. Because our army wants to go to war. It takes some time. So by dawn tomorrow at the latest, we'll make a decision on whether or not to send troops. My opinion is"

Before Yuan Chenhao could finish speaking, two young officers hurriedly walked in through the side door, one walked towards Yuan Chenhao, and the other walked towards Liu Xiaobin, who was sitting in the corner.

After the staff officer finished speaking, Yuan Chenhao waved his hand without changing his face and let the young officer go out. After another young officer finished speaking in Liu Xiaobin's ear and left the conference center. Yuan Chenhao let out a long breath and said, "I just received the latest news, the 2nd Armored Division, the Boot Armored Division, and the 1st Infantry Division have left the camp one after another half an hour ago, and it is expected to arrive in Astana within twenty to twenty-four hours. ”

"Is there anything unusual on the Air Force's side?" Pei Chengyi only asked at this time.

"Several major air bases have been put on heightened alert. But no warplanes rose into the air. ”

Pei Chengyi nodded slightly and turned his gaze to Liu Xiaobin.

I just received the news that the coup forces executed Tostoevsky for treason, although Liu Xiaobin's words were not shocking, but the atmosphere in the conference center immediately became tense. Yongyuwang, who didn't look very good-looking, almost jumped up from his chair.

At this time, Liu Xiaobin also stood up, walked to Pei Chengyi's side, and said, "Cheryakov has already held an emergency meeting in the Kremlin. In accordance with the contingency plan, the General Staff of the Russian Army issued an emergency mobilization order to the Siberian Theater and the Far Eastern Theater Command, and the grassroots units have already begun to be mobilized, and the main forces will enter combat status within 24 hours, while the second-line troops will need 48 hours. For the time being, it is uncertain whether Russia will send troops to intervene, and we are stepping up our efforts to gather intelligence and report back at any time when we have news

Pei Chengyi nodded at Liu Xiaobin and looked at Yongyuwang, who had a gloomy face.

"If Tostoevsky is alive, maybe there is still room to turn around. Akayev's rashness and execution of Tostoevsky without a public trial has already put the situation out of control. I think that it is only a matter of time before Russia sends troops to this point. ”

"If that's the case, we'll have to make a decision sooner rather than later." Yuan Chenhao wasted no time in adding.

Yong Yugang sighed secretly and nodded at Pei Chengyi.

Liu Xiaobin had a wry smile on his face, and nodded slightly when Pei Chengyi saddled his gaze.

After glancing at Yuan Chenhao, who had a firm look in his eyes, Pei Chengyi did not rush to speak, but turned his gaze to Jiaoyu Mountain, which had been silent. Anyway. Jiao Bishan is the vice president of the state and is in charge of the daily affairs of the State Council, so such an important policy decision cannot be made without his opinions and suggestions. Yi Xunshu is sunned and concave is not the same body clam