The Russian army is preparing for a new round of offensive, but their opponents Chechen have not relaxed in the slightest, under Qi Yiming's instructions, Siberia and the Far East are increasing support for the Chechen Republic, and even Qi Yiming himself is not only instigating Chechnya to oppose Russia, the Ossetians, Avars, Kabardians, and Ingush people in the North Caucasus, Qi Yiming are looking for suitable people to stand up and establish an independent state.

The Caucasus has always been an important foothold for various nomadic peoples to migrate in history, and many ethnic groups here have actually appeared in Chinese history, such as the Avars, who are actually the descendants of the Rouran people, and slowly became the Avars after migration; The ancestors of the Ossetians were the Xiancai people of the Western Regions (one said to be Wusun).

In modern times, most of the people in this region have embraced Islam and become Muslims, with a predominantly Sunni sect and a small number of Sufis.

In his original sense, Qi Yiming does not like to let the Chechens in the Caucasus dominate, and it is very fair and objective to evaluate that the national character of Chechnya is very backward, and although it was incorporated by the Soviet Union, it has not made much progress in the past few decades. Even though many Western scholars condemn the oppression of Chechnya by Russia and the Soviet Union, these scholars also admit that Chechnya is indeed a relatively extreme nation.

Chechens despise honest labor, advocate violence and robbery, and take pride in robbing. Because before being ruled by the Soviet Union, their degree of development was still in a very primitive clan stage, and even slavery was still practiced, so that after the current ********, the Chechens who hated labor and loved robbery reverted to their old ways, from Grozny to ordinary mountain villages, Chechens did not work and farm, they arrested groups of people of different ethnic groups, and then treated them as slaves, and even some large towns and towns openly opened slave markets for Chechens to choose slaves. When it comes to slaves, Chechens do not love freedom and human rights as Westerners boast, and countless slaves have been tortured to death.

In addition, Chechens do not think it is a big deal about all kinds of criminal activities. After gaining independence, the Chechens began to illegally acquire a large amount of wealth, at least in the form of hundreds of billions of rubles, in the form of Russian bank remittance slip fraud. Chechens are also very fond of printing counterfeit money, and once the Russian police counted that one out of every three people who printed counterfeit money was a Chechen.

Others, such as stealing oil from the Azerbaijani to Russian oil pipelines, jumping off a train and robbing passengers and goods on board, to put it mildly, the Chechen nation is simply a bandit nation. Although not all Chechens are such virtues, most Chechens are traditional to the core, that is to say, like barbaric ancestors.

In addition to being a bandit nation, Chechens also have the temperament of retribution and blood debts, Qi Yiming has seen many terrorist attacks carried out by Chechens in later generations, such as the Beslan hostage incident and the Boston Marathon bombing, such extreme Chechens are simply born to exist for the cause of terror.

Qi Yiming doesn't want to see the existence of Chechnya that is too powerful, disturb the situation in the Caucasus, and even export a large number of terrorists to the outside world every year, so although he is supporting Chechnya at this time, he must guard against it, and after Russia is almost messed up, he must be able to suppress the signs of continued development in Chechnya.

It is obviously very good to be able to use several other ethnic groups in the Caucasus to fight the Chechens, and the unpleasant character of the Chechens will certainly create a sense of crisis in these countries, so as to counterbalance and defend Chechnya. Chechnya's energy is drawn to the North Caucasus, so there is no need to export terrorist activities.

In order to prevent Chechnya from becoming too strong, the support of Siberia and the Far East for Chechnya is limited, for example, in terms of air force strength, although nearly 100 warplanes have flown to Chechnya one after another, whether it is ground support or pilots, they are all Siberian and Far East's own people, and they are here to help in the war in the mode of friendly forces, and they are not really given to Chechnya in vain.

A large number of key skilled soldiers in the ground forces are also from Siberia and the Far East, and although it is inevitable that some Chechens will learn something in the process, if necessary, a big withdrawal will seriously weaken Chechens' combat strength.

As more and more Soviet-made equipment is being sent to Chechnya from Siberia and the Far East via Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea, Chechnya's armed forces are constantly expanding. The complacent President Dudayev further refined and restructured the Chechen National Guard, the three major branches of the military were formally established, and Dudayev also appointed himself as the supreme commander of the National Guard.

The Chechen National Guard's army was formed by Dudayev into five infantry brigades, plus some scattered formations, numbering about 20,000 people. Two of the brigades are heavy brigades, equipped with a large number of T-72 tanks, BMP-1/2 armored vehicles, BTR-70/80 armored vehicles, and the Chechen National Guard also pays special attention to the formation of artillery units, they have a large number of Soviet-made towed artillery that has been supported, and the artillery lineup can be called luxurious.

In fact, the air force is mainly reinforcements from Siberia and the Far East, and there are not many real Chechens, but Dudayev himself is from the Air Force, so he deliberately planted a lot of manpower, hoping to use the help of Siberia and the Far East to build his own air force.

Among them, the Chechen navy is mainly in the port of Makhachkala in Dagestan, and the real ships are actually some river gunboats with more than 100 tons of artillery installed, which are also relics of the former Soviet Union, and there are not even many of them.

However, this small number of "navies" directly participated in the second round of warfare.

During this period of time, a large number of weapons and equipment and supplies have been transported from the Caspian Sea, and the ships used in Kazakhstan are not semi-submersible ships or submarines.

Because of the involvement in Kazakhstan, Grachev had to report the situation to Yeltsin, Yeltsin did not dare to slack off after learning about it, and put on a thunderous and angry posture to interrogate Kazakh President Nazarbayev, but Nazarbayev pushed the matter to a clean end, saying that he was busy with domestic affairs and did not send weapons to the Chechen bandits, of course, if someone did do this, he would investigate.

However, whether this investigation will have results or not, this is not something that others can know.

Yeltsin was unhappy with Nazarbayev's statement, and Kazakhstan was also clearly uncooperative in the ownership of nuclear weapons, not wanting to return nuclear weapons to Russia, and Yeltsin was even ready to use the power of international public opinion to put pressure on Nazarbayev.

Under the combination of various factors, Yeltsin ordered Grachev to attack Chechen transport ships transporting weapons on the Caspian Sea, and the Russian army specially dispatched several attack planes, escorted by fighter jets, to fly into the airspace of the Caspian Sea and drop bombs on Kazakh transport ships.

The Russian Air Force did not use guided weapons, so the strike effect and accuracy were not good, and multiple rounds of throwing only severely damaged one munitions ship and did not completely sink it. This is because when transporting arms, the Kazakh side adopted high safety standards, flammable and explosive things were separated from ordinary equipment, and the ship happened to have no ammunition, so it did not cause large-scale explosions.

And at this time, the Chechen National Guard Navy also rushed to the scene of the incident. Although the ships of the Chechen Navy are all small boats in the early 100-ton range, and they do not have decent air defense capabilities, because the big financier behind Chechnya is Qi Yiming, Qi Yiming, who has valuable Soviet-made needle missiles, did not hesitate and gave Chechnya a lot. These boats usually have multiple needle missiles on board, and the low-flying Russian aircraft are immediately attacked by these missiles.

An attack plane was shot down, and the Russian army quickly launched a countermeasure and successfully sank a Chechen naval boat, after all, these small ships are too small in tonnage and have poor defense capabilities, so they are easier to sink than munitions ships.

Chechnya is not without an air force, several Chechen MiG-21 and MiG-23 fighters took off urgently to intercept Russian fighters, except for one Su-27 among the Russian fighters, the other fighters are basically the same generation as the Chechen fighters.

More than half of the Russian fleet is attack aircraft, and there are actually only three fighters, on the other hand, there are 6 fighters on the Chechen side, under the numerical superiority, the Chechen Air Force took the initiative to attack the Russian Air Force, the main target is naturally those attack aircraft carrying weapons, and the Russian army counterattacked, Su-27 shot down two Chechen fighters one after another, but then was also bombarded by a Chechen fighter with a cannon.

In the end, the Russian army lost three attack planes and two fighters, and the Chechen side lost four fighters, and the Russian army hastily retreated before the second wave of interceptors arrived in Chechnya and did not continue to fight, so the battle losses were slightly superior to that of Chechnya, but the actual Russian army did not fight badly.

In fact, most of the pilots in Chechnya are ethnic Russians, and although some people have a lot of opinions about Chechnya, after a long course of ideological education in Siberia and the Far East, they also generally believe that the most evil is the Russian Federation, and they are no different from the white bandits in history.

Since then, the main combat target of the Russian army has been to intercept the arms ships transporting arms to Chechnya on the Caspian Sea route, and they do not dare to directly bomb the ports of Kazakhstan, because Kazakhstan has denied that it has anything to do with it, so it can only wait for the arms ships to carry out air strikes when they are on the water. In order to protect these arms that keep Chechnya fighting, Dudayev ordered the Chechen Air Force to be on the highest alert and ready to attack Russian fighters that intend to attack the munitions ships.

The back-and-forth air battle broke out over the Caspian Sea, which lasted for more than two months until the second wave of the Russian army launched a ground offensive.