Chapter 253: It's hard to ride a tiger
How the current situation will develop is what the Americans are scratching their heads the most, because everyone is judging the movements of the Soviet Union, and for the Soviet Union, it is also a very difficult situation, and it is difficult to ride a tiger.
"We can't blame our Far Eastern Military District for this, we can't blame the blind command from above." In the military district headquarters, General Konstantin Bourman looked angry: "Originally, our preparations were not in place, because of the reconnaissance operation of the Americans, we were forced to advance, and after the advance, we had to revise our action plan and let us go to Kushiro to land, that was simply whimsical!" ”
There is a reason for Konstantin's anger, the Territorial Defense Forces are not ready, the coordination of air power and sea power is not tacit at all, and especially, it is necessary to use the cover of fog, and what is the result? This fog did not provide a chance for your side at all, but caused you to suffer heavy losses!
The loss of transport planes, the loss of landing ships at sea, these could have been avoided, if there had not been a careless command from above.
Konstantin was furious.
And next to him, the commander of the Far Eastern Military District, Colonel-General Ivan Trecyanko, also frowned.
Today's battle was a complete failure, and the defeat was somewhat miserable, and his colleagues scolded and scolded here, in fact, they also wanted to shirk their responsibilities, the Far Eastern Military District has done its best, and this battle is fought like this, you can't blame yourself, you have to blame the people in command for being too mentally retarded.
But who was responsible for the operation, and who gave the revised program? That's Marshal Ustinov, saying this is simply a slap in the face to Ustinov.
I don't know how many more days I can stay in this position, maybe tomorrow, the angry Ustinov will remove all of him.
However, before leaving, I still have to sum up the lessons of this time, and the biggest problem is that this is simply a trap!
If the Americans did not know, how could they have deployed so many man-portable missiles at Kushiro Airport in advance to attack those transport planes that they landed?
You know, it's a civilian airport, so how can there be so many military people there? Still carrying Stinger missiles?
The plan was leaked, it must be like this!
Thinking of this, he had already found an excuse and reported to Moscow that the failure of this operation in his military district was due to the fact that the operation was leaked in advance, and asked the KGB to cooperate and find out the person who leaked the secrets!
As for what to do next, let's leave it to Moscow to worry about it, as long as it earnestly carries out its orders.
Colonel-General Ivan Tretsyanko also prepared a contingency plan.
Moscow.
As in the Far Eastern Military District, in the command hall of the building of the Ministry of Defense, a large-scale sand table model was laid out at this time.
The tragic battle is over, and the results reported from the front are unacceptable to Ustinov.
The remnants of the ships and warships were swaying in the waters of Kunashir Island and Setoji Island, waiting for new orders, while the transport planes that had managed to return home landed at the airfield of the Far Eastern Military District.
"Today, we have sacrificed more than a thousand fighters, we have lost more than a dozen aircraft, and more than 200 people have taken prisoners." Ustinov said: "Far Eastern Military District, disgrace to our Soviets!" ”
Ustinov, of course, was furious, and he could hardly believe that a confident landing operation, a battle to regain Hokkaido, could turn out to be the result he is now.
The Americans still controlled Hokkaido, but they suffered heavy losses.
"Marshal, the Far Eastern Military District reported that the reason for the failure this time was that our plan was leaked, and the Hokkaido side has been well defended tightly, and it is a fire pit, waiting for us to jump in."
"Tell Trecyanko and Konstantin, two idiots, not to make excuses for their failures!" "The whole operation was kept strictly secret, and no one knew the exact landing place until the troops left, but they told me, who leaked the news?" Ustinov said. Is it one of us who is here? ”
The plan is secret, and the modification of the plan is even more temporary, and if you want to talk about leaks, it can only be leaked by those present, how is this possible?
"Marshal, what we need most is what to do next." Just then, an adjutant next to him asked.
It's too early to hold accountable, and what to do next is what matters.
The Soviets suffered a great loss, and if they just stopped, would the Soviets still have face in the whole world after that? However, attacking Hokkaido was originally a task that could only achieve miraculous results by surprise attacks, but now that the Americans have taken precautions, if they fight again, it will become a hard war, and if they fight like this, I am afraid that it will really become a world war.
The Soviet Union was not ready for a world war, and although Ustinov was eager to push the troops of Eastern Europe to the French coastline immediately, the Soviet Union was not ready.
To fight or not to fight is a dilemma.
Ustinov gritted his teeth and looked at Hokkaido: "Those territories were originally ours, and now, if we win, we must fight, and if we don't win, we must fight!" ”
Just knock the Far East and Hokkaido!
"Marshal, the American ambassador has come to protest to us." Just then, a voice came from outside.
"Let him go to Gromyko." Ustinov said.
Gromyko was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviets, and Gromyko was in charge of this kind of protest, and Ustinov was only in charge of the war, and he did not want to participate in the matter of wiping his ass.
"He had already gone to Comrade Gromyko, and only then did he come to our Ministry of Defense."
Damn, Ustinov frowned, it must have been Gromyko who pushed him over and went directly to the Ministry of Defense to protest!
"Let him in." Ustinov pushed his glasses, he is also interested now, now it is his own side that suffers, and if he wants to protest, then it is also his own protest, what is the turn of the Americans to protest?
"Minister Ustinov, on behalf of the U.S. government, I would like to protest to you that you are deliberately trying to disrupt peace in the Far East by suddenly dispatching a large number of aircraft and ships in an attempt to land in Hokkaido." Thomas, the US ambassador to the Soviet Union, said to Ustinov.
"Mr. Thomas, I now solemnly inform you of the agreement on the division of Hokkaido, which we negotiated with you at the end of World War II." Ustinov said to the American ambassador in front of him: "At that time, our great leader, Comrade Stalin, put forward a new demand for the northern half of Hokkaido north of the line between Kushiro and Rumo, which was also a retaliation for the island nation to send troops to Siberia, and now we need to occupy the area north of Kushiro and Rumo, which is an additional part of the original Yalta agreement." ”
We are now, not to destroy the peace, but because the United States was too cunning, and the Soviets are determined to win Hokkaido.
"So, if you want peace in the Far East, we want to garrison the northern part of Hokkaido."