In short, if we take a look at the current situation in the Far East, although the brutal ground battle has not yet begun, under the strong pressure of the Red Air Force and the Pacific Fleet, it is obvious that neither Japan, which is stubbornly resisting, nor South Korea, which is wise enough to protect itself, is by no means an opponent of the Eastern bloc, and even if the US forces stationed in Japan change their passive response in the previous stage and go all out to assist in the defense of Japan, there will be no fundamental change in the overall war situation on the Far Eastern front.

Leaving aside the situation in South Korea for the time being, as far as Japan is concerned, once it loses its control over its northern territory and airspace, especially the surrounding waters, the effect of blockading the Red Empire will be much worse.

In this way, the intention of the war against Japan, as he had previously figured out, did not need to land across the sea and completely occupy Japan, but only needed to focus on attacking its northern region -- just like VVS is doing now, so that it can achieve twice the result with half the effort and achieve the strategic intention of breaking through the blockade of the island chain and containing the United States?

"Go to the army to plan, then attack the enemy, then attack the army, and attack the city", sitting in the brightly lit underground conference room, Long Yun now remembered such an old saying.

He now feels that this sentence from the "Attack Chapter" in "The Art of War" can be used to explain the Soviet Union's strategy in the Far East.

In the face of the US client states in the Far East, whether Japan or South Korea, it is certainly a choice to directly raise troops to occupy the Far East, as in the Central European Campaign, but the Far East, which faces each other across the sea, is not the same as the European continent, which is flat and has no danger to defend, and under the condition that its overall strength does not have much advantage, it should seriously examine the geostrategic situation and make the choice of "attacking troops second." This can be regarded as a good policy in the case of the outbreak of a world war and the impossibility of "plotting" and "cutting off diplomatic relations."

However, follow this line of thought. Consider the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Far East as a whole. Long Yun's expression was a little more solemn. He knew it wouldn't be that simple.

In a word, there is no suspense in the balance of power on land, and if it competes with naval and air forces, NATO actually still has some advantages.

Without waiting for Long Yun to continue along this line of thought, one of the participants present, Stepan Zakharov, an operational staff officer of the Far Eastern Military District Command, left the seat and walked over, and he had to temporarily stop thinking and discuss the next operational strategy of VVS with the tall Red Air Force major general.

Face the number one ace pilot of the Red Air Force. Major General Zakharov, however, did not treat an aviation division commander as he did with it, and he first praised Viktor Rezenov's heroic attack and fruitful results, and the two casually exchanged a few words and sat down to discuss together.

In the previous few days of fighting, he was busy taking off to kill the enemy in the direction of Hokkaido, and Long Yun had never visited the headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District in Khabarovsk, although combat orders often came from there, and he shook hands with Comrade Major General:

"The progress of the recent operation has been relatively smooth; If the guess is correct, we will be able to defeat ВССЯ in about another week. -- But this is only a phased achievement, the air power of the Americans. This is the main threat we will face in the coming period. ”

"Yes, Comrade Lieutenant General,"

Seeing that the number one ace in front of him went straight to the point, Major General Zakharov in the seat nodded, rubbing his hands excitedly as he spoke, "The same is true of the headquarters' considerations; You must have already browsed the relevant materials, the strength of the Americans' Seventh Air Force is still there, and together with the Fifth Air Force, the combat effectiveness of these two hostile forces is obviously higher than that of ВССЯ, and if we carry out air defense operations over land, it will be a great hindrance to us.

In addition, according to some information obtained by the committee, a fighter wing reinforced from the US mainland will also arrive, and the size of an air force with more than 140 fighters will also arrive. ”

"Fighter wing, reinforcements from the Americans?"

Long Yun distilled a little new information about the introduction of Comrade Major General, he used to read fax materials every day to focus on the war situation, but the Americans continued to increase troops to Japan, which is a bit surprising:

"'Reinforcements', they still have the ability?

Comrade Major General, as far as I know, after the Caucasus Campaign, the US Air Force has actually suffered a heavy blow, and the number of fighters and pilots lost is more than 3 or 400.

So now, reinforce the US Air Force on the Japanese front...... Well, it's not a newly formed unit, is it? ”

"Ah, Comrade Lieutenant General, that's exactly what the intelligence says."

Zakharov also agreed with Long Yun's analysis at first, although he didn't know the specific combat unit number, but Viktor's analysis was indeed very reasonable: when the war was going on harshly, the novice pilots who had been trained in emergency situations were barely able to supplement the front-line troops whose strength was declining, but if it was still a newly formed aviation wing, it would be a waste of fighters and manpower to fight the fire.

However, in the blink of an eye, from the point of view of the entire Far Eastern war situation, Stepan Zakharov shook his head slowly.

Picking up the printer paper and slapping it on his hand a few times, he explained to Victor:

"However, Comrade Lieutenant General, you must also agree that for high-intensity large-scale wars, the 'refueling tactic' is often a clumsy passive response to war; although it is not clear what the Americans are doing this, it is clear that they do not feel the threat of the 'Flanker' fighters, so they put on a prolonged provocation......

The calculations of the Americans, I have been thinking about it at today's combat meeting: Since the air defense forces on the Japanese archipelago are unable to contain the actions of our VVS, coupled with the cooperation of the navy, it can be said that our army is now holding the initiative in the campaign, and in such a situation, the Americans will still adopt the 'refueling tactic' and constantly consume valuable combat forces in order to shield Japan? If the Americans can understand that our army did not intend to launch a landing war to occupy Japan and South Korea, then ......"

In a few short sentences, I can roughly explain my thinking, and Stepan Zakharov's thinking has made Long Yun gain a lot.

After thinking about it, he felt that what the major general said was very reasonable.

The struggle for the Far East is different from the vast plains of Central Europe, and the Americans are certainly intent on defending their allies, but from another point of view, does the Soviet Union really have the intention of launching a large-scale campaign to attack Korea and Japan proper? If not, then the Far East campaign will be confined to the level of naval and air contests, and in these two situations, there will naturally be a very obvious difference between the deployment of US air force.

Originally, he had been killing the enemy on the front line, and shooting down enemy planes in his line of sight was the top priority, but now that he was thinking about the problem from a strategic point of view again, Long Yun was no stranger to this, and he did not do this kind of thing in the Caucasus theater of operations.

After a short period of thought, the moderator beckoned everyone to be quiet and went to the battle rehearsal room next door to continue the meeting.

It had been a long time since he came to the parallel world, but for the first time he had entered a place like the "Battle Deduction Room", Long Yun and the generals walked through the door together, standing not far from the inside of the door to look at the slightly smaller deduction room, and his curious eyes swept around the huge chart table, the map hanging on the wall, and the old computer on the desktop next to it; Compared with the lieutenant general of the aviation who entered the exercise room for the first time, the commanders and staff officers were much more relaxed, many of them moved folding chairs from the conference room to sit aside, and others simply stood in place.

"Well, comrades, let's make a long story short, first of all, let's introduce a previous deduction conducted by the Theater General Command."

"War situation deduction" is not an unfamiliar word in Long Yun's mind, when he studied at the Fourth Aviation School in Shijiazhuang before, although his studies did not end normally, he still studied some related courses, knowing that this is an important reference for the military command organization to make decisions, and it is also a cautious speculation about the situation he will face in the future.

Of course, whether every "war situation deduction" is reliable or not, the deduction rules and numbers are of course very important, and the talent in charge of the deduction process is the most crucial decisive factor, if, like the Japanese fascists in World War II, they carelessly "fished up" the "sunk" warships in the process of deduction, on the grounds that "the Mi army cannot have such combat power", then it can only be laughed at and generous.

naval confrontation on the ocean, and on land and in the sky; The situation is not the same, and the process of military deduction is slightly different, but the nature of the conclusion is similar, and Long Yun can also understand a general idea.

Of course, as a fighter who had traveled through time and had some knowledge of the strength of the Red Navy and the U.S. Navy, even if he did not attend this meeting, he could basically guess how huge the size of the enemy force that the Soviet Pacific Fleet had to deal with, and how tricky it would be to plan the next sea operation under such a balance of forces, if he really had the intention to challenge the United States' century-old sea power.

At the beginning of the presentation, a lieutenant general dressed in a dark blue general's uniform stood in front of the projection screen and briefed the participants on the general situation of the surface ships, submarines, and aviation units of the opposing sides.

Listening and adding your own thoughts, corroborating the memories from the real world and the reality of the parallel worlds in your head is a bit like a slight schizophrenia, after all, the historical trajectories of the Soviet Union and Russia in the two worlds are very different, not only in the nature and territory of the country, but also in the case of the Pacific Fleet, the second largest fleet of the Red Navy. (To be continued......)