Fierce fighting in Kutai's westward direction lasted from dawn until late at night.

A week after the launch of Operation "Typhoon", the fighting in the Caucasus has entered a white heat; As for the current Southern Theater of Operations, although he did not participate in ground battles, Long Yun could be reported at combat meetings again and again.

In the evening of this day, after the battle meeting in a secret base near Rostov-on-Don, Long Yun, who had walked out of the underground building of the base, was ready to take a helicopter back to Stavropol as he had come, so that he might be able to rest early and prepare for tomorrow's battle.

However, seeing that night was falling, he was obviously concerned about flight safety, and the accompanying military personnel did not let Long Yun and the other people who went out of the meeting take the Mi-17 helicopter, but let him leave in an inconspicuous Ural-4310 truck at the back door of the base.

Regarding such an itinerary, Long Yun, who couldn't interject, could only secretly estimate that he knew that there was at least 300 kilometers from Rostov to Stavropol, and if he took such an off-road truck...... Feeling the vibration of the six-cylinder diesel engine of the Ural truck in the cab, he felt that it would be good for him to be able to return to the 237th regiment in the early hours of the morning, even if he had been on the road overnight.

However, it soon turned out that the itinerary of such a figure as Major General Viktor Rezenov would not have been so reckless, and the Ural truck soon took him to a small nearby airfield, where he was transported in a green camouflage Mi-24N prepared by the KGB.

Shake hands with the escorts at the airport and sit down in the large aft compartment of the Mi-24N helicopter, where you can hear the tuk tuk of the engines turning and the propellers spinning at an accelerated pace. Long Yun was quite satisfied to relax and close his eyes for a while.

This time I went out to attend a conference. Long Yun also fully understands such a tedious journey. Because he knew that after so many things, especially after the ambush on the outskirts of the Caucasus and in distress, the KGB had already paid attention to the safety of Comrade Viktor Rezenov, which was a little nervous, so he took great pains to transport him around as if he were a top-secret document, and now he was stuffed into a Mi-24N helicopter that was clearly painted by the Soviet Army Aviation and was purely intended to hide his ears.

The journey of 300 kilometers takes an entire night by truck, and it takes less than two hours by military helicopter; When the helicopter left the tarmac and flew south in the dark night sky, Long Yun in his seat spread out his notepad. Take a cursory look at the dim lights in the cabin and mentally conceive a set of courses of action drawn up at the operational meeting before the reconstruction. According to the operational principles of the Soviet military, in the upcoming all-out counterattack, the role of VVS and PVO is still the traditional seizure and defense of air supremacy in the theater, rather than the main force of the campaign offensive, but as a senior officer of the aviation force with an extraordinary identity and one of the planners of this operation, Long Yun from VVS still received the operational instructions of the Supreme Command for the Southern Theater of Operations, as well as a series of specific arrangements for the Soviet Army for this combat operation.

Looking at these top-secret materials, Long Yun had a better understanding of the battle situation in the Caucasus.

The landforms of the Caucasus. Although it is a complex and mountainous terrain that is not suitable for the deployment of heavy military groups, it is under the current combat form. Obviously, it is still the ground battle that decides the outcome of the contest.

In the previous week's defensive operations, the Soviet Guards Seventh Army and the Ninth Army, stationed in the three Transcaucasian republics, fought bloody battles and thwarted the NATO coalition's campaign intention to quickly and advance northward in one go.

In the face of such a situation, the Southern Theater Command also responded quite decisively, in addition to recruiting the Fourth Guards Army, which had been transferred to the Caucasus at the same time as a starry night, in accordance with the instructions of the Supreme Command, and also transferred the 17th Army of the Soviet Army, which was originally stationed in the Astrakhan region and served as a strategic reserve, to the south to make up for the strength of the "Transcaucasian Front" composed of two groups of armies in the Transcaucasia; Of course, considering that there will inevitably be NATO spies in the army system, this deployment is only a regular response on the surface, and the command also organized several mechanized armies, including the Rostov and Stalingrad regions, to coordinate and command together with the Fourth Guards Army, which arrived immediately, and secretly formed a new campaign group directly under the orders of the Supreme Command: the "Rostov Front".

For the Soviet Front's first-level establishment, the "Rostov Front" also incorporated the front-line aviation of the air force in the region into the command system, but the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment, where Long Yun belonged, belonged to the VVS long-range combat force, and its subordination remained in the Southern Theater Command.

From this point of view, the arrangement of the Southern Theater Command for the next stage of the operation is obvious, that is, to use the "Transcaucasian Front" to attract and delay NATO's ground offensive, and to use the fully equipped and well-trained "Rostov Front" as the spearhead of the campaign offensive, and with the full support of the VVS, PVO, and the Red Navy's Black Sea Fleet, launch a swift and fierce offensive against the enemy in the south.

Although he has not studied military courses such as war command, it should be said that this is the only reasonable choice considering the geographical form of the Caucasus and the situation of friend and foe.

In the face of NATO's large-scale attack, the battle has already been fought at the doorstep, if we do not fight back fiercely and drive Uncle Sam and John Bull's leading soldiers into the Middle East desert to ride camels, how can we show the whole Warsaw Pact and the whole world the Red Empire's firm determination to fight resolutely and not give up until victory is reached?

It is necessary to create such a momentum first, and then there is a possibility of ending the war.

After many years of aggression, some countries are not dead until the Yellow River, and they will not be restrained until they are disabled, this kind of truth was very clear to the Soviet Red Army decades ago when it entered Berlin with a rolling iron stream, and it came from a country that had fought an anti-aggression war for more than 100 years, how could Long Yun not understand it now.

However, such a large-scale ground offensive could never be carried out without strong air cover.

After meditating on his seat for a while, taking out a stack of printer paper from his bag and flipping through it, Long Yun roughly reviewed the air power that could be used in the Southern Theater, and sorted out the number and distribution of VVS and PVO fighters again, and felt that the pressure of this operation was really not small.

He still has a basic understanding of the strength of the NATO tactical air force in front of the front.

After a week of fierce fighting in the air, the Turkish Air Force, which was used as cannon fodder by NATO, suffered losses and basically lost its ability to fight independently, but the powerful US Air Force and Navy were still alive and well, and a huge fleet of thousands of fighters was still ready to move at many field airfields in Asia Minor. As for the operations some time ago, the NATO Air Force, which has a certain technological superiority, especially the AIM-120B active radar-guided missile, did not have the upper hand, not so much because of the Red Air Force's combat courage or the enemy's unfavorable actions, but rather because of Viktor Rezenov's rampage, slashing and indiscriminate killing.

Relying on the prestige of the "Grim Reaper" to suppress the opponent, such a combat routine is certainly not enough.

Relying on a small number of ace pilots, or the "Caucasus Reaper" to intimidate the enemy, although this style of play saves effort, is not a long-term solution; In order to avoid repeating the previous mistake of taking time out to investigate the "dead city" and plunging the situation in the Caucasus into an unfavorable situation, this combat operation must strive to be crisp and clean, and leave no future troubles!

Yes, take a look at the geopolitical situation in the Southern Theater, this battle is a key node for the two sides to decide whether to win or lose.

Thinking back to the battle a few months ago, under the geostrategic situation of Western Europe, the Americans could still use the echelon defense tactics against the Warsaw Pact assault cluster, the Federal Republic of Germany was finished and France, France was defected and Britain was defeated; But in the Caucasus, when the rolling iron of the Red Empire ran over the weak Turkey and the troops were directed at Damascus, did the Americans, who had always been above the top, really count on Israel as the starting point for the campaign and attack?

Unlike Britain, with nuclear bombs in hand, or Japan with its brains in water, King David's people knew very well that they did not have the means of nuclear weapons capable of attacking the Soviet mainland; In the face of the Warsaw Pact's steel torrent, will they still support the Americans as they do now?

It's not hard to guess the answer to this question.

Scold! In this way, the war is getting more and more interesting.

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Looking through the information in the chair and thinking about the current battle situation at the same time, the journey of less than two hours will naturally pass quickly.

The helicopter flew all the way to the Stavropol base, and Long Yun jumped off the Mi-24N with the engine idling, raised his wrist to look at his watch, and it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

It is said that at this time, considering that he is likely to take off tomorrow to attack, he should go back to the barracks as soon as possible to sleep and rest; But thinking of the next operational arrangement, especially the idea he had come up with these days, he still walked all the way to the maintenance workshop on the side of the reinforced hangar, where he unsurprisingly met Igor Kirilenko, who had not yet left work, the thin engineer from the "pennant".

"Ah, Comrade Rezenov! It's so late, come and take a walk? ”

"No, I just came back from a meeting, hehe."

Conscious snooping is a 100% reliable and firm means, Long Yun talked to the absolutely credible Kirilenko, and he didn't have any scruples, he chatted with the engineer for a few words and then turned to the topic, "I said Igor, our team has been here for some time, what do you think is the technical level of logistics support where the 237th Regiment is stationed, that is, here in the Stavropol base?" If you talk about making some changes to the Su-27 and loading and unloading the electronics on the fuselage, is there any problem? (To be continued......)