While flying close to the runway and making contact with the base tower, Long Yun also thought about the population, economy, and military scale of the Soviet Union in the Far East, and he realized that this battle must not be protracted, or in other words, the key to the victory or defeat of the next battle is who can preemptively exhaust the opponent's war potential in the Far East.

With such a premise, the progress of the next battle can be inferred.

Piloting the plane into the landing track, Long Yun clearly knew that the next battles would inevitably be very difficult and dangerous, and if the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force and the US forces stationed in Japan on the other side of the ocean could not be quickly suppressed and a one-way attrition battlefield situation could be formed, then even if the Eastern Group of Nations finally won this battle, I am afraid that it would pay a very heavy price.

The goal seems to be very straightforward.

However, at this moment, on the vast battlefield, participating in it as Viktor Rezenov, Long Yun couldn't help but wonder, what exactly would he do to help the Red Empire achieve this goal? Or, the question can be taken further, what kind of situation should he really want to achieve in this great war in the Far East, as a participant who has traveled through time and shouldered heavy responsibilities.

Long Yun has been thinking about this question, he easily flew over a silver-like frozen river, piloted the plane to land on the forward base in the forest sea, manipulated the fighter plane to glide smoothly, and released two cross-shaped parachutes with a "bang-" sound; The snow-covered runway was still a little slippery, and the slender gray-and-white camouflage fighter slid smoothly all the way forward, stopping at the end of the runway for hundreds of meters, and the young man already had some ideas in his heart.

This conflict in the Far Eastern theater of operations. No matter how it develops. His goals for the first phase were clear. It's a "quick fix".

Yes, the defeat of the enemy in front of us a day earlier would have prevented the tide of the war from slipping in an unknown direction, which would have saved the Soviet Union from suffering losses in the war, and further avoided other risks: the escalation of the war in the long tug-of-war would have caused the situation to spiral out of control once other countries in the Far East, such as North and South Korea and China, joined in. The all-out war between the East and the West is not something that he has the ability to turn the tide of by a lieutenant general of the VVS Air Force.

With this in mind, in the evening of the same day, in the barracks of the temporarily built forward base, sitting next to the wide heaters, several pilots of the 239th Fighter Aviation Regiment sat together to exchange and discuss the situation in the Far East in the past few days.

Of course, participating in the discussion as Victor, there are some concerns that he did not explicitly state:

"The current situation. Since we're having a small discussion, I'll be frank. For the fierce battle that will ensue, comrades must be mentally prepared. ”

Combined with some of the classified materials he had seen recently, he talked about the overall shape of the Far Eastern Theater in a concise manner, Long Yun nodded to Korolev and the others present, and sat down to let everyone else speak freely. In this improvised fighter aviation regiment, only Vasily Korolev is his old partner in the 237th regiment, and the rest of the pilots have only known each other for a long time, but in terms of the combat missions undertaken by the regiment, it is much simpler than that of ordinary aviation regiments, anyway, a qiē will aim at the combat power of the lieutenant general's comrades.

After sitting in the room for a while, discussing the battle situation with the pilots present, and also explaining the tactical arrangements for the next day, Long Yun picked up a piece of chalk and drew a picture on the small blackboard to help explain his battle plan, that is, to take the initiative to attack in a multi-plane formation to attract NATO interceptor fighters, and then use a rapid annihilation battle to destroy the enemy and create a breakthrough for the follow-up Red Air Force attack fleet.

This kind of operational arrangement is still quite unfamiliar to the 239th Regiment that has just been formed, but the pilots present are all good players drawn from the 210th Aviation Division and even other aviation divisions.

After the meeting and saying goodbye to the boys, Long Yun went to the hangar to take a turn in the cold wind and confirm that the three Su-27 fighters that will be dispatched tomorrow are in good condition.

In the VVS forward base, which was temporarily repaired, unlike the simple and solid MiG, the Su-27M/M2, which has more complex subsystems such as electronic equipment, needs better logistics conditions and more maintenance.

After confirming that there were no problems with the fighters and missiles, and the conditions of the troops led by Comrade Lieutenant General were really different, Long Yun also took a very pleasant hot bath in the shower car equipped in the base before hurriedly returning to the barracks.

After the first day of flying out and reaping four crashes, the impressive results of one step away from the ace were already commonplace in the eyes of young people, and he didn't even take the initiative to mention it to Valentina, but praised her cooking skills. In the 239th Regiment, where the staffing is much less than the usual situation, the food in the regiment is naturally handled by a special person, but for the safety and security work, any details must be personally asked, and Valentina naturally continues to participate in it, and the meals and desserts made are also very popular with everyone.

"Hee-hee, this is all the way to go, I was going to check around the base too."

"Ah, actually...... I think the people in the group are fine, hehe. ”

At the beginning of his arrival in the Far East, he met with the members of the 239th Regiment, and Long Yun naturally ruled out the possibility that there were hidden agents or renegades here, and now there are of course many Western intelligence officers looking for the traces of Viktor Rezenov, but they have not really found any clues, and the committee still has some experience in this regard, and no one will infiltrate the 239th Regiment for a while; Long Yun knew about this situation, but he couldn't tell Valentina clearly, so he casually talked about the next battle arrangements.

Hearing Victor's gossip and knowing nothing about the tactics of the Air Force, Valentina also had a general understanding of the situation in the Far Eastern Theater, and asked the young man in front of her worriedly:

"You're ready to go on a big move, aren't you?

However, Viktor, I also know something about the situation, the Far East is a vast and sparsely populated area for the Soviet Union, and the cities and everything are close to the coastline, and since China will not directly enter the war at the moment, what do I think, well...... Will this battle be a bit tough? ”

"Well, you have a point,"

As a senior officer of VVS and a divisional commander in the Far Eastern Theater, Long Yun, who was sitting at his desk with a stack of materials in his hand, planning to rest after reading Wen Jiàn, nodded to the young agent sitting next to him, "However, for the battle in the Far East, just comparing the forces participating in the battle between the enemy and us, the intelligence department concluded that the scale of the forces we invested was not inferior to that of the NATO side, and we even won in the main offensive direction: although China did not directly participate in the war, However, it has also restrained a lot of mobile forces of the Americans, and the US troops stationed in south Korea have not been able to engage in the battle in the direction of Japan. ”

Three or two sentences illustrate Valentina's consideration, and Long Yun raised his cup to take a sip and continued his elaboration:

However, as military theory has studied, the outcome of a war is often not a simple comparison of the strength of the military forces of the two sides. I'm not an expert on this either, but in short, in the Far East, where both sides are doing their best to launch air strikes to break down the adversary's war maintenance system, we are not in a very rosy position for that purpose, given that the battlefield environment in the Far East, which is facing each other across the sea.

Yes, Valia, I think you can easily think of this as well:

That is to say, if both sides go all out and attack each other's cities, factories, military bases and other targets, then the problem is that these resources of our country in the Far East are relatively limited, while on the Japanese archipelago across the ocean, there are many such targets; If the air attack capabilities of the two sides are approximately the same, it is clear that the attenuation of our war potential is faster than that of the enemy, and once the targets on the Far East are destroyed, the war can only be maintained by the Trans-Siberian Railway, or by airlift to replenish personnel, materials and equipment, and such a war, as can be seen by looking at history, is doomed to be unsustainable for a long time. ”

"Oh? Is that so......"

Tilting her head to look at the lieutenant general of the aviation forces in front of her, hearing some analysis at the strategic level, the bright-minded Valentina Kurtonova blinked thoughtfully, she felt that what Viktor said made a lot of sense.

The war that broke out in the Far East, no matter what the fuse was on the surface, was in fact an all-out contest between the two blocs of the East and the West; in this respect, the Soviet Union, with its vast territory and sparsely populated population, could not occupy much light, and the population, economy, and military strength of the Far East were relatively weak; if the two sides really started a war of attrition, even if the Warsaw Pact bloc finally won the victory, I am afraid that there would only be a situation in which both sides would lose.

Seeing that the detective was caught in thought, Long Yun at the table concealed a little thinking and didn't say anything, in fact, his analysis just now had a serious flaw, that is, he did not take into account China's factors in it.

With regard to the situation in the Far East, if this factor is added to the overall consideration, it should be said that the war potential of the NATO side is not to be worried, and the balance of forces will suddenly become favorable to the East.

However, Long Yun naturally did not envisage any "general war" in his understanding of the hideous nature of the war, and his current thinking was how to manage to control the scale of the war within a certain range, or simply how to defeat the powerful US-Japan alliance with only the Soviet Union participating in the war. (To be continued......)