Guided by the guards at the gate, luxury cars carrying senior officials came out one after another, and drove along the road that had just cleared the snow to the federal agencies.

In the last car, General Chelwinsky looked at the secretary who was contacting the Army Command using a confidential phone on the car, and turned his eyes to the window. The cold wind from the Kola Sea had weakened a lot, and the blizzard that had been raging for almost a month was dissipating, but a larger and more destructive storm had formed and would soon cross the vast Central Asian plains and sweep across the Eastern Europe area west of the Ural Mountains. Perhaps others still had a hint of fantasy, and Chelwinsky had no fantasy about the future.

Before attending the meeting at the Kremlin, when he learned that the garrison troops in the capital of Kazakhstan launched a military coup, the commander of the garrison troops, Major General Akayejia, arrested Tostoevsky and announced his allegiance to Dudaev, Cherwinsky realized that what should come was coming.

Perhaps the incident happened too suddenly. At the emergency meeting, there was no dispute between the pro-war faction and the pro-peace faction.

The meeting lasted only two hours, and it ended after both Chiliakov and Jodnovic agreed to take emergency actions in accordance with the mutual assistance agreement signed with the Kazakh authorities at the end of last year.

There are several emergency action plans, and one of them is more consistent with the current situation.

When the car drove the expressway to the airport, the secretary received an electronic copy of the emergency action plan sent by the Army Command through a confidential line and handed the electronic reader to Chelwinsky.

Turning on the reader, Chelwinsky first turned to the "Combat Force" section, browsed quickly, and glanced at the secretary sitting next to him.

Without giving instructions, the secretary understood the intention of the Army Commander, immediately picked up the phone and dialed the airport number.

While the secretary arranged the itinerary, Cherwinsky carefully read the emergency action plan.

Because the action plan was formulated by the General Staff, even Cherwinsky didn't know much. After spending half an hour roughly reading it, Cherwinsky couldn't help but sigh. For such a major matter, the General Staff only formulated a general plan without detailed rules. At a blink of an eye, Cherwinsky also felt it was understandable. After the Indian War, the General Staff mainly formulated war plans for the threat of the Republic and adjusted the war plans according to changes in the situation. Because before the beginning of last year, no one expected Hassa to be expected before the beginning of last year.

There will be a military coup in Kiztan. Dudaev, who is pro-China, is exiled overseas, and Tostoyevsky, who is pro-Russia, comes to power, so the Russian General Staff did not formulate a war plan for this situation. It was not until the end of last year, when the situation in Kazakhstan stabilized, that the Russian General Staff formulated a new war plan based on the latest situation. Obviously, in just one year, the Russian General Staff could not come up with a relatively complete war plan with all the details of the operation. It would be great to be able to draw up a summary.

Since it is a war plan, even the summary has some emphasis.

After this plan to take on another military coup against Kazakhstan, the pro-Russian regime is threatened or overthrew by coupers, the Russian army's emergency action clearly mentioned in its plan to suppress a military coup lies in the speed of the Russian army's response. If the Russian army cannot arrive in Astana before other semi-pre-forces, it will not only be unable to suppress the military coup, but it may also trigger a full-scale war.

Since the root of the military coup is not Kazakhstan, suppressing the military coup is only a treatment for the symptoms, not the root cause. More importantly, last year, the Republic was able to compromise and concessions, which did not mean that Russia could handle the current situation rationally in the same way. It can be said that even if the president insists on his own opinion, the vice president will try his best to make things worse. What's more, Kiliakov has long made concessions and will not insist on his opinion on such a major issue. To put it bluntly. As long as Russia sends troops, it is not a simple counterinsurgency, but a war with the Republic in Kazakhstan.

Will this be a regional war?

Chelwinsky has no fantasy! As long as the war begins, the world war will begin.

In this case, the purpose of Russia's military is naturally not to suppress the rebellion, but to win the final victory. Even if the end of the world war is not considered, it is still very far away, and there are still many variables during this period. No one can tell what will it be like now. Starting from the current situation, when the Republic is destined to send troops, what is the difference between just dispatching airborne troops and letting the officers and soldiers of the airborne troops die?

You should know that the Russian airborne troops are not the surrendering troops of the Republic Army.

Let’s not talk about whether the Russian airborne troops are the opponents of the Republic’s armed forces, even if they fight with the Republic’s airborne troops, they have no chance of winning. From a military perspective, if the Republic wants to send troops to intervene, it will definitely stabilize the situation in Kazakhstan first, and therefore will first dispatch the rapidly responsive airborne troops. In this case, the Russian army has neither the advantage of combat effectiveness nor the advantage of speed. What is the chance of winning?

The question is, are there any other options besides airborne troops?

Cherwinsky did not have no confidence in the Russian army. If the opponent was just the Kazakhstan Defense Forces, the importance of dispatching an army was not obvious. However, in front of the Republican army, except for the airborne troops, the reaction speed of other troops was obviously too slow, and it was impossible to reach Astana before the Republican army.

In fact, in terms of the basic environment alone, Russian military Ran has obvious advantages.

In the early 1900s, when Kazakhstan declared independence, he established his capital Almaty. Because it is located in the southeast of Kazakhstan and is close to Kyrgyzstan, it is 1,000 meters east of the Kazakhstan border, and nearly 1,000 kilometers away from Russia. Therefore, at the beginning of the 1900s, Kazakhstan moved its capital to Astana, which is less than 1,000 meters away from Russia, and about 1,000 kilometers away from the Republic. It can be seen that if the republic and Russian troops were stationed near the border, the Russian troops' march distance was only one-third of the republic's army.

Even so, if the Russian army wants to arrive in Astana before the Republican army, they still have to hurry up.

That's why after the meeting, Chelwinsky went directly to the suburbs' airport and asked the special plane who served him to take off.

After a minute, a vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft introduced from the United States took off with the Army Commander.

Unlike other important personnel, Cherwinsky did not use a business plane, but equipped himself with a military transport aircraft according to the standards of the army. Although this was a specially improved transport aircraft, such as adding noise interference equipment in the cabin and equipped with in-cabin equipment completely according to the standards of business aircraft, Cherwinsky still seemed to be hard and simple than those military and political officials who care more about enjoyment. Perhaps, this is a fine tradition of the Russian army.

Compared with business aircraft, the biggest disadvantage of military transport aircraft is that it is too slow.

As a tactical transport aircraft, speed performance will not be overly considered when designing. After all, even if the speed is doubled, it can only save up to one hour when performing short-distance transportation tasks. However, working hard on other links can save the same amount of time at a lower cost. For example, using a modular pod can save a lot of time in the loading and unloading of goods, and appropriately improve maintainability. The saving time is more than an hour.

Of course, flying a little slower also gives Chelwinsky more time to think about it.

About 3 hours later, the Russian Army Commander's plane arrived at the Levda Camp outside Yekaterin Arbor. I. The station of the Russian Guards' Airborne Brigade of the Airborne Army. Not to mention the number, it can be seen from the station alone that the Airborne Brigade of the Russian Army is definitely the ace force of the Russian army.

Based on the population size, Yekaterin Arbor, located on the east slope of the middle section of the Ural Mountains, is the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. Because Queen Yekaterin is the most famous female tsar in Russian history and the most talented tsar in Russia after Peter the Great, it can be seen from this name that the importance of this city located in the west of Siberia in Russia. From a strategic perspective, Yekaterin Arbor connects Russia.

The hub between Ross and Europe and Asia is the central city that controls Siberia. More importantly, this place can go to the Far East in the east, march into Central Asia in the south, and radiate to the Caucasus region in the south, so it has always been the most important military fortress in central Russia and is also an ideal base for strategic mobile troops. This is why airborne troops with an assault radius of about 1,000 meters can be deployed here to achieve the strategic purpose of taking care of multiple directions.

This is indeed the case. The old airborne is definitely the trump card among the Russian military's wife cards.

Historically, the Russian airborne troops have a longer time than the airborne troops of the Republic. As early as more than four years ago, in the last World War, the Red Army airborne troops fought bloody battles and made great achievements. During the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet airborne troops made many extraordinary achievements and wrote one after another. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian airborne troops that took over the mantle also performed well in several local wars and conflicts such as the Chechen War and the Georgian War, etc.

Although before the era of force, due to technical equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Russian airborne troops dropped sharply. The Russian authorities also paid less attention to the airborne troops, but after the Peninsula War, the airborne troops once again attracted the attention of all countries. After the Indian War, the airborne troops surpassed the armored troops and became the number one main force of the army. This is exactly this. In the years before this, the Russian airborne troops rejuvenated again and became a combat force that cannot be underestimated.

The Ding Airborne Brigade is the Russian army's ace airborne force.

In the Third Chechen War, this airborne unit created a remarkable record: it rushed into Grozny in front of the Russian armored forces and the internal affairs forces, and after nearly an hour of street fighting, it dropped the rebel headquarters in one fell swoop, killing hundreds of rebels, including bandit leaders, ending the war several days ahead of schedule, and reducing the number of Russian casualties by hundreds.

It was this battle that allowed the brigade to obtain its current number in the subsequent reorganization of the entire army.

As a trumpet, it naturally looks like an ace force.

The first airborne brigade only had one slogan, that is, "Time is ready"

In other words, the TK Airborne Brigade is a unit that is always in combat readiness at any time. It is a unit that can be dispatched upon receiving orders.

That's right, when Chelwinsky arrived, the Centre Airborne Brigade was ready for battle.

Cherwinsky did not go directly to the brigade headquarters. Instead, he asked the driver who came to pick him to drive around the camp. Seeing that most of the officers and soldiers had returned to the camp. Moreover, the grassroots troops were preparing for combat, the army commander asked the brigade staff officer to take him to see the brigade commander Colonel Vasil Alov. It took only minutes to issue the order.

For this airborne colonel who led the troops to Astana last year and eliminated the rebels in one fell swoop, Chelwinsky did not waste any more and issued almost the same order. After the Airborne Brigade was ready, he immediately attacked Astana, suppressed the rebel army, and stabilized the situation.

The commander of the Russian Army did not know that something big happened when he issued an order to Alov.

On the way back to the airport, Chelwinsky received a call from the Army Command and learned the relevant news. The secretary then obtained the same news from the radio station.

The Kazakhstan Military Control Commission has completed the trial of Tostoyevsky. The guilty president, supported by Russia, was executed for treason. Several senior officials, including the Minister of Defense, and a group of senior officials who were on vacation in the capital.

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Although in Chelwinsky's opinion, this is not a big deal, he knew that in politics, it was definitely a big deal.

You should know that the Russian authorities have long recognized the legitimacy of the Tostoevsky regime and have long promised to help him stabilize the domestic situation. In this way, even if Tostoevsky is guilty of treason, he should be subject to a more fair and open trial, rather than convicting him of a military court controlled by the Military Control Commission, and it cannot be executed by several coup soldiers as soon as they say they are executed. From Russia's standpoint, Akayev's execution of Tostoevsky is equivalent to provoking Russia on its own initiative, which is equivalent to declaring war on Russia.

If Russia does not send troops to this point, it will definitely lose its prestige and lose its face.

To put it simply, if Chelyakov had hesitated before this, then after this matter, he would not only not hesitate, but also let Giodnovic let go.

That's right, after hearing this news, Chelwinsky did not change the order he just issued.
Chapter completed!