MTL - Big Time 1958-Chapter 1008 cat and mouse

   "That's how it is!" The biggest impression of Serov's decades of experience is that he must lie with confidence.

   Be tough in your mouth, but be conservative in your actions. This is the way the United States is dealing with it now, and in general, this is also the way the Soviet Union is dealing with it. In fact, Serov has taken a risk for decades, that is, the time when the Soviet Union attacked Turkey.

  In all other events, it was based on the situation, and preparations were made before triggering the conditions, which led to a powerful change in the Soviet Union, and it is not a fact that the situation can be turned.

The Soviet Pacific Fleet was dispatched to the south, which immediately aroused a fierce response from the Pentagon. While the White House spokesman warned the Soviet Union not to expand the incident and keep calm, the US military also made moves and ordered the Third Fleet in the port of Hawaii to send an aircraft carrier to fight. Group, followed by another, because the strength of the Seventh Fleet itself was not enough to confront the Soviet Pacific Fleet.

  From the perspective of confrontation, land and sea are completely different fields. The attackers on land will never think that they have too many troops, but the huge fleet in the vast ocean is at best hundreds of warships, and the war mode can be completely different on land. Even if the defending party in the ocean is far more powerful than the other party, there is no sense of security.

   There are too many things about an American squadron chasing Soviet nuclear submarines everywhere, not to mention that this time the Soviet Union is out in force in the Pacific Ocean, the United States must send a more dominant force. But I don't know whether the Soviet Union made a confrontational gesture to support Indonesia, or had other plans. In this case, it is very logical to send a relatively advantageous fleet to respond conservatively.

   Deep down, the decision makers of the U.S. Pentagon still do not believe that a continental country like the Soviet Union will really use its inferior navy to confront the United States. In order not to expand the incident, the powerful U.S. Pacific Fleet was not dispatched in its entirety, and the Third Fleet dispatched part of its forces to Japan and to Indonesia and Australia to guard the waters.

   Can we deploy the Second Fleet of the Atlantic Ocean, which is more powerful? No, because the Second Fleet faces the more important Europe, where the Red Flag Baltic Fleet is the most powerful surface force among the four Soviet fleets. The total tonnage of the Red Flag Baltic Fleet has always been the first in the Soviet Red Navy. The Pacific Fleet focuses on the surface, the Northern Fleet focuses on the underwater, and the Baltic Fleet has strong surface and underwater power.

  Reagan never lied when he said the US Navy was too small to control the world's oceans. Compared with about 100,000 tanks on land, millions of troops packed every inch of the front line. A larger ocean, no matter how powerful a navy, has no such effect.

"With the red flag, the Baltic Fleet will remain in place, and the U.S. Second Fleet will not move. There are three other fleets that the U.S. can deploy, the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, and the Pacific Fleet with some strength. "In the conference room of the Ministry of Defense, Marshal Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet Red Navy, pointed to a map that marked the strength of the U.S. Navy in the major waters of the world, and stated that there are not only main routes, but also naval bases and supply bases. is a map intertwined with lines and dots.

"The Sixth Fleet is blocked by the Suez Canal, and it is not easy to get over. Then consider the support of the Fifth Fleet and the Third Fleet!" Shelov looked at the position of the Persian Gulf, "If our Mediterranean Fleet Getting through the Suez Canal quickly and then using air power to help Egypt hold off against the U.S. is no problem. The Sixth Fleet can be taken out of the equation.”

   All the marshals of the Soviet military kept nodding their heads, which is exactly what happened. Serov concluded, "If our Mediterranean Fleet comes out of the Red Sea, it will hit the U.S. Fifth Fleet head-on. Remember, don't entangle and go full speed to Indonesia, we have no time to entangle with the United States."

   "But the ocean confrontation is not good for us. If we have the support of the coastal country Jia, it is completely worth the US Navy." Marshal Gorshkov objected, "If we enter the Indian Ocean, we will lose this advantage."

   "You can have this kind of support even in Indonesia!" Shelov's answer was rather vague, "Let's just pretend that this is a broken war, and a relatively low war can turn the US naval power around."

   To say this is actually a little bit disrespectful to the world's second most powerful Soviet Red Navy, which breaks the battle and destroys the enemy's sea line of communication. It is one of the styles of naval offensive warfare. The purpose is to cut off or obstruct the transportation of the enemy's combat materials and the replenishment of troops, limit the mobility of its naval forces, and weaken its combat capability. Sea-breaking engagements usually include multiple combat operations, which are carried out by a certain arm of the navy alone or in coordination with various arms. The main method is to attack enemy transport ships and **** convoys, destroy enemy loading and unloading ports, and block the passage of enemy ships.

   To ask the Soviet Red Navy to act like this is actually an insult to the construction of the Soviet Red Navy for decades. But if Serov chooses to tell the truth, he will degrade the role of the Red Navy even more.

  Essentially, even the commanders of the Soviet Red Navy knew this. The greatest significance of the Red Navy to the Soviet Union is to die! Once the war begins, the Soviet Red Navy will either be wiped out by the US fleet, or the US Navy will be killed together. Either way, the Soviet Red Navy will be wiped out. As for winning the naval battle. The Soviet Union never thought that, in the highest decision of the Soviet Union, the Red Navy would kill the U.S. Navy at the cost of all deaths, so that the U.S. Navy could not guarantee the safety of the ocean. At this time, the Warsaw Pact attacked and occupied Europe across the board.

  The Red Navy is using its own life to buy time for the Soviet tank army, and the Soviet Union's most advantageous tank army will solve the problem! This time Serov invested in the Red Flag Pacific Fleet and the Red Flag Mediterranean Fleet, enough for the U.S. Third, Fifth and Seventh Fleet to be played around.

"Now is the time to test the Red Navy's combat readiness. The Red Flag Mediterranean Fleet directly skips the assembly process and starts to pass through the Suez Canal in batches after 24 hours." Shelov looked at the time and said, "Give Indonesian support, Let this armed conflict-level conflict become a major event that attracts the attention of the world's media."

"I will do my best to do my job well!" To be honest, Marshal Gorshkov doesn't know yet why the general secretary and the U.S. Navy are wrestling arms this time. In the entire Soviet Union, there is only Chebrikov, the first vice-chairman of the KGB. Lubyanka learned that it seemed that the matter was not so simple, but he did not speculate.

   The dispatch of the Red Flag Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy shocked half of the world. The reason for half of it is because European countries expressed that the situation is stable. Although European countries occupy a small number in the whole world, they are very important. What Western European countries are seeing is the reduction of Soviet troops in Eastern Europe, the destruction of all medium-range missiles from the United States and the Soviet Union, and the world is peaceful and prosperous.

  The situation in Europe has improved as never before in decades, and it is completely different from the tension in Southeast Asia. In this case, European countries naturally cannot feel the same way. For Europeans, the death of a single person in Europe is a big deal. In other places, at least 108,000 people must die to arouse the sympathy of Europeans.

   The fierce accusations between the Kremlin and the White House are not a big deal, haven't they been like this for decades? They have all experienced the heart-wrenching scenes of the Berlin Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis. How can the United States and the Soviet Union have a good thing? After the incident at the Rhine camp broke out, the reputations of both countries suffered.

   As for the war of words in the newspapers, the Europeans said that it was just a fun. Your affairs in the United States and the Soviet Union have nothing to do with us. If the British insist on getting involved, please do not bring us France and Germany.

   "Now I order the Red Flag Mediterranean Fleet to pass through the Suez Canal in batches and join the Red Flag Pacific Fleet." Twenty-four hours later, Marshal Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet Red Navy, officially issued an order.

   This time it was still at night. The major bases of the Soviet Red Navy in the Mediterranean received telegrams from Moscow at the same time, and the Soviet Navy warships in Greece, Syria, and Egypt left the ports and entered a state of alert.

  The gray-painted warship is moving at full speed, splitting huge waves, expressing its own unique beauty. The Soviet warships leaving the port of Alexandria in Egypt first reached the Suez Canal. At the same time, the first deputy head of the Soviet military advisory group in Egypt arrived at the Suez Canal Management Office, showing the special instructions given by Mubarak, the Egyptian ruler.

   At this moment, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko is ready to visit himself. This time the Soviet Union is ready to use the international credit accumulated over the past few decades. Serov is ready to fight this confrontation as a decisive battle.

  With the cooperation of the Suez Canal Administration, the Soviet warships that first arrived at the Suez Canal crossed the river very quickly. However, this point was also seen by people with a heart. After an hour and a half, the Soviet warship that first crossed the river had entered the Red Sea.

  The warships of the Red Flag Mediterranean Fleet of the Soviet Union from Syria and Greece are still on their way. Such a big movement was photographed over the Suez Canal by an American spy satellite. The Red Flag Mediterranean Fleet, one of the four major Soviet fleets, assembled like the previous Red Flag Pacific Fleet, and the news was quickly reported to the White House and the Pentagon.

   "Are the Soviets crazy? Don't know that our navy is stronger than them? Or is that big spy so arrogant that he has lost his mind!" Reagan, who was disturbed, was not in a good mood, and felt that his opponent no longer knew how much. He misunderstood, Serov just wanted to play a cat-and-mouse game with the Red Navy, but the next one was bigger...