Chapter 50 - The West
On September 4, 1981, on the Soviet Baltic coast, the largest military exercise in human history finally kicked off. ?August 1 Chinese Network (1) (v)? (v)? (i)??? (i) The turbulent situation in Poland gave Western countries an opportunity to weaken the strength of the Soviet Union. For their own safety, the Soviet government must give these ulterior motives a warning. Therefore, the code name of this military exercise is called "Western-81".
In the early morning of September 4th, Sergey was taken to a nearby military airport by special car. Sergey felt very honored to be able to witness this spectacular military exercise with his own eyes. The main reason why everyone came to the airport is because the scale of this exercise is too large, so the Ministry of National Defense specially arranged a special helicopter for everyone, so that you can enjoy this spectacular military exercise from the air.
In the past few days, Seriosha got along well with Churbanov, and with Churbanov's introduction, he had more chances to get along with Mr. Bo. Before coming here, Seryozha had never imagined such an adventure.
As soon as he got out of the car, Sergey was picked up by Churbanov's secretary who had been waiting here for a long time. Because Churbanov didn't have to accompany Mr. Bo today, he arranged Sergey at the on your own private plane. When Seryozha boarded the plane, Churbanov was already waiting inside.
Seryozha got into the cabin and sat beside Churbanov, and his secretary closed the cabin door for everyone. With Churbanov's order, the pilot began to take off. The plane began to climb slowly upwards, and then flew west. Accompanied by the brilliance of the rising sun, the plane that Seryozha was on finally arrived at the battlefield. Looking down from the cabin, the endless tank clusters were slowly advancing forward.
"How about it, are you interested in coming to the Ministry of the Interior to help me!" Churbanov asked seemingly unintentionally.
"Thank you for your kindness, Churbanov! I'm still more interested in the work of the Youth League Committee!" Seryozha replied, looking at the torrent of steel below.
"Although I am the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Minister Shlokov will retire soon. If you come, I promise I will not treat you badly!" Churbanov tried his best to persuade.
"Actually, Gorky is not far from Moscow. If you want to relax, you can come to me anytime!" Seryozha looked back at Churbanov and said.
"Isn't Moscow attractive to you, Seryozha?" Churbanov asked in bewilderment.
"I just feel freer in Gorky, I'm not ready for a bigger stage now!" replied Seryozha. However, there is another part of the reason that Seryozha did not say, that is, without Gorky, there is no way to manage his business. Surprisingly, this reason seemed to convince Churbanov, who did not persuade Seryozha again. The two began to pay attention to the exercise itself.
Like all military exercises, "Western-81" is also divided into red and blue sides for confrontation exercises, in which the red side is the offensive side and the blue side is the defensive side. The troops participating in the exercise include mechanized infantry, armored troops, artillery, pontoon troops, chemical defense troops, ground-to-ground long-range tactical missile troops, medium-range and long-range strategic missile troops, airborne troops, the Navy's 6th squadron, naval ship troops, and the Air Force's frontline aviation Troops... Almost all branches of the Red Army were involved. The entire exercise is divided into eight days. The first day's exercise subjects are long-range guided missile precision strikes and large-scale armored group assaults. Tens of thousands of tanks alone were dispatched today, and even the latest T-8o main station tanks and T-72 main battle tanks at the bottom of the tank were dispatched, which is truly unprecedented. Moreover, this time, the director of the exercise did not set the assumption of whether the result of the exercise would be the victory of the red side or the blue side. Orders can be adapted according to the form of the battlefield until the winner is determined.
All afternoon, Seryosha and Churbanov followed the armored troops closely,
Watching the invincible torrent of steel attacking the city. During this process, the blue air force dispatched fighter planes several times to harass, but was forced back by the red air defense force. On the Baltic Sea not far from here, the Soviet Red Navy is also conducting intensive drills and confrontations, and even dispatched a Kyiv-class aircraft carrier.
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, and experts watch the way. Although Seryozha and Churbanov are both wearing military uniforms and their military ranks are not low, Seryozha has never been to a military academy, and he has not been a soldier for a long time, so he can't see the way in it . Although Churbanov has the rank of lieutenant general, he is only a lieutenant general of the internal affairs army. To put it bluntly, he is a police chief. Therefore, the two of them can only watch the excitement.
At noon, the helicopter carried Seriosha and Churbanov back to the camp for a meal and a short rest. President Bo spent the whole morning listening to Defense Minister Marshal Dmitry Ustinov report on the situation of the exercise, but he still waited for Churbanov to come back to have lunch with him. I like the son-in-law Churbanov.
During lunch, Mr. Bo asked Sergey what he thought of the results of the exercise. Sergey admitted frankly that he was a layman, except that he couldn't see anything at all, which made Mr. Bo couldn't help laughing. Mr. Bo himself does not like to drink, but he is a heavy smoker. Unfortunately, due to physical reasons, the doctor has banned him from smoking. Originally, Seryozha didn't dare to do anything wrong, but Churbanov asked Seryozha for a good cigar, and then he began to smoke in front of President Bo. Come along with Seryozha. Seryozha was very surprised by this, President Bo seemed to see his thoughts, and said to him: "Smoke if you want, young man! Otherwise, at my age, I can only smell the smell of other people's cigarettes to enjoy myself." Already!" After he finished speaking, he laughed heartily, and Seriosha also laughed a few times, reasoning that he had smoked too much today, but he didn't dare to tell Boss that second-hand smoke is even more harmful.
Through these few days of contact, Xie Liaosha found that Mr. Bo is actually a person who pays attention to family affection. It is said that Mr. Bo once had a lover when he was young, but Mr. Bo finally chose to return to his wife for the sake of the family. He was full of doting on his children, and even cared about Churbanov. However, Mr. Bo is not an ordinary Soviet old man after all. He is the leader of a country, and his love for his family is carried out at the expense of the interests of the country. Seryozha also disagreed with this. (To be continued.)