Chapter 224 Counter-Insurgency Pioneer

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Lebed's Tula Airborne Division took off from the station overnight to Georgia on a military transport plane to control the local situation. From receiving the order to setting off, the Tula Airborne Division took only one hour to prepare for the airborne landing of a series of equipment including heavy weapons such as armored vehicles and tanks.

Lebed would never have imagined that he would receive an order to counter the rebellion in his lifetime. Who in the entire Soviet Union, from the general secretary to the common people, would have expected that the situation in Georgia would deteriorate to such a state.

When the plane passed through most of the territory in the western part of the Soviet Union and finally landed in Georgia in the south of the motherland, Lebed could not help but feel a little stressed. He wondered what the Georgians would think of his troops when he walked out of the hatch with them and drove the tanks into the streets of Tbilisi.

So without warning, Lebed's vanguard troops took control of the airport, and Lebed personally read out the Ministry of Defense's order requiring air traffic control over Tbilisi. Immediately afterwards, the tanks on the Il transport plane began to leave the plane and slowly headed towards the highway outside the airport towards the urban area of ​​Tbilisi.

The airborne troops are the elite troops of the Soviet Union, and the Tula Airborne Division is the elite among the airborne troops. From the time of Khrushchev, almost every leader of the Soviet Union regarded the airborne troops as the first choice to deal with the crisis. They appeared in the October incident in Hungary, the Poznan incident in Poland, and the counter-insurgency operation in Prague in 1968. However, using military means to solve economic problems is fundamentally going in the wrong direction.

During the march, Lebed's troops quickly contacted the armored escort of the Soviet Red Army in Georgia. Under the authorization of the Ministry of Defense, Lebed took over the command of the Georgian Tank Guards. After the two armies met off-site in Tbilisi, the tank unit first opened the way in front, while the Tula airborne division in the armored vehicle transport was behind.

The mighty troops marched to Tbilisi, causing the opposition in the city to panic. At this time, Gamsakhurdia, who was still only hearing his voice but not seeing him, began to deliver a new speech, calling on the Georgian people to bravely show their courage to the enemy and use their bodies to block the way of tanks. Under the instigation of Gamsakhurdia, some Georgian people who had lost their minds and were successfully brainwashed really gathered towards the path of the armored forces with their bare hands.

Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, Lebed and Tula Airborne Division had to get out of the car. Then Lebed issued a combat order to the Tula Airborne Division and arrested all the adult men present. The reason why Lebed only targets adult men is that the order of the Ministry of Defense specifically emphasized the need to be careful with women, children and the elderly. Because once it hurts these special groups of people, it will not only make the conflict more unmanageable, but also give Western media an excuse.

It took only half an hour for the soldiers of the Tula Airborne Division to clear these people. They were tied up and dragged onto a truck, handed over to the local Georgian garrison under strict supervision.

Subsequently, the Tula Airborne Division continued to move forward, and entered the urban area of ​​Tbilisi in less than 20 minutes.

When Lebed led the troops to the urban area of ​​Tbilisi. The situation here is much more serious than outside the city. Arm in arm, the Georgians blocked the path of the troops with their bodies. Lebed stood on the top of the armored vehicle and looked into the distance, and he couldn't see the end at all. This number is afraid to have tens of thousands. This is what to do.

Lebed ordered all the troops to replace them with rubber bullets, and they were determined not to shoot unless it was absolutely necessary. Meanwhile, the Tula Airborne Division began to disperse the crowd with tear gas. As dozens of smoke bombs were thrown into the crowd. The assembled Georgians finally began to flee. Many Georgians could not bear the smell of tear gas and began to flee in all directions. At the same time, the soldiers of the Tula Airborne Division also began to pick up the rubber sticks in their hands and began to drive away the Georgians blocking the road.

Soldiers of the Tula Airborne Division put on their gas masks, and most of them put down their guns and picked up rubber and wooden sticks to drive the crowd away and open the way to the seat of Georgia's central government. At this moment, the Georgian extremists in the crowd began to provoke. Facing the airborne division soldiers holding sticks, some people took out daggers and military stabs, and began to attack the Tula airborne division soldiers.

This sudden attack caused several soldiers to fall to the ground with injuries. Most of them were stabbed to the vitals by military stabs because of their paralysis. At this moment, the soldiers who had been on guard duty at the back of the team had no choice but to knock down these thugs with rubber bullets.

"Bah... bah..."

"The army is shooting... someone is shot... run..."

"what……"

"Mom...I want mother..."

Several gunshots made the chaotic crowd terrified, and everyone began to crowd in one direction as if possessed, and then someone fell down, and the people behind stepped on him unceremoniously, screaming a few times Afterwards, someone was lying in a pool of blood, and it looked as if the Tula Airborne had actually killed someone.

The gunshots completely dumbfounded the Georgian onlookers, and their rout caused more casualties. Lebed could not help yelling inwardly.

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In the office of the Georgian Party Committee, Patti Ashvili, the first secretary of the Georgian Party Central Committee, is anxious like an ant on a hot pot. Now he is waiting for the airborne troops from Moscow to take over the city. In this situation, persuasion is meaningless. Patti Ashvili expects that the team entering the city can help him regain control of Tbilisi and impose a curfew on the entire city. At this moment, all members of the Central Party Committee of Georgia have become grasshoppers on a rope. They finally began to put aside their previous suspicions and discuss plans to deal with the opposition in unity.

The only thing that the Georgian party committee feels relieved now is that most of Georgia's enterprises and institutions are still under the control of the government. The party committee decided to let these units transfer some personnel to serve as worker pickets to maintain social order in Georgia. The order has now been issued. Most of the units have not yet responded clearly. At this moment, Patty Ashvili suddenly heard gunshots from a distance through the window.

"Da da da... da da da..."

"What's going on, why would there be a gunshot?" Patty Ashvili couldn't help but blurted out and asked.