Chapter 1008: Cat and Mouse
"That's how it is!" The biggest impression that Serov has learned from decades of experience is that it is necessary to be justified in lying. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Be tough in words, but conservative in action. This is how the United States is dealing with it now, and in general, this is how the Soviet Union is coping. In fact, Serov has only taken one risk in decades, that is, the one when the Soviet Union attacked Turkey.
It is not a fact that all other events were guided by the situation, and preparations were made before the conditions were triggered, which led to a powerful change in the Soviet Union and a strong attempt to turn the tide.
While the White House spokesman warned the Soviet Union not to escalate the situation and remain calm, the US military also made a move, ordering the Third Fleet in Hawaii port to send an aircraft carrier battle group, followed by an additional one, because the Seventh Fleet itself was not strong enough to confront the Soviet Pacific Fleet.
From the point of view of confrontation, land and sea are completely different areas. The attacking side on land will never think that they have too many troops, but the fleet that has always been huge in the vast ocean is a few hundred warships at best, and the mode of war is completely different on land. The defending side in the ocean, even if it is far outnumbered by the other, does not have the slightest sense of security.
There are too many things for an American detachment to run around chasing Soviet nuclear submarines, not to mention that this time the Soviet Union is in the Pacific Ocean, and the United States must send more dominant forces. I don't know whether the Soviet Union made a confrontational posture in support of Indonesia, or if it had other intentions, but it is very logical to send a relatively superior fleet to respond conservatively in this case.
Deep down, the Pentagon's decision-makers still do not believe that a continental country like the Soviet Union will really take advantage of its inferior navy to confront the United States. In order not to escalate the incident, the powerful US Pacific Fleet did not dispatch all of its forces, and the Third Fleet sent some of its forces to Japan and to Indonesia and Australia to guard the waters.
Can we draw in the second fleet in the Atlantic, which is even more powerful? No, because the Second Fleet faced the more important Europe, where the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, the most powerful of the four Soviet fleets, had surface power. The total tonnage of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet has always been the first in the Soviet Red Navy. The Pacific Fleet is more focused on the surface, the Northern Fleet is more underwater, and the Baltic Fleet has strong surface and underwater forces.
Reagan was not lying at all when he said that the U.S. Navy was too small to control the world's oceans. Compared to the 100,000 or so tanks on land, millions of troops filled every inch of the front line. Larger oceans, no matter how powerful the navy, have no such effect.
"If the Baltic Fleet has a red flag, the US Second Fleet will not move. There are three other fleets that the United States can draw, the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, and the Pacific Fleet, which still has some forces. In the conference room of the Ministry of Defense, Marshal Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet Red Navy, pointed to a map of the strength of the United States Navy in the world's major waters, which included major routes, naval bases and supply bases, and was a map interwoven with lines and points.
"The Sixth Fleet was contained in the Suez Canal, and it was not easy to rush over. Then consider the support of the Fifth and Third Fleets! "If our Mediterranean fleet quickly crosses the Suez Canal, and then uses air power to help Egypt withstand the United States, there will be no problem." The Sixth Fleet can be left out of consideration. ”
All the marshals of the Soviet military couldn't stop nodding, and that was exactly what happened. Serov concluded that "if our Mediterranean Fleet comes out of the Red Sea, it will run head-on with the US Fifth Fleet." Remember, don't dwell on it when the time comes, go full speed to Indonesia, we don't have time to entangle with the United States. ”
"But the ocean duel is not good for us, and if we have the support of the coastal countries, it is completely worthy of the US Navy." Marshal Gorshkov objected, "Access to the Indian Ocean loses this advantage." ”
"You can have this kind of support in Indonesia!" Serov's answer was rather vague, "Let's just think of this as a broken engagement, a broken engagement that compares the next one, and it can turn the US naval forces around." ”
In fact, it is a bit disrespectful to the second most powerful in the world, the Soviet Red Navy, which broke the engagement and destroyed the enemy's sea lines of communication. It is one of the styles of offensive warfare at sea. The purpose is to cut off or obstruct the enemy's transportation of war materials and the replenishment of troops, restrict the mobility of its naval forces, and weaken its combat capability. Naval engagement usually involves multiple campaign operations, carried out by a single branch of the Navy or by a combination of arms. The main means are to attack enemy transport ships and escort convoys, destroy enemy loading and unloading ports, and block the passage of enemy ships.
Asking the Soviet Red Navy to act like this actually means insulting the construction of the Soviet Red Navy for decades. But if Serov chooses to tell the truth, he will belittle the role of the Red Navy even more.
In essence, this was well understood even by the commanders of the Soviet Red Navy themselves. The greatest significance of the Red Navy to the USSR was to die! Once the war began, the Soviet Red Navy was either annihilated by the American fleet as a whole, or the American Navy was dragged to the end, no matter what the consequence was, the Soviet Red Navy was completely wiped out, and the naval battle was won. The Soviet Union never thought that in the highest decision of the Soviet Union, the Red Navy would fight the US Navy at the cost of all the deaths, so that the US Navy could not guarantee the safety of the oceans, and at this time the Warsaw Pact would attack and occupy Europe on all fronts.
The Red Navy is to use its own life to buy time for the Soviet tank army, and the Soviet Union's most superior tank army will solve the problem! This time, Serov threw himself into the Red Banner Pacific Fleet and the Red Banner Mediterranean Fleet, which was enough for the US Third, Fifth, and Seventh Fleets to be turned around.
"Now is the time to test the combat readiness of the Red Navy, and the Red Banner Mediterranean Fleet directly skips the process of assembly and begins to cross the Suez Canal in batches after twenty-four hours." Serov looked at the time and said, "Give support to the Indonesians and turn this conflict at the level of an armed conflict into a major event that attracts the attention of the world's media." ”
"I'll do my best to do a good job!" To be honest, Marshal Gorshkov now doesn't know why the general secretary wrestled with the US Navy this time, and there was only Chebrikov, the first deputy chairman of the KGB, in the entire Soviet Union.
The dispatch of the Red Banner Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy shocked half of the world, and the reason why it was half was because the European countries said that the situation was stable, and although the European countries occupied a small number in the whole world, they were very important. At present, what the countries of Western Europe are seeing is the reduction of the Soviet Union's troops stationed in Eastern Europe, the destruction of all the medium-range missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union, and the prosperity of world peace.
The situation in Europe has not improved for the past in decades, and it is completely different from the tensions in Southeast Asia. In this case, European countries naturally cannot empathize, for Europeans, the death of a person in Europe is a big deal, and other places must have at least 180,000 deaths to arouse the sympathy of Europeans.
The heated 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-pounding scenes of the Berlin crisis and the Cuban missile crisis. Where is there a good thing in the United States and the Soviet Union? After the incident broke out from the Rhine camp, the reputations of both countries were damaged.
In response to the war of words in the newspapers, the Europeans said that it was just fun, that the affairs of the United States and the Soviet Union have nothing to do with us, and that if the British had to go in and get involved, please don't bring us France and Germany.
"Now I order, the Red Banner Mediterranean Fleet, cross the Suez Canal in batches, and join the Red Banner Pacific Fleet." Twenty-four hours later, the commander of the Soviet Red Navy, Marshal Gorshkov, gave the official order.
This time, it was still evening, and the major bases of the Soviet Red Navy in the Mediterranean received telegrams from Moscow at the same time, and the warships of the Soviet Navy in Greece, Syria, and Egypt left the port one after another and entered a state of alert.
The gray-painted warship is moving at full speed, splitting huge waves, showing its own unique beauty. Soviet warships departing from Alexandria, Egypt, were the first to reach the Suez Canal, and at the same time, the first deputy head of the Soviet military advisory group in Egypt arrived at the Suez Canal Administration and presented a special instruction from the Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak.
At this moment, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko is already preparing to pay a visit to himself, this time the Soviet Union is ready to use the international credit accumulated over the past decades, and Serov is ready to fight this confrontation as a decisive battle.
With the cooperation of the Suez Canal Management Office, the Soviet warships that first reached the Suez Canal crossed the river very quickly. However, this was also seen by those who were interested, and an hour and a half later, the Soviet warships that first crossed the river had entered the Red Sea.
The warships of the Soviet Red Banner Mediterranean Fleet departing from Syria and Greece were still on their way, and such a large movement was photographed by a US spy satellite over the Suez Canal. The Red Banner Mediterranean Fleet, one of the four major fleets of the Soviet Union, was assembled like the Red Banner Pacific Fleet before it, and this news was quickly reported to the White House and the Pentagon.
"Are the Soviets crazy? Not knowing that our Navy is stronger than theirs? Or is that big spy so arrogant that he has lost his mind! Reagan, who was disturbed, was not in a very good mood, and felt that his opponent no longer knew how many pounds and taels he had. He misunderstood, Serov just wanted to play a game of cat and mouse with the Red Navy, but the next one was bigger......