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Unlike the bloody battle in Tskhinvali, Tbilisi is still a breezy scene. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info It's just that the busy streets have become quiet, and only patrolling armored units are advancing on the ancient masonry floors. The people hiding inside looked at the heavily armed soldiers with fearful eyes, praying that disaster would not befall them.

Georgia had fallen into the hands of ultranationalists, and it was Gorbachev's complicity with this force that allowed him to gain a foothold in Tbilisi. He stood on the balcony, looking out the window at the blue sky and white clouds with some thoughts. It's just that the sound of footsteps behind him made Gorbachev frown, and he knew what was wrong with the war at the front.

Gorbachev turned around and saw Commander Minashvili hurrying towards him, with a telegram in his hand.

"What's going on?" Gorbachev asked.

"The Soviets attacked our armored battalions and anti-aircraft missile positions with laser-guided shells, and now the Tskhinvali front-line positions have suffered heavy losses! The Georgian troops stationed in the city were also flanked by the troops of South Otesse and the Soviet troops, and had to retreat as a last resort. Minashvili's face was a little pale, and he did not expect that the carefully arranged defensive line would be broken by the Soviet army in two hours. In particular, Minashvili's most proud anti-aircraft fire network did not shoot a single SAM missile.

Gorbachev's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it, and hurriedly repeated in an anxious tone, "What? Soviet armored forces broke through our Tskhinvali line so quickly? Now in the direction of Tbilisi? Are you sure? ”

Minashvili nodded and said affirmatively, "The latest news from the front line is absolutely true. They have cleared the road to Tbilisi, and soon the enemy's armored forces will move in our direction along the road. ”

"How can this be, we have clearly figured out the combat methods of the Soviet army, why is this still happening." Gorbachev's anxious pacing back and forth in his office was completely unexpected. Cold sweat oozing from his back had soaked his white shirt.

As a matter of fact, the combat methods of the Soviet troops have long since changed, but the practice of focusing on precision strikes is only being tried by fist troops, and many of them are still secret exercises carried out as secret missions. Therefore, it is normal for the Georgian army headed by Minashvili to be unaware and continue to use the old operational thinking against a modern information force.

Minashvili really didn't know how to answer Gorbachev's words, so he had to comfort Gorbachev, "Although the front-line positions were lost, the Georgian army retained most of its strength. The Soviet air strikes were nothing more than the baggage of the South Ossetian army. The Georgian armored forces still retain the vast majority of their strength. ”

"That's good, as soon as Tskhinvali can't keep it, we will immediately abandon South Ossetia and retreat to Georgia to preserve our strength." Gorbachev clenched his fists, "This time, we must not be lost." ”

After Gorbachev gave Minashvili the task, he received a phone call from Moscow to great surprise, and even Gorbachev looked shocked when the operator told him that it was from the Kremlin. If it weren't for the fact that the entire Tbilisi was well protected by anti-aircraft missiles and that there were helicopter gunships patrolling the air, he would have even suspected that he had been targeted by Soviet AWACS aircraft.

"Former President Gorbachev, I am the Soviet negotiator, Comrade Vladimir." On the other end of the phone, Putin told Gorbachev, "We are here for peace talks, and if the Georgian army is willing to give up resistance, then we will be lenient with this coup." None of you will be put to death, I can assure you. ”

Then Prussia turned around and began to blackmail Gorbachev, "On the contrary, if you continue to resist stubbornly, the Soviets will wipe out the Georgian army with a powerful offensive." It only took us a few hours to push Gelskhinvali flat, and it didn't take long to flatten Tbilisi. ”

Vladimir is making a last-ditch effort, and he hopes that Gorbachev will be lost. The Caucasus can be resolved peacefully, and he will never carry the war to the end. After all, the political turmoil that comes out could ripple through the entire Caucasus.

But Gorbachev didn't seem to care so much about Vladimir's advice. He considered Vladimir to be nothing more than a nobody, simply not qualified to stand in front of him and point fingers.

Gorbachev held his hand on the balcony railing and said with pretense of disdain, "Do you really think I care?" Comrade Vladimir, the Georgian army is confident that it will drive the Soviet troops out of the Caucasus! South Ossetia was only a temporary defeat, and the final victory will definitely be on our side. Also, who do you think you are, call Yanayev to answer the phone. ”

"Really? Then why did you fight so badly in South Ossetia, it can almost be described as a fiasco. The anti-aircraft positions and tank battalions were annihilated almost completely before they could fight back. ”

Vladimir didn't care about revealing the scars, he sneered and said, "Let me tell you what happens next." The Soviet army will disintegrate your armored forces, crush your air defense positions, and destroy your infrastructure with absolute force. So that the rebels in Georgia will no longer have any power to fight back. Do you really think that with a few armored battalions you can make Georgia independent? I'm sorry, but the price of Georgia's independence is that you have to step over the corpses of millions of troops first, and then you come and talk to me about independence. ”

"As for my identity? It doesn't matter, it's important to know that everything I say represents the will of the entire Moscow Political-Political-Bureau Committee, and all this is not my personal opinion, but the entire Soviet. ”

Vladimir's intransigence is representative of the Kremlin's attitude that since the other side is unwilling to accept peace talks, then Moscow has decided to continue the war. Yanayev was determined to use this crisis to completely pacify all forces in Georgia.

"I tell you, Gorbachev, as long as the red flag on the Kremlin has not fallen, Georgia will not want to become independent from the USSR!"

"I swear in my name!" (To be continued.) )