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Given that a not-so-pleasant historical event occurred this year, the KGB’s current purpose is to figure out the current number of Chinese troops in the border areas of the two countries. However, this is not done by sending agents, but by using high-altitude reconnaissance or spy satellites, as well as information collection. In this era, in Selov’s eyes, China was not a place where agents could go at will, it was too dangerous, and the people’s awareness of prevention was too strong.

The scramble to send the agents trained by the KGB to China was really trapped in the sea of ​​people's war. However, it seems that the troops in the Sino-Soviet border area have increased a little from ten years ago, and there is no friction at all, but overall it is still within a calm range and there is no intention of being tense at all.

"Although I don't believe that China has the courage to attack us, the relevant preparations must continue. In this way, from the Red Flag Border Defense Army District near Turkey, to the Red Flag Border Defense Army District in the Far East, the ten Red Flag Border Defense Military Districts are now preparing to conduct border defense exercises in a month. The exercises do not require any combat troops of the Ministry of National Defense to participate, but all use our own border defense forces, and the participating forces are set to be around 80,000." Selov called General Zelyanov, Director of the Border Defense Bureau, to discuss this matter.

"Does it show strength? It's not bad if you start from the Caucasus to not being able to clearly mean to any country." Zelyanov nodded and asked, "What's the intensity? The Ministry of Defense has just finished the exercise in the Caucasus."

"If you have anything, use whatever you want. I want to give the nearby country an impression, that is, even if the border guards are dispatched, it will be enough to destroy them." Selov said while looking at the world map, "Three thousand tanks, five hundred armed helicopters, three thousand cannons, other naval and air force forces under the border guards, and the airborne forces, the airborne army organization, it is up to you to decide."

The establishment system of the border defense force and the Soviet armed forces was different. If you carefully check the Soviet information, you found that the Soviet border defense force was not an army, a paramilitary armed force, nor a member of the Ministry of National Defense. Instead, it was affiliated to another non-military department. This other non-military department was actually the intelligence department KGB.

The Soviet Union's border guards were strong, with their own three armies and airborne troops. The border guards during the Soviet period were successively under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB management. During the Cold War, the border guards and the KGB directly under the uniforms were the same and the logos were different. If there was any difference, it was that the hat of the border guard commander was green, while other KGB directly under the KGB troops were not.

The Junior Military Academy run by Derrensky was actually an orphanage with militarized management and a boarding school covering junior and senior high school education. Most of the graduates entered the Immigration and Border Defense Forces system, so he was the irreplaceable father of orphans in the Soviet Union and the only parent of the border guard.

This history has been going on. Now the KGB still has a tradition of selecting healthy children from orphanages. As the irreplaceable father of this generation of Soviet orphans and the only parent in the border guard, Selov wants to see how capable his children are. If he is not afraid of trouble, he wants to bring the internal army out to participate in the exercise.

Things are settled like this, which is also a test of the combat capability of a KGB border defense force. "The time is set for next month, that is, March. What about the imaginary enemy? It is all countries bordering the Soviet Union."

"Is China included?" Zelyanov asked silently, wanting to know what his boss is thinking.

"Including all countries, but before the exercise begins, please inform the other party that our attitude has not changed. I want to prevent some things through this exercise. Comrade Zelyanov, you have to think about it. When we conduct an exercise of this scale, all countries bordering us will be vigilant and restrain our armed forces. Sometimes it is not a bad thing to show our strength." Serov's attitude slowed down. He wanted peace at the time, but he also had a position, that is, the Soviet Union could not take the initiative to seek China, because this was the answer given by the comparison of the national strength of both sides. If he ran over and took the initiative to make concessions, something might happen after he came back.

Selov knew the island that was about to happen. The Soviet Union's attitude was simply that the Soviet Union recognized that the island belonged to China, but would not make concessions under such circumstances. In fact, if the Soviet Union was not scolded every day, the island should have been returned to China five years ago. It was not without peace efforts. The Soviet border guards had always advocated a peaceful settlement of territorial disputes through dialogue. In 1964, the then commander of the border guards, General Ziryanov, was ordered to consult with China on these issues. In order to complete this mission, he was given the title of deputy minister. Ziryanov had the courage to declare at a consultation meeting that it was possible to make concessions on some islands, including Damansky Island. Last year, he also said that disputes were settled peacefully through dialogue.

"After the exercise on the 1st month is over, we must allow armed helicopters to participate in patrolling some unresolved islands to prevent friction and misjudgment. We should send some air forces to monitor them. Don't be afraid of trouble, be careful," Zelyanov nodded and asked, "Chairman, in fact, it is not appropriate to have frictions on several islands. We all know that it is China's territory. Since we will return it to them sooner or later, why not solve this problem?"

"You are a member of the Central Presidium. Will you hand over the island when you are scolded every day?" Selov shook his head with a wry smile, "We claim to have the most powerful army in the world, tanks, artillery, nuclear weapons, and fighter planes, and in this case, take the initiative to return the island to a country that scolds us every day? When will they calm down? Let's talk about this issue again. When they don't always cause trouble for us, they will give them time."

So Selov certainly cannot take the initiative to go to China and say he will return the island to you. He can only choose another method to show his strength to let the other party restrain himself. At the same time, he will continue to let Zelyanov negotiate. The island belongs to China, but given the current situation, we will set a schedule first and discuss the issue of handover.

Many people in the Soviet Union knew about the treaty with China during the Imperial Russia period, but they knew that it was impossible for such a powerful Soviet army to not fight a battle. They would lose 1.5 million square kilometers of territory first, especially the other party's national strength was so much worse than themselves. This is a feat that even the leader of the Go Map did not achieve, so don't expect the normal Soviets to do so. Selov has been belittling China's military strength in the Ministry of Defense, just because he was afraid of the old marshals and focused on the eastern border. He has also been proving that the eastern border is not threatened, and this exercise is also for the Ministry of Defense.

The exercises of the border guards were soon passed by the Central Presidium, and the time was scheduled for March 1. Starting from the Caucasus on the border between the Soviet Union and Turkey, to Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East, the border joint combat exercises involving ten Red Flag Border Defense Forces began. The KGB border guards dispatched one-third of the force, with a total of more than 80,000 people, more than 3,000 tanks and more than 3,000 artillery pieces. The exercise began on the border line of nearly 20,000 kilometers.

Before the exercise began, the Soviet Union had notified all bordering countries. Selov delivered a speech as the President of the KGB, emphasizing the importance of national security. He then announced that the exercise began. The combat troops of the major Red Flag Border Defense Military Regions were urgently mobilized and began to annihilate the invading enemies according to the exercise plan, and conduct combat deductions on counterattacks at any time.

All Soviet troops in Eastern Europe were first-level combat readiness units, that is, their personnel and equipment were fully equipped. But that was only in Eastern Europe, in other directions, especially third-rate troops like the border guards, there were actually serious personnel shortages, but there were not many tanks. So there were 80,000 people participating in the exercise, but more than 3,000 tanks were gathered. No matter which country it was, the border guards were equipped with too many tanks. No one thought it was normal except for the Soviets themselves.

The exercise lasted for a total of fourteen days. The Central Presidium of the Soviet Union held a meeting. The members gave high praise to the border guards, but also pointed out many shortcomings, such as the lack of good force clusters in conflict areas, the ineffective tank operations of the border guards and the lack of night observation of the troops. A series of measures to strengthen border guards were adopted at the meeting.

At the combat meeting of the Ministry of National Defense, Marshal Andre Grechko, Minister of Defense, said happily, "The border guard has proved the combat capability of our Soviet armed forces and can intimidate some potential enemies in a favorable way, but we should still see some shortcomings. The border guard's exercise is still lacking in intensity, but some things are still very novel, such as the strength of electronic combat, which seems to be more skilled than the Red Army."

Of course, if there is any good thing, Selov will keep it for himself. At least when the Ministry of Defense is still in conflict with electronic tubes, the border guards and the inner guards have long replaced all electronic tube equipment.

This exercise also used hail rocket launchers, which were a 122mm 40-barrel self-propelled rocket launcher developed by the Soviet Union. The gun began to be equipped with army artillery units in 1964. Now the motorized infantry division and the artillery regiment of the Tank Division have a Type 21 rocket launcher battalion, equipped with 24 guns. It is mainly used to destroy enemy tactical nuclear weapons, fight enemy artillery, and strengthen the firepower of the regiment artillery group. It is usually arranged within a range of 26 kilometers behind the front edge of the entire front, with a suppression depth of 1,418 kilometers.

"Comrade Ustinov hasn't come yet?" This meeting was unusual. In fact, it was to communicate with the Ministry of Defense about a new round of weapons research and equipment process. In other words, the arms race is about to increase its intensity. To be continued^
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