Big Time 1958

   Almost every Soviet person who disembarked was embraced by the Cuban people. The Bucharest was welcomed by tens of thousands of Cuban people waiting in the port, a view that is not too crowded to describe it. It can only be seen in the annual May 1st International Labor Day parade.

Under the night, the shadows on the calm water grew bigger and bigger, until ripples suddenly appeared in the calm sea. This is an underwater submarine formation. These soldiers of the Soviet Red Navy spent two days breaking through the most dangerous in Europe. The diving area of ​​​​the area that includes the Baltic Sea and the North Sea has historically trapped the world's second largest German ocean fleet. The ocean fleet that forced the Second Empire into a fleet of existence, the Germans who were blocked in the port, had to rely on submarines to fight in the two world wars before and after.

   Advances in technology have made today’s submarines bigger and bigger, but it’s still not wise to fight face-to-face and surface power. Especially now that nuclear submarines are just starting, concealment is the biggest advantage of submarines, and it is not obliged to complete the work of the surface fleet.

This conventional submarine formation, which is charged on the water, is using its precious time to make its own power run. The task of this formation is not to break through the blockade of the US Navy. The N-class nuclear submarine formation that set off earlier than them is to break through the blockade. formation. Nuclear submarines have power and the enemy hide and seek, but conventional submarines cannot.

   In the history of the Cuban missile crisis, conventional submarines were the main force for the Soviet Union to break through the blockade belt, but the characteristics of conventional submarines that had to float and charge made the Soviet Union fall into a passive state. Soviet submarines could get out of the U.S. Navy's fleet, but tended to be detected quickly while charging, and eventually became increasingly underpowered and stuck below the Caribbean Sea.

   With his current strength, Serov can only make fine adjustments. Avoid blunders that should have been made for less reactive consequences. He couldn't keep the Soviet soldiers in the 50 or 60 degree heat in the submarine. Serov has no doubts about the willpower of the Soviet soldiers. However, if you can fight against nature without willpower, it is better not to do so.

   "The Bucharest has broken through the blockade of the US Navy and has reached the Cuban port. We want to learn from the comrades on the Bucharest. They are our role models!"

"Information from the National Security Council indicates that the U.S. Navy's blockade zone is 500 nautical miles in the sea around Cuba. It doesn't matter. Our mission is to reach the launch site, not to break through the blockade. Our SSN4 missiles can be 1,000 nautical miles away. Launch. This question doesn't bother us..."

   "Most of the continental United States naval power is around the Caribbean Sea, and this is our chance, comrades!"

  After the charging was completed, the Soviet conventional submarine formation that entered the Atlantic dived, and the sea returned to calm.

   At the same time, Serov, who had already arrived in Tashkent, held a KGB meeting at the Uzbek KGB headquarters. The meeting was attended by two border guard commanders and the KGB chairmen of the five republics. Serov, who was wearing a military uniform and a big-brimmed hat, had a frosty face. He had just arrived from Moscow and had not rested yet. After all, all departments in Moscow are planning around the Cuban Missile Crisis.

  Before getting on the plane, Serov also attended the meeting of the Ministry of Defense, and attended the military meeting of the Soviet armed forces as the commander of the Internal Guard. In addition to the two units of the National Security Council's Internal Guard and the National Security Council's Border Guard, the remaining Ministry of Defense commands the Soviet Red Army in a narrow sense, including the Soviet Navy, Land, Air and Homeland Defense Air Force, Strategic Rocket Force and Airborne Forces, and Engineers. troops and so on. Whether it was the Ministry of Defense or the KGB, they were part of the Soviet armed forces.

   Internal Guard Commander Serov and Frontier Guard Commander Admiral Zelyanov. Commander of two units under the KGB. Attended the military meeting of the Ministry of Defense, but the two just went to sit in. The two KGB units were not commanded by the Ministry of Defense, their command was in the hands of the KGB. Participation in the meeting only showed that both units were also part of the armed forces of the USSR. Cooperate with the actions of the Ministry of Defense in the general direction.

If the situation deteriorates, the entire Soviet armed forces will increase their combat readiness. Just before he left Moscow, the Ministry of Defense, including the Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Malinovsky, the Warsaw Pact Commander-in-chief Marshal Grechko, All of the first deputy ministers agreed that if the United States raised the readiness level, the Soviet Union must respond by raising it directly to the first level.

The Ministry of National Defense has drafted an order for first-level combat readiness, "to mobilize for combat readiness; combat readiness personnel on duty day and night; the radio command network listens at all times to ensure uninterrupted command; use various reconnaissance methods to closely monitor the enemy's movements; carry out emergency expansion, The combat readiness reserve team and the combat readiness duty unit of the military region shall be fully staffed according to the wartime, and the required equipment shall be given priority according to the supplementary capacity; Regional evacuation; improve the action plan, complete all preparations for battle, and the troops are on standby; stop all vacations, stop all job transfers and demobilized personnel." This telegram has been drafted and remains in the Ministry of Defense, ready to be delivered to the country when the situation deteriorates. The Central Presidium handed it over to the First Secretary Khrushchev for approval.

   Long before the meeting, Marshal Grechko, commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact, had ordered the four major groups in Eastern Europe to prepare for battle. Lieutenant General Sakhartowski, director of the KGB First General Directorate, asked the Advisory Department of the Eleventh Division of the First General Directorate to inform other Warsaw Pact members of the Soviet Union's position. Commander of the Soviet Homeland Defense Air Force, Air Marshal Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sudets ordered that the Homeland Defense Air Force must keep all subordinate forces with fighter planes in the air all the time to prevent the possibility of American strategic bombers breaking through the Soviet airspace. Happening.

   Following the orders of Marshal Sujic, the 34 air defense, division, and surface-to-air missile units under the nine air-defense areas of the Soviet Union were in a state of combat readiness and were ready to attack at any time, paying close attention to the huge airspace of the Soviet Union.

   Serov only literally knows the history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He has never experienced such a battle. Seeing those generals of the Ministry of Defense who have experienced the Great Patriotic War discussing a full-scale war seriously, he felt that it was a mistake to participate in it. With his own preliminary preparations, he had convinced the Soviet Union that the United States would negotiate in the face of forces that could destroy itself. Therefore, driven by this mentality, the Soviet Ministry of Defense reassured and boldly asked the Soviet armed forces to prepare, and put pressure on the Americans to surrender.

   The question is what to do if the fight really starts, and it is not what he wants to perish together. Are the remnants of the Soviet Union waiting to hide under the Moscow subway to play radiation games in this world? Even if Serov is willing to go out, he doesn't want his women and children to face such a world.

"Why don't you join in and let the Soviet Union admit it?" Serov drooped his eyelids. He hadn't slept for more than 30 hours. Even ordinary people knew that the Soviet Union and the United States had fallen into a full-scale confrontation. The Soviet Union was in a depressing atmosphere, not to mention his insider.

It was not long before the KGB chairmen of the five Central Asian republics and the two border guard commanders all arrived. The Kazakh KGB chairman Kamiyakin and the Central Asian border guard commander General Kudryash were not many. The weight is also sufficient. The political status of the KGB is naturally not as high as that of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beria. But times have changed, and some things will not change. After re-merging the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in terms of power, these security cadres have overcome the embarrassing situation of being a man with his tail between his tails when Beria just died.

   After the corn movement, Lubyanka began to take back the power of releasing it to the republics and local governments. It can be said that the KGB has returned to the vertical system of the Stalin era in terms of executive power, which is also an advantage compared with other departments.

"The first secretary sent me here, mainly to discuss the issue of the Sino-Indian border war. The war between China and India is also a major matter other than this confrontation with the United States. If you have any opinions, comrades, feel free to talk about it. ." Shelov rubbed his eyes as he spoke, hoping to recover his energy quickly.

"According to the report of the reconnaissance plane, the Indian army has been attacked and is retreating, but the war is still in a stable stage!" I have a better understanding of the situation over there, and report the results of the Soviet Air Force's reconnaissance.

"And according to the report from New Delhi, the whole of New Delhi is still in peace." Kamiya Phnom fiddled with the pen and said, "This kind of golden image is not fake, it seems that the Indian Army can still control the situation. !"

   This is so unscientific, it doesn’t match Serov’s original investigation at all, and so on? Back off? Sports battle? What Chinese soldiers are best at is mobile warfare. Once the Indian army retreats, it is easy to be defeated by Chinese soldiers who are good at mobile warfare. No wonder later generations always think that Indian soldiers are inexplicable. What a horrible thing to be pursued in front of communist soldiers.

"It seems that the Indians are dead!" Shelov said these inexplicable words lazily, and then ordered, "Make relevant preparations immediately, and when the Indians can't support the help, we can go in openly and honestly, we must Let the powerful powers take the initiative to ask us, so that we can enter in the name of the savior! Our first plan is to drop a batch of supplies on humanitarian standards after the Indian army has retreated..." (To be continued~^~)