The cold wave from the Arctic is raging over Moscow. The biting north wind and goose feather-like heavy snow made the Moscow people who are accustomed to the severe cold a little uncomfortable. However, compared with the severe cold outside, the war chess deduction operation room of the Soviet General Staff was as warm as spring.

The heated heating air is constantly blowing in the vent that is just right, making the operating room always maintain a perfect comfort. However, the two Soviet supreme leaders standing opposite each other could not see any comfortable warmth. Instead, it was like the icebergs of the Arctic Ocean, which was so cold that it made people feel cold...

"It is your invitation, Marshal Ogarkov!"

Facing the cold words of Marshal Ogalkov, the Soviet Defense Minister who was over 70 years old, the close comrade-in-arms of the late Soviet leader Brezhnev, and the actual controller of the huge Soviet military department, Marshal Ustinov just smiled slightly with an indescribable indifference, as if reminding the other party, but Marshal Ogalkov didn't care about it. He glanced at the messy war chess sand table next to him and replied coldly:

"It's a pity that you are late, and the nephew Konstantinovich, whom you highly hoped for, still did not win!"

“Under your director, no one can win!”

"I'm not directing, but clarifying a fact!"

"Just use your light bulb-like transistors and playing card-like circuit boards?"

Marshal Ustinov twitched the corners of his mouth disdainfully. The wrinkles on his face twisted at this moment. In addition to showing a morbid rosy rosy, he also revealed his long-standing "experience" of wind and frost. Then he raised his already cloudy old eyes, and through the thick horizontal reading glasses, he looked at the war chess sand table with obvious hostility, and smiled sarcastically as if he was looking at a child's toy:

"These things can only be cannon fodder in front of nuclear weapons. Comrade Ogalkov, please don't forget that in our Soviet military theory, the importance of nuclear weapons is the key to victory!"

"But in general local wars, nuclear weapons are obviously not put into use, so conventional forces are the most effective means to solve problems, just like we are in Afghanistan..."

"What we are preparing for is a total war with Western imperialism. What you are talking about is just to coax children to play house!"

Before Marshal Ogalkov finished speaking, Marshal Ustinov interrupted him, and from his stiff tone, it could be heard that the obviously old Minister of Defense was obviously a little impatient. He was invited to participate in the wargame deduction held by the Soviet General Staff, but he did not arrive on time because he knew that his arrival would inevitably have a conflict with Marshal Ogalkov, the deputy minister of the Soviet Ministry of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army.

Now the conflict between him, the Minister of Defense and the Chief of General Staff, has become an open secret among the senior Soviet army. Speaking of which, there is no political disagreement, in order to achieve a new level of combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, but Marshal Ogalkov's thoughts are obviously too radical.

He focused all his attention and spirit on the so-called electronic information field. For this reason, he also wrote a book to predict that the future war will be information wars and electronic wars, and he tried to promote the so-called "electronic information" revolution in the Soviet army. Marshal Ustinov, as Minister of Defense, obviously could not accept this.

You should know that he is a staunch supporter and defender of the traditional Soviet military theory, especially his extremely fanatical worship of the large-scale deep combat theory created by the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as the nuclear weapons victory theory proposed by famous Soviet nuclear strategy experts.

It is also because of this that Marshal Ustinov hated Marshal Ogalkov's "fallacies" and the conflicts between the two in the future construction and development of the Soviet army are getting deeper and deeper. However, Marshal Ustinov, with the trust of Brezhnev and the support of the powerful conservatives of the Soviet army, always suppressed Marshal Ogalkov.

However, this situation has undergone extremely subtle changes after the Battle of Horamshahr that just ended not long ago. It should be noted that in that fierce battle, the large-scale armored cluster attack that the Soviet Union had always been proud of and the theory of large-scale combat in depth failed completely.

Putting aside the backward qualities of the Iraqi army, whether in terms of strategy and tactics or weapons and equipment, it was completely suppressed by the enemy. The scene of the new tank destroying the T-72 tank played by Iranian state TV also shocked the Soviet military, feeling that its own tanks have been surpassed by other countries in the world in terms of performance.

However, compared with some "monkey version" tanks (performance simple version) being penetrated, the Soviets who held more advanced tanks were not worried. What really shocked and frightened them was the so-called "death rain" mentioned by Iraqi soldiers that shocked the Soviet army. You should know that if a number of hostile countries have this weapon, it would mean that the Soviet Union's proud armored cluster had completely lost its effect, which was simply fatal to the Soviet Union.

It was in this context that Marshal Ogalkov seemed to have seized an excellent opportunity to promote his military doctrine. At this time, Soviet leader Brezhnev passed away, and Marshal Ustinov, the high-ranking Minister of Defense, was also seriously ill. Marshal Ogalkov immediately took advantage of the favorable opportunity to implement the reforms he had always dreamed of.

Just out of respect for the Minister of Defense, Marshal Ogalkov would regularly send irrelevant briefings to Marshal Ustinov's ward for him to read, but Marshal Ogalkov did not know that his every move had been under the control of Marshal Ustinov. When his health improved slightly, he came to the General Staff of the Soviet Army and met Marshal Ogalkov at the end of the wargame to showdown with the rebellious chief of staff:

"I don't understand why you left Su Wei'e's enemy not to solve it, but just calculating what you call winning 'number' here!"

Marshal Ustinov said coldly, and a turbid gaze revealed a hint of coldness that was not easy to detect. With Marshal Ogalkov's intelligence, he could not have not noticed it. However, he had nothing to be afraid of the old Minister of Defense who had just gotten up from the hospital bed and was about to lie down on the hospital bed again. He said proudly:

"Su Wei~E's enemy? Let me see, Su Wei~E's real enemy is ourselves, our own old brain. If it is not replaced and repaired, all that is waiting for us is destruction!"

Marshal Ustinov looked at Marshal Ogalkov, who was full of energy on the opposite side with a brighter smile on his face and colder. His tone was gentle, but it was like a rusted steel knife, rubbing repeatedly on the grinding stone, pouring into people's ears:

"Comrade Marshal Ogarkov, you must be responsible for what you say!"

"I am responsible all the time!" Marshal Ogalkov answered very simply, but as soon as he said this, his adjutant pushed the door in with an anxious look, and then lay in Marshal Ogalkov's ear and whispered a few words. When Marshal Ogalkov heard this, his eyes suddenly rounded and shouted in surprise:

"Is it the general~~book~~record of Andropov?"

The adjutant nodded affirmatively. Marshal Ogalkov stopped asking again when he saw this, but stared at Marshal Ustinov who could not see any thoughts on the other side. There was resentment, helplessness, regret, and sadness in his eyes. However, these complex expressions eventually only gathered into a look that was unforgettable, which was a deep disappointment!

I don't know how long it took, Marshal Ogalkov finally withdrew his gaze, then picked up his coat, and left with the adjutant. However, at the moment when he was about to push the door out, he slowly stopped and looked back at the Minister of Defense who was already in his twilight years. There was a hint of unspeakable bitterness on his face, but he still spoke intriguingly:

"Comrade Minister of Defense, I still hope that you can continue to implement my approach, even if it is only 10%, not for us, but for the Soviet Union!"

"You are still the Chief of Staff, Comrade Ogarkov, I wish you a smooth inspection and visit!"

Marshal Ustinov was very polite and had a very gentle and gentlemanly smile, but Marshal Ogalkov, who had worked with him for many years, knew that his sincere words did not hear a word into the old Minister of Defense's ears, so he looked at Marshal Ustinov with expressionless expression again, turned around and walked out of the door of the operating room without looking back.

Just as Marshal Ogalkov left, Marshal Ustinov's nephew, who had just been scolded by the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Konstantinovich, deputy director of the Operations Department of the General Staff of the Soviet Union, immediately flashed in, and with a smile of success in the conspiracy, he stood attentively at his uncle, who was also the immediate boss, Marshal Ustinov:

"Comrade Marshal, I am ready and can rush to Iraq at any time!"

"Yeah!" Marshal Ustinov glanced at his nephew and nodded with satisfaction: "Let's go as soon as possible. General Ivashujing of the General Administration of Military Intelligence is too dissatisfied there. Comrade Andropov is very dissatisfied, but our Chief of Staff is not on this. Now the comrades in the political and political bureau are very disappointed with him, so you must restore the image of the Soviet Union this time, do you understand?"

"Yes!" Lieutenant General Konstantinovic stood at attention again, and a look of a winner appeared on his face...
Chapter completed!