Seeing that it was not too late, Malenkov temporarily put down his thoughts that were lingering in his heart and explained the rules of Go to several old friends in a concise way.

Holding a few glass pieces in his hand, the General Secretary’s hand tapped several sides rhythmically. While explaining, he demonstrated and reviewed the basic routines of Go for the audience. He patiently pointed and pointed on the board and told you what kind of situation is more favorable. Or in other words, he just wanted them to understand that the key point of Go is not to kill the enemy blindly, but to analyze and consider the overall board. This thinking pattern is its essence:

"——Here, like this,"

While speaking, Malenkov pointed to a clearing ground surrounded by white chess on the left side of the board. "Obviously, in this case, although there are no white chess pieces in the open space, in terms of situation, we think white chess is dominant and this area is controlled by white chess. - The rules are not difficult at all, right?"

"Ah, it looks like... although I still haven't fully understood it."

Beside Malenkov, Beria looked at it with a serious look on his face for a moment, and shook his head helplessly. Perhaps with his meticulous and logical mind, it is difficult to understand this invisible "chess"; seeing this KGB leader who is more rational and lacks emotion is still somewhat unscrupulous, Malenkov smiled heartily and explained to him briefly:

"Actually, from my personal point of view, Go and strategic wargame deductions are somewhat similar; just like this," he poked his finger on the white chess clearing on the board. "Although there is a clearing in the middle, if there is a military deployment, isn't that the case? No one is so stupid that he squeezes all the combat units in the center of the garrison area. It is often deployed along the border and has a certain depth. It looks very similar no matter how you look at it, haha."

"Well... the black and white sides can have as many chess pieces, with the difference between first and later, using existing strength and control of the region as the inference criteria for victory or defeat..."

After observing a few days beside the stage, Suslov nodded in interest, "Hey, I thought it was a trick to make magic. Now, thinking about it, isn't it just like a strategic game!"

"Ahhh, that's it."

Hearing Suslov's words, Kosykin, who was sitting opposite him, clapped his hands in agreement.

In the low-level game just now, Zhibai obviously gained an advantage over Suslov, and the embarrassment on Alexey's face was already wiped out at this time; the tall prime minister of the Soviet government gave some advice on the chessboard with a bit of enthusiasm.

As the person who leads the overall situation, especially the economic level of the huge alliance, Alexey is indeed very good at observing and strategic analysis. Seeing several old friends gathered next to the table, and were interested in arguing on the chessboard, Malenkov also stared at the huge chessboard on the table with silence; as his thoughts gradually unfolded, the horizontal and vertical chess roads on the chessboard seemed to have become crisscrossing traffic networks, and what was presented in front of him was no longer a flat and orderly plate. Instead, a vast and vast continent of Eurasian continent...

"...Everyone, with the help of the chess game in front of us, we might as well analyze and discuss the current situation and the country's next action strategy, how about it?"

"Oh?...Ustinovich, you mean-"

"Haha, yes."

Faced with Cosykin's thoughtful and cautious question, the General Secretary nodded with a smile.

As the supreme leader of the huge Soviet Union, Malenkov's work is to dominate the overall situation; and the strategic analysis is mainly based on characterization and focuses on overall consideration. Now he just expresses some of his previous ideas and analyzes them with the arguments here. So he grabbed some chess pieces from the ceramic chess bowl, arranged the plate slightly, and then adjusted the wide collar of his nightgown, and began his statement calmly:

"When talking about the current strategic situation, we must first talk about the reasons, which is the reason for the outbreak of this world war.

In this regard, the work presided over by Pavlovic is effective. We have found that Western countries are also surprised by this war, including our old enemy, the United States. All signs show that the outbreak of the war was not planned for a long time, but probably a conspiracy, which is very useful for us to formulate response strategies; but at the same time, we must also realize that finding out the cause of the outbreak of the war is not of great value for analyzing the direction of the war."

Hearing Malenkov's opening remarks, the three people present nodded in recognition, and their views were basically the same as the General Secretary.

Yes, no matter why this inexplicable war broke out, it is meaningless now: once the huge war machine is opened, it has already left the track of the normal world. Unless strong intervention is taken, it will not be possible to prevent the unruly horse from moving forward wildly.

"Since that's the case, there is only one problem before us, that is, how can we end the war?

In this regard, the Committee has already reached a consensus that the overall power of the capitalist world still has the advantage and that all our actions cannot be separated from this reality. The strategy of originally planning to completely defeat the West in a world war and destroy the last fortress of capitalism in one fell swoop is completely unrealistic; then our current combat goal should still be to try our best to maintain the existing strategic balance, strive to end the war at a relatively reasonable cost, and win more time and opportunities for the long-term development after the war.

Do you have any new ideas on this?”

“Well, ‘to end the war’, I personally have always fully agreed.”

As Malenkov asked, Xie Miao Suslov tapped the handrail of the sofa twice, and as he spoke, he responded slightly.

Not long ago, when he met with Red Sea Marshal Sergei Gorshkov at the Ministry of Defense, he also discussed this issue in person: in the face of the inquiry from Suslov's representative Soviet presidium, the Marshal told him very directly that "with the equipment composition and size of the Red Sea, it cannot compete with the US Navy in the long sea."

As for the United States, the "last fortress of capitalism", without a powerful ocean-going navy, the so-called "defeat in one fell swoop" would only be an empty talk.

In that old era, which was not far away, under the suppression of Marshal Dmitry Ustinov, the former Minister of Defense of the Soviet Red Navy, who had enthusiasm for work but only liked the army, the equipment construction of the Soviet Red Navy once occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. When the old man finally met Marx in 1984, Gorshkov was able to sort out the complex relationship of the military-industrial system, appointed a large number of elite soldiers and generals to work hard, and build it in the twelve years of presiding over the Red Navy.

Sixty-three Type 956,1155 missile destroyers (of which six were exported to China, and two were not delivered), nine Type 1164 missile cruisers, twenty-eight new generation Type 949a (Oscar II) attack nuclear submarines and dozens of conventional power nuclear submarines, as well as a total of three /6/7 heavy-carry cruisers (the other two are under construction) and a large number of military auxiliary ships. The total tonnage of the Red Navy has almost doubled compared with 1984!

However, even so, in the face of the total tonnage of ships, the US Navy, which still ranks first in the world, especially with strong ocean-going combat capabilities, the Red Navy, which ranks second in the world, is still unable to defeat the maritime power of the Western world in one fell swoop due to the severe lack of large ships such as aircraft carriers and amphibious warships.

In addition, due to natural geographical disadvantages, the four fleets of the huge Red Empire were separated from each other and it was difficult to mobilize and coordinate with each other. After the outbreak of the war, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet was always besieged in the Black Sea and trapped in the shallows, making it difficult to achieve success.

The bad geographical situation naturally cannot be changed for a while.

But the most troublesome problem is that the Black Sea coast concentrated most of the Soviet military ship industry. If the war continues for a long time, even if the Red Navy launches more warships, it will not be able to break out of the strait and supplement the war consumption of the other three fleets. Not only that, the maintenance and maintenance of the ships of the three fleets will also be difficult to sustain because of the loss of the support of the shipyard, which is very unfavorable for long-term protracted warfare.

In short, whether it is due to historical problems or confined by innate geographical limitations, ocean-going combat is not a pragmatic choice for the time being; since there is no hope to directly attack North America, how to face this sudden world war rationally and exchange the smallest price for the greatest victory is a difficult problem that the leaders of the Soviet Empire must face.

"...Our navy, frankly speaking, has too much constraints, and it is difficult for us to break out of the Western encirclement to complete the combat mission. And when it comes to the Black Sea, there is no sign of a complete change in the current situation in the Caucasus War Zone-"

"Well, yes, the key is the Caucasus."

Following Suslov's thoughts, Malenkov took a sip of the clear mineral water and continued his own analysis:

"Since lately, I have been thinking about the battle situation in the Caucasus.

For today's world war, if you simply use Go as an analogy, it can be said that the Caucasus War Zone is the focus of the current competition between the enemy and us, and it is also a rich "robbery" that both of them have all their might. The problem now is that this "robbery" or "the place of military strategists" comes from our territory; although fighting at home can occupy the right time and place, there are also many other troubles and concerns.
Chapter completed!