88: The Dragon Kingdom has confused the Russian Bear!

“Drawing a unit from the Central Guard Regiment to protect his safety?”

Peng Lin was incredibly surprised after hearing Marshal Xu Yong'an’s words!

One must know, this Central Guard Regiment was not a so-called ‘regiment’!

This unit alone had over 8,000 personnel!

As for its administrative level, it was a full army-level military administrative unit, comparable to a field army!

The head of the Central Guard Regiment was even personally held by a founding major general!

The duty of this unit was to protect the safety of the nation’s leader, as well as to serve as security for a series of important locations such as the Great Hall of the People, Diaoyutai, and Beidaihe!

It can be said without exaggeration that every soldier in this unit was absolutely the elite of the elite.

Its security organization was extremely strict, requiring strict confidentiality regarding the protected personnel’s vehicles, directions of movement, time, location, food supply, internal security deployment, and weapons and equipment.

No military or local unit or leader had the right to interfere with, deploy, or understand the situation of this unit!

If described with ancient or exaggerated terms, this would probably be the “Imperial Guards”!

“Don’t be surprised; this trip of yours to the Mao Xiong Empire is just an opportunity to strengthen your security!”

“Both I and other leaders are extremely concerned about your safety!”

“The KGB of the Mao Xiong Empire, the CIA of the Beautiful Country, MI6 of the Sun Never Sets Empire, Mossad of the Snake-Listed Country, etc., all have the potential to threaten your safety!”

“Although the guards currently responsible for your safety are also military elites, they are more geared towards battlefield combat!”

“When it comes to actual counter-espionage operations and food poisoning, the Central Guard Regiment is the safest!”

Marshal Xu Yong'an explained to Peng Lin.

“I understand!”

Peng Lin nodded silently.

In his previous life, during the confrontation between the Dragon Country and the Beautiful Country, the opposing CIA and agents frequently harmed outstanding military industrial scientists from the Dragon Country!

Methods such as car accidents, food poisoning, and special drug injections were endless!

As the chief designer of the H-20 project and the leader of the national aerospace engine program, Peng Lin’s safety had always been a top priority!

Therefore, Peng Lin did not need to adapt to this point!

“Oh, by the way, Chief, can I ask you for a favor?”

“During the National Day Parade celebration, I would like to invite my parents to watch, could you arrange some good viewing spots for them?”

Peng Lin hesitated slightly and asked Marshal Xu.

After starting work at Changhe Factory, Peng Lin’s work had always been quite busy.

Even during the Lunar New Year, due to the self-defense counterattack against the Yue Monkey, he was unable to return home for a reunion.

So, taking advantage of the national celebration and grand military parade, he wanted to bring his parents to Yanjing and invite them to watch the national celebration activities together.

Of course, there were also spots for Zhu Lin and her parents.

After both sets of parents met, the issue of their marriage could naturally be settled.

“Is that all?”

“I thought you were going to ask me for some backdoor favor!”

“As family members of a meritorious individual, your parents would naturally be invited to participate in important national celebration events!”

“You have made outstanding contributions to the nation, and your family should share in this honor!”

Marshal Xu Yong'an said to Peng Lin with a wry smile... In the afternoon.

Peng Lin did not return to the Aerospace Missile Manufacturing Branch, but stayed in his office as the Chief Designer of Army Equipment Development at the Ministry of National Defense.

In this position, Peng Lin had always borne the heavy responsibility of army equipment development and reform.

From the self-defense counterattack that broke out in February, the Dragon Country military leadership had keenly noticed the problems of severe overstaffing and low command efficiency in the army.

Therefore, the reform plan for the “Type A Division” had been continuously discussed and optimized.

Peng Lin’s proposed plan was to develop the “Type A Division” into a heavy combined arms brigade.

However, this matter involved the movement of millions of troops and was a matter of national importance.

Even if Peng Lin provided a feasible plan, the nation and the Ministry of National Defense had to go through careful and repeated verification.

Previously, according to the Ministry of National Defense’s plan, the first step was to establish several pilot heavy combined arms brigades.

Then, the current Type A Divisions and heavy combined arms brigades would conduct confrontations to gradually achieve transitional development and reform.

However, now, the heavy combined arms brigade clearly had a better test subject!

That was to use the Mao Xiong Empire’s armored steel torrent for combat power testing and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the army’s new heavy armored combined arms units!

Peng Lin felt that perhaps this opportunity could make the military and senior leaders completely determined to advance military reform, thoroughly transforming the army from divisions to brigades, and achieving comprehensive combined arms development!

“Furthermore, in the international arms trade market, it’s always winner takes all!”

“If the heavy combined arms brigade can defeat the Mao Xiong Empire’s army, even a large share of the international market for many of the Mao Xiong Empire’s military equipment will be eaten up by the Dragon Country!”

Peng Lin silently contemplated and planned.

The Mao Xiong Empire’s armored steel torrent had always been hailed by countries around the world as the world’s number one!

Therefore, main battle tanks like the Mao Xiong Empire’s T-62 and T-72 had always been hot sellers in international arms sales!

Most countries around the world almost always prioritized the Mao Xiong Empire when purchasing tanks.

Even the Beautiful Country and many Western countries could not compare with the Mao Xiong Empire in this regard.

And now, with the Dragon Country developing the Type 99A heavy main battle tank, Peng Lin was thinking of capturing this market.

In his previous life, the Dragon Country had always adhered to a “small steps, slow run” strategy in the production of advanced equipment.

That is, only a small number of new equipment would be produced and deployed to the army each year, without blindly expanding production lines.

Only in this way would the production lines have a certain number of orders each year, thus preventing them from collapsing or shutting down.

However, in the current era, the Dragon Country did not have as peaceful an environment as in later generations.

Therefore, as long as the nation and the military agreed to the division-to-brigade reform plan, all units would inevitably complete the reform comprehensively in a short period.

And in this way, to meet the needs of its own army, military factories would have to lay down a large number of production lines for the Type 99A main battle tank.

However, after laying down a large number of production lines, they would inevitably face the reality that these production lines would be wasted if there were no orders.

Therefore, only by using the international market to compensate for the subsequent shortage of domestic orders could these vast production lines maximize their profits.

To avoid waste.

Moreover, the more main battle tanks sold and produced, the more the Dragon Country’s own procurement could reduce the unit cost.

It was even possible that the high profits from main battle tanks could support the modernization and replacement of its own army’s main battle tanks through foreign trade orders!

Peng Lin picked up a pen and paper, calculating the economic accounts of the army reform!

Because the development of the army never relied solely on scale and technology; economics and national industrial strength were equally important!

Including later stages of war, it was all about economics and logistical capabilities!

... Just as Peng Lin was planning for the Dragon Country’s subsequent comprehensive development of heavy combined arms brigades.

The international situation suddenly descended into chaos!

And the fundamental instigator of all this was that the Dragon Country had actually taken the initiative to contact the Kremlin, proposing that it would “play” the Blue Army to help the Mao Xiong Empire’s army conduct military exercises and confrontations!

To achieve the most realistic “simulation” of the Dragon Country’s army’s effectiveness!

This suddenly threw the Mao Xiong Empire, a world superpower, into disarray!

Before proposing to conduct the largest military exercise in global history, the Kremlin had conducted a series of analyses and conjectures regarding the Dragon Country’s reaction!

They had considered that the Dragon Country would “fight to the death” and also that the Dragon Country would “concede”!

But they never expected that the Dragon Country would actually proactively request to play “Dragon Country” in the military exercise?

What kind of act was this?

Facing the Dragon Country, an opponent that didn’t play by the rules, the Mao Xiong Empire was completely bewildered!