Côte d'Azur Airport, Nice, France
A warm breeze flew into Sergeys face when he got off the plane. He didn't know who's plan it was to commandeer the entire Kyiv AeroFlot fleet of commercial planes, but it was a nice change from jerky rides in the old Antonov planes. He even took a nap on the long flight, something you could have never done on the old planes. Not even because it was always a bumpy ride, no, it was more about that feeling that the plane would disintegrate under your $@!.
Sergbey turned around to face his staff, he had specially requested this staff of people, they were people he knew he could trust. Most of them had served in infantry units, because that was what they would use here the most. 35.000 men had been flown into France, a few of the new transport planes had flown in some halftracks and jeeps. But nothing worthy of the name tank, considering the fact that this was a highly urbanized environment it wasn't that bad.. Of course they had a all kinds of light equipment with them, and they were prepared to stay in the field for at least a month. Supply lines were not really an issue here.
"Okay, who has prepared the maps, hand me one where we can see the terrain we have to cover today."
"Olov..... I have a question.... WHY THE $%&@ IS THERE A GOOGLE LOGO PRINTED AT THE BOTTOM!"
A fat guy with a pale white face was almost crying when Sergey yelled at him..... "Well..... they took all the maps to Spain, even the French maps.... so we had to improvise...."
Sergey snatched the map out of the sweaty hands of the shaking man.
"Look, our plans are printed right on it. B, C and D are the Phoenix, Lion and Eagle Divisions, with 10.000 men each. We will keep about 4000 men in reserve west of B. and another 1000 men will arrange communications, supplies the works. Our supply line is short and covers only friendly terrain. We just have to make sure that the enemy isn't able to disrupt communications between our forces, we don't want to focus our troops, we have to spread them along the border. Our first priority is securing the border. Only after negotiations with the enemy have failed will we engage. Hevlak commands Phoenix, you have to cover 20 kilometers today, Vodyina is on Lion 25 kilometers, and Olstoy on Eagle, 30 kilometers. We should reach the border in half a day, and by nightfall I want the encirclement to be complete. Maintain complete radio silence till we reach that point. We may not be able to keep ourselves out of any contact, but try to keep it low guys. After midnight I don't care anymore, ignore any contact attempt though. And stop people that try to cross the border. We cant have Military personnel escaping this dressed as civilians. The border is closed. Let them sweat it out a bit till sunrise."
"What about their harbor? "
"Well there is not really anything we can do about that right now, we have no naval support at the time, or air for that matter. These are the only resources we have, and I plan to use them well. Lets go!"
And so began the Siege of Monaco!