The pitch-black Ningwuguan and Diaoyucheng had ferocious muzzles, and the huge battleships slowly moved forward driven by their frequently flashing engines.
Not far ahead of the two-ship formation, eight warships from the International Fleet were already in place. The American flag was painted under the bow of each warship.
Although the fleet was not large, it gave off a chilling feeling against the dark starry sky.
A few minutes later, the two-ship formation arrived at the designated position above Washington. Lin Yi immediately sent a signal to get in position at Ye Han's signal, and soon received a response from the US fleet.
Lin Yidao: "Chief, the US Army has announced that Operation Thunder has officially begun. Please prepare for airborne landings."
Ye Han's voice was low: "I know." After saying that, there was no movement.
Xiao Yuan curled his lips and complained: "Repay the thunder? Who came up with such a crude operation code name?"
"Tu?" Luo Qi glanced at Xiao Yuan in surprise, "That's good. Do you know what code names the American army used before?"
"Of course I know!" Xiao Yuan answered without hesitation, counting on his fingers, "Desert Shield, Desert Saber, Desert Thunder, Infinite Justice, do you need me to continue counting?"
Luo Qi rolled his eyes: "When did that happen? Going a step further, do you know what the code names were for the Beibang War and the Yuehou War?"
Xiao Yuan shook his head simply: "I don't know, do you know?"
"I know a little bit." Luo Qi was very modest and clapped his fingers like Xiao Yuan, "Butcher, masher, tearing, eagle claw, soldering iron, etc. How do you think these compare to Thunder?"
The corner of Xiao Yuan's mouth twitched and he admitted happily: "Things are better!"
Luo Qi said: "The operation code names given by Americans have always been relatively stupid. After World War II and the 1980s, they always gave random names. Many operation code names were particularly bloody. It has only gotten better in the past few decades...
…here we go!"
Everyone's attention immediately returned to the action, and they saw densely packed airborne pods breaking away from the US warship like dumplings. For a while, they couldn't even count how many there were.
Ye Han and others have personally experienced a lot of airborne operations, but this is the first time they have witnessed an airborne operation from this angle. Hundreds of thousands of airborne pods fell at the same time. The visual impact of this scene is not ordinary.
It's like watching a space battleship movie with amazing special effects.
The high-intensity airdrop only lasted for a short period of time, and after a while, the number of airdrop pods dropped.
Xiao Yuan withdrew his gaze and asked curiously: "Captain, didn't you ask us to cooperate in our actions? Why did they go down by themselves?"
Ye Han glanced at Xiao Yuan: "What? Do you want to follow?"
"No way!" Xiao Yuan called out to Tianqu, "I'm just curious, since you don't need us, why did you call us here?"
Ye Han couldn't help but laugh: "The American troops will go down first, of course because Washington is the territory of the Americans. If it were you, would you be able to allow foreign troops to airdrop into the northern capital at will?"
"Of course not!" Xiao Yuan shook his head fiercely.
"This is the end!"
"Then what are we doing?" Xiao Yuan still didn't understand.
Ye Han said: "Two functions, one is to help the Americans with their own field. They don't have enough troops to use our best, but when they do use it, we can't just ignore it. It can be regarded as a cover for the American army and add more troops."
An insurance."
"Understood!" Xiao Yuan slapped his forehead, "To put it bluntly, they are not sure themselves, and they feel that Washington is their own territory and they don't want us to get involved. Is that what you mean?"
"Almost." Ye Han said.
"What about number two?"
"The second is to help the Americans..."
Xiao Yuan felt bad: "Why are you still helping others?"
Ye Han had a bad smile on his face: "How come it's not a place for people? Now that we're here, it's like saying that Beijing supports the US government in the international base. If it's not a place for helping people, what is it?"
Xiao Yuan's shoulders collapsed instantly: "We are here to stand up for the Americans!"
Ye Han said nonchalantly: "There's nothing wrong with you if you think so."
Xiao Yuan didn't know what expression to use to express his feelings, and his distorted facial features were almost tangled together: "His grandma, his American people are also like this? I never dreamed of it!"
Ouyang Ping frowned and said: "Captain, so the higher-ups have decided to support the international base?"
"Yeah." Ye Han nodded, "I don't know the details, but from what I know, it's not that simple to support the international base."
"How?" Ouyang Ping asked.
Ye Han said: "I don't need to say more about what kind of chaos this period has become, right?"
Several people immediately shook their heads and said there was no need to say anything more.
Just kidding, everyone didn't do much else during this period, but there were many high-level infightings. In short, all members of the al-Qaeda group were in turmoil due to the split of the United States. Various political incidents emerged one after another, and there were even a few
The country's cabinet collapsed as a result, and a new cabinet has not been formed until now.
If the International Base had not been operating independently and was less affected by the ground, the base group might have been disbanded due to this turmoil.
In other words, Beidu sent two warships over, ostensibly to support the United States, but actually through this operation to stabilize people's hearts and allow the turbulent base group to regain stability.
After understanding the meaning of Ye Han's words, everyone had different expressions on their faces. They were either enlightened, lost in thought, or even surprised.
I don’t blame everyone for being in a bad mood, there are too many twists and turns here.
After a while, Xiao Yuan sighed dejectedly: "We really can't get over this Zhengzhi thing!"
Ye Han agreed: "We just have to obey orders honestly. It's better to stay away from this thing."
This sentence immediately won unanimous approval from everyone.
Can soldiers stay away from politics? The answer is of course no, because the military is naturally closely related to politics. However, the military must have a clear political stance, but it must not have political ambitions. Once the military has political demands, it will not be far from causing trouble.
To put it more clearly, the military only needs to make clear its position of defending the homeland and the people, and other things should not be touched at all.
Everyone understood what Ye Han meant, and no one misinterpreted it.
At this time, the first batch of airborne capsules fell into the atmosphere. The empty capsule that was almost integrated with the darkness turned bright red in an instant, like a group of meteors breaking into the atmosphere.
Everyone immediately fell silent and paid close attention to the situation of the airborne troops.
Regardless of landing craft or airborne pods, the best opportunity for interception is high altitude. Once it falls to low altitude, the difficulty of interception will inevitably rise sharply. If Washington opens fire to intercept the airborne troops now, the American paratroopers will suffer heavy casualties.