The first thousand three hundred and twenty-seventh chapters fight
What was supposed to come has come. As of 12:00 pm on the 15th, New York time, Iraq still has not withdrawn its troops from Kuwait. On the morning of the 16th, US time, the President of the United States signed a national security directive document to the commander of the US Central Command, ordering the US military to
War on Iraq.
At 2 a.m. on the 17th, Baghdad time, a multinational aviation force led by the United States launched an air strike on Iraq and launched Operation Desert Storm.
At this time, it was already 7 a.m. in Hong Kong time, and at 9 a.m., news of the multi-national allied air strike on Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, spread around the world.
Today is Thursday. As soon as the Hong Kong Exchange opened today, the price of London gold began to soar.
For the first time in the past 20 to 30 years, so many countries have launched military operations against a country, including NATO allies, several countries in the Arab region and several countries in Eastern Europe. Iraq's strength is not at the same level as those of these countries. Iraq is currently
The only advantage is the location.
However, in the face of high-performance Allied fighter aircraft and advanced electronic reconnaissance and electronic jamming aircraft, Iraq's detection system is basically in a state of failure.
After being overwhelmed by technology, Iraq was still more passive and vulnerable, and some counterattack methods were easily intercepted by the Allies.
It was only then that the Iraqi leader discovered that the elite troops he was so proud of were so vulnerable in the face of this kind of modern warfare.
Li Guangyu received a phone invitation from Huo Yingdong in the afternoon, inviting him to afternoon tea.
When Li Guangyu arrived at the teahouse here, Huo Yingdong was already here.
Li Guangyu also knew that Huo Yingdong invited him to drink tea at this time, and it was nothing more than about the Allied bombing of Baghdad in the morning.
After sitting down, Li Guangyu said loudly: "Huo Sheng, thank you very much for your warm invitation."
After Huo Yingdong poured tea for Li Guangyu, he said loudly: "Li Sheng, this is the top Longjing in this teahouse, you can try it."
Huo Yingdong didn't mention it, and Li Guangyu didn't ask. He picked up the teacup, took a sip, and started talking about tea.
After a period of meaningless chat, Huo Yingdong said: "Li Sheng, what do you think of what happened this morning?"
Compared to Li Guangyu, Huo Yingdong's intelligence was very scarce. He only received intelligence from the north today. Mirage 2000c fighter jets were bombing Baghdad today.
This is not the point. The point is that the Mirage 2000c fuselage has the Bentley Island flag on it. According to rumors, twelve such fighters carried out the mission to bomb Baghdad today.
As for where the information came from, Huo Yingdong didn't know, but he believed that the information provided by the North would not be wrong.
It is true that Bentley Island is a British Overseas Territory, and all rights are no problem, but this time an overseas territory sent twelve fighter planes to participate in the war, which is completely different. There are currently fifteen British Overseas Territories, and only Bermuda is
And Bentley Island has its own military force, which is under the jurisdiction of the territory rather than the British Army.
Bermuda only has one regiment of a few hundred men, and it is an army regiment. It has only light weapons and not even a single tank.
On Bentley Island, there are 24 Mirage 2000c, an Army regiment of 2,500 people, including a Leopard 2 tank battalion, an artillery battalion of various types, a mechanized infantry battalion, and an anti-aircraft missile battalion.
The navy has four frigates and two "supporter" conventional submarines.
Although Bermuda and Bentley Island are politically equal, Bermuda is lagging behind Bentley Island in terms of military strength.
Moreover, in the past two years, the registered population of Bentley Island has continued to grow. All military personnel and personnel working on Bentley Island have transferred their registered residence to Bentley Island, and Bentley Island is also attracting Chinese from all over the country to join them.
Now the registered population of Bentley Island has exceeded 30,000, and it is now the fifth largest offshore center after Bermuda, Cayman Islands and other places. Some listed companies on the Xiangjiang Exchange are registered on Bentley Island.
Moreover, the development there has been getting better and better in the past two years. There are direct flights to Bentley Island from Xiangjiang every week, and many markets travel there.
It can be said that this move was very ruthless. The British government gave the Li Group several deserted islands, and its government colleagues, who had received a large amount of funds, also pulled the Li Group out of Hong Kong.
And no matter how the Lee Group develops Bentley Island, in the end Bentley Island will still be under British rule, and its diplomacy will remain consistent with the British.
For example, this time, Bentley Island was also involved because it is a British overseas territory.
And now Bentley Island is still accelerating construction. Bentley Island and the surrounding Phoenix Island, Zhuque Island, Hengyu Island, Tianyu Island, and Xingyu Island together form the current British Bentley Island territory. The upper left corner of its flag is the British Rice.
The word flag, with a Bentley car in the lower right corner, is the global flag of Bentley Island.
In particular, Bentley Island is applying for the qualification to enter the Asian Games. It is estimated that there will be no difficulties for Bentley Island in this regard. The Asian Organizing Committee has a very good relationship with the Lee Foundation. In the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, there may be a Hong Kong flag among the projects.
and the Bentley Island flag was raised at the same time.
At present, Bentley Island is completely independent except for diplomacy. It can be said that the other party is only missing one name, and it is no different from some small countries.
The key is that Bentley Island's weapons and equipment are not weak. For example, the nearby Maldives, this country's military force is simply not comparable to Bentley Island. If the Maldives and Bentley Island really went to war, it is estimated that Bentley Island would be able to occupy the Maldives in less than a day.
Huo Yingdong was actually quite puzzled as to why Li Guangyu wanted to go through this muddy water this time. If he didn't send a fighter plane over this time, no force would say anything. After all, Bentley Island was just an overseas territory of England.
Li Guangyu doesn't care what Huo Yingdong thinks. He needs Bentley Island for actual combat. This opportunity is quite rare. The battlefield is the best training.
These twelve fighter planes will be on mission until the end of this month, and another twelve fighter planes will fly over next month, allowing them to walk around the battlefield and accumulate some practical experience.
After the development of several surrounding islands in the past two years, the Air Force is stationed on Phoenix Island, where an air force airport has been specially built, the submarine base is on Xingyu Island, and the naval port is on Bentley Island.
The army is stationed and trained on Hengyu Island. As for Zhuque Island and Tianyu Island, they have not yet been developed and utilized. We will talk about this later.
Li Guangyu said: "Iraq has indeed gone too far this time. Kuwait's territory should not be occupied by Iraq. Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait. At the same time, Iraq's desire to raise oil prices has violated the interests of too many people, so today's situation has occurred.
Condition.
Moreover, the Soviet Union is almost sunset. As can be seen from the incident in Iraq, the Soviet Union no longer has much deterrent effect on the United States and its allies. The two-tier structure has disappeared. We hope that the other side will prepare early.
Don't overestimate the duration of this war, it will probably end next month, and the Allies will withdraw in March at the latest."
Of course Huo Yingdong is also aware of some situations. Iraq has indeed gone too far. Regardless of its position, it has violated Kuwait's territorial sovereignty and cannot get external support. In addition, raising oil prices has offended almost all oil importing countries, so it
There will be a situation where dozens of countries fight against one of them.
You must know that the oil used in Xiangjiang is also imported from the Middle East. The increase in oil prices there is also detrimental to the development of Xiangjiang.
Some of the information Li Guangyu revealed to him was quite important. This was also the purpose of finding Li Guangyu. From Li Guangyu's words, he was quite shocked. After all, Iraq is a relatively powerful country and has been entangled with Iran for eight years.
He didn't expect to be able to bear it for a month, which was beyond his imagination.
However, Huo Yingdong felt that the incident was likely to develop as Li Guangyu said. Otherwise, Li Guangyu would not have allowed Bentley Island fighter jets to join it. After all, a fighter jet is very expensive, even if Li Guangyu
Our family is big and our business is big, and we can't afford to lose too much.