Chapter 251 Stealing the beam and changing the column
Zahran is an air force base in Oman. It is not only an important air force transfer station for the US military to prepare for the Gulf War, but also very close to the Persian Gulf. US aircraft can cover the entire Strait of Hormuz in just 20 minutes and guard the only waterway to the Persian Gulf.
At 7 p.m. local time on the 17th, the US pilots at the base received an order that they felt very strange: the F16 formation took off immediately and intercepted a flight from Pakistan to Iraq.
Of course, if it is just this order, it is normal. After all, the Gulf War is about to break out, and the entire Middle East can be regarded as a quasi-war zone. The 400,000 US troops will only wait for the president's order to launch an attack on Iraq; then at this time, it is not so strange that the US Air Force is responsible for intercepting aircraft to Iraq, because before the [__] novel war, the enemy needs to be isolated, and intercepting aircraft is also a means.
The US soldiers in Zahran also understood, but this time they felt strange that the order required the pilots with the longest flight time and most interception experience to be responsible for interception, and the command gave them the order to shoot down the intercepting aircraft if necessary.
As this order came out, the entire Zahran base suddenly became in an uproar. These American soldiers who had enough food and drink were curious: "Hey! Why do you need the pilot with the longest flight time and the most experienced intercept? Could it be that important person to go to Iraq? Or is it that an atom bomb transported on the plane? It must be the Chinese conspiracy!"
Some people also had evil speculation: "But in my opinion, there is a very dirty butt transaction here. The flying Counts really hope to make their own record, but even if they control F16, they may fall, so they can only attack these poor lambs who have no power to fight back, and then they sell their butts and ask the command to add such an order!"
"But if they were not intercepting an ordinary plane, but a modified super fighter, and then shooting down all these damn bastards, that would be the happiest thing for me..."
However, no matter how they discussed this matter, the military order must be implemented. So five minutes later, two F16 fighter jets with weapons equipped with complete f16 take off from the base of Zahran and head straight for the Arabian Sea. According to the data analysis sent by the headquarters, they quickly locked in the target.
Although the target was only a passenger plane, as the most experienced pilots in the Zachlan Air Force Base, they still used the method of accompanying the flight and warning of emergency landing, and the other aircraft followed and locked to open fire at any time. The shame of capsizing in the gutter was something they would never want to face in their entire lives.
After confirming the other party's identity through the radio connection, the pilot who accompanied the flight began to shout: "Hello friends over there, we are birds under the US Air Force's No. 369 Zahran Base. I am ordered to intercept you. I need you to visit Zahran Base with me, but I really hope you can resist, because then the guy behind you can shoot you hard!"
With such a warning, the passenger plane surrendered without any hesitation, followed the two fighter planes to change their routes and finally landed at the Zahran Air Force Base.
At the same time, the White House immediately received news that the US President's National Security Assistant Brent hurriedly returned to report to President Walsh: "Mr. President, the plane has been captured by the pilots of Zahran. Now it has landed in the base. All the onboard personnel are under our control, but no Chinese named Zhou Ming was found."
With Brent's last words, the President, who had already clenched his fists and was about to cheer, suddenly stood there like a scoundrel.
"There is no Chinese? Why? Is the intelligence given by the Intelligence Agency wrong? But the flights from Pakistan to Iraq are only average every day. If the pilot on the front line had not made the flight number wrong, it would be impossible. Can anyone tell me what happened?" Walsh said loudly without accepting it.
Faced with such a Walsh, Brent could only shrug without help: "I think maybe he didn't go to Iraq, or maybe our Intelligence Agency made the wrong time from the beginning."
When Brent made his opinion, President Walsh returned to his calmness. He shook his head and said, "Since we failed to intercept him as soon as possible, I have a premonition that we will not have another chance to intercept again."
"Premonition?" Brent was surprised. He really didn't expect that Walsh, as president, would also believe in this.
Walsh nodded and said yes, but did not explain too much. Instead, he said to Brent: "Go and call the Ministry of Defense and give each of the pilots participating in this interception mission a Silver Star Medal. In addition, we must conduct strict inspections on the others on the plane. I believe that if there is any problem, then there will be something here!"
Walsh's tone was very confident, but when Brent recorded Walsh's presidential order to leave to contact the Ministry of Defense, Walsh grabbed his hair inexplicably and muttered: "What's wrong with it? How could that damn Chinese suddenly disappear? Did we deploy so many planes and radar networks in the Central and Eastern Europe, but we couldn't even catch a single person?"
At the end of the talk, Walsh gasped: "If this is the case, then the Gulf War has already lost before it even started, to the Chinese... But where did he go?"
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When President Walsh burned countless brain cells in his office, on the other side at Khalid Airport, a flight from Pakistan was landing smoothly on the runway. When the plane stopped, Zhou Ming and **'s desert team walked out of the cabin.
Following the flow of people, Zhou Ming and the others walked out of the airport. At this time, a young soldier came up and whispered to Zhou Minghui: "Chief Zhou Ming, I just received the news from the country. As you expected, the flight to Iraq was captured by the US Air Force an hour and a half ago. Now the plane and all the personnel on board are undergoing American investigations in the Zahran base in Oman."
After hearing this news, Zhou Ming was relieved: he thought he had overestimated himself, but now it seems that his judgment is correct, but he doesn't seem to want to go to Iraq directly.
I still remember when I was facing Mr. Yang and the others in Jingyuan Pavilion, Zhou Ming said that he wanted to delay the pace of the future Gulf War, but Iraq was his last stop. This was because Zhou Ming needed to find military expenditure for the arms needed for future guerrilla warfare.
Without food and clothing, the enemy will come forward; without guns or cannons, the enemy will make it for us!
This sentence sounds very morale, but in fact, there are only a handful of troops in the world that can really achieve such a military. More so-called guerrilla warfare still requires third parties to provide arms.
Based on his own memory, the Iraqi army surrendered in groups in the face of the uninterrupted bombing of the US military, and the scale was no worse than **. Therefore, no matter how Zhou Ming thought about this kind of army, he thought that they had to have arms to fight guerrilla warfare. It was precisely because of this that Zhou Ming went to the skunk factory to look for laser-guided bullets and returned to China.
Although China's technological weapons were left alone by the United States, Americans who were used to high-tech weapons could not catch up with China in terms of guerrilla warfare weapons. In the previous Afghan War, the former Soviet army was very troubled by Chinese guerrilla warfare weapons.
It can be said that for Iraq's future guerrilla warfare, Zhou Ming had already prepared arms for him, but Zhou Ming did not plan to release it again. Although guerrilla warfare weapons are much cheaper than the high-tech weapons of the US military, Zhou Ming is still unwilling to pay for money. This is not a matter of more or less, but Zhou Ming does not have the noble sentiment of paying for a country that has never known each other to buy weapons.
One of the big reasons for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is that Iraq owes a lot of foreign debts. He hopes that Kuwait can work with him to raise oil prices so that he can make more money by selling oil.
Therefore, it is obvious that Iraq is already poor, so it is definitely unrealistic to ask him to pay the money. So Zhou Ming set his sights on another rich man, Saudi Arabia.
This country does not need to give too much introduction. It is a famous local tycoon in the world. Since oil reserves and output are ranked first in the world, relying on oil extraction and export, the Saudis only need to lie down and get rich in oil.
Because money comes very easily, the Saudis, especially the Saudi royal family, basically have no idea about wealth. In their opinion, money is just an insignificant number in the bank, and they can spend as much as possible. So much so that they will spend $3.5 billion to buy medium-range missiles from China; a prince also consulted the UK about buying Buckingham Palace in the UK, and said that it was not a problem. There was even a prince who gave the missile troops more than $100 million in jewelry gifts to the missile forces in order to see the true appearance of the missile.
Zhou Ming also knew that the Saudis were so rich that they were inhumane, so he thought of snatching some military spending from them.
So when Zhou Ming transferred to Pakistan, he changed to a flight to Saudi Arabia. However, at that time, Zhou Ming thought about whether he would be discovered by the omnipresent US Intelligence Agency, or that the Adams family put pressure on the president to use the air force to intercept him. Therefore, Zhou Ming mentioned this matter to Mr. Yang when he was in Jingyuan Pavilion, and Mr. Yang readily agreed to use the power of the country to help him complete this time.
If anyone goes to check, they can only find out that Zhou Ming did take the original flight to Iraq, but the one who actually took this flight was a group of actors arranged by the state; while Zhou Ming took the role of a substitute for the actors, he went to Saudi Arabia next door to Iraq.
I'm afraid that US President Mr. Walsh is now so righteous?
Zhou Ming thought leisurely, but he quickly put away his elegant pleasure, because when he walked out of the airport exit, he saw a Chinese man holding a sign with the name of ** on the other side. Zhou Ming knew that he was from the embassy, which was arranged at home.
Zhou Ming went over to join the meeting and found out that the man was Zhu Xi, the Minister and Counselor in the embassy.
After all, he has been abroad for two years. Zhou Ming has also gained a certain understanding of the setting of the embassy and knew that this ministerial counselor is actually the second-level person in the embassy who is second only to the ambassador. Generally, if the ambassador resigns or has other things, this ministerial counselor has the right to act on the ambassador to handle related affairs on a temporary basis, which shows its importance.
On the other hand, the ambassadors and ministers of the embassy are generally figures of the Dinghai Shenjian. Every move will affect the nerves of other countries. However, relatively speaking, the level of the minister and counselor who is neither up nor down is much more free, which shows that the embassy has also considered it carefully.
Facing Zhu Xi, Zhou Ming said directly without any politeness: "Hello, Mr. Zhu Xi, I think you should have known my affairs already, right?"
Zhu Xi nodded and replied: "The ambassador has already told me, and I have contacted Prince Hariri for you. You can meet him tonight. Are you going to meet him now?"
Chapter completed!