At the last moment when the consciousness was disintegrating, there was an extremely terrifying guess. Several F-35 "lightning" flying low over the river were first swept by the invisible shock wave, and the body was severely damaged in an instant. The pilot splashed blood in the cockpit; the next moment, it was completely swallowed up by a large ball of sand, gravel, smoke and dust that rushed straight into the sky. The metal giant bird that was originally flying at a low altitude was quickly torn and broken, turning into pieces of wreckage in the rising mushroom cloud.

The explosion, an earth-shaking explosion, turned the southern area of ​​Sabha City into a large area of ​​hell on earth.

I had just experienced an inexplicable earthquake in the earthquake, and then I heard a deafening explosion. The soldiers who were still far away but were lucky enough to have not died one by one, raised their heads and looked around blankly, and their eyes passed by the undulating terrain and buildings. Everyone quickly saw the yellow-brown mushroom cloud that rose up, as if the doomsday was coming.

Mushroom cloud, a large mushroom cloud, did it happen just now?

"I, my Allah, was it a nuclear explosion just now!!"

"What? What does it mean?"

"——Look at the mushroom cloud! But, damn, they actually detonated the nuclear bomb!"

Seeing the terrifying dark clouds rolling and rising, everyone was stunned. After a while, a chaotic shout broke out. The relatively experienced officer shouted first, "Don't panic, don't panic! It's not necessarily a nuclear bomb. Now everyone is wearing gas masks immediately, and everyone retreats immediately!"

Seeing that the soldiers around him were all shocked and looked up at the large area of ​​hideous mushroom clouds full of fear. Although the officer was a little afraid, he felt that the power of the explosion was not as great as he imagined. At least from where he stood, the distance between this mushroom cloud was only about one thousand meters. If it was a nuclear explosion, shouldn't the scene be a hundred times more terrifying than the current scene?

He made speculations in a hurry, but he could not confirm the authenticity at all. Seeing the mushroom clouds rising on the southeast side of the town, which was the direction of the rebels' escape, the Damascus army organized suddenly gave up all pursuit operations and according to the nuclear weapons protection training that he had skipped during normal training, put on gas masks, and all the staff were on vehicles, and then hurriedly retreated westward.

A suspected nuclear explosion occurred in Sabha. Due to the word "nuclear", it attracted everyone's extreme attention almost immediately.

On the edge of the small town where the war was originally chaotic, huge mushroom clouds soared into the air, not only interrupting the Damascus offensive, but also creating a huge chaos and heavy casualties of the participants on the Sabha battlefield.

When the explosion occurred, several F-35 fighters of the Royal United Kingdom Air Force that were accidentally flew past were directly swallowed up, and the pilots and fighters were not in their bodies. Both sides of the war on the ground were even unexpected. The ground units nearly 100 meters around the explosion site were bombed without a trace. The armored vehicles on the periphery and the ground infantry on the outside were also hit by the explosion. Many soldiers who were very close to the explosion site were seriously injured. There were many people with limb fractures and internal organs ruptured.

After receiving the rapid battle report from the front, the news of "suspected nuclear explosion" shocked Damascus. Several major countries that received the news were also surprised at almost the same time.

However, in a region like Syria, it is necessary to quickly determine what the nature of a huge explosion is. There are no personnel and equipment available to be used immediately. Professional troops of many countries also need some time to rush to the scene. In the end, relying on the Soviet Union to deploy nuclear explosion shock monitoring stations in the Caucasus and comprehensive analysis of satellite data from various countries, the Security Council officially notified Damascus that the strong explosion in the Sabha area was not a nuclear explosion, but a violent release of chemical energy. The preliminary estimate of the explosion equivalent is about 2,000 tons t*n*t.

"Two, two thousand tons t*n*t?"

After getting the news from the special line, the Syrian government officials in charge of contacting all changed their voices.

As a civilian officer, all the Syrians think of equivalent conversion is just about equivalent conversion. Even if this is not a nuclear bomb, it is an ordinary explosion. After all, the equivalent is real. It is hard for him to imagine what the explosion of 2,000 tons of t*n*t is like now.

After receiving a special notice from the Security Council, he also quickly sent personnel to the scene by helicopter. Later that day, he monitored in Sabha and other places. The personnel who were taking samples submitted a report and determined that the source of the "violent explosion" was not a nuclear weapon, but more like an explosion caused by conventional explosives. This made everyone, including President Hafiz Assad, breathed a sigh of relief.

At the critical moment of attacking Deirzur, he encountered an earth-shaking explosion. The so-called "relieving" is naturally not because a group of government officials are indifferent to the frontline war situation, but for Syria, nuclear bombs, once they are involved, they will cause countless troubles.

If, just if the Liberal Party was really crazy and detonated a nuclear bomb on the Sabha front, even if the equivalent was not very huge, the battlefield effect at that time would leave serious radiation pollution on Syria's territory. However, for Syria now, this is not the most worrying issue of the Assad regime.

As a sensitive thing as "nuclear weapons", as a so-called "thorn-headed country" that has long been incompatible with the Western world, Syria, which is an enemy of Israel, has not been unwilling to develop nuclear weapons. Of course, as the international situation eased, the Damascus regime took the initiative to give up all related activities. However, now, if several nuclear bombs suddenly popped up on the battlefield of civil war, it can be imagined that these should come from other nuclear bombs, perhaps one of the major countries, and no one would stand up to admit that "Oh, this is something stolen from our family". In the end, the international community will naturally doubt Syria itself. The endless troubles such as debate, verification, and blockade will make people feel troublesome.

This is probably the case with political troubles. If we change the perspective, the military effect of this violent explosion should not be underestimated.

The explosion of nuclear bombs is basically just a moment. Although the radiation contamination behind it is difficult to deal with, it will not cause much trouble to the regular army with sufficient protection. However, even so, for the high-profile Damascus army, the news that "the rebels possess nuclear weapons" will still cause a sense of panic, which is of course extremely unfavorable to the subsequent combat operations.

Nuclear weapons, the monsters that humans release Pandora's box with their own hands seem to have a terrifying deterrence.

It is also an explosion, and a conventional explosion with an equivalent of 1,000 tons of t*n*t, and a nuclear bomb with an equivalent of 1,000 tons of t*n*t, needless to say that people will instinctively fear the latter, even if it is a regular army with perfect equipment and not much concern about radiation threats.

In short, after an anxious wait, it was finally proved to be a false alarm. The Damascus regime naturally had a lot of work to do next. How to explain the truth to the countries that received the news and eliminate misunderstandings needs to be put on the agenda immediately; however, compared with these things, since it is confirmed that the Sabha explosion was not caused by a nuclear bomb, the battle on the front line is not needed, and it is not allowed to stagnate, otherwise it would be in line with the wishes of the rebels!

The investigation concluded that the military operation, which was interrupted by the impact of a violent explosion, continued to begin after nightfall.

On the long front in eastern Syria, other areas that were not affected by the explosion were self-evident. Even when a cloud of mushrooms soared into the sky, Sabha, who was killed and injured on the battlefield, had severely damaged troops been transferred to the rear. The roaring helicopters concentrated the seriously injured. When night fell and stars were everywhere, the second-line troops transferred from the back of the front had already begun to move forward.

For these troops who had already known the news, morale must have been slightly frustrated by this explosion. However, the officers and soldiers who were determined to liberate all occupied areas and completely eliminate the Liberal Party still shared their enemies and continued to advance towards Deirzor to the east.

The situation on the front is roughly like this. Hundreds of kilometers away from the explosion site, on the US Navy's Truman aircraft carrier on the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, in the brightly lit combat conference room, a group of commanders in a well-tailored uniform were having a video conference with personnel from China, Jiangsu, Britain and other countries to discuss the strange and bizarre emergencies of the "Sabha explosion".

The mushroom clouds that broke out in small Syrian towns shocked not only Damascus, but also the same for member states of multinational forces.

Although, later today, the possibility of a nuclear explosion in Syria has been denied through various means, the superpowers that strongly intervened in the Middle East civil war did not relax their vigilance at all, but gathered in front of the holographic display screen for intense negotiations. This was not to study the true strength of the Liberal Party, nor to mourn the United Kingdom pilots who died in the explosion, but because this incident itself is very strange. In the current situation where the mystery of the Middle East is full of mystery and confusing, it will naturally arouse high attention from everyone.

"The explosion with an equivalent of 2,000 tons of t*n*t" is completely different from the "boom" that ordinary people imagine. What is the mystery here? It is the primary issue that the participants want to discuss today.
Chapter completed!