Zahran is an air base of the US military in Oman, which is not only an important air force transit point for the US military to prepare for the Gulf War, but also very close to the Persian Gulf, and it only takes 20 minutes for US military planes to cover the entire Strait of Hormuz, holding the only waterway leading to the Persian Gulf.

At seven o'clock in the evening of the 17th local time, the US pilots in the base had just finished dinner when they received an order that made them feel very strange: the F16 formation immediately took off to intercept a flight from Pakistan to Iraq.

Of course, if this order is just normal, after all, the outbreak of the Gulf War is imminent, the entire Middle East can be regarded as a quasi-theater of operations, and the 400,000-strong US troops are about to launch an attack on Iraq just waiting for the president's order; then at this time, it is not so strange that the US Air Force is responsible for intercepting planes flying to Iraq, because before the war, it is also necessary to isolate the enemy to a certain extent, and intercepting planes is also a means.

The U.S. soldiers in Zahran also understood, but this time it was strange to them that the order required the pilots with the longest flight time and the most experience in interception at the base to intercept them, and the command gave them orders to shoot down the interceptor planes if necessary.

As this order came out, the entire Zahran base was in an uproar, and these well-fed American GIs suddenly became curious: "Hey! Why did the longest-flying and most experienced pilot intercept it? Could it be that some important person was going to Iraq? Or was there an atomic bomb on that plane? That must be a conspiracy of the Chinese!"

There are also people who speculate evilly: "But in my opinion, there is a very good chance that there is a dirty ass deal here, those flying counts are very hopeful to brush up their records, but even if the air combat is manipulating the F16, there is a possibility of falling, so they can only take these poor lambs who have no power to fight back, so they sell their ass and let the command add such an order!"

"But if they're going to intercept not an ordinary plane, but a modified superfighter, and then shoot down all these damn bastards, that's what I'm happiest......"

However, no matter what they said about it, the military order was definitely to be carried out, so five minutes later, two F16 fighters with weapons on board took off from the Zahran base and headed straight over the Arabian Sea, and according to the data analysis transmitted by the headquarters, they quickly locked on to the target.

Although the target was only a passenger plane, as the most experienced pilots in Zahran Air Base, they still adopted the method of one plane accompanying the plane to warn of a forced landing, and the other plane to follow the lock and fire at any time, and the shame of capsizing in the gutter was something they did not want to face for the rest of their lives.

After confirming the identity of the other party through the radio connection, the pilot who accompanied the flight began to shout: "Hello friends over there, we are flying birds belonging to the US Air Force Zahran base number 369, I was ordered to intercept you, I need you to accompany me to the Zahran base as a guest, but I really hope that you can resist, because then my buddy behind you can shoot you in the ass!"

With such a warning, the airliner surrendered without hesitation, followed the two fighters to change course and finally landed at Zahran airbase.

At the same time, the White House also immediately received the news, and Brent, the national security adviser to the US president, hurriedly returned to report to President Walsh: "Mr. President, the plane has been captured by Zahran's pilot, and now it has landed in the base, and all the people on board are under our control, but the Chinese named Zhou Ming has not been found." ”

With Brent's last words, Mr. President, who had already clenched his fists and was about to cheer, suddenly froze there as if he had been beaten with a slap.

"There is no Chinese? Why is this? Could it be that the intelligence given by the intelligence bureau is wrong? But the Pakistani flight to Iraq is now only normal every day, if it is not for the front-line pilots who got the flight number wrong, it is impossible, who can tell me what is going on?" Walsh said loudly and unacceptably.

In the face of such Walsh, Brent could only shrug his shoulders helplessly: "I think maybe he didn't go to Iraq, or maybe our intelligence bureau got the wrong time from the beginning." ”

When Brent offered his opinion, President Walsh regained his composure, shook his head and said, "Since we couldn't intercept him in the first place, I have a hunch that we won't have another chance to intercept him." ”

"Hunch?" Brent was surprised, he really didn't expect Walsh to be superstitious about this as president.

Walsh nodded yes, but didn't explain too much, but said to Brent: "Go and call the Department of Defense, give the pilots who participated in this interception mission, each of them a silver star medal, and also conduct a strict examination of the other people on that plane, I believe that if there is a problem, then there will be one here!"

Walsh's tone was very firm, but when Brent recorded Walsh's presidential order to leave to contact the Department of Defense, Walsh grabbed his hair in a puzzled way and muttered, "What went wrong? How could that damn Chinese suddenly disappear? Could it be that we have deployed so many planes and radar networks in the Middle East, but we can't even catch a single person?"

At the end, Walsh gasped: "If that's the case, then this Gulf War has already been lost before it starts, and it has been lost to that one Chinese...... But where did he go?"

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When President Walsh burned countless brain cells in his office, on the other side of Khalid Airport, a flight from Pakistan was landing smoothly on the runway, and when the plane came to a standstill, Zhou Ming and Zhang Lin's desert team walked out of the cabin.

Following the flow of people, Zhou Ming and the others walked out of the airport, and then a young soldier behind him came up and whispered to Zhou Ming: "Chief Zhou Ming, just now I received news from China, and as you expected, the flight to Iraq was captured by the US Air Force an hour and a half ago, and now the plane and all the personnel on board are being interrogated by the Americans in the Zahran base in Oman. ”

Hearing this news, Zhou Ming was relieved: he originally thought he was overestimating himself, but now it seems that his judgment is correct, but he doesn't seem to want to go directly to Iraq.

I still remember that when he faced Yang Lao and them in Jingyuan Pavilion, Zhou Ming said that he was going to delay the pace of the future Gulf War, but Iraq was his last stop, because Zhou Ming needed to find military funds for the arms needed for future guerrilla warfare.

There is no food or clothing, and the enemy has sent it forward, and there are no guns and no cannons, and the enemy has made it for us!

This is a very morale-boosting statement, but in fact, there are only a handful of troops in the world who can really do this, and more so-called guerrilla warfare still requires a third party to provide arms.

Combined with his own memory, the Iraqi army surrendered in groups in the face of the non-stop bombing of the US military, and the scale was not worse than that of the national army at all, so no matter how he thought about this kind of army, Zhou Ming felt that they must have arms if they wanted 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 deliberately returned to China.

Although China's scientific and technological weapons have been thrown off the street by the United States, the Americans, who are accustomed to high-tech weapons, cannot catch up with China in terms of guerrilla warfare weapons, and in the previous war in Afghanistan, the troops of the former Soviet Union were hit by China's guerrilla warfare weapons.

It can be said that for the future guerrilla warfare in Iraq, Zhou Ming has already prepared arms for him, but Zhou Ming has no plans to spend this military money again. Although guerrilla warfare weapons are much cheaper than the high-tech weapons of the US military, Zhou Ming is still unwilling to pay, this is not a question of more or less, but Zhou Ming does not have the noble sentiment of paying money to buy weapons for a country he does not know.

As a result of Iraq's aggression against Kuwait, one of the big reasons was that Iraq owed a lot of foreign debts, and he hoped that Kuwait would join him in raising oil prices so that he could make more money by selling oil.

Therefore, it can be clearly seen that Iraq is already poor, so it is definitely unrealistic to let him pay this money, so Zhou Ming set his sights on another local tyrant, that is, Saudi Arabia.

This country does not need to be introduced too much at all, it is a famous tyrant in the world, because the oil reserves and production are the first in the world, so relying on the extraction and export of oil, the Saudis only need to lie down to get rich.

Because money is so easy to come by, the Saudis, especially the Saudi royal family, basically have no concept of wealth, in their opinion, money is just an insignificant number in the bank, and they can spend it as much as they want. So much so that they will spend $3.5 billion to buy medium-range missiles from China; a prince has also consulted Britain about the purchase of Buckingham Palace in Britain, and said that it is not a problem how much money it is; and even a certain prince has not hesitated to give more than $100 million in jewelry gifts to the missile unit in order to see the true face of the missile.

Zhou Ming also knew that the Saudis were so tyrants that they had no humanity, so he thought of picking out some military spending from them.

So when Zhou Ming was transiting in Pakistan, he changed to a flight to Saudi Arabia, but at that time Zhou Ming thought about whether he would be discovered by the pervasive US intelligence agency, or the Addams family put pressure on the president to use the air force to intercept him. Therefore, Zhou Ming mentioned this matter to Yang Lao when he was in Jingyuan Pavilion, and Yang Lao also readily agreed to use the power of the country to help him complete this deception.

If someone goes to check, they can only find out that Zhou Ming did take the original flight to Iraq, but the actual flight was a group of actors arranged by the state, and Zhou Ming went to Saudi Arabia next door to Iraq in place of the identity of this group of actors.

I'm just afraid that Mr. Walsh, the president of the United States, is jumping on his feet now?

Zhou Ming thought very leisurely, but he also quickly put away his Yaxing, because when he walked out of the airport exit, he saw a Chinese holding a sign with Zhang Lin's name on the opposite side, and Zhou Ming knew that it was the embassy person, which was also arranged when he was in China.

Zhou Ming went over to contact him, only to know that the person was Zhu Xi, the minister counselor in the embassy.

Zhou Ming also has a certain understanding of the setting of the embassy, knowing that this minister counselor is actually the second level of the embassy after the ambassador, and generally if the ambassador leaves or has other things, this minister counselor has the right to temporarily act as the ambassador to deal with related affairs, which shows its importance.

On the other hand, the ambassadors and ministers of the general embassy are all figures who are determined by the sea god, and every move will affect the nerves of other countries, but relatively speaking, the rank of minister and counselor is much freer, which shows that the embassy has also carefully considered.

Facing Zhu Xi, Zhou Ming said directly without any politeness: "Hello Minister Zhu Xi, I think you should already know about me, right?"

Zhu Xi nodded and replied: "The ambassador has already explained to me, and I have already contacted Prince Hariri for you, you can make an appointment to meet him tonight, are you going to meet him now?"

"Of course, that's what I'm here for. Zhou Ming replied.