Chapter 174: Aftermath

When the last plane landed, everyone in the command headquarters breathed a sigh of relief. Although the danger of the entire operation has been minimized, the air force has suffered considerable losses. A total of five planes were shot down by the Nanban's air force and missile forces during the entire operation, while three crashed in the middle of the operation, and four were forced to land for various reasons. Nine crew members were killed, 11 were wounded and six were missing or captured. It's a heart-wrenching figure for a weak Air Force, but it's not bad. Because this is also very low compared to such a large fleet number. Moreover, the Air Force has not had real combat operations for a long time, plus it is a night operation again. This was a daunting task for both the backward aircraft and the young pilots, but they won a huge victory at a very small cost.

Jiang Chen would never have thought of what kind of consequences the action he proposed and participated in would bring to the entire Nanban. According to a later statistics of the Nanban authorities, within an hour after this operation, nearly 2,000 civilians (according to them, civilians, but the explanation here is that everyone knows that during the war in Nanban, basically all the people were soldiers, so there were no innocent civilians) were killed. More than 5,000 civilians were injured. In the 12 hours after the operation, some 10,000 civilians were killed and nearly 30,000 injured, of whom about 60 per cent were permanently disabled. The reason why this increase is not large is because everyone knows the danger of this thing, so they will deliberately avoid this device, so the casualty figure is not high.

Within a week of the operation, that number had skyrocketed to nearly 100,000 casualties. This is a terrifying number, knowing that it was just one operation that caused so many casualties. This is not over yet, a month after the end of the operation. The casualty figure has reached nearly 200,000. However, this figure was sent by Nanban, so the international community does not know the authenticity of this number. In the year following the operation, that number had risen to nearly half a million, or nearly half a million casualties.

In the decade since the operation, the operation has caused nearly a million casualties, and that number has grown over time. The numbers will continue to increase. No one knows exactly how many of these mine devices were dropped by our air force that night, because for decades afterward, our side kept this figure a secret and kept it a secret. According to international estimates, on that night, our air force dropped more than 2 million small mine devices on a blockade zone from west to east in Nanban. But then it was overtaken by another group, which estimated that there were about five million small mine devices. According to the victim country's own estimates, it is said that about 10 million small mine devices were dropped on the territory of the Nanban. Speculation about countries. Our spokesperson always has a lot of words. He also emphasized the harm caused by Nanban to China's border residents, and hoped that Nanban could reflect on history, recognize its mistakes, and then face the future and contribute to a harmonious Asia.

Of course, for the planners and organizers of this operation, the international community and Nanban have been sorting out endlessly, and many important people who participated in the war at that time were in charge of command. It wasn't until more than a dozen years later that a secret person who didn't know about it confided. It is said that Jiang Chen, the head of the international arms production giant at this time, was the planner of this operation and the designer and developer of the landmine. After this revelation, plus more than ten years of research. International organizations have issued reports claiming that they confirmed that Jiang Chen was the one who planned the operation. Subsequently, more and more evidence also pointed to Jiang Chen. Then some so-called peace defenders rushed to the gate of Jiang Chen's company headquarters to rally in protest. Some of the so-called victims and their descendants wanted to file a lawsuit against Jiang Chen in various courts, demanding sanctions and compensation.

But at this time, Jiang Chen was already a pivotal figure in the international community, and these courts always ignored the demands of these inconsequential figures. Subsequently, the extremist forces of the Southern Barbarians carried out dozens of assassination operations against Jiang Chen, but with the efforts of a strong security team. None of these actions succeeded. In Jiang Chen's autobiography in his later years, he admitted this operation for the first time. And said that although it has taken the lives of many people, and caused many people to be hurt and suffer for a lifetime. But he did not regret planning the operation, because at that time the two countries were at war. And he, as a citizen of our country, has the obligation to work hard to win the victory. He does not regret it and is proud of it, because he is fighting for his homeland.

But this is all for later, let's talk about the current things first. A day after the action, the action made headlines in various international media.

In its graphic text, the Meilian News Agency said, "We launched a large-scale bombing of the Nanban, which caused about 5,000 casualties and left tens of thousands of people homeless. The Lao and US governments urge us to abide by civilization and the law in war in order to reduce civilian casualties.

The French news agency Agence de France is saying in the headline that our national army launched an air raid on the southern barbarians, and caused thousands of civilian casualties. However, what is worse is that our air raids have caused a large area of rice production in Nanban to be reduced, which will affect international food prices.

The BBAV of the United Kingdom is mainly concerned with another problem, saying that after the air strike, our team Nanban launched a large-scale meteorological weapon. As a result, the largest rainfall ever recorded in Nanban caused most of the lychee orchards in Nanban to reduce production. The United Kingdom protested against this, believing that it was a very ungentlemanly act. She also said that Her Royal Highness has increased the royal family's financial budget to cope with the rising price of lychees due to large-scale production cuts in the coming year, so that members of the royal family can eat delicious lychees. In response, the Prime Minister said that the royal family should spend all the money on the military to research the latest meteorological weapons, not to buy damn lychees. However, the reporter secretly learned from the prime minister's butler, and the prime minister has secretly increased the budget of the prime minister's office to buy lychees, which will rise in price in the coming year.

Our country's Xinghua News Agency issued a statement saying that we had only launched a very small-scale air strike against the Nanban's aggression in the early stage. During this period, the soldiers used their lives and the cadres commanded well, giving full play to the actual level of our troops. I hope that Nanban can realize his mistake and turn back as soon as possible. Also, in the spirit of friendship, considering that Nanban is suffering from a drought that has not been seen for many years. Our friendly help Nanban organized a number of artificial rain operations. And the action has achieved good results, and the Nanban masses are singing and dancing to thank our country for their enthusiastic help. (To be continued......)