Chapter 1229: Raid on Hawuda!
Hawuda.
This is the largest plain area on the planet Kabola, and it is also an important food producing area with fertile land and developed agriculture.
The Da Yu Group and the Ka Wei Sun Group jointly control this huge 'grain treasure house' Hawuda.
It's just that......
At a time when the situation is suddenly in turmoil and the entire planet is plunged into unprecedented chaos, Hawuda is not immune to the flames of war.
On the contrary, it is precisely because of the abundance of grain here and the huge warehouses of the two groups that they are even more jealous, especially before the turmoil, when the two groups often 'hoarded' and hoarded large quantities of grain, so as to manipulate the price of grain to make huge profits.
The people live on food!
This is the eternal truth of any civilization on any planet.
The two major groups manipulated food prices to make huge profits, which had long made many people angry, and now that the situation is turbulent, it is a good opportunity for them to take revenge on the grain.
So, while there was a scuffle on St. York's side, something big was happening here in Hawuda.
A number of small armed groups attempted to sneak attack the grain warehouses of the two major groups and steal tens of thousands of tons of grain, but the result was naturally a fierce exchange of fire with the warehouse garrison.
Each grain depot is a super-large cylindrical building, built of ultra-thick reinforced concrete, with strong resistance to blows, and also has internal air supply and ventilation, automatic fire protection, temperature and humidity detection and other equipment, even if the entire grain depot area falls into a power outage, each grain depot can run on its own for a long time, to ensure that the stored grain does not deteriorate.
And it is precisely because these grain depots are 'super protected' that the security forces of the two major groups have no scruples about fierce exchanges of fire with the incoming multiple groups of militants, and all kinds of weapons and ammunition are used, such as tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, as well as missiles, rockets, lasers, etc., turning the huge Hawuda into a chaotic battlefield.
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The Hauda Plain is a typical alluvial plain, the Hawuda River with abundant water flows down from east to west, the river originates from the ice and snow melt of the Mangmang Mountains, after thousands of kilometers, it is injected with more river water and sediment, and after entering the open and flat area, the water area widens, the water flow slows down, and a large amount of sediment settles.
Over time, the Hawuda Plain was formed by alluvium, and because there was enough water for irrigation and the soil was fertile, it was known as the 'Golden Land', which means that growing crops is as easy as digging for gold to get rich, of course, this exaggerated metaphor is only used to describe the fertility of the land and the high yield of crops.
For thousands of years, the Hawuda River has irrigated this plain, but of course it has brought many dangers.
Especially in the summer, when the snowmelt in the mountains intensifies and the floods in the upper reaches are severe, the water level of the river rises sharply and the water flow is turbulent and violent, which can easily lead to the inundation of a large amount of land along the river.
In order to maximize the utilization of the Hawuda River and leave a treasure land with high grain yield, many years ago, Dayu Group and Ka Weisun Group joined hands to build three large-scale hydropower stations in the upper reaches of the Hawuda River, forming a stepped graded water storage and flood control power generation project.
These three hydropower stations were built at intervals of more than 100 kilometers from east to west according to the elevation of the terrain, with a height difference of several thousand meters.
And this sufficient height difference, naturally also endowed the river with strong enough gravitational potential energy, so the power generation of the three hydropower stations should not be underestimated, in the rainy season, they together generate enough electricity, enough to support a large city of 30 million people.
As the saying goes, the high gorge is out of the Ping Lake!
Each hydropower station stores tens of billions of cubic meters of water, and they prevent floods during the rainstorm season, gradually intercept and reduce the amount of downstream floods, and prevent the grain producing areas from being flooded, and in the dry season they will discharge flood water to meet the irrigation of food crops.
As a result, Hawuda has become the most important food producing area on the planet Khabola, and the contribution and role of these three hydropower stations are also extremely significant.
It is precisely because of this that the two major groups have also jointly organized the defense force of the hydropower station, set up a no-man's land around the hydropower station, to avoid the damage caused by mining in the mountains, bombing the mountains and building roads, etc., and also arranged heavy air defense guards.
Air defense early warning radars, antiaircraft artillery, anti-aircraft missiles, and so on are all readily available, and even in the vicinity of the second hydropower station, they have built an aviation base, stationed an all-weather high-alert aviation unit, and almost hollowed out a mountain, arranged multi-band phased array early warning radars, and the air defense warning range has reached an astonishing thousands of kilometers.
The early warning radar used to detect and alert ballistic missiles will be used to protect the hydropower stations, and it can be seen that the two major groups are well aware of the importance of these three hydropower stations.
However, the best defense is actually offense.
No matter how well the air-ground defense system is arranged, it is also a passive defense, because it is not known when and in what way the potential enemy will attack.
Buzz ~ Buzz ~ Buzz ~
One after another, Shadow unmanned attack planes rushed from Desert City at a speed of dozens of Machs, and at such a fast speed, they were about to catch up with missiles.
The detection range of X-band radar for high-altitude and high-speed targets has reached about 2,000 kilometers.
The unmanned attack aircraft roared into the air at an unprecedented speed, and of course, the radar system immediately carried out automatic tracking, and the 'identification system' also quickly intervened to ask the other party's identity, route, whereabouts, and so on.
In order to obtain full freedom of aerospace flight, there was a unified agreement many years ago that any aerospace vehicle must be equipped with an identification device to facilitate identity verification and avoid accidental injuries and accidental hits.
As a 'high-IQ' artificial intelligence system, in order to achieve the goal of confusing the enemy, of course, these unmanned attack aircraft are equipped with identity identifiers, and after receiving the interrogation signal, they send back the identity key in the same frequency band.
As for identity...... Fraudulently, of course.
Identification requires a verification process, and in the time of verbose inquiry verification, for an unmanned attack aircraft flying at a speed of several kilometers per second, it is already a rush of hundreds of kilometers.
The distance is getting closer, and the air defense forces of the hydropower station have not yet verified any results, but for the sake of safety, especially when the planet of Kabola is full of scuffles and major consortia and companies are busy protecting themselves, they must have adopted a conservative strategy.
Temporary no-fly zone!
The attitude of the Air Defense Forces was very resolute and the rhetoric was extremely strong.
Of course, the Shadow unmanned attack aircraft are very 'smart' and promise to agree to the other party's request to fly around, anyway, the range of their no-fly zone is only 500 kilometers, so they can continue to fly forward.
However, the air defense units defending the hydropower stations are also vigilant, after all, the hydropower stations are too important, and they have also entered the second level of combat readiness for the first time, so that the air supremacy fighters can take off with bombs, and long-range and medium-range air defense missiles are ready for launch.
In addition, the laser emission towers and automatic anti-aircraft artillery weapons stations set up on the top of the hill near the hydropower station were also immediately put on high alert.
Once the opponent launches missiles and throws aerial bombs, laser weapons and multi-barrel rapid-fire artillery as the last line of defense can carry out accurate sniping and barrage coverage, of course, the premise is that the opponent's bomb throwing speed is not too fast and too fierce, otherwise the fire control radar will not have time to lock, then it is better to prevent a fart.
Minutes and seconds passed.
Just when many parties were frantically defending and fighting around the grain depot, the Shadow unmanned attack planes that flew from the desert city, like assassins drawn out of their sheaths, had already shown their killing blades.
When approaching the 500-kilometer no-fly zone, the Shadow unmanned attack planes had no intention of adjusting their course at all, but climbed at a faster speed, and when they were almost about to break out of the atmosphere, they suddenly dived diagonally at a rapid speed, and the speed was like a meteorite falling to the ground, and the momentum was amazing.
Woo woo woo~
The piercing air defense siren, of course, immediately exploded.
Hydropower stations and barracks, as well as airfields for air defense units, have entered combat conditions everywhere.
Fighter planes roared into the air, and missiles were launched continuously.
Long-range anti-aircraft missiles emitted a deafening whistling sound from fixed silos hidden in the mountains and forests and from the launchers of missile vehicles that were maneuverably deployed by road, and then dragged long columns of smoke up from the ground and pierced the sky.
The fighters that took off to meet the battle also turned on afterburner propulsion, regardless of fuel consumption, and took off to meet the fighters at the fastest speed.
However, since the Shadow unmanned attack aircraft dared to launch a dive attack in such a grand manner, they were certainly not unprepared.
Moment!
An unmanned attack aircraft that took the lead suddenly opened the built-in bomb bay and ejected the mounted heavy anti-radiation missile, and in the supersonic state, the ejection was to avoid the missile from colliding with the fuselage, and after moving away from the attack aircraft, the tail jet engine of the anti-radiation missile suddenly started, which was already fast enough, and further accelerated the hurricane.
Anti-radiation missiles are large-scale equipment that emits electromagnetic waves, and the most favorite targets are, of course, large air defense radars, anti-air warning radars, fire control radars, and so on.
In addition to suppressing the enemy's radar equipment with anti-radiation missile strikes, the unmanned attack aircraft also activated powerful electronic jamming, and the super interference of the full frequency band immediately attacked all enemy electronic equipment, so that the fighters and missiles that took off to meet the attack were suddenly interfered with in a chaotic way, especially the radar screen on the fighter plane, which was a snowflake and a white expanse.
Taking advantage of this gap, one after another Shadow unmanned attack planes threw heavy air-to-ground penetrating missiles one after another, and then climbed to a height and left the battlefield without hesitation.
One by one, the ground-penetrating missiles swooped down rapidly from the air, and they have reached a terrifying situation of nearly 100 times the speed of sound, and at such a fast speed, the human eye is not visible at all, and can only see that after the missiles pass at extreme speed, the air that is torn apart and broken will form a very unique cavity channel.
This is like a high-speed warhead, after hitting a lump of transparent rubber, the human eye cannot see the warhead, but can see the passage left by the warhead through the rubber.
The speed of the ground-penetrating missile is too fast, in contrast, the air that is not dense in the first place, under the premise of sufficient impact speed, becomes very viscous and dense, so the missile dives and penetrates at great speed, and in a short time, a cavity is also formed in the air.
Traditional anti-aircraft missiles have completely lost their effectiveness, and the anti-aircraft artillery deployed on the ground is even more useless, because it takes more or less a few tenths of a second to find the target, calculate the fire control data, and then arrange the barrage in the air.
But in a few tenths of a second, for a missile that was diving diagonally at high speed, it had already flown more than a dozen kilometers.
Therefore, a multi-barrel rapid-fire anti-aircraft gun has no reaction at all, it is as if it has stopped instantly, and the laser tower arranged in a high place is also aimlessly strafing lasers, hoping to 'blind cat crash into a dead mouse'.
Of course, such a weak anti-aircraft firepower could not stop the devastating blow at all......
(End of chapter)