Chapter 256: Opportunities for World Crude Oil Futures (This Chapter is Quite Surpassable)
After Zhang Junyi got up and sent Zhou Huaiyuan away, he turned over and returned to the study, Zhang Junyi clearly remembered how to say that the British Prime Minister Iron Lady's wrestling time was still eight or nine months away from now, so there was still a long time for himself to arrange. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But in his mind, there is an opportunity to make a fortune that is far more important than the shock of the Xiangjiang stock market, and the time is not far away.
As for the things in his mind, to be honest, even he himself is not very sure. After all, compared with the stock market in Xiangjiang, the danger and uncertainty of crude oil futures in the international market have increased far more.
Zhang Junyi has been paying attention to this upcoming opportunity since two years ago, and the development of the situation is completely consistent with the memory in his mind as time progresses.
Argentina was marked by a severe economic crisis in the early 1980s and a massive campaign against the military junta led by President Galtieri. According to the intelligence gathered by Zhang Junyi from various aspects, the Argentine government is likely to try to alleviate the domestic crisis by taking military action against the Falklands in the near future.
Zhang Junyi knew that if things had not gone wrong in this world, on March 19 this year, the Argentines landed on South Georgia and raised the national flag, and on April 2, President Galtieri ordered troops to occupy the Falklands, and the Falklands War would officially break out.
The British were initially taken aback by the Argentine attack, and in mid-April, the RAF began to move up at Widiawick Air Force Base on Ascension Island in the Atlantic, including McDonnell Douglas Ghost FGR.2 fighter-bombers and 44 Squadron Vulcan bombers, as well as a fleet of Victory air tankers. At the same time, the Royal Navy task force arrived in the waters of Ascension Island to prepare for war.
Sent a British army to recover South Georgia, codenamed "Operation Parrot". Covered by a Major in the Royal Marines? Led by Shelidan, including soldiers from the 42nd Commando Battalion of the Royal Marines, a small group of British Army SAS and Royal Navy Special Boat Commando Team, conducted a reconnaissance landing to prepare for the attack of marines nestled on the auxiliary ship "Tide Spring".
The first to arrive in the vicinity before the mission was the British Army's Churchill-class attack nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror, which arrived on April 19 to conduct maritime reconnaissance; On April 20, a Victorious air tanker with radar imaging capabilities flew over the island of Georgia, South Africa, for reconnaissance. The Special Air Force was scheduled to make its first landing on 21 April, with the rest of the British troops preparing to land the next day; Apparently unlucky, the SAS forces had planned to parachute onto the glacier and then take the port of Grettviken. The problem with the whole plan was that the local wind speed did not drop below 32 miles per hour, and it was getting stronger and the visibility was low, so the SAS team saw that the mission was a failure, so they signaled to retreat.
As they retreated, the extremely bad weather seemed to be deliberately interfering with the entire operation, with Wessex Helicopter 3 and Wessex Helicopter 5 taking off from the County destroyer Anchun being affected by dense fog, causing Helicopter 5 to crash on the glacier in dense fog. The remaining No. 3 aircraft lived up to expectations, and with the efforts of the pilot, Major Stanley, and the rest of the crew, the crashed crew and the remaining 16 officers and men were squeezed into a small fuselage and returned to the Anchun before it was dark and windy, ending a heroic and touching day.
The operation was suspended in the middle of an alert issued on 23 April when a submarine was spotted off the coast and the Tide Fountain retreated to the deep sea to avoid the lack of space in the narrow waters to evade the submarine attack. The next day, the British army reorganized a search/attack group to attack the unidentified submarine. On 25 April, the Argentine Navy's submarine Santa Fe was spotted by a helicopter from the Anchun and attacked with depth charges.
After the Wessex helicopter of the Anchun spotted the submarine and attacked it; The Pallymouth and the Stoic immediately sent two of their Wasp Mk I helicopters, and the Tejas sent one of its Bobcat-class gunships; As soon as the Bobcat-class gunship arrived, it fired an Mk46 torpedo, and then used its on-board L7 machine gun to fire fiercely at the Santa Fe submarine, and the Wasp-class gunship on the Anchun also fired heavily at the Santa Fe submarine with its on-board L7 machine gun; Two long-circling Wasp-class helicopter gunships launched an attack on the Santa Fe submarine with on-board AS.12 anti-ship missiles, leaving it stranded and incapacitated.
The officers and men of the Santa Fe submarine used the machine guns on the submarine and the Robot 53 anti-aircraft missiles to fight back, but by this time the submarine was seriously damaged and could no longer dive, so the officers and men relied on the only remaining power of the Santa Fe submarine to drive it to the breakwater near Cape Edward on South Georgia Island, and then landed and surrendered to the British.
Since the auxiliary ship Tide Springs had been evacuated from South Georgia for some distance, the landing force and heavy equipment on board would not come to reinforce for a moment, but Major Sheridan decided to gather his seventy-six brothers and attack directly on the same day. After a short assault and a "fire demonstration" by the Anchun and the county-class destroyers USS Pleymouth, the Argentine defenders on the island soon surrendered without a fight, and the British army recaptured South Georgia.
Immediately, British Prime Minister Iron Lady immediately released the good news to the media, vividly saying "Just rejoice at that news!"
On 1 May, Argentina launched a massive attack on Britain with 36 aircraft, despite the arrival of British troops. However, only two Dagger fighters of the 6th Group spotted the British ships shelling the island, and the two Dagger fighters returned safely after the attack.
At 3:57 p.m. on May 2, the nuclear submarine INS Conqueror, commanded by the Royal Navy, fired three World War II Type 8 Type 4 torpedoes with 800-pound warheads each after entering the attack position, in fact the Conqueror was equipped with Tiger Torpedoes, but the reliability of the Tiger Fish was only 40 percent, and it should not have been possible to attack the General Belgrano, which had survived the Pearl Harbor attack with two No. 8 torpedoes that had been in service since 1925.
3 out of 2 hit the cruiser General Belgrano. The loss of the General Belgrano hardened the Argentine government, with anti-war opponents saying that the ship was outside the 200-nautical-mile exclusion zone and was sailing away from the Falklands.
After a bitter battle between the two countries, when the British broke through the last of Argentina's natural defenses, on 14 June, the commander of the Argentine garrison, Major General Menendez, surrendered to Major General Moore of the British Royal Marines. Nine thousand eight hundred Argentine soldiers became prisoners of war; In addition, 4,167 Argentine soldiers were repatriated to Argentina by the ocean liner Canberra.
For this world-famous Anglo-Argentine-Argentine-Argentine and Argentine Island War, Zhang Junyi remembered it quite clearly because of the world crude oil futures in his previous life, but he didn't expect that there would be a day when he would use it in this life.