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"Why isn't your name on the Forbes list?" Ziqi once asked Fan Wuxian this question.

"Because I threatened them. Dare to put my name on the list, be careful that their lives are not lived. Fan replied.

In fact, the Forbes list looks like an honor list for foreigners, and everyone is proud to be on the list, but it is obviously very different in China, and everyone avoids it, because the Chinese pursue a principle that people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and pigs are fattened to be slaughtered.

Under the current domestic system, the people who can get rich in just a few decades or more than a decade basically make a fortune when there are loopholes in the system, and it can be said that basically the money they earn is not very clean, coupled with the interference of some local government officials, there are often some unsightly things in this.

Therefore, this has caused the confidence of the domestic rich to not be very strong, after all, the first pot of gold is a bit unclear, once someone investigates this matter, it will inevitably be a prison end, and it is not surprising that hundreds of millions of family fortunes will be confiscated.

In this case, everyone must be disgusted by the Forbes list concocted by Hurun, in fact, when many people are notified that they are about to be on the list, they are eager to hire someone to kill those good deeds. Isn't that harmful!

The reason why Fan Wuxian can keep a low profile is mainly related to his business strategy, because the companies and industries he owns are not publicly listed, so outsiders have no way to find out, and no one knows how much money he has.

After all, if the rich people at this grassroots level want to kill someone, as long as they express their attitude, a large number of international killers will immediately be willing to do it, and it is a joke to track down the murderer.

So far, no one has dared to ignore the warnings issued by the intelligence department of Fan's Investment Group.

Another important topic in the second half of this year is that the United States has finally launched a war against Afghanistan.

The U.S. military's most important military operation in Afghanistan, Enduring Freedom, officially began on October 7, less than a month after the 911 terrorist attacks. The U.S. military is waging a new type of war in Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban regime and destroy al-Qaeda.

Because Afghanistan is located deep inland, it is obviously impossible to rely on large-scale offensive operations by ground forces, so the US military mainly relies on cruise missiles and various combat aircraft (including AC-130, strategic bombers, and fighters equipped with precision guiders) to carry out precision air strikes against the enemy, and the marking of ground targets is completed by special forces using satellite installations, laser equipment, and GPS systems in conjunction with the "Predator" drone. The new type of precision air strikes and the ground offensive operation carried out jointly with the Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan using the information network have paved the way for the follow-up operation to be launched.

At first, U.S. combat operations were slow because of the time-consuming deployment of troops in the theater, the establishment of appropriate logistics bases, and the enlisting of friendly neighbors, including Uzbekistan and Pakistan.

As of 19 October, the US special forces and CIA agents had smoothly contacted the Northern Alliance, and the number of combat planes and warships at the disposal of the Central Command had reached 400 and 32 respectively. Among them are two aircraft carriers.

In the time that followed, they scored major victories.

The U.S. military quickly destroyed the Taliban forces' bases, headquarters, and air defense facilities through air strikes, and cut off their logistical supplies. The Northern Alliance forces on the ground lacked heavy equipment and were only half as large as the enemy, but they were steadily thwarted by Taliban and al-Qaeda resistance, supported by U.S. air strikes.

The key towns in northern Afghanistan, including Talokan, Kunduz, Colt and Mazar-i-Sharif, were captured within three weeks. On November 9, the enemy was captured in Kandahar, the last fortified city in southern Afghanistan. On 13 November, the enemy abandoned the capital Kabul on its own initiative.

On 22 December, U.S. government officials attended the Kabul Victory Celebration, and the pro-U.S. regime led by Hamid Karzai was established on the same day.

Although enemy forces have withdrawn from the main battlefield and the Taliban regime has fallen, the war is not over.

Intelligence indicates that remnants of Taliban and al-Qaida militants are gathering in the White Mountains on the border with Pakistan in northern Afghanistan. In particular, numerous enemy forces, including ** and other key members of al-Qaeda, have gathered in the Tora Bora area.

On 30 November, ground forces formed by the U.S. Einsatzgruppen and the Afghan coalition launched a large-scale attack on Tora Bora in conjunction with air strikes. The Afghan coalition forces that entered the war this time were the Pston Self-Defense Forces under the command of the Zaeit warlords, not the experienced Northern Alliance forces.

The U.S. air raids were fierce, but the Puston Self-Defense Forces did not perform well.

As a result, the battle killed and routed hundreds of enemy troops, but allowed more enemy troops to abscond to Pakistan.

There are reports that ** and his accomplices also escaped.

The failure of the Allied forces to effectively cut off all escape routes was the main reason for the large number of fleeing enemies. Meantime. The ground forces deployed on the territory of Afghanistan are too small. The defeat at Mount Torabo and the resulting loss of warplanes during many combat operations in Afghanistan made the U.S. military realize that if similar operations were to be carried out in the future in the region, it would be necessary to expand the size of the ground force.

If it had been ten or twenty years ago, it would have been impossible to adopt such a centralized air-to-ground strike model as it is today.

After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force and Navy abandoned air-to-ground fire support and began to emphasize air interception, blockade and strategic bombing.

But in recent years, air-to-ground support capabilities have made great progress, and the biggest improvement is in the equipment of advanced avionics systems, which allow jet fighters to guide air-to-ground support fighters to carry out precision ground strikes, which is the biggest difference from the fighters used in the Vietnam War.

The advent of precision-guided weapons, such as joint direct attack munitions, has led to a dramatic revolution in air-to-ground combat. Equally important are the development of laser-guided and GPS technology, which can accurately determine the location of ground and air targets when air-ground are working together.

The use of modern information networks has made it possible to conduct high-speed communications between air force commanders, AWACS aircraft, fighter jets and ground forces. As a result, air units can quickly carry out air-to-ground support operations even if the original combat plan of some operations does not require air firepower.

In the current U.S. military clearance operations in Afghanistan, the total number of aircraft available to the mountain task force exceeds 200, including bombers, -10s, A-130s and many more aircraft jointly provided by the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and have begun to fly to the combat area to support ground operations.

Additional Apache helicopter gunships and Marine Corps helicopters have also been deployed into the combat zone. In the days that followed, combat planes flew an average of more than 60 sorties a day, and a total of 900 sorties were carried out by combat planes during the entire combat operation.

Thanks to the establishment of the air-ground information network, US combat aircraft can comprehensively use a variety of weapons to strike at enemy forces, including precision-guided weapons such as joint direct attack munitions, conventional iron bombs, rockets, and cannons. Most of the air strikes are directed to high ground, and if necessary, air-to-ground targets are strafed. A large amount of ammunition poured into the gorge, effectively suppressing enemy fire and annihilating a large number of enemy troops.

In the first few days. Air-to-ground fire support operations have encountered some problems, mainly due to the temporary nature of the mission and the uncertainty of the scope of operations, which need to be addressed urgently.

Under normal circumstances, the army can achieve large-scale fire support by using artillery, mortars and other weapons, and saturated artillery strikes can effectively suppress most of the enemy's counterattack firepower. In this way, the Air Force can carry out operations according to conventional intentions and deliver precision strikes against enemy targets that cannot be reached by ground artillery. In some operations, the ground forces do not have artillery, and heavy mortars are scarce, so the use of aerial fire cannot be carried out as usual, and they must replace ground artillery and mortars. In any case, there is no doubt about the ability of the air force to accomplish the mission, but the adjustment and adaptation of combat procedures requires a process.

Of course, the US military's operations in Afghanistan have not been smooth sailing, on the contrary, it is indeed very difficult to deal with these local armed forces, who have long been familiar with mountain warfare.

A conspicuous problem is the issue of command relations in close ground support operations. Although the Mountain Task Force and its units were the main demanders for near-air fire support, the sortie of combat aircraft was initially in the hands of the Joint Command. As a result, requests for air support from ground forces must first be sent to the Joint Command, at least to AWACS aircraft hovering in the air, before they can be permitted.

In general, all requests for emergency air-to-ground fire support are approved immediately, and most support operations are carried out within minutes of the request.

However, for some requests for support that are not very urgent, the response time occasionally lags to about half an hour.

There are many reasons for the delay. This includes target identification, decoy for exposure, identification of combat aircraft and types of weapons used, determination of routes of movement, and management of a large number of requests from the ground, sometimes more than the number of aircraft on standby.

Combat aircraft can be dispatched in a loop, but the geography of the canyon is not conducive to the development of air-to-ground fire support. The canyon is only about five miles deep, and the number of aircraft flying at the same time is limited by the size of the airspace. The enemy's targets in the mountains are small and difficult to identify, and only the planes hovering in the air can carry out precision strikes after relying on the ground troops to accurately mark the targets with GPS.

Although some Air Force liaison officers and more than 30 air traffic controllers were assigned to the ground forces, their equipment was limited. Some people don't have laser markers and can't use GPS to determine the exact coordinates of a target. They had to use tactical drawings to complete the mission, but many of the drawings were not detailed enough to determine the exact coordinates of the target. Pilots sometimes had difficulty finding the designated target according to the drawings and had to talk to the ground forces.

In some cases. Air Force commanders would veto less urgent requests for air-to-ground fire support from ground forces, which, in their view, did not meet the criteria for aircraft sorties.

On the other hand, the Air Force commander believed that the ground forces did not completely lure out the enemy forces and were not able to deliver accurate strikes. On the side of the ground forces, the command sometimes feels that in order to better create fighters, they have to take the initiative to lure the enemy into appearing.

Sometimes, because of radio frequency control, ground forces are forbidden to talk directly with aircraft overhead. Once the troops carrying line-of-sight shortwave radios are geographically blocked, it is difficult to achieve communication. This caused inconvenience for them to call for air strikes.

In some cases, the voices of trained special operators who led air-to-ground fire support with satellite communications facilities were drowned out by calls from mountain task forces for air strikes, and these frictions caused a lot of trouble for air-ground coordination in the first few days.

In addition, due to the covering effect of the mountains, it was difficult to carry out air strikes on enemy targets. The usual method is usually to strike them with precision, but even if they are successful, they are often destroyed only by the kind of heavy machine gun strongholds guarded by two or three people. A large number of enemy forces were hidden in the mountains and ridges, forming countless small targets, which had to be attacked one by one.

To make matters worse, the enemy always hid in caves before the air raids were imminent, and after the cannon fire was away, they ran out to continue the resistance. Relying on aerial firepower to clear out enemy forces is time-consuming and laborious, and the efficiency is greatly reduced. Therefore, the air fire strike must last for many days in order to achieve the goal of killing a large number of enemy troops.

For various reasons, the Joint Command realized that it was a mistake to assume command on its own, so they quickly transferred the assignment of combat aircraft to the mountain contingent, which brought the designation of targets and the order of bombing closer to the needs of the ground forces.

The arrival of additional A-10, A-130, and Apache attack helicopters has also enabled the number of combat aircraft to far exceed the requirements of the operational plan, while also reducing the dependence on high-altitude fighters and bombers, and steadily improving the ability to coordinate between pilots, ground commanders, and army units.

In recent days, air strikes that lasted for a week have greatly weakened the enemy's forces, forcing the enemy to abandon resistance by destroying enemy targets in large numbers, and the situation in ground operations has opened up a good situation. A number of medium and heavy mortars were airlifted to ground forces, allowing them to strike at enemy targets at a distance.

U.S. ground forces have finally blocked the last exit from the eastern part of the canyon, and the Afghan coalition forces have returned to the battlefield. The Northern Alliance forces began to sweep the gorge using a combination of infantry and tanks.

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