Chapter 102: War
On 5 February, Egypt's natural gas pipeline to Israel caught fire, disrupting Egypt's natural gas supplies to Israel and Jordan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
On February 11, Mubarak announced his resignation and handed over power to the military. Mubarak and his family then left the capital, Cairo, and arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, a tourist city on the Red Sea coast in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
On 15 February, a meeting of the security company was held at the Bukavu base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was attended by dozens of managers of the security company, travelling experts on international issues and representatives of 24 countries.
At the meeting, Zhou You reminded everyone to pay attention to what has happened in North Africa and the Arab countries in the recent period, and warned everyone that what is happening now will directly cause drastic changes in the Arab countries.
At the same time, the tour also sent a warning to European countries that the turmoil in the Arab world will directly cause a large number of refugees, and these refugees will directly affect the stability of European countries.
On the second day of the meeting, on 16 February, serious anti-government demonstrations erupted in Libya, which were suppressed by government forces and led to an uprising, which led to fierce military clashes between the anti-government forces and the Libyan government forces.
In a nationally televised address, Qaddafi said he would not resign or leave the country, preferring to sacrifice his life and said he would take a hard line against the demonstrators.
In fact, over the past four decades, Colonel Ka has relied on oil to make Libya the richest country in Africa, but his dictatorial administration has also caused serious corruption and the consolidation of power. The tribes that obeyed him were taken care of, but the tribes that did not obey were forcefully suppressed by him.
The class struggle in Libya has been very serious, and the problem of human rights is very serious. And his family has tens of billions of assets abroad and has outrageous privileges.
On 18 February, the opposition took control of most of Benghazi, the country's second-largest city, and the government sent elite troops and mercenaries, but the opposition was repulsed.
In Tripoli, Colonel Ka warned the demonstrators on television, announcing that they would be punished with severe gunfire and that more troops would be sent to retake Benghazi.
The traveling military service company also received an official letter from Colonel Ka to hire the traveling company to participate in the counterinsurgency, and the remuneration was very good.
However, because the military observers of various countries were still at Zhou You's base, this official letter was also deliberately leaked by Zhou You, so under pressure from various countries, Zhou You refused to hire Colonel Ka.
To compensate for the travels, countries such as France and Italy hired traveling military service companies and sent an army of a thousand men to protect the oil pipelines of the Western Petroleum Company.
In the case of already knowing the history, Zhou Yu certainly knows how to choose.
On 19 February, Colonel Ka ordered mercenaries and troops to fire mortar shells and machine-gun fire at demonstrators, resulting in more than 300 deaths and more than 1,000 injuries.
On the same day, a military transport ship purchased by Zhou in France docked at the port of Boma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the French sent three Airbus 340 planes to airlift 1,000 soldiers to Benghazi, Libya.
Zhou You also mobilized the remaining eight helicopter gunships, more than 50 all-terrain combat vehicles and several howitzer trucks, and transported them to Boma airport by transport plane, and it took two days to transport these supplies by air.
Colonel Ka strongly protested Zhou You's actions on television, believing that the addition of Zhou You's mercenaries would further complicate the situation. At the same time, a number of countries, including Venezuela, have expressed regret that this action of Zhou Yu is unwise.
Zhou You also held a press conference at the base, saying that his army would only protect the oil fields and pipelines in the north, and would not participate in the civil war in Libya, which was a commercial act, not a political act.
Since most of the supplies had not yet arrived in Libya, the 1,000-strong army was not directly involved in the mission, but was divided into three detachments and stationed at the three oil-exporting ports of Brega, Siddle and Cape Lanof, avoiding the war-torn Benghazi region in the east and Tripoli in the west.
Even so, Colonel Ka issued a warning to Zhou You, who would target Zhou You's army. But Zhou You did not fight back against his words in the media, because Zhou You did not seek fame, but profit, and even if he won Colonel Card in terms of tongue, it would only make others more disgusted with him.
He didn't want to offend too many Arabs by taking advantage of a little tongue, and become the main target of the Green Church in the future.
The voyage from the port of Boma to the port of Brega is about 10,000 kilometres, and it takes fourteen days for the ships to arrive, that is, on the 6th of March.
Although Colonel Ka kept saying that he wanted to take revenge on Zhou You, he actually had no ability to deal with Zhou You at all.
On 22 February, Libyan ambassadors resigned and severed ties with the Libyan government, and they all began to strongly condemn the Libyan government's brutal massacre of innocent people, saying that Gaddafi had lost all legitimacy.
The next day, in eastern Libya, demonstrators seized al-Bayda airport after four days of fighting with government forces, leaving the east largely out of Libyan government control.
On the same day, the UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting on the riots that broke out in Libya against the Gaddafi regime, and after the meeting, 15 member states issued a statement unanimously condemning the Libyan use of force to suppress anti-government demonstrations.
However, Colonel Ka was not afraid, and he continued to impose tough measures in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. At the same time, the establishment of primary governments in the eastern part of the country, which has seceded from Libya, has begun. On the evening of the same day, Gaddafi made another speech, accusing al-Qaeda led by Razorlight of being the mastermind behind the current Libyan crisis, and its purpose was to establish a green state in Libya.
On the 25th, the European Union imposed an arms embargo and a travel ban on Libya in response to Colonel Ka's unrepentant death. At the same time, the EU will freeze all Libyan property.
The United Nations has warned of the imminent collapse of Libya's domestic food supply chain and the possibility of thousands of civilians being slaughtered. On that day, more than half of the top Libyan officials resigned.
In order to salvage the situation, the government of Colonel Ka also announced a new policy: each Libyan family will receive $400, and all civil servants will receive a salary increase, some of which will be more than 50 percent.
On the 26th, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to sanction Libya, including freezing the assets of the Gaddafi family and imposing a global travel ban on him and his relatives.
On the 27th, the opposition took control of the capital's satellite city of Zawiyah, causing a siege of the Qaddawi regime. But Colonel Ka had also gathered his forces and was preparing for a counterattack on the city.
It is worth mentioning that in the Libyan civil war, the evacuation of overseas Chinese from the mainland has truly demonstrated our strength for the first time. At a time when other countries are in chaos, the evacuation of overseas Chinese from the mainland is at the forefront of all countries in the world.
In the 10 days since the outbreak of the civil war, South Korean diplomats have fled in fright, and the embassies of many countries have closed their doors, but the embassies in the mainland have worked 24 hours a day, and in 10 days, 32,000 Chinese have been evacuated, including about 3,000 Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots.
In India, for example, they did not have as many expatriates in Libya as in the mainland, but after almost all the expatriates in the interior were evacuated, they only evacuated 10,000 people, and 20,000 people lived in harsh conditions with no physical goods and no water.
In 10 days, the mainland mobilized nearly 200 civil aviation flights, five cargo ships, four military transport planes, more than 1,000 automobiles, and chartered more than 20 foreign cruise ships to complete this large-scale operation, which made all foreign nationals envious.
Several private jets also participated in this operation, although there were not many people saved, but they also did their part. By the time the traveling military transport ships arrived at the port of Brega on 6 March, the evacuation operation had ended.
The media of various countries could not help but praise the mainland's evacuation of overseas Chinese, showing the demeanor of a world-class power. Except for the hinterland, no other country has been able to act so effectively in such a large-scale operation.
Of course, there are also some media who have criticized the mainland for being too domineering. Because there were so many people to evacuate, the mainland put a lot of pressure on Libya's neighbors, opened the border, let these Chinese pass, and took over several airports and ports to allow the Chinese to evacuate smoothly.
But these trips are just farting, and he wants the country to be as domineering as possible.
With the arrival of heavy weapons, the 1,000-strong army began to play an active role, and together with the more than 200 security guards already in Libya, several security teams were formed to protect three ports, two oil refineries, and three oil pipelines totaling more than 600 kilometers.
However, Libya has many oil pipelines, as many as 3,000 kilometers of pipelines that need to be protected, and more than a dozen oil fields.
Not to be outdone, the rebels fought back on the oil town of Zawiyah on 6 March, and after six hours of fighting, Colonel Ka recaptured the refinery of Raslanouf, a petrochemical port in the Mediterranean.
By 9 March, the Khamis Brigade had routed the rebels and moved into Zawiyah, where the rebels fled eastward, taking control of Zawiya and most of the surrounding area.
On 14 March, the government forces repelled the rebels by force and recaptured the oil-producing town of Brega in the east, and continued to advance towards Benghazi, the rebel stronghold, with the vanguard scouts advancing to the outskirts of the city, just 10 kilometres away.
By this time, Colonel Ka's army had already been in direct contact with Zhou You's army, because the oil pipelines and refineries that Zhou You was responsible for protecting had all been recaptured by government forces.
However, Colonel Ka was not impulsive, and he did not even attack the traveling men, but only asked to take over the facilities. After receiving a call from Colonel Ka, Zhou You made a deal with him, ordering his men to return to the barracks and relinquish control. The condition is that he cannot blow up the oil pipelines and refineries that Zhou You is responsible for because of the fighting.
Of course, there was a big hole in this verbal agreement, because in the ensuing engagement, his army blew up two oil fields upstream at the Jelf Well, leaving two of the three pipelines out of capacity.
However, he didn't blow up the pipeline directly, which gave Zhou You face, so Zhou You couldn't accuse him of anything because of this.
On 17 March, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1973 with 10 abstentions, imposing a no-fly zone over Libya.
On March 18, Colonel Ka announced his acceptance of the UN Security Council resolution on the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya, an immediate ceasefire and the cessation of all military operations, negotiations began.
But then the next day he reversed himself and sent troops to attack the opposition. His action completely annoyed NATO countries, France took the lead in air strikes on Libya, the US Navy launched a missile attack on the air defense system in northern Libya through a number of warships deployed in the Mediterranean Sea in the middle of the night, and the British Royal Air Force sent a number of warplanes to participate in the subsequent air strikes.
At this point, NATO countries officially participated in the civil war in Libya. In just six days, six rounds of air strikes were launched, which dealt a serious blow to the military forces of Libya.
By 27 March, the rebels had recaptured four towns and made a rapid advance towards Sirte, Gaddafi's hinterland. The port where the traveling men and horses were located was recaptured by the opposition, and Colonel Ka switched from attack to defense.
After NATO fully took over the command of the military operation, with the help of the bombing of warplanes of the multinational force, the Libyan rebels quickly advanced to the west, linking the oil town.
But on the 30th, Colonel Ka's supporters launched a fierce attack on the opposition forces, recapturing two oil cities from the other side, completely relieving the crisis in Gaddafi's homeland. The three ports garrisoned by the traveling men and horses were recaptured by Colonel Ka's army, and two were recaptured.
Annoyed, the Western coalition intensified air strikes against government forces and hinted that military equipment would be provided to the opposition.
Throughout the end of March and the beginning of April, the two sides went back and forth, and three ports were occupied by you today and by him tomorrow. However, due to the traveling garrison, neither the refinery nor the port was subjected to any attack.
It's just that because the upstream oil fields have been blown up, the pipeline has completely lost its oil supply capacity. There is nothing to do at all, and they are there every day to watch the excitement.
On April 2, the United States withdrew from the operation against Libya due to disagreements within NATO, and at this point, the European countries were united, leaving the United States behind and launching a more forceful military operation.
At this time, Colonel Ka could not hold on a little and agreed to the peace talks proposed by the international community, but expressed serious dissatisfaction with some of the terms of the peace talks.
Zhou You also received calls from Venezuela and Algeria, and Colonel Ka began to look for a way back for himself.
On April 6, NATO and the Libyan opposition also began to fight each other. The commander of the armed opposition, Younis, also accused NATO of ineffective military action and was disappointing, stressing that if NATO does not change the situation, the Libyan National Transitional Council will protest against NATO to the UN Security Council.
NATO has also accused the Libyan opposition's ground forces of being disappointing in their military qualities.
That same night, two trucks drove into the military barracks of the traveling security company in Port Brega and drove directly onto the transport ship. Most of the soldiers did not know that in the corner of the cargo compartment of the transport ship, there were two more trucks without signs.