Chapter 837: Opening the Gap
In the previous life, the fate of this warship, which had pinned great hopes on Argentina, was very miserable. At 5:57 p.m. on May 2, 92, the British Royal Navy's nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror fired two "MKMOD90" torpedoes with a 00-pound warhead at it after receiving authorization from Congress. One torpedo hit near the bow of the cruiser, and the other hit the rear half of the ship, causing a large explosion. Although the explosion did not cause a fire, it quickly filled the interior with smoke and damaged the ship's electrical equipment, preventing it from sending out a radio distress signal.
A large amount of seawater poured into the ship from the gap created by the torpedo, and due to the power outage, the water could not be pumped away, and the ship began to sink. At 4:24 p.m., Captain Bangso ordered to abandon ship, and the crew escaped in lifeboats. When the "Belgrano" sank, the two destroyers escorted by the long-distance formation did not know the situation of the "General Belgrano", and did not call for a rocket or light, but continued to sail westward. When they came to the rescue after it was dark, more than 360 soldiers were either lost in the explosion, swallowed up by the sea, or simply frozen to death.
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Because the cost of the cruiser "General Belgrano" was only five million dollars, when Princess Madeleine quoted the price of the YJ0 missile at a sky-high price of three million dollars, the commander of the air force had a close relationship with the Spanish royal family, and he also secretly scolded her in his heart for being too greedy, and his chest was full of anger: the price of two missiles is more than that of a cruiser, hell!
Although he knew in his heart that the real value of this cruiser was much more than five million dollars. But that's all they have to pay, so naturally he thinks.
I have to say that the scenery of Argentina is very beautiful, of course, the most important thing is that there is an idol in my heart - Guo Zhuocheng - by her side, Princess Madeleine has a lot of fun, and she is really a little happy.
However, Princess Madeleine still played a little trick behind Guo Zhuocheng's back, that is, she called the headquarters of the IIC company and arranged for the investment department to buy a short contract of crude oil with 50 million US dollars in the futures market: in her mind, since Guo Zhuocheng was sure that his cousin Halleps could earn tens of millions of dollars with 45 million US dollars. Then you should have earned more than your cousin with 50 million dollars. In any case, his own company has economic experts and investment experts, which is far stronger than Halleps, and may earn hundreds of millions of dollars.
The reason why Guo Zhuocheng did it behind his back was entirely because the little girl was competitive and wanted Guo Zhuocheng to know that he was also sensitive in business.
Guo Zhuocheng had already guessed her movements from her words, and he didn't break it. Default: Take a little money to have fun, and she can slowly become independent. At the same time, in order to dispel her worries about funds, he also ordered a part of the funds from several other companies to be transferred to the account of the IIC.
Now the network game group company has quite a lot of profits, in addition to investing in the communication equipment research and development team headed by Chen Yingke. There is still quite a bit of a balance.
When Princess Madeleine and Guo Zhuocheng took tens of millions of dollars to play in the futures market, the two sides were fighting fiercely on South Georgia!
Unlike the Argentine defenders who voluntarily surrendered in the previous life, in this life, because of the efforts of Luo Xi and others, the Argentine defenders built a large number of solid fortifications here and stored a large number of weapons, ammunition and food. is fighting with the British army. Judging from the situation of the fighting, it was absolutely impossible for the British army to take over the island with only a few dozen soldiers, as in the previous life, and become their logistics and forward base.
During the fierce fighting on South Georgia, the British nuclear submarine "Conqueror", which had received information, also discovered the Argentine cruiser "General Belgrano" and two destroyers accompanying it from the north.
What made them feel troubled was that the Argentine Navy had clearly significantly strengthened its anti-submarine forces, and not only two destroyers protected the cruiser "General Belgrano" in the middle. Anti-submarine aircraft were also dispatched to patrol the vicinity.
Although it was difficult for the "Conqueror" nuclear submarine, which was famous in the world in the previous life for sinking the cruiser "General Belgrano," to sink the target that was protected by layers this time, the officers and men on the nuclear submarine were not reconciled, and they drove the submarine to carefully lurk on the path that the fleet was going to pass, avoiding the anti-submarine helicopters.
When the opposing fleet was about to pass, to the point where the anti-submarine aircraft left their side and flew in the other direction, the commander of the nuclear submarine reluctantly ordered a torpedo sortie to target the destroyers on the periphery of the fleet, because after a while the fleet would run away. The opportunity will be completely lost, so make a little if you can make it this time.
As two MKMOD4 torpedoes whizzed out of the torpedo tubes, the destroyer "H Bogaard" that was walking on the east side of the fleet's periphery was unlucky, although one of them was lost because of the long distance, but the second one hit the stern position, blowing up the steering gear and the rear half of the "H Bogaard" warship, dozens of officers and men died on the spot, the hull of the ship was first raised and then smashed down, and countless sea water surged into the hole from the hole......
Naturally, the "Conqueror" nuclear submarine did not dare to stay where it was and enjoy the results of the battle, but made an emergency dive and quickly escaped.
The Argentine anti-submarine planes, unable to find the submarine that had fled, had to throw a few deep-water bombs and look elsewhere.
What the pilot didn't know was that if he could go a little further and drop the only remaining deep-water bomb on the plane, he would have made a great contribution, and he would become the world's first pilot to bomb a nuclear submarine.
If that were the case, the Falklands War might have ended very differently.
However, he was not so lucky, although several deep-water (explosive) bombs in front of him blew up the nuclear submarine to a rocking and undulating state, and the British officers and men inside were pale and sweaty, but because the pilot did not know the situation under the water, the buoy sonar carried by the plane was thrown in the sea to the west before it had time to take it back, so that the nuclear submarine was able to escape.
However, since this time, British nuclear submarines have never dared to take such an adventure again, but it has made Argentine warships a lot less threatening.
When the news of the attack on the fleet reached the Argentine General Staff, the high-ranking officials, including President Galtieri, breathed a sigh of relief and were grateful to China one by one: If it had not been for China's alarm, the cruiser "General Belgrano" would have been sunk by a British submarine, and the losses would have been far greater than only the destroyer "H Bogard" had been seriously wounded, and more than a few dozen naval officers and men would have been lost.
In the same way, they received the situation of the fighting in South Georgia.
Because the defenders vigorously strengthened the fortifications on the island under the Chinese Luo Xitiyì, the British attacked and encountered stubborn resistance from the defenders, and with the help of warships, they launched several attacks, but each time to no avail, leaving dozens of corpses behind the wolf bèi retreated, ready to wait for the follow-up troops to come before attacking.
It can be said that the reason why South Georgia Island was able to survive the fierce attack of the British army was due to the construction of the Chinese.
Because of these two things, President Galtieri and others are very grateful to the Chinese.
However, they still did not decide to buy sky-high anti-ship missiles from Princess Madeleine. The price at which they came was too high for them to accept. However, their attitude is not so resolute, and the mentality of rejection has loosened a lot. In other words, China's sky-high missile sales have finally opened a small gap.
If Guo Zhuocheng knew about the current situation of high-ranking Argentine officials, and if he had carefully studied the Falklands War in his previous life, maybe he would have helped them do a few more things, and they would have already offered to buy sky-high missiles.
In fact, Guo Zhuocheng really knew that there was something bad for Argentina, but he didn't say it. This is because this matter involves another friendly country of China -- Chile.
The reason why Argentina failed in the Falklands War in the previous life was, firstly, that it was not fully prepared and pinned its hopes on the concessions of the British government, and secondly, that Argentina's military strength was really poor and could not be compared with the British team, and another reason was that Britain was very clear about the movement of Argentine troops, especially the Argentine navy and air force sorties, and the reason why the cruiser "General Belgrano" was discovered and sunk by British nuclear submarines was because the British had mastered its whereabouts. Set up an ambush in the path it passed and succeed in one blow.
You must know that to accurately find a warship on the vast sea, it is really similar to looking for a needle in a haystack, and many times it depends on luck, and this situation will not be solved until the early warning aircraft and detection satellites are mature.
At this time, Britain's AWACS technology was backward, and the United States had just begun to provide satellite pictures to Britain.
So how did the British nuclear submarine master the situation of the Argentine Navy and Air Force?
It was Chile, Argentina's rival at the time, who provided Britain with the Punta Arenas radar station at the southern tip of Chile, where a British Air Force lieutenant colonel was stationed with a satellite transmission device to communicate directly with the Royal Navy command outside London.
During the Falklands War, Argentine fighters took off from the southern mainland airfield, close to Chile. Therefore, information on when the Argentine fighter took off from which airfield, the direction of flight, and the type of aircraft were all grasped by the Penta Arenas radar station, and it was uploaded to the Royal Navy command in London at the first time. After a simple classification and sorting at the headquarters, the British fleet was soon able to know the movements of the Argentine army, which was tantamount to giving the British army an early warning capability in disguise and being able to anticipate the enemy!
The whereabouts of the Air Force are leaked like this, and so is the whereabouts of the Navy.
Throughout the war, the British army was distributed around Argentina in various ways, or sent agents into a number of important ports and airports.
The Argentine side, on the other hand, knew nothing about the situation in Britain and could only rely on reconnaissance planes to get close to reconnoiter at the risk of being shot down.
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