The war of reunification is not a child's play, and one careless will cause nuclear annihilation in the whole world, so Zhang Meng does not agree to take risks in principle, but he does not prevent the Datang Ministry of Defense from taking some practical actions in order to test the patience of the two major military blocs of the United States and the Soviet Union and find out the bottom line of the other side.

The United States has just suffered a crushing defeat in the Vietnam War, and its national strength has been consumed enormously, so the Datang Ministry of Defense believes that the United States is temporarily unable to compete head-on with the Datang Empire, so it intends to take the NATO allies of the United States first to test the United States' response.

NATO, whose full name is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military bloc organization established by the United States and major developed countries in Western Europe and North America. Including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Portugal, Italy a total of 12 countries.

At the beginning of NATO's establishment, the Tang Empire was not listed as a target of confrontation, but as the Tang Empire confronted the United States in the Vietnam War, the US government adjusted the NATO charter and promoted NATO's eastward expansion plan to contain the Soviet Union.

NATO's southward expansion made the Tang Empire very unhappy, and Zhang Meng immediately approved a new round of countermeasures by the Ministry of National Defense, wanting to give the United States and NATO a little color.

Britain is an important ally of the United States and one of the important members of NATO, and at the same time has been in a state of hostility with the Tang Empire, this is because the Tang Empire took advantage of World War II to occupy the island of Ireland, of which Northern Ireland was originally British territory.

Britain has been secretly supporting the armed resistance of Northern Ireland against the rule of the Tang Empire, and even many British active and retired soldiers have joined the Irish partisans and have been fighting against the Tang Army in Ireland.

The United States acquiesced to the British move in Ireland. This is the direct reason why the Tang Empire decided to teach Britain a hard lesson and beat the dog to show its owner.

In the early morning of February 2, 1970, in the process of clearing out the Irish guerrillas, three Raptor fighters of the Tang Army saw more than a dozen important targets fleeing to the British Consulate in Northern Ireland, and immediately launched six air-to-ground Trident cruise missiles, instantly flattening the entire consulate and causing more than 100 casualties, including the British consul.

This incident finally gave the British government an excuse to lash out at the Tang Empire, but the Tang Empire was not afraid and accused the British consulate of harboring Irish militants. The two sides are in a lot of trouble. The United States intervened. But it didn't work.

On the third day, with the acquiescence of the British government, large-scale anti-Tang demonstrations broke out in Britain, which soon exceeded the control of the British government. Many Tang shops were smashed, looted, and burned, and more Chinese were also affected, even causing death and injury.

The Tang Empire finally waited for an excuse and directly issued an ultimatum to the British government, ordering the British government to end the anti-Tang demonstrations within 24 hours, arrest all criminals who hurt the Tang and Chinese, compensate for all economic losses, and stop helping the Irish militants.

British Prime Minister Salche immediately turned to the United States and NATO for help, and the US government believed that the Tang Empire would not use force easily. It is believed that the nuclear balance between the United States and Tang will make the Tang Empire fearful.

However, the United States miscalculated, causing the British government to take a hard line on the Tang Empire, and as a result, the Tang-British War broke out uncontrollably.

At noon on February 6, the sky over the Celtic Sea was cloudy. The main force of the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Empire carried out a large-scale actual combat military exercise, which was called a pre-war intimidation by the international media, but unfortunately Salche did not judge the military intentions of the Tang Army, but thought that with the support of the United States and NATO, he also sent the main fleet of the British Royal Navy to temporarily conduct military exercises 300 kilometers west of the Tang Naval Exercise Area.

This is quite a dangerous behavior, for a long time, the nuclear balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union has made the British instinctively think that the Tang Empire will not directly start a war against Britain, after all, Britain belongs to NATO, which is a sixteen ** group, and the United States is in charge, and the Tang Empire has not formed alliances with other countries, and no matter how strong a country is, it will not easily start a war with the sixteen countries.

The British misjudged the situation, and Vice Admiral Lin Jingze, commander of the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Empire, had already received a secret order from the Ministry of Defense to allow an undeclared war against the British.

Lin Jingze thought that the strength of the British Royal Navy was still very strong, so he decided to conduct an actual combat exercise for the sake of insurance, which was a warm-up for the war against the British, but the British Navy sent it to the door, less than 300 kilometers away from the Atlantic Fleet.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and for Lin Jingze, he will not miss this opportunity.

"I'm Lin Jingze, and now I order the whole fleet to enter a combat state!"

On the bridge of the flagship Yanjing nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Lin Jingze gave a combat order, and the whole fleet suddenly sounded a rapid battle siren.

Soon, 2 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, 6 nuclear-powered battleships, 6 nuclear-powered heavy missile cruisers, 11 light missile cruisers, 7 missile destroyers, 13 missile frigates, and 5 attack nuclear submarines, including the Yanjing, were all put into combat condition.

On two Yenching-class nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers, 250 Raptor multirole fighters line up to catapult and take off. This is a super aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 100,000 tons, which has subverted the design layout of traditional aircraft carriers, the previous Tang Army aircraft carrier was a right-angle plus single-oblique flight deck layout, and now the Yanjing-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is a right-angle flight deck plus a two-way symmetrical oblique flight deck, with three flight decks, and the overall layout resembles a huge trident. The ship island is arranged in front of the central axis, adopting an arch-type layout, with the bridge command room above the door opening and the lifting platform below, through which some fighters in the hangar enter the central take-off runway.

The three flight decks, compared with the British Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers that imitated the structure of the previous aircraft carriers of the Tang Army, can only carry 60 third-generation jet aircraft, while each of the Tang Army's Yanjing-class super nuclear-powered aircraft carriers can carry 125 fourth-generation jet aircraft, both in terms of quantity and quality, the gap is quite huge.

At this time, the British Navy had already eliminated the battleships, in addition to the 2 5000-ton Elizabeth conventionally powered aircraft carriers carrying a total of 90 Harrier attack aircraft, there were only 4 10,000-ton Type 22 missile cruisers, 8 5000-ton Type 23 missile destroyers, 13 3000-ton Type 35 missile frigates, and 6 conventional submarines.

Not to mention that the 250 4th-generation Raptor multi-role fighters on the two super nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the Tang Army are enough to completely annihilate 90 third-generation Harrier attack aircraft of the United Kingdom, 6 nuclear-powered battleships, 6 nuclear-powered heavy missile cruisers, 11 light missile cruisers, 7 missile destroyers, and 13 missile frigates of the Atlantic Fleet, all of which are equipped with electromagnetic kinetic energy guns with different orbital radii, and the air defense electromagnetic cannon phalanx. Various anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, as well as nuclear submarines, etc., any of which is stronger than the British Navy.

In such a situation where the quantity and quality were very different, Lin Jingze did not hesitate to order an attack.