Chapter 889: Prelude to War
In Gaza, two days have passed since the attack, and Li Lan has not been seen.
Although countries around the world have said that rescue forces had arrived at the site of the attack and successfully rescued Li Lan about an hour after the attack, the Somali side has never given a positive answer to the international community on this matter.
It was not until today that the Somali side officially announced that Li Lan had been rescued by Shun, but his condition was not very good, with multiple scars on his body, and he was currently on his way back to Somalia.
In the afternoon, the air command platform on which Li Lan was riding landed at the Bagua City Air Base, and under the watchful eyes of countless media reporters, a medical ambulance sent Li Lan to the presidential palace.
On the way, Li Lan also made a brief appearance, his exposed upper body was wrapped with bloodstained bandages in many places, and his exposed skin was covered with scars, and he left a sentence: Blood debt must be paid in blood, and then disappeared from the world's vision again.
In the following days, Somalia continued to increase its troops in the Middle East, as if it would not give up, and the Israeli president immediately said that in order to avoid further escalation of the consequences of the situation and avoid the harm caused to the people of the two countries by the outbreak of the Somali-Israeli war. He is willing to personally explain to Li Lan about the timing of the attack, and Israeli President Rivlin's move can be regarded as further putting himself in the lowest position.
However, the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs directly rejected Rivlin's visit, claiming that the Somali security services had launched an investigation into the matter and only believed the results of the investigation, but the Israeli side explained that the Somali security services had taken it into account and had also been listed as a key investigative direction, and the specific results of the investigation would be announced in the next few days.
At the same time, Ling Liang, head of the Supreme Command of the Somali Federal Guard, also said to the outside world. The attack on Li Lan is a provocation to the whole of Somalia. It is a direct act of war, which is absolutely unforgivable. Millions of Somali officers and soldiers will defend the honour of their country to the death and punish the attackers and attackers and conspirators with the severest punishment.
At the same time, the Somali Federal Public Opinion Polling Department immediately announced that more than 95 percent of the more than 200 million citizens of the Somali Federation said that the real murderers must be severely punished, even if war breaks out because of this, and at the same time for many days in a row. Within the Internet of the Somali Federation, countless voices calling for revenge pervade the entire online world.
In recent days, hundreds of thousands of hacking attacks have been carried out on Israeli networks, forcing the Israeli government to shut down a large number of terminals connecting to the Internet.
In the face of the angry Somali Federation, the Israeli authorities have no choice, and Rivlin can only change his itinerary to the United States, which is very likely to bring about the consequences of war, and the Israeli military is ready to mobilize urgently.
In the face of the furious Somalia, when the investigation has not yet come out completely. Israel can only be prepared for war. In the face of Somalia's growing military power in the Middle East, Israel has also begun to place its hopes on the US-Israel alliance, hoping to use the United States to resolve the crisis.
As the crisis continues to simmer, it is only natural that the international community call for peace to come first. But I also know that in such a situation, the war did not break out immediately. It's already a rare scene.
And just a week after the attack on Li Lan, Li Lan reappeared in front of the public. And in the form of a nationally televised address, in the Somali Federation and throughout the Internet.
Stand on the podium. Li Lan's spirit has obviously recovered a lot, and the bandages on his body are gone, but there is still some inconvenience in walking, and he is accompanied by special medical personnel.
"Today, we stand here, on the land of the Somalis, on the city of Bagua, the land that our ancestors watered with their blood and dignity, and behind me are the national flag and the national emblem, which symbolize the honor of the country, and they represent the dignity of our country.
In front of me, standing is a people, a people groaning in humiliation! For thousands of years, the pride of our nation has been gone, and those victors have ridden on our necks to make a fortune, and they have trampled on our dignity at will, and with the national dignity of each and every one of you, tell me, do you choose to be a fighter for freedom, or a slave?
You may say: Mr. President, I need a job, a piece of bread. Yes, you're right, life is so important. But I want to tell you that there is one thing in this world that is more important than life, and that is freedom! That's dignity!
As long as the world continues to try to rule us with class ideas, our dignity will not exist. As long as this country called Somalia is torn apart and weakened, our dignity will not exist. As long as people from other countries laugh contemptuously when they say the word Somalia in conversation, our dignity will not exist.
What we need is not a piece of bread, but a living space, a living space for a nation, which is not achieved by begging and protesting, but by iron and blood.
When others insult us, even the weakest nation comes to trample on us, we will only cry: we express strong indignation and protest, such a person is boneless, such a person is lowly.
We should make the enemy tremble with cannon earthquakes, deafness. We should crush their dignity, their lives, and let them know that we are not a bunch of cowards who only know how to protest.
You have to remember that a country that only knows how to protest is a country without bones. A government that only knows how to protest is a government that has no bones. When our dignity, territory, and living space are trampled on, and we shamelessly protest against the local government, we don't need them, and you will abandon them in the end.
I'm proud, among you guys. There are very few people who have no bones like this. In front of me is an army with thousands of years of unyielding blood. This blood, which once flowed in the veins of our ancestors, they did not give in, and now, they are bubbling in our bodies, and you sue me. Do you want it to cool?
There are two things that can unite people: a common ideal and a common crime. We have the great ideal engraved on the Union flag, and we will shed our last drop of blood for this ideal! In today's Somalia. Nothing can save our Motherland. Only this ideal.
If there is a day, I. Li Lan will rush to the forefront with the banner that belongs to our federation. Even if it is to die in battle. I will also enter the kingdom of heaven with a smile.
We don't fight for slavery, we fight for freedom, we're not machines, we're not cows and horses, we're people, we're a people who never succumbed.
Once upon a time we were united in the name of freedom to fight for a new, fair world. We fight for everyone to have a job, for those who enslave us to get out of Somali land, for us not to have to shout and protest all day. Fight for our dignity, fight for our promises, fight for the liberation of this country......"
Standing in front of countless cameras, Li Lan waved her slightly stiff arm and gave an impassioned speech to more than 200 million viewers and countless Internet netizens across the country:
"However, today, our efforts are not enough, and the results of our efforts step by step with our hands have made the world fearful, and there are still a large number of enemies around us. I want to let the Federation return to the era of war and secession, and let every citizen of the Federation return to the days when there was no food and were displaced by war, are you willing to go back to the original days?
I am sure your answer will be unwavering: Mr. President, we don't.
You don't want to. I am even more reluctant, and neither will our army, so we must continue to fight. The conspiracy that wants to crush us will be completely dismantled, and we do not want to become Iraq and Afghanistan. Even more reluctant to become Syria, we will sue the conspirators with our fists. Don't beat us again, or we'll be beaten to pieces.
I have always wanted peace and did not want to see war bring pain to you and the people of the world, but when the time comes, we cannot be merciful enough to defeat the conspirators and enemies, and the most powerful means is to completely crush the conspirators.
From now on, I will not continue to endure it, and I should not continue to endure it. We will not talk nonsense, nor will we continue to use patience to resolve problems by peaceful means. What we want is to break through the momentum, and what we want is to destroy the withering and decaying, and tell the world with practical actions how firm our determination to defend ourselves is.
I don't care what people in the future will say about me, I don't care what the world will say about me, I just want to create a sky that belongs to us, and in order to achieve this, I would rather be a sinner, when I believe that there are people who are more sinful than me, because they force us to use force to defend our dignity, to defend our sovereignty, to defend our freedom, to defend our present life......"
There was no speech, and every speech was impromptu speech, and although Li Lan, who appeared this time, had not yet talked about the attack, just two paragraphs were enough to explain his attitude.
"Everyone is curious, what I have been through, and there are all kinds of discussions and speculations outside, and now I can talk to you about it.
I was rescued by the guards who were escorted by two Israeli F-16s who launched an airstrike on the convoy in which I was travelling, and we were forced to take refuge in a small town not far from the attack......"
Li Lan slowed down and slowly recounted the scene that happened, and even many details of the battle, he also told in detail, although there was no video record of this process, but people seemed to see the scene of the rain of bullets at that time, and the guards who fell one by one.
At the end of Li Lan's remarks, a short footage taken by the Iranian Air Force fighter plane was also published on the television screen, which also directly proved the attack process described by Li Lan.
"If it weren't for my insistence on military training, the combat experience I accumulated in Somalia, and the desperate protection of the guards around me, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to stand in front of you now.
Foreseeably, if I wasn't alive, would those conspirators miss the opportunity to strike us? Perhaps the current federation has already become turbulent.
It's a pity that their plot didn't take my life, I stand in front of you alive, and now is the time to fight back, and after seven days of investigation into this incident, there are preliminary results, and the federal security services will announce the preliminary results later.
As soon as the results are announced, our military will act immediately, and the conspirators will bear the boundless wrath of us. ”
Speaking of which, in the end. Li Lan has also regained his calm, but his words have set off boundless storms in the world.
Obviously. War is already inevitable, and Somalia, one of the participants, is ready. It is now awaiting the announcement of the investigation by the Somali intelligence services.
Among them, the Israelis are the most nervous, and if not yet the results have not yet appeared, the Israeli military has even demanded that the president issue an immediate mobilization order.
However, in addition to Israel, US military bases around the world have also suddenly become nervous, and the US Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have issued orders at the same time that all US troops should immediately enter a state of three-level alert, and all US anti-missile forces and the North American Air Defense Command will be put on alert. Sound the second-level combat alarm.
Even the whole of Europe is nervous, and almost everyone in those countries that are usually on the wrong path with Somalia is at risk.
Li Lan, who finished his televised speech, also immediately met with the top level of the federal government, and in order to play a good show, Li Lan had not met with all the federal personnel until now.
When Mohammadi, Farah and others saw Li Lan standing in front of them unharmed, they were all so excited that they were teary-eyed.
After an excited hug, Li Lan went straight to the topic. said: "Your next work, continue to maintain the original model. ”
"Isn't there going to be war?" Muhammadi asked.
"That's right, we can't be silent on this matter, we must retaliate by the most powerful means." Li Lan said.
"Although I don't know which country is being warned against now. But once the war begins, the military's finances will inevitably be tight, so don't you need government financial support? Farah asked.
Mohammadi echoed: "In the past, the government had no money. Now I don't have a lot of money, but I want to support a war. It's still available. War is the most important event for the whole country, and the government cannot stand by and watch the excitement. Even if it is a separation of military and government. Finances are not related, but we are all part of Somalia, and for no reason can we sit on the sidelines. ”
Li Lan patted the two of them on the shoulder with satisfaction, but he still refused, "I said that if you can't use it for the time being, you can't use it, the military finance can support the next war at present, and you need to spend too much money to develop industry and people's livelihood, although the war is a national event, but infrastructure construction and economic development are also national events, and they can't be put down." ”
Speaking of this, Li Lan weighed it in his heart for a moment, and continued: "And this war is just a small beginning, there will be more cruel wars waiting for us in the future, and then the little money from the government treasury will not be enough, even if the whole country is mobilized, maybe it will not be enough, in order to win the future war, we still need to prepare a lot of things, so your current task is still very arduous." Do you understand? ”
Farah and Mohammadi glanced at each other, although they did not know what Li Lan said about the scale of cooperation in the future war, so that even the federation of the world's fourth largest economy could not support it, but they did not say a word, and nodded one after another.
Li Lan then spent nearly two hours listening to the latest development report and discussing the key points of development in the next stage before concluding the meeting.
After that, Li Lan came to the Supreme Command Headquarters without stopping, and in the Supreme Commander's Conference room, the last meeting held before the war officially began.
Just as Li Lan said on national television before, the war will start soon, and the Supreme Command, which is the core decision-making center of the entire war, is also the most tense time now.
After all, the opponent we are facing this time is not an asymmetrical opponent, but a developed country with nuclear weapons, a military power with its own system, an extremely strong combat capability, and a huge war potential.
If you add the ten-day time limit, it can be said that this is the most challenging war that the Red Police Corps has ever faced, but only such an opponent can arouse the fighting spirit in the hearts of every soldier.
Treat this war, from soldiers to generals, all of them are treated with full attention.
"The 1st Heavy Division, the 3rd Armored Brigade, the 4th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, and the Long-Range Strike Force have been prepared in Syria, and the logistics are being enriched to the fullest extent possible, so that they can be put into battle on time."
"The Paratrooper Brigade, the 1st Armored Brigade, the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the 1st Marine Division are on standby in the Gaza Strip and the Mediterranean, and the Third and Fourth Fleets are ready for the final war."
"The airfield prepared for aviation divisions in Syria can be put into service at any time, aviation fuel and ammunition are prepared for the use of two aviation divisions on the scale."
"The Strategic Strike Force has locked on all the enemy's satellites, and the Strategic Defense Force has activated the first-level strategic defense plan to counter a possible military counterattack."
"Cyber security forces are ready......
"Superweapon Energy Charge Complete ......"
"Strong troops have successfully infiltrated enemy ......"
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Although the war came more urgently, the preparations were still completed as much as possible, in fact, from a very early stage, Li Lan was ready to fight a war in the Middle East, and a lot of materials were prepared in advance. It is not easy to be able to complete this kind of process in such a short period of time.
Sitting in the main seat of the conference room, after listening to all the reports, Li Lan only announced lightly: "The war started at twelve o'clock in the morning today. (To be continued......)