Chapter 117: The Polar Bear Is Coming
PS: Chapters 9 and 10 are added and updated, two in one.
These days, the international situation has been changing, and Li Lan has become a little dizzy.
First, China and Russia openly supported themselves, and then the United States protested to China in extremely strong terms, saying that China was interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. Immediately afterwards, America's allies in Asia and France made the same remarks.
Many countries in Europe did not protest against China in the same way as the United States.
And soon, Iran and Pakistan, Ukraine (turmoil has not yet begun. and other countries, all of them spoke out in solidarity with China and Russia, and there was a war of words in the major Shijie media, and the public opinion of the entire Shijie instantly gathered in Somalia and focused on Li Lan.
Many African countries also stood up at this time, some in solidarity with China, and some in solidarity with the United States. It can be roughly divided into two parts, the southern African countries and the central African countries, which are basically in solidarity with China's active assistance to Africa.
Most countries in North Africa are showing solidarity with the United States and France, Egypt has only expressed its national opinion because of the turmoil in the domestic situation, and Ethiopia has bypassed China and vigorously denounced Li Lan's act of forming an armed liliang.
Somalia has remained relatively calm on all sides, basically hanging on its own merits, and even Puntland has not made any effective noise. They don't like the United States, but they don't dare to offend the United States too much. It was the rebels in Mogadishu who said a few words of verbal support. Banners have been hung all over Somalia, as well as in Somali refugee camps in neighbouring countries. Supporting Li Lan's actions, many refugee camps in the country. And so it did.
This storm of public opinion lasted for more than half a month. Just half a month later. Ethiopia has directly declared that it will materially support the Puntland regime and give it the ability to resist a military invasion.
At the same time, the US Central Command announced that it would conduct joint anti-piracy exercises with the fleet stationed in Kenya in the waters around the Gulf of Aden, and many countries such as France, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Australia, and Israel joined one after another.
However, immediately after that, the Chinese Gulf of Aden escort fleet. The Russian convoy also announced a joint anti-piracy exercise, and the navies of Iran and Pakistan announced that they would join it.
Public opinion, which seemed to have stopped, was aroused again after half a month, and the eyes of the entire shijie once again gathered in the Gulf of Aden. A total of nearly 100 ships from Shijie countries have joined, resulting in numerous pirate groups in Somalia. Didn't dare to come out for a long time.
In the midst of this paradox, Li Lan sat on the console every day, watching the world as if he were an outsider.
And Natasha on the side. It is very positive, and the relationship between each country is fully recorded.
These days. Li Lan didn't do nothing, in order to repay favors. Li Lan specially took out a large amount of grain and used various means. Sent to refugee camps in other parts of Somalia. It can be regarded as a little reward for Li Lan's support for them.
However, Li Lan is really a little uncomfortable with helping himself in the same way as polar bears. He had never intended to do anything to help the polar bear, and if it had been before, he would have accepted the polar bear's benefits and dismissed it. Now, Li Lan can also see that his strength is weak, and it is always a very good thing to be covered by multiple people.
In fact, Li Lan did not have a good impression of polar bears in his heart, and although he always insisted on being rational and patriotic, he was always very reluctant in his heart, as if he was for the Japanese.
When it comes to Russia, Li Lan's feelings are complicated.
Russia has greatly influenced the development of Chinese history to a certain extent in the course of China's modern history, but it has also caused damage to China, and only Japan can compare with it: it has become a territorial state of China, and China has lost millions of square kilometers of territory. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the former Soviet Union gave China a complete foundation for heavy industry, and China will not forget this. Throughout the history of China and Russia, I could not find much more for Russia than for its help in Chinese industry and in the modernization of China's military.
If we understand the modern history between China and Russia, we can find that Russia's strategy toward China has been quite successful: not only has it illegally stolen millions of square kilometers of territory from China, but Russia has only paid patience and means to steal these millions of square kilometers.
Since the establishment of the Yalta system, one of the reasons why Soviet Russia has been able to become a great power is that the Russians have played the Chinese card too well. Weishenme said that the Russians' strategy towards China was quite successful.
Throughout history, it can be said that Russia has inflicted no less harm on China than Japan, but there are only too many anti-Japanese sentiments in China, and there are not many anti-Russian sentiments.
The reason for this is that Japan has launched two large-scale wars of aggression against China, which have failed due to historical reasons. Will the Japanese weishenme fail? Japan's ambition to defeat is too great: The small Japan wants to swallow China and directly develop a war of aggression, and in addition it has a very small vision for its long-term strategic layout, it is no wonder that it does not support death in the midst of arrogance.
Russia's encroachment on China's territory has been the most successful: it has relied on patience and waiting, and has carried out a clever seizure of China while it is on fire.
From the Russians who crossed the Ural Mountains to expand eastward, to the border with China during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and from the First Battle of Yaksa to the signing of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu, the expansion of Tsarist Russia to China was suspended due to its weakness in Asia.
In the early 60s of the 19th century, the Manchu government was faced with internal and external troubles: the outbreak of the Second Opium War abroad and the Anglo-French alliance invaded Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace, and there was the Taiping Rebellion in China, and the Qing government transferred the Qing army guarding the Heilongjiang River valley to suppress the Taiping Rebellion in order to suppress the Taiping Rebellion.
At this time, the Russians, who had been plotting for two hundred years in the Outer Northeast, saw an opportunity. The Siberian governor Muravyov led his troops into the Heilongjiang River valley and threatened and lured the Manchus with war, and if they did not agree to Russia's demands, they would have a war, and if they agreed to cede territory to Russia, Tsarist Russia would act as a mediator between the Qing government and the Anglo-French forces. In the end, Tsarist Russia's long-planned wish was fulfilled as it wished: not only did it acquire more than 1 million yuan of Outer Northeast China, but also more than 500,000 square kilometers of territory in Central Asia, China, and Xinjiang.
At the end of the 19th century, the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War was defeated by Japan due to the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, and then there was a domestic uprising in China: the Boxer Rebellion. Tsarist Russia, which had a natural desire for territory, once again saw an opportunity. Tsar Nicholas II, who was later executed by the entire Bolshevik family in Russia, publicly declared at the Imperial Council that China and Russia should be demarcated by the Great Wall.
In order to annex Northeast China, the Russians specially formulated the "Yellow Russian Jihua" to further annex Northeast China, and the Russians saw the opportunity: under the pretext of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion, 100,000 Russian troops were stationed in Northeast China and emigrated. Later, the Boxer Rebellion in China failed, and the other seven countries of the Eight-Nation Coalition withdrew their troops, but the Russians did not withdraw their troops and tried in vain to occupy Northeast China permanently.
If it had not been for the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, which led to the defeat of the Russians and the bankruptcy of the "Yellow Russian Jihua". Otherwise, there is a risk that the Northeast will be further encroached upon by Russia today.
Some people may refute this view: I say that it is impossible for the Russians to permanently occupy Northeast China and that the Chinese will assimilate the Russians, and I say this to justify Japan's aggression against China.
I can tell you that the next step after the Russians completely occupied the Northeast was their usual method of occupying territory: the policy of clearing the people in the land, and you should not forget the bloody Qingdi people created by the Russians in order to permanently occupy the Outer Northeast: the "Jiangdong 64tun Incident" and the "Hailan Pao Massacre".
The 200,000 ethnic Koreans in the Russian Far East were artificially relocated en masse to the barren lands of Central Asia. 300,000 Chinese migrated to the vicinity of the Russian Arctic Circle, and today there are less than 30,000 of the 300,000 Chinese left. More than 600,000 Japanese prisoners of the Kwantung Army were all killed in the construction of the Bai-Argentine Railway in the former Soviet Union (this is the fulfillment of the old saying: evil is rewarded with evil).
The history of the Russian Far East is a history of suffering for the yellow race in Asia.
There is a famous saying in Poland: "If Germany invades Poland, then Poland loses territory." If it were Russia that invaded Poland, then Poland would have lost its soul".
For China, the invasion of the northern nomads means national integration, while the invasion of Russia faces the permanent loss of the territory of the Chinese nation.
Some people say that the Japanese are barbaric and inhumane, but in Li Lan's view, the Russians are even better than the Japanese: In order to permanently occupy the three Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), the Russians moved the populations of the three Baltic countries to Siberia and Central Asia on a large scale, and the three Baltic countries lost one-third of their population.
The 1929 genocide of Ukraine by Soviet Russia in a starvation massacre. For this, half of the entire population of Ukraine died. If you see such iron-hearted anti-Russian countries in the former Soviet Union today that were forcibly merged by Russia, you will know how deeply committed Russia's sins back then.
Let's take a look at Little Japan again! The policy of assimilation of nationalities after the Japanese occupation of Korea: learning Japanese and speaking Japanese, also in the puppet state of Manchuria. It can be seen that the Russians are more vicious than the Japanese, but the Russians are good at camouflage.
As Nixon mentioned the famous saying "with a profound connotation that transcends the West."
In China, there was a change of dynasty and foreign invasions: Japan's full-scale invasion of China and a scuffle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. The Russians saw another opportunity: to separate Outer Mongolia from China. In the period before the founding of New China, Russia paid the least price for every harm done to China, and as far as China was concerned, the loss of national interests was enormous.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the former Soviet Union faced the West led by the United States. The Russians, who had suffered so much damage in World War II, could not stand alone against the United States, and the Russians set their sights on Asia as a balancing agent, and Asia had the right candidate: China. Stalin acquiesced in Kim Il Sung's reunification of Korea across the 38th parallel and was deliberately absent from the UN Permanent Council when the United States intervened in Korea.
China eventually sent troops to Korea in accordance with the wishes of the Russians. The biggest beneficiary of the Korean War was Russia: the United States was weakened and influenced by the future U.S. strategy toward China. China, on the other hand, was blockaded by the entire West for more than twenty years, while Russia was given a chance to develop and breathe.
The end result of the Cold War was the collapse of the former Soviet Union. For this reason, the liliang of the Russians was greatly weakened compared to before. Since the United States began to intervene in global affairs in the 19th century, the United States has always regarded the Russians as natural enemies and wants to get rid of them, and the former Soviet Union collapsed, but the former imperial core: Russia, remains. It is the unchanging strategy of the United States to further suppress Russia and contain Russia's resurgence, and NATO, which the United States has surrendered to, has not only not been disbanded but has further strengthened. The United States has further changed Russia's Shili range, which is the former Soviet Union republics, into a non-Russian Shili range, with the aim of further suppressing Russia and containing Russia's resurgence. Russia's meagre population of 140 million is powerless to confront the US-led NATO. Once again, Russia thought of China, a tool that was often used. In order to keep the traditional Shili range of the five countries of Russia and Central Asia from being touched by the United States and Western Europe. The purpose of the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization" established by Russia and China is to confront the United States and hold Central Asia.
Russia's strategic goal is clear: to hold its Shili range in the former Soviet Union, and one day restore its national strength and reunify the former Soviet region and restore the glory of the Soviet Union. When Russia confronts the West, it often plays the China card, and China is just a tool for its use.
In 2008, the financial crisis broke out in the United States. The Russians thought that the current crisis would expose the true face of the United States: there was no need to use China to defend Central Asia, and they used all kinds of means to squeeze out China and want to make China withdraw from Central Asia. Although this incident did not succeed, Li Lan remembered it clearly.
Today, Russia's strategic policy toward China is obvious: to use China and guard against it. Everyone can see that the United States sells weapons to Taiwan to contain China, but we do not see that Russia sells more advanced weapons to India and Vietnam in order to contain China.
So, while Russia is in solidarity with itself. Li Lan inevitably maintained a fairly high level of vigilance.
An obvious example is the Gulf of Aden, where the Russian nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great, the flagship of the Northern Fleet, was in the Gulf of Aden. This sea hedgehog, which can carry nearly 500 missiles of various types, has been circling the Gulf of Aden a lot recently.
If Russia wants to get rid of Li Lan, it will really be a matter of minutes. But fortunately, it seems that China is standing together on the Somali issue as it has been in the past few years. At least. Li Lan now doesn't need to worry about the idea that Russia is fighting for his life.
However, he was not reassured by Russia, which during the Cold War the Soviet Union forcibly occupied Socotra and established a naval base. For the aggressiveness of polar bears. Li Lan did not dare to be careless. Therefore, unless it is very necessary, Li Lan really does not want to seek help from Russia.
But. It seems that now the favor seems to be owed. After all, Russia has openly stood on the side of China, and China and Russia are helping each other. There is no love to say, but Li Lan is different. To owe a favor is to owe.
In the future, if Russia proposes to garrison troops or something, Li Lan will really be a little difficult to deal with. And if Li Lan remembers correctly, he once sent a KGB agent to feed the lions. Those countries that denounced him had one thing in common, that is, their agents had disappeared into Li Lan's territory.
Of course, these are all things for the future, and being able to safely transition to advanced clearance now is the most important thing, and everything else will be discussed in the future.
Now, there is one more thing waiting for Li Lan, and that is the question of territory.
On the night of the day when China openly supported Li Lan, an unmanned reconnaissance plane hovered 8,000 meters above the base and lasted for six hours before withdrawing at dawn.
In the afternoon of the next day, the Chinese side used an encrypted satellite phone to inform Li Lan of the incident. The Chinese side wanted Li Lan to pay attention to the fact that the US military drone did not hide the Chinese Navy ship formation that was escorting ships in the Gulf of Aden, because the Chinese Navy ship formation was only a few dozen nautical miles away from Li Lan's position at this time. American UAVs simply cannot hide from China's shipborne radars.
China's kind reminder did not help Li Lan in the slightest, because that night, Li Lan was woken up by the alarm inside the base vehicle, which had already discovered the wine glass when the American drone entered the 40-kilometer warning circle.
At that time, Li Lan was very calm and did not notify others, only Natasha and him knew about it, and the eight anti-aircraft guns around the base also aimed at the drone at the first time. At an altitude of 6,000 meters, as long as Li Lan gives an order, this drone will be reimbursed.
At the same time, Li Lan can also use the powerful electromagnetic pulse interference generated by the base to turn the drone into a headless machine. The electromagnetic pulse capability of the base vehicle, covering 20 kilometers around the base vehicle, is released instantly, and can completely disable all electronic equipment in the range.
The base also took pictures of the drone at the same time, and Li Lan could see at a glance that the drone was a well-known predator. According to the deployment of the surrounding US air bases, the Predator should have come from Ethiopia or Saudi Arabia.
At that time, Li Lan also wanted to kill this predator very much, but reason made him not do so. Now he does not have the strength to fight against the United States, and he is over his own territory, and he is not willing to cause such trouble.
However, every day he has a pair of eyes on his head that can be seen closely, which also makes Li Lan very upset. These days, he had to have people build sheds to cover those extremely sensitive things.
Fortunately, American drones don't come every day, and there is no sign of wanting to come and not leave, and they are not big guys like the Global Hawk who don't have to land for dozens of hours. As long as the base sounded the alarm, Li Lan asked people to cover up those more sensitive things.
Especially for tanks, he specially built a large workshop dedicated to parking tanks. In normal times, a tank battalion that is not a secret is taken as training, and the other tanks produced are the first to hide.
There are currently eight anti-aircraft guns in the territory, all of which were recently built and belong to the anti-aircraft units of the former Red Alert building. It is also the only long-range air defense means that Li Lan has at present, because he has no way to produce anti-aircraft missiles.
The anti-aircraft weapons on the multifunctional infantry fighting vehicle are modules that can produce anti-aircraft missiles, but it has no missiles at its disposal, and the use of quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns and several double-mounted guns cannot hit high-altitude targets at all, and the firing range is at most about 3,000 meters.
In the face of predators at an altitude of 6,000 meters, only anti-aircraft artillery can pose a threat to them. And the United States does not know that Li Lan's territory has anti-aircraft artillery, because Li Lan has disguised all this. The U.S. troops always come at night, and each time they fly to about 6,000 meters, sometimes to a little more than 1,000 meters in order to take pictures.
After many forbearances, Li Lan is a little used to it, the speed of the predator is not fast, from the warning net it entered the base to the more central position of the territory, there are still sixty kilometers, this voyage, it takes the predator to fly for about ten minutes, and when it comes, the things that should be put away have already been put away.
Now, Li Lan is very much looking forward to the crack generator, with this guy, there will be no need to worry about spy satellites and drones such as the Predator. However, Li Lan also understood that he would not dare to use the crack generator given to him at this time. Because he can't protect this weapon.
It was the performance of the anti-aircraft gun that made him quite satisfied. Li Lan told the truth, in the past, he had always looked down on air defense artillery, and in this period of vigorous development of air defense missiles, air defense guns were outdated in the eyes of many people.
But don't look at it, now shijie countries, who is not equipped with anti-aircraft guns?
The Air Force was the latest of the six modern armed forces, and many countries did not have independent air forces until after the end of World War II. The mission of the Air Force is to use aircraft and other weapons systems flying in the air to project force, protect the full use of our airspace, suppress the interference of the other side of the operation in our airspace and use their own airspace, and support the other services in achieving tactical and strategic objectives.
Therefore, the air defense forces were the best weapon for air defense of the ground forces from the post-World War II to the seventies, but with the mid-seventies, countries continued to study the flight speed and stealth of aircraft, etc., advanced jishu. Since the Gulf War forced the continuous upgrading of the air defense forces, the Second Artillery Corps and the missile units to strike at high altitudes have appeared, but the defense of the air defense artillery has always been carried out at low and ultra-low altitudes. Not the slightest change has changed to this day. (Downstairs in the former rented house of Huali, there is an air defense regiment, and anti-aircraft artillery can be seen every day.) )
Even Li Lan before thought that anti-aircraft artillery was not of much use, but of course he has changed this concept now. Moreover, the anti-aircraft artillery is economical, although he has no way to produce missiles now, but Yujian, there is a guide in front of the thing, it is not cheap. (To be continued......)