Chapter 497: The Red Empress
The threat of the Najd people almost crooked Eisenhower's nose, and he realized at this time that he had been unable to ride a tiger, and the increased troops continued to fight with Yang Feng in the desert of Najd, but the people in China did not agree, after all, for the people of the United States, that distant country was too far away. In addition to oil, there is no other thing that can be associated with the United States, and the extremely cheap oil and the domestic output of more than 300 million tons make the people of the United States have a very vague concept of the value of this thing, and it is so vague that it is difficult to connect it with life, let alone thousands of lives.
United States is the world's largest producer of crude oil, from the last century to the present, the oil production of United States has been far ahead of other countries, the United States has countless large oil fields, why do you want to make those young rice soldiers shed blood for less than 40 million tons of imports per year, to say that Alaska, East Texas, Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico Those giant oil fields casually increase the production capacity of this number of points.
Not to mention Mexico, Canada, Venezuela......
The United States is not only a major importer of crude oil.
And the opponent is so speechless.
If it is said that it is okay to fight head-on with the Soviets for the camp issue, the common people can still understand it to some extent, but Nima, Daming is the mainstay of the free world, is it good that Daming is the closest ally of the United States in Asia, is it good that the Ming Dynasty is the largest trading partner of the United States, is it good that tens of millions of practitioners in the agriculture, animal husbandry, tobacco and alcohol industries in the United States rely on the gluttony of less than 50 million, and whether it is good that the enterprises under Yang Yuantou himself still support hundreds of thousands of workers in the United States, this famous scientist, writer, poet...... In short, the guy with countless titles has always been the number one idol in the minds of girls in the United States, right......
Of course, the most important thing is. This is currently the only country in the world that really has the ability to nuclear square meters, plus the latest two, there are already four Xia-class nuclear submarines in the vast Pacific Ocean, carrying 64 missiles with a range that can cover all cities in the United States, and each equipped with a giant wave missile with a yield of two million tons of Qing bombs, which can wipe 64 large cities of the United States from the earth in an instant!
For a couple of oil wells and such an enemy to fight?
Did Ike get kicked in the head by a donkey?
However, Ike was really helpless. If he does not increase his troops to protect Najd, then the United States will be completely expelled from the Arabian Peninsula, which is not a simple matter of interests, but a problem related to the global strategic layout of the United States, the problem of the global hegemony of the United States, and the problem of containing the development of the Ming Dynasty.
What will Najd do when he recovers the oil fields?
He thought with his heels that these guys would resell these oil fields to Yang Feng in exchange for protection, and the people of Najd were not stupid, Yang Feng engaged them because of their oil fields. As long as the share of Chevron is transferred to Imperial Oil, Yang Feng will not hesitate to open his arms and embrace Najon into his arms.
The world is so simple.
Under pressure from the Najd people and Chevron, Eisenhower finally made the decision to send more troops to Najd, transferring the first part of the original garrison in Taiwan and the first part of the 24th Infantry Division stationed in the Japanese Kingdom to form a brigade-level task force to rush to Najd for reinforcements as quickly as possible. But they have to go by warship, and they are now the main force of strategic transport aircraft. It's still the old World War II planes, like the C54. C69, C97 and so on, but either way, it is impossible to fly from the bases in Annam or Luzon to Najd with heavily armed soldiers, and no country dares to provide them with landing and supply services on the way.
Even Tianzhu didn't dare.
Over the years, although the United States has been constantly wooing Nehru, trying to get him back to the road of fighting against the Ming Dynasty. But it is a pity that the latter has not yet shaken off the shadow of the fiasco of the two wars, after all, this lesson is too unforgettable. Moreover, the domestic situation in Tianzhu is chaotic, the last war allowed the Social Workers Party to become bigger, and after the war, there have been various conflicts, not to mention Mumbai and Assam of the Ming army. Chittagong is surrounded by a base, Nehru is not a fool, and the United States can't even protect Najd, let alone him, he is still unlucky to turn around when he uses Ike as a gun, so he still doesn't dare to do this kind of provocation of Yang Feng.
In this way, the only option that the United States can choose is sea freight.
In addition to this support force, an armored brigade drawn from the European garrison was also transported to Najd by sea, which caused strong protests from European allies, and de Gaulle even openly satirized Eisenhower's inexplicable move, and if His Excellency the President of the United States could spread his interest in the Middle East by one-third, it is estimated that the Batista regime would not be overthrown. Aiden, who is still firmly seated in the position of prime minister, has clearly rejected the request of the US military to use British military bases in Africa to airlift soldiers and supplies to Najd.
In fact, Britain and France are now stealing fun, over the years, the people of the United States and the Soviet Union have a red face and a white face, and they are talking about incompatibility, but they are all tacitly slowly squeezing out the forces of Britain and France, until the Suez Canal War completely tore through the camouflage, and the naked and embarrassed betrayed to reveal their true faces. But they were forced to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so they could only hold back their anger and endure it, and now Yang Feng's shit-stirring stick as thick as a beam of the house was inserted into the Middle East for a stirring and stirring, completely stirring the layout of the rice country into a pot of porridge, of course they would be happy, if Yang Feng won this battle and completely expelled the forces of the rice country from the Middle East, they would definitely cheer.
In response to the increase in troops in the United States, reinforcements composed of an armored brigade and a mechanized infantry brigade also quietly arrived at the port of Jeddah, and then casually changed the flag to become the Hejaz Army, which is nearly 300 main battle tanks and the same number of lynx heavy infantry fighting vehicles.
More importantly, the Hejaz Army, which had been relying on anti-aircraft missiles to protect its own sky, finally obtained its own air force this time, and the President of the Sunda Republic, Hada, in order to support the battle for the restoration of the Holy Descendants, gave two entire brigades of Tiger Shark fighters to the Hejaz in disregard of the neutrality law, and also attached a pirate attack aircraft group, and the Hejaz Kingdom quickly formed an air force with both attack and defense, completely breaking the situation that the American Empire dominated the Hejaz sky.
Also in support of the holy descendants, more Persian Shia warriors and Palestinian refugees who have nothing to do with their lives have also flocked to Mecca to make a reverent Hajj, and then carry bomb vests or AK47 rifles made in the Ming Dynasty. Rush to the battlefield against the righteous and their lackeys of the American Empire.
The war in Najd intensified.
And at this time, another trouble for the people of the United States began.
Haneda Airport, Tokyo.
"Your Excellency, welcome."
Japanese Prime Minister Isato Ikeda said to visiting Secretary of State Dulles with a smile on his face.
Since the Tokyo Incident, because of his obedience and honesty, he has always served as the prime minister of the Japanese country with the support of the United States. In fact, at this time, there was no one to make a move, and the prime minister in the original period was either assassinated, such as Shigeru Yoshida, or died in the attack of the Social Workers, such as Hatoyama and Kishi Nobusuke, and Ishibashi Zhanshan, and he was the only one who could take on the responsibility of prime minister.
And Eisenhower also liked his well-behaved and obedient style.
Dulles, who was supposed to resign from his job a month later due to illness and soon die, also smiled and greeted him, and the secretary of state came to encourage the country to take on more responsibilities. For example, two or three more divisions would be deployed in Hokkaido, so that Eisenhower could draw the 24th Division to reinforce the Middle East. Anyway, Ike's life is also difficult at this time, and the Congress that wants to expand the army will not agree, and if the army is not expanded, it will not be able to cope with the situation, because the situation in Annan has deteriorated, and Ike has just had to send an additional infantry division there.
In this case, Ike can only temporarily let go of the Wa Kingdom, anyway, the Wa State has a population. It's not a big deal to make a few more divisions.
As for funding......
Well, we'll talk about that. Talk again!
Well, the funding didn't either.
Ike's financial deficits are all to the point of horror, four nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, a dozen large and small nuclear submarines, nuclear-powered cruiser destroyers, Typhon systems. Mach 3 bombers, all kinds of strategic and tactical missiles, and the Space Race with the Soviets and Star Wars with Yang Feng, the growth rate of the US economy last year was only 0.5 percent. There are still a bunch of allies waiting for assistance, how can there be more money to aid the Japanese countries?
The supply of weapons and ammunition is open, and the banknotes are definitely gone, as the so-called national difficulty is to show loyalty, and now is the time for the Japanese to show loyalty.
After the two of them performed their love affair at the airport, and then under a round of enthusiastic applause and countless flashing lights, Dulles began to make speeches about the brotherly friendship between the United States and Japan, and the speech of the United States government that has no doubt about the bright future of the Japanese country, in short, some indispensable things for this kind of occasion. Although Lu Zi suffered a crushing defeat in Hokkaido yesterday and almost allowed the Japanese People's Liberation Army to enter Sapporo, fortunately, it is far away after all, and the people of Honshu Island are still living an increasingly quiet and peaceful life......
It's the poor point.
But there are no other shortcomings.
As for poverty, there is no way to do this, after all, a few years ago, the Japanese industry was basically blown up, and finally peaceful and wanted to develop, but the world was full of Ming industrial products, and even the people of the United States were beaten and retreated, so those handicraft workshops and small enterprises in the Japanese country could resist the flood beasts of the Ming Dynasty?
What's more, there is also the impact of industrial products in the United States.
The merchants of the rice country are at a disadvantage in the competition with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty in other countries, but in the self-reserved land like the Wa Kingdom, they are still very energetic, and under the attack of such two fierce beasts, if the national industry of the Wa Kingdom can still develop rapidly, it will really be against the sky.
After finishing his speech, Dulles walked to the waiting car with a warm smile like a spring breeze, and at the same time, those reporters who had been impatient for a long time immediately rushed forward, holding all kinds of equipment and began to ask him all kinds of questions, and even enthusiastic Japanese people came to offer him flowers. Although the bodyguard next to him stopped this reckless behavior in time, it still made Dulles feel that it was still the most reassuring thing in the country, although they had mistakes, they were still good comrades who knew that they could change their mistakes.
"Will, you are so rude, how can you refuse a gift from such a lovely little girl!"
Dulles said with a smile to one of the bodyguards.
The latter was trying to stop a little girl who had squeezed forward to present flowers to Grandpa Dulles, this girl was about thirteen or fourteen years old, well-behaved and cute, wearing a student uniform, a small short skirt and white stockings, a sailor suit as pure as water, holding a large bouquet of flowers in her arms, her face was red in the crowd, she was squeezing into the crowd, and she was looking at the bodyguard who was blocking her with tears of sadness and a weeping expression, and Dulles who was smiling and waving to her behind the bodyguard.
The bodyguard smiled knowingly and took a step back.
With a hint of surprise, in the kind laughter around her, the little blushing and holding the flowers walked towards Dulles, Dulles also smiled and stretched out his hand at the same time, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed that there was a little more weirdness in the girl's smile. Dulles, who was also a cunning man, instinctively felt a little strange, his brows furrowed, and before he could react next, he saw the girl's hand suddenly reach into the bouquet of flowers, and the next moment she had a small PPK pistol in her hand, and then pulled the trigger.
Suddenly the sound of gunfire rang out amid laughter.
There was a dead silence at the airport, everyone looked in disbelief at the direction in which the gunshots rang out, and even the well-trained bodyguards looked blankly at the bouquet of flowers, at the smiling girl, at the pistol in her hand that was close to the flowers.
At this moment, the girl pulled the trigger for the second time, and the second bullet was as accurate as the first, and then the third, and then the fourth......
The girl, who was only chest-high as Dulles, kept smiling and pulling the trigger as fast as she could, and Dulles, with a look of astonishment, shook by the impact of the bullet, and in the blink of an eye, His Excellency the Secretary of State was hit in the chest by five bullets fired less than half a meter away.
At the moment when he finally fell to the ground, the girl casually threw flowers and pistols into the crowd next to him at the same time, and the explosion suddenly sounded, and a puff of yellow-green smoke immediately spread through the crowd.
"Lv Qi!"
A reporter subconsciously screamed.
The crowd exploded all at once, and the bodyguards and the Japanese police, who had just come to their senses and were rushing towards the girl, were rushed by the crowd and paused slightly, and almost at the same time, four young people suddenly rushed out of a stopped car two hundred meters away, one of them had a grenade in his hand, and frantically fired four zero grenades at all the crowded places in front of them, and the explosion pushed the chaos of the entire airport to the peak.
Fortunately, a group of U.S. troops who also came to maintain order reacted quickly, and quickly raised their guns to shoot at these four people, but it was obvious that these four people had already put life and death on the line, and they were still firing grenades in the bullets of the U.S. military, and at the moment when the last person fell, he struggled to press a controller in his hand, and a huge ball of fire exploded beside him, and then the flames rose into the sky, and the impact of the explosion and the fragments of the car swept everything around.
By this time, the girl had disappeared. (To be continued.) )
PS: It's going to take a few days to get back to normal, sorry