Modern warfare is fought with comprehensive national strength.

For example, a take-off and landing of a fighter plane in the Air Force will cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and the cheapest missile will cost tens of thousands of dollars.

However, after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq lost tens of billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves, but owed $80 billion in foreign debts, of which more than 40 billion yuan were arms debts owed to Western countries and the Soviet Union, and more than 30 billion yuan were loans owed to other Arab countries. During the war, Iraq suffered 300,000 dead and 600,000 wounded, and the direct losses such as military spending, war damage and economic losses were $350 billion.

The Iran-Iraq war dragged Iraq down, otherwise, the shrewd Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait and wanted to write off the more than $10 billion debt owed to Kuwait.

Now, just a year after the start of the war, Saddam Hussein sensed that the treasury was somewhat strained.

Hearing Qusai say that he had an idea, Saddam Hussein came to his senses: "Qusay, tell me, what are your good ideas?" ”

This time, Saddam Hussein did not organize a large-scale celebration party, but directly summoned Zhang Feng to his office without anyone else around; in fact, this is also a gesture, which shows that Zhang Feng has enough ability to enter his decision-making center and be able to give him all kinds of opinions and ideas.

Zhang Feng knew that he had to put forward his own ideas to the president, and Abadan was such a big cake, and he couldn't let Uday swallow it alone.

"Father, the reason why I put so much effort to lure out the defenders in the city of Abadan is not only to avoid the cruel casualties of the siege battle, but also to receive Abadan completely." Zhang Feng said.

The important town of Khorramshahr was taken, but this big city has been beaten to ruins, and in the repeated battles, every house is riddled with bullets.

"Abadan has the largest oil refining equipment in Iran, and before I came, I had specially inspected the oil refinery, and those oil refining equipment can be put back into use." Zhang Feng said.

Saddam's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he also saw that there were huge interests in this.

The Abadan refinery, however, is a large refinery with a capacity of 30 million tons of crude oil, accounting for 60 percent of Iran's overall refining capacity.

It's a cornucopia of gold!

Due to the war, the price of crude oil in the world has risen from $14 per barrel to $35 per barrel, and the price of refined oil will increase by at least four times, excluding costs, the profit of each barrel of refined oil will be at least $100, then, this refinery can bring 20 billion US dollars a year! (about 7 barrels of oil per ton)

Of course, in the ideal case, oil maintained a high oil price of $35 for only a few years, falling back to the low level of $18 per barrel again.

Are you still afraid that you won't have money to fight? The Abadan Oil Refinery is a banknote printing plant!

"However, our oil fields in the south do not produce much, and most of them can be refined by the Basra refinery, and if they are transported from the oil fields in the north, they are too complicated and vulnerable to attack." Saddam said.

Almost all of the oil fields in the north are transported around the world by oil pipelines that pass through Turkey.

"We don't, but Kuwait does!" Zhang Feng said his idea.

Kuwait, full name of the State of Kuwait, is a monarchy located in the northeastern part of the Arabian Peninsula and the northwestern part of the Persian Gulf in Southwest Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north. Kuwait City, the country's capital, bears the same name as the country's name. Kuwait is rich in oil and natural gas resources. There are 94 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, about 10% of the world's total reserves

In the Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait was the country that stood firmly behind Iraq.

Moreover, Kuwait is very close to Abadan at the southern end, and there are so many oil resources, anyway, crude oil is also exported, and refined oil is also exported, which can also increase profits, and both parties must obtain certain benefits from buying and selling.

However, the cunning President Saddam, who should be politically experienced, immediately pointed out the problem pointedly: "Kuwait has been supporting our war against Iran, and has promised to provide us with war loans, but he will definitely not participate in our fighting." ”

"I didn't say that he would be involved in the fight, just to supply crude oil to our refineries." Zhang Feng said.

"But this refinery, in Abadan, you should be able to imagine what that means, right?" Saddam said.

Zhang Feng suddenly thought that Zhang Feng was very rich in military ability, but he still didn't have a keen intuition in politics.

Abadan, who is Iranian, was brought down by himself, and he already takes it for granted that Abadan is his own, and the oil refinery is his own, and he can use it at will.

However, Iran does not see it that way, and some other countries do not think so, and they will say that they are invading.

Kuwait, as a neutral country, would certainly not have blatantly sailed its own oil tankers over in disputed Abadan to unload crude oil and load refined oil.

In this way, Khomeini, who is embarrassed and angry, is afraid that he will continue to declare war on Kuwait.

Although Kuwait is rich, its military strength is not very strong, so Kuwait will certainly not be so rash, in addition to economic interests, there are also political considerations.

I'm still a little tender!

However, looking at Saddam's expression, it seems that he has a full grasp?

"Don't be discouraged, little Kusay, you're still young and don't have enough experience." Saddam Hussein said: "I am already very proud of you when you think of this, and as you grow older, you will definitely become our Babylonian Condor." ”

"Father, do you already have a solution?" Zhang Feng asked.

Saddam Hussein nodded: "We do it blatantly, it will definitely not work, but the profit in this is very large, I think, the emir will definitely be tempted, as long as we do everything for him, so that this action is seamless, it will be fine." ”

"Father, what are we going to do?" Zhang Feng asked.

"With oil pipelines." Saddam said: "We use pipelines to transport Kuwaiti oil to Basra, and then ship it across the Shatt al-Arab River to the Abadan refinery. The refined oil, we will send it back, and that's all right. ”

"But to build an oil pipeline, it takes a long time." Zhang Feng said.

"We have ready-made ones."

"Ready-made?" Zhang Feng was puzzled.

"We have two abandoned water pipelines that can be converted to transport crude oil and refined products." Saddam said.

I see!

Although Kuwait is rich in oil resources, it is extremely scarce in fresh water resources, most of which is imported from Iraq, and a small part is desalination by seawater.

Between Iraq and Kuwait, a number of water pipelines have been established to transport oil as long as they are modified.

And at the same time as these pipelines are refitted, it will be possible to repair the Abadan is oil refining equipment, and in a few months, it will be operational.

Saddam Hussein looked at Zhang Feng with a smile, Zhang Feng knew that this strategy was completely feasible, and the ginger was still old and spicy.

"Since you came up with the plan, then you should go to Kuwait and talk about it." Saddam said.

"Yes, father." Zhang Feng replied excitedly, his father let him take over, then he could continue to make a request: "Father, this matter must be carried out in secret, so the fewer people involved, the better, and it will not affect our domestic oil production at all, you see..."

"Well, I'll talk to Sharabi about this, so I don't have to interfere with him." Saddam said.

Okay, finally get rid of the oil minister, this matter has nothing to do with him, just let him blush himself!

"Father, one last thing, although Abadan is in our hands, it is still under the noses of the Iranians, so we must strengthen our defense, especially in the air, even if an Iranian plane drops a bomb on us, even if an Iranian guerrilla rocket throws us, it will bring us a lot of trouble." Zhang Feng said: "So, I want to ask you for instructions, let my troops be completely responsible for everything in the refinery, and no one is allowed to interfere, and I want you to transfer the Mirage F1 fighter to combat readiness duty to protect Abadan's airspace." ”

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