Chapter 231: The Shattering of a Myth
I can't pretend to be forced, but I pretend to be stupid B.
The above sentence is the truest portrayal of Uncle Sam's family's anticlimactic military exercise.
Originally, this military exercise was given too many expectations by Commander Trump and others: the plan was to show off his muscles to deter the increasingly powerful Huaguo, as well as Maozi, who has always been in opposition.
Even, let the island country and the stick, the two most important little brothers in Asia, know that he, the big guy, is still young.
Even solving Zhang Dixian, in their opinion, is just a matter of completing it by the way.
Sadly, when the old T34 antique tank, which was produced 80 years ago, roared on the deck and began to charge, all this was in vain.
Poor Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Theater of Operations, Admiral Cecil was still soaking in the water.
A joint order from the Black House and the Hexagonal Department of Defense has already taken all his positions to the end.
When the admiral was rescued by the soldiers in a rubber boat, and then boarded the dilapidated and unruly USS Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
The people who were waiting for him were not the naval officers who lined up to welcome him aboard.
Rather, it was a squad of gendarmes dressed in smoky uniforms, with contempt and ridicule in their eyes, and when they saw this group of gendarmes, the poor admiral collapsed to the ground like mud.
It was also in that joint order that Vice Admiral Curt, the deputy commander of the Pacific Theater of Operations, took over the mess.
Vice Admiral Curt, who had a terrible pain in his head, used a helicopter to mobilize a large number of men from other warships, who needed to extinguish the fire that had spread and rescue the wounded.
It is also necessary to count and sort out how much damage this temporary flagship of the Seventh Fleet has suffered.
At the same time, a large number of anti-submarine aircraft, frogman troops, and all underwater submarines joined the underwater search, putting on a posture of pulling Zhang Dixian out no matter what.
The problem is that anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is just Uncle Sam's house.
In fact, Lieutenant General Curt never expected that such a search would find traces of Zhang Dixian; all this was just a show, so that he could explain himself to those old men in China.
Four and a half hours later, Lieutenant General Curt halted the doomed search.
At the same time, it was announced that the military exercise, which did not even carry out a single scheduled project, officially ended here.
The reason why it was stopped at this time was because two high-powered tugboats that had been urgently mobilized from the Naha Naval Base had just arrived in this area.
In the battle just now, the nuclear reactor that powered the aircraft carrier did not come under any direct attack.
However, the aftermath of the successive explosions, as well as the subsequent fires, caused a lot of problems for the nuclear reactor, and if it did not want to trigger the nuclear reactor and force it to explode during operation.
The only way to deal with this is to shut down the reactor completely.
Then, the tugboat was used to pull the huge aircraft carrier back to the Naha Military Port first......
Almost along with the news of the damage to the nuclear reactor, there was also countless bad news that gave Lieutenant General Curt a headache.
The flight deck on the aircraft carrier was badly damaged and lost all the ability to taxi to take off and land before it was repaired.
As for the hangars below deck, they were the hardest hit.
In short, after the final statistics, the various aircraft stored on the deck and in the hangar were shocking in terms of losses:
Among them are three EA-6 Prowler electronic warfare aircraft, one E-2C Hawkeye AWACS aircraft, two 5S-3B Corsair anti-submarine aircraft, forty-one F18E Super Hornet fighters.
These good things, which are difficult to buy even if other countries have money and are difficult to buy, have all been scrapped in a series of explosions.
However, there are still more than two dozen fighters that have fallen into the sea and have only been affected by the afterblasts, and there is a little possibility that they can be rescued.
The problem is that the price spent on repairing these seriously damaged fighters is about to catch up with the factory price.
Add to that the thousands of casualties, the severely deformed structure of the ship's cabin, and when poor Lieutenant General Curt saw this, he almost fainted in front of his eyes.
He knew that even if Uncle Sam's weapon was not sunk, the result was not much better.
However, he still gave the order to stop the exercise and return to the Naha Naval Port in battle formation.
Mainly on the basis of reports from the clean-up crews, who found an abandoned Bazooka rocket launcher on the floor of the ammunition depot less than 10 metres apart.
The Bazooka has loaded ammunition and is in a state where it can be activated at all times.
This alone illustrates a problem, Zhang Dixian's guy finally stayed.
All he had to do was pick it up and shoot it at the door of the ammunition depot, and the USS George Washington would be the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be sunk in human history.
All of them will be spared, and in a sad way, they will be remembered in history.
Of course, Vice Admiral Curt, who had made up so much content in his brain in an instant, if he had known about Zhang Dixian, he would have been stunned by the labyrinthine interior of the aircraft carrier at that time.
I didn't know that ten meters away from me, there was an ammunition depot.
And the bazooka that was analyzed as being thrown on his own initiative was just because of the violent bumps, the hand did not grasp it for a while, and it accidentally fell off.
How complicated should there be in my heart, and how I can't laugh or cry......
After reading the loss report hastily, the bitter lieutenant general signed his name on the report and prepared for his combat staff to send it back to the Hexagonal Office in China.
It was only when he handed the document to the staff officer that Lieutenant General Curt attached a comment of his own at the end of the document:
Let's find a way to make peace with Zhang Dixian! This is an asymmetrical war, and no matter how powerful a giant is, he can't use his fists to kill the little worm that burrows into his stomach.
So let's end this damn war before we suffer even greater losses!
Not to mention the fact that this report of damage, with the opinion of the front-line commander, immediately caused an uproar at Uncle Sam's house after it was sent back to the Hexagon.
No one could have imagined that the tragic journey of the USS Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was just the beginning.
It took nearly eight hours for it to appear outside the Naha Naval Port under the escort of the Grand Fleet.
It was here that the huge fleet was forcibly blocked by hundreds of small fishing boats of the island nation, and the local fishermen of the island country did not know where to learn about the rumor that the reactor on the aircraft carrier had begun to leak.
So in order to keep their homes from being polluted, these fishermen will never allow the broken aircraft carrier to enter the port.
And when Uncle Sam's warships were about to forcibly drive them away, there was already an endless stream of more fishing boats, and even several destroyers from the island nation were in front of the harbor.
At this moment, Lieutenant General Curt closed his eyes in pain.
Because he knew that the most fearful thing for the domestic top brass had happened: Uncle Sam's family was able to run rampant all over the world, and the myth of invincibility in the decades-long war was shattered.
What will be followed will be a chain of bad news......