Chapter 61: Heavy losses
Seeing that he was able to leave this water system powerhouse from China in this sea area, how could Phillips Robert be willing to be escaped by the other party, at this time, all he could do was to chase after him and bite the other party to the death.
He believed that as long as he could go back with the other party's body, the U.S. government would definitely not treat him badly, not to mention the reward of five million US dollars, at least two or three million US dollars.
However, when his head swam out of the edge of the submarine and was about to float up quickly, he suddenly saw a flower in front of his eyes and a pain in his neck, only to see that the Chinese Paranormal was attached to the wall of the submarine, staring at him coldly.
Blood quickly spilled from his neck, staining the surrounding water, and he felt the strength in his body running out quickly.
At this time, he really regretted it, regretted that he was too greedy, but it was useless for him to regret it at this time.
He grabbed the water splitter and looked at Duan Yongping with wide eyes, and suddenly a hideous look appeared on his face.
Seeing the hideous expression on Phillips Robert's face, Duan Yongping suddenly felt bad.
In his horrified eyes, he saw that the other party quickly took out a black plate-shaped bomb from the black bag on his waist, pressed the red button above it with his index finger, and quickly slammed it towards the water splitter.
Although Duan Yongping released the splitting spur in time and went upstream as fast as he could, under the explosion of a "boom", he was still affected and soon lost consciousness.
Belo Davide, the captain of the USS MacArthur nuclear-powered nuclear submarine, was listening to a report from his men in the captain's room when suddenly a strong siren sounded in the submarine, which startled him.
"What's going on?" He stood up and asked with a solemn expression.
At this moment, a submarine soldier wearing a navy uniform hurriedly rushed into the captain's room, and said with a panicked face before he even had time to salute: "Colonel Davide is not good, just now David in the aft compartment reported that there was an explosion, and now the aft compartment has begun to enter the water, the submarine is sinking, the submarine is sinking!" ”
Hearing this news, Belo Davide's face turned pale instantly, and he hurriedly ordered: "Quickly order the cockpit to start the submarine and surface urgently!" ”
However, when Phillips Robert and Duan Yongping died together, a large number of explosions were heard one after another in several ports of call around the "Mir".
The explosion first sounded at the mouth of berth No. 35 in the southwest direction, and when a motorboat returned to the berth, an explosion occurred inexplicably.
Before the supreme command center on the "Mir" could report it, explosions were heard one after another at the berth entrances of several other prescription positions.
The explosion blew up many berths of the "Mir" beyond recognition, and even many steel plate connecting keys were seriously twisted and broken, and it would be very difficult to repair them.
After the "Mir" high command center reported it, it immediately analyzed that these explosions were probably inseparable from the motorboats, and it was obvious that a new type of bomb was unknowingly adsorbed on these motorboats.
Therefore, the Supreme Command Center asked the officers and men stationed on the "Mir" to use the method of flags and asked all the outgoing motorboats to stay in the sea 50 meters away from the "Mir" to conduct self-search.
This investigation really scared the high-level officials of the Supreme Command Center into a cold sweat, the "Mir" itself actually has the means to deal with the frogmen, and there are many layers of special steel wire nets hanging at the bottom of the floating board of the "Mir", which can not only prevent the frogmen from approaching, but also be able to turn on electricity when necessary.
But it really responds to the old Chinese saying: the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high.
There is no perfect defense, just like this time when the bomb exploded through a slight collision between the motorboat and the berth, which was unexpected by everyone.
After a strict investigation, the news was quickly reported to the high-level of the command center, and looking at the report in his hand, Zhu Zhiqiang's face couldn't help but turn pale.
The loss this time was too great, especially the three berth wharves on the west side were almost blown up, twenty motorboats were blown up fifteen, one of the three berth wharves on the north side was blown up, and two were almost unrecognizable and needed to be overhauled, twenty motorboats destroyed twelve, only the three wharves in the southeast were in slightly better condition, only one wharf was slightly damaged, and only one motorboat was blown up, which was obviously related to Duan Yongping's timely signal.
At the same time, the culprits of the explosions were also found, which were new disc-shaped bombs, which were not usually detonated, only when the attached object produced an impact wave, and because of this, the motorboats were able to patrol unharmed, but inexplode inexplicably when they docked back to the berth.
What made Zhu Zhiqiang sad was not only the heavy damage caused by the explosion to the "Mir", but also the frogman warriors who died in the explosion, as well as Duan Yongping, a water system supernatural whose life and death are still unknown.
"One hundred and twenty-three comrades, one hundred and twenty-three comrades!" He said bitterly.
Hearing his words, the entire military personnel in the command center fell into a mood of sadness and anger.
Everyone lowered their heads, clenched their fists, gritted their teeth, and looked sad and indignant, if it weren't for the country's order not to be the first to open fire, I'm afraid that some people couldn't help but plan to fight with the people of the combined fleet.
This is not a kind of nest, but a kind of helpless forbearance, for the sake of the overall situation of the country, you can only sacrifice the ego, which everyone present understands.
It's not that they're ruthless, it's not that many of the frogmen warriors who died were their friends and brothers.
Don't they want to avenge them, of course not, it's just that sometimes the reality is always so cruel, they have more important things to protect, although they want revenge, but they don't want to drag the whole country into the quagmire of war, because there are their families, their friends.
"Chief, is this the end of this matter?" A young soldier asked with a red eye, slammed his fist on the command platform in front of him, and asked with an unwilling face.
Zhu Zhiqiang turned his head to look at the soldier, and said with a serious face: "Of course we can't just settle it like this, we have to record this account here." He pointed to his brain.
"And here." He pointed to his heart again.
"We have an even more important mission, and I know you're all angry right now, but impulsiveness only makes us passive!"
He knocked the podium and roared loudly, "And this is exactly what our enemies want to see, do you want them to be satisfied?" ”
The officers and soldiers in the command center were silent, and even the soldier who asked the question before lowered his head.
"Y'all give me heads!" Zhu Zhiqiang shouted angrily.
"A soldier should look like a soldier, how can you become a shrinking turtle after a little setback, are you a bad seed!"
"It's not!" The officers and men of the command center held their heads high and looked at each other angrily, and their voices were neat and loud.
"Very well, this is what we soldiers look like!" Zhu Zhiqiang nodded with satisfaction.
"Tell me, what are we going to do next?" He asked again.
"Regain your confidence and learn your lessons!" One of the officers said loudly.
Zhu Zhiqiang glanced at him coldly, and scolded angrily: "Don't talk nonsense to Lao Tzu!" ”
"If every time we were defeated, we shouted slogans like you, and our country would have perished a long time ago!" He said angrily.
The officer's face turned red, his head lowered involuntarily, and his eyes were full of grievances.
"Damn, raise your head for Lao Tzu, none of Lao Tzu's soldiers are bad seeds, if you want to be a bad seed, you can get rid of Lao Tzu!" Zhu Zhiqiang shouted angrily.
The officer was stunned, but eventually regained his head, but looked very depressed.
"What's your name?" Zhu Zhiqiang asked coldly.
"Lu Guoqiang!" The young officer said loudly.
"How long has it been since you graduated?" Zhu Zhiqiang asked again.
"I haven't graduated yet, and I'm still in my internship!" Lu Guoqiang said loudly.
Hearing his answer, the expression on Zhu Zhiqiang's face softened slightly, he nodded and said: "Xiao Lu, although you have not really become a non-commissioned officer or a staff officer yet, you must remember that you are a soldier, the school can only let you learn theory, but the army can sharpen your spirit, only a tenacious spirit can support a tenacious nation, I hope you can remember my words!" ”
"Yes, Chief!" Lu Guoqiang saluted from the bottom of his heart.
Zhu Zhiqiang nodded, then looked at the officers in the command center again, and said in a solemn tone: "This time we suffered a loss, but just like Xiao Lu shouted a slogan, we have to learn a lesson, of course, in addition to shouting slogans, we should also do practical things, just keep the slogan in mind, there is no need to say it, now I issue an order, one group will contact the South China Sea Command to report the situation here in detail, and do not hide anything, and ask for helicopter support, the second group will send people to search the nearby sea area as soon as possible, and carry out search and rescue operations, Three sets of ······"
After reading out the order, Zhu Zhiqiang's expression instantly fell, he took off the hat on his head, knowing that his career would end here, and I was afraid that it would not be long before someone would come to replace him and garrison this "Mir" that carried the fate of the country.
He is not obsessed with power, this is a high-risk place, and to be honest, power has no meaning and cannot bring him any substantial enjoyment.
What he is disappointed about is that he has failed to live up to the expectations of the country, failed to complete the important task entrusted to him by the country, and caused such a heavy loss to the country, which is a kind of mental torture.
Originally, he was worried that the Combined Fleet would attack at this time, and he was even mentally prepared to live and die with the "Mir".
It's just that when the news of the retreat of the Combined Fleet came back from the front line, he was still a little incredulous, could it be that the matter ended like this?
It wasn't until the USS MacArthur accidentally sank on his way back to Japan for renovations that he knew why the Combined Fleet had somehow retreated, but by then he had already completed the handover procedures with the new garrison officer.
The news of the explosion of the "Mir" soon reached Beijing and reached the ears of the president and the prime minister.
Hearing this shocking news, the faces of the chairman and the prime minister were very ugly.
Subsequently, diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held an emergency press conference to strongly condemn such provocative acts by the United States, Japan and other countries.