Chapter 72: See Saddam

Winter goes to spring, and in the blink of an eye, summer is coming, and the hot weather is once again swaying the northern hemisphere, Luo Tiancheng looked at the white clouds floating outside the plane window, he can only do this step now, I don't know if my little butterfly can affect the world pattern.

The situation in the Middle East had reached a time of tension, with talks between Iraq and Kuwait at an impasse, and Iraq owed a number of Arab countries, including $14 billion to Kuwait. Iraq wants the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce oil production, raise oil prices, and pay off its debts when it makes a profit. However, Kuwait increased its production and caused a drop in oil prices, hoping to force Iraq to settle their border dispute.

Iraq accuses Kuwait of taking advantage of the Iran-Iraq war to establish military bases in Iraq. Iraq stated that it had contributed to the Iran-Iraq war as a buffer between the other Arab countries and Iran, and that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia should therefore forgive Iraq's war loans.

Luo Tiancheng can now see attacks on Iraq every day from US newspapers, and it can be seen that the news and public opinion in the United States and Europe have fallen to the opposite side of Iraq. Although he was not in Iraq, Luo Tiancheng secretly sent a cyborg to set up a mercenary army in the Middle East war zone in 87, and it has been a full 3 years.

The Gulf region is extremely rich in oil and gas resources. As of January 1990, the proven oil reserves in the Gulf region were about 651.7 billion barrels, accounting for 65% of the world's proven oil reserves (about 1,001.5 billion barrels), and natural gas was about 24 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 13.7% of the world's total natural gas resources.

Oil production is about 14.5 million barrels per day, accounting for about 23% of the world's daily oil production (63.6 million barrels); About 12 million barrels of oil are exported per day, accounting for about 43% of the world's daily oil exports (28 million barrels). The five largest oil producers in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and the United Arab Emirates) are all in the Gulf region. Of the world's 20 largest oil fields, 11 are in the Gulf region.

The oil produced in the Gulf region is mainly for export. A considerable part of the oil imported by the United States, Western Europe, and Japan comes from the Gulf region. According to U.S. Energy Intelligence statistics, in the first quarter of 1990, the U.S. net daily oil imports were 7.661 million barrels, of which 2.064 million barrels came from the Gulf region, accounting for 26.9%; Western Europe imported 8.235 million barrels of oil per day, of which 4.276 million barrels were imported from the Gulf region, accounting for about 51.9%; Japan imported 5.48 million barrels of oil per day, of which 3.54 million barrels were imported from the Gulf region, accounting for about 64.6%.

Kuwait is one of the few rich countries in the world and has always been known as the "Pearl of the Gulf". It has more than $100 billion in assets abroad and tens of billions of dollars in stakes in key Western industries. If these assets were to be siphoned off by Iraq, it would cause huge losses to the Western economy.

"Juggernaut!" Luo Tiancheng has already consciously descended into a cyborg at this time, and there are a total of 24 cyborgs in the Middle East at this time, and the surrounding cyborgs perceive the arrival of the dominant consciousness, and they all bow and worship, as if looking at the cyborgs who believe in the gods and look at the cyborgs who Luo Tiancheng's consciousness has descended.

"Get up!" Luo Tiancheng said lightly, until the others got up, and said, "Luo Xingyue, report on the strength and situation you have now!" ”

Luo Xingyue, who looks like an authentic Arab, after hearing the Juggernaut's question, said respectfully: "Juggernaut, we now have 1296 troops, all of which are under our absolute control, and some of the equipment is purchased from secret channels through American companies, and the follow-up equipment can already be produced in the secret base, following the meaning of the Juggernaut, we have developed a satellite radar jammer in the secret base, which can prevent the shooting of artificial satellites in the air, causing blurred shooting, and it is impossible to judge accurately." ”

Terrestrial satellite signal jammers can be divided into digital television image signal interference and carrier (or narrowband) signal interference from the means of interference. The former is the use of illegal image interference, that is, the use of the same digital form as the normal broadcast signal, so that the normal image appears mosaic or black screen.

The interference is mainly based on power occupation, that is, high-power and same-frequency signals are transmitted in the same direction, and the power is occupied by the satellite receiving channel within a certain frequency range, so that the field strength of the interference signal is much greater than that of the normal satellite reaching the ground, so as to achieve the purpose of jamming and suppressing the satellite signal reception.

The latter is divided into co-channel interference and non-co-channel interference; For co-channel interference, the interference signal can cause serious mosaic or pause in the image, and a black screen will appear when the interference is serious.

For non-co-channel interference, due to the frequency selection of the satellite receiver, the interference level is allowed to be greater than the signal level, but if the interference level is large enough to make the high-frequency head enter the saturated state, the TV screen will appear black at this time.

However, satellite signal jammers are limited by distance and azimuth, because the propagation loss of the transmitted interference microwave is related to the operating frequency and propagation distance, so under the condition of free space propagation, the farther the distance, the worse the interference ability.

For 3.7GHz~4.2GHz satellite signal interference, the transmission distance of the system is generally not more than 3km.

"Radar jammers can prevent the shooting of the fifth-generation Keyhole-11 photographic reconnaissance satellite of the United States, and the secret base has recently mainly produced surface-to-air missiles, and the base has stored nearly 1,000 missiles that can be accurately guided, and some anti-aircraft missiles have reached their intended destinations and are hidden. And hide the supply of weapons, ammunition and food in the predetermined place! ”

The main R&D personnel of the secret military base are the R&D military biochemical personnel specially incubated by Luo Tiancheng, mainly 3 military R&D biochemical people, who have a lot of weapons and equipment in their brains, such as the manufacturing knowledge of missiles, although they are different from the missiles of the United States now, but the specific actual parameters are not worse than those of the United States.

The remaining 21 biochemical people are responsible for the usual operation of the mercenaries, earn funds from the hiring, and invest in the research and development base, as long as the military biochemical people have materials and equipment, the production of weapons and equipment is as simple as drinking water, Luo Tiancheng asked the intelligent worm brain to secretly transfer the funds to the account that Luo Xingyue can control, and the funds in the two aspects can support the missile manufacturing of the military secret base.

The mercenaries established by Luo Xingyue are called "Xingyue Mercenaries", and after the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 88, the mercenaries who gradually became popular in the Middle East are a very strong team among the Arabs in the Middle East. From the moment it appeared, it was like a myth, without defeat, and every time it completed 100% of the tasks, the internal members were strong.

"Juggernaut, Saddam Hussein contacted us a week ago and asked us to assist in their war against Kuwait at the cost of 40 million Franklins. We have not yet replied to Saddam's employment. Luo Xingyue told Luo Tiancheng about Saddam's employment invitation.

"Very good, although the price makes us not satisfied, but this time it is mainly to test the actual combat effectiveness of the militaries of various countries! Even if it is unconditional, we must agree, but we can't be so cheap to Saddam Hussein, notify the Iraqi liaison personnel, and say that we want to meet with Saddam in person! ”

Luo Tiancheng expressed satisfaction that Luo Xingyue did not immediately agree to Saddam's demands, after all, during the war, although the strength that Iraq now has is ostensibly a fourth-ranked military power, Luo Tiancheng knows that this is a pseudo military power, and if he does not have himself, he will be surrendered by the United States and the multinational coalition in less than a month and a half.

For the modern war of the United States, Luo Tiancheng has already secretly made arrangements, although the United States has strong military strength, but in the case of mental calculation or unintentional, no matter what, the United States has to take a piece of meat!

Luo Tiancheng has a map of the Allied land battle, although the plan in the actual war is not as good as the change, but as long as he can grasp the general context, he will not be afraid of the Allied forces.

Iraq has now restored and built 24 new divisions, bringing the total strength to 77 divisions and 1.2 million men. At present, the presidential palace in Iraq is guarded by a large number of soldiers, as if it was before the Great War, when Saddam Hussein and several officials sit around the conference room, discussing the plan of attack on Kuwait.

"President, the mercenaries of Xingyue asked to see you, saying that they have top-secret intelligence ready to tell you in person, I don't know if the commander agrees." The official in charge of liaising with the Xingyue mercenaries said to Saddam.

"What do you think?" Saddam Hussein did not agree on the spot, and asked the people around him, his tone was full of domineering, which was supported by a million troops behind him.

"President, since we signed an agreement with Iran to support the fire, the Xingyue mercenaries have been very active in the Middle East battlefield in the past two years, with a 100% mission completion rate and strong military equipment, after two years of reconnaissance, I don't know who is the financier behind the Xingyue Mercenary Group now, but there is always a mysterious fund supporting the Xingyue Mercenary Group, which now has nearly a thousand members, I suggest that it be visible." A staff colonel had apparently analyzed the Star Moon mercenaries and suggested.

"Okay, you go and contact the leader of the other party and say that we are willing to talk to them face to face." Saddam Hussein actually didn't want to ignore this kind of small mercenary, he has more than one million troops in his hands, and his military strength is strong, how can he care about the more than 1,000 people on the other side, but the record of the Xingyue mercenaries in the past two years should not be underestimated, and he doesn't know who the financier behind the Xingyue mercenaries is, so he took this opportunity to test the other party.

Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, the name Baghdad comes from the Persian word meaning "God's gift". The old translation is "Baoda" and "Bahata". Baghdad is located in the middle of Iraq, across the banks of the Tigris River, only more than 30 kilometers away from the Euphrates River, in the east-west traffic artery, railway, highway and air constitute a three-dimensional transportation of land and air, very convenient.

The railway runs north to Syria and Turkey and south to the Persian Gulf, and is also a must for the international Orient Express. In the Middle East, it is in fourth place after Cairo, Tehran and Istanbul. Historically, Baghdad was an important center city of the Babylonian civilization and the Islamic civilization. The Tigris River flows through the center of Baghdad.

In the second year after Saddam Hussein came to power, Iraq started an eight-year Gulf War with Iran, and the result of the two wars was that Iraq went from 30 billion Franklin reserves before the war to more than 70 billion Franklin in debt after the war, and the city of Baghdad itself went from prosperity to chaos and poverty, Saddam Hussein had almost nothing except for the more than 1.2 million troops left over from the 8-year war, in fact, even more than 1.2 million troops could not be raised, the army was most afraid of corruption, the renewal of weapons and the renewal of army personnel, It all takes money to support it.

The Iran-Iraq war, in the eyes of the Soviet Union and the United States, was a war between the Sunnis and Shiites of Islam, and they did not intervene too much.

Before the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Iraq was ruled and oppressed by the Ottoman Empire for more than 400 years, and was suppressed by Britain after World War I.

Iraq was decomposed into the Kingdom of Iraq and the Republic of Kuwait after World War 1, before the discovery of oil fields in Kuwait, Iraq did not pay attention to Kuwait, after the discovery of large oil in 1931, more oil fields were discovered one after another, and the whole country of Kuwait seemed to float on the oil fields, and during the 8 years of the Iran-Iraq War, Kuwait's development speed was unprecedented, and Kuwait City reflected the scene of an international metropolis. In the late 80s, Kuwait's population of 2.2 million accounted for only one-third of the population.

Kuwait has used the money earned from oil to invest abroad in the past eight years, and the investment income exceeds the income from oil, the key is that Kuwait's military strength is weak, a wolf is watching on the side, Kuwait's oil fields are similar to a basin, oil flows into Kuwait through Iraq, and there is a lot of talk in Iraq that Kuwait steals Iraqi oil, and Iraq has asked Kuwait to forgive 14 billion debts and compensate 2.5 billion Franklins.

Luo Tiancheng came to Saddam's presidential palace alone under the leadership of a colonel, this was the first time he saw Saddam, with a convex face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, his eyes were full of self-confidence all the time, and under his beard was a small mustache, and he did not have the full beard of later generations, wearing a military uniform.