Revised Edition Volume 16 The Storm Rises Again Chapter 3 Strong Earthquake (I)

Seventy-four years was a good year for me, a whole year of fishing in troubled waters, and a lot of practical benefits were achieved. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info but for Han Han, it's the opposite, her life is quite difficult. And before I returned to my home planet, it wasn't like that.

During the Spring Festival of '75, I invited the old department of the main star, including her, and old friends to meet on Huludao. Because I knew that these people were busy, I deliberately booked a month in advance. They all gave me face and agreed. When the time came, Titus, Dai Jiangnan, Guo Guang, Yang Lan, Huo Shuxiang, Yang Husheng, etc. all arrived, and only Han Han missed the appointment. Basque Bing called at the short end of the day, saying that he had encountered a strike by the Japanese aviation industry at Narita Airport, and that he had immediately tried to transfer military planes to rush back. But no matter how much he used his privileges, he was half a day late when he finally arrived, and we couldn't afford to wait, so we had been sitting for more than an hour. After he arrived, he had to apologize again and again: "Miss Naito can't go to the appointment this time, so I have to make amends to everyone." ”

"Sit down and punish yourself with eight cups first!" I was very dissatisfied and said: "So many people are waiting for you, and the opening of the table has dragged on for three hours, do you think that these heads of state and chairmen are very free?" If you have anything to say, wait until you have been punished for the wine and finished toasting three times! ”

As a military attache of Lei Longdo, he went to Heguo to mix up and gossip, so that he delayed the time, Ah Bingbing knew that he was at a loss, and hurriedly sat down to punish him for drinking. At this time, we have already drunk more than a dozen rounds, and we have joined him as a new force, and the atmosphere is even more enthusiastic. After another two hours of drinking, it finally ended. Basque Bing poured four or five catties of Xichuan Wuliangye, Zhangye dry red and Hatun beer into his stomach almost without eating, and with the strength of his body, he couldn't support it, and staggered to follow me to the outside of the corridor, shouting: "It's all aimed at me!" Let's see that next time Lao Tzu pulls this group of birdmen to Chongming Island and catches them all! ”

I interrupted the Basque Ice and asked, "How is she?" ”

"It's okay." Basque Bing turned his head to look at me in some surprise, shook his head vigorously, and suddenly said loudly: "Actually, it's not good at all, it's distressing to watch!" She's so tired, more than ten times more tired than you! It's not that she's not as capable as you, Huang Er ......"

"I know." I said calmly, "Her abilities are absolutely first-class." It's just that this world doesn't just have the ability to do everything. Hanhan's attempt to change a world that could no longer be saved by means of improvement was wrong and doomed to be in vain. ”

Basque Bing looked unconvinced and exclaimed, "Right or wrong, I don't understand that much." But as long as you're willing to help her, she's never as passive as she is now! But you don't do anything for her......"

"Ah Bingbing'er, you don't understand the most fundamental problem - it's not that I can't do anything for her, but I won't do those things, and I won't find guilt for myself."

The fat man is not convinced, obviously quite unconvinced, and there is a tendency to pretend to be crazy through alcohol. I shrugged my shoulders and was about to drag the guards to drag the drunken man down, when suddenly the mountain shook and one of us almost fell. Basque ice fell straight off the railing, shattering the ceramic pool below. I didn't care about the shaky feet, and called for the guards to go down and carry him together. Fortunately, this guy's physique is different, the absolute skin is thick and the flesh is thick, but the face is scratched, the wound is very shallow, although the face is bleeding, but it is fine. Dai Jiangnan and Titus also staggered over to check when they heard the movement, and saw that the Basque ice was so embarrassed, but the movements were smooth and unharmed when struggling, and they couldn't help but cheer: "What a fat man who is as strong as a bull's head!" ”

Basque Ice fell into a daze, but someone next to him applauded and cursed so angrily. I didn't have time to think about it itself, so I quickly turned around and looked around to see what was going on. The ground still trembled beneath his feet, and the surrounding barracks rattled and groaned in pain, and the sound of glass shattering could be heard. If it hadn't been built to the highest standards, it would have fallen apart by now. It took about two minutes for the shaking to subside, replaced by the wails of the wounded.

"What the hell is going on?" He Linchuan asked beside him.

I shouted, "Basque ice!" ”

The fat man sat on the ground with a snort and chirped, and said without raising his head: "What's the matter, it's like mourning!" ”

At this time, I was in no mood to gag with him: "Now appoint you as the temporary response commander, and immediately organize all the personnel to prepare for retreat, and the goal is Fengtian!" ”

Although his head is full of blood, although he is confused, even if he is suspicious, the biggest advantage of the fat man is that he will start to execute orders before he understands them. Titus came by helicopter, and I told him to leave immediately, taking Guo Guang away by the way. It took only half an hour for Basque Bing to command all the officers and soldiers to pack up the important items and documents, and all of them boarded the bus and left Huludao. Fortunately, when the martial arts hall was established at the beginning, in order to send away me, the plague god, the bigwigs of the southern capital worked extra hard to build roads and bridges, all of which were of ultra-high grade. Although there were a lot of cracks, it still didn't affect our high-speed retreat.

I sat in the car, worked non-stop, and kept using the radio to urge Huo Shuxiang and Yang Husheng, who were sitting in other cars, to quickly contact all parts of the Northeast. A quarter of an hour later, the situation was heard from all over the country, and the earthquake of varying magnitude was felt, and the damage was being counted, and everything was still under control.

Hearing this, I let out a long breath, leaned back in my seat a little tiredly, and turned off the radio in the car after giving Yang Husheng the final order to mobilize the garrisons in various places to prepare for the disaster. It was only then that Basque Bing asked, "What happened?" ”

"Soon you will know, and Titus and the little whore, who left by plane, will see it better. Don't look at it as the middle of the night, that scene can't be covered by the night. ”

The fat man still didn't understand, and looked at me with innocent eyes. I had to overcome my distraught mood and explain to him: "There was a strong earthquake nearby. But there has never been an earthquake warning in the Northeast, and there is no one in Wakoku, which means that it should have happened in the sea. ”

Basque Bing looked dazed: "Oh, so what? Is it worth running away like a lost dog? ”

I didn't answer him, I opened my laptop and connected to the Earth Defense Satellite System's Northeast Asia observation site. These armed defense satellites have high-precision telemetry capabilities, and their biggest role is to be used as geographic mapping satellites when there is no war to fight. At this time, the Earth Defense Satellite Center is urgently using this satellite to monitor the waters of Northeast Asia, so that I can save the effort of adjusting the parameters and just look at their observations - the satellite takes a set of high-precision photos every five seconds and transmits them to the ground, whether it is thermal induction or low-light photography, all of which reflect the fact that five huge concentric arcs are rapidly advancing in all directions south of the Korean Peninsula and west of Kyushu Island!

Basque Bing leaned over to take a look, and was immediately frightened by this arc with a diameter of thousands of kilometers, and exclaimed: "What is this!" ”

I said with a blank face, "As I expected, the tsunami." ”

As time passes, the tsunami arc expands farther and farther away. An hour later, the front of the first tsunami struck Kyushu and the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, causing an extremely chaotic turbulence that shook the sea there beyond recognition. It didn't take long for the aftermath to spread to the North and Northeast coasts as well. Huludao was still powerless to resist the powerful crossbow of the raging tide, and immediately disappeared from the chaotic satellite photos. Basque Bing was so stunned that he couldn't close his jaw, and after a long time he exclaimed, "What is this called!" In front of the unpredictable nature, manpower is really ...... It's so small! ”

I snorted and said, "If only it were just a ghost." ”

Basque Bing didn't understand what I meant, and looked at me with that innocent look again. I pondered for a moment, and said, "You know why I let Titus lead the little thief first?" ”

"Do you doubt him?" Basque Bing looked at me in disbelief: "You have known him longer than me, right?" ”

"That's not a suspicion, it's just that the little thief can't hide anything." I raised my eyes and looked at the Basque Ice and said, "What I told you tonight, don't spread it." Even if it's cold, you can't tell it. ”

"What?"

"Huaxia has the world's most advanced seismic detection network, including undersea earthquakes." I raised my head, stared out the window, and said, "Those were originally strictly divided into north and south, and they were under the jurisdiction of the northern capital. After the July Incident, because the north was destroyed, the south inherited most of the property. The marine seismic detection network has also inherited the past, and the central government is only in charge and does not report the prediction results to any other department. This system is more than 20 years ahead of Heguo, and the fact that Heguo cannot detect it does not mean that they cannot detect any signs. ”

Basque Bing's face changed: "You mean? ”

I shook my head and said, "Nothing, is it possible that some conspirators used earthquake weapons?" ”

Basque Bing finally said a rational analysis: "Then Tan Kang is even more unlikely to be ignorant." ”

The earthquake on the 28th of December and the ensuing tsunami caused extremely tragic consequences, and the Spring Festival of this year was quickly forgotten. The coastal areas of Liaodong, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang were affected by the disaster, because of the tsunami several waves, some of the preemptive troops that moved too quickly also suffered unnecessary losses, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died before and after. The situation in North Korea and Heguo was even more tragic - the violent tsunami destroyed all buildings within tens of kilometers of the coast, causing widespread power outages and traffic disruptions, and the ensuing torrential rains and aftershocks blocked the rescue efforts while constantly setting new records for the area affected and the number of deaths. It is said that civilization in Seoul has gone back one hundred and fifty years overnight, and Kyushu and Shikoku have become almost no man's land. Yangquan was also extremely badly affected, but because it was far away, it had a few more hours of warning and evacuation time, and because there were high mountains in the territory, the loss of personnel was the lightest among all the disaster areas.

In the face of a natural disaster of unprecedented scale, the political disputes and controversies of the past suddenly became ridiculous. Europe and North America have extended a helping hand and provided a lot of material and financial support. Between China and China, including the northeast region under special circumstances, there has been an endless stream of liaison information and personnel and material exchanges in the area of disaster relief, and political friction has been reduced to an all-time low. Tan Kang, Han Han, Huo Shuxiang, Zhu Helai, Yang Husheng, and other political and military dignitaries were very busy, shuttling back and forth to the disaster-stricken areas, personally interrogating and directing the rescue work. Even a lazy person like me can't shake off the shopkeeper, and I have run to many disaster areas and sent a lot of emergency supplies.

However, no matter how much effort we make afterwards, we can only do a little bit in the aftermath of this raging tidal wave, and we cannot rewrite the facts. On the way to the disaster area, my motorcade passed by the convoy carrying the corpses, and the hearse procession was not in sight. When I came to the beach scene in the disaster area in front of me, I saw thousands of corpses that had not had time to be collected and buried. At this moment, I can't help but have a delusion: am I in the main planet of Tai'an Ping'an, or on the battlefield of Nebuchu, which has gone through a bloody battle?

The relief effort continued until mid-March. The final official statistics on the losses were as follows: a total of 186,000 people were lost along the coast of China, and 578,000 people were lost in Heguo. Although I don't want to delve into the actual number of losses, I am afraid that from what I have seen and heard in those places, I am afraid that it will be five or ten times as much. In the following six months, the Huaxia and Heguo governments abolished the establishment of a total of 15 cities, and that was not without reason.

However, just when people were learning from the pain and preparing to rebuild their homes, suddenly another major earthquake occurred in the Chinese and political circles: Yang Hai, the East China Commissioner, was unfortunately killed in a car accident during the disaster relief process, and Lin Tiefeng, the commander of the Jianghuai Army, made outstanding achievements in the disaster relief work, won the hearts of the people, and took over the official title of the East China Commissioner and his position as the chief member of the Huaxia Parliament, and his political status has surpassed Zhu Helai. This person has always been a representative of the ultra-left forces, and he has long had the grand ambition of "expanding the army, recovering Yangquan, and expanding eastward." His rise to the top of the political arena will naturally have a great impact on Nandu's domestic and foreign policies.

Another violent earthquake hit my long-time friend directly, Chill.

In this tsunami, the Naito Group suffered heavy losses. Because of Hanhan's strong persistence, and high-ranking officials in the national political circles reluctantly embarked on the road of rescue. Because of the bad weather and the continuous aftershocks, there were many accidents, and more than 100 high-ranking officials were killed.

In times like these, the hand of God does not take sides. The Naito family alone has killed three high-ranking officials who are members of the national parliament or above, and the long-suppressed dissatisfaction of the whole family against the heroine suddenly broke out, and some old people who originally supported Han Han also silently shut their mouths. Hanhan was busy with work and rarely returned home, and those eight women who cried and shouted "return my man" were crying, making trouble and hanging herself every day in the yard, making it difficult for her to return home.

As for the teams of the other big families who raised their teachers to ask for guilt, they did not disappear in front of Naito's house in the month from February to March. This party sang and the other appeared, and they all learned from Hongxiang, made a big noise, and put forward all kinds of unreasonable demands. These teams were even more difficult to deal with than the hooligans invited by Hongxiang, so that the elders of the Naito family, who were still able to keep a clear head, were tired of running for their lives all day long, and gradually developed a grudge against Hanhan, and the support for her within the family plummeted.

It's just an internal worry, and the cold gritted his teeth and got through. There are more and more unfriendly eyes and uncooperative figures in the political circles, and she will finally have a way to solve them one by one. But just when she was having a lot of things to sort out, something unexpected happened.

In this tsunami disaster, China's East China Sea Fleet was wiped out. The military port and ships were almost completely lost, and several submarines that were out on a cruise lost contact. One of the submarines, the "Xuanting," was severely damaged by an earthquake on the bottom of the sea, and after drifting for many days, it ran aground in a small bay on the island of Kyushu, losing its power and communication facilities. The captain sent a five-man squad ashore to find support. This team has endured hardships and dangers, and its deeds could have written a book.

The rescue team struggled to advance on the island of Kyushu, which was completely destroyed by the tsunami, for more than half a month before they encountered a civilian volunteer rescue team. However, most of the rescue team of more than 20 people were fanatical nationalists. When they saw that the Chinese soldiers suddenly appeared on their land, they immediately felt extremely frightened and angry.

An irrational conflict erupted violently.

Although the rescue team was outnumbered, they did not carry any decent weapons. Their bad attitude has long been seen by the professional soldiers of the Xuanting rescue team. Although the battle happened suddenly, the Chinese sailors had already been mentally prepared, and it was not difficult to deal with such a few people who were blinded by their blood and their minds. The so-called battle lasted only three minutes and was an almost one-sided massacre. When the only rescue captain with a pistol was killed, the rest of the men began to turn around and flee. But under the guns of the red-eyed Chinese sailors, only three people in one car escaped, and only one of the Chinese sailors was seriously injured. After obtaining supplies, vehicles, and communications equipment from the rescue team, they quickly made contact with the base and were ordered to immediately return to the submarine grounding to await rescue. It was the evening of March 20, 75.

When the news of the firefight broke, the world was in an uproar. After all, there are many historical entanglements between the two countries, and since the Xinjing Night incident, they have risen to the level of a flash of shock, and the civil hostility has not abated until the tsunami. The tsunami put an emotional confrontation on hold for the time being, but this unexpected firefight lit it again, and it burned even hotter than usual. In this regard, a speech by Titus at the European Parliament was quite incisive:

"Many people in China and Heguo, especially ordinary people who are living in difficulty, have been waiting for this earth-changing moment to happen for many years."

The heads of state of the two countries were not allowed to think carefully about how to deal with them, and in the face of surging public opinion, their respective functional departments have begun to operate spontaneously in accordance with the original plan.

The movement of Huaxia's side was not slow, and although there was still a debate over whether to use force, the motion to send rescue troops was not hindered. Under the strong impetus of Lin Tiefeng, the South China Sea Fleet, which had not suffered losses, quickly dispatched a fleet consisting of a cruiser, three destroyers, and a supply ship to rush to Kyushu overnight.

The Wakuni side moved faster. After all, there is home advantage, full of confidence. Before receiving the order from above, the Kyushu forest police quickly dispatched their nests, and all the police stations near Kyushu and Shikoku were mobilized, distributing weapons to the volunteers, and a total of 3,000 "volunteer death squads" were organized to gallop to the scene of the incident according to the emergency plan to expel the invaders. The goals of the two sides were completely identical, but the broken submarine on the verge of disintegration and the more than 40 sailors in it who had run out of ammunition and food and were dying.

In the early morning of 21 March, a small detachment of the Heguo Volunteer Death Squad found the stranded Huaxia submarine along the traces left by the Xuanting rescue team. Two of the Xuanting's sentries were shot and killed on the spot. Other sailors quickly fired back at the attackers with 50 cannons on the deck of the submarine.

After mankind entered the age of hot weapons, the lethal efficiency of war immediately declined unprecedentedly, and the cost of killing rose sharply. This law lasted for millennia - the gunfight between the two sides was fierce, but for the next two hours, the casualties were almost negligible, and not a single person withdrew from the battle due to injuries, let alone lost his life. The Heguo people occupied the advantage of the steep cliff, and the firepower on the Xuanting's side was obviously much stronger, and after the Heguo people finished the sneak attack, they could no longer rush down. The sailors of the Xuanting also planned to go around and outflank the Chinese people. But there were too many people with him, and twenty minutes after the battle was carried out, two more small detachments came, and they besieged the Xuanting almost three times as many people, and the sailors tried twice and came back.

Half an hour later, a large force of the Heguo Volunteer Death Squad began to arrive in large numbers, and three coast guard helicopter gunships and two news agency helicopters came from the sky, forming a three-dimensional encirclement of the Xuanting. In the face of an enemy dozens of times their size, the sailors of the Xuanting sent a telegram to the base, "I swear that all jade and stone will be burned, and I will never fall into the prestige of my China".

This battle came quite unreasonable, but now, anyone on both sides has no choice but to fight to the death.

Just as the battle was about to start, more than a dozen bright spots suddenly flashed in the sky. Both sides paid attention to this point gradually, and when they looked up, the bright spot flew straight over the battlefield with lightning speed, half of it pounced on the helicopters hovering there, and half of it suddenly sank and pounced on the dense Hekuni death squad on the edge of the cliff. White light and waves of fire flashed suddenly, and the unprepared Heguo death squad was suddenly enveloped by a sea of fire and mushroom clouds, wailing all over the field. When the survivors finally struggled to raise their heads, they saw two fighter planes flying in the sky, and immediately cried heartbreakingly:

"Huaxia's advanced technology fighter Warhawk 70! They have declared war on my Yamato! ”

This was the result of the quarrel between the Huaxia Parliament for most of the night, and the radical forces represented by Lin Tiefeng finally won, and decided to use force to welcome back the crew of the Xuanting if necessary. The Ningbo fighter squadron dispatched in the early hours of the morning arrived at the scene just right. Their advanced technology fighters can achieve over-the-horizon and simultaneously lock on to 15 targets for missile attacks, and the country's huge volunteer death squads have become death squads in front of them. With only the first wave of attacks, the air power of the Hezu people (including the hapless journalists) and hundreds of people on the ground front line were reduced to ashes.

Having dismantled the advance of the death squad, the fighter squadron asked the base:

"Base, base, how should we act? There's only enough fuel for the fighter to hover here for twenty minutes! ”

The base did not answer, and Lieutenant General Lin Tiefeng personally gave the order directly to the fighter squadron:

"Immediately annihilate the enemy's living forces and buy buffer time for our rescue fleet."

The reinforcements finally arrived four hours later, and all the sailors of the Xuanting were safely brought back to the mainland. When they returned, they were greeted with a grand welcome by national heroes. For a time, the sons and daughters of China were full of pride, and countless people applauded and danced with fanatical cheers, as if the strategic gains and spiritual wealth achieved in this small battle exceeded the Battle of Nipelson by more than a hundred times.

On the contrary, millions of citizens of Xinjing took to the streets, and more than 60 percent of the members of the National Assembly passed a bill to establish a "National Shame Day." Han Han tried her best to veto this bill, but she got angry, and her various stories about me and Basque Bing were overwhelmed, and the infamy of "*** traitorous slut" soared into the sky in half a day. She tried to appeal to the agitated people to exercise restraint and calm, but such rhetoric further shook her position and put her prestige in jeopardy.

At the same time, Tan Kang, the head of China, did not say anything about the hope that the people would refrain from doing so. Lin Tiefeng and his propaganda team have completely muddied the waters, so Tan Kang will not be stupid enough to risk shaking his position to pull the cold a hand. In any sense of the word, he didn't have to do that. During that time, all he did was travel back and forth between the north and south of the country, convening meetings of district commissioners and chief members of provincial councils everywhere, and demanding that "central leadership be strengthened". When a politician makes such a statement, unless he has only just come to power, it means that his prestige and power have quietly disappeared. (To be continued.) )