Chapter 240: The War Begins

Zhou Tengyun broke into the US military base in Saudi Arabia alone, arrested two senior US generals who commanded the operation aimed at seizing the desalination technology of the Star Group, and then ran all the way, killed the US military plane that was following him, and quickly returned to the desalination ship of the Star Group.

The news of Zhou Tengyun's successful arrest soon spread back to Hong Kong, which made Liu Hui, who had been waiting for the news, breathe a sigh of relief. The Star Group has already clashed with the U.S. military, and judging from the current situation, it is impossible for either side to make concessions, so there must be a large-scale conflict between them. Since Liu Hui has already decided to go to war with the US military, he will naturally not be stupid enough to sit back and wait for the US army to attack, but will learn from the US military and make a preemptive strike.

Sending Zhou Tengyun to the US military camp in Saudi Arabia to arrest people was a big move by Liu Hui to preemptively take the initiative. After Zhou Tengyun was arrested by Zhou Tengyun, the two main responsible persons of the US military could know through interrogation that the US military had openly instructed its own military to illegally seize other people's property and technology, and completely grasped the handle of the US political axe in his own hands. And the rank of the two American soldiers captured before was too low, their words had no weight, and not many people would believe it. But now it is a major general and a major who have been caught, and what they say is naturally much more convincing, and when the time comes, there is no way for the American political axe to admit it, even if it wants to.

Liu Hui's preemptive arrest operation is also to deter those US military decision-makers, telling them not to think that it is safe to have a lot of troops around them to protect, as long as the Star Group is willing, we can send people to arrest you at any time, and the US military base in Saudi Arabia is a living example, so you must be cautious when making some decisions, so as not to provoke people who should not be provoked.

However, Liu Hui also knew that the strength of the US military was very strong, and these US troops had strong confidence that they would be able to achieve the final victory, and they would definitely not be afraid of themselves because of this arrest operation. The U.S. military often responds to this situation by using their powerful force to completely crush the enemy, and it is even possible that they will perform a decapitation operation that they are best at. This can be seen from the fact that the US political axe and the star group clashed for more than three days, and the US side did not send personnel to make contact with the star group.

After Zhou Tengyun successfully carried out the arrest operation, the enraged US military will definitely attack and retaliate. Therefore, for the sake of safety, Liu Hui specially reminded Ah Huo to be careful and not to give the US military a chance. Xiao Hei immediately woke up from his slumber and began to parade around the desalination ship and observe the deployment of US troops.

The next day, at 9 a.m. Persian Gulf time, the USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group in the Strait of Hormuz received the latest order from the US Department of Defense, which demanded that the USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group immediately prepare for combat and begin an attack on the Star Group's desalination vessels at 10 o'clock this morning. In the order, Rear Admiral James, commander of the USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group, was formally appointed as the commander-in-chief of the operation, and at the same time passed over a detailed operational plan for the operation, which was also called the "Hurricane" operation by the Ministry of Defense, which meant that it would take out the desalination ships of the Star Group as cleanly as the Tempest.

Major General James was a little surprised when he received this order, not because the US military dispatched such a large formation to deal with several desalination ships of the Star Group, but because this operation was too sudden. According to the usual practice, such a large-scale military operation requires the military commander to be notified several days in advance and the battle plan is perfected, but this time the Ministry of Defense directly issued the battle plan and temporarily designated himself as the commander.

Major General James has already seen the "Hurricane" operational plan, and from his professional point of view, there are many loopholes in this operational plan, many places have not been taken into account, and the military mobilization in all aspects is far from being completed, so why is the Ministry of Defense now launching an offensive ahead of schedule?

James naturally wouldn't know that Zhou Tengyun's arrest last night had successfully angered the American political axe. Although the US military does not know who the person who captured the commander of the US military base, Major General Morrison and Major Carr, is unknown, but judging from the shells fired by the other party when they fled, it is completely the same as the mysterious weapon used on the desalination ship of the Star Group, so the other party must be related to the Star Group. Moreover, the US military base also lost a very important document, which was a top-secret document about the desalination technology of the Star Group carried out by Major Carl, so it is now obvious that the mysterious person who kidnapped Morrison and Carl is the person of the Star Group.

The reason why the Star Group wanted to kidnap Morrison and Carl was because the Star Group knew that Morrison and Carl were the actual executors of the top-secret mission aimed at obtaining the Star Group's desalination technology, so they took them away. In this way, the US military will not dare to go all out against the Star Group.

However, the news that a high-ranking general was abducted by outsiders in his heavily guarded military base has already made the US Department of Defense very angry. In the history of the U.S. military, there has never been a precedent for its own commander to be abducted from its own military base. It has always been the US soldiers who abduct other people's commanders, when do they enjoy such treatment?

Therefore, the Star Group's abduction operation has made those high-ranking officials in the US Department of Defense firm in their desire to retaliate. But at the same time, they also have some fears about the strength of the Star Group. After all, the other side already has the strength to take people from their barracks, so who can say that the other side will not come to the Pentagon to kidnap people? You must know that the master of the captives was so relaxed when he left, and the equipment of the US military could not threaten him at all.

Major General Morrison and Major Carl were taken away by the Star Group, which made the American political axe a little panicked, they were afraid that the Star Group had obtained direct evidence of their operation by interrogating Morrison and Carr, plus the Star Group also obtained the top-secret document, so the American political axe was afraid that the Star Group would poke this matter out, and it would be a shocking scandal at that time, and they would be ousted from power by the angry people immediately. Therefore, the American political axe decided to take advantage of the fact that the Star Group had not yet obtained enough evidence to attack the desalination ship first, rescue Morrison and them, and at the same time retrieve the top-secret document, and kill all those who know.

That's why the U.S. Department of Defense ordered James to carry out this "gale" operation when the military mobilization of the U.S. military was not yet fully in place.

Although the "Hurricane" plan was full of holes, James decided to carry it out. In James's mind, no matter how powerful the Star Group is, it is just a company, and it has no strength to engage in military confrontation with the US military. So even if they relied on this flawed battle plan, they could still wipe out the desalination ships of the Star Group.

The desalination ships of the Star Group in the Persian Gulf are obscured by a thick white cloud, and it is no longer possible to see any movement on the desalination ships from the spy satellites in space.

A huge bowl-shaped instrument that had just been installed on the desalination ship began to rotate 360 degrees on the desalination ship. At an origin at the bottom of the bowl-shaped instrument, spiritual energy fluctuations were constantly emitting into the surrounding sky, and the computer connected to the bowl-shaped instrument clearly displayed the real-time situation of the surrounding airspace.

It turned out that this bowl-shaped instrument was a radar-like device that Liu Hui transported to the desalination ship through the "Starry Sky No. 2". In the "Plan A" launched by the US military for the first time to attack the desalination ship, they carried out strong electromagnetic interference around the desalination ship, causing the desalination ship to lose contact with the Hong Kong headquarters and almost made a big mistake. However, at that time, because the radar on the desalination ship used a new technology, it was not completely interfered with, and it could detect a distance of 80 kilometers. However, Liu Hui was worried that the US military would use higher intensity electromagnetic interference on the desalination ship this time, and the radar on the ship would not be able to be used normally at that time, and there would be no power to fight back in the face of the US attack, so he transported this "aura fluctuation radar" to the Persian Gulf.

In the Academy of Star Science, the use of aura fluctuations has been studied for a long time. They found that there was a mysterious special fluctuation emitted from those high-grade energy stones, and Liu Hui knew that this was the aura fluctuation emitted from the spirit stones, so he named this fluctuation the aura fluctuation.

Later, through further research, experts in the scientific research institute found that this aura fluctuation is also a way of energy transmission, although they do not yet know what this energy is. However, the propagation speed of this aura fluctuation is actually the same as the propagation speed of electromagnetic waves, which can reach the speed of light. So Liu Hui's whimsical idea began to make Chen Changsheng start to study the specific use of this aura fluctuation, and Chen Changsheng began to use this magical aura fluctuation to make something similar to radar under Liu Hui's reminder.

Before Angel officially joined the Star Group, this "aura fluctuation radar" was still in a groping stage. As a result, after Anqi learned about this research project in the research institute, she was very interested, and it only took three days and three nights to solve various problems encountered in this research, and made the world's first "Reiki Fluctuation Radar" that uses aura fluctuations to detect targets. It's just that this "aura fluctuation radar" is still in the process of further testing and improvement, and has not been officially put into production.

In view of the fact that his communications security had been seriously threatened by the US military, Liu Hui transported this set of "aura fluctuation radar" for testing to the Persian Gulf to prevent the US military from exercising electromagnetic interference on him again and turning his radar out of order and becoming blind.

So now that this "Reiki Fluctuation Radar" is installed, the specific situation within 500 kilometers of the desalination ship can be clearly found from this "Reiki Fluctuation Radar". And on the current earth, there is nothing that can interfere with the propagation of aura fluctuations.

"Fire Boss, an unidentified plane was spotted a hundred kilometers to the west and a hundred kilometers to the south. Hey, this radar can actually show the specific shape of these two aircraft. ”

Ah Huo immediately looked over and found that two bright spots were displayed on the computer screen, and after magnifying those two bright spots, he could actually see the general image of these two bright spots.

"Fire boss, this is the US military's "Global Hawk" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, they should be conducting reconnaissance on us right now. The radarman immediately analyzed the models of the two aircraft.

"It seems that the U.S. military is finally going to do it! This is the first time they have sent a reconnaissance plane in the past few days, and it seems that our mysterious weapons have frightened the US military. Ah Huo smiled, and then told Liu Hui, who was far away in Hong Kong, the news.

When Liu Hui received the news, he knew that the U.S. military finally couldn't help it. Now that the "Global Hawk" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft have been dispatched, it means that they are about to start an attack on the Star Group. So he immediately ordered Ah Huo to prepare for battle, and at the same time put Xiao Hei on alert.

There has been a huge white cloud floating above the desalination ship, which shrouds the desalination ship in a five-kilometer radius, so that the US spy satellites in space cannot directly observe the specific location of the desalination ship, and when they started the infrared scanning, they found that the infrared light could not penetrate the white cloud at all, so that the US military could not find the specific situation of the desalination ship from the satellite at all.

Although the US military suspects that the big white cloud was created by the Star Group itself, they also know that "cloud building" requires strong scientific and technological strength, and even the United States cannot "make clouds" to cover its own whereabouts, so the Star Group will certainly not have this kind of technology, and the appearance of a white cloud above their heads can only be said to be a coincidence.

Therefore, the US military sent two "Global Hawk" unmanned reconnaissance planes from the west and south respectively to reconnoiter the desalination ship, because they were afraid of the other side's mysterious weapons, so the two drones could only conduct reconnaissance at the farthest reconnaissance distance of 100 kilometers. It's just that in this way, the effectiveness of reconnaissance is much worse, but it can also roughly understand the specific location of the desalination ship, and it can barely provide position positioning for the US military's guided missiles.

At 9:30 a.m. Gulf time, the aircraft carrier "Stennis" began to fly planes, first the E-2C "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft took off, then two EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare aircraft took off, and finally two squadrons of F/A-18E "Super Hornet" fighters took off.

Under the dispatch of the E-2C "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft, two EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare aircraft quickly flew to the desalination ship, preparing to carry out electromagnetic interference and destroy the opponent's radar. The F/A-18E "Super Hornet" fighter group of the two squadrons will form two fighter formations and fly towards the Persian Gulf, where they will join the bomber group and other fighter groups from the US Middle East base to jointly attack the desalination ships of the Star Group.

Soon, at 10 o'clock in the Middle East time, the US military officially launched a military attack on the Star Group.

With the order of Rear Admiral James, commander of the USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group, all US warships in the Gulf region began to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles, and their targets were all desalination ships of the Star Group in the Persian Gulf.

As a result, in an instant, a total of 40 "Tomahawk" cruise missiles were launched from these warships, and these missiles, guided by satellites and "Global Hawk" unmanned reconnaissance planes, flew toward the desalination ship.

In the US military staff, those military experts have analyzed and concluded that as long as one-third of the 40 "Tomahawk" cruise missiles can hit the target, then with their powerful destructive power, the desalination ship of the Star Group can be damaged, and then the mysterious weapons on the desalination ships cannot play a role, and without the threat of mysterious weapons, the war can be ended by bombing by bombers.

As the 40 "Tomahawk" cruise missiles flew toward the desalination ship of the Star Group, the US military satellites in space began to exert powerful electromagnetic interference toward the place where the desalination ship was located. At an altitude of 100 kilometers from the desalination ship, the two US EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare planes were flying at high speed toward the desalination ship. At the same time, the two EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare aircraft also fired two anti-radiation missiles at the desalination ship in an attempt to destroy their radar.

As soon as the two EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare planes opened the electromagnetic interference pods, coupled with the electromagnetic interference carried out by military satellites in space, the communications on the desalination ship were immediately completely blocked, and the contact with the Hong Kong side was also cut off.

Fortunately, the desalination ship used the "Reiki Fluctuation Radar" and a wired telephone, so that he was able to avoid the trouble of suddenly becoming blind and unable to conduct command operations. Although the electromagnetic interference outside is very strong, it can't have any effect on the fluctuation of the aura, so Ah Huo and the others can still communicate and detect targets in the sky normally.

Seeing that the U.S. military had begun to interfere with electromagnetic interference with him, Ah Huo immediately knew that the U.S. military had officially launched an attack on him.

"I order, open all the No. 1 special weapons, open all the No. 2 special weapons, and get ready for battle. At the same time, the "starry sky" observer is released. ”

With Ah Huo's order, the four desalination ships suddenly opened sixteen deep holes, and among these sixteen holes, eight were No. 1 special weapons, that is, electromagnetic guns, and eight were No. 2 special weapons, that is, laser weapons. Originally, there were only four sets of laser weapons and four sets of electromagnetic guns on their desalination ship, but in the supply delivered by the "Star No. 2" to the desalination ship, they were sent four sets of laser weapons and four sets of electromagnetic guns, so that there were a total of 16 sets of special weapons, but the targets of two of the electromagnetic guns were aimed at the sea surface. However, even if this is the case, these 16 sets of special weapons plus the assistance of the "Star No. 2" special weapons under the sea can roughly ensure their own safety.

Another large box was quickly opened, and a gray-white ball with a radius of one meter was brought out of it, and the switch on this ball was turned on, and it immediately suspended in the air. With the remote control of the next controller, the ball quickly rose into the sky, and after reaching a height of about a thousand meters, it stopped, and it happened to hide in the white clouds created by the desalination ship.

"Fire boss, the "Starry Sky" observer has been released. ”

Just after the "starry sky" observer was released, the computer of the desalination ship suddenly clearly displayed a topographic map within a radius of 100 kilometers, and the things on the topographic map were displayed very clearly.

This "starry sky" observer is a special instrument developed by the Star Group for high-altitude observation, and in the case that the Star Group does not have its own satellite for the time being, it is equivalent to a low-altitude satellite, and the following situation can be clearly observed.

The "Starry Sky" observer uses the Starry Sky Group's suspension array and high-grade energy stones, using aura fluctuations to transmit data, plus it does not emit electromagnetic fluctuations, and it is also hiding in the white clouds, and its own color is still gray, so it will not be known about its existence at all.

And the desalination ship has this "starry sky" observer, which is equivalent to having a military satellite above the desalination ship's head, always keeping an eye on what is happening within a radius of 100 kilometers, and any wind and grass that occurs on the ground and in the sky cannot escape its eyes. In terms of intelligence gathering, the Star Group temporarily went ahead of the US military.

On the USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group, intelligence from all sides is rapidly gathering towards Rear Admiral James.

"Our military satellites and EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft have already engaged in electromagnetic interference on the other side, and the electronic warfare aircraft have also fired anti-radiation missiles at the other side, and the anti-radiation missiles are expected to hit the target in two minutes. ”

"A total of 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched on our warship, which are expected to hit the target in 20 minutes. ”

"With AWACS deployment, our two F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter strike squadrons are on their way to their targets, and they are expected to meet the bomber squadron in ten minutes. ”

"Two squadrons of F-15 fighter jets have taken off from our military bases in Middle Eastern countries, and they are providing escort missions for two bomber squadrons and a ground attack aircraft squadron, and are expected to make head-on contact with the Star Group in half an hour."

"The Death Voice Marine Assault Squadron is ready to go, and they are waiting for the general's order."

(To be continued)