At the last moment when his consciousness collapsed, he had an extremely terrifying conjecture for a moment, and several F-35 "Lightning" flying low over the riverside were first swept away by a shadowless and invisible shock wave, and the fuselage was damaged in an instant, and the pilot's blood splashed in the cockpit; In the next moment, it was completely engulfed by a large cloud of sand and gravel smoke and dust that shot straight into the sky, and the metal giant bird that had been flying low in the sky was quickly torn apart and turned into pieces of wreckage in the rising mushroom cloud.

The explosion, an earth-shattering explosion, turned the southern part of the city of Sabha into a large piece of hell on earth.

The soldiers, who had just experienced a terrifying and inexplicable earthquake, and then heard a deafening explosion, and the soldiers, who were still far away and were lucky enough not to die, got up from the ground one by one, raised their heads and looked around blankly, their eyes beyond the obstruction of the undulating terrain and buildings, and everyone soon saw the yellow-brown mushroom cloud that rose up as if the end had come.

Mushroom cloud, a large mushroom cloud, did it just happen-

"I, my Allah, was it just - was it a nuclear explosion!!"

"What? What do you mean? ”

Look at the mushroom cloud! But, damn it, they actually detonated a nuclear * bomb! ”

Seeing the terrible dark clouds tumbling and rising, everyone froze in place, and only after a moment did a chaotic shout erupt, or the relatively experienced officer shouted first, "Don't panic, don't panic!" It doesn't have to be a nuclear * bomb, now everyone immediately put on gas masks, and everyone immediately retreats! ”

Seeing that the soldiers around him were all shocked, looking up at the large hideous and terrifying mushroom cloud full of fear, although the officer was a little afraid, he also felt that the power of the explosion was not as great as he imagined. At least from where he stood. The distance of this mushroom cloud is only about a kilometer. If it was a nuclear explosion, should the scene be a hundred times more terrifying than the current scene?

Seeing the mushroom cloud rising on the southeast side of the town, the direction of the rebels' flight, the hastily organized Damascus Army gave up the pursuit, put on gas masks, loaded all the vehicles, and then hurriedly retreated westward.

A suspected nuclear explosion in Sabha. Because of the word "nuclear", it almost immediately aroused everyone's extreme concern.

On the edge of the small city, a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky, not only interrupting the Damascus army's offensive, but also creating a great chaos and heavy casualties on the battlefield of Sabha.

At the time of the explosion, several F-35 fighters of the Royal United Kingdom Air Force that flew by chance were directly devoured, the pilots and fighters were all gone, and the two warring sides on the ground were even more unexpected, and the ground units nearly 100 meters around the explosion site were also blown up without a trace, and the armored vehicles on the periphery and the ground infantry on the outermost were also affected by the explosion, and many soldiers who were very close to the explosion point were seriously injured. Limb fractures and ruptured internal organs abound.

After receiving a rapid battle report from the front, the news of the "suspected nuclear explosion" shocked Damascus. Several major countries that received the news at about the same time were also surprised.

However, in a region like Syria, in order to quickly determine the nature of a huge explosion, there was actually no local personnel and equipment that could be used immediately, and the specialized troops of the multinational force also needed some time to rush to the scene, and finally relied on the comprehensive research and judgment of the nuclear explosion shock monitoring station deployed by Soviet Russia in the Caucasus and the number of satellites of various countries, and the Security Council officially informed Damascus that the strong explosion that occurred in the Saabha area was not a nuclear explosion, but should be a violent release of chemical energy. The preliminarily estimated explosive yield is around 2,000 tons T*N*T.

"Two or two thousand tons of T*N*T?"

After receiving the news from the special line, the surprised voices of the Syrian government personnel in charge of liaison changed their tone.

As a civilian officer, all the Syrian thinks about is the equivalent conversion, even if this is not a nuclear * bomb, but an ordinary explosion, after all, the yield is real, what kind of scene the explosion of 2,000 tons of T*N*T is, it is really difficult for him to imagine now.

Later that day, the personnel monitoring and sampling personnel in Sabha and other places submitted reports that determined that the source of this "violent explosion" was not a nuclear weapon, but more like an explosion caused by conventional explosives, which relieved everyone, including President Hafez al-Assad.

At the critical juncture of the attack on Deir ez-Zor, it suffered an earth-shattering explosion, and the so-called "breathe a sigh of relief" is naturally not that a government official is indifferent to the situation on the front line, but for Syria, such a thing as a nuclear bomb will cause countless troubles once it is involved.

If, just if, the Liberals really went crazy and detonated a nuclear bomb on the Saabha front, even if the yield was not very huge, the battlefield effect at that time would be left alone for the time being, and it would leave a serious radiation pollution on Syrian soil, but for Syria today, this is not the most worrying issue for the Assad regime at the moment.

As for such a sensitive thing as "nuclear weapons", as a so-called "thorn state" that has long been at odds with the Western world, Syria, which is an enemy of Israel, has not been unmoved to develop nuclear weapons. However, now, if a few nuclear bombs suddenly appear on the battlefield of the civil war, it is conceivable that these should come from other nuclear countries, perhaps one of the major powers, and no one will stand up and admit that "oh, this is what our family has stolen", then in the end, the international community will naturally suspect Syria itself, and the endless troubles such as debates, inspections, and blockades will be a headache to think about.

If you look at it from another angle, the military effect of this violent explosion should not be underestimated.

The explosion of a nuclear bomb is basically like that, and although the radiation contamination behind it is difficult to deal with, it will not cause great trouble to the regular army that is well protected. However, even so, for the high-spirited Damascus army, the news that "the rebels have nuclear weapons" will still cause a panic, which will of course be extremely unfavorable for the next combat operations.

Nuclear weapons, the monsters that humans have released from Pandora's box with their own hands, seem to be born with a terrifying deterrent.

The same is an explosion, a conventional explosion with a yield of 1,000 tons of T*N*T, and a nuclear * bomb with a yield of 1,000 tons of T*N*T, needless to say, people instinctively fear the latter, even if the regular army is well-equipped and does not worry much about the threat of radiation.

All in all, after an anxious wait, which turned out to be a false alarm, the Damascus regime naturally had a lot of work to do, explaining the truth to the countries that received the news and dispelling misunderstandings, all of which needed to be put on the agenda immediately; However, compared to these things, since it has been confirmed that the Saabha explosion was not caused by a nuclear* bomb, the fighting on the front line does not need to and cannot be allowed to come to a standstill, otherwise it is exactly what the rebels want!

The investigation concluded that military operations, interrupted by the impact of a violent explosion, continued after nightfall.

Even in Sabha, where a mushroom cloud rose into the sky and there were countless casualties on the battlefield, the damaged troops had been moved to the rear, and the heavily wounded were evacuated by helicopters roaring back and forth, and by the time night fell and the sky was full of stars, the second-line troops transferred from behind the front had already begun to move forward.

The morale of the troops, who had already received the news, must have suffered a slight blow from the explosion, but the officers and men who were determined to liberate all the occupied areas and completely destroy the Liberal Party continued to advance in the direction of Deir ez-Zor to the east.

The situation on the front line is roughly the same: Hundreds of kilometers away from the site of the explosion, on the US Navy's aircraft carrier "Truman," cruising off the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, in the brightly lit operations conference room, a group of commanders in straight uniforms and sitting upright are holding video conferences with personnel from China, the Soviet Union, Britain, and other countries to discuss the strange and bizarre sudden incident of the "Sabha explosion."

The mushroom cloud that erupted in a small Syrian town shocked not only Damascus, but also the member countries of the multinational force.

Although the possibility of a nuclear explosion in Syria had been denied in various ways later today, the superpowers that had strongly intervened in the Middle East civil war did not let their guard down at all, but gathered in front of the holographic display to negotiate nervously, not to study the true strength of the Liberal Party, let alone to mourn the United Kingdom pilot who died in the bombing, but because the incident itself is very strange, under the current Middle East mysteries and confusing big shapes, Naturally, it will arouse everyone's high attention.

In the eyes of professional soldiers, the significance of the "explosion of 2,000 tons of T*N*T" is completely different from the "boom" that ordinary people imagine, and what is the mystery of this is precisely the primary issue that today's participants want to discuss.

In the face of the large number of participants who were connected remotely, a major from the military-technical department of Soviet Russia spoke first, briefly explaining the situation of the incident that the major powers basically already had in their hands, especially some hard indicators such as numbers, and then emphatically pointed out that the violent explosion that occurred in Sabha could never be the normal use of some kind of conventional weapon, but more like some kind of "long-planned crazy attack". (To be continued......)