Through the wealth life

Chapter 1305
What should come is still here. As of 15:12 p.m. New York time on the 16th, Iraq still had not withdrawn its troops from Kuwait. On the morning of the [-]th, U.S. time, the President of the United States signed a national security directive document to the commander of the U.S. Central Headquarters, ordering the U.S. military to Go to war on Iraq.

At two o'clock in the morning on the 17th, Baghdad time, the multinational air force led by the United States launched an air raid on Iraq and launched the "Desert Storm" operation.

And these times were already seven o'clock in the morning of Hong Kong time, and at nine o'clock in the morning, the news of the multinational coalition's air raid on Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, spread all over the world.

Today is Thursday, and as soon as the Xiangjiang Exchange opened, the price of London gold began to soar.

For the first time in the past two or 30 years, so many countries have launched military operations against one country, including NATO allies, several countries in the Arab region, and several countries in Eastern Europe. The strength of Iraq is not at the same level as that of these countries. Iraq is currently the only The advantage is the location.

However, in the face of the Allied high-performance fighters and advanced electronic reconnaissance and electronic jamming aircraft, Iraq's detection system is basically in a state of failure.

After being crushed by technology, Iraq was still more passively beaten, and some counterattack methods were easily intercepted by the Allied forces.

Only at this time did the Iraqi leader realize that the elite troops he was proud of were so vulnerable to the blows of this modern war.

In the afternoon, Li Guangyu received a phone call from Huo Yingdong, inviting him to have afternoon tea.

When Li Guangyu arrived at the teahouse here, Huo Yingdong had already arrived here.

Li Guangyu also knew that Huo Yingdong's invitation to drink tea at this time was nothing more than about the bombing of Baghdad by the Allied forces in the morning.

After sitting down, Li Guangyu said out loud, "Huo Sheng, thank you very much for your warm invitation."

After Huo Yingdong poured good tea for Li Guangyu, he said aloud: "Li Sheng, this is the top Longjing tea in this teahouse, you can try it."

Huo Yingdong didn't mention it, and Li Guangyu didn't ask, he took a sip from the teacup and started chatting about the tea.

After a while of meaningless chatting, Huo Yingdong said: "Li Sheng, what do you think of what happened this morning?"

Compared with Li Guangyu, Huo Yingdong's information is very scarce, and he only received the information from the north today, and there are Mirage 2000c fighter jets bombing Baghdad today.

This is not the point. The point is that the flag of Bentley Island is on the fuselage of the Mirage 2000c. According to rumors, twelve such fighter planes carried out the mission of bombing Baghdad today.

As for where the information came from, Huo Yingdong didn't know, but he believed that the information given by the North would definitely not be wrong.

It is true that Bentley Island is a British Overseas Territory, and there is no problem with various powers, but this time an overseas territory sent twelve fighter planes to participate in the war, which is completely different. Currently, there are [-] British Overseas Territories, only Bermuda And Bentley Island has its own military force, which is under the jurisdiction of the territory rather than the British Army.

Bermuda only has a regiment of a few hundred people, and it is an army regiment. In terms of weapons, there are only a few light weapons, and there is not even a single tank.

On Bentley Island, there are 24 Mirage 2000cs, a regiment of 2500 people in the Army, including a Leopard 2 tank battalion, an artillery battalion covering various types, a mechanized infantry battalion, and an anti-aircraft missile battalion.

On the naval side, there are 4 23 frigates and two "supporter" conventional submarines.

Although Bermuda is on the same level as Bentley Island politically, Bermuda's military strength is dozens of blocks away from Bentley Island.

Moreover, in the past two years, the registered population of Bentley Island has continued to grow. All military personnel and personnel working on Bentley Island have transferred their registered permanent residence to Bentley Island, and Bentley Island is still absorbing Chinese from all over the world to join them.

Now the registered population of Bentley Island has exceeded 3, and it is now the fifth largest offshore center after Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Some listed companies on the Hong Kong Exchange are registered on Bentley Island.

Moreover, the development there has been getting better and better in the past two years. Xiangjiang has direct flights to Bentley Island every week, and many citizens go there for tourism.

Yinglun can say that this move is very ruthless. He gave the Li's consortium a few deserted islands, and while the government obtained a large sum of money, it also pulled the Li's consortium out of Xiangjiang.

And no matter how the Lee Consortium develops Bentley Island, in the end Bentley Island still belongs to the British rule, and the diplomacy is consistent with that of England.

For example, this time, Bentley Island was also involved because it was a British overseas territory.

But now Bentley Island is still speeding up the construction. Bentley Island and the surrounding Phoenix Island, Suzaku Island, Hengyu Island, Tianyu Island, and Xingyu Island together form the current British Bentley Island territory. The upper left corner of its flag is British rice. The word flag, the lower right corner is a Bentley car, this is the flag of Bentley Island in the world.

In particular, Bentley Island is applying to qualify for the Asian Games, and it is estimated that there will be no difficulty for Bentley Island in this regard. The relationship between the Asian Organizing Committee and the Lee Consortium is quite good. In the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, there may be a Xiangjiang flag in the project And the flag of Bentley Island was hoisted at the same time.

At present, Bentley Island is completely independent except for diplomacy. It can be said that the other party is only one name away, and it is no different from some small countries.

The key is that the weapons and equipment of Bentley Island are not weak. For example, the nearby Maldives, this country’s military power cannot be compared with that of Bentley Island. If there is a war between Maldives and Bentley Island, it is estimated that Bentley Island will be able to occupy the Maldives in less than a day.

Huo Yingdong was actually quite puzzled, why Li Guangyu was going to go to this muddy water this time, and he didn't send fighter planes there this time, and no force would say anything, after all, Bentley Island was just an overseas territory of England.

Li Guangyu doesn't care what Huo Yingdong thinks, he needs Bentley Island for actual combat, this opportunity is quite rare, the battlefield is the best training.

These [-] fighters will be on mission until the end of this month, and another [-] fighters will pass by next month, and let them all go for a walk on the battlefield to accumulate some actual combat experience.

After nearly two years of development on the surrounding islands, the air force is stationed on Phoenix Island, where an air force airport has been specially established, the submarine base is on Xingyu Island, and the naval port is on Bentley Island.

The army is stationed and trained on Hengyu Island. As for Suzaku Island and Tianyu Island, these two places have not been developed yet, so I will talk about them later.

Li Guangyu said: "Iraq is indeed a bit over this time. Kuwait's territory should not be occupied by Iraq. Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait. At the same time, Iraq's desire to raise oil prices has violated the interests of too many people, so today's situation occurs. Condition.

And the Soviet Union is almost at sunset. The Iraqi incident shows that the Soviet Union has little deterrent effect on the United States and its allies. The two-level structure has disappeared.

Don't overestimate the duration of this war. It is estimated that it will end next month, and the Allied forces will retreat in March at the latest. "

Of course, Huo Yingdong is also aware of some situations. Iraq has indeed gone too far. No matter what its position is, it violates Kuwait's territorial sovereignty, which will not get external support. In addition, raising the price of oil has offended almost all oil importing countries. There will be a situation where dozens of countries will fight against him.

You must know that the oil used by Xiangjiang is also imported from the Middle East, and the increase in oil prices there is also detrimental to the development of Xiangjiang.

And the information that Li Guangyu revealed to him is very important, and this is also the purpose of him looking for Li Guangyu. From Li Guangyu's words, he was quite shocked. Iraq is a relatively powerful country after all, and it has been entangled with Iran for eight years. A lot, he didn't expect to be unable to bear it for a month, which was beyond his imagination.

However, Huo Yingdong felt that the incident would probably develop as Li Guangyu said. Otherwise, with Li Guangyu's shrewdness, he would not let the Bentley Island fighter plane join it. After all, a fighter plane is very expensive, even if Li Guangyu You have a big family and a big business, and you can't afford to lose too much.

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(End of this chapter)