The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 288: Changes in History (asking for monthly tickets)
Monday.

morning.

As soon as the Hong Kong stock market opened, the Hang Seng Index fell all the way, with no sign of rebounding. In addition, more people applied for immigration to Hong Kong, and the number of second-hand houses listed continued to increase.

Suddenly, so many houses appeared for sale, but there were no buyers. The real estate market suddenly seemed to have entered a severe winter.

Jardine Matheson was the first to make the choice, taking the money and leaving.

Jardine Matheson's most coveted assets include its three core assets: real estate, shipping and banking.

For example, Hong Kong Swire owns a large amount of land, buildings, etc. In addition, it also has a large number of high-quality assets such as Hong Kong Telephone Company and Hong Kong Electric Company.

As for the shipping part, there are Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal, Jardine Matheson Airport Services and Hong Kong Container Terminals.

Then came Swire & Co., which sold its shares in Cathay Pacific. As the Hong Kong stock market plummeted and the property market collapsed, the shareholders of Cathay Pacific could no longer hold on and were interested in selling their shares.

Swire holds a portion of Cathay Pacific's shares, while Liu Tao and his team hold 89% of Cathay Pacific's shares.

This time, with a tenfold leverage of HK$40 billion and a total of HK$400 billion in funds, they made a profit of barely HK$200 billion.

This money, plus the principal, exceeds HK$240 billion.

In addition, the Hong Kong dollar has fallen to 1 Hong Kong dollars per US dollar, so 9.6 billion US dollars is 30 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Many people choose to take the money and leave, stopping losses in time.

Soon, Standard Chartered Bank also made its choice, sold Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), took the money and left.

Of course, these Liu Taos are no longer in Hong Kong, but are led by Henry Fok.

Of course, there are people here who follow suit and learn from them. For example, the influence of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong has increased significantly.

Liu Tao stayed in Hong Kong for only three days before leaving with his guards.

middle East.

Beirut.

Israeli helicopters led the way, followed by Merkava tanks, which advanced steadily forward.

The battle was fierce.

The fifth Middle East war has been going on for half a month.

The Israeli army suffered heavy losses, with both the ground forces and the air force suffering great losses. Only the navy has not suffered any losses so far.

But the situation is now very unfavorable to the Israeli army, because fighters from the Arab world are joining the battlefield, the guerrillas are increasing in number, and what's worse is that several other neighboring countries are ready to move.

This Israeli army is now in great trouble because they have encountered the Syrian armored forces' most elite T-72 tanks.

"Attention, helicopter!" a guerrilla member shouted, while he shouldered a Vanguard anti-aircraft missile and aimed at a helicopter.

"Chi!" The 'Vanguard' anti-aircraft missile emitted white smoke and rushed towards the helicopter in the sky.

"Boom!" The helicopter turned into a fireball and fell down.

The guerrillas' "Vanguard" anti-aircraft missiles caused great trouble to the helicopters.

These anti-aircraft missiles are simply impossible to defend against, and their number seems to be endless.

The guerrilla fighter had just launched an 'Avant-garde' anti-aircraft missile, and before he could load another missile, another armed helicopter in the sky swooped down without hesitation and mercilessly shot the guerrilla fighter into a sieve with the machine gun under the nose.

A missile, trailing a tongue of fire, flew to the top of a tank. The top of any tank is a weak point, and being attacked by an armed helicopter would have tragic consequences.

A tank hidden behind a building aimed its tank gun at an Israeli Merkava tank.

"Boom!" With a roar, a 125mm armor-piercing shell was fired at the targeted tank.

The armor-piercing bullet accurately hit the enemy's front armor and tore a big hole in it.

The high-temperature heat flow rushes in, which can cause serious damage to the members inside.

To make matters worse, the turret was blown over by a horrible ammunition explosion, killing everyone inside instantly.

Faced with this guerrilla warfare, the Israeli army encountered great trouble.

Even though the Israeli army dispatched as many as 18 troops this time, it still failed to achieve its strategic goals.

The total strength of the Israeli army has now reached 40, but not all of these 40 troops can be deployed on the battlefield. They must be on guard against other countries to prevent those countries from directly sending their troops in.

In the sky, there are fighter jets, those are F-16 fighter jets.

The Israeli army lost a large number of fighter jets, but these fighter jets were quickly replenished, and they were directly incorporated into the Israeli Air Force by active US military pilots of advanced fighter jets such as the F-15 and F16.

The flying altitude of these aircrafts never falls below 5000 meters. This is also a conclusion drawn from battlefield experience. 5000 meters is relatively safe. As long as they do not encounter "Sam-6" air defense missiles, the guerrillas' individual air defense missiles will not threaten the fighter jets.

In less than ten days, the Israeli Air Force has acquired 100 advanced fighter jets and 100 armed helicopters. It can be said that the strength of the Air Force has increased instead of decreased, and the Israeli Air Force still firmly controls the sky.

This also caused heavy casualties to the guerrillas and Syria's armored forces.

"Damn it! Damn the guerrillas, damn the Syrian army!" The commander got off the command vehicle, roared and cursed as he listened to his men reporting the losses.

In this battle, they lost two attack helicopters and eight tanks.

This loss is not small.

"Damn it! Where did they get so many individual anti-aircraft weapons, and where did they get so many tanks and weapons!" The commander was very depressed.

The weapons of the guerrillas, the Syrian army, the Lebanese army and others seem to be endless.

They have destroyed more than 500 tanks so far, but what makes them speechless is that the guerrillas, the Syrian army and the Lebanese army actually have tank armored units.

What's more troublesome is that they have anti-tank mines, anti-tank guns, anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.

This caused great trouble to the Israeli army.

"It's a T54 tank, there must be Soviets behind it!" His partner looked at the tank with anger: "T-54, T-60, T62 or even T-72 tanks, who else could be behind it if not the Soviets!"

Other tanks were not a big deal, but the T-72 main battle tank caused great trouble to the Israeli army.

Their tanks cannot defeat the T-72 in a head-on battle without air support!

In fact, they did not look carefully. If they had looked carefully, and if they had known about Chinese tanks, they would have recognized that those T-54 tanks were actually mostly Type 59 tanks.

If you don't understand it carefully, you will often mistake the Type 59 tank for the T54 tank.

But this is normal. After all, the Type 59 tank itself is a copy of the Soviet T-54 tank, and the two are almost identical.

The Israeli military uses American equipment, or modifies and manufactures American equipment. They have never seen the Type 59 tank, so how can they tell the difference?

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