Chapter 1098
Now that you're here, don't leave.
What Su Dingping said was exactly the answer Liu Huaming wanted.
"Great! That's exactly the kind of spirit I've been looking for! I knew that coming to you would definitely get me a solution."
"Since you've had this idea for a while, I'll have to give you more responsibility. Comrade Su Dingping, I hope you can overcome the technical difficulties of extracting rare earth and precious metals as soon as possible and break free from the bottleneck imposed by other tribes!"
"If you succeed, I'll give you a huge credit!"
Su Dingping chuckled, acting quite casually: "Commander, this is what I should do. Even if you hadn't said anything, I would still have done it."
"By the way, there's one more thing I need to discuss with you. Tang Ping, the chairman of Huachen Technology Group, said he wants to invest in Longxin Laboratory. You know about this, right?"
Liu Huaming nodded slowly: "I already know, but this matter is still under discussion because the timing of Tang Ping's appearance is too coincidental, and he even took the initiative to approach you. It seems like he has ulterior motives."
"Have you investigated him?" Su Dingping asked.
“We’ve investigated, but there’s nothing suspicious about him. He’s never even been abroad!” Liu Huaming sighed. “But your lab is too important. Your research results are a precious asset to our Longxia tribe. We’re terrified of them being leaked.”
"Moreover, if it really is a spy, you will be exposed and may attract assassination attempts from other countries! That's too risky. We still prefer not to allow private enterprises to invest."
Su Dingping thought for a moment before saying, "Chief, I think we can agree to his request. I will naturally have a way to determine whether he is a spy or not. If he is a spy, I will make a good profit off him!"
Liu Huaming smiled helplessly: "You just love taking risks! But since you've made the request, we'll do as you say."
"That's great, thank you, sir. This way, the country can finally breathe a sigh of relief." Su Dingping smiled. "Moreover, this time, we can even cooperate with multiple private enterprises and choose the reliable ones."
Liu Huaming nodded: "Don't worry, we will screen them as soon as possible."
Just as Su Dingping and Liu Huaming were talking, the Eagle Tribe's fleet sailed in a mighty procession over the South China Sea!
Talos stood on the deck, hands behind his back, staring straight ahead, a pipe dangling from his mouth, the smoke billowing from his nostrils obscuring his face.
"How is it? Does the Dharma Aspect Dragon Xia tribe have a naval fleet?" he asked.
A naval soldier beside him hurriedly left and then hurriedly returned: "Reporting, General, we have not yet detected the Dragonxia Tribe's fleet!"
Taros frowned slightly, quite surprised. He knew that the Longxia tribe always valued their territory highly and would not give up an inch of land. Now that they had already invaded the Longxia tribe's sea area, the Longxia tribe had not reacted at all.
This is very unusual.
"What exactly is the Longxia tribe up to?"
Just as he was thinking, another soldier rushed over: "Reporting, General, enemy fleet spotted one kilometer away!"
Upon hearing this, Talos's eyes lit up: "Haha, I knew they wouldn't stand idly by, they've finally shown up!"
"This time, I'll make them taste our might and wash away the shame of our last defeat!"
Upon arriving at the control room, he saw numerous bright spots appearing on the radar screen in the center. The fact that these bright spots could be detected indicated that they were very large, meaning they were undoubtedly the enemy.
"Charge forward with all your might and start fighting!"
This is war, but in Talos's eyes, it's as casual as a game.
The officers and soldiers standing nearby dared not speak out against their anger.
Just then, an officer stepped forward, pointed to the glowing spot on the radar, and said, "General, the fleet detected by the radar hasn't moved at all from the beginning until now. Could this be a trap aimed at us?"
Upon hearing this, Taros laughed contemptuously: "A trap? Does the Dragonxia Tribe's navy have that much intelligence? They're not moving at all; maybe they've run out of money for refueling!"
"Besides, they had no idea we would be coming today, so there was absolutely no way they could have prepared a trap in advance. You were just too cautious. You should know that opportunities in war are fleeting!"
No money to refuel the ships? This reason is quite absurd, but it was said by their three-star general Talos, so they dared not refute it at all.
"Yes, sir! Open fire immediately upon approaching the target!"
The soldiers received the order and left. The entire fleet instantly accelerated and rushed toward the light spot on the radar. When they were thirty kilometers away from the light spot, Talos gave the order.
"Launch Patriot missiles!"
A red button was pressed, the missile silos on the destroyer opened, and a missile that was at least six meters long flew out, drawing a bright arc of light in the air before heading straight for the light spot in the center of the radar.
The one surrounded in the middle must be the enemy's most important destroyer, so attacking it first is definitely the right thing to do!
They had no idea that what their radar detected was not the Longxia tribe's fleet at all, but the Eastern Wilderness tribe's fleet, now reduced to scrap metal!
Although trapped here, Inoue Hi's nature remained unchanged. He spent all his time hiding in the room with women, and even had food delivered directly to the room, as if he had given up.
Just then, the naval soldiers patrolling the deck looked up and saw a Patriot missile flying towards them.
"Missile attack! Missile attack!"
The patrolling soldiers shouted that, seeing the missile was about to hit, they hurriedly jumped off the boat and swam desperately into the distance.
boom!
The missile landed precisely on the Kongo, causing a violent explosion. A burst of fire shot into the sky, and even the naval soldiers who had jumped aboard were thrown away by the resulting giant waves.
The Kongo-class destroyer was badly damaged, with a large section of it destroyed and a huge fire raging. The ship even showed signs of breaking apart. Almost everyone on board was killed!
Those on the surrounding ships were stunned by what they saw, only snapping out of their daze when the shockwave hit.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Everyone on board the ships panicked, but the ships couldn't move, and below them lay the turbulent sea. It seemed that no matter what they did, they would die.
A wave of despair washed over them.
"As expected, the Longxia tribe still won't let us go; they're determined to leave no one alive!"
"But are we worth a missile?"
The Longxia tribe fleet surrounding the outer perimeter was stunned by what they saw. "Who launched the missile?" Zhou Qinglei shouted.
A communications officer quickly contacted other ships and, after receiving the answer, reported: "Sir, it wasn't us who attacked; it was the Eagle Tribe!"
Zhou Qinglei frowned deeply: "Aren't they allies? Why are they fighting?"
Everyone shook their heads, wondering what had gotten into the Eagle Tribe this time.
An officer stepped forward and asked, "Sir, what should we do?"
"As I said before, everyone hide and let the Eagle Tribe's ships come over! My orders are to detain any fleet from any tribe that comes over, including the Eagle Tribe!"
Zhou Qinglei said righteously.
Another officer approached: "Sir, the Eagle Tribe's fleet is rapidly approaching, and they are only sixty kilometers away from us."
Zhou Qinglei snorted coldly: "They came really fast. They couldn't beat the Eastern Wilderness Tribe, so they called their own father. That's just like them. Now that they're here, they're not leaving!"
"Act as ordered!"
The fleet immediately retreated and surrounded the enemy as ordered, concealing themselves from sight. They were confident that the Eagle Tribe fleet's radar would not be able to detect them.
After all, the radar on the Eastern Wilderness Tribe fleet was sold to them by the Eagle Tribe.
In fact, Zhou Qinglei already knew about the Eagle Tribe's fleet as soon as it entered the Dragon Summer Tribe's waters, but he didn't move and just waited for the Eagle Tribe's fleet.
In terms of military action, this is a classic case of luring the enemy into a trap! After all, they invaded the sea area of their Longxia tribe first, so their counterattack seemed reasonable.
Although Zhou Qinglei had already ordered the attack, he still made a phone call to Liu Huaming before the attack to tell him about the Eagle Tribe fleet.
"I don't know what happened. As soon as the Eagle Tribe's fleet arrived, they fired a missile at the Eastern Wilderness Tribe's King Kong. I heard that the Eastern Wilderness Tribe's naval admiral was also on the King Kong. It's probably going to be blown to pieces now."
Liu Huaming grinned from ear to ear: "This is brilliant! It's like dogs fighting each other!"
"Zhou Qinglei, no matter who they are, whether they're here to rescue people or to provoke us, even if they're here to fish, you must capture them all. That's an order!"
Zhou Qinglei's voice was full of energy on the other end of the phone: "Yes! Mission accomplished!"
Su Dingping also heard the phone conversation and was taken aback: "Even the Eagle Tribe's fleet has been alerted? This commotion is getting more and more intense. Do they want to start another war?"
"Go to war? I doubt they have the guts!" Liu Huaming sneered. "Even if war does break out, we are not afraid!"
“You’ve been in the lab the whole time and have no idea what the Eagle Tribe has done. They not only signed a bill, but also joined forces with dozens of countries to cut off our channels for purchasing rare earth and rare precious metals.”
"Moreover, he openly smeared us internationally, propagating the Longxia threat theory, saying that our development endangered the security of the entire Blue Star, and not only severely condemned us, but also demanded that we immediately stop all the research we were doing, or else we would bear the consequences!"
Su Dingping sneered: "It seems they still haven't grasped the situation and think they're in charge on Blue Star! This time, let them see what's really going on!"
"By the way, Chief, since the Eagle Tribe has also gotten involved, let's close the net and kill as many as we can!"
Liu Huaming couldn't help but laugh at the thought of what was about to happen: "Okay, I got it. I'm really looking forward to seeing their furious expressions."
Meanwhile, in the South China Sea, after Talos launched his attack, he activated the Aegis anti-missile system, but after waiting for a long time, not a single missile flew over.
He looked at the dot on the radar. The dot in the very center had disappeared, indicating that the target had been destroyed. But they hadn't received any counterattack, which was definitely not normal!
"Let's get closer and see what the Longxia tribe is up to!"
Talos coldly gave the order, and the fleet set off again in a grand procession, quickly approaching the light spot on the radar. However, when they were close enough to the radar, a lookout suddenly ran in.
He anxiously recounted what he had seen: "General, the ships destroyed by our missiles were not from the Longxia tribe, but from the Donghuang tribe!"
"They seem to be trapped here; even after the destroyer was destroyed, the other ships didn't move!"
Taros's expression changed, and he hurriedly ran to the deck. He looked ahead with his military binoculars and, sure enough, discovered that the fleet detected by their radar was the Eastern Wilderness Tribe fleet!
"No, why aren't they moving? Aren't they afraid of the next missile hitting them?"
One officer couldn't help but remind him, "General, perhaps it's not that they don't want to move, but that they can't move!"
Talos suddenly realized: "No wonder they were floating there motionless, the fleet had all turned into scrap metal! But they're still fine now, so why did they suddenly lose contact?"
"Why are they stopping here? Could it be the Dragonxia Dragon Tribe? Why would the Dragonxia Tribe leave behind an entire fleet?"
Out of caution, Talos stopped his fleet about twenty miles away from the Eastern Wilderness Tribe fleet and did not move any further.
At that moment, on a Type 055 destroyer fifty kilometers away, Zhou Qinglei was also watching the Eagle Tribe's fleet through military binoculars.
"You're still quite worried, aren't you? Are you afraid we've set a trap?"
"But none of that matters now. Pass on my order: full speed ahead. When we are still thirty kilometers away from the Eagle Tribe fleet, use the electromagnetic pulse weapon!"
"Target the Eagle Tribe's patrol ships. Make sure to cripple their entire fleet as quickly as possible, and let them join the Eastern Wilderness Tribe's navy."
The electromagnetic pulse weapon was recharged and ready to be used again. Blue electric arcs lit up at its core, and the powerful electromagnetic pulse gradually condensed into an electromagnetic beam.
Although it wasn't the first time he had seen an electromagnetic pulse weapon used, each time it thrilled him and made his blood boil.
The pulse radiated toward the Eagle Tribe's fleet at near the speed of light. The electromagnetic pulse was so efficient and powerful that Zhou Qinglei wanted to hug and kiss the transmitting unit.
Electromagnetic pulse weapons are perfect for future warfare, as their ability to produce symptoms that leave the enemy completely unaware could fundamentally change the nature of future warfare!
On the distant Eagle Tribe fleet, Talos was unaware of what had happened when he suddenly felt the ship's engines stop—the heart of the ship!
Subsequently, all equipment on the ships was destroyed; the damaged wiring was still sparking, and the chips were burned out. The fleet was reduced to a pile of metal floating on the sea! (End of Chapter)