Chapter 948: The alternation between the old and new "world's third"
In the distance, at the rocket launcher position of the Southern Front, there were signs of busyness.

An observation post lurking somewhere near the airport brought the best news via radio.

"The first round was very accurate! Very accurate! Just continue playing according to the predetermined parameters!"

This good news made the comrades of the Southern Front very excited. Strictly speaking, this was the first large-scale attack organized by them after they obtained new weapons and returned from learning from the big brother in the north.

Several months of hard work paid off, as the first round produced very good results. There was no need to wait for reports from the observation post, as we could just fire the remaining rockets and run away. It was exciting.

The comrades quickly loaded and adjusted the ammunition. Fortunately, the spade of the rocket launcher was buried well in the ground, and the position and angle of the gun body did not change much.

Soon, the second and third rounds were played out.

"Dismantle! Retreat!" the leading comrade shouted to the team. Now, their mission has been accomplished. Whether they can shoot accurately or not is not their problem, but the responsibility of the northern big brother who made the artillery and the comrades who are engaged in reconnaissance and measurement.

Thanks to the efforts of the comrades, the barrel of the gun was visibly disassembled and carried on the shoulders of the comrades at a very fast speed.

The East Asian Monster Room and the Southeast Asian Small Monster Hall, that's absolutely true. If we randomly pull a unit of troops from here to the Oil Bay, it will most likely beat the shit out of those weak teams fighting each other. The Jiaozhi people are not outstanding in this area, but in terms of technical and tactical qualities, they are still quite acceptable.

Just as the comrades of the South Front were carrying their equipment and setting off on their journey home, the airport in the United States was a miserable scene.

The 107mm rounds used by Comrade Jiaozhi were of a very simple type, namely, high-explosive shells. This type of shell actually had limited lethality against solid fortifications. Not to mention the 107mm rounds, even the 122mm high-explosive shells had limited lethality against reinforced concrete fortifications.

This incident was also recorded in the history of an artillery battle on a certain island in South Korea several decades later. The northern artillery was indeed fast and accurate, but its lethality was relatively limited to thick reinforced concrete fortifications.

However, this airport did not have that many fortifications. This time, the attack was carefully planned and organized. The apron and restaurant were hit, causing heavy losses in both people and property.

Looking around, after three rounds of bombardment by 144 Type 107 rockets, there was almost no intact aircraft on the tarmac except for those that were emitting flames and smoke.

There was even a rocket that crashed into the control tower next to the apron, killing several staff members in the tower. Looking down from the tower, in addition to the shallow craters, the neatly arranged torches were extremely dazzling. Not to mention, the parking of the Citigroup's helicopters was really standard. Not to mention those that were not burned into wreckage, even the wreckage that was turning into a pile of shelves looked so orderly in position and spacing, which was pleasing to the eye.

The people on the tower looked at the tragic scene of fireworks and smoke below. Apart from being thankful for their lucky escape, they could only mutter meaningless words such as "Impossible, oh God, this is impossible..."

If the people on the tower still had the opportunity to express their feelings, then the restaurant and its surroundings were obviously not so relaxing. There was not much fire here, only the residual smoke from the rocket explosion.

But in the smoke, groups of people fell to the ground, and there were almost no people standing intact.

Some people were struggling to get up or crawling on the ground, trying to escape from this area. But many more were lying on the ground, turning their bodies unconsciously, and some were even no longer breathing, and even needed the help of a puzzle master to reveal their true appearance.

There was blood everywhere, especially in the cafeteria. The slightly sloping floor, which was deliberately made to facilitate washing and cleaning, became the best place for the blood to flow out. Streams of dirty blood gathered together and flowed into the iron net of the sewer and disappeared.

As one of the buildings with the most people and the most intensively hit, the situation in the restaurant was the worst. The veteran who had participated in the Peninsula War more than ten years ago was lucky enough and his nerves were strong enough, so he regained consciousness quickly.

Looking at the half head left on Smith's neck not far ahead, it must have been blown off by shrapnel. He would never be able to hit the back of the California boy's head hard again.

The next morning, two pieces of news shocked the world.

The first one is that it was confirmed by the Sindhu government that their chief had recently suffered a severe stroke and fell ill in bed, and is now unable to exercise his power and management capabilities.

Behind this news, there is more.

The fall of a highly respected leader in Sindhu meant that the conflicts that he had suppressed with his skill and prestige began to erupt in full force, and the factions that were forcibly put together began to play their own games.

In fact, the country discovered at this time that although the Orientals did not attack the Sindhu people with all their strength, but only stopped the attack after a slight punishment, their casual actions brought almost a catastrophic disaster to the Sindhu people.

The new spokesman of the Sindhu government also stated on the first day of his hasty appointment that he would end the conflict with the Eastern University people as soon as possible, so that the Sindhu government would be able to focus its energy, consolidate its strength, and eliminate the surging resistance forces in places such as the northeastern and northwestern states.

We have to hurry up. If we don't end everything between us quickly and form a stable agreement, then our batch of first-line airports on the plateau will always be a sword of Damocles hanging over Zang San's head.

Even though the capital was being moved and most of the officials had fled south, the so-called capital no longer had to worry about air strikes from the north for the time being. However, Zang San shuddered at the thought of his broken transportation and the air force that had fled far to the south.

Speed ​​up the negotiations with the Dongda people! This is the first fire that their new leader has started since taking office. And this incident also means the end of the so-called "third in the world" that they boasted about.

The other one was a statement issued by the Nanjiao Array of Jiaozhi.

The writing style and tone of this statement are exactly the same as when we issued similar statements.

I won’t go into details about the specific content, but the core meaning is actually easy to understand.

In a certain place in South Jiaozhi, the South Jiaozhi Front used new weapons to successfully launch an artillery raid on an airport occupied by South Jiaozhi puppet troops and the Citi invaders. During the raid, 31 enemy planes were destroyed and no less than 470 enemies were killed or injured. Among them, it is believed that some Citi invaders received due punishment, and the comrades who participated in the battle shot down two Citi invaders' helicopters during the retreat.

The comrades of the Southern Front are not clear about the exact number of casualties among the American soldiers.

In the face of this incident, the Citigroups chose to be honest in a rare way. Although the number of losses may still be an ambush, they at least admitted that the personnel they sent to Jiaozhi to help the Jiaozhi army train did suffer losses.

As for how much the loss was, the Citigroup boss did not elaborate.

However, the Citigroup flatly denied that the two pursuing helicopters were shot down, claiming that their own helicopters did not participate in the fighting in Jiaozhi. They did not know which side the helicopters that the Southern Jiaozhi Front said were shot down belonged to, and they did not comment on it.

What a joke, there were too many casualties at the airport and they had to admit it, so he just took the position of military advisor.

But the pursuit helicopter must never admit it. Once it admits it, the nature of the matter will change.

This piece of news, combined with the miserable current situation of the Zang-san, successfully reminded the international community of what happened more than ten years ago. That long and lingering nightmare has once again surfaced in the hearts of some countries.

Everyone knows who is behind Jiaozhi, and who is the most sensitive about the Citigroup's foothold in Jiaozhi? And now his apprentice can make the Citigroup drink a pot.

At the same time, what everyone does not know is that this incident indicates that a new "third in the world" is gradually taking shape and will eventually grow into an ambitious invader and will eventually be punished like the previous third.

The old third falls down, and the new third stands up.

Now people have not realized that the third place in this world is a triple evil position, which is very dangerous and it is better not to be in it.

Although they sounded tough in their public statements, Citigroup's bosses knew the pain they suffered and that the loss this time was indeed not small.

The number of lost aircraft was not 31, but 30. The number announced by the comrades of the Southern Front was actually the intelligence sent by their own people stationed in the Southern Front army. It was the result of precise statistics and naturally could not be wrong. However, in order to protect their own people, the Southern Front deliberately made a slight mistake when announcing the results of the battle.

Of the 30 aircraft lost, only 6 fixed-wing aircraft belonged to the South Jiaozhi Army, and the other 24 were all helicopters, all owned by the Citigroups.

Without tearing off the fig leaf, it is naturally inconvenient for them to use fixed-wing aircraft to fight personally. They mainly use helicopters and special forces to carry out secret operations.

All 24 helicopters at the airport were wiped out in this wave of attacks!

In the White Hall, the president of Citigroup and his staff even held an emergency meeting for this matter.

"Sir Commander, a total of 152 of our boys have died in this attack, and another 29 are injured and are being treated in hospital."

This number is insignificant compared to their total losses in Jiaozhi later, but at this stage, it is undoubtedly an astonishing number.

"The fighting power of the Jiaozhi people cannot be so strong! Is it that the Oriental people to their north are exerting force behind the scenes?" Commander Citi was very skeptical about this.

They shamelessly invaded Jiaozhi and fought secretly, disrupting the situation in other countries. They judged others by their own standards. If I did it, you will definitely do it too!

"No, my lord commander, there is no evidence of that," said a soldier beside him.

In fact, in the soldier's heart, even if he discovered the truth, he would rather pretend he didn't know.

(End of this chapter)