Chapter 678: Saudi Statehood (10)
Can you believe that? We were hit by a "rain of eggs" 2,000 kilometers away, and the Evans guy even collected the egg liquid to go to the ** quiche after the end, and we all tore it together at dinner. Yes, ruthlessly! It's not an exaggeration at all, maybe it was like a child's joke from start to finish, but it was a nightmare for me. Imagine that when you are in a good mood and enjoying a holiday in the Indian Ocean, only to have a flock of migratory birds throw tons of "droppings" from the top of your head, and I feel nervous.
This has never been done before! ――
Corporal Rodney, Kevin.
Kevin was not as relaxed as he was later interviewed, and when he put on his life jacket and steel helmet and rushed to the battle position, the shrill hissing of the engine could already be heard overhead. At that time, even half of the only eight 40-mm anti-aircraft guns on board the Rodney had not yet received shells, because the ordnance officers who managed the anti-aircraft shells were taking a nap.
It's a complete mess!
But what made Kevin depressed was that it wasn't until many years later that everyone didn't know anything about this strange bombing operation, which was recorded in the world's military history, even the top brass of the Wehrmacht, including Yang Qiu. At that time, Xu Huansheng, the initiator, had excitedly tied himself to the seat belt, picked up a basket of eggs and licked the corners of his mouth, and the partner behind him couldn't wait to grab the basket and do it himself.
There's no way not to get excited, because the idea of smashing an opponent with an egg is what he came up with.
In fact, in order to successfully complete the symbolic task of breaking through the blockade, the top echelons of the Air Force forbade the planes to carry any weapons other than self-defense, and strictly stipulated that each plane could only carry four Gulf Company technicians. After all, if you really want to fight, you will not send transport planes, but bombers. But the energetic Air Force guys found that they needed to cross the Strait of Hormuc in the flight route, and began to think about how to leave a "deep" impression on the other side when they encountered the British ** ship! In the case that offensive weapons could not be brought, everyone worked together, from pig's heads to paint bags, and some people even proposed the idea of bringing "golden soup", but fortunately it did not pass, otherwise it would not be stinky. Just when the commanders saw themselves ruining the plane, they might have to spend their next generation in a small dark room.
In the end, Xu Huansheng's method of smashing eggs prevailed, not only with Huang Guangrui's support, but also with the name of "If he didn't encounter enemies", he could also add food to the workers of the oil company. But wanting to make each plane carry 400 kilograms of eggs is also frustrating ground crew. In order to raise 19 tons of eggs, everyone almost bought all the eggs near the Tajik base. It even had to be transported by train from Urumqi and Kashgar to meet the requirements.
At the beginning, when the fleet saw the empty ocean, everyone thought that the probability of encountering the British ** ship was too low, but they did not expect to find a small fleet after flying for less than half an hour. There is also a huge battleship in the center of the fleet!
That excitement, "Egg Rain" is finally useful!
"Throwing eggs, throwing eggs." When he arrived at the bombing area, the voice of the captain, who had been the pilot of the bomber, changed, and Xu Huansheng immediately scattered the egg in his hand. Basket after basket, wait until all 400 kilograms of eggs are scattered. A dense black spot had already appeared in the sky.
"God! They're on the offensive. ”
"Watch out for bombs!"
"Anti-aircraft guns."
The sudden black dots spilling from the cabin frightened the British sailors to shout and jump, thinking that it was some "new weapon", and several prepared anti-aircraft guns were the first to fire. The banging shelling also frightened Huang Guangrui, but he didn't expect the British Navy to open fire because of the eggs, so he hurriedly pulled up and ordered an evacuation. Because three planes broke down and turned back on the way, the remaining 45 transport planes were immediately dispersed. And the shelling of the British army also made the Air Force guys very angry, and they only hated that they were carrying eggs instead of bombs.
"General! Something doesn't seem right. ”
Just when everyone was worried about the anti-aircraft fire, the staff officer who had been observing the heavy cruiser Kent suddenly handed over the telescope with a strange expression: "You should see it with your own eyes." ”
Canain looked strange when he saw him. looked like he wanted to laugh and cry, and hurriedly raised the binoculars, and was stunned on the spot after seeing clearly what the black dot was falling, which was an egg?
Even if he's never cooked, Cunningham knows that those little things are eggs. It's not the so-called mysterious weapon that everyone just thought. This conclusion was confirmed, and hundreds of eggs crackled and smashed into the heavy cruiser Kent, the portholes, gun barrels, decks, and even steel helmets all covered in thick egg liquid. The soldiers scurried with their heads in their hands, and the liquid eggs splashed and scattered. The whole deck was in a hurry. Even the Rodney was the same, from a distance, the hull of the ship that was under heavy care was surrounded by dense small water columns, and there were even eggs hitting the steel helmet and stunting the soldiers, and the sticky egg liquid was thrown everywhere like snot, making Cunningham, who demanded a neat appearance, twitch the corners of his mouth.
Syllable!
At this moment, an egg "accurately" hit the steel plate next to Roger John, and the egg liquid splashed on his cheeks and neck, leaving a fishy yellow stain on the white navy uniform. "General." The staff officer and the officer were startled, after all, even if it was an egg, it would be injured if it fell from a height of several thousand meters, so they hurriedly took out a handkerchief and prepared to help him wipe off the stain.
"These damn bastards! Command. Roger John was so angry that he stomped his feet and was about to give the order to fire at full speed, but Cunningham hurriedly grabbed him, covered his forehead and reminded: "General, this is an egg." ”
yes, it's an egg! If you give the order to fire at full speed for a few eggs, you will not only not become a Nelsonian general, but will become the object of ridicule of the whole world. Roger John was unwilling, but at the thought of Whitehall's repeated telegrams asking for as little conflict as possible, he could only glare at the group viciously, and then angrily rushed into the bridge.
After he left, Cunningham finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered to stop firing. In fact, there was no need for an order, and most of the British sailors, who learned that it was an egg and not a bomb, stopped shelling. Although the British Empire was arrogant and unreasonable, the Royal Navy still had this demeanor. What's more, a few anti-aircraft guns are basically not much of a threat to a 6,000-meter-high aircraft group.
After seeing that the shelling stopped, a few brave pilots dared to fly into the sky again, but this time the British Navy did not fire again, and the sailors only hid behind thick steel plates, cursing and insulting or simply joking with each other while being baptized by the "rain of eggs". Seeing this scene, more and more transport planes began to turn around and continue to spill eggs at the fleet, like a flock of migratory birds that vented their anger on the perpetrators with "droppings" after being disturbed on the way to the migratory process.
Moments later, two belated British seaplanes finally climbed up. But before Huang Guangrui could get close to him and give the order to accelerate, the pilots immediately pressed the switch for spraying methanol, and after the purer methanol was poured into the engine, even the fuselage shook suddenly.
Then, the two British pilots saw a scene that they would never forget. A transport aircraft several times larger is actually faster than a water reconnaissance aircraft. Straight away at 330 km/h.
The transport plane flew faster than the reconnaissance plane, and I cried to death!
After the group left, the sailors walked out of bunkers, and the deck was now a mess, with eggshells and egg wash everywhere. Even if the transport aircraft did not have a special bombing sight, the eggs were not heavy enough to deviate greatly. But the "damage" caused by 200,000 eggs is still very considerable. The soldiers shook their heads and smiled wryly, and the officers ordered the clean-up to begin, except for Cunningham who stood on the deck and looked in the direction the plane had left and frowned secretly.
Where did they fly from? If today it is not an egg that falls, but a bomb.
Canning was relieved to be cold.
Enduring the "great humiliation", Roger John immediately sent people to Saudi Arabia to find out where the planes flew from, but the next day when the British army forced their way into the Ghawar oil field. Except for the more than 100 oil workers who arrived at random, the transport plane had long since been filled with fuel and disappeared without a trace.
The news of the "bombing of the Rodney" soon spread all over the world, which was more like a joke to ordinary people, and the photos of the Rodney covered in eggs were even more hilarious, but in the eyes of those politicians and military experts, the meaning of this "bombing" was different! Three days later, when Beijing officially announced the success of the Tajik experiment of a direct flight to Riyadh, the attitude of the countries that had previously fallen to Britain because of the Rodney sortie changed again.
Although the 2,500-kilometer flight in the sky could not support the war, they all knew that if it was not eggs but bombs that were dropped, I am afraid that the Rodney would not be covered with eggs
When the British Empire was in anxiety. East Bengal has brought darkness. The streets of Dhaka, which were still bustling during the day, were left with only a few vendors who had stayed up all night still dozing, and they didn't even wake up to a few dark shadows passing by.
This is exactly the opportunity that Park Eun-sung wants most, and the more than 300 commandos of the North Korean battalion are all dressed in black and wearing black hoods, under the leadership of a hunter team led by Luo Wenhu, who came from Yunnan. Touch the municipal building on the shores of Lake Crescent. The Dhaka Municipal Building was built in 1790 when the British colonial army took control of East Bengal and used it as a springboard to attack India. With the British taking full control of India. The empire on which the sun never sets has finally taken shape, and the castle is losing its need to defend itself against enemies. After the partition of East and West Bengal in 1904, it was changed to the provincial capital of East Bengal.
After Gandhi's death, sectarian strife in India surged, and civil war was on the verge of breaking out, and the British government had to summarily end the Dutch East Indies War and send additional troops to India to prevent accidents. Dhaka was also one of the most important garrisons, with a regiment of Anglo-Indian soldiers stationed in the Crescent Lake barracks north of the castle.
This infantry regiment, which is made up entirely of white British and Gurkha soldiers, has always been a thorn in the side of the local Muslim League. However, due to the inability to find a way to take the castle, the East Bengal Muslim League forces not only failed to succeed, but were beaten by the ruthless Gurkha soldiers.
"Be careful."
Luo Wenhu grabbed his comrade-in-arms who was almost tripped over a messy street object, pointed to the British sentry post on guard three hundred meters away, and then made a choking motion. The comrade-in-arms nodded and took out two strong crossbows from his backpack, and the arrows of the crossbow arrows glowed faintly blue under the starlight, and they looked like they had been fed with poison. At the same time, several other hunters immediately pulled out their short blasting canisters, connected them one by one, and sent out a signal to be ready.
The sound of crossbow arrows breaking the wind will push the British Empire, which is deep in the crisis of Saudi statehood, into a corner!