Rebirth in 1989: Creating the Chinese Technology Empire

Chapter 573 The war in Somalia begins: Indiscriminate bombing by the US military

Night falls in the conference room of the U.S. Central Command. Joseph, commander of the U.S. Central Command, looked solemn.

Since the incident in Somalia, Joseph has been busy every day. You must know that the Somali incident was ordered by Joseph.

Now that this matter has evolved into this, Joseph is responsible.

Now, the United States was ready to take action, and Joseph was appointed commander-in-chief of the battle. This operation is now named "Hammer of Hope" by the United States.

On the big screen of the headquarters, many target points have already been marked. These targets are all intelligence collected by the United States with all its strength during this period.

These places include Aidid's training ground, Aidid's military camp, including Mogadishu's power station, water plant, gas station, airport, port, and buildings where militants may be hiding.

There are also locations marked as possible underground bases. There are many of these goals, hundreds of large and small.

This time, the United States was angry.

Just after the Gulf War, the United States showed off its muscles and quickly defeated the arrogant Saddam, and then the Soviet Union was disintegrated by the United States.

I didn't expect that a small Somalia would have its teeth pulled out.

Therefore, the United States is ready to end. During this period, the United States has been sending representatives to negotiate with Aidid's people. But Aidid refused to let go. The United States must first meet its own conditions and pay compensation before releasing him.

Therefore, the United States is not prepared to wait any longer. As for the more than 1,000 American soldiers, just treat them as sacrifices. No one will die in a war. When the time comes, just let the domestic media report some other reasons. Anyway, the United States will not consider other things when it launches a war. When the Vietnam War started, the country was eager to hold anti-war demonstrations every day. Isn't it the same that it couldn't stop the war?

As long as the United States wants to start a war, public opinion is of no use. If public opinion was useful, the United States would not wage so many wars.

"Calibrate the time now, 1 o'clock in the morning, launch the attack on time..."

Joseph looked at the time. It was 1994 a.m. on January 1, 28. This was the scheduled time.

At one o'clock in the morning, the attack was officially launched. The first round is various long-range attacks. This time it is not only the United States that launches the attack, but also many NATO countries participating.

But the most important thing is the US military, especially the air force and navy. For Somalia, three aircraft carrier battle groups are enough.

The combat plan is also very simple. Bomb first, high-intensity bombing. Just like the Gulf War, various air strikes are used to blow up targets that may threaten them, and then ground troops are sent in.

Mogadishu is the focus of this bombing. As for whether civilians will be killed, this is not their concern.

Somalia, night falls.

Samedi suddenly received the warning message. After seeing the warning message, Samedi's face became happy, and then his expression returned to gloomy.

"General Aidid, it's not good, please notify us immediately and let everyone enter the tunnel. The Americans are about to attack..."

Samedi immediately informed Aidid.

"What? Do the Americans not care about the life and death of the hostages?"

Aidid was also dumbfounded. He had more than a thousand American hostages in his hands. Now that the United States has launched an air strike, does it mean that the hostages are not wanted?

"I didn't expect the Americans to be so ruthless and not even care about the hostages. General Aidid, now is not the time to care about this matter. Since war is coming, we will fight them here. Western countries can only fight Only when they feel pain will they sit at the negotiation table..."

Samedi said directly.

Aidid looked at Samedi and finally nodded.

There is no other choice but to fight now. It is impossible to surrender. There is no other way out except fighting. Even if you surrender, you will be killed by the Americans.

Under the cover of night, in the area controlled by Aidid, news was quickly transmitted.

After getting the news, many people hurriedly got into the tunnel.

The tunnel has been dug long ago and has several levels inside. But ordinary people didn’t know it before. Now that a war was about to break out, the militia captains led them directly into the tunnel.

Entering the tunnel, these people were all shocked.

They didn't expect that there was a huge underground city under their city. It has complete facilities and a large amount of food and medicine.

Not only that, there is even a TV in their gathering place, where they can even watch TV and so on.

Under night, a large number of people entered the basement, but some people were stubborn and refused to enter the underground base.

Among them are some intelligence officers from Europe, the United States and other countries. They know that once they enter the tunnel, it will be difficult for them to get out. As long as they enter, these people basically lose their freedom in order to keep it secret and cannot come out at will. Unless the war outside ends.

In the civilian military tunnel, all the armed personnel began to get busy. Whether it was the Somali People's Army, the Armed Police Force, or the trained militia, everyone picked up their guns at this moment, and everyone received live ammunition. Under the leadership of the captain, everyone dispersed to various hiding spots and waited patiently. .

Time passed little by little, and at one o'clock in the morning, the U.S. aircraft carrier battle group at sea officially launched an attack.

The first wave of attacks were guided missile destroyers in the aircraft carrier battle group. Tomahawk missiles were launched directly one after another. In this wave of launches, hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched.

The first wave of missiles attacked directly towards the most important target. At the same time, the fighter jets on the three aircraft carriers began to take off quickly. After taking off, they formed a formation and began to fly towards Mogadishu.

Under the night, missiles streaked across the sky like shooting stars.

Then these missiles quickly dived towards the target from the air and smashed towards the target.

"boom……"

"boom……"

"boom……"

Missiles hit their targets one after another, and huge explosions resounded throughout Mogadishu. Then an air raid siren sounded in Mogadishu.

Missiles fell one after another, and many places turned into seas of fire. The U.S. offensive officially started. Not long after the first wave of missiles exploded, fighter jets came over. After all, the three aircraft carrier battle groups are now very close to Mogadishu, and fighter jets can fly over in a few minutes.

Only a handful of these fighter jets are equipped with air-to-air combat bombs, while the other fighters are equipped with precision guided bombs.

These fighter planes flew over the target and began to carry out precise strikes on key targets according to the previous coordinates.

For a time, the sound of explosions was everywhere in Mogadishu, and bombs continued to focus on their targets as if they were free. '

Targets such as airports, ports, power stations, water plants, electric facilities, gas stations, warehouses, etc. are constantly being bombed.

The Somali people hiding underground listened to the huge explosions, and their eyes were full of hatred. Their homes were outside, and the Americans were bombing their homes indiscriminately.