My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1173 - 1079: Bizarre Incident! A Narrow Escape from Death!
An arrow shot never returns to the bow!
The war has escalated to this point, and withdrawal is impossible.
The marine units deeply encircled in Baldet can’t withdraw even if they wanted to.
Who exactly used what weapon to create this bizarre incident, and how to investigate it...
These are all headaches for the higher-ups to worry about.
As the Commander of the war zone, Padding Shayol must make quick decisions in the face of critical circumstances and find a way to break through the adversity.
It’s around nine o’clock at night.
Shayol ordered several surrounding military bases to dispatch transport planes, fighter jets, drones, etc., to Seleck Airport right away, and to air transport a large number of combat personnel and ammunition supplies.
At the same time, fighter and transport aircraft are sent out in rotation to provide necessary spare parts and aerial protection for the Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, and gather the nearest warships for maritime escort.
Meanwhile, the battle group itself must also undertake rapid repairs, regain propulsion and control for each vessel as quickly as possible to avoid drifting at sea and potential collisions between ships.
At Seleck Airport, the reserve troops and supplies were immediately air-dropped to the Baldet battlefield, supporting the encircled marine units, continuing to bomb the vault, sparing no expense to break it open.
...
Do one’s utmost and leave the rest to fate.
Shayol does not know what the results of the massive troop reinforcements and emergency rescues, this series of mobilization and deployment, will bring about.
Nor does he know whether the third-party power that created the strange incident will intervene again.
The current situation is too delicate.
And this war, in itself, is quite perplexing.
Many people actually do not know why there is a war.
Why the sudden massive troop inflow into Nabigu Continent, the no-fly and no-sail zones, and the encirclement of Seleck, with all sorts of searches...
Nor do they understand how it came to be that they suddenly attacked the tumultuous Baldet, to find themselves trapped with no way forward or backward...
Only the middle and high ranks and senior officers know that the main reason is to retrieve the three stolen nuclear warheads to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorist extremists and hostile nations.
A secondary reason is to curb YL Country’s expansionist tendencies, strike at their infiltration within Nabigu Continent, and prevent this arch-enemy from obtaining Nabiya’s resources.
Nabiya may seem poor and chaotic, but that’s just on the surface. If it were truly a barren land devoid of resources, why would YL Country and the Star Federation bother infiltrating and controlling it for so long?
In fact.
Nabiya is exceptionally rich in resources.
Gold mines can produce gold, a time-honored value-preserving and appreciating hard currency.
Rare earth mines can produce various rare metals, satisfying the needs for composite materials, special alloys, stealth coatings, and high-end industrial fields.
As for oil and natural gas...
Nabiya used to lack these, as did the entire world.
Originally, the world’s proven oil reserves amounted to just over a trillion tons, enough to last humanity only three or four decades, causing oil prices to soar. At one point, a barrel of crude oil sold for over a hundred Gold Coins, prompting nations to compete in establishing petroleum reserve systems.
Yet plans cannot keep up with changes, and no one knew that human energy technology would advance so quickly.
Previously, oil was known to exist in pore spaces and fractures of mud shale, adjacent layers of detrital rock and interlayers, known as shale oil, which, although recognized, was unusable. But now, shale oil technology has matured.
Tens of trillions of tons of global shale oil can be extracted and refined, and although the cost is slightly higher, it can meet human needs for two to three thousand years at least.
Additionally, shale gas, which used to be trapped in shale fractures and pore spaces, adsorbed on the surface of clay, and dissolved in bitumen, has become exploitable as well, with several hundred trillion cubic meters available, sufficient for nearly a century of human use.
And now.
Thanks to the mature application of shale gas and shale oil extraction technologies, Nabiya has transformed from a country with scarce oil and gas resources to one with abundant oil and gas reserves.
Although on Liuli Continent, Wu Jie has developed the impressive Graphene Composite Battery, this can only change the automobile industry. Human airplanes and ships, as well as the chemical industry, still cannot do without oil, and cooking still requires natural gas.
Therefore, Nabiya is not a barren land. It not only has a superb strategic location but also abundant mineral resources, making it, of course, worth contending for.
However...
It is inconvenient for great powers to clash directly and come to blows.
They all support proxies, nurturing local forces to engage in combat with each other.
Even if they want to take action themselves, it’s on the territory of a third party.
Igniting wars on foreign lands, keeping one’s own nation away from trouble, this is the usual practice of the great powers.
Just like this time.
YL Country and the Star Federation haven’t actually declared war on each other, nor have they directly attacked one another overtly.
Even, there hasn’t been any news of diplomatic friction or verbal battles between the two nations.
Without any official acknowledgment, they fight to the death in Nabigu Continent.
War is the continuation of politics, and politics serves interests.
For the interests of the two nations, they engage in frenzied fighting on another’s territory.
The Star Federation takes full advantage of its military strength, with all sorts of advanced equipment going into combat, bombarding relentlessly...
YL Country, on the other hand, mobilizes local forces, incites armed civilians, and creates chaos in the battle, fighting with disastrous ferocity...
As a result.
The scramble for those three nuclear warheads has merely become the spark igniting this explosive war.
The reason for such fierce and unrelenting fighting is still not about interests?
Furthermore, the two countries have long harbored grievances against each other over regional affairs and nuclear issues.
