Chapter 450 Extra: The Blade of the Nation 4
Three months later, the two children went to take the entrance exam as scheduled.
Lu Changzheng and Su Mo were in a very complicated mood.
Publicly, they hoped that the two children could successfully pass the test, go there for further studies, graduate successfully, and bring back what the country needs.
Privately, they didn't want them to pass, after all, if they went there, they would be in danger of death, and they might die there.
It is understood that in the session with the highest mortality rate, 20 people entered, and in the end only 2 people successfully graduated, and the remaining 18, except for one who became a vegetable, the other 17 were never seen alive or dead, and there was no news.
It can be said that it was a place where only success is allowed and failure is not allowed, and there is no turning back.
Ten days later, news came that the two children successfully passed the test.
From that day on, Lu Changzheng and Su Mo were on high alert, fearing to receive any news, but also fearing to have no news.
The place where the two children were going was a top secret, and only Lu Changzheng and his wife knew
about it, except for Commander Xu and a few other bigwigs of the same level. Therefore, everyone else in the Su and Lu families thought that the two children were just going to study abroad. Su Tingde and Su Yichen could guess some of it, but it was a secret of the army, so they naturally would not tell anyone.
As time passed, after having several nightmares about the two children being seriously injured, Su Mo, who did not believe in ghosts and gods, spent a lot of money to find a master and asked for a Bodhisattva to worship at home. She burned incense every morning, hoping that her two children would return safely.
It was Lu Changzheng, this firm materialist, who later followed Su Mo to burn incense every morning...
Two years passed in a blink of an eye, and finally there was news that the two children had successfully graduated and would return home soon.
After receiving the news, the couple almost cried and their hearts, which had been hanging for so long, could finally let go.
At that time, the Gulf War had just ended.
This war, in which the United States dispatched 660,000 coalition troops and Iraq dispatched 860,000 troops, began with the attention of the whole world and ended in a shocking way.
In just 42 days, the United States completely defeated Iraq. Iraq suffered nearly 100,000 casualties, while the United States only had more than 100 casualties and more than 400 injuries.
This overwhelming victory in the war shocked the world. At the same time, the world has witnessed a brand new way of fighting.
It has made the national governments around the world realize that with the development of modern high technology, the way of war has long changed.
In this war, the U.S. army put a large number of high-tech weapons into actual combat for the first time, exerting the power of electronic warfare and information warfare to the extreme, and demonstrating overwhelming air and electromagnetic superiority. Under the crushing of the U.S. technological and military strength, the various armed forces of Iraq suffered a devastating blow.
Since then, information warfare and electronic warfare have begun to be frequently mentioned by the armies of various countries.
At the beginning of the Gulf War, there were still military experts in the country who boldly predicted that this war might become a guerrilla war, and even street fighting would occur, and the U.S. might be deeply mired in the quagmire of war.
As the war progressed, especially after the news of Iraq's surrender, all media in China fell silent.
Although our economy has lagged behind in recent years, most people and even soldiers in the army are still very confident in the military.
After all, from the Korean War to the Vietnam War, we have never lost. Before this battle, when talking about the most capable countries in the world, China must have a place.
Compared with the silence of the people, the military leaders are worried. Because they have never seen such a war, the form of war has completely changed.
In the minds of most leaders, war should be fought by motorized infantry, interspersed with encirclement, with the air force at most as auxiliary bombing, cooperating with ground troops, occupying important nodes on the ground, destroying the living forces, and making the opponent lose the confidence to resist.
As a result, this scene did not happen at all!
Relying on information warfare, the United States completely understood the command center, radar center, network hub, power station and ammunition depot of Iraq at the beginning of the war. Then, electronic warfare was used to make Iraq blind and deaf, and the command system paralyzed, and then cruise missiles were used to blow up radar stations, air defense bases, ammunition depots and even logistics warehouses.
At this point, Iraq did not even see the shadow of the soldiers of the United States, and its confidence collapsed by half.
After bombing the air defense radar stations and power stations, the United States launched fighter planes to launch large-scale air strikes. Iraq's ground tanks and other manpower were bombed one by one by the United States Air Force. They even used laser-guided precision bombs. At an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, the United States fighter planes only needed to drop one or two bombs to accurately destroy the armored troops on the ground and the manpower hidden in the bunkers.
It was completely different from the carpet bombing they knew.
Traditional carpet bombing uses bombers, carrying tens of tons of aerial bombs, rushing down. Bombers are large targets with slow speeds, and are easily discovered. Ground troops can easily discover and hide, and are also easily shot down by missiles.
As a result, the United States used fighter planes to drop precision-guided bombs from an altitude of 10,000 meters.
Iraqi fighter planes wanted to take off to stop them, but due to the intervention of the United States' long-range early warning aircraft, their take-off positions and flight trajectories were exposed early, and many were shot down by the United States' missiles, and some were even shot down by their own anti-aircraft missiles.
After this round of bombing, Iraq completely collapsed. They didn't even see the enemy, and their manpower was almost completely lost, so they had no choice but to surrender.
The leaders reviewed this battle again and again, and organized weapons deductions many times, and found that this mode of warfare has no solution at all, unless you don't use modern facilities at all.
But without modern facilities, and without the ability to fight others, you can't use your body to resist other people's planes and cannons, right?
Over the years, the confidence built up by the bloody battles of our ancestors has vanished.
They fully realize that in the face of modern warfare, our country's current military system is definitely not feasible, and major reforms must be made in military strategy, combat tactics and military construction.
Otherwise, the fate of Iraq today is our tomorrow.
Lu Heyan and Lu Yanhe returned to the country under such circumstances.
As soon as they returned, they were taken to meet important leaders. When
the brother and sister went there, in addition to improving their individual combat skills, they also learned a large number of high-tech weapons that were not available in the country and learned many advanced combat concepts.
The brother and sister have learned about the high-tech weapons used in the Gulf War, and they know exactly what functions are inside. After meeting the leaders, the two explained all these things according to their own understanding.
After the leaders had a deep understanding, they felt deeply afraid and decided to make up for this shortcoming as soon as possible.
From this day on, all military forces will be informationized and electronicized, and each group army will set up a team specifically responsible for information warfare and electronic warfare.