Chapter 238 The mushroom cloud produced by the high-explosive bomb caused chaos in France and even the whole world

The places Wang Jiankun chose to make a big move in North Africa were Libya and Chad, because the two countries were at war at the time, and France was Chad’s original suzerain. If he made some trouble here, France would definitely have no time to take care of South Asia.

Libya was originally a colony of Italy. After Italy’s defeat in the late World War II (1947), it had to give up its colonial rights, and Libya entered a state of partition and trusteeship between Britain and France.

However, this state did not last long. On December 1951, 12, the United Kingdom of Libya was established under the resolution of the United Nations. Idris I (leader of the Sanusi sect) was appointed king and a federal system was implemented (autonomy of the three regions of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan).

By 1959, large-scale oil fields were discovered underground in Libya. Oil exports led to an average annual GDP growth of 20% (in the 1960s), but all this wealth was concentrated in the hands of the royal family and foreign companies. The people under their rule did not benefit much, and inflation also put ordinary people’s lives in trouble.

So by 1963, Libya had to abolish the federal system and strengthen centralization, but it did not ease domestic conflicts.

Then in 1969, the September Revolution took place.

On September 9, Gaddafi led the “Free Officers Organization” to overthrow the Idrisid Dynasty, established the Libyan Arab Republic, and appointed himself Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council.

At the beginning, he had little power and relied entirely on the support of a group of like-minded military officers to barely maintain government rule.

But he was a man with a lot of ideas and was very good at inspiring people. Whenever he arrived at a military camp, he would give a speech, talking about his political ideas and philosophy of governing the country, and the people in the audience really liked his rhetoric.

So in 1973, feeling that the time was ripe, Gaddafi launched the “Cultural Revolution”, dissolved political parties, and established a “People’s Committee” to promote direct democracy.

Then in 1977, the country’s name was changed to the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

During this period he published the Green Book, also known as the Theory of the Third International, which advocated “direct rule by the people” beyond both capitalism and communism.

In diplomacy, he expelled British and American military bases (1970), nationalized the oil industry (1973), supported the PLO and the African anti-colonial movement, and worsened relations with the United States.

在交恶美国的同时，他积极与苏联靠拢，这10多年来，从苏联购入超2000辆坦克（T-62、T-72）、米格-23/25战机及SA-5防空导弹，军费占GDP 10%以上。

Externally, it supports the international revolutionary movement.

In 1973, he ordered the Libyan army to occupy the Aouzou region of Chad. In 1980, he directly sent troops to support the Goukouni regime. In 1983, he took control of northern Chad, but was subject to French military intervention (the “Great Ray Operation” temporarily ceased fire in 1984).

He also supported the Irish Republican Army, the Moro Liberation Front in the Philippines and other organizations.

Intervened in Uganda (supporting Amin’s regime) and the Sudanese civil war to expand its influence in Africa.

Therefore, Libya has been listed as a “terrorist state” by the United States.

In fact, at the beginning, Gaddafi, a small officer, did not make any sufficient preparations when launching the military coup. It was only because the government at that time was too weak and the army under his rule were dissatisfied with the rule of the king at that time that he was able to control the state power.

Gaddafi, who suddenly gained great power, certainly had no ability to govern the country, but he was able to learn and think, so he tried his best to imitate Germany and the Soviet Union during the mustache period, and promoted his ideas of direct people’s autonomy and world revolution to the army and the people.

In this way, the people at home will support him and he will gradually gain influence internationally.

And influence is the basis of his rule in Libya.

In addition, after he came to power, he actively promoted welfare policies, implemented free medical care and free education, and infrastructure construction and urbanization also greatly improved people’s living standards.

比如到了1984年，利比亚国内的人口总量已经从1954年的109万增长到364万，年均增长率高达4.2%。

Libya’s capital Tripoli (population over 100 million, Benghazi 60, 70% of the country’s population lives in cities.

And the literacy rate of this population has increased to 60%.

Although Libya’s prosperity is mainly supported by oil wealth, it is inseparable from the policies implemented by Gaddafi. Although his purpose is to consolidate his rule, the people and the country have indeed benefited.

Wang Jiankun and his Quanjiezhen faction had contact with Gaddafi several years ago.

At the beginning, through his introduction, we got in touch with some Soviet military officers and military-industrial enterprises and purchased some arms.

Later, when the industrialization of the base in northern Myanmar reached a certain level, they began to actively sell arms to Gaddafi.

And because both sides believe in world revolution and have a lot in common, their cooperation has become increasingly close in recent years.

At this time, in a military camp in Libya, five groups of D-5 surface-to-surface missile launch systems were ready for launch, targeting several strategic locations in northern Chad.

“President, the target location has been confirmed and the missiles are ready. Should we launch them?” A general of the Libyan army asked President Gaddafi whether to launch the attack as planned.

“Let’s launch it. Let me see how powerful the Eastern missiles are and whether they are as strong as they say.” Gaddafi said while smoking in a relaxed manner.

You should know that among the targets of this missile attack, two are French military bases in Chad.

But Gaddafi was very arrogant and didn’t care at all whether it would anger France.

The previous ceasefire was not due to fear of France, but because oil prices plummeted in the first half of the year and Libya’s economy encountered great difficulties.

Because at this time, 95% of Libya’s fiscal revenue depends on oil export revenue.

However, in the first half of 1984, international oil prices plummeted, resulting in a sharp drop in fiscal revenue.

The country’s high welfare policies and infrastructure construction gradually lost financial support and could no longer be carried out.

If France continues to fight with Chad, it will definitely incite the masses to riot at home.

By then, he will be in trouble both internally and externally, and his rule may be unstable.

So with the intervention of France, he stopped the war against Chad in time.

Now, because of what is happening in South Africa, international gold and oil prices are rising rapidly, and the economy is about to improve.

In addition, the Soviet Union also hoped that he would make some big moves and push oil prices to new heights through war.

The Soviet economy at this time was somewhat similar to that of Libya, and its fiscal revenue also relied on oil exports.

The United States also discovered this, so it joined forces with several Arab countries in the Middle East and China to increase oil production in order to suppress international oil prices and keep oil prices below the Soviet Union’s production cost line.

As a result, the Soviet Union would lose money for every barrel it produced, and the domestic economy would not receive the transfusion of oil. Over time, the economy would inevitably collapse.

The Soviet Union was also slow to realize this problem, and it took more than half a year for them to discover it. Therefore, when the people of the All-Union Front told this analysis to Gaddafi, Gaddafi contacted the Soviet Union and received support from the Soviet Union.

Both of them need to raise international oil prices. The current conflict in South Africa has proved that as long as a hot war of considerable scale occurs, international oil prices are likely to rise.

Boom~, boom~, boom~, the huge roar of ground-to-ground missiles continued to come from the distance, and the expressions of all the officers in the command room suddenly became nervous.

This ground-to-ground missile with a range of up to 300 kilometers provided by the Quanjie Array is the first time they have used it, so they don’t know how effective it is.

At this time, the high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance aircraft saw the target clearly and forwarded the signal to the large screen in the combat command room through the fully-connected communication satellite.

The drones flying in the sky and the large LCD screen in the combat command room were all provided by Quanjiezhen, and Gaddafi was watching them very attentively.

He thought about the scene of his previous meeting and chatting with the representatives of the Quanjie Array, and combined with the high-tech equipment he saw now, he felt that the Quanjie Array was not simple at all.

Although the territory they openly occupy is much smaller than that of Libya he ruled, and the international community has not yet recognized them, they are only regarded as a local autonomous regime under the current Myanmar government.

But the information they revealed shows that this is a well-organized, technologically advanced organization with firm beliefs.

Although the range of the ground-to-ground missiles they provided was not particularly high, the Soviet Union had many types of missiles with a range of tens of thousands of kilometers, but it was impossible to sell them to them.

The Quanjiezhen missile was sold as soon as it was announced, and the price was more than half cheaper than that of Soviet missiles with the same range.

They also said that if the cooperation goes smoothly and the purchase of ground-to-ground missiles reaches 500, they can provide them with a complete maintenance and assembly line, allowing them to master the maintenance and assembly production capabilities of this type of missile.

If the purchase volume can reach 2000 missiles, all the production technologies of the missile components can be provided, so that Libya will have domestically produced ground-to-ground missiles.

Gaddafi was very excited at the time because although he had the support of the Soviet Union, he could buy a large amount of arms from the Soviet Union.

But not all weapons are available for purchase, and those that are available are of inferior quality.

Moreover, the Soviet Union was only thinking about making money by selling arms. Not only were the prices high, but the spare parts were also very expensive. The maintenance techniques were also strictly controlled and they did not want to teach them at all.

For example, during training, if tanks or planes broke down, they had to wait until Soviet technicians came to repair them, and Libyan personnel were not allowed to be on site during the repairs.

Gaddafi knew that this situation was extremely unfavorable to Libya. If a large-scale war broke out, these weapons and equipment would be consumed very quickly because there would be no Soviet technicians on the battlefield to repair them. If they broke down, they would definitely be left in place and either destroyed or captured by the enemy.

So when he heard from Quanjiezhen that they could provide assembly and repair production lines, and even a complete set of spare parts production lines, he was very excited.

This surface-to-surface missile with a range of 300 kilometers is sufficient for the African region. Moreover, it is a vehicle-mounted and mobile missile, so the launching site does not need to be very flat and can even be launched from a sturdy ship.

However, since the price of a single missile is still 100 million US dollars, 500 missiles plus launch vehicles, radars and other systems will cost about 6 million US dollars, which is still a relatively large expense for Libya.

So he did not agree immediately at that time, but first purchased 50 missiles and 5 sets of launch systems, and gave a discount of 5 million for the total price. The 5 sets of launch systems were equivalent to free gifts.

In addition, Quanjiezhen also promotes their artillery, light armored vehicles, high-altitude reconnaissance drones, radars, and other miscellaneous high-tech equipment.

Gaddafi looked at the introduction of various weapons and high-tech equipment, and asked for one or two sets of each. He planned to try them on the battlefield to see if they were as good as the people from Quanjiezhen said.

During the time when Gaddafi was thinking and recalling, 5 D-10 missiles in 300 launch systems took off one after another and flew towards southern Chad.

Chad’s army does not have a decent air defense force and has very few radars. Only the two bases built by France in its north have air defense systems and medium-range warning radars.

However, the radar reflection surface of the D-300 missile itself is relatively small, and its terminal speed is very fast, so the air defense systems of the two French military bases did not detect the missile until it was 5 kilometers away from the base.

But it was too late to prepare. Before the air defense weapons in the two bases were powered on, the bases were hit by D-300 missiles equipped with all-nitrogen anion salt high explosives.

In an instant, the earth shook and a small mushroom cloud rose above the base. The French soldiers who were on guard at the periphery at a distance thought it was a small atomic bomb explosion and instantly turned pale.

Because they remembered what the experts said during the nuclear defense training, that if faced with an atomic bomb attack, they would just stand there and wait for death to come, and there would be no need to struggle in vain. Even if they were not injured by the shock wave of the explosion, the invisible radiation would have pierced every cell in the body, and it wouldn’t be long before their whole body would fester and they would die.

At this time, Europe had been living under the threat of Soviet nuclear war for decades, and the soldiers in the army had participated in countless anti-nuclear propaganda campaigns, so when they saw the mushroom cloud, they thought it was an atomic bomb explosion.

Therefore, when they discovered that they were attacked, they immediately reported the situation to mainland France, claiming that they had been hit by tactical nuclear weapons, and asked the country to prepare and help take care of their families.

They were so busy that the remaining soldiers in the two bases didn’t react. If it was really a nuclear weapon explosion, how could their telegraph machines still be usable? They would have been burned by the electromagnetic pulse caused by the nuclear explosion.

The French Ministry of Defense was also extremely shocked when it received the information. They were so shocked by the word “nuclear weapons” that they lost their judgment. No one thought that the base could not send out any message under the electromagnetic pulse.

They contacted the remaining personnel at the two bases, reported urgently, and made the sign of the cross and prayed, hoping that a nuclear war would not come.

Somehow the news was known to outside media during the reporting process. A radio station broadcast this news, which was supposed to be kept confidential, and then other media followed up with reports.

In less than two hours, Paris, France was in chaos, and citizens packed up their bags and fled south, hoping to reach the inland mountains or further before the nuclear bomb landed.

Some wealthy people even urgently boarded private planes and fled to the United States and Africa.

The French government was also in a mess at this time. Although after an hour of verification, they had already known that it was a false alarm from the front line and that a high-powered missile launched by Libya had hit their military base in Chad.

So they asked the propaganda department to release the news to the outside world, and at the same time held an emergency meeting to discuss how to respond to Libya’s unusual move.

However, in just over an hour, the bad news of nuclear war spread throughout the world, international oil and gold prices soared, and the stock market and major trading markets subsequently suspended trading because they could not handle so many delivery orders. In addition, many people and companies were forced to close their positions before they could pay the margin.

Wang Jiankun actually did not expect such a good effect. He originally thought that if attacking the French military base in Chad still failed to make France focus on Africa, he would instigate Gaddafi to load the missile launcher onto a transport ship, drive it to a place near Marseille, France, and launch a missile strike.

No one expected France to do this. The front-line soldiers were terrified when they saw the mushroom cloud. The domestic command and intelligence agencies were so stupid that they couldn’t determine that it was a false alarm at the first time.

So just 10 missiles caused chaos in France and led to fluctuations in global financial markets.

This commotion was even bigger than the robbery of gold in South Africa a few days ago, when the three major capitals were besieged by black armed forces.

Wang Jiankun, however, obtained comprehensive information through the global satellite communication system and the new human intelligence personnel who had infiltrated various parts of the world. He not only earned more than 30 billion US dollars from this wave of abnormal economic fluctuations, but also determined how vulnerable Europe was at the time and how much the people feared nuclear war.

As a result, he had to change his next plans in Europe and modify his original plan of making a big fuss to be a little more moderate so as not to really scare the Europeans.

(End of this chapter)