Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 546 The Turbulent Times in Southeast Asia (Continued)

Strait of Malacca.

Under the pitch-black night sky, a blinding blue light would flash almost every two minutes.

Reflected in the light, countless spiderwebs, like willow catkins, drifted and scattered across every corner of the city.

When the spider silk touched the power line, the power line crackled and popped instantly.

When the spider silk touched the communication tower, sparks immediately flew from the communication base station.

When spider silk touches electronic devices, the devices immediately short-circuit and malfunction.

This is the second-generation nanoscale graphite electromagnetic pulse bomb continuously deployed by the Combined Fleet and the Mariners' Fleet to interfere with each other's shipborne missiles.

Especially after the appearance of the big black fish, the density of ammunition dropped by both sides almost tripled.

Therefore, Singapore completely lost contact with the outside world.

It was 11:45 p.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Singapore - Southern District.

Xu Jingyang, a reporter from Shanghai Media Group stationed in Singapore, wearing a wired headset, carefully avoided explosive areas and headed to the next hiding place, following the prompts from the independent AI on a specially designed terminal.

No one expected the war to come so suddenly, and no one anticipated that it would be so brutal.

In less than four hours, this once bustling international metropolis, hailed as one of the Four Asian Tigers and boasting a GDP on par with Shanghai, was reduced to a scene of utter devastation under the bombardment of North American Marines' shipborne missiles.

At this moment, the air raid sirens have stopped.

The missiles continued to fall relentlessly.

The chaotic streets were deserted, with no cars in sight and few people walking around. Even the cries from the ruins gradually subsided.

Even with his extensive experience and knowledge, including having worked as a war correspondent in West Asia, Xu Jingyang couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation, like a rabbit mourning the death of a fox.

War is terrible.

But isn't this also Singapore's own choice?

Singapore has an area of ​​approximately 600 square kilometers and a population of over 400 million, of whom 75% are Chinese.

However, this 'Chinese' has almost no connection with the East, except for some ancient bloodline.

Since 1965, Singapore has been implementing de-Orientalization, and then, under Western leadership, it began to oppose the Orient.

During this process, nearly 300 million Chinese people publicly supported non-Chinese people serving as political figures.

In contrast, in non-Chinese-majority Singapore, although there is opposition to racial discrimination, the dislike and rejection of East Asians is almost written on their faces.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Vietnam-Hong Kong-Macau economic circle, compared with South Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and even Thailand, which actively promoted the economic construction and development of Southeast Asia, Singapore not only slacked off but also secretly sabotaged things everywhere.

include:

The construction of digital ports has been delayed, hindering the linkage between its own foreign trade and trade hall.

They supported and dispatched criminals to infiltrate the port and secretly sabotage the flow of goods between economic zones.

Cargo ships departing from the economic zone were detained on the grounds of currency exchange and import/export procedures.

All of this reached its peak after the sailors' fleet decided to move eastward.

Just like him, this reporter from the East.

On New Year's Eve, most commercial establishments prohibited them from entering.

Taxi services and other similar businesses are treated differently.

If the above-mentioned phenomena had not occurred, and if Singapore had lived a good life along with the Hong Kong-Macau economic circle, when the Marine Fleet decided to move eastward, the Nanyang Joint Fleet would definitely have considered Singapore's interests and made a different response than it is now.

Unfortunately, it's all too late.

Right now, nobody cares about the losses, nobody cares about the casualties; all they care about is whether they can survive.

[Please note that the landing point is 590 meters away from us at the 8 o'clock position, and is expected to arrive in 1 minutes and 22 seconds.]
[Please find cover as soon as possible; the safe distance is 750 meters.]
[Please find cover as soon as possible. The current distance to the landing point is 610 meters.]
Following the prompts from the independent AI, Xu Jingyang signaled to his six colleagues behind him to quicken their pace.

Soon, among the many meteors flying from the direction of Kuala Lumpur, three suddenly separated, turned 120° in the air, and then fell vertically down.

Immediately afterwards, two missiles flew in from the direction of the harbor, and two of them were intercepted.

next second.

The uninterrupted meteor crashed headlong into the Singapore Government House.

boom! ! !
Towering flames swept across the land, instantly engulfing commercial buildings within a 500-meter radius in smoke and dust.

Even from 800 meters away, the glass of the buildings surrounding the bunker where everyone was located still shattered with a crash.

As night fell, screams rose and fell, and the sirens of abandoned cars filled the air…

[Please note that the landing point is 662 meters away from us at the 2 o'clock position, and is expected to arrive in 2 minutes and 18 seconds.]
[Please find cover as soon as possible; the safe distance is 750 meters.]
[Please note that the landing point is 591 meters away from us at the 5 o'clock position...]
[Please note that the landing point is 737 meters away from us at the 9 o'clock position...]
[AI intervention. Please strictly follow the green route on the map to escape.]
[AI intervention. Please strictly follow the green route on the map to escape.]
Xu Jingyang's colleague, who was following behind him, also heard the notification through his earpiece and couldn't help but say, "Has the North American Tijuana Group's sailor fleet gone mad? This is too reckless."

Another colleague responded, "Those religious fanatics don't care about the lives of ordinary people."

Xu Jingyang shook his head and said, "When the graphite electromagnetic pulse bomb covers the entire combat zone, all the integrated radar and communication systems and the three-system perception combat system are instantly put on hold. Subsequent firefights will be entirely based on luck."

"Mongolian?"

"Yes, the real-time dynamic military map is frozen at the moment of the single explosion of the graphite electromagnetic pulse, and it cannot be updated afterward. The Marine Fleet and the Combined Fleet cannot detect the other side's presence. They can only estimate the approximate location of the target by manpower and then launch missiles. As for attack and interception... it should be left to probability theory."

After Xu Jingyang finished speaking, he looked around and continued, "Although both sides use anti-jamming shipborne missiles, anti-jamming does not mean avoiding jamming. These shipborne missiles will still be affected to some extent. Then, under the action of the high-energy electromagnetic waves of the electromagnetic pulse bomb, the circuits in their own guidance systems are distorted, and they ultimately mistakenly take Singapore as the joint fleet group."

"Is that another way to explain it?"

"Basic physics is something anyone who has gone through junior high school understands."

"... "

[Warning, warning! Landing point at 12 o'clock, 2.7 kilometers away from our position, expected to arrive in 31 minutes.]
[Please locate nuclear shelters as soon as possible. The safe distance within a 5-meter-deep underground concrete shelter is 3 kilometers, and the safe distance from open-air sites is 15 kilometers.]
"Fuck!"

"A peaceful world?!"

in shock.

Under the night sky in the southwest, a bright orange-red halo suddenly flashed.

Between breaths.

boom! ! !
An unprecedentedly loud bang followed.

Immediately afterwards, it started to rain from the dimly lit sky.

[WARNING: Deep-sea/high-altitude nuclear explosion has occurred.]
[The current rainfall is not radioactive; do not panic.]
[AI intervention. Please strictly follow the green route on the map and proceed to the underground fortifications as soon as possible.]
"Old Xu, have we traveled into Resident Evil?"

"Old Xu, my legs are too weak to walk."

"Old Xu..."

Xu Jingyang's face turned pale as he listened to the AI ​​prompt in his earpiece. "Stop being so dramatic, let's go!"

The group quickly quickened their pace.

After leaving the shelter, they were surprised to find more and more people emerging from the ruins, then flowing like streams into a river towards the underground defensive fortification on the map – Shili Mall.

"So many survived?!"

"Maybe they're just like us, destined to survive."

"Old Xu, I don't quite understand what you're saying."

"Believe in the faith, and you will understand."

...

New York, the Mother Planet Joint Conference. Dawn in the East, noon in North America.

The representatives from various countries, who had been urgently summoned, sat in their seats, their minds heavy with thoughts.

Almost all countries and regions believed that the confrontation between the Marine Fleet and the Combined Fleet was similar to the standoff in the Bering Sea and the conflict in the Philippine Sea.

After the two sides meet, they flex their muscles, have a little arm wrestling, you suffer a small loss, I gain a small advantage, and then they part ways amicably.

Unexpectedly, in less than four hours, the confrontation between the Marine Fleet and the Combined Fleet escalated again and again, and now it has reached the point of peace.

Although one was intercepted by the Kunpeng at sea and the other by the sailor fleet at high altitude, the Strait of Malacca will be unusable in the short term.

The venue remained silent for a long time.

The North American representative was just about to say a few words...
The Singaporean representative burst into tears on the spot, saying, "I saw my hometown through the satellite. The once beautiful seaside garden community has now been turned into a crater tens of meters deep. This is insane, outrageous! The Tijuana Group's Marine Fleet must take responsibility, must compensate, and must issue a public apology!"

The Persian representative suddenly spoke up: "Brother, say less. They've never liked owing money, you know."

New representative: "???"

The West African representative explained, "If you eliminate the creditor, there will be no debt. Haven't you noticed that the Mariners' ship-borne missiles are still falling?"

The new home representative was stunned.

The Ice Bear representative coughed, "Otherwise, why would we use the Peace World? It's aimed at wiping out our creditors."

The representative of the new home broke down on the spot, shouting, "Madman! Devil!"

The head of the Shiliying Subdistrict Office's North American office, who was temporarily replacing the Eastern representative, said, "Yes, they are indeed madmen and devils, so we propose that the Tijuana Group and the Mariners Fleet be subject to global sanctions and listed as a ruthless gang."

North American representative: "Veto."

Other representatives: "."

The meeting moved on to the next round.

The Malaysian representative wept bitterly, saying, "Kuala Lumpur is a beautiful city..."

Before the words were even finished, North America proposed including the Combined Fleet in the list of ruthless gangs.

The head of the Shiliying Subdistrict Office's North American office said, "One vote is a veto."

Other representatives: "."

End of the meeting.

...

Straits of Malacca.

Deep-sea nuclear explosions and high-altitude nuclear explosions did not end the war.

Both fleets maintained a certain number of missiles and began to close the distance.

They are 220 kilometers apart.

Both sides released a large number of drones.

Under the morning light, countless aircraft, one side like a swarm of bees, rushed towards the Combined Fleet in droves, while the other side like a swarm of locusts, covered the sailors' fleet, blotting out the sky.

The joint fleet activated its small-scale barrage anti-missile system and simultaneously activated various close-in weapon systems.

Large swarms of bees collided with the barrage of bullets like moths to a flame, but a considerable number also passed through the barrage and were shot down by close-in weapon systems with a rate of fire of up to 1 rounds per minute.

Meanwhile, the Marines Fleet activated the Aegis anti-missile system, and also activated various close-in weapon systems.

When the swarm of locusts covered the sky, it only managed to shoot down a few scattered locusts.

Followed by.

Millions of three types of drones either flooded the gun barrels of the sailors' fleet, or entered the ship's hold, or blasted away vulnerable shipborne radar and other vulnerable targets...

The sailors and soldiers in the fleet took up arms and resisted.

Rat-a-tat-tat... Boom!

Rat-a-tat-tat... Boom!

Almost simultaneously, the Joint Fleet released 35 V280 tiltrotor aircraft and 26 ground effect vehicles, and dispatched mechanical exoskeletons and mechatronic units for boarding assault operations.

Although the sailors' fleet was busy dealing with the three types of drones, they also arranged for personnel to prevent being boarded.

In an instant, American-made anti-aircraft missiles were launched outwards as if they were free.

However, when the launch well cover pops open, it is inevitably destroyed by the three-series drones.

In the end, only a dozen or so anti-aircraft missiles were successfully launched.

The Combined Fleet's assault force, at the cost of losing three V280 tiltrotor aircraft and five ground effect aircraft, successfully delivered mechanized troops onto the decks of six capital ships of the Marine Fleet.

The two sides engaged in naval street fighting.

However, the three mechanized forces were not afraid of close-range firefights at all. Using their mechanized armored warriors as the spearhead, they used their steel bodies to continuously compress the sailor warriors into the cabin.

8 a.m. on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

After six hours of fierce fighting, more than half of the 8 sailors in the fleet were killed or wounded.

Of these, 3 successfully escaped by speedboat and headed towards the Shidu Strait.

The remaining 1, along with 2 wounded, including the entire fleet, were captured by the Nanyang Combined Fleet.

···
Countries and regions with satellites witnessed the entire naval battle and, in shock, began to consider taking sides.

This battle consolidated the economic sphere of influence of the Vietnam-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and enhanced its international standing.

In this battle, Sanyuan Agriculture secured the South Pacific shipping route, and it is highly likely that it will subsequently seize the Indian Ocean shipping route, and eventually open up the West Asia, Gulf of Aden, and Africa shipping routes.

After this war, if federal capital still cannot return to the Asia-Pacific region, North America's control over the Indo-Pacific region will drop to rock bottom, and many swing nations, including India, will have no choice but to align themselves with the three factions.

Therefore, Malaysia made no mention of what happened in Kuala Lumpur, and together with Indonesia, flew directly to Beijing overnight.

Countries like South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Mongols, while joyfully celebrating their major victories, actively promoted economic development and large-scale expansion in Southeast Asia. In other words, they adjusted their foreign trade mechanisms, voluntarily accepted losses, and exchanged more resources for the three series of products.

But the worst off wasn't Singapore, it was Japan.

The Strait of Malacca is now like the Red Sea route after the Leestown nuclear power plant leak. If Tijuana Group, which has nuclear waste recycling technology, does not take the initiative to intervene, it will be difficult for the Strait of Malacca to become open to navigation within three to five years.

With the Nanyang Joint Fleet achieving a great victory, they will certainly be plotting to build a second island chain.

Thus, Japan was unable to trade with West Asia and Europe through the Strait of Malacca, and its trade with North America to the east would be blocked by the Combined Fleet, leaving it trapped like a turtle in a jar.

Therefore, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, countless amounts of capital fled Japan, causing the Japanese stock market to plummet.

These capitals are affected by currency wars. For example, the RMB, which should have appreciated externally, experienced a short-term depreciation due to the three systems' dumping of RMB to buy US dollars. Conversely, the US dollar, which should have depreciated externally, experienced external appreciation due to the three systems' buying spree.

Thus, these capitalists used the three concessions and the trading hall to exchange Japanese yen for more Chinese banknotes, hoping to stabilize their assets.

This operation is tantamount to capital flowing into the East.

Meanwhile, a small amount of Japanese capital has also flowed into South Korea, which has been aligning itself with the three major powers ahead of time.

And the influx of new capital into Hong Kong
However, this is only a change in the financial sector.

Internationally, the aftermath of the naval battles between the Marine Fleet and the Combined Fleet has only just begun to unfold.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

Western capital, led by North America, proposed a liquidation of the two fleets at the Mother Planet Joint Conference in response to the losses suffered by Singapore and Malaysia.

(End of this chapter)