What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 413 Repeated Trials
OPEC announces increased oil production

Oil prices are still rising.

Although the economic crisis in Southeast Asia has not yet erupted, the existence of the Second Fleet has already significantly disrupted the global situation.

Especially when both carrier strike groups were annihilated, the risk assessment for Meizhou Shipping rose sharply.

Although the Second Fleet had long ago announced via submarine radio that it would not attack civilian ships, which ship owner would dare to take that gamble?
It's important to know that almost all merchant ship insurance policies include exclusions for losses caused by war; if a ship sinks, the ship itself has to bear the loss!
With economic turmoil intensifying, OPEC, which already believed that oil would become scarce and rise in price during economic crises when it was still on the original world timeline, is now even more confident in pushing oil prices to high levels.

Meanwhile, Zhuawa was even more anxious to catch up with this fast train. After repeated requests, Tang Wen finally agreed to send a ship to start the mining project on Miangas Island.

Plevni readily agreed to requests for confidentiality and the removal of unauthorized personnel.

After all, in his view, once the oil well is drilled, he can do whatever he wants with it. Not a single screw can be removed from the gold mine. Now that he needs to rely on the former, he readily agrees to whatever is asked.

Finally, on July 6, two cargo ships converted from landing ships built by the shipyard set sail fully loaded with personnel and supplies.

"Them? They're here to work as construction workers?"

Standing at the bow of a cargo ship, Han Feng looked at Tang Wen with a somewhat confused expression:

On the deck of the cargo ship, more than 300 people wearing construction worker vests were either lying or sitting, but they didn't look like honest people at all. They would occasionally utter a few Hong Kong swear words and secretly look in Tang Wen's direction.

The Greater Bay Area Skills Training School has already enrolled 1,600 people, more than 300 of whom are top-level "big shots" in triads. To put it simply, they are illiterate people with dirty hands who are difficult to train. Throwing them into the training class will only make things worse.

After a cordial and friendly exchange and after consulting with their families, they were finally sent to Southeast Asia to be used as laborers by Han Feng.

The decision to entrust the Mionas Island construction project to Han Feng instead of Ge Xuan was also based on careful consideration:

Compared to the regular army, Han Feng, whose organization had a stronger private element, was more unrestrained in his actions.

"It's okay, these workers are all very hardworking, it doesn't matter if they run away."

Han Feng was even more puzzled. He didn't care that the employees he had worked so hard to recruit had run away?

……

For the outside world, most of the intelligence about the night raid that took place that night came from Georgetown Port.

Because there were so many eyewitnesses at the port, and the warship had sunk there, even the authorities had difficulty controlling the flow of information.

Soon, the method and process of the attack were made public through various channels, and even the remains of mosquito gnats appeared in the media for the first time.

Most of the gnats left behind after the attack were only the tail and tail fin. Although it is difficult for outsiders to determine the model, it is easy to know that it is a small aircraft.

What was remarkable was that a photographer in Guyana happened to be there at the time, wanting to photograph nocturnal animals, and was fortunate enough to capture footage of a swarm of gnats:
At that time, the aircraft swarm was already close to the city, with only a few dozen kilometers left. So they spread out from their original dense formation and flew over the boundary between buildings and forests, with their bellies almost brushing against the rooftops of buildings.

If it were just one plane, it wouldn't be so bad, but dozens of planes in a row have almost all reached this level of uniformity.

This undoubtedly reveals a terrible truth:

Those pilots belonging to the Second Fleet were all aces among aces. They took off from the rainforest at night and penetrated the entire land of Guyana at extremely low altitude without being detected.

……

An airport in Hebei Province.

Three J-7 fighter jets approached from outside the runway, unusually descending to a height only slightly above the airport fence several kilometers away, and desperately maintaining formation as they flew past at an altitude of seven or eight meters above the runway. To those on the runway side, the planes appeared to be so low they might scrape the ground at any moment, and it seemed as if the three aircraft were about to collide.

After the low-altitude flyby, the airflow disturbance and the navigation lights ahead forced the three pilots to maneuver and evade, spreading out more and breaking their original close formation.

The airflow generated by the jet engines and the aircraft blew onto the group of people. Old Zhang, who was standing at the front, patted the dust off his clothes.

"These are our elite pilots? There are no objects taller than a person inside or outside the airport, and they're still flying at subsonic speeds. They only maintained their formation for a short while before they couldn't withstand even the slightest bump."

The squadron leader standing nearby was somewhat indignant:

"The J-7's low-altitude, low-speed performance is already poor, and the requirements are too demanding. It can easily penetrate defenses at extremely low altitudes over tens of kilometers, but demanding formation formation at this time is really too difficult."

"Can it be worse than the small planes of the Second Fleet?"

Someone spoke up and questioned:

"Their pilots flew at least 700 kilometers close to the treetops, and in close formation at night, flying at supersonic speeds. Yours is far inferior!"

"..."

The flight squadron leader was speechless now, but he couldn't help but frown:

The pilots selected today are all veterans with seven or eight years of experience. They've done plenty of flying through valleys, but flying at extremely low altitudes at night, hundreds of kilometers away... This isn't about skill, it's about luck!
Old Zhang asked again:

"If your squadron trains diligently for a year, can it reach the level of the Second Fleet this time?"

"this…"

The captain really wanted to say yes, but in the end he gritted his teeth and shook his head:
"No, even familiarity with the terrain is too dangerous. Even if you pick 20 experienced pilots to train for a year, they might still crash more than ten times... Flying at night means relying entirely on radar, which is practically gambling with your life!"

If it were a nationwide selection process, with a 30% casualty rate and no regard for cost, it would be possible to train a squadron capable of achieving that.

These words were practically an impossibility, making everyone realize the significance of that nighttime air raid.

Knowing that it was a low-altitude surprise attack tactic, the domestic authorities were actually quite surprised because it was so classic and so logical.

Previously, the navy's tactics against aircraft carriers were nothing more than JH-7 fighters carrying anti-ship missiles to launch surprise attacks at sea, but no one expected that this tactic would be so effective.

Aside from being a little more difficult, there doesn't seem to be anything special about it!
Thus, this experiment was conducted. However, the actual results were quite surprising. The difference between low-altitude penetration and low-altitude penetration was too great!
Suddenly someone else remembered:

"And what about at sea? Can you achieve a breakthrough of 150 kilometers when the water level is less than 10 meters in stormy weather?"

Although the US didn't publicly state that the Enterprise was also attacked at extremely low altitudes, the experiences of the Clemenceau and analyses from various countries regarding why all four anti-aircraft ships failed ultimately pointed to the same truth:

Extremely low-altitude penetration in the rain.

However, this conclusion is too shocking, and it is only speculation in China.

"..."

The captain felt that this group of people were just looking for trouble, so he simply said:
"Why don't you go ask Hainan Airlines? Their JH-7 fighter-bombers train for this."

(End of this chapter)