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Text 652 The Fifth Fleet under the Lightning Storm (Part 2)

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    This was a super thunderstorm that completely exceeded normal people's cognition, and the density of thunder and lightning was beyond imagination.  Thousands of direct lightning descended from the sky with unstoppable force and struck various objects on the ground. Even if the lightning rod withstood most of the lightning strikes, when these strange bright lightnings continued to bombard the lightning rod  , the specific high temperature is generated from lightning and directly vaporizes the metal.  What's more, not all lightning strikes are exempted by lightning rods. More direct lightning strikes still arbitrarily attack various military supplies parked by the US military in the Port of Bahrain.

    The staff officer pulled Commander Zelibol and shouted in panic: "Sir, we can't stay outside anymore. This thunderstorm is too bad. Everything on the ground may be destroyed. We must go to a safe place."  ,Underground, yes, underground is the safest¡±

    In the Port of Bahrain, the US military did build some underground shelter facilities, mainly for three defenses. It was not thought that it was to prepare for abnormal weather phenomena. Moreover, these facilities are definitely not enough to accommodate all the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Fleet. Before a thunderstorm occurs,  Some people have already entered the underground shelter, but more people are not afraid of the storm and simply stay in the houses on the ground.

    Zelibor and a group of senior officers had no intention of hiding underground, but the current situation no longer allowed them to do so. The terrifying power of nature made everyone palpitate.

    There was a loud "boom", and a barrel-thick direct lightning struck down from the sky and hit directly on a barracks in the port. The power of the lightning strike was so terrifying that it opened a big hole in the barracks.  Said, and lit a raging fire, surrounding the entire barracks in an instant.

    Although Zelibol was in fear, he had not forgotten his duty as a commander. He exclaimed: "Rescuers, rescuers are needed there, we must rescue them."

    But several staff officers and officers around him held on to Zelibol and did not allow him to do this. One staff officer said directly: "General, now is not the time to care about others. The thunderstorm will become more and more intense. We  We must protect you first, you are the backbone of the entire fleet."

    Zelibor said helplessly as he was being dragged away: "Even if I can survive, what's the use? This damn thunderstorm will take away many lives."

    Just when a group of people were about to reach the entrance of the underground shelter, a direct lightning strike hit a forklift not far from them, directly destroying the forklift. And just when they were stunned, suddenly the team  A lieutenant colonel howled and fell to the ground, electric light flashed on his body, and the smell of meat was still in the air.

    "What the hell is going on?" Zelibor scolded, unable to calmly. Seeing the person who was alive and kicking just now turned into a corpse now, this kind of death is more unacceptable than death on the battlefield.  , because they cannot understand the cause of this death.

    ??Actually, this is a strange type of lightning, called induction lightning.  It is caused by the huge impact lightning current producing a rapidly changing strong magnetic field in the surrounding space during lightning discharge.  This rapidly changing magnetic field can induce high electromotive forces in nearby conductors.  If the electromagnetic energy caused by lightning induction is not released into the ground in time, discharge sparks may occur, causing fires, explosions or electric shock accidents.

    Electromagnetic induction thunder is generally unlikely to kill people, but under a lightning storm, everything becomes crazy. The powerful charge attached to the electromagnetic induction thunder is enough to electrocute a person.

    The open air has become like a terrible purgatory, no one is safe.  Zelibor and his colleagues rushed to the underground shelter even harder, but they were not the only ones who were smart. The other sailors, and even the Bahraini and foreign employees assisting in the port, all wanted to rush to the underground shelter.  Go underground to escape this terrible disaster.  The so-called high-quality citizens of developed countries can't be seen in the panic at this moment. People are pushing and cursing at the entrance of the underground shelter, trying to get in quickly.

    "Get out of the way and let the commander go first," the staff officer shouted to everyone at the entrance very ignorantly. He did not use his status to sort out the order, but gave priority to his privileges.

    The unjust US sailor cursed: "Why, our lives are all equal, and the official can never go in first before us."

    The staff officer pointed at him and shouted: "Soldier, report your name and military registration number, and you will be punished accordingly."

    Other US sailors were even more angry: "You must survive this disaster first."

    Zelibor instinctively felt that the situation was not good and wanted to stop the staff officer, but the staff officer, who was overwhelmed by fear and anger, pulled out the Beretta from his waist and fired several rounds at the sailors who contradicted him.  The gun was fired, and several sailors immediately fell into a pool of blood.

    His shooting also caused accidental injuries to two other sailors. After the death, the whole scene became even more hysterical. The armed soldiers used their own guns to almost?Any target fired indiscriminately, as if they were shooting simply to reduce their own fear.

    There were even a few sailors with micro submachine guns. They fired at such a close distance. A large number of people were mopped down in an instant. Even Fleet Commander Zelibol was scratched on the arm, and in the end  The staff officer who fired first was beaten to a pulp.

    When the entrance to the underground shelter was in chaos, the attack of the terrible lightning storm became more manic.  Hundreds of direct lightning strikes and ball lightning directly hit the largest warship in the port, the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John Stennis. All electronic equipment on the ship, including the power supply system, were destroyed, and various metal products were destroyed.  Charges are jumping on the air, and there is a strong step voltage in the air. Anyone walking around will be directly electrocuted by induction lightning.

    This is because the John Stennis's huge tonnage of 100,000 tons has a relatively strong endurance, and what a small naval ship like the Perry class encounters in the port is almost a disaster.

    Terrible tears were constantly baptizing these 4,000-ton frigates, destroying all kinds of facilities that could be destroyed. The mast of one frigate had been chopped off, and the main gun and even the barrel of the bow were skewed.  The terrifying strong winds that followed the lightning storm even overturned a frigate directly on the water. The lightning in the storm cut off the cable and made the frigate weak and bully.

    Most of the warships in the port were basically finished at this time. Even though some of them seemed to be floating on the water, all the facilities inside were basically destroyed by lightning. Needless to say, things like electronic equipment.  At this time, the power equipment that made the ship move was basically completely paralyzed by lightning attacks.  In other words, these ships have become incapacitated warships at this time, and the collapse of their facilities has even prevented them from firing a single cannonball or missile.

    Of course, even if these ships can still set sail, there are not enough people to pilot them. The officers and soldiers of the Fifth Fleet were so unbearable in the lightning storm. The storm swept some people into the sky and then fell heavily, hiding in the  People in the house were directly killed by lightning, and there were even those who wanted to fight among themselves at this juncture. Only a few people were lucky enough to hide in the underground shelter in advance and escaped.

    The lightning storm actually did not last too long, only more than forty minutes, but these forty minutes seemed to make all the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Fleet feel that they had traveled to hell.  Fleet Commander Zelibor luckily did not die, but he suffered multiple injuries such as gunshot wounds, crush wounds, and fractures, and his overall consciousness was not very clear.  Sixty percent of the fleet's senior officers died, most of them killed by angry sailors' guns and fists.  The casualty rate for ordinary sailors was also astonishing. More than 4,700 people were killed or injured in this lightning storm, accounting for more than half of the entire Fifth Fleet.

    More importantly, an aircraft carrier battle group, an amphibious battle group and an expeditionary strike group deployed by the US military in the Port of Bahrain have completely lost any combat power after the lightning storm. No naval ship can function normally after the lightning storm.  Operations, even at this time the Fifth Fleet could not find enough technical maintenance personnel to repair their ships.  Many ships were sunk directly in the lightning storm, but most of them were still floating on the water, but those floating on the water might as well have been sunk.

    China and its allies, who had been waiting for this scene for a long time, launched a final general attack on the downtrodden US Fifth Fleet. The amphibious assault ship Inner Mongolia (Type 75) departing from Gwadar Port led an amphibious battle group and carried a marine brigade.  Soldiers crossed the Strait of Hormuz, entered the Persian Gulf, and launched a surprise attack on the port of Bahrain, which had no defense capabilities.

    On the other hand, Saudi Arabia, which suddenly announced that it would join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, dispatched its 2nd Armored Brigade, 2nd Infantry Brigade, and a Chinese light mechanized quick reaction brigade stationed in Saudi Arabia, into Bahrain and directly attacked the US military station in the Port of Bahrain.

    Even if the U.S. military has not suffered any trauma, the possibility of defending in the face of such an offensive is very slim, not to mention that the current U.S. military no longer has any combat capabilities.  When the soldiers on the amphibious ship Inner Mongolia landed vertically in Bahrain, they didn't even encounter any decent resistance.

    Several American soldiers waved their navy white T-shirts, declaring their surrender, and some even shouted to the Chinese with no moral integrity: "Guys, do you have anything to eat? We are starving to death."

    Because he was seriously injured, Fleet Commander Zelibor submitted a letter of surrender to the Chinese Navy Rear Admiral on his hospital bed. Perhaps this ending was a relief for all of them.
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