The war of unity is not a joke. If you are not careful, you will cause nuclear destruction in the world. Therefore, Zhang Meng did not agree to take risks in principle, but he did not prevent the Tang Dynasty from taking some practical actions to test the patience of the two major military groups in the United States and the Soviet Union and to understand the bottom line of each other.

The United States had just suffered a crushing defeat in the Vietnam War and its national strength was consumed greatly. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty's Ministry of Defense believed that the United States was unable to compete with the Tang Empire head-on, so it planned to take action against the United States' NATO allies first to test the United States' reaction.

The full name of NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is a military group established by the United States, Western Europe and North America. It includes 12 countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Portugal, and Italy.

At the beginning of its establishment, NATO did not list the Tang Empire as a target of confrontation. However, as the Tang Empire confronted the United States during the Vietnam War, the US government adjusted its NATO charter and promoted NATO's plan to expand eastwardly to contain the Soviet Union, and also promoted the southward expansion plan. NATO tentacles expanded to South America, absorbed Argentina, Brazil, Chile and other countries to join NATO, thus forming a strategic situation of surrounding the Tang Empire in the Pacific Rim.

NATO's expansion south made the Tang Empire very unhappy. Zhang Meng immediately approved the Ministry of National Defense's new round of counter-military operations, and wanted to give the United States and NATO a little color.

Britain is an important ally of the United States and one of the important member states in NATO. At the same time, it has always been hostile to the Tang Empire. This is because the Tang Empire took advantage of the Second World War to occupy the Ireland Islands, among which Northern Ireland was originally British territory. If the Tang Empire occupied most of the overseas colonies of Britain just hated his wife, then occupying the Ireland Islands was a pain for Britain. The two have different meanings, but they are essentially key factors that made the Tang and Britain hostile.

Britain has been secretly supporting Northern Ireland's armed forces to resist the rule of the Tang Empire. Even many British active and retired soldiers have joined the Irish guerrillas and have been fighting against the Tang army in Ireland. Although the scale has never been large, the Tang army has always been wiped out. It is a headache.

The United States acquiesced to Britain's actions in Ireland, which was the direct reason why the Tang Empire decided to teach Britain a lesson and beat the dog to show the owner.

In the early morning of February 2, 1970, three Raptor fighters of the Tang army, while cleaning up the Irish guerrillas, saw more than a dozen important targets flee to the British Consulate in Northern Ireland and immediately launched six air-to-ground Trident cruise missiles, instantly razing the entire consulate to the ground. More than 100 people were killed or injured, including the British Consul.

This incident finally gave the British government an excuse to criticize the Tang Empire, but the Tang Empire was not afraid at all. Instead, it accused the British consulate of hiding Irish militants. The two sides were in a quarrel, and the United States stepped in to mediate. However, it was ineffective.

On the third day, with the acquiescence of the British government, a large-scale anti-Tang demonstration broke out in the UK, which soon exceeded the control of the British government. Many Tang people's shops were beaten, smashed, looted, and more Chinese people were also implicated, causing casualties and injuries.

The Tang Empire finally waited for an excuse and issued an ultimatum to the British government, restricting the British government from ending the anti-Tang demonstrations within 24 hours, arresting all criminals who hurt the Tang people and the Chinese, compensating for all economic losses, and at the same time stopping their help to Irish militants and other requirements.

British Prime Minister Salche immediately asked the United States and NATO for help. The US government believed that the Tang Empire would not use force easily and believed that the nuclear balance between the United States and the Tang Dynasty would make the Tang Empire afraid.

However, the United States misjudged it, causing the British government to treat the Tang Empire hard, and the Tang-Ying War broke out uncontrollably.

At noon on February 6, the sky of the Celtic Sea was covered with dark clouds. The main force of the Tang Empire's Atlantic Fleet launched a large-scale practical military exercise, which was called pre-war intimidation by international media. Unfortunately, Salche did not determine the military intentions of the Tang army, but instead thought it was supported by the United States and NATO. He also sent the main fleet of the British Royal Navy to temporarily conduct military exercises 300 kilometers west of the Tang Dynasty Naval exercise area.

This is a very dangerous behavior. For a long time, the balance of nuclear power between the Tang, the United States and the Soviet Union made the British instinctively believe that the Tang Empire would not go to war directly against Britain. After all, Britain belonged to NATO. It was a military group of sixteen countries, and the United States was in charge. The Tang Empire did not form an alliance with other countries. No matter how strong the power of one country was, it would not go to war with the sixteen countries easily.

The British misjudged the situation. Lieutenant General Lin Jingze, commander of the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Empire, had already received a secret order from the Ministry of Defense to allow a tacit battle against Britain.

Lin Jingze believed that the British Royal Navy was still very strong, so he decided to conduct a practical exercise to be on the safe side, which was a warm-up for the British war. Unexpectedly, the British Navy came to him and was less than 300 kilometers away from the Atlantic Fleet.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For Lin Jingze, he will not miss this opportunity.

"I am Lin Jingze, now I order the entire fleet to enter combat state!"

Lin Jingze issued a combat order within the bridge of the flagship Yanjing nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and the entire fleet suddenly sounded a rapid battle alarm.

Soon, two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, six nuclear-powered battleships, six nuclear-powered heavy missile cruisers, 11 light missile cruisers, 7 missile destroyers, 13 missile frigates, and 5 attack nuclear submarines all entered combat state.

On two Yanjing-class nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers, 250 Raptor multi-purpose fighters lined up to take off. This is a super aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 100,000 tons, which has subverted the design layout of traditional aircraft carriers. The former Tangjun aircraft carriers had a right angle plus a single bevel flight deck, and now the Yanjing-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has a right angle flight deck and a two-way symmetrical bevel flight deck, with three flight decks, and the overall layout is similar to a huge trident. The island is located in front of the central axis and adopts an arch-like layout. Above the door opening is the bridge command room and a lifting platform is the lower. Some fighters in the hangar enter the central takeoff runway through this.

Compared with the Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers that imitated the Tang Army's previous aircraft carrier structure, the three flight decks can only carry 60 third-generation jets, while each of the Tang Army's Yanjing-class super-nuclear-powered aircraft carriers can carry 125 fourth-generation jets, and the gap is quite huge in terms of quantity and quality.

At this time, the British Navy had already eliminated battleships. In addition to the 2 5,000-ton Elizabeth conventional-powered aircraft carriers carrying a total of 90 Harrier attack aircraft, there were only 4 10,000-ton 22 missile cruisers, 8 5,000-ton 23 missile destroyers, 13 3,000-ton 35 missile frigates, and 6 conventional submarines. The strength has been reduced too much. Mainly because most of the British overseas territories were seized by the Tang Empire, so there is no need to maintain a huge ocean fleet.

However, compared with the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Navy, the strength is still very different. Not to mention the 250 4th-generation Raptor multi-purpose fighter jets on the two super-nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the Tang army, it is enough to wipe out the 90 3rd-generation Harrier attack aircraft of the United Kingdom, 6 nuclear-powered battleships of the Atlantic Fleet, 6 nuclear-powered heavy missile cruisers, 11 light missile cruisers, 7 missile destroyers, and 13 missile frigates. The main gun systems are all replaced with electromagnetic kinetic guns of different orbital radii, air defense electromagnetic gun dense arrays, various anti-ship missiles, air defense missiles, and nuclear submarines, etc., and any of them are stronger than the British Navy.
Chapter completed!