While Ye Zhou was visiting the latest fortress on Yongxia Island, several fishermen from Vietnam also returned to their country. Captain Ruan Xiong rushed to the military camp as soon as he landed, intending to report the news to the top leadership.

However, his actions did not go smoothly.

Due to the special nature of his trip to sea, he did not carry any documents that could prove his identity. When he arrived at the gate of the military camp, he was actually stopped by the sentry on the grounds that he was not allowed to enter without carrying documents.

Are you kidding? My ID is kept in the military camp. If you don't let me in, how can I provide it?

This is obviously a normal operation process. Without documents, as long as the password can be matched and the identity can be confirmed, you can enter the military camp. But today's sentry has only one sentence: Without documents, you can't.

Ruan Xiong cursed angrily. He knew exactly what this so-called sentinel was planning.

Don’t you just want money?

He passes by the door every day and even remembers the sentry's face. How could he not remember himself?

Three days before going to sea, the two sat together and smoked.

Now this trick of turning one's back and not recognizing the person is a bit too ugly, isn't it?

But there was really nothing he could do about this situation.

Since the military started doing business, the military has become the country's largest chaebol, controlling dozens of monopolistic enterprises and owning thousands of companies, forming a huge interest group.

Their annual business profits amount to tens of billions, and most of these profits go into the pockets of upper-level military officers.

The upper-level officers are busy making money, while the lower-level soldiers can only be jealous. They also want to make money, but there are no channels, so what should they do?

So, I had no choice but to start with my own people.

In particular, lower-level officers like Ruan Xiong have a certain amount of extra income, but do not have much real power and cannot pose an effective threat to soldiers at adjacent levels, so they have become the focus of exploitation.

This situation is getting worse and worse, and now it has even reached the point where a sentinel can play by the rules and forcefully charge his own protection fee regardless of the actual situation and the urgency of the information.

Ruan Xiong had no choice about this. He couldn't really break through regardless of the sentry's obstruction.

So he could only curse and go to the street to borrow two hundred yuan from his acquaintance and give it to the sentry. The other person's face immediately changed and he let him in with a smile on his face.

Ruan Xiong took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, returned to his barracks, got his ID, changed his clothes, and immediately went to report to his superiors.

He also had in his hand the video record taken by the drone at that time, and he took it with him at this time, intending to directly use the video to prove his judgment.

When he arrived at his superior's office, several officers were already sitting there. Ruan Xiong glanced at it hesitantly and asked:

"Colonel, I have important information to report. If it's inconvenient, can I come back later?"

The man sitting opposite waved his hand and replied boldly:

"Just be direct, everyone here is our own people, there is nothing to hide!"

Ruan Xiong looked around and saw faces that were unfamiliar to him. He was still hesitant, but the colonel's eyes had begun to become stern, so he had no choice but to make up his mind and said:

"Colonel, this time we went on a routine patrol on the high seas and happened to encounter a Chinese exercise. According to our previous judgment, the content of their exercise was to test a new type of artillery."

"However, judging from the evidence I have so far, this is far from being as simple as a new artillery piece."

"Not a new artillery? What is that? A missile?"

Ruan Xiong took out the memory card he had prepared and put it on the table, then replied:

"I think what they are experimenting with is probably some new type of battleship."

"Battleship?? Do you know what you are in?"

A complex expression of surprise and ridicule appeared on the colonel's face. He glanced at the other people in the office, and the expressions on their faces were exactly the same as his.

These people are all professional officers and have the most basic understanding of modern warfare, especially modern naval warfare, so they all know that with the rapid development of modern missiles, battleships have long become antiques submerged in the tide of history.

Because the battleship itself is a product of the era of large ships and huge guns, what it has to deal with is mainly battles within visual range. However, the development of modern weapons has already broken through the visual range. In the current technical environment, early warning aircraft can be used to detect in advance,

Then giving you a missile hundreds of thousands of kilometers away is the most efficient way.

No matter how thick the battleship's armor is, it can't withstand the bombing of a large-yield missile. What's more, its firepower delivery capability has lagged far behind this era. Others are playing with anti-ship missiles with a range of thousands of kilometers. You

Are you still playing with cannons covering dozens of kilometers?

How is this possible?

Unless it is a guided missile battleship - but this kind of thing is even more useless. Rather than concentrating all the missiles on one ship to increase the risk of explosion, it is better to dismantle them and make several small ships with high stealth performance and fast speed.

Seeing the expressions of everyone in the conference room, Ruan Xiong sighed.

He had already guessed that these people would not believe his words - if he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would never believe it himself.

Thinking of this, he directly connected the memory card to the computer in the conference room. A few minutes later, the picture captured by the drone was presented to everyone.

The water bloomed one after another, the cannonballs that came from nowhere and without a trace exploded the islands and reefs, and the huge waves surged. Seeing this scene, everyone who had been sarcastic just now fell silent.

They all realized the problem Ruan Xiong had realized before.

Such firepower delivery characteristics can only be achieved by giant cannons.

The giant cannon can only be installed on battleships.

There was a look of confusion on the colonel's face, and he was somewhat unable to understand the situation he had surmised.

Why build battleships?

Is it true that such a large non-stealthy maritime target is not afraid of being hit?

Or, do they already have absolutely advanced anti-missile equipment and are they confident that they can intercept every missile?

This shouldn't be the case. If we really had such equipment, why would we build battleships and just declare ourselves to be the overlord of the ocean?

"Play the video again."

The colonel spoke.

Ruan Xiong obediently played the video back. This happened again and again. Several people in the conference room watched the video of just a few minutes no less than five times, but in the end no one could make a final decision.

It wasn't until he finished reading for the last time that the colonel was silent for a long time before he spoke:

"Judging from the current situation, the opponent's new equipment is definitely a battleship. I don't know why such equipment appeared in this era, but judging from its firepower density, range, and power, this should be a battleship.

A battleship as good as the Iowa."

"We must immediately report this information to our superiors, mobilize all our forces, and find out the other party's intention to build a new type of battleship."

"Chinese people don't make mistakes. If they are building battleships, then it's best for us to have them too."

"The most important thing is that we need to understand their combat configuration. It is impossible for a battleship to be without an escort formation or an air defense system. We have to find a way to figure out what their direction is."

"Only when we know the direction clearly can we cross the river by feeling the stones!"

"Ruan Xiong, you did a good job this time, I will reward you!"

After hearing the colonel's words, Ruan Xiong excitedly saluted a military salute and replied loudly:

"Yes! Colonel! I promise to keep working hard!"

"Okay, you first."

The colonel was about to ask Ruan Xiong to leave, but the door of the conference room was pushed open.

The person who entered the door was an intelligence officer. He was holding a stack of documents in his hand. As soon as he walked in, he said in a hurried tone:

"The latest news is that China's electromagnetic gun system has been put on the ship! The test was just completed today! All our previous islands in the high seas were sunk by them!"

Hearing this, Ruan Xiong opened his mouth in shock.

The island was bombed and sunk. Electromagnetic gun.

Could it be that what I saw were not shells fired by battleships?

He looked back at the colonel, who had the same doubts in his eyes.

After a while, the colonel asked:

"Is the news about your electromagnetic gun true?"

"It's absolutely true! It was released by the other party's official media. Look, the news is here!"

The colonel took the document and looked at it carefully. After a few minutes, his expression changed from confusion to surprise, and then became serious again.

He raised his head and looked at the intelligence officer, and asked in a cold tone:

"You, how many electromagnetic guns are they testing this time?"

"There is only one, one warship, which is Type 055d."

The colonel was stunned for a moment, then turned to Ruan Xiong.

"So, these Chinese people used one warship and one cannon to create the effect of a battleship???"
Chapter completed!